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Pet Peeves Part 2

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We are back with Part 2 of my top pet peeves. First off are people who have clearly never worked in the customer service industry. I get having a bad day and being less cooperative than normal and all of that, but some people clearly have had everything done for them their entire lives and treat those who are working for their benefit like dog poop. Secondly, I literally hate minions so much. Their stupid faces and their stupid noises, please stop. I hate every single thing about them, so we don’t need to dwell on this one. Next, it’s so annoying when your nose is so stuffed you can’t breathe without your mouth open. I am not a mouth breather usually, so when I am forced to be because not a single air molecule can pass through my nostrils, it is quite upsetting. Next, I have people who interrupt other people constantly and have zero awareness. There is a difference between interrupting people and doing it without any surrounding awareness. That’s all I need to say there. Elaborating a little on what I was saying earlier about small dogs, and I know they’re not particularly super small, but I can’t stand Shiba Inu dogs. I get that they’re all cute and kawaii and nice, but their faces kinda annoy me. Lastly, rounding out the series, are people who try way too hard when singing in the car. If you’re with a group of people, especially friends like on a drive somewhere and you are playing music, you don’t have to prove yourself or anything like please. This is not American Idol. So please, keep your tone-deaf screaming out of the car and never let it touch my ears again. This one was a bit longer than the last one, but as you can tell, I am very passionate about some of these things. I would be happy to oblige any requests for a Part 3. I’m sure I can find more content to make one.

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Credibility

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First things first, if you are hungry, have a snack – I don’t want any negative reviews on my blogs.

Ate something? Let’s get started.

Robert Sapolsky. Have you heard this name yet? If you haven’t, I promise you will in the near future. A quick YouTube search reveals he has aired at TED, Andrew Huberman, and Big Think. His most viral lecture posted on Stanford’s channel has attracted over 17 millions views. The source of this attention is Sapolsky’s stance on the Free Will. For him, humans have no true control over their decisions.

This time I don’t want to go into the philosophical weeds, but instead talk about – human ignorance.

For that, I need you to watch this 1-minute video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OsleLlBWlBo

Hopefully, the stars aligned in a way that gave rise to just the right hormone configuration that made you watch the video.

Years ago, when I stumbled upon the Extraneous factors in judicial decisions(commonly known as the Hungry Judge) study, I was blown by how faulty human nature is. The fact that one person’s hunger could result in another person’s life-long sentence was astonishing and angering to me.

Not so long ago, I stumbled upon this article: http://daniellakens.blogspot.com/2017/07/impossibly-hungry-judges.html

I was once again blown by how faulty human nature is. This time, because of my own naiveness and either foolishness or bad intentions of the 1,939 scientists that cited the notorious study.

The article proposes that the study should be dismissed simply because of the absurdity of its findings.

To quote Lakens: “If hunger had an effect on our mental resources of this magnitude, our society would fall into minor chaos every day at 11:45. Or at the very least, our society would have organized itself around this incredibly strong effect of mental depletion.”

The study has received so much criticism that the second sentence on its Wikipedia page is about its possible flaws:

“The hungry judge effect is a finding that judges were more inclined to be lenient after a meal but more severe before the break. It has been suggested that this may be an artifact of the scheduling of cases, based on their likely outcome and duration.[1]“

And yet, 1,939 scientists including respectable Robert Sapolsky cited it. Whether they did it out of ignorance or in a desperate attempt to support their own studies is not entirely clear.

However, it is clear that common people like me, putting our faith to the rigor and objectivity of the scientists, need to be wary of how foolish even the most educated of us and them are.

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Overwhelmed

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Lately, I have been struggling with keeping up with my homework. I have been sick for the past week and focusing on school has been really hard for me. I took the past two days of school off and now I am even more behind. I have an essay, project, and test due next week, along with all of the homework I haven’t done from this week and I don’t even know what to do. I am missing even more school next week to go on a mandatory camping trip with my school and I’m going to fall even more behind. I still feel exhausted and not fully healthy and thinking about starting the hours and hours of homework I need to catch up on is horrifying. I have only missed a day and a half of school this whole school year until this week and I feel like because I’ve been sick, I have mentally missed a week of school even though in reality I have only missed two days. I hope that I feel better before my camping trip or else my week will get so much worse.

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Do grades matter

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This is a question that I ask myself almost daily. Personally, I have been in an environment for most of my life that deems grades to be an important and necessary part of my life. I want to be successful in my life and future career. So, I have mostly believed that no matter what, as long as I get good grades, I will be fine in whatever is thrown at me in my life. However, I have never been able to get “good grades” from the school I go to standards. So, for a while, I believed that I was going to struggle in my life once I got to college and once I got into the “real world,” but I have started to change my views over these past few years. Is the reason I have started changing my views due to the fact that my grades never got up to what I see as good? There’s a chance of that, but mainly, it is because whenever I focus on school and grades, I see a trend in my overall life going in a downward trajectory, which is not the way you want it to go. I did some light research ( a Google search) and found that only half the people who get degrees were able to secure a full-time job in the field they studied, and 16 percent were unable to secure a job. The rest are all into somewhere in between either getting a part-time or switching fields fully cause they couldn’t find a job. So, back to the original question on hand: do grades matter? Well, I am going to say It depends. I know that this is the easy way out when it comes to the answer, but it all really depends on what you want to do. If I were to ask a doctor or someone aspiring to be one from their perspective, I’m sure grades impacted a large part of their life because it allowed them to pressure their passion, but if I were to ask this same question to someone who plans to do a trade, start their own business, become a pro athlete, or a job that doesn’t a full degree, then they might answer differently. Ultimately, this is about whoever is reading this perspective, and in my case, I’m the one reading, so I personally don’t believe in grades as I think it’s more important to enjoy life, and if the pursuit of grades is taken away from that, don’t pressure them.

