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Why do we place so much value on fitting in, and why are we so suspicious of people who choose to live differently? A philosophical and introspective look at conformity, independent thinking, and the social pressure to belong, with some existential questions and dark humor along the way. Drawing on psychology and the ideas of thinkers like John Stuart Mill and Erich Fromm, this monologue explores why society needs its outsiders, the price of individuality, and what happens when fitting in becomes more important than thinking for ourselves. Thanks for listening : )
#sociology #philosophy #introspection #realtalk
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Please note: This channel explores philosophical themes and is for educational purposes. It is not a substitute for professional mental health advice, diagnosis, or treatment. This is the only official Functional Melancholic YouTube Channel. This is not an AI channel. I am a real person. No green screens are used.
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Wed Oct 14 03:44:25 2026
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https://www.cpr.org/2026/10/11/flu-covid-season-vaccine-colorado/
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Wed Oct 14 16:08:41 2026
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https://v.redd.it/b6w1rf2psgvh1
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Sat Oct 17 16:41:22 2026
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Solo of Crutches preform by Dergin Tokmak from 2004 - 2011 at Cirque Du Soleil enjoy me at www.facebook.com/dergintokmak.stix or at my webside www.stixsteps.de WATCHOUT!!! The Book STIX “The Artist on Crutches” is coming out at 21st May The Autobiography from Dergin Tokmak in German. for Order !!! here is the link http://www.amazon.de/Stix-Der-Artist-auf-Krücken/dp/3424151254
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Sun Oct 18 15:40:30 2026
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http://maps.google.com/maps?q=35.564333%2C-80.856876+(0-Stopped-0)
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Sun Oct 18 17:48:39 2026
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https://blog.cloudflare.com/yandex-outage/
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Sat Oct 17 16:43:16 2026
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Every time we think it’s hit bottom, someone finds a shovel.
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Sat Oct 17 16:41:22 2026
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dancing with crutches….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPwMkXjT8x0
Solo of Crutches preform by Dergin Tokmak from 2004 - 2011 at Cirque Du Soleil enjoy me at www.facebook.com/dergintokmak.stix or at my webside www.stixsteps.de WATCHOUT!!! The Book STIX “The Artist on Crutches” is coming out at 21st May The Autobiography from Dergin Tokmak in German. for Order !!! here is the link http://www.amazon.de/Stix-Der-Artist-auf-Krücken/dp/3424151254
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Sat Oct 17 15:19:17 2026
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Last night I watched a silly movie on Netflix called “Save Yourselves” about a phone-addicted couple who decide to go offline in the woods and it happens to be the week that aliens invade the planet.
Funny moment: once at the cabin, they do “alexa do this”, “Siri do that”, “hey google, read moby dick” to demonstrate how offline they are and my google thing answered.
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Fri Oct 16 13:20:59 2026
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0.5 Scaramuccis!!!
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Fri Oct 16 12:03:07 2026
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a whole new thing to consider when seeing a lawn mower abandoned on the curb
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Thu Oct 15 02:04:31 2026
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Recent news has had me remembering a day in about 1987 when I worked at Electronic Data Systems (EDS), which at that time was a subsidiary of General Motors (GM). In those days, a big part of EDS’s business model was to move the IBM mainframe (there was usually just one) from their new customers out of the customer site into one of their big datacenters, which they called Information Processing Centers (IPC). The customers would still have terminals connected to a controller to communicate with their system. EDS had about a half dozen of these things around the country. This one was in Auburn Hills, Michigan and it was called the Auburn Hills IPC.
I forget what my mission was there. Maybe it was dropping off a few tapes to someone. In those days, there was a saying that said “nothing beats the bandwidth of a truckload of tapes rolling down the road.” It was often more practical to courier or ship tapes than transfer the data over the relatively slow data lines.
