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  1. Comment on What minor or inane decisions have had the biggest butterfly effect on your life? in ~talk

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    Made a stupid video. Uploaded it. Girl DMd me. Together ever since (4 years and counting).

    Made a stupid video. Uploaded it. Girl DMd me. Together ever since (4 years and counting).

    4 votes

  2. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~humanities.history

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    An insane story of inter-personal diplomacy (with direct accounts from king Hussein himself) during the Gulf war.

    An insane story of inter-personal diplomacy (with direct accounts from king Hussein himself) during the Gulf war.

    6 votes

  3. Comment on With great empathy comes great response ability in ~health.mental

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    There are apparently -different kinds- of empathy (cognitive, emotional, etc), and an inherent LACK of empathy (such as is typical with people suffering from Anti-Social Personality Disorder)...

    There are apparently -different kinds- of empathy (cognitive, emotional, etc), and an inherent LACK of empathy (such as is typical with people suffering from Anti-Social Personality Disorder) doesn't necessarily have to be a negative thing.

    2 votes

  5. Comment on By selectively breeding forty generations of silver fox over the course of sixty years, researchers managed to make them as friendly as dogs in ~science

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    This reply is amazing. Thank you so so much for the nuanced and informative take!

    This reply is amazing. Thank you so so much for the nuanced and informative take!

  6. Comment on By selectively breeding forty generations of silver fox over the course of sixty years, researchers managed to make them as friendly as dogs in ~science

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    I wonder what would happen if we kept selecting dogs for friendliness. We're going to surpass the limits of friendliness.

    I wonder what would happen if we kept selecting dogs for friendliness. We're going to surpass the limits of friendliness.

    5 votes

  8. Comment on How Microsoft's ruthless employee evaluation system annihilated team collaboration in ~tech

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    Sounds like purgatory mate. Stay strong

    Sounds like purgatory mate. Stay strong

  9. Comment on How Microsoft's ruthless employee evaluation system annihilated team collaboration in ~tech

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    It always warms my heart to see coroporate greed completely backfire. Also it's illuminating to see how quickly supposedly sound management theories are accepted at face value, and how the messy...

    It always warms my heart to see coroporate greed completely backfire.

    Also it's illuminating to see how quickly supposedly sound management theories are accepted at face value, and how the messy real world complexities lead them to perform catastrophically in practice.

    19 votes

  11. Comment on I, like many of you came from Reddit. But what brought you to Reddit? in ~tech

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    I was actually SUPER late to the reddit party. I had heard about it for years, but only really got into it around 2017. I admit it literally took me a whole week to figure out how to post. I...

    I was actually SUPER late to the reddit party. I had heard about it for years, but only really got into it around 2017.

    I admit it literally took me a whole week to figure out how to post. I remember the frustration of having literally every single submission I made got automatically removed within 0 seconds (ah, so naive!).

    After I finally got the hang of it however I enjoyed a proper golden age there. It's weird in retrospect how violent the moderation feels at the beginning, but then you slowly mould your behaviour to their rules so that it becomes second nature.

    Also took me until 2019 to discover Twitter but it's changed my life ever since!