Plenty of scientists can and will work in industry roles or quit entirely. It’s already a crazy proposition and should not be made any harder. Finding funding can be a brutal and continuous challenge that demotivates many.
Well, this is probably a thing where humans are very diverse in their subjective experience.
I'd say this is definitely a noticeable thing with small children at family gatherings, birthday parties and the like. But I grew up in a household where both of my parents came from families where big family gatherings with even extended family was common, and I know not everyone has that kind of experience, so who knows how much of that is nature or nurture as well.
In my case however this has persisted well into adulthood: despite being a chronic insomniac who has a really hard time falling a sleep normally, at these types of social gatherings I often have to fight off falling asleep precisely because I feel comfortable and safe among friends and/or family (I wonder if that is in any way related to my ADHD).
I also get sleepy at gatherings. It's something really subtle and hard to defend against, but brutally simple.
It's the food and air quality. There's a lot of people in an enclosed environment eating too many carbs (or too much in general).
Timing is critical and I'm on a mission. Before the heavy food comes out, I grab a seltzer and a small salad. I convince some people to join me on the patio for a drink. It's important to arrive late enough that people are eager to break away, but well before any food ceremony.
Nah, food comas are noticeably different, at least for me. Plus I also had this drowsiness at student parties where I whs the only sober guy (because tee-totaller) while everyone got tipsy, and no food was involved either.
Safety. If something creeps up hopefully one of you is partly awake to raise the alarm. I sometimes think cats are still like this, they seem to sleep very soundly around people but only snooze and are easily startled when isolated.
Not just you. Most are insane already. Temperature, noise, light, other partner, pillows, ventilation, caffeine, wind down (including me as I write this comment) - majority of people mismanage this so badly. We spend 1/3rd of our time on it, it's probably top 5 of most important things in our life, yet we butcher it so badly.
The question was about actual resale (although I'm beginning to wonder); you're talking about something for which I don't believe the word "resale" is accurate.
That can be the right call (and is the one I would make) but for situations like this, it may be as much about how you think about something yourself rather than how others view it. If spending more makes it mean something different to you, then that can be a primary function. That being said, blood diamonds are a huge problem, DeBeers is a cartel, and we’d be better off investing our money in other ways that serve a relationship, family, etc.
Yes I agree. My point was more generally that the discussion around whether other people can tell ignores how one feels themself. I don’t often hear that point made, that you can’t lie to yourself IF it’s important to you that it’s natural or whatever. It’s way easier to actually not care or prefer lab grown and then move forward feeling great.
I love deeply observing paintings and also love taking a photo while in a museum. It helps me remember the details and review like spaced repetition the things I saw, or spend more time observing nuance later. Are many people ticking boxes? Probably, but the issue is the too many people. Even with people just looking, I feel uncomfortable spending time if there’s a line.
> The act of taking photos of paintings in museums is meaningless.
No. I found some paintings I liked in a museum and took photos of them with a serious-at-the-time camera and uploaded them to wikimedia and found the endeavour worthwhile. Not all the paintings are super-famous and been scanned at infinite resolution!
I wouldn't have thought you could do it by whacking together some 2kg rusty iron balls and aluminum foil but you can. I wouldn't try it inside of a building I didn't want to burn down.
I have almost exactly the opposite reaction. By not caring so much about the minute details of physical things, or having the very best croissants or whatever, frees you up to enjoy anything or focus on interactions with people, ideas, anything else.
Being able to enjoy/tolerate a cup of coffee from my cheap machine at home saves me €2 and 30 minutes of my day. I’m happy that I am not a connoisseur.
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