For that, you can thank Bonhoeffer and the writing conventions of his era ;)
Septimaeus
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Really nice of you dude. Thank you for your post.
Does it look better now?
It’s likely the newline whitespace characters in your post being handled differently on their home instance. They’re usually invisible but you can see them by inspecting the page. The first appears between “evil;” and “it.”
You can remove these characters by hand, using a text formatting tool, or just by pasting into a field that doesn’t support them like a browser address bar. 🤙
Agreed, see you at the strike
I know you mean restoration of known-working system state but to them this is the hard reset and also I’m kinda feeling like maybe it’s time to zero and install Linux lol
This sounds closest. Acknowledge. Be friendly. Offer food water. Make eye contact, however fleeting. Assess crisis. Keep moving. This is Manhattan and depending on the neighborhood and street they might be the umpteenth to ask. They know this. I still acknowledge and make eye contact because suddenly being invisible is the worst part psychologically.
Bonus: if it’s your neighborhood, odds are you will see these people again. You might want to learn their names. They won’t keep asking you if they recognize you and know you don’t have it.
Not a MD. IME this form of social anxiety, while not exclusive to NDs, is indeed common for us.
As to why, the simplest explanation is that it’s a corollary of divergence itself that we internalize early on: in spite of my motive, effort, or attempts at masking, I am just incapable of truly understanding or perhaps even accurately predicting the thoughts and feelings of others, and vice-versa. The self-isolation OOP describes then easily follows, since the best/safest bet is against yourself until proven otherwise.
Personally what disabused me of this behavior was the realization that most people, including NTs, have their own analog of it. That is, many feel like outsiders for various reasons unrelated to ND, and they similarly self-exclude. It’s a useful realization because it lets you cut the knot by giving others what you wanted yourself.
ETA: Specifically, when you focus on others’ inclusion, you (A) create the same for yourself to an equal or greater extent, and (B) over time find it less important that they reciprocate equally than whether you succeed in communicating that they belong. Many things become easier after that.
Criminal vs civil violations. Do you think driving with a burned out light somewhere on your vehicle is criminal behavior that makes you a criminal?
Eventually few if any good engineers will be willing to work for these companies because of the black mark it places on their resume and their name.
Already, many hiring managers outside a few giant corps will never be willing to hire an engineer who worked at Facebook for any length of time after 2016, for instance, simply because it’s irrefutably strong evidence against either their character or the trustworthiness of their judgement.
I expect that trend will deepen as society becomes more aware of the countless ways these engineers betrayed them just for a few more dollars and an on-campus chef.