Mad Doug Biker
Just a damaged guy.
- Location
- Craggy Island
If so, what happens when you 'die'?
Do you then get to live your life from what you have learned outwith the system, so you don't do the same mistakes again, etc?
Otherwise, what's the point?
Things that have bothered you for a long time.
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If so, what happens when you 'die'?
Do you then get to live your life from what you have learned outwith the system, so you don't do the same mistakes again, etc?
Otherwise, what's the point?
classic33
Leg End Member
They just erase you from the program.
Mad Doug Biker
Just a damaged guy.
- Location
- Craggy Island
It's hardly a 'Simulation' then if you can never leave 🤷
Gwylan
Veteran
- Location
- All at sea⛵
That leaves a lot of unresolved interactions between people.
Once you get beyond about 12 the whole thing implodes.
There's a French management theory (an oxymoron of its own) about the number of interactions that go on within groups of colleagues.
LCpl Boiled Egg
Three word soundbite
They didn't have to. They would have moved them on days ago like they did for Liz's funeral.
rockyroller
Guru
- Location
- 20 miles northwest of Boston, MA
I think existentialism is more about free will & self determination
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
You were predestined to think that.
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
People who don't smile or react during conversations.
Understand, I'm not criticising them; they have every right not to smile, but I find it very hard when I don't have some reaction I can read and I have to consciously remind myself it's probably not deliberate.
Understand, I'm not criticising them; they have every right not to smile, but I find it very hard when I don't have some reaction I can read and I have to consciously remind myself it's probably not deliberate.
Gwylan
Veteran
- Location
- All at sea⛵
They are out there. Have an adult son like that.
Chris S
Legendary Member
- Location
- Birmingham
Why are so many characters in 'The Archers' LGBTQ? I can think of five in the current story lines - Adam Macy, Ian Craig, Rory Donovan, Paul Mack and Stella Pryor. If Ambridge reflected the UK as a whole then there should be an additional 95 straight characters in the current story lines.
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Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
Why do people feel the need for noise?
Yesterday the manager tried to persuade me to have a radio in the workshop. She said she'd been there before I arrived ant that there was a "tense atmosphere" because it was so quiet, and wanted to know why I didn't want a radio there.
I said that it's for three main reasons: I'm trying to get clients to work exactly, which involves listening for problems they can't necessarily see. Things like brakes rubbing on a wheel. I want them to learn to hear a gear clicking faintly but enough to cause a problem, and how to adjust gears by ear so the problem is solved quickly and without my intervention or a test ride. Music blocks this sound.
I find it hard to isolate voices when there is other noise in the background, which is annoying for everyone because I have to keep asking them to repeat themselves. As there are at least three native non-German languages represented in the team, trying to understand each other is hard enough as it is.
Finally, I find background music generally irritating noise. I'm always glad to get away from the constant barrage in the rest of the shop.
The counter argument was that we should give priority to our client's feelings and comfort over our own. Now, I've been working with these clients for several months, and they keep coming, so they clearly are happy with the environment. I haven't felt any tension in the air and I'm very sensitive to such things.
I suspect my manager was projecting her dislike of quietness onto my clients; It's strange to me that people find a lack of noise so bothersome.
Yesterday the manager tried to persuade me to have a radio in the workshop. She said she'd been there before I arrived ant that there was a "tense atmosphere" because it was so quiet, and wanted to know why I didn't want a radio there.
I said that it's for three main reasons: I'm trying to get clients to work exactly, which involves listening for problems they can't necessarily see. Things like brakes rubbing on a wheel. I want them to learn to hear a gear clicking faintly but enough to cause a problem, and how to adjust gears by ear so the problem is solved quickly and without my intervention or a test ride. Music blocks this sound.
I find it hard to isolate voices when there is other noise in the background, which is annoying for everyone because I have to keep asking them to repeat themselves. As there are at least three native non-German languages represented in the team, trying to understand each other is hard enough as it is.
Finally, I find background music generally irritating noise. I'm always glad to get away from the constant barrage in the rest of the shop.
The counter argument was that we should give priority to our client's feelings and comfort over our own. Now, I've been working with these clients for several months, and they keep coming, so they clearly are happy with the environment. I haven't felt any tension in the air and I'm very sensitive to such things.
I suspect my manager was projecting her dislike of quietness onto my clients; It's strange to me that people find a lack of noise so bothersome.
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DaveReading
Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
- Location
- Reading, obvs
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
I score highly on the Sensory Processing Sensitivity scale. This has many advantages but one disadvantage is that I can't easily isolate voices in the way described, especially in German.
matticus
Guru
Google says:
"There is still some uncertainty about the full volume of glaciers and ice caps on Earth, but if all of them were to melt, global sea level would rise approximately 70 meters (approximately 230 feet), flooding every coastal city on the planet. "
<and most large UK towns I suspect? Not sure ... >
