Those meta-hn comments are just as off-putting as shitty stories, I'm just here to read interesting stuff, I skip 70-80% of stories everyday, delay 10% to pocket and comment some and I'm satisfied, sorry if ruined your club, we'll miss you very much.
having your back surrounded, creates axiety, as a Ted talk told, generally, the more experienced/dominant will grab the 'more privacy' spots, of course.
Absolute worst:
Sitting at a table trying to do work, and some other dude trying to do the same across the table in front of you, the laptop screens are just high enough for you to be with minimal visual contact with the other and both become tense because you sort of have to lock view INSIDE the damn screen so you're not making eye contact with dude all the time. Still, it will happen tens of times. Impossible to concentrate, feel worn out at the end of the day. Random feelings of hostility and awkwardness.
The constant chit-chat is probably just a way to relieve the anxiety these places build.
Now I was just remembering of another shitty place I worked at: experienced/dominant dude controlled the AC, put it to freezing everyday, underground office, no natural light. When 6pm hit, it felt weirdly pleasant to leave because inside, with the artificial light + cold AC air, it felt like it was way later, my eyelids felt heavy from the ressecation and I felt like it was night because of the cold(sometimes I'd bring a jacket, even), then I went out and it was still day and still somewhat warm. Weird. And it was also somewhat open plan. God, it sucked!
I was waiting for the part of story where she would describe how the developer had an actual drug habit or something, so much she talked about it. I wonder if she's ever really met someone who 'uses drugs', this mockery seems incredibly infantile.
Anyway... I think this analysis is shortsighted, for a start, you can't forgo the modern civilization because you can't have a home and you can't leave it, and if you're in it, there's a cost... And it's understood that the right to have somewhere to live is essential but you can't leave the city and get to a piece of land, land is not produced anymore and it belongs to the rich, you can't buy it, you can't raise cattle or chicken and you can't plant, so, you'll die.
And then everything else comes after this. Also, lets be honest, the level of education you need to even start pondering this you can't get either, because by then you'd already have had to have eaten and lived somewhere, and maybe you have bills and you can be arrested.. Not such a viable option. Then it's also probably a big fallacy that people can really live off of welfare policy goods, I don't know how it is in the USA, but here in Brazil I'm pretty sure what you get is barely enough for you not to live like a wild animal in middle of 'modern civilization'
Then into adolescence: tattooer, anthropologist/teacher, coder(coders 'can be different' and coding felt like a game)
Now: I'm a developer and I'd like to get free to be creative in coding, writing, drawing
What sucks about being a dev is that when you're learning it you just feel like creating and the work is nothing like it.. I guess I'm somewhat good at it because I'm good with abstractions, have always been very logic and like learning(thus 'teacher'). So, I'm still far but the spirit is the same... Seeking your passions is hard as fuck, no wonder people give up.
I think the impact will be bigger in the long term, I myself, as a brasilian, atheist, bit fair skinned, know I'm probably not a 'target'(although the left-leaning probably makes me a potential, cause I'm not sheep), but it still doesn't feel right that my data and privacy is free-to-snoop because it violates rights I have here, I had this right since birth according to my constituition and this is a fact. It is absolutely and completely indecent, it doesn't matter any analogies made like 'intelligence have always done this in every country', this is just distorting and repositioning and obviously The Internet is a whole different thing and should be treated as such, no explanation or justification will make this right ever.
I've not moved out of a lot of services YET, but people around the world are certainly moving their sticks to provide options, it's now also a market, not just idealism, political positioning.. they'll arrive and I'll certainly and happily go, and maybe try taking the opportunity myself, why not? Think of a good leader, he's respected and followed because people trust him, trust him to that position, but it's a fragile thing and after it's broken, it's broken. There's a vacuum.. and naturally it's got to be filled
No, people absolutely take the hot sun all the time when they have to go out, they need it because their homes are dark even in the day and there's stuff you want to do inside the house in the day, like cooking, cleaning, studying...
That explains why the guy who made the Facebook Event of 'spook spotting walk' in Brittain after the news that there was NSA personnel working there got inquired about his intentions! Idiots.
Yeah, I didn't mean it like Brazil would be anything near 'an example to follow', I was just trying to illustrate how the landscape can be different everywhere else, also to the scope of how the population interacts with their state, for which Brazil definitely has a long way to go...
The picture I was going for would more of how it would not be so simple to have this elsewhere in the same manner, the starting point being that, I'd think, without a good Boogeyman, most peaceful countries do not have especial exception laws to walk over the basics of democracy, without secret laws, secret courts, secret interpretations, it's way harder, possibly impossible in some countries to get to this situation, not to mention technical limitations, budget(imagine the disparity between Inteligence and Military spending around the world x US), media, 'political temperature'(most of Europe and Latin-America are liberal/libertarian-leaning, currently, no?), public and judiciary scrutinity... Basically the framework of democracy is meant to prevent this kind of thing, there may be holes, but still.
Host in Brazil, we're never at war so spying, national security and etc budgets are always low, besides, we can barely handle basic stuff like education, security, public transport, so if there's a BRPrism, part of the money probably goes to some corrupt, and then it must be shitty!
That is absurd. Do you think every country, and every country folk, would let the government pass a bulldozer all over their rights like this? This is just projecting.
In other words, that shit wouldn't fly everywhere, for sure. This all emanates from the 9/11 and Patriot Act and Secret Laws with no oversight, that's your problem specifically, of course every government must be wanting it's own surveillance supermachine too, but it doesn't mean every single one of them is willing(or have means) to pass every possible barrier to do it.
Other countries have their own constituitions too and people guarding it, and different political systems, and different relation of the people with their government. Brasilians, for example, are not patriotic(as you are), we like the localization and our folk but absolutely everyone despises the government, the governants are completely cowering with the demonstration, pulling their repression apparatus out and on...
It's absurd and it's also a derrotist statement, this lavabit guy is a hero and the more people go against this rotten government, more clear it becomes the damage is shared by everyone AND the country itself.
in all reporting I saw it was stated that it was for uruguayans only(although it's weird too because then will natives resell to travellers?), for Amsterdan I've always heard that tourists are allowed to buy it in one way or another at the bars or wathever it's called... still, I think the parent post is irrelevant as it takes focus out of the issue that the `war on drugs` is bad for everyone, like legalization would only serve to benefit gringoes looking for a place to party or stoners or wathever, it brings moral judgement.
that's easy to say after the 'successfull inception' of it, but honestly, what you said it's pure-nonsense... just like kicking a ball the wrong way to then scream "I knew it was gonna happen!"