Honest Signal Puns

Good evening all, I’m relocating from Nashville, and I’m looking for honest reviews of Signal Mountian. Everyone says it is the “only” place to live in Chattanooga, but I want to see what real people say. Some background info, mid 30s, two elementary aged kids. Also, please don’t hold back, I want to know the good,bad, and everything in between. Thanks!

As we all know without social skills you won't be able to achieve any growth in this life, because any goal that you thrive to achieve demands you to talk and have different Relationships with many people in different situations and social classes.

Most guys are clueless when it comes to making others invest in them either in dating, work, friendship, family .. they think that Relationships happened spontaneously without putting any work to maintain the social status and the Emotional investment by the other person ( partner, friend, family member.. )

No it's the opposite to be Socially confident and to have the ability to influence people on a deeper level, you have to apply specific principals which are : your intent has to be clear, see you can talk to someone and you're focusing on what others think of you and how you are perceived by them .. The ability to only focus on one task is a must skill to have to be Socially effective communicator .. and there's other principals have to be implemented.

adding to that your Emotional control and your ability to express them without any hesitation or blockage, in the core of any social interaction there's an exchange of Emotions, the words you say are just one component of the conversation, if you don't have the ability to make people around you happy and engaged you won't be able to be good at socializing ..

I hope you got some good ideas from this post .. for further discussions chat me guys :)

I served 2014 to 2018. I got out a couple years ago, I am currently debating going back into the army or possibly Royal marine commandos.

I signed up and joined the Army as a Royal Signals communications “Operator”, I went to Winchester for my Phase 1 (Basic Training)

Back in 2014, me and around 6 others who had all picked the operator role, got told we where instead going to be Communication Engineers instead, this role required higher standard of GCSE results that I and a few others had, we where told we would be taken on “as risk”. What was good is that as a communications engineer you get promotion to Lcpl straight out of Phase 2, as an operator you have to work a few years to earn it.

So, we where pretty much told we where getting the pay rise and rank about 3 years quicker than we bargained for, result.

Jump to Last few months of 2014, passed basic training and moved to our Phase 2 unit, blandford.

Spent about 14 months here I think, it was a long course for the engineer. I honestly can say I didn’t enjoy this that much, I struggled a lot and spent most nights revising tests until midnight because if you failed once or twice you could be back trooped, backsquadded. It’s a long course, I can’t remember how many weeks exactly.

I learnt how to build and repair computers and that is how I became a PC gamer, so that’s good from the army.

After you finished your trade course in the royal signals at least you do your HGV licences before you are allowed to move on to your working unit. Some people who had driving licences like myself was quicker as I just had to go the HGV, where some people had to learn to drive a car, pass their car test and then hop in a lorry and do it again. I had a licence issue and I remember it delaying me about 2 months and being stuck in blandford doing meaningless tasks, I had already finished my trade course, couldn’t do anything but wait for my licence to come Through.

Working unit, I got one of the biggest working units down near Stonehenge.

New guy in, I volunteered for pretty much everything. I went away to Gibraltar for 6 weeks on exercise in my first 3 or 4 months at my new unit. I attempted SF induction course and got some other stuff done.

Most “exercises” I went on usually involved a tent, lots of computers/servers and 12 hour shifts. When you think of the army you imagine being cold and wet, under a poncho. On my last exercise we where at a place and we made use of the buildings (empty) and set up ou

By Martin Harry Turpin, et.al.:

Navigating social systems efficiently is critical to our species. Humans appear endowed with a cognitive system that has formed to meet the unique challenges that emerge for highly social species. Bullshitting, communication characterised by an intent to be convincing or impressive without concern for truth, is ubiquitous within human societies. Across two studies (N = 1,017), we assess participants’ ability to produce satisfying and seemingly accurate bullshit as an honest signal of their intelligence. We find that bullshit ability is associated with an individual’s intelligence and individuals capable of producing more satisfying bullshit are judged by second-hand observers to be more intelligent. We interpret these results as adding evidence for intelligence being geared towards the navigation of social systems. The ability to produce satisfying bullshit may serve to assist individuals in negotiating their social world, both as an energetically efficient strategy for impressing others and as an honest signal of intelligence.

Here is the full article.  Am I allowed to call him the “straight-shooting Kevin Lewis“?

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So much of my life has been mixed signals. I grew up around a mom that told me she loved me no matter what, and then I would be harshly punished for being imperfect. She would say “tell me the truth and I won’t be mad” and then, guess what- all hell broke loose.

I learned that dishonesty had its rewards and that carried with me up to my mid-twenties until I understood how important being authentic is. I got myself into a depressive, anxiety-ridden, addictive, toxic lifestyle and figured out there must be a better way to live. I couldn’t do it anymore.

Our ability to change only comes when our desire to change outweighs our desire to be the same. That sounds scary, but it’s the truth and it’s actually pretty cool because eventually over time, you stop fearing change and begin embracing it. That desire becomes something that leads you instead of something you’re pushed into because you’re at wits-end with the way things are.

