DIB 8s – debating is a specific activity to humankind

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Cultura UCSC - Debates Interescolares UCSC

I consider debating is a specific activity for humankind.

When you enter a room, you start debating. Rarely do you avoid conflict 100%.

On another hand, you see a conflict, you tend to avoid it. You go into a room with 150 bad boys (Carlsberg stunts with bikers in cinema – YouTube), you want to avoid the situation.

Generally, though, people tend to go into a fight. You enter the room, you say hello, you say something else, and if you’re completely silent, you feel pressure.

Some animals would prefer avoiding the situation altogether.

What makes us humans, as a conclusion? The decision not to run, to debate, to go into conflict, to expose yourself.

It’s a lot of courage and a feeling of vulnerability.

A Ship in Harbor Is Safe, But that Is Not What Ships Are Built For – Quote Investigator

People have the courage to go out of the harbor.

And if it’s a storm, sometimes to go right through it.

Coming back to debating – it’s both a humility (“I’ll listen to you, I’ll treasure your arguments, I’ll enjoy allowing you to express yourself”), and a power (“I’ll confront you, I’ll stand my ground, I’ll say what I have to say”).

This makes us humans!

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Growth opportunities in a job

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enjosmith - New growth

Whenever I make a decision – “Would this job be a good fit for me?” -, I consider this: “Growth opportunities in a job”.

For example, a job where you meet and have connections with a lot of people, and get deep connections with them, could do fine. This doesn’t imply, to me, calling a lot of people, or selling stuff, but things like account management, working for companies or individuals, organizing events.

Another option – learning curve (and, of course, the utility of things being learned). So, if I were to learn to program, I can apply the principles in a lot of places. Law system? Yes, I can apply it, but mostly in Romania, and in certain jobs only. A system like “Prima Casa”/”First Home”, now obsolete – now there’s no future in that.

Finally, the place of the job. If you can do it online, you have a lot of opportunities. If you need to go to work, in person, a famous city looks like a better place to learn things.

So, how do I look at a job as a clerk in City Hall for a small community? It’s certainly not bad, and the skills you learn could be useful, but I think there are better opportunities than that. It’s a safe bet, but perhaps the prize is not that high.

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Despre driedfruits.ro – alune, nuci, semințe, cereale

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Driedfruits

Am comandat de 4 ori de pe site-ul Driedfruits.ro.

Sunt magazine care te sună – “Sigur exiști și ești real?”. Ei au mers pe încredere, au văzut că am făcut plata, nu m-au mai sunat, ceea ce m-a bucurat, prefer să rezolv lucrurile rapid.

Livrarea a fost promptă.

Toate produsele în comandă + mici cadouri.

Ambalare foarte bună, nu am avut nicio problemă.

Produse de calitate, nu am întâlnit, în cele 4 comenzi de până acum nicio problemă.

Cred că au și cele mai bune prețuri, în ansamblu (adică e posibil să găsești, punctual, câte-un produs mai ieftin, dar la o comandă mai mare probabil e cea mai ieftină soluție).

În concluzie – produse de calitate, prețuri mici, servicii bune, livrare promptă.

Recomand!

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A WordPress plugin to try: Image optimization & Lazy Load by Optimole

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A WordPress plugin to try: Image optimization & Lazy Load by Optimole

Image optimization & Lazy Load by Optimole – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org.

What makes Optimole so special?

  • Smaller images. Same quality
  • Fully automated; set and forget
  • Supports all image types
  • Supports both Retina and WebP images
  • Cloud image library support
  • Serves images from a global CDN for free
  • Optimizes based on the visitor’s actual device (no more guesswork and width estimations)
  • Full support for page builders like Elementor
  • Lazy load without jQuery (better)
  • Fully functional free version (we have paid plans as well)

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How to remember things? Practical procedure

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J Swanstrom (Never enough time...) - Memory Without Emotion

How to remember things when I’m having fun doing something else, with a recall system?

I might have already written about this, but perhaps I forgot.

This summer, one day, when I was at the beach, I thought of some things:

First, I thought I would like to know how the sea looks like before going to the beach, so I’ll open each time I go to the seaside a website with a webcam with the Black Sea. So, I formed an image with the shore.

Then, I thought of one thing about a monastery. There was an image of a monastery.

Afterward, I thought of some things in the fridge. There were more memos with this, but they were easy, and not that important.

Now, things started to get complicated when I thought I should visit a friend in Năvodari. At this point, there were 3 + 1 things to remember (Sea, Monastery, Fridge, Friend). I thought of a Map in Năvodari, with all the things, and I could put all 4 things on a sort of a square (more or less, my mind is very flexible with this).

Then I thought I should write about this process, as I currently do. So, I added to the square a top (as in meta-level cognition), and it was now a pyramid.

Then, I thought that at my grandparents we need a special mobile network at my grandparents from my mother’s side. So, there was now a Pyramid and a Map of my Grandparent’ house.

Then I thought of a thing in the past, and while the Pyramid was the present, I added something in the bottom to make it another Pyramid, with the past.

The thing is, by doing the above process, it was much easier to know what I had to remember.

Also, while it is certainly possible that I forget some associations, it’s not that likely as forgetting to do a thing altogether.

Sometimes, when I forget an association, I think of other things. “Oh, there was a fridge. What were the tasks for the fridge?”. And this process helps me discover new things about the fridge.

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If you want any business done for you, you should ask a busy man to do it

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Crusty Da Klown (Busy) - From a distance

Just as it is almost proverbial that, if you want any business done for you, you should ask a busy man to do it, and not a man of leisure, so it is the laborious scholar, who is working hard at languages, who picks up, nay, actually reads and studies more of other subjects than the rest of his fellows at school or college.

Reverend W. J. Kennedy, who was the Inspector of Schools for Lancashire and the Isle of Man in Britain, 1856

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Cum analizezi un software?

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WinAmp

Cum analizezi un program ca WinAmp? (în ideea că ar mai fi actualizat)

Nu cu criterii tehnice, viteză, performanță (calculatoarele moderne pot face față), ci cu ușurință interfață și număr funcții utile.

Nu te ajută dacă WinAmp știe sau nu să interpreteze un fișier PDF redenumit în MP3, asta e non-criteriu (l-am întâlnit o dată în revista CHiP, acum foarte mulți ani).

Dar contează cum arată și ce poți face cu el – doar să fie și util.

Cu funcțiile și ușurința în utilizare – cu asta câștigi inimi, nu cu niște lucruri pur tehnice.

Desigur, există niște limite – să nu abuzeze de resurse, să nu dea erori grave.

Dar dacă deschizi un PDF în WinAmp și se blochează – asta mi se pare o eroare irelevantă. Da, ar trebui rezolvată, dar nu asta e cheia.

Funcții de tip comenzi la tastatură customizabile, skinuri WinAmp, comunitate în spate, multe opțiuni, integrare cu Last FM – asta da, contează.

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