• 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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    13 days ago

    The ability to be spontaneous doesn’t change.

    It’s what you can do spontaneously that changes.

    I can’t spontaneously just take off to Japan; but I can spontaneously take a walk around town or go to a park.

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        Most financially secure people still work full time. I suppose that in theory, they’re able to quit their jobs without suffering immediate, catastrophic consequences but if they actually did that sort of thing, they wouldn’t be financially secure for long.

        (In my experience, many financially secure people actually work much more than full time. I think they would be better off if they didn’t because at some point time becomes more valuable than money, but they have the sort of personality that compels them to. This is often related to starting out without financial security.)

        The very rich can do crazy stuff without consequences but they’re such a small part of the population that I don’t think comparing oneself to them is useful.

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        12 days ago

        I mean…it depends on the job? I go on walks during working hours all the time to clear my head and think about a problem I’m working on. I don’t try to hide this from my manager.

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        13 days ago

        If you don’t know the difference between “your” and “you’re”, you’re probably getting fired at some point anyway

        It’s not difficult and you could learn it in the space of a short walk

        It’d impress your boss

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          13 days ago

          It’s annoying when people get pedantic about spelling on the internet, but at least you weren’t a massive, insufferable arsehole about it.

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            12 days ago

            True, but is it pedantic? The same people that complain they can’t find a job are the ones that make huge grammar mistakes in their applications or résumés.

            I wouldn’t hire someone who was too lazy to proofread over someone who wasn’t; would you? And then why should that rule not apply to your fellows on the internet?

            Sometimes if you don’t point out people’s mistakes, you’re actually hurting their future selves

            I think everyone nowadays is a bit too accepting of other people’s faults to try to seem a bit more morally superior themselves, without realising that they’re actually being abusive in the long term

            Anyway, I’m not actually serious here, I just wondered who would actually read this far

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              Nah, you’re just coming off as a giant asshole. Correcting your vs you’re on the internet is pedantic as fuck. Could have easily been an autocorrect or typo on their phone.

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              12 days ago

              Please remember that everyone here isn’t a native English speaker and neither does everyone use English in professional writing.

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              I wouldn’t hire someone who was too lazy to proofread over someone who wasn’t; would you?

              Since “would you?” is incomplete, a comma would be correct here rather than a semicolon.

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      12 days ago

      Yea, feels like an excuse for lack of spontinaity. Not judging OP, could be depression or any such thing, but these are two independent variables.

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      11 days ago

      You’re right. Being rich might open up more types of spontaneity, but this just sounds like an excuse to not do anything.