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Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
It's obvious you have tendencies that make it difficult for you to understand, and therefore effectively communicate, with others. The result is you cannot understand why someone would consider the expression of something as deeply fundamental as their own happiness with themselves as more important than some "guidelines" on a forum ran by people who are not themselves.
That you rely so heavily on the guidelines is telling, it's what often happens when persons don't understand the underlying principles.
Your initial post came from a place of not understanding. As we've interacted that's become more and more clear to me. I see no need to belabor this any longer.
Comment · 3 years ago
One has to wonder if I've been going back and forth with ChatGPT.
People talk about having a feeling of uncanny valley when reading some of the things ChatGPT says and I must say, this must be what it feels like.
And if you're not open to the possibility that I'm speaking with ChatGPT it's because you're misusing HN.
Comment · 3 years ago
> Mental instability is self-medicated with drugs.
I'm guessing you've never seen directly or by proxy what happens when someone ends up in jail because they attacked a family member with a knife as a result of them going off their meds.
I didn't say mental illness, I said mental instability.
People with those sorts of mental instabilities find they have NO support structure because they're fundamentally unsafe to everyone but state actors.
https://www.hudexchange.info/sites/onecpd/assets/File/CoC-Sy...
It gets even worse for you when you start to realize the how many people aren't even counted because they're homeless for mere days due to being kicked out, unexpected circumstances, etc.
What you're thinking of are what's known as "chronically homeless" and your challenge is showing both that drug users are a significant portion of those who are homeless for under 100 days and that those who are not drug users are a significant portion of the chronically homeless.
Comment · 3 years ago
I'm ending the conversation here.
You were being unfair, I pointed it out and asked you to try and avoid it in the future, and your response is a multi-paragraph rant about who knows what because it would require that I take the time to read it.
Comment · 3 years ago
It's exactly that imprecision that means the person making the statement gets to tell you what it means for them, and they're not unreasonable for being very explicit in telling you that you will not convince them that their definition is more appropriate.
Furthermore,
on a purely mechanical level, what you're doing here is trying to escalate scope specifically so you don't have to give the point. Just give the point.
Comment · 3 years ago
The quote in it's full context
> A lot of those on here, I don’t listen to their input on what successs is.
> I will never be happy until I am climbing to the highest potential I can get to. No one is going to talk me into being otherwise.
What's being discussed is the definition of _success_, not happiness. And in fact, what the poster said is, this is what makes me happy and I'm not interested in anyone convincing me that shouldn't be what makes me happy.
your "immediately accuses me of ranting" didn't happen anywhere near immediately and I suggest you do some introspection to better understand why that was your reaction.