shakaijin

Beat me to it. It is sad to see that a lot of the people commenting lack good reading comprehension. Or maybe it is that they just want to be dismissive of something they don't like, or just for the sake of it.

I would totally take the mysterious drug if it was clinically tested and shown to be reasonably effective. But that is not the premises presented here.

As long as it is mostly the will of the people that dictates the form of government. A dictatorial regime controlling what information and ideas the people are allowed to be exposed to is a different story.

It is so tiring to see the constant efforts to erode our rights. Even if they succeed in creating a surveillance state, do they think that it will not blow up in their face one day? It will make violence and revolutions against the surveilling institutions innevitable, or maybe it is just wishful thinking...

My god, I am in the position right now where I basically have to screw around by myself in order to figure the system out. It is hell....

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No thank you.

My current approach is probably dumb, but the main thing I am trying to eliminate is me unconsciously accessing distractions (Reddit, YouTube etc.). I have basically conditioned myself to always go to such sites, and my body just opens them, even when trying to focus on some task, without it being a conscious decision. I have partially solved this by blocking all distractions I usually go to with my DNS (PiHole), so every time I unconsciously try to access such sites I get an error and snap back into reality, so to speak. I do sometimes unblock things, but I make sure that it is a conscious decision.

I have been noticing the impact of excessive multitasking on myself lately, and I am now actively trying to avoid it. At first i thought that multitasking would increase my overall efficiency by filling in gaps of downtime in certain tasks, but it soon turned me into a person incapable of focusing on anything deeply. One day, I noticed that I am unable to read a book the same way i did as a child (cover to cover in one sitting for example), and it kind of shocked me. I now have a rule that i do one thing only, and start other tasks only when the previous task has been finished. This applies to both productive work (learning, programming etc.) and entertainment (YouTube, books etc.). I think that it is starting to help, but I feel like it will take time to undo the damage of years of bad multitasking.

Also, they release new versions of books all the time and force their use in classes, making it impossible to use 2nd hand textbooks in a lot of cases. *I mean, come on. How of ten do fundamental physics change... Pearson is a company that should not exist.

I wish we could tackle the core issues and not just the symptoms (like dirty rivers). The real problem here is that a lot of countries simply do not have the regulations / infrastructure / money to handle garbage well.

I agree with you 100%. HN usually has better quality discussions than reddit (for example), but any discussion about Japan seems to have /r/anime level comments.

IDk. I live in Japan and it was amusing at first, but now I hate that everything is making noises, playing melodies and being generally loud.