It was late in the afternoon, so I parked my car about 20 feet from the building. There was nothing but a concrete parking block and a few feet of grass between me and the building. While I was there I got a little tour, and walked through a room full of IBM mainframes. All of the systems in the room that I worked were air-cooled - lots of fans, lots of noise. My guide pointed out that the mainframes were water-cooled, and that installing one was basically a plumbing job. It’s the same arrangement that these modern hyperscale datacenters use for cooling. It was impressive, I’d never seen that many systems together all in one place before.
When I got back to my car, I realized that there was basically just a wall between me and the big room I’d just been walking through. I looked around, and realized that if I had a truck full of explosives, I could get right next to the building and put a dent in at least part of GM’s business for a little while. This was about a half dozen years before a couple guys in Oklahoma City did essentially that. They weren’t the first people to think of that, apparently there was a truck bomb across the pond in 1947 that the googles told me about just now. The IRA had been using car bombs for a while at this point.
I didn’t know about executive dysfunction or ADHD back then but I thought about that vulnerability a lot as I drove home. The systems I’d seen weren’t set up with the redundancy they do now. Each of those systems cost in the 5-6 digit dollars in 1980s money.
I don’t think about this very often, but for some reason this memory popped up over the last few days.
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Wed Oct 14 03:42:33 2026
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Another from a few years ago… worth mentioning that there is reporting that Colorado is in the middle of a surge in flu and covid. The article I read said that the current flu shot doesn’t cover all of the extant mutations (does it ever?) but it was not too late to get that done.
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Wed Oct 14 03:24:27 2026
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I wonder if anyone has ever done this for other critters…
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Wed Oct 14 03:12:22 2026
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Wed Oct 14 03:09:11 2026
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more stuff from my facebook history…
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Tue Oct 13 22:14:05 2026
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Tue Oct 13 21:53:20 2026
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Tue Oct 13 21:49:35 2026
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Tue Oct 13 21:33:43 2026
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From Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein, copyright 1961
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Tue Oct 13 21:18:51 2026
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word of warning…
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Tue Oct 13 20:55:46 2026
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Going through old pictures from facebook offline. This seemed seasonal…
#whataboutbob
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Tue Oct 13 06:34:32 2026
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Thanks, Volodomyr!
https://v.redd.it/0q9c8ycvf1vh1
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Tue Oct 13 06:27:31 2026
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I don’t know if he did this intentionally, but having himself all the way to the side of the video is very distinct from most of the AI generated things that pop up on my feed.
One thing that I like about this guy is that I have never heard him say “please like and subscribe to my channel and click that notify button” in his videos. I like his style.
“Please note: This channel explores philosophical themes and is for educational purposes. It is not a substitute for professional mental health advice, diagnosis, or treatment. This is the only official Functional Melancholic YouTube Channel. This is not an AI channel. I am a real person. No green screens are used.”
Why do we place so much value on fitting in, and why are we so suspicious of people who choose to live differently? A philosophical and introspective look at conformity, independent thinking, and the social pressure to belong, with some existential questions and dark humor along the way. Drawing on psychology and the ideas of thinkers like John Stuart Mill and Erich Fromm, this monologue explores why society needs its outsiders, the price of individuality, and what happens when fitting in becomes more important than thinking for ourselves. Thanks for listening : )
#sociology #philosophy #introspection #realtalk
Join me on Patreon for ad free videos, and other various creative work. https://www.patreon.com/cw/thefunctionalmelancholic
Equipment: Hardware: iphone 14. DJI mic 3 mobile. Software: imovie. Garageband
————————————
Please note: This channel explores philosophical themes and is for educational purposes. It is not a substitute for professional mental health advice, diagnosis, or treatment. This is the only official Functional Melancholic YouTube Channel. This is not an AI channel. I am a real person. No green screens are used.
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Mon Oct 12 21:47:42 2026
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Like many typical Americans, my global geopolitical knowledge is less than it could be, and is often informed by playing Risk. If you play Risk, you can probably remember that any given game often comes down to Ukraine and Middle East getting stomped and disputed over and over.
@[693232198:2048:Gloria] This relates to the post of yours where I commented about Putin not really having extra diesel to provide for his own needs, let alone sell it to us.
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