slowly watching the nail regrow
Oh, sometimes that sucks so bad. I wacked my thumb 10+ years ago, the nail still hasn't grown back fully right. Almost... I figure another 2-5 years, lol.
BearOfaTime
joined 2 years ago
that I really should finish
That word "should" is a tricky little fella, he implies a judgement, the question is what's the source of that judgement?
Wayne Dyer discusses the issues and challenges of words like "should" in his book "Your Erroneous Zones" by using a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy approach: examining and rewriting how we think about things.
When I find myself using that particular word, I ask myself "should, according to who?". Almost always I find I have an old "script" in my head about priorities, values, etc, that upon re-examining I find it's no longer useful. Like "I bought this game, therefore I must get maximum value from it".
Sometimes things run their course, and that's that.
I thought I read last year that new variants of the F16 were replacing the A10 in close-support/low altitude/ground target roles. I assumed circumstances and tech had changed in some way that made the F16 more viable at such low altitudes (hundreds of feet) than when the A10 was initially deployed.
I don't really know, just thought it was an interesting perspective.
This, so much.
What my parents grew up with - always cold and hungry. Not starving, just hungry. And I can go to the store and get almost anything - like fruits my parents never saw/knew of before they were adults.
My grandparents waited something like 2 years to get a fridge - that's the wait list at the time. Even when I was a kid stuff wasn't always immediately available, and they'd sell you the floor model for full price if you were lucky, otherwise you waited a week to a month for an appliance that I can buy by the dozen today.
I grew up being told "you have no idea how easy you have it" (not in a mean way, just my parents explaining how different things were just a few decades ago), and they were right. Now I'm surprised almost every day at the difference since even 1970, let alone early 20th century and farther back.
The world is getting worse?
Yea, methinks you need some history. Go watch Edwardian Farm on BBC or Amazon. We have it so much easier than our forbears did.
Are there problems? Of course? Humans gonna human, and in that way things haven't changed since, well, forever. "We only get 80 years on the planet" (to quote a Brian Setzer tune), so we all get a limited time to learn to be better people.
But there are a lot of people who continually strive to make their local circle better - which is really about all of us can actually do - work on our own little corner, and hopefully have influence on others nearby.
Yep - like an AWD version of a car may use different pressures than a FWD version, to manage traction.
I've seen an AWD version use lower pressures in the rear than FWD - this helps keep the rear of that car from sliding due to a combination of torque transferring to the rear wheels and more weight back there.