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    Why not? :wink:

    So I just posted on another forum asking for advice and suggestions on a particular type of product I was looking for, and 90% of the replies were pure unadulterated bullshit and just plain fucking stupid. I posted an in-depth reply to one guy who was foaming at the mouth but at least trying to be half way serious. The next morning I log in and see another dozen or so replies listed in the reply total, but I didn't even bother to read them and just deleted the thread. Fuck it. The people replying had already more than proven their sheer stupidity to me and it was probably just more of the same so why bother? If I had read it, I'd have just wanted to pound my head through the computer screen and would have wanted to waste more time making replies to stupid people, which is a complete waste of time. *DELETE*

    Same Shit Different Day on other forums as well. The internet has become quite polluted with nonsense. It was a lot better 10 years ago. And I can't stand it when I Google for something trying to learn and the top links are all various discussion forums where people either don't know shit but think they do, or maybe there's one person who knows what they're talking about and has half a clue but you have to sift through it to find it. You also can never really trust anything either. Gotta double check everything. Trust, but verify. Otherwise you have no idea if you're being fed a bunch of BS or not.

    The Internet has also become incredibly commercialized with people trying to sell you stuff too. There are precious few "old school" Internet sites up nowadays that were put up by hobbyists who KNOW what they're talking about and are being 100% honest about things because they're trying to educate you and help you learn what they have, and not sell you crap. These are the most useful sites out there, but they're few and far between nowadays. You used to be able to hit up Google and these were the places you would find, but not anymore, or they're not even up anymore.

    sigh....
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    Hey I finally hit 500 posts, after 5 years! wuuhuuuu!

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    Quote Originally Posted by stevENTj View Post
    The Internet has also become incredibly commercialized with people trying to sell you stuff too.
    Kinda makes me ashamed to be working for an internet marketing business.

    I'm pretty happy with the forums, but then, the only things I ever look up are programming questions.



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    Lots of people flamming each other back and forth = more hits and more unique visitors, which is more attractive to Internet marketers. But for people like me looking for intelligent discussions and people to interact with on a topic of interest, it sucks. I still help to run a site that I co-founded way back in the day and it operates in the black thanks to google ads and that hyper annoying intellitext crap. Hey whatever pays the bills.


    Anyways I noticed an interesting difference between our two kids the other day.

    Our daughter is 3-1/2 and has always been very advanced when it comes to language skills. She can speak and talk at about a 5 year old level if not more. But when it comes to sippy cups, she just doesn't get the difference between a gravity feed one that you need to put up in the air, and one with a straw built into it that you hold normally and suck through.

    Our son is 1-1/2 and is slightly delayed on language skills from a developmental standpoint, but is way behind where our daughter was when she was this age. We think there's some external factors that have to do with that and nothing to do with him that I won't get into, but this kid just plain 'GETS' the difference between a gravity feed sippy cup and one with a straw and knows exactly how to hold each one. Our daughter still hasn't figured this out. He has very intense curiosity as to how things work and can get a lot of these toys to go that our daughter definitely didn't have figured out when she was this age. Like little cars that you pull back to wind up and then let go. HE had that figured out first. She only figured it out because he did!

    So two completely different types of intelligence and strong functions emerging between these two kids. Very fascinating to watch. Our daughter has very strong . I think she's an EP temperament almost for sure. Not intuitive I don't think. Her eyes focus on things like a lazer beam and she doesn't have the dreamy 'intuitive gaze' ever. I think she might be an SEE. SLE is also a possibility but I don't think so. Slight chance of ESI like my wife, too. My daughter and I get along great and there's no bad interaction. If she's an SEE that would make us duals. She seems to rub my wife the wrong way a lot more though. Not sure why that is - maybe she just has less patience, but it could also be a j/p conflict.

    Still too early to tell with my son, but the intense interest in the inner workings of things is I think IP temperament is quite likely for him, just like his old man. I'm told I behaved the same exact way when I was young, only he's even more stubborn and persistent than I was. I think ILI or SLI are qutie likely for him, but again too soon to tell.
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    ^ Girls are usually ahead of boys when it comes to language skills. I've heard it many times from others, and at least my family and people I know confirm it. I doubt it has anything to do with socionics, really.

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    Yeah I've heard the same thing, although per standardized developmental scales he is 'delayed' slightly on language development, not just compared to his older sister. We brought in some outside help from the county school system and are working with him extra. He's already making some noticeable improvements.

    The socionics aspect though was the understanding of how different sippy cups work. I know, highly technical but something I noticed. He just gets stuff like this almost instinctively whereas the older one still doesn't.

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    So today, easily "THE" best engineer at my company retired, at 51.

    Great guy, clearly an LII. What was his secret? Living a relatively frugal lifestyle, and NO KIDS!

    His plans: Says he's going to work with old people at senior centers, work with kids maybe in high school and try to encourage them to go into math and the sciences. Maybe do a little consulting work on the side part-time here and there, do a little traveling, but most of all relax and enjoy life. Sounds nice.

    He's married but I guess neither of them wanted kids. His wife used to be an engineer too but she quit about 10 years ago. He had actually "retired" at that same time before and took a year off, but my company lured him back with the promise of some new and super exciting work which is now pretty much done, so he's decided he's had enough.

    Most everybody at work has kids. Love them to death, but they're also such a financial burden. So lots of us at work are quite jealous, but could you really give up having a family or the kids and family you already know? Man oh man, talk about lifestyle choices.
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