A prisoner turns to another and asks, "What are you in for?" "Twenty years, for murder. And you?" "Twenty years--for nothing." "You lie! For nothing they only give ten."
A prisoner asks a new arrival what he is in for. "For laziness." "Laziness? How so?" "My friend and I were up late drinking last weekend and we started telling jokes about Brezhnev. He got up early to denounce me to the police and I slept in. Like I said, laziness. He got there first."
As a charter member of the childhood-instability-but-not-poverty club, I'd like to point out that people overcompensate for the stuff they didn't have as children, both materially and psychologically. I discovered, then adopted deontology in order to compensate for the vicious utilitarianism of my upbringing; it turns out that playing utilitarian ethics against deontological ethics is like playing scissors against rock. Kantianism is more or less purpose-built for wrecking utilitarian arguments.
Also: Benzodiazepine withdrawal, which I've written about, deprives you of sleep. Three hours of sleep a night for a year is like filing for bankruptcy while being prosecuted for violations of the Espionage Act in terms of what it does to your happiness.
Great information, as always, and thought-provoking.
II’m so grateful for the intellectual movement that Mary Harrington, Louise Perry, etc. represent. And am very interested in why their sort of “reactionary feminism” is so much more vibrant in the UK than in the US.
Yes, corporations and individuals should learn not to s\confuse busyness with achievement. And Harvard Business review should learn not to confuse self-report of how busy and pressured people feel with how busy and pressured they actually are. Compare this to the Scandinavian countries with high suicide and alcoholism rates that nonetheless self-report happiness - because they want their countries to look good for the camera.
As for the Dark Triad traits, it is likely that those are more heritable than poverty, and thus are passed to the next generation. I would not for a moment assume that it just has to be environment, which has not been shown to have consistent effects beyond associations. Beware what we want to be true.
Happy Mothers Day Rob and everyone. Sometimes it’s not our physical mother who is our mother but our circle of friends. For those of us for whom this is true, again have a wonderful day of thanks...
Two more Soviet-era prison jokes for you.
A prisoner turns to another and asks, "What are you in for?" "Twenty years, for murder. And you?" "Twenty years--for nothing." "You lie! For nothing they only give ten."
A prisoner asks a new arrival what he is in for. "For laziness." "Laziness? How so?" "My friend and I were up late drinking last weekend and we started telling jokes about Brezhnev. He got up early to denounce me to the police and I slept in. Like I said, laziness. He got there first."
As a charter member of the childhood-instability-but-not-poverty club, I'd like to point out that people overcompensate for the stuff they didn't have as children, both materially and psychologically. I discovered, then adopted deontology in order to compensate for the vicious utilitarianism of my upbringing; it turns out that playing utilitarian ethics against deontological ethics is like playing scissors against rock. Kantianism is more or less purpose-built for wrecking utilitarian arguments.
Also: Benzodiazepine withdrawal, which I've written about, deprives you of sleep. Three hours of sleep a night for a year is like filing for bankruptcy while being prosecuted for violations of the Espionage Act in terms of what it does to your happiness.
Great information, as always, and thought-provoking.
II’m so grateful for the intellectual movement that Mary Harrington, Louise Perry, etc. represent. And am very interested in why their sort of “reactionary feminism” is so much more vibrant in the UK than in the US.
Yes, corporations and individuals should learn not to s\confuse busyness with achievement. And Harvard Business review should learn not to confuse self-report of how busy and pressured people feel with how busy and pressured they actually are. Compare this to the Scandinavian countries with high suicide and alcoholism rates that nonetheless self-report happiness - because they want their countries to look good for the camera.
As for the Dark Triad traits, it is likely that those are more heritable than poverty, and thus are passed to the next generation. I would not for a moment assume that it just has to be environment, which has not been shown to have consistent effects beyond associations. Beware what we want to be true.
Hey, Rob. I hope you’ll come through Oxford one of these days and do a drinks night, here!
The dark triad study is interesting but how much stock should I put into correlations of <0.2?
Happy Mothers Day Rob and everyone. Sometimes it’s not our physical mother who is our mother but our circle of friends. For those of us for whom this is true, again have a wonderful day of thanks...
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