I have a collection of masks. I assume others are like that too.

It may have been real, in part of the shame for the family of having a family member deemed crazy. That family may have thought this was the best way to treat him, in part because the greater community wouldn’t accept him and there wasn’t any available treatments for them.

Now, it doesn’t mean that you have the same issues of the person in the story. Your mother’s village probably didn’t have an ability to differentiate people outside of sane enough to work and not. But, in her mind, she probably doesn’t have any ability to understand mental illness so this is the closest she can go to when discussing it.

And it is really hard to bridge that gap in knowledge.

I don’t think I’d have a rebuttal.

She might have had a hard life, dealt with a similar kind of depression that you have, and developed these maladaptive views as a way to get herself through dark times.

I know your mom isn’t going to see a therapist, but I don’t see how arguing with someone who has calcified mental trauma is going to help.

I remember a lot of the different places I’ve lived. I feel somewhat sentimental of the places I’ve lived, mainly as it represents different parts of our lives.

It depends how dirty they look.

You probably needed someone like him in a technical leadership role somewhere, the problem was that he became the face as well.

At least one person is going to have their Reddit archives preserved.

My tolerance for inconvenience is rather low.

Christmas is fine in moderation. The problem I have with Christmas is that people try to stretch Christmas out to have it take over other parts of the year.

I also feel like Christmas is the holiday that requires the most work and I’m not a fan of holidays that require me to do a lot.

I don’t think they are linked, but the financialization of the health care system has caused issues like the opioid crisis.

I would interpret the anti vax movement as medical conspiracism.

It was ok.

I have a couple of aunts that I can have deep conversations with. I also get along with some of my cousins. I’ll say that my family isn’t as hierarchical as other families are.

and Tron: Ares

I thought that was a water gym trainer in Pokemon.

Not everyone is compatible to be in a happy marriage and not everyone who is compatible is with someone they are compatible with.

There are also some fields that attract a kind of guy who sees himself as a provider for his family first and foremost, leaving his wife to perform the familial labor. This separation of work can lead to some unhappy marriages lasting longer than others.

Computer UI has been made to follow mobile UI when the two have very different sets of constraints. It is ok for a computer program to look cluttered; that’s how you can access everything easily.

We did until they realized it is cheaper to shape public opinion than it is to pay their fair share.

The discussion I started was never about being an expert of something, just having a basic understanding. You chose to inflate having an understanding of an idea to being an expert.

I’ve also discussed cases where the expert level execution requires a lot of non verbal skills, but those experts can still describe the basic underpinnings of what they are doing.

However, unless someone has a severe communication disability, they should be able to communicate the basics of their knowledge. If they can’t explain it, maybe they don’t understand it enough to grasp the science behind why things are the way they are.

If you want to use cooking for example, a cook might understand how to use a recipe without understanding why the recipe requires certain ingredients or techniques. A cook could understand how to make a béchemel sauce without understanding what an emulsion is, what chemical reactions cause a successful emulsion, and which flavors propagate well in that kind of sauce. Being able to cook a béchemel sauce doesn’t mean you understand what a béchemel sauce is.

Using your cooking analogy, what I’m talking about are people who can’t even describe the basics of how to cook.

What ingredients do you need to bake bread? I don’t know.

What cooking equipment do you need to bake bread? I don’t know.

About how long will it take to bake bread and when do you need to start? I don’t know.

I’m not talking about how to communicate being an expert at a craft and teaching it to someone else, I’m talking about understanding the basics.