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Nerd_doe  ·  3429 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: To Lose Weight, Eating Less Is Far More Important Than Exercising More

I do find that exercise helps me manage my depression and general energy levels enough to actual stick to diet change.

Nerd_doe  ·  3429 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why I Defaulted on My Student Loans

Fair enough, but I still don't understand why the fact that the money 'created' by the loan relationship (as the BoE put it) isn't erased by the payment and end of the loan relationship isn't relevant. That is, there's new money in circulation, and nothing happens to take it back out? Isn't that inflation in action?

Nerd_doe  ·  3433 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Windows 10

Thanks for your response. I didn't know it was possible to play vanilla wow! I'll be sure to check that out too.

Nerd_doe  ·  3434 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: “Just be yourself” is cruel, fraudulent advice to give young people - Salon.com

Actually I find my issue with Rachel Dolezal is that she's 'being herself' as it were. Where who she is is manipulative and dishonest, and ignorant of why living in blackface and lying about your family is an extraordinarily bad idea, or malicious enough not to care.

Nerd_doe  ·  3434 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Windows 10

Can you share more about your gaming experience? Are there compatability issues? Also, for retro games, do the compatability modes still work okay?

Nerd_doe  ·  3434 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: “Just be yourself” is cruel, fraudulent advice to give young people - Salon.com

My much longer reply got deleted, so I'll try to be shorter.

Dolezal is being herself not because she was born a liar, but because she became one over time and rather than evaluate, and try to become someone else (i.e. stop lying to get things) she continued to do so. She learned that lying works, and was uncritical of who that made her as a person.

JBY is advice that encourages tunnel vision, and an undue faith in the rightness of who we are at a given time simply because it's who we are right now. That's what makes it bad advice.

Dolezal believes in the validity of her attempt to 'become black'. She believes that rather than being a liar, she's 'trans-racial'. What she sees as transitioning to being black, the rest of the world sees as blackface and costuming, and then lying about it. Hence, as long as she continues the charade (blackface, costuming, paying a black man to pretend to be her dad) she is a liar. That said the pretend father and the lies about her adopted siblings make me think malice might be involved too.

Nerd_doe  ·  3434 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: “Just be yourself” is cruel, fraudulent advice to give young people - Salon.com

Another problem with DWYL (and a way it can tie into classism) is that it creates a culture where one is expected to love what they do. Even if you are DWYL outrageous hours and inadequate compensation are still negative, and they are even more negative when you work a soul sucking job you hate.