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[ToonyMan]

OBJECTION!

OVERRULED!

You need some context here.

[Ochita]

OBJECTION!

OVERRULED!

You need some context here.

Well played...

[ChairmanPoo]

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/05/in-spain-a-high-profile-spat-ove.html

They want to kick out Barbacid


The saddest thing is that with the current funding-cuts political climate, the funding system he proposed is a great idea to funnel private funds into cancer R&D. In fact, simmilar models were used with great success in CIMA, another important Spanish R&D center. So the whole thing is ridiculous.

The only positive non-negative thing is that the most touted replacement is Blasco, who is an able and reputable scientist in her own right.
But it's absurd for the goverment to make a law "aiming to reduce brain drain" (which it wont, but that's another matter), while encouraging a man like Barbacid to go back to the US.

[MaximumZero]

Hurph.

I wish I were more "manly."  I'm starting to feel sort of uncomfortable in my skin again, so I guess I'd better do some work to rebalance centerwards.  The feminism is a really good thing for me overall.  However, it's also caused what feels like an internal gender imbalance to the girl side.

Oh, well.  That shouldn't be too hard to fix.

Find a punching bag. Not much can make a person feel more manly. (Aside from breaking patio tiles and eating a giant steak, of course, neither of which I'd imagine you'd do.)

[ToonyMan]

The Disgaea 4 trailer just talks about how manly you can become over and over again.  Yeah I'm pretty sure the Powerthirst guy does the English version for narration.

[Vector]

Find a punching bag. Not much can make a person feel more manly. (Aside from breaking patio tiles and eating a giant steak, of course, neither of which I'd imagine you'd do.)

Yeah, I was thinking something along the lines of situps, pushups, and swordfighting.

[Bauglir]

Find a punching bag. Not much can make a person feel more manly. (Aside from breaking patio tiles and eating a giant steak, of course, neither of which I'd imagine you'd do.)

Yeah, I was thinking something along the lines of situps, pushups, and swordfighting.

And here we have proof that Vector is manlier than I am. All I've got to my name in terms of manliness is a beard and a love of fried meat.

[MaximumZero]

Find a punching bag. Not much can make a person feel more manly. (Aside from breaking patio tiles and eating a giant steak, of course, neither of which I'd imagine you'd do.)

Yeah, I was thinking something along the lines of situps, pushups, and swordfighting.

We need to cross shinai sometime. It would be an honor.

[RedKing]

This article very nearly made me cry, but it was fascinating.

Good read, and not atypical in my experience. I know a LOT of folks in the 21-40 age range who are 1st generation Americans, children of Indians, Taiwanese, Chinese, Koreans, etc. and have that attitude. They're strongly nativizing, in the same way that my own grandmothers forgot their native Volgadeutsch and spoke only English. It's more than just Americanizing, it's full assimilation where the old culture and values are forgotten. And that attitude just gets stronger the younger you go. When I started learning Mandarin, most of my classmates were Chinese-Americans who were only learning it because their families were putting pressure on them to, and who mostly didn't want to be there.

I had one Taiwanese friend pay me the odd compliment of calling me a ji dan ("egg"), because I was "white on the outside and yellow on the inside". Mostly because his other 1st or 2nd generation Asian friends weren't interested in their own culture, and I was.

And I think a lot of *why* there's a mass migration away from being more "American" and less "Asian" is the sort of pressurized hell that the article describes. When I was in high school, one of the big powerhouses in the state in terms of scholastic competitions had this elite squad of Vietnamese prodigies that were living calculators, but could barely hold a normal conversation without a handler present. It was really, really sad and a big part of why I chose not to go the overachiever/Valedictorian/triple major path in school.

[Lysabild]

I can't figure out how I'm supposed to react emotionally to having found my father on facebook. It's something like 8 years minimum since I last saw him and then I just type his name into the search, something I've done many times before without results and bam. Face.

This just leaves me completely helpless somehow, I don't know how to react so I just drift around motionless, doing nothing, trying not to think about it.

I don't want contact, I couldn't trust him to be there for me last time and I have way too much shit going on for me to consider giving him a chance and spending energy on opening up to a stranger that always felt more like an imposter than a real father.

It's just the fact that I KNOW he's my father that bothers me the most. I think. I don't know what I'm supposed to do ;_;

[Lord Shonus]

This article very nearly made me cry, but it was fascinating.

Good read, and not atypical in my experience. I know a LOT of folks in the 21-40 age range who are 1st generation Americans, children of Indians, Taiwanese, Chinese, Koreans, etc. and have that attitude. They're strongly nativizing, in the same way that my own grandmothers forgot their native Volgadeutsch and spoke only English. It's more than just Americanizing, it's full assimilation where the old culture and values are forgotten. And that attitude just gets stronger the younger you go. When I started learning Mandarin, most of my classmates were Chinese-Americans who were only learning it because their families were putting pressure on them to, and who mostly didn't want to be there.

I had one Taiwanese friend pay me the odd compliment of calling me a ji dan ("egg"), because I was "white on the outside and yellow on the inside". Mostly because his other 1st or 2nd generation Asian friends weren't interested in their own culture, and I was.

And I think a lot of *why* there's a mass migration away from being more "American" and less "Asian" is the sort of pressurized hell that the article describes. When I was in high school, one of the big powerhouses in the state in terms of scholastic competitions had this elite squad of Vietnamese prodigies that were living calculators, but could barely hold a normal conversation without a handler present. It was really, really sad and a big part of why I chose not to go the overachiever/Valedictorian/triple major path in school.

There have been studies for over 30 years showing just how terrible those "pressurized hell" situations are for people. One study found that products of it were 80% more likely to suffer depression and 70% more likely to attempt suicide.

[ToonyMan]

That's kinda how I feel except I'm putting it on myself for no gog damn reason and I hate it.

[Vector]

Kweh.

It feels like I wake up every morning and the first thing I notice is how uneducated I am.  Like someone running around in there, shouting "AAAAaaagh you know nothing you know nothing."

[ToonyMan]

I'm going to slow the rotation speed of Earth so I have more time each day.  Never have enough time ever.

[Bauglir]

Kweh.

It feels like I wake up every morning and the first thing I notice is how uneducated I am.  Like someone running around in there, shouting "AAAAaaagh you know nothing you know nothing."

Congratulations! You have achieved true wisdom, according to my good friends Bill, Ted, and Socrates. Actually this seems to be a frequent result of spending so much time learning and suddenly realizing "Holy crap there's still so much to learn, how am I supposed to finish?" All I can really say is that, hopefully, you'll reach a point where that's an optimistic point of view, because it means you get to do more learning.

Apologies if the post's unhelpful (I know how lame saying, "Things will probably be better later" is for when a person feels down NOW).