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  • traveling to Asia is like 300 bucks, and hostels are $4 a day. food is a dollar a dish, and you can hang out in parks at the beach or at home and watch movies all day.

    living abroad is much cheaper than what you’re paying now.

    you said you save most of your paycheck.

    If you have a few thousand saved, you can easily live abroad for a year and figure out something you like to do more than a job that sucks around a bunch of people that you don’t like in a situation that’s making you depressed.











  • Heuristic processing, determination based on induction rather than certainty.

    let’s use “on the roof again” by as an example, a 90s pop punk song.

    ask your brain “who made this song?”

    very rapidly it goes

    music people!

    not all music people.

    and discards bands who definitely don’t sound like it: instrumental bands, classical music, slower love ballads, female singers (since the lead singer is a male in this case).

    and now there’s a way smaller pool to choose from, so your brain keeps going, matching broad strokes to the broad strokes you remember from the song you’re thinking of, until one band sticks out as the most likely candidate, and usually at the end you can stick that determination to a specific memory you have of looking at the album cover while you listen to the song, or some concrete moment in which a line struck you and that more concrete memory helps confirm your final answer.

    this is also why people can remember things “for sure” that turn out to be incorrect, because they’ve gone through the heuristic process and determined a most likely answer that may not be correct, because it takes much less processing power and time to heuristically determine an answer rather than specifically determining it answer, and heuristic processing does work well most of the time.


  • They aren’t!

    Two things:

    1: Americans are not actually very litigious relative to other countries, what you’re referring to is a culture projected by corporate interests violating the rights of individual Americans, interests invested in telling American citizens that they are too litigious, resulting in citizens who will therefore abstain from legally defending their rights when those rights are violated, which is happening constantly and to a degree that Americans should be far more litigious than they are.

    2: legal advertising became legal less than 50 years ago in the United States, because it’s obviously unethical and societally harmful. at this point, legal advertising is basically unregulated in the US.

    Because The US allows legal commercials and advertisements on billboards and very importantly, American culture is the salient exported culture globally, lawsuits seem wider spread in the US and US culture than they actually are.