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Social anxiety is an expensive disability to have - it costs you oportunities as well as perspectives.
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Gekijôban Spy x Family Code: White, 2023 Fediverse Movie Night Воскресен…  You see this often, but it makes sense Our brains don't measure time in a purely quantitative way. It's more qualitative Meaning: We tend defer to events, 'landmarks', i.e. "It's been a while since [significant event]", rather than "It's been 56.3 days since new year" /1 I suspect the reason many my age (or thereabouts) think 2000 was 'about 10 years ago' is because it's the last actual 'date' we all got genuinely worked about about The build-up, anxiety, Y2K, conspiracies. It was the last 'date' that was a universal 'emotional' landmark Some might argue this also applies to 9/11, but a) there was no 'build up' to that, and b) it was roughly the same time in our memories, so likely gets lumped in with 2000. /2 Nothing like someone picking apart your data not realising how much is balanced on top of it... #Jenga  Может быть, кое-кто наконец вновь зачешется доделывать Мастодонт. Да, @MastodonEngineering? A game about back-breaking manual labour and unionizing is criticized for "injecting politics".   |
@drq As bad as it is, sometimes that's all that keeps you from making the wrong decisions and getting too close to the wrong people.
No, I am not paid by the social anxiety cult to shill it, I just wish we lived in a better world, where I wouldn't have to think about how I regret no more than about a half the decisions I didn't make because of anxiety.
It's all too easy to post hoc attribute all the correct precautions to one's own knowledge and intelligence, and all the incorrect ones to anxiety. Unfortunately, that's not how it works most of the time. As with most things, there is a subtle balance at play here, and that's what's really sad.
@drq As bad as it is, sometimes that's all that keeps you from making the wrong decisions and getting too close to the wrong people.
No, I am not paid by the social anxiety cult to shill it, I just wish we lived in a better world, where I wouldn't have to think about how I regret no more than about a half the decisions I didn't make because of anxiety.