Pet Peeves Part 1

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Today, I’m going to talk about some of my pet peeves. First off, I think the thing that upsets me the most is slow walkers, ESPECIALLY when I cannot get around them. Kinda going along with that are people who scuff their feet on the ground. Like please just pick up your feet it’s not that hard to walk like a normal person and not make my ears bleed every time you unnecessarily scrape your soles on the floor. Next, I absolutely hate burning my tongue on hot drinks. My tongue does not have a high heat capacity, so this happens more than it should probably. I might be a little bit hypocritical for the next one, but people who make such annoying pet voices really upset me. Most times it’s ok, but people just have very specifically horrible ones that also put my ears in pain. Next, when you are making a smoothie and it doesn’t blend seamlessly and it takes way too much effort and stirring and adding of liquids to get it all blended up. Like it doesn’t have to be that hard, please just work the first time. This list is getting a little long, and I can definitely make a part 2 for next week, so I will end here today with small dogs. Don’t get me wrong, I have met some very nice small dogs before who were angels, but the vast majority of small dogs are vicious demons who only have an aptitude for giving me scars and trauma. Big dogs are far superior.

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drivers liscense

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I think everyone needs to get their driver’s license. There’s so many people recently that have been telling me that they don’t have their license, but having it is so freeing. The first time I drove by myself was such a new feeling. It’s so convenient to just be able to drive yourself wherever you want instead of having to bike or walk. And the first time you drive your friends is so much fun. I just had my first drive by myself and my first drive with friends last week during break and it made me realize how much fun it is. I guess it is really hard to get your license in California, but it’s so worth it to go through the course. I was super lucky to get mine in Oregon because you don’t have to do any drivers ED, just to study by yourself a little bit. Everyone says driving gets boring after a while but I can’t imagine that right now.

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Packing

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I have always had a huge issue when it comes to packing. Most people would say that I am an over-packer but I believe that I am just extremely prepared. My friends and family have always hated on me for the amount of things I pack to sleep over at someones house or to go on vacation. I am a very high maintenance person when it comes to having all my necessities with me at all times and I feel like I shouldn’t get judged for that. This week, I am going on a week long cruise to Mexico with my best friend and her family. Her mom said that we are only allowed to bring a carry on suitcase onto the boat. I would be able to pack a carry on suitcase if I really put my mind to it and if I knew I had a laundry machine but on the cruise, to wash an individual item like a t shirt, it costs six dollars and to wash one hoodie, it costs twelve dollars. There is no way that I am spending that much money just to wash my clothes. I have never been on a cruise before so I have no idea what the weather will be at night and since we have multiple stops, its not like I can just go to the weather app and figure out the temperature especially for in the middle of the sea at night. I am so stressed out because I’m so used to pack a large suitcase that I can fit all my things in. I have no idea what to pack and I am dreading the idea of not being able to pack everything I need and having to wear dirty clothes.

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A paper, a pen, a lamp, and a table

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for Fred Alvarez

A paper, a pen, a lamp, and a table.

How long will it take me to write my animal fable?

What am I writing? What am I saying? 

A poem – since my animal story is still not on the table

I am not asking for mercy 

Not begging extensions 

Give me an F!!!

I shout in contention. 

Is the problem in craft or is it in craftsmen?

“You have a week, now go write the story”

I’ll need one more

And then one after that

Well, what d’you expect? I’m not a printer

I am a writer and thus let me write

Will it take months, will it take years?

Nobody knows and neither do I

But one thing is certain with all this procession

I’d rather be damned than sell my soul to the trade of summarization.

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O Come, All Ye Faithful

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It’s Friday. The congregation is gathered at Calculus AB. Mr. Kim is preaching about the virtue of integrals The first fundamental theorem of calculus says: Thou shalt obtain the antiderivative F as the integral of f. The second fundamental theorem of calculus says: Thou shalt subtract function f(a) from f(b) to evaluate the integral from a to b. Mr. Kim shares his testimony – how Mathematics transformed his life and saved him from ignorance. Everyone bows their heads in accord, but will they follow the Word and change their ways?

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Sick

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I have been sick for a few days now. Being sick can be relaxing at moments. But in the bad moments of the sickness, it’s terrible. AND not to mention the stress of missing assignments and finding replacements for work. The feeling of letting people down when there’s nothing I can actually do because I am basically bedridden. I usually never get sore throats either… this time I did. I have had a sore throat, a runny nose, a cough, and a fever. Now it isn’t covid, thankfully. But I hate being sick. I also am not sure why but I just cry 24/7 while I am sick. Like about nothing. Like my world isn’t ending I just have a cold. So that is my rant about being sick. Also I am now so stressed that I am behind in school. I have to get a bunch of school work in and at the same time I missed tests so now I have to find replacement blocks for those tests to be taken. Luckily I can make a decent list, unluckily my list is extremely long. Okay Bye!

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