They are very similar; with various similar solutions at differing stages of maturity.

> At least my experience is that if you confront them with harsh enough reality, they basically fail to provide anything useful.

When I started therapy, I felt the same way. But now I realize that there can be no easy solutions offered in therapy; the therapist cannot just give you an argument or trick that will resolve all your troubles. They are there to guide you through figuring it out yourself and help build the necessary habits to sustain the new state. That is why rapport between a therapist and their patient is crucial to success, thus why you are usually recommended to try several alternatives.

I feel like you are describing life. And your paragraph could be rephrased by striking every occurance of "therapist" and it would still be valid. Hence, therapists are pretty much useless, they dont provide anything a friend or peer can not provide. After all, they dont have any magic tricks to offer. Navigating the complexities of life, and creating useful habits to make it, is what we all do on a daily basis, regardless if we see a therapist or not...

You can tell things to a therapist that you can't tell to peers. They are supposed to have confidentiality and professionalism.

I admire that you put yourself in dangers way for what you think was right.

However it is really disingenuous to try frame a global conflict between super powers in terms of personal responsibility. Your prescription is in the same vein as saying those worried about climate change should recycle more, when it is clear their utmost efforts would not make a dent in the global scheme of things. As such, no amount of motivated militia is going to make a dent in a war against an industrialized military.

Just come out and say I don't want to pay for to support Ukraine's war against Russia. Your opinion is valid and should be taken into account. However you don't get to dodge your responsibilities if the outcome doesn't go your way, just like a Democrat has to live with Trump's policies whether they like it or not. It's pathetic to try garnering sympathy with cage analogies.

It's not an analogy, it is a direct fact. Willfully underpayment of taxes can be punished with being tossed in a cage, enforced by armed agents.

This should be first, front, and center concern before that gun is pointed at Americans trying to get by.

>However it is really disingenuous to try frame a global conflict between super powers in terms of personal responsibility

Awesome, then I have no personal responsibility to fund it. We're all happy then.

You are advocating for giving in to the bully in the hopes that they will stop bothering you. The reality is that the bully will never stop, Russia’s aim is total annexation of Ukraine. Making peace without proper guarantees would be to ensure more Ukrainian people will die in the future.

For palestine israel is the bully. Are you advocating for continued terrorism in hopes to make israel bend the knee?

I dont know which scenario is worse for a president, an experienced economist like him not understanding what he was endorsing or being part of the scam.

That's an interesting question, would we rather have our president be a scammer or scammed.

Similar question, is it better or worse if our country commits war or war is committed upon us?

And perhaps a different question, regardless if whether it is better or worse, which would we rather be if we had to chose.

Also let's remember that 'neither' is also an option. And oops just happened once but let's not make it a habit, is too. No need to go to extremes.

He is not an experienced economist. He holds a Master's from a third-rate private university and a doctorate from a degree mill. This myth needs to die.

He worked for various years as senior economist in a bank, and a high position in an economy consulting firm.

You are systematically commenting trying to harm his reputation in issues not linked to his disreputable act of promotion of the shitcoin.

> He worked for various years as senior economist in a bank

Ah, it looks like you were in a coma between about 2006 and 2012. I have bad news. Sometimes (whisper it!) banks _employ incompetent people_. I would be reluctant to take "oh, well, he once worked for _HSBC_" as that much of an endorsement.

Not to say that everyone who worked for HSBC was incompetent. But, er, clearly they were not all hypercompetent either, given what happened.

He is experienced. I didn't say he did or didn't do a good job there. My answer is a response to "he has no experience as an economist". It's not a response to what you are argumenting.

Note, it still remains disputed whether it is a scam, devs related are not admitting fraud yet. Although there was an admission of insider trading.

It's very likely they are denying to delay legal consequences or continue monetizing.

he didnt just retweet. even if he did, president of the country should be held to higher standards than your average influencer.

I guess you can look into Framework for laptops. Many appear to be satisfied with them on HN.

it used to be so that in order for a product to be called "dondurma" (ice cream) it had to have salep in it. all other regular ice cream had to be sold under the name "buz" (ice).

i wonder if this is still the case.

When was this? Afaik (35-year old Turkish) this is not a custom.

On the West Coast (Izmir, Dikili, Cesme, Bodrum) it is custom. It is sometimes called Italian or Roman ice cream, even though I never ate this ice cream in Italy. My two little girls picked this one even up, so it is custom right now, and I think since at least 30 years.

I have lived in Izmir 4+ years, never heard it.

I live in İzmir and I've never heard it either.

never heard of the 'buz' really.

it has a thick texture but it is not as chewy as mochi. on the other hand it is very pliable and has a distinct taste both due to use of salep.

As most things it is a balancing act. Children also need to socialize and learn to operate in a social setting independently from their parents. Day cares have an important role in this aspect in our nuclear family based societies. Confining children to be paired to their parents all the time is also not going to be good for their development.