Interesting Links for 25-07-2013
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andrewducker- Say Goodbye to the Tech Sounds You'll Never Hear Again (although at least two of these are wrong)
- You can now make a living playing video games on YouTube
Well, a few people can. I suspect it's a very small niche.
- What Happens When People in Pakistan Start Taking MIT Classes?
- 10 jargon phrases used for my autistic son
- Porn-blocking season is here again - pointing out the wilful stupidity behind the Government's latest push.
- Methane meltdown: The $60trn arctic timebomb
- Putting a price on life - why the meningitis B vaccine isn't being taken up by the NHS
- 21 Awesome Pictures Of "Bunny Island"
- Nice post on bisexuality. (I find it barking that it's still an issue for anyone.)
- The cutest penguin-related thing _ever_
- Moss Graffiti looks awesome
- 5 Thoughts From A Month With The Oculus Rift
- Facebook: 700million users every day, $333million profit last quarter.
- Mystery in Motion, Beauty in Battle - Helicopter+sand = pretty!
- How to Train Your Spouse Like an Animal (See also: Children & coworkers)
- Psychopaths have an empathy switch - they only understand how you feel when they want to.
- What DNA Proves about the ancestry of the people of Ireland
- Bot wars - The arms race of restaurant reservations in San Francisco
- Why the UK Government website doesn't have FAQs
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How to Train Your Spouse Like an Animal (See also: Children & coworkers)
Date: 2013-07-25 11:21 am (UTC)That's not quite true. That's how I like to be treated if someone is trying to persuade me to do something new, that it's hard for me to notice. If their reaction is to ignore it most of the time, and then every three months say "you suck, you do X all the time", then I have to do all the work of working out what I'm doing that they perceive as X, breaking those habits, etc. And it feels worthless, because they go on hating it until I've eliminated it entirely for several years, because they don't notice when I don't do it.
But unlike an animal (?) I hate it when it's something I think I should be able to do, and if I'm not good enough, I actually DO want to make the effort to improve. If someone says "oh, thank you so much, you're so thoughtful" when I do something that I think is normal, it feels like a slap in the face, "you might have thought you were normally helpful and generous, but if this one tiny thing stood out, it means you're normally a disaster and we just didn't bother to tell you".