blackbrook

There could well be a kernel of valid criticism in it but this article is so exaggerated and strident, that I can't take it seriously. It's like people who scream GOVERNMENT WASTE about every budget line item that is not obviously important to someone who has only the most simple and ignorant understanding of it.

Cutting edge breakthroughs always appear on tiktok first.

"If it's January, it's cold" doesn't imply it can't be cold in other months.

I have a number of answers to give you and will write more as I have time, but a start with some of the shorter ones.

"The map is not the terrain" is a very important concept in general but especially so wrt the self. Your idea of your self is such a map, and as such is necessarily flawed and incomplete. A person is very complex, probably to complex to fully understand even if you had access to it. But you don't fully have access to it, even about your self.

The complexities going into why you like a thing, why you react a certain way, sometimes why you do a thing, are not all inspectable to you. We have am enormous bias in modern culture to think of everything in terms of the conscious mind. This is usually incorrect. Most often we do things unconsciously and rationalize why we did it afterwards. Now these rationalizations may often be correct, and trivial. But the reality is that they are not observations about the workings of our mind but after the fact theories. In many non trivial cases they can be quite incorrect. (I can give examples, but this is getting long winded already.)

Sometimes, with phenomena we have limited ability to know, it is helpful to let go, accept that they are what they are, and just see what they do without getting too committed to expectations. Like with the weather.

Did your mother have any children that lived?

he has no goal, except the wish to escape insecurity and aloneness.

And it's as if we keep refining our system to make those aims harder.

I found this painting on that site titled "Star Maker". Interestingly the scrawl that looks like "R J II" that I thought might be the artist's initials isn't in the painting there at all.

(I called it a painting...but maybe it's a print?)

Maybe when they realize 'bad' isn't a strong enough word.

R. J.? Maybe R. J. II?

So it sounded like all women in that theatre weren't like that...I think we can reason from that to answer your question...

Bob Dylan, "Slow Train Coming" Also, "It Takes a lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" He's got to have other train songs, too, none others occur to me at the moment.

"Chattanooga Choo-choo" was really big something like 100 years ago.

There are many more software companies in the world then those four, including very small ones. It is still possible to make a reasonable living as such a small software company, though a lot harder than it used to be.