Apple™

Fruit is still consumed in the post iPhone era, right?

muh bad.

Question: if a close friend is going to do something you are pretty sure will atleast partially ruin their life in the long run but they are committed to doing it, do you try to explain why they probably shouldnt or just respect their choice. Im awfully conflicted

You should explain that they probably shouldn't do it, but also respect their intelligence and their freedom to make their own mistakes

If you happen to be able to convince them to do otherwise, that's great. If you were wrong and it happens to go well, that's great too. If they go the complete wrong way and become insufferable, then the consequence might be that you have to do the selfish thing and drop them.

This is a pretty big mistake tho

Not impossible to come back from but

They might be stuck in a situation where they are miserable

Well, not every person is going to be successful in life if they decide to make the wrong choice. It sucks when it's a friend that it happens to, but that's just how the world is

For decades

If they're commited to doing it, nothing you say will change their mind

You can't shield the person you care for from personal responsibility

:/

True

You'll just have to wait and be available when they are vulnerable

But that doesn't mean you can't support them, and try to help them, to the extent that you're capable of.

Trying to proactively disapprove of the something they're doing simply reduces the possibility of them coming to you for help when tragedy strikes

Im doing my best

But

All you can do is your best Maddie

And that's all you need to do

Its just hard

Do you have anyone to support you?

Huh

Well, you know, you seem very concerned with supporting your friends

But do you have anyone close to vent to?

Who can point you to the right path?

not irl

You know we have a saying

I don't know exactly how to translate it from Dutch, but it's something along the line of

Is there any way to get something to Tim? Because this is nuts.

https://twitter.com/lumberjett/status/1090289112714625024

Your house is only as strong as your foundation

I'm seeing this more and more that LearnToCode is code language for death threats

a lot of it coming from the Chapo Boys

I do not like Prager University

But this was a decent video

https://youtu.be/UFWE2jl5mwA

Prager is -ok- if you do your own cross referencing

I find they give you about half the story

Yeah