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I don't think you can really (directly) control your immediate reaction to a particular event, but you may well be able to control your reaction to that reaction, so to speak, which can determine how those feelings develop from that more uncontrollable starting point. More indirectly, you can also probably condition yourself (deliberately or inadvertently) to react in a particular way to a particular stimulus, so as to shape your immediate reaction in a different direction (even if you still won't have much direct influence over it at the actual time you're reacting). But even the most disciplined person is still going to have moments where their visceral reaction is at odds with what their rational brain thinks. In those cases, the best we can do is control how we act upon our feelings, and wait for them to subside to such a degree that Ol' Brainy McGee can reclaim the driver's seat.
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Ol' Brainy Bastard
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I have another deep question, namely: is being good at stuff overrated?
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Mata Hari wrote:I have another deep question, namely: is being good at stuff overrated?
i'd say, yes, but the thing is, being good at stuff is good, because then you can consequently suck at that thing while knowing which suckiness will not work and which will
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Telamon wrote:Plus, Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland all made it as far or farther.
Scotland didn't qualify.
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Falky wrote:
Telamon wrote:Plus, Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland all made it as far or farther.
Scotland didn't qualify.
Yeah, I misremembered in my hurry to amplify England's embarrassment.
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I think Inverse Jesus got his hands on the bottle of wine I just opened before I did, because it tastes decidedly like water.
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oh man
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Le Neveu de Rameau wrote:I think Inverse Jesus got his hands on the bottle of wine I just opened before I did, because it tastes decidedly like water.
Or it could be pure alcohol.
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I was featured on today's episode of Maddox's podcast (voicemail about 10 minutes in)
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Man, Microsoft really did well with Windows 10. I mean it knows even better than I do when I want to update it. I never would have guessed that I'd want to update right in the middle of trying to play a game. (And I couldn't reschedule it. Windows flat out refuses to let me choose when to schedule updates for some retarded reason. The option to let me schedule them is greyed out.) Oh and did I mention this locked me out of my computer for two freaking hours because it was apparently the first service pack for Windows 10 or some shit? Great job making me want to use your worthless operating system Microsoft.
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That's why I'm not getting Windows 10. Why break what isn't fixed?
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Alice wrote:Man, Microsoft really did well with Windows 10. I mean it knows even better than I do when I want to update it. I never would have guessed that I'd want to update right in the middle of trying to play a game. (And I couldn't reschedule it. Windows flat out refuses to let me choose when to schedule updates for some retarded reason. The option to let me schedule them is greyed out.) Oh and did I mention this locked me out of my computer for two freaking hours because it was apparently the first service pack for Windows 10 or some shit? Great job making me want to use your worthless operating system Microsoft.
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Jesuiscontent wrote:Relevant


Luckily for me I don't even get that much, lol. I even have the "defer updates" option ticked and on top of this when I first got up I chose the "update and restart" option in the win+x menu and this still happened like 4-1/2 hours after I rebooted. Cause apparently the "update and restart/shutdown" options don't actually bother updating despite their label.

As for the video itself: I dunno about racist but I definitely felt like strangling someone. Preferably whatever moron is responsible for the way Windows 10 handles updates. Microsoft should have learned a different lesson from people not wanting to bother with updates. The solution was not to force them to update regardless of whatever they're doing. (Indeed it only makes me want to find a way to flat out break Windows' ability to update at all.) The proper solution would be to change the underlying structure of Windows so it doesn't require you to reboot in order to install 90% of them.
Alice wrote:it was apparently the first service pack for Windows 10 or some shit?
I actually looked it up and I'm not sure why this update took so long. The service pack update isn't until August. If normal updates take this long there's no way in hell I'm installing a service pack since those tend to take far longer than standard updates.
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Jesuiscontent wrote: Relevant


just gonna put it out there that my antivirus makes use of that function of windows. there are times when it brings up that bar and says "NO YOU NEED TO UPDATE NOW" and microsoft had nothing to do with it, just the antivirus.
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Man, regarding the Windows stuff, I think I got lucky. My laptop is from work and thus has Windows 7 Enterprise Edition, which is the only version that doesn't get the free Windows 10 update. Yay! And by changing a few registry values, the computer cannot restart itself from updates ever. Now to hope the laptop never ever quits on me and it's all good! :lol:

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I spent like 5 hours pulling apart everything in my room in an attempt to reorganize and now that I'm done I feel like I somehow made it worse.
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