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  • There’s this quote attributed to Rabbi Yisrael Salanter:

    When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn’t change the nation, I began to focus on my town. I couldn’t change the town and as an older man, I tried to change my family.

    Now, as an old man, I realize the only thing I can change is myself, and suddenly I realize that if long ago I had changed myself, I could have made an impact on my family. My family and I could have made an impact on our town. Their impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world.

    There are two lessons here. First - the best way to affect meaningful change is to start local. Rather than spending a lot of time agonizing over national politics, get involved in your community - your neighborhood, your town, your apartment building, even just the house you share with your family. Your community will take better care of you and the other people that you care about than any national government ever will.

    Second - ultimately the only person whose behavior you can change is your own. Don’t be too harsh with other people when they don’t behave the way that you believe they should. Be a more stringent judge of your own behavior.

    But temper that with this:

    Whatever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much. Or berate yourself too much either.

    Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else’s.

    Baz Lurhmann











  • Is there any possibility of mounting some threaded inserts inside the body and running some screws through the panel?

    When you’re using the mouse and resting your hand on it, you’re going to be putting a lot of pressure at random angles on it. As you move your hand around the plastic will flex and twist - any semipermanent bond is going to work loose pretty quickly. Also if it’s gummy or sticky it will pick up dust and crud. Fasteners would be better.



  • Correct.

    But we don’t need employees to audit your use of company devices - we have LLMs for that. We can always define what is “work related” and flag anything that doesn’t match, or any web addresses that are outside the pre-approved list (it doesn’t have to be blacklisting, we can do whitelisting too).

    And yeah, they won’t fire you right away… they’ll just collect data, and use it to justify firing you when they decide that you cost too much.



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    The spear in the Other’s heart
    is the spear in your own:
    you are he.

    There is no other wisdom,
    and no other hope for us
    but that we grow wise.

    -attributed to Surak

    as written by Diane Duane in Spock’s World

    Empathy is not some mere emotion that you feel - a fleeting reaction to some external sensation. Empathy is an intentional shifting of perspective, where you experience another’s circumstances as if they were your own.

    This is a skill, meaning that it is something which you learn through practice, and that you do on purpose, until the doing of it becomes instinctive and no longer requires intent.

    To say “I do not feel empathy” is to give yourself an excuse not to practice. This is a cop-out, used by weak people. Do not wait to “feel” it before you practice. Always remember you do not practice only for the sake of other people, but for the sake of your own growth and edification.