[nozzlegear]

> I managed to escape those toxic thought patterns by practising empathy as a deliberate activity, and forcing myself to give love and grace to others until it felt natural.

> but the donkeys who code my government's dysfunctional websites are all fully employed

The juxtaposition of these two statements is amusing.

[daymanstep]

I think people often make this mistake, where they think they've killed their ego, and then fail to notice when their ego returns.

I think people generally underestimate how hard it is to permanently kill their ego. What ends up happening, then, is that a lot of people genuinely believe that they have humility when in actuality they don't.

[balamatom]

Don't kill your ego. It's innocent.

Find who framed it.

[dreambuffer]

I never said I was better than them, but I can acknowledge that some people are. Even then, only in the domain of software, not in terms of human value.

[nozzlegear]

Sorry, to be clear: I'm not calling you out or judging you. It just made me chuckle.

[balamatom]

Donkeys are noble animals!

[dreambuffer]

No worries, I can see how it would lol