Severe Discomfort @severediscom4rt.bsky.social · 14/01/2025I don't think about it often. I'm generally fine with how people view me (as I understand it, of course) except for coming across as colder than I'd prefer to. I think meditation has probably influenced this. 031
Severe Discomfort @severediscom4rt.bsky.social · 14/01/2025I think that places like Bluesky are just not appropriate to post like that it because it just leads to cycles of co-rumination. If someone is feeling overwhelmed there are better places to talk about those feelings that won't lead to that. 110
Severe Discomfort @severediscom4rt.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Sometimes you just want to be miserable, I guess 020
Severe Discomfort @severediscom4rt.bsky.social · 14/01/2025I have often wondered how many people haven't seen video of him and picture a totally different guy than a barely verbal tweaker. 051
Reposted by Severe DiscomfortReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Like realistically he probably kills TikTok by merging it with X and making it worse 2853
Severe Discomfort @severediscom4rt.bsky.social · 14/01/2025A funny possibility is that Elon buys TikTok and also renames it X. 010
Severe Discomfort @severediscom4rt.bsky.social · 14/01/2025And more broadly: I really like how stories from other cultures can have a viewpoint that isn't the same Christian-influenced, deontological one we get all the time in the US. 000
Severe Discomfort @severediscom4rt.bsky.social · 13/01/2025A lot of people liked the Sandman show but it did not work for me except for a couple moments. 010
Severe Discomfort @severediscom4rt.bsky.social · 13/01/2025In his case it's pretty easy because he's been de facto retired for like a decade. 120
Severe Discomfort @severediscom4rt.bsky.social · 13/01/2025I'm glad that there's no surgery that can fix Andreessen's head. They should try anyway. 010
Severe Discomfort @severediscom4rt.bsky.social · 13/01/2025The way that Gaiman and Palmer worked together is especially awful. 190
Severe Discomfort @severediscom4rt.bsky.social · 13/01/2025You mean you didn't like the sequence that showed fun Easter eggs like a Superman that aired before any viewers were born and a Nicholas Cage Superman that was never made? 050
Severe Discomfort @severediscom4rt.bsky.social · 13/01/2025"I'm focused on the big picture" (far away from the problem) 050
Severe Discomfort @severediscom4rt.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Lately it's feeling like Nietzsche was wrong about the "long" part of looking into an abyss. 000
Severe Discomfort @severediscom4rt.bsky.social · 13/01/2025I think the basic problem is making a better decision knowing exactly what we knew then and none of the things we know now. 030
Reposted by Severe DiscomfortWildPartyInviteDecliner @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 13/01/2025It's really funny how many people swear that Tiktok has the great algorithm also have the most performative politics unbounded by the ability to get results. But it's also really disconcerting. 0174
Severe Discomfort @severediscom4rt.bsky.social · 13/01/2025[Me to the inquisition]: See, I'm not really part of this 030
Severe Discomfort @severediscom4rt.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Imo the only possible hint was how actively he fostered parasocial relationships. Even when he was my favorite author I thought "Neil, you don't have to be online this much". 100
Severe Discomfort @severediscom4rt.bsky.social · 13/01/2025I mean that I am describing roughly the same position you are, but emphasizing different parts. Like in your other comment (which I agree with) about "broader or narrower" roads, I'm emphasizing that difference. 000
Severe Discomfort @severediscom4rt.bsky.social · 13/01/2025I don't think we disagree! I think I'm just saying that "sleeps" is a meaningful difference and you're saying it's not. Which is understandable. 000
Severe Discomfort @severediscom4rt.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Yeah, I'm not saying he's a humanoid shark. But I do think that his psychology is clearly different in meaningful ways or he wouldn't do this. 010
Severe Discomfort @severediscom4rt.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Insofar as a person like him believes in anything he believed in at least some of his states politics, because he spent a lot of time on charity work. It's weird! 1110
Severe Discomfort @severediscom4rt.bsky.social · 13/01/2025I don't know how I'll feel about the series as a whole but the issue where an author imprisons a muse is definitely unreadable now. 010
Severe Discomfort @severediscom4rt.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Something that's probably not well known outside of tech is how many people involved in hiring processes have responded to it being much easier to hire talent by treating applicants far worse. 000
Severe Discomfort @severediscom4rt.bsky.social · 13/01/2025It is a little funny to see a senior tech guy on here brag about poaching talent from Meta by having "supportive management" and "not being a dick" when they have an especially hostile interview process. 120
Severe Discomfort @severediscom4rt.bsky.social · 13/01/2025I think that's because the real importance is kind of uninteresting. "Pick the least bad option" doesn't have the visionary appeal they want. 1191
Severe Discomfort @severediscom4rt.bsky.social · 13/01/2025The ones I've worked with who did that had a lot of redundant meetings. A couple were LinkedIn freaks but I definitely didn't see any posting on Twitter or whatever. 1150
Severe Discomfort @severediscom4rt.bsky.social · 13/01/2025I often think about the Executive Time Use Project, which found that even normal CEOs don't work close to 40 hours a week. Funny how that result can't penetrate the myth of the hard working CEO. 1400
Severe Discomfort @severediscom4rt.bsky.social · 12/01/2025They think they're suited to it because they have an acquisitional drive where interests should be. 010
Severe Discomfort @severediscom4rt.bsky.social · 12/01/2025There's more substance in Big Yud's writing (the substance is "science fiction is real"). 160
Severe Discomfort @severediscom4rt.bsky.social · 12/01/2025The world would look very different if any of these guys had a hobby other than drug abuse. 010
Severe Discomfort @severediscom4rt.bsky.social · 12/01/2025"Patronizing my employer is your public duty" 010
Severe Discomfort @severediscom4rt.bsky.social · 12/01/2025This is deeply embarrassing behavior, man. 000
Severe Discomfort @severediscom4rt.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Wow, get a load of that culinary value! 120
Severe Discomfort @severediscom4rt.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Somehow it still feels under-discussed that the right-wing approach to business is insulting your customers then acting shocked when they stop giving you money. 0130
Severe Discomfort @severediscom4rt.bsky.social · 12/01/2025If on a Winter's Night the Writing of a Book 000
Severe Discomfort @severediscom4rt.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Took me a second to realize what the "No!" was about 160
Severe Discomfort @severediscom4rt.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Hugh on the right doesn't really match any ideal imo. A bodybuilding physique would have more mass. 130
Severe Discomfort @severediscom4rt.bsky.social · 11/01/2025And we know it'll work, just look at how pissed they got at "Dark Brandon". 020
Severe Discomfort @severediscom4rt.bsky.social · 11/01/2025The guy who wants to live forever wants that life to do...what? He has no idea. More hasn't made him happy yet, so he must not have gotten enough. Just a little more should do it. 010