I’m still navigating and always will be, but my life is way more peaceful now and I feel joy so much more than I used to. I feel sad and angry more too- because I’m not ashamed to feel those things, but I’m not depressed or anxious nearly as much because those were symptoms of not living aligned with my own truth.

I recognize now that all of my progress has really grown once I decided to stand in my truth all the time- in my relationships, at my job, and most importantly: when no ones watching. I am who I am, always.

I’m not afraid to disappoint people but I do everything in my power to not disappoint myself. I tell the truth even when it’s easier to tell a lie. And it’s freeing because I’m not afraid of being found out. I’m not afraid of being called out for being a fraud because that’s not how I live my life anymore.

I wanted to send this message out because my life has improved so much once I was clear to the universe of what I wanted and who I was - I stopped playing games and decided to just be real. I can see things unfolding in my every day life, material things that I couldn’t have dreamed of before. I think that no longer putting out mixed signals has allowed for so much, and I wanted to share this advice: step into who you are instead of hiding it. There’s only one you, and you’re amazing. You might have things you want to improve but that doesn’t make you bad, it makes you human. Now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be real. And real, in my opinion, is the best thing there is because it’s telling the univ

I knew a guy from college whom I later realized was a narcissist and was emotionally abusive. I'm now NC and it's even easier now that he lives in another state now. But sometimes, I'll check on his Facebook and for the past year or so, some of his posts are about homophobia, gay rights, Trump being homophobic, women's right to choose, etc. And of course, he has friends that tell him how awesome he is for his beliefs and what he champions.

Guys...I KNOW he's just sharing this stuff for social media clout and to virtue signal. This guy is a homophobe--I know because I'm bisexual and he wasn't very kind when I came out to him and practically threw a tantrum. This is the guy that called me a bitch when I came out. The guy that called it "deviant behavior." The guy that said, "There's no such thing as a lesbian, they just haven't found the right guy yet and they're close-minded." The guy that said bisexuality isn't real. Also, the guy who said that I "wanted to have an abortion" because I'm pro-choice. He's now on Facebook posting pro-choice memes. Maaaaaybe he's changed since he left the state, but...eh, I always got "fake vibe" from him, honestly (but I guess insincerity is the whole narcissist thing).

Seeing him post this stuff makes me cringe. It angers me when I know what kind of person he really is when he's not impressing his friends in the city he now lives in. Does anyone else have a problem with a narcissist that does this?

I always stumble back on this question, mega giants especially in the US have billions in R&D, can knock at the door of public markets to get even more, yet they acquire start-ups. Are they interested in the IP at all? Why don't they just do it on their own?

This is apparently a question which Buffet posed to Gates at the beginning of their friendship, when Buffet was convinced that tech was a dud . Specifically he asked:

"Hey, Microsoft is a small company, IBM is this huge company, why can you do better? Why can't they beat you at the software game that you're playing?'"

So much of my life has been mixed signals. I grew up around a mom that told me she loved me no matter what, and then I would be harshly punished for being imperfect. She would say “tell me the truth and I won’t be mad” and then, guess what- all hell broke loose.

I learned that dishonesty had its rewards and that carried with me up to my mid-twenties until I understood how important being authentic is. I got myself into a depressive, anxiety-ridden, addictive, toxic lifestyle and figured out there must be a better way to live. I couldn’t do it anymore.

Our ability to change only comes when our desire to change outweighs our desire to be the same. That sounds scary, but it’s the truth and it’s actually pretty cool because eventually over time, you stop fearing change and begin embracing it. That desire becomes something that leads you instead of something you’re pushed into because you’re at wits-end with the way things are.

I’m still navigating and always will be, but my life is way more peaceful now and I feel joy so much more than I used to. I feel sad and angry more too- because I’m not ashamed to feel those things, but I’m not depressed or anxious nearly as much because those were symptoms of not living aligned with my own truth.

I recognize now that all of my progress has really grown once I decided to stand in my truth all the time- in my relationships, at my job, and most importantly: when no ones watching. I am who I am, always.

I’m not afraid to disappoint people but I do everything in my power to not disappoint myself. I tell the truth even when it’s easier to tell a lie. And it’s freeing because I’m not afraid of being found out. I’m not afraid of being called out for being a fraud because that’s not how I live my life anymore.

I wanted to send this message out because my life has improved so much once I was clear to the universe of what I wanted and who I was - I stopped playing games and decided to just be real. I can see things unfolding in my every day life, material things that I couldn’t have dreamed of before. I think that no longer putting out mixed signals has allowed for so much, and I wanted to share this advice: step into who you are instead of hiding it. There’s only one you, and you’re amazing. You might have things you want to improve but that doesn’t make you bad, it makes you human. Now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be real. And real, in my opinion, is the best thing there is because it’s telling the univ