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Tarpit ideas – what are tarpit ideas and how to avoid them (2023) [video]

https://www.ycombinator.com/library/Ij-tarpit-ideas-what-are-tarpit-ideas-how-to-avoid-them

#HackerNews #tarpitideas #avoidance #strategies #innovation #video #2023

Why the fexx do Americans think that corporations support corrupt (most of them) politicians in Congress, the Senate and the White House?

There has to be a return on that money. Maybe the US people could reconsider who is really to blame for a poor healthcare system and deteriorating public services? Not I should point out that companies donating to the Tories and Labour want anything different

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/15/silicon-six-accused-of-avoiding-almost-278bn-in-us-corporation-taxes-over-10-years

#Tax #Evasion #Avoidance #TakenForARide #USPol #Corruption #RobbingPaul

Every time you avoid conflict to “keep the peace,” you’re not just staying quiet—you’re sending your nervous system the message that self-advocacy is dangerous. Over time, this leads to heightened anxiety around confrontation and a belief that your voice is unsafe. But this pattern can be unlearned. #avoidance #trauma #healing #conflict #fighting

https://envisiontherapydfw.com/avoiding-conflict-is-not-keeping-the-peace/

Today's poem:

Pompeii
- by Charles Bernstein

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/780152275267108864/pompeii?source=share

#poetry #CharlesBernstein #catastrophe #avoidance #fear #realisation #power

Space Debris: Is It a Crisis?
https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Space_Debris
#ycombinator #space #debris #orbital #objects #conjunction #esoc #prediction #ssa #sst #tracking #avoidance

#Cloaking #Device
#TheTelegraph: '#Invisibility #cloak' that could hide tanks and troops looks closer to #reality.

#Wikipedia: ❛❛ Developments in #scientific research show that #realworld cloaking #devices can obscure #objects from at least one #wavelength of #EM #emissions. ❜❜

🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZMyWEWHCTM 2019 Oct 17
🔗 https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaking_device
🎓 h/t @Oliviero65

#Community #TimeTravel #Research #avoidance #invisibility #technology #HarryPotter #camouflage #Kronodon

A quotation from Euripides

CHORUS: Goodbye! Good luck! If you can, be lucky, steer clear of disaster. That’s happiness for mortals.

[ΧΟΡΟΣ: χαίρετε: χαίρειν δ᾽ ὅστις δύναται
καὶ ξυντυχίᾳ μή τινι κάμνει
θνητῶν, εὐδαίμονα πράσσει.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Electra [Ἠλέκτρα], l. 1357ff (c. 420 BC) [tr. Wilson (2016)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/euripides/75110/

#quote #quotes #quotation #avoidance #badluck #disaster #goodfortune #goodluck #happiness #misfortune

A quotation from Judith Martin

Condemning sin should never be confused with eschewing it.

Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
Star-Spangled Manners, ch. 2 (2003)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/martin-judith/74841/

#quote #quotes #quotation #avoidance #condemnation #eschew #hypocrisy #immorality #sin #wordsanddeeds

What if this approach is seriously arse about. And we can do better.

#Hypersensitivity to and #avoidance of certain flavours & textures is part of our #sensory profile for many #ActuallyAutistic folks. As with all of our sensory issues, the ways we devise to deal with them come at a cost, socially, emotionally & physically. Being pressured to let go of strategies that have protected us can feel life threatening. Especially if we don’t understand where they’ve come from & how they’ve helped us (hard to do when our various unusual behaviours are examined in isolation from each other & each set pathologised with an unhelpful diagnosis).

In my experience, we can change the habits & routines that protect us only when (i) we feel safe & (ii) it is our choice to do so. In our own ways, at our own speed, on our own terms. This profound need for autonomy gets pathologised as ‘demand avoidance’ but it’s another manifestation of the strategies for survival that we develop & cling to for dear life. Take this from me & I will die.

How about, for kids & adults ‘with #ARFID’, we approached interventions by starting with respect for autonomy. This means learning about how this person experiences sensory pleasures & discomforts around eating & taking them seriously. Then developing options for change that can be chosen by that person, or not. At their own pace.

It worked for me. As in so many areas of my life, this is the only approach that does.

Like so many folx who grew up undiagnosed I learned to be ashamed of my struggles (in denial about them, intolerant of their manifestation in others) & embarrassed about my gifts. Wish I’d understood my #neurodivergence, & that of my family members, when I was parenting kids.

So glad we can do better now. I wish the support systems whose funding rests on adopting pathologising diagnostic categories would catch up!!

@actuallyautistic #AutisticElder #AutisticParent #disability

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-06/eating-disorder-arfid-picky-eating/104648840?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

6 - My problems are merely challenges, but yours are 'drama’.

7 - I complain the most about drama and how much I don’t want it in my life because I constantly create it for myself.

8 - I am not looking for a woman but a silent doll who has never any issues whatsoever and never put me to test. Period.

9 - I self-identify as a person who "doesn't do drama" but obviously I do, otherwise the act would have never even crossed my mind.

#unattractive #men #relationship #connecting #dating + #nodrama = #dickheads #disengagement #avoidance to #passion #feelings #efforts #intensity #conditions #deceitful #bossing

#Pathological #Demand #Avoidance (PDA) Misconceptions

#Pathologicaldemandavoidance (#PDA) is most often seen in people with #autism, but certain traits also have been seen with people with #ADHD and other sensory processing #disorders. In this video I will talk about what PDA is, why it's often searched with ADHD and autism, strategies that can help those with pathological #demandavoidance, and what it's like living with PDA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xHvNw70FCc

Facing a complex problem can be daunting to say the least. But if we're genuinely humble and cooperative with the process of working our way through it ... Success in solving our problem is right around the corner.

https://greatday.com/

#TheDailyMotivator #RalphMarston
#Humble #Cooperative
#avoidance #TakeACTION #BabySteps #inspiration #motivation
#SUCCESS #SolvingProblems

#Fascist #Florida #Governor #RonDeSantis Snubs #VicePresident #KamalaHarris’s #HurricaneRelief #Calls for the #Dumbest #Reason.

DeSantis is dodging the Harris' calls to #coordinate #HurricaneRelief after #HurricaneHelene and ahead of #HurricaneMilton’s impending landfall. His #avoidance seems aimed at creating a #weapon for #Republicans to use in the 2024 #Election #Campaign. Essentially, DeSantis is #PlayingPolitics with people's lives.