"I'm wondering if our farming ancestors back in the day when everyone farmed ever suffered from burnout."
Probably not, since they could see tangible results from their labor. Ever done farm work? It's harder than coding, I can tell you! But it's also very satisfying.
If they worked hard, and the crop failed anyway, then they had MUCH bigger worries than their state of mind!
Warning, that is. Don't you know we're at war! Americans aren't that good at hate, so we have to be given something to fear. Keeps the govt in business.
Almost everything I've done well has come easy to me. Whenever I have worked hard at something, I've never gotten as far as the bastards to whom it comes easy.
This seems to be straightforward, but I read the scientific american article, and the author says something that is easy to miss. He says that, to the "masters," dedicated study doesn't seem like hard work.
When I was a little kid (1974) our grocery store got its first automatic door. It was amazing, just like Star Trek! I went in and out of it shouting "Scotty, give me more power!" and "Red alert!" while my mother shopped. How many of you (who are parents) would be separated from your six-year-old kid in a grocery store today? How many of your kids play pick-up games of street ball with their neighbors? How many of them roam around the neighborhood on bicycles, unsupervised, like we did in the 70's?
In the neighborhood where I live today, lawns are immaculately kept, and the streets are devoid of children. They live here. It's just that their parents never let them see the light of day, except during organized, structured activities that they drive to in their monster SUV's.
I, for one, would trade all my gadgets to give my neighborhood kids the freedoms we had then.
H. G. Wells was the first to describe an atomic bomb, before World War 1 I think, but an important insight nevertheless! Also see "The Land Ironclads" for the first description of tanks in warfare.
Of course he also established most 20th century sci-fi themes. See "The Time Machine," "War of the Worlds," "The Invisible Man," etc.
Um, let's think about this a minute...
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This might really be a signal to his operatives. It's got all the requirements for one: It's very noticeable, so it gets widespread distribution; it means nothing to us; it's *way* out of character for an ordinary anti-U.S. protest.
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"I'm wondering if our farming ancestors back in the day when everyone farmed ever suffered from burnout."
Probably not, since they could see tangible results from their labor. Ever done farm work? It's harder than coding, I can tell you! But it's also very satisfying.
If they worked hard, and the crop failed anyway, then they had MUCH bigger worries than their state of mind!
Warning, that is. Don't you know we're at war! Americans aren't that good at hate, so we have to be given something to fear. Keeps the govt in business.
Linux will have won the war when Microsoft comes out with its own distribution.
Why haven't they done that yet?
You all keep worrying about the republicans stealing an election, but all the people I know with the skill to do it are democrats.
Almost everything I've done well has come easy to me. Whenever I have worked hard at something, I've never gotten as far as the bastards to whom it comes easy.
This seems to be straightforward, but I read the scientific american article, and the author says something that is easy to miss. He says that, to the "masters," dedicated study doesn't seem like hard work.
When I was a little kid (1974) our grocery store got its first automatic door. It was amazing, just like Star Trek! I went in and out of it shouting "Scotty, give me more power!" and "Red alert!" while my mother shopped. How many of you (who are parents) would be separated from your six-year-old kid in a grocery store today? How many of your kids play pick-up games of street ball with their neighbors? How many of them roam around the neighborhood on bicycles, unsupervised, like we did in the 70's?
In the neighborhood where I live today, lawns are immaculately kept, and the streets are devoid of children. They live here. It's just that their parents never let them see the light of day, except during organized, structured activities that they drive to in their monster SUV's.
I, for one, would trade all my gadgets to give my neighborhood kids the freedoms we had then.
H. G. Wells was the first to describe an atomic bomb, before World War 1 I think, but an important insight nevertheless! Also see "The Land Ironclads" for the first description of tanks in warfare.
Of course he also established most 20th century sci-fi themes. See "The Time Machine," "War of the Worlds," "The Invisible Man," etc.
This might really be a signal to his operatives. It's got all the requirements for one: It's very noticeable, so it gets widespread distribution; it means nothing to us; it's *way* out of character for an ordinary anti-U.S. protest.
These guys aren't stupid.