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MoodyBlues said:
Somehow, I'm reasonably sure that most people whose careers involve complex things (physicians, brain surgeons, engineers, astrophysicists, architects, veterinarians, to name a few) would disagree. As would their clients.

But it sounds good!
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Engineers love complexity, it seems.
All the rest wish that their jobs were easier.

When you see an automobile that has the starter installed inside of the engine, it is very easy to dislike engineers.

These are individuals that profit from adding difficulty to other people's lives.

I seem to spend an inordinate amount of time undoing and reworking many things that engineers have been paid much more than I am to do.

At any rate, I think it is safe to assume that Kalashnikov was referring to man made items- whereas all but two things you mentioned are part of the natural universe- and often architecture must bend to the environment of the location.
 
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"Arguing that you don't worry about privacy because you don't have anything to hide is like saying that you don't care about free speech because you don't have anything to say."
-Edward Snowden
 
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Priorities

An American investment banker was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellowfin tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them.

The Mexican replied, “Only a little while." The American then asked why didn’t he stay out longer and catch more fish? The Mexican said he had enough to support his family’s immediate needs. The American then asked, “But what do you do with the rest of your time?”

The Mexican fisherman said, “I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take siestas with my wife, Maria, stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine, and play guitar with my amigos. I have a full and busy life.” The American scoffed, “I am a Harvard MBA and could help you. You should spend more time fishing and with the proceeds, buy a bigger boat. With the proceeds from the bigger boat, you could buy several boats, eventually you would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to a middleman you would sell directly to the processor, eventually opening your own cannery. You would control the product, processing, and distribution. You would need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to Mexico City, then LA and eventually New York City, where you will run your expanding enterprise.”

The Mexican fisherman asked, “But, how long will this all take?”

To which the American replied, “15 – 20 years.”

“But what then?” Asked the Mexican.

The American laughed and said, “That’s the best part. When the time is right you would announce an IPO and sell your company stock to the public and become very rich, you would make millions!”

“Millions – then what?”

The American said, “Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take siestas with your wife, stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip wine and play your guitar with your amigos."
 
rootabaga said:
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...or that it's not their first language. :)

Some languages don't have certain sounds that other languages do. So their native speakers can struggle to pronounce certain foreign words.

My best buddy in college was a young Indian-by-way-of-England woman who struggled with 'v' sounds, which came out sounding like a 'w'. And we'd laugh at a good-natured slogan we made up about ESL speakers: "they put the emPHAsis on the wrong sylLABle" :D
 
I did stuff like that with backwards lead letters to print Party! Posters
I plastered those barracks. They loved me in Health, Welfare and Recreation @HomesteadAFB.

When did civilians stop doing this?
 
dontpanicbobby said:
OT: Ballet?
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Indeed. :) Those are pointe shoes, which I'm very familiar with...

In another lifetime, I took ballet classes 5-6 days a week, even continuing through pregnancy.

My daughter could plié before she could even walk unaided. She'd observe class from the viewing area, sometimes with Daddy, other times not--it just depended on his schedule.

She inherited my deep love, my lifelong passion, for ballet. To this day still takes class occasionally...as life allows. :D
 
One of the lessons I’ve learned from the pandemic is that you can truly learn a lot about someone’s personality, character and thinking by the meaning they may ascribe to that which they can neither understand nor control.


-Steven58
 
Truth is concealed within each of our own personality, and character duration of this soulful time, as we continue to start up another project and able to fly off the handles, even though it takes in one word, that triggers us to back on what we where, and whom we started to start off with, behind our own hidden phoenix wings, we must learn to prevail as people try to pull you down.

- Milo.
 
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