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I agree it can be used fallaciously, often found in the business world. My point was to include both good and bad honestly and not hide it, and people won’t shut down if they get the good first. It also depends on the subject - if they’re on the right track and your suggestion leads to better results, that’s not as negative as telling someone they’re doing something incorrectly and offering a different way.

In the end, how you say things is just as important as what is said.

On constructive criticism - definitely rule one is make sure that it’s invited first, but second, the best way to “sweeten” a critique and make it more appealing is to put it between compliments. Don’t have a bare remark about the problems or suggestions, tell them what you like first, then how they might change things, and then close with something else positive or simply thanking them for sharing it. Even if someone says they want to hear what people think, it’s normal to be defensive, so help lower that reaction first, and then leave them feeling appreciated even though you pointed out issues you saw.

That is not much. That’s less than their increase of net earnings from last year.

“Have you ever read the Greatest Story Ever Told?”

Not all of the additional ones or all the appendixes, but yes, the main parts.

Reminded me of a post I read long ago talking about the Greatest Story line that is often used for the Bible. “THIS??? THIS is the greatest story ever told? WTF?” It’s really not that great overall. Quotable, sure…but the plot and characters suck.

Eru.

He doesn’t like to intervene, but between a few things like Gandalf being sent back and the oops he gave to the finale, he was like…okay, free will and whatever but the song needs to progress to the next movement. We can’t keep repeating this.

Canon.

Also a fun fact: “I Love Lucy” is even better in the original Klingon.

The second part really wasn’t needed, NYT, but thanks. Unless it’s a standard now to add that to the end of anything he says.

I had heard over the years that it wasn’t that bad of an EV. Sounds a lot like the story of Saturn and GM. Kill a car that’s actually popular because someone on the board wants to go a different direction.

The one dependable thing has always been that all models end up underestimating results. “Worse/faster than expected” was never funny, but now it’s so cliche that I don’t even see it mentioned much anymore.

Hardly a cold call, they’ve been connecting for a while at that point. But can we give props here to Denethor who (unseen in the movies) had been front and center with Sauron as well and didn’t succumb to power like that weak Maiar did. Sure, he went mad with despair, but he still held out since you know Sauron tried to seduce him to the dark side first.

You’re not overthinking, as it obviously means something to you if you’re concerned about it. But in the end it’s about what it means to you two, and that’s it. Perhaps realizing that will downplay what you end up doing, or help you find a solution that works. Others have given some ideas to retain some show of connection, so there’s answers out there if that’s what you need.

For what it’s worth, as a straight couple married for 35 years, I’ve worn my ring for almost all of that time. She stopped wearing hers years ago when it became annoying (probably for a similar reason as you, fitting well). In the past years through age my fingers changed in size and my ring had been there so long it has literally created a small groove it sat in. I could not take it off using any of the methods I found. It didn’t bother me, but looking at it it was a concern, mostly to her as she envisioned a degloving incident at work (which is certain a problem even for rings that fit). Finally not too long ago I decided to go ahead and get it cut off (10 secs at a jeweler, no charge). I could expand it and wear it more, but it’s not a huge deal to either of us and would cost money to…do what? Its absence on my finger (and hers all these years) means nothing to us. I will say it’s been enough time where my finger has recovered and I can barely see where it was.

So…the rings and any other embellishments are symbolic between you two, and can mean as much or as little as you want it to.

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by neglect, ignorance or incompetence. Jesus, the incompetence.

Also, thinking things are part of a big conspiracy helps some people rationalize that there is intelligence behind all this chaos. Because if that’s not true, then there’s no one at the helm who has a clue, and THAT is frightening.

In the article one of the paper’s writers uses that wording, that’s where the title comes from. In large range graphs CO2 levels lead temperature over and over throughout history.

You should read the article/paper. Yes, CO2 is the main driver of temperature over geological timescales. Not anything new really outside of more confirmation. But the really important part is how denialists (I refuse to call them skeptics, that implies they’re thinking about it) are using such graphs out of context and hacked up to say that it was warmer before, so no big deal.

It is absolutely a big deal, as when it was warmer lots of other variables of the environment were different and the species at the time had adapted to that heat. The species alive today can’t live in that type of climate, and the rate of change, the most important thing, is so fast this time nothing large will have time to adapt. That includes us. And honestly with the rate of change and all the feedbacks possible, we could push Earth into a hothouse scenario that might be far past any regression to cooler millions of years from now. So sorry, future life, sucks for you.

“You just sound like one of those alarmists.”

Dude, everyone should be alarmed. The house is on fire, there’s no firemen coming to put it out, and we can’t leave.

That’s why there are limited numbers. The solution is simple, get rid of the restrictions that stop most people. Once enough people lose their job and have their family in danger, they’ll protest. They’ll do more than protest.

If he cuts social security enough, he might generate the same impulse from seniors who have the time, and the ones who are able will show up quite livid. I don’t think he realizes that you can’t push people all the way and not have consequences, you do have to keep some semblance of bread and circus intact for control.

I wish that commenting would automatically upvote a post. It’s far too late to fix the use of an upvote as approval of subject discussion and not just an agree arrow, but I often…no, I almost always forget to upvote the initial topic even after leaving a few paragraphs. One would hope whatever algorithm is used also considers activity and number of comments in a rating or suggesting it to others.

I read through the summary, and it sounds a lot like how evolutionary development is perceived by the layperson vs. how complex it really is, including the deception that we are at some high point. So the next question in my mind, and based on the summary the authors left to explore as the answer is probably a difficult one to find - are there paths that could have been traveled which didn’t lead to similar messes like we find ourselves in? One assumption is always that capitalism and consumption and all that comes with them is inevitable. Maybe not? It would ruin this meme that I found very fitting for society, but that’s again based on an inevitable conclusion to be true.

That will stop that line from increasing. Well done.

Change posture, but also get up and move around. Take breaks away from the screen to let your eyes rest.

Of course doing this can also mess up the flow of ideas sometimes. Nothing worse than coming back and trying to recapture the zone you were in.

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