Usually, the nervous people won't make eye contact.
And it's not really an 'in your face' contact i make, i try to be a bit subtle about it, if that makes sense.
I never had anyone react as if it was unpleasant.
For the record, it's not like i am this extravert person, i am very introverted and i had to learn this. But it was worth it.
And i make it a point to make sure i make everyone i meet feel heard and seen.
So, i might wave at people collecting garbage, i make eye contact with the cassier en give them a warm smile, while wishing them a nice day.
I might smile at random strangers in the street.
I have had beautiful experiences doing this, and quite frequently people give me this startled look and then hesitantly smile back.
And i do this sincerely, because i truly belief most people have a hard time already and i want to give them at least a nice moment in the day.
It makes life so much better. For people i meet and for myself as well.
Here are some random communities that you may enjoy.
As general tip:
look for things you enjoy. For instance, there are plenty of communities about privacy and open source, food, climate, gaming, browsers, plants and animals, news, politics, sports, memes, you name it.
I really like the trending communities; great way to find new communities or remind you to look for something you hadn't thought about.
I noticed that many people commented that there should be more engagement, 'just like reddit'.
So, i'm wondering if some of these people left and will return later to see if it's more 'reddit like'. So, those might be people who don't necessarily want to post and comment themselves, but are waiting until they can get served with an endless stream of posts to scroll through.
No, i started focusing on the things they did well, instead of focusing on the negative. It's quite easy to only see which behavior is not acceptable and focus on that.
But if kids do something positive, it's easy to take it for granted, instead of for instance complimenting them.
In other words, my perspective changed.
If i look at my parents; they were always punishing me and if i behaved in a way they liked, they would say nothing, because that is the way i had to be. So, in their eyes it was normal to behave and that did not need to be complimented. So, their focus was exclusively on punishment, no rewards.
Hope this makes a bit more sense (not a native speaker either)
For me it was the opposite. I remember one day, when i had only one very young child, that i sounded like my mother.
That was the incentive to turn it around. It was hard work and there was no internet yet to give me advice.
Also, when my kids were in their teens i found it very helpful when i read a brochure about triple p parenting. I could not join them for a course, but the tip that changed a lot was; complimenting my kids instead *for good behavior *of berating them when they did something that was not 'good'.
The results were really good and i felt happier in the process, because it was much nicer to compliment my kids instead of hearing yourself being annoyed when they did something 'bad'.
That i succeeded in raising my children much better than my parents raised me.
As a result, my now adult kids are happy, compassionate, have a good life, and they really love me :-)
I trust them, but always remain vigilant, because things can change over time.
But the founders initially were scientists who met at CERN, not a company that launched a product. That tells me quite a lot.
Yes, over time they are becoming more professional, maybe more like a regular company, but i feel that privacy is still the main priority for them.
They also organize a yearly event and the money they raise goes to certain projects that are related to privacy and freedom (if i remember correctly for instance to help journalists remain free press and things like that).
Yes, it's one of the few companies that i really trust.
Also, yes, they sometimes are forced to give info to authorities (and they are quite open about that and explain what happened if people ask about that), but don't forget that they don't have much info on their clients, because everything is encrypted and they just cannot see what's inside a mail, for instance. So, they can't share that.
Thanks for sharing. If you see that list of type of jobs at the end, it's easy to see which jobs could get replaced within a reasonably short amount of time.
Greed will always find a way to profit from whatever development arises. If they have 1 mountain of gold, they want 2 mountains of gold.
It was not a kiss, it was sexual assault