Every time I hear or read that expression, I stop taking the comment seriously because it attempts to shut down dialogue with a cute, esoteric phrase instead of fostering a discussion about a serious retrospective.

And if it is true... it is not a common experience and would have external factors contributing to this behavior.

Additionally, using IQ to qualify someone's intelligence is a signal, so I'll just not go into it deeper since we will disagree as I find your anecdote juvenile, straight up exaggeration, or a complete lie to serve your opinion.

Plausibly this could happen if you had the ego of a 16 year old or were socially disabled, and it would be alleviated over time through experience. I'm not trying to be rude but you sound like a Tiktok conspirator and I'm old enough and experienced enough to smell bullshit.

The only people who are being homogenized or "down-graded" by Chat GPT are people who wouldn't have sought other sophisticated strategies in the first place, and those who understand that Chat GPT is a tool and understand how it works, and it's context, can utilize it efficiently with great positive effect.

Obviously Chat GPT is not perfect but it doesn't need to be perfect to be useful. For a search user, Google Search has not been effective for so long it's unbelievable people still use it. That is, if you believe search should be a helpful tool with utility and not a product made to generate maximum revenue at the cost of search experience.

Would you say that people were losing braincells using google in 2010 to look up an animal fact instead of going to a library and opening an encyclopedia?

I know a lot of foreigners like Japan for motorcycling specifically because you can "white line" in most places, and the drivers are attentive.

The one quirk I thought was most interesting was Crab Angle Stops or when at a T shape stop lights that have an additional stop light 20 feet further from the intersection. Sometimes the cars will align diagonally to allow more traffic per light and let whoever is in front have a better angle to see traffic on small roads with poor visibility. Then when the light turns green the diagonally aligned cars move back to normal.

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Officially, the 道路交通法 (Road Traffic Act) doesn’t say “you must angle.” It just requires drivers to stop at the line and confirm safety before entering.

The diagonal stop is more of a local driving custom (practical adaptation) rather than a codified rule.

I’m inclined to believe your upbringing plays a much larger role.

Oh you're that anti-games, anti-porn guy, best to ignore anything you say.

The design otherwise looks great, I just cannot be arsed to follow the flow they're forcing.

Most of these playlists are uninspired, but I never took CEO's to be big music heads anyway. Most CEO's are into basic entertainment because they deprioritize exploring it.

Techies are also great for network growth and verification for other users, and act as community managers indirectly.

It frequently reduces complex problems into comfortable oversimplifications.

Maybe you don't think that is real wisdom, and maybe that's sort of your point, but then what does real wisdom look like? Should wisdom make you considerate of the multiple contexts it does and doesn't affect? Maybe the issue is we need to better understand how to evaluate and use wisdom. People who truly understand a piece of wisdom should communicate deeply rather than parroting platitudes.

Also to be frank, wisdom is a way of controlling how others perceive a problem, and is a great way to manipulate others by propping up ultimatums or forcing scope. Much of past wisdom is unhelpful or highly irrelevant to modern life.

e.g. "Good things come to those who wait."

Passive waiting rarely produces results. Initiative, timing, and strategic action tend to matter more than patience.

and Mike.

Officers make good many anyway, but that's pretty funny imagining execs yelling at you to pay your bill.

Could be different now

What does job prospects have to do with anything? I'm not trying to be rude, I truly don't understand what you're talking about. The Australian Navy pays their sailors COMPLETELY different per role even if they are the same rank. I have no idea what flight duty pay is and it is irrelevant to my point since it clearly didn't affect me or anyone at my command, making your general statement that the US Navy does it in roundabout ways confusing and incorrect. My buddy was an RN, I was an IT, we made the same money, it's that simple.

For the most part ITS, CTN, YN, RS all make the same amount of money if they are the same rank in the US Navy.

You get paid from the Rank Table, you can look up how much each rank makes. When I was in, I made E-5 in 4 years and was paid the same as other E-5's despite what their job was, or how long it took them to make E-5. This is not a roundabout way to pay someone differently based on their role/rate.

It could be different now as they might want to incentivize growth of specific roles but in my time that was with enlistment bonuses, not rate specific pay (which I have never heard of).

In my 4 years we never had a single sailor show up to work drunk at my command, even once. They would be reprimanded. They might showup hungover sure, but not drunk. I did hear stories from other ships about a few high ranking officers showing up to base drunk but those were isolated incidents.

I never talked to anyone who had ever snuck alcohol on the ship and I was cool with everyone. I was on a destroyer so maybe on a larger ship this is easier to get away with.

I myself had my Liberty removed for 6 months because some kid who was not invited to our party stole 2 bottles of alcohol from us and got blackout. We found him in the beach bathroom passed out on the ground and had to physically carry him for a 45 minute walk back to base. He was in the hospital for 3 days. We lost our privilege to leave the ship for 6 months.

Let's be honest. Being in the Navy is terrible, alcohol is the way the culture copes with how terrible it is. You experience so much bullshit that the only thing that keeps you going is the idea that one day you'll get back to land and be able to get wasted. The problem is you can't drink or celebrate at sea so people go overboard once they get back on land. Yeah people get too drunk and drink too much, but so do college kids, which are the same age as many of these sailors.