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  • But they’ll be similarly broad I’m sure.

    I presume didn’t actually read 20+ essays which were personal summaries of each colleague. But unless you spent a significant amount of time with a psychologist those papers weren’t about anyone specifically, they were about lots of us.

    Chances are the questions put you in a myers briggs type category and spat out the essay for that category (or a version of). Not to say there isn’t a lot of stuff in there that applies to you, but it’s not as unique as it seems when you first read it.

    People also make them try to fit while reading, and not even just for our own essays. I typically do a version of it annually with work and I fill them all in randomly and end up in odd categories, without fail the whole room tells me that’s exactly who I am and it’s a brilliant summary, people put so much stock in MB that they force the results to fit their experience.

    Having said that, I’m not an expert in personality tests either so what the fuck do I know :)


  • I’m the same and as someone who’s worked remotely for 10 years, my life was way too sedentary. I got a dog which helped as the guilt of not walking her is plenty of motivation to get out daily, but whilst it helps, it wasn’t exactly making me fit and healthy, just a bit LESS unhealthy.

    I discovered rock climbing 3 months ago though and my life is completely changed, all exercise and diet is done with my current project route in mind and after 3 months I’m already far healthier and stronger than I’ve ever been before.

    Phenomenal sport, as someone who HATES the gym I really recommend everyone tries it at least once. It’s as intense as any workout and 100x more fun.


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    You’ve put a fair few words into people’s mouths and then judged them for it here.

    Could your own view be unfair? I see people from all sides coming to conclusions they aren’t qualified to be confident in, and yet everyone seems to have 100% certainty in everything these days.

    I see lots of right wing tits, I also see lots of left wing tits and centrist tits. Politicians are not experts in anything, their job requires them to try and become experts in everything and as a result they’re experts in nothing but lots of people seem to take everything their preferred politician says as fact. Things are very rarely black and white but in the US that seems to have been entirely forgotten lately.

    I know it won’t go down well here but viewpoints like ACAB or “republicans are fundamentally bad people” are so reductive that it’s almost funny.

    When did people stop considering nuance?


  • Nearly climbed an indoor route graded 6c at my gym. 6c was my target when I started climbing in June and I gave myself a year as my aimed timescale, I worked out the crux of a 6c route on Sunday and am only one move off finishing now.

    Way ahead of schedule! And for anyone who’s never tried rock climbing I can’t recommend it enough, it’s a sport for people that love video games where every route is a level that needs beating and you learn new abilities to unlock those harder levels. Helps that’s I’m stronger and fitter than I’ve ever been before even after just 3 months, it’s one hell of a workout!


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    Have convictions about the shit you know about. But be prepared to change your mind on stuff you aren’t an expert in.

    I wonder how many people that strongly align to the left or right actually understand the detail behind the policies they defend so vociferously, 99% of people people are just parroting what their party tells them to say from what I can see.

    Your opinion on climate change or whatever is the latest hot topic doesn’t mean shit. Reading an article from your biased politically motivated “journal” doesn’t mean shit. Listening to the actual experts and forming an opinion based on that DOES mean something, and it’s got fucking nothing to do with politics.


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    America sounds fucking awful. Why does anyone have to pick a side? Why do you have to be labelled anything political? Can’t you just vote every 4 years based on your opinion at the time of the available candidates. The idea that someone leaps to defend their party regardless of who leads it is kinda childish.

    In the UK the majority of adults don’t wear their political allegiance on their sleeves as seems to be the case in the US (from my blinkered view admittedly, that may be unfair). It’s rude to ask how people voted and you’re not expected to make it known, obviously extremes exist and plenty of people make it their identity, but it’s not a huge polarising issue and I have friends and family from both “sides”.

    The incessant need for everyone to be defined and put in their own category is a really bad thing for society. It’s not a surprise that the world seems to run on black and white viewpoints more than it used to appear to. If people saw me as an actual enemy because I tried to see more than their own angle on an issue then I don’t want them as friends tbh.