Să nu uităm că drogurile astea sunt foarte periculoase! Unii oameni mor, sau, mai rău, ajung la spital!

Onasill ~ Bill - Onasill ~ OFF - For The Holidays - St Catharines Ontario ~ Canada ~ 6-8 Norris Place ~ Old Town Heritage House

Cei de la HappyFishTV au făcut un clip în care ziceau:

„Să nu uităm că drogurile astea sunt foarte periculoase! Unii oameni mor, sau, mai rău, ajung la spital!”

(video, mai jos)

Din păcate, după scandalul cu „azilele groazei”, poți să găsești o doză de realism în afirmație.

În aceeași linie:

„It is worse than a crime, it is a mistake.” – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838), French diplomat

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Too many messages!

Thomas Hawk - Facebook HQ

Sometimes, people complain to me: „You post too many things, you send too many things, you add too many things!”

How do I interpret this? There is an issue with the quality of the things I post, not with the quantity.

You can go to a long movie and watch it in its entirety if it’s a good movie.

You can read a news website with lots of daily news.

You can visit a humor site and read a lot of good jokes/see funny images.

Doing the same with a low-quality information source? It’s just not the same thing.

When watching a boring movie, even one hour is too much.

Low-quality news source? You close it.

Read/see something not funny to your taste? You leave the website.

The trouble is, while it’s easy to fix the quantity issue, it’s very difficult to fix the quality issue.

So, as a conclusion – I wouldn’t worry about posting hundreds of photos in an album or posting 10 posts on Facebook per day.

But I would worry about the postings being quality ones (or less so).

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David Popovici’s aftermath

Adam Drewes - 006 FSU Swim Meet

David Popovici recently lost a race. He was first for three lengths of the race, then lost momentum and the podium in the final length. He was 4th, in the end.

When looking at this, people might say, „Oh, he lost because of so-and-so.”

But what would the same people say if he got a gold medal and set up a record?

It’s easy to come after a battle and make an analysis.

The trouble is that the fight’s result determines the analysis’ contents.

And I consider this to be wrong.

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Despre comentarii pe bloguri

Rick Schwartz - Old Seawall

Acum ceva timp, Dan C. Mihăilescu a lansat un vlog în parteneriat cu eMAG.

După o perioadă, l-a închis, motivând că el nu răspunde la comentarii, și simte o presiune în sensul acesta din partea comunității.

Eu l-aș fi urmărit pe Dan C. nu pentru comentarii, ci pentru vlog.

La fel, da, e OK dacă Radu ar comenta des, nu m-ar deranja.

Dar prefer să scrie pe blog, asta e cheia pentru mine. Comentariile sunt secundare.

Nu înțelegeam „de ce nu vede Dan C. Mihăilescu că comentariile sunt opționale?”. Acum înțeleg, citind unele comentarii de pe NWRadu.ro, că comentatorii consideră că au drepturi. E dreptul lor inalienabil.

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Mă simt, încă, copil?

Jan Vlugt - Fun

La 41 de ani, îmi plac desenele animate. :)

Am văzut cam tot ce e desen animat de cinema, cu o notă bună pe IMDb.

Până acum puțini ani mă uitam inclusiv la desenele cu note mici.

Îmi plac unele lecturi – Cuore, Peter Pan, Mihail, câine de circ (poate fi traumatizantă cartea asta), Colț alb, Poveste de Crăciun.

Am amintiri cu cărți de Jules Verne și Winnetou.

Mă uit la musical-uri (par o prostie pentru oameni mai mari).

Îmi place Ada Milea.

Îmi plac poeziile lui Iv cel naiv și Carmen Tiderle.

Joc jocuri pe care le jucam acum 20 de ani.

Ce cred că am pierdut e inocența și lipsa de griji.

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On attractiveness

La grande bellezza (2013)

„Attractiveness was negatively correlated with body mass index and with height (only in males). Attractive individuals reported being in a long-term romantic relationship more than others. Self-rated and/or other-rated attractiveness were positively correlated with self-reported social status, self-esteem, and past-positive time perspective, and negatively correlated with trait anxiety, neuroticism, and past-negative time perspective. ” (Study: Physical and psychosocial correlates of facial attractiveness.)

It’s nice to choose your partner, among other criteria, on attractiveness.

On the other hand, some people tend to only look at this and ignore other traits.

Sure, it matters; we’re built like this. But it should not be the main criterion, in my opinion.

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On doing good

Thank you note

Whenever people ask others to do CSR activities, they tend to say, „You should CSR because not only is it something good for everyone, but it also specifically benefits you.”

I don’t think that’s the optimal approach. To me, this is a bit like telling a friend, „For helping me, I’ll pay you, but I’ll only pay you 50% of the market value.”

If I were to ask a friend for a service, I’d either pay them full or pay them nothing. That 50% is demotivating.

This is the same for CSR – people either do things for a direct benefit (profit), or for the sake of doing something good.

If you tell someone, „do CSR, and you’ll also partially benefit from this yourself”, it might prove a negative motivator.

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Despre participarea la târguri imobiliare

Despre căutarea unui apartament de închiriat

Merită să te duci la un târg imobiliar?

Opinia mea: trebuie să știi clar ce îți dorești, dar e posibil să fie mai eficient să contactezi direct niște agenții.

Pe de altă parte, când am vrut, în 2020, să închiriez un apartament cu 2 camere în București, am contactat mulți proprietari/agenții imobiliare, și fie erau greu de găsit, fie nu răspundeau.

Așa, la un târg măcar ai niște răspunsuri.

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Why don’t I like movie trailers?

On "Soul" (2020)

Most of all, because it’s a story from which you get nothing.

After watching a movie, re-watching the most important scenes via a trailer is a good idea.

But prior to it, watching the scenes in a trailer only gives you a very approximate idea of what the movie is about.

The whole thing about the movie is not about some scenes but how the things get connected in a story.

And you can’t have a story well told in a minute or two.

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