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This is half a question and half a rant. I apologize and I am probably wrong here, but I can't help myself.
Why the * can you not simply add objects of complex type via OnClick methods? This absolutely sucks big time. I tried going over the "OnListener" or UnityEngine.UIElements.Button
route, but both have the disadvantage that you can no longer assign objects via drag and drop (besides it came with other issues).
Even passing float or integer didn't work (passing more than one parameter is the issue here I guess, because passing a single integer worked).
Whole thing probably is my fault, but this is very unintuitive.

Seasoning is a way to form polimerized protective layer on an iron pan at least in theory.
But I was thinking: iron has "pores" that absorb oil. I would imagine that it takes time for the metal to soak in the oil.
By heating up the pan we accelerate the polimerization of the oil by making it react faster with oxygen and thus interrupt the soaking process, leaving us with thinner protective layer that doesn't penetrate the iron properly.
So in theory letting oil air dry would make a stronger protective layer, no?

My parents gave me boxes of my old school stuff a few months back (I finished school about 10 years ago now) and I spent some time last week while I was unwell sorting through the boxes, as I naturally couldn't sit still for more than 10 minutes and needed to be doing something.
And boy, let me tell you I was not expecting to become so emotional reading through them. I had vaguely remembered teachers saying that I was easily distracted, often didn't do my homework, or struggled to concentrate, but seeing it in report after report was hard. I had so many issues with planning or structuring essays, I lost significant marks in exams on at least five separate occasions because I didn't read the question properly or went off on tangents that gained me 0 marks, or because my presentation was so bad they couldn't read my answers (lots of arrows and asterisks).
In some reports teachers referred to me as "lazy" and often said "She's intelligent, but if she'd just apply herself...". It was heartbreaking. There are self-reports from me where I'd have to state my goals for doing better in school and I would always say "concentrate more" or "be more organised". I feel for that little girl so much. I know teachers are slightly better now at recognising ADHD than they were 10-20 years ago, but I can't help feeling resentful. How did no-one suspect? Why was I left for so long with no support? I struggled with depression and anxiety for so long because I was convinced I was the problem; I could never get myself to concentrate more or be more organised. The reports don't even display half of the awful things certain teachers said to me in their frustration.
And when I was 11 or 12, my parents said I was old enough now to make my own lunch and set my own bedtime. So, naturally, I spent years surviving on 4 hours sleep a night with no breakfast or lunch, and they never seemed to realise or check? I didn't even realise how bad that was until I joked about it to a friend who became very serious and said that sounded near enough neglect. They were brilliant parents otherwise so I hadn't really thought about it.
I just feel so let down. I have a son of my own, and I couldn't imagine letting him go through what I went through. Do any parents have their own experiences of the current state of schools and their support for neurodiverse students? Is it better now than it was for us?

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I’m a 21 year old female and my relationship with my parents (mostly my dad) has always been difficult. When I was in middle school, that was the time where I developed the interest of hanging out with my friends outside of the school but when I brought up that topic with my parents, it was immediately shut down and it was not something to negotiate about. My mom would always instill this idea in my head that I would be potentially SA by my friends brothers if I were ever to go to their houses ever since kindergarten. And yes, that is a really messed up idea to use to scare your child who literally hasn’t even hit puberty, let alone not even have my first puberty class yet.
Moving onto my first year of high school I started to rebel against my parents by not going straight home after school and just choosing to hang out with my friends. My high school being a 40 minute bus ride from home gave me a lot of freedom and excuses to not be home on time. Me rebelling on my first year of high school caused me to have a poor gpa and made my parents lose a lot of trust in me even though they didn’t even have an ounce of trust in me when I was a star student in middle school. I thought, since they wouldn’t let me have my innocent fun with my middle school friends even though I did well with my grades, I might as well go behind their backs in high school and hang out with friends after school. And I was never doing anything bad, I just wanted to go to the mall, parks, restaurants like a normal teen. But this was considered bad and to my mom, a gateway to teen pregnancy or something.
Fast forward to college. During the summer of 2021, I got my first job as a florist & balloon maker at a grocery store. The way I was even able to get this job was I had my grandpa secretly drive me to my interview without my dad knowing. And the way I broke the news to my dad is that I told him I was hired and he got extremely upset. He says that I am wasting my time for 5 days a week. Ever since the summer of 2021, I was too scared to get another summer job because of how my dad would react.
To this day he still says that a job is a waste of time to me and my 16 year old brother who recently also wanted a job but had to surrender his position since our dad told him to cancel it. I am so lost and could never understand my dads mentality and his overall way of thinking. As for my friends and social life part, when I ask him if I can attend a friends birthday party, he says no and if I try to ask again or even beg he shuts me down completely and I am not allowed to reason with him AT ALL NO MATTER WHAT because it can get ugly arguing with my dad and I fear him a lot. I have missed many important friends parties because of him. It makes me so sad and hopeless because I feel stuck in this never ending hell. I need work experience so other jobs would want to hire me in the future but my dad makes it impossible. I want to move out far away but my dad also makes that impossible. I want to have better friendships that are actually deep and meaningful but again, he makes that impossible. What I can do is get a remote job but it is so difficult since I don’t have much experience other than working at a grocery store for a summer. What can I do to make my life less difficult with parents like mine?

Hi guys! I'm OE with an FT job and my own little design/Marketing agency (togehter with a friend of mine). I had the self-employment approved before signing my new contract- my employer is well-aware of my extracurricular activities. My friend and I are working on our website and we need to come up with a way to make the agency look bigger than it is in the beginning until we can get some good clients. We added the logos of previous clients from our freelancing activities (before the agency), but I am wondering is it ok to also out my employer's logo, because it would look quite good for us. I am probably going to make a second LinkedIn exclusively for my self-employed activities. But do you think I could get in trouble if my employer finds their logo on my website? Or should I muster up the cajones and just ask my manager for permission, since they already know about my OE?

I get why it was put in place, because allowing people to get critique for their ideas and drafts before posting them will mean that the overall quality on the wiki will be higher, but the current system doesn't seem to do that, especially for new authors. The process of getting greenlights for your idea, followed by then getting feedback for your draft honestly seems like a huge pain in the ass, which ends up meaning that the system often doesn't do what it's supposed to. Instead of new authors going and getting feedback and critique on their ideas and drafts, I would imagine that many see the process involved and decide that it's not worth doing, opting to just coldpost instead. I don't think this is due to any elitism or anything like that, as previous posts on this topic have implied or outright stated, but rather a product of the wiki's growth. In the beginning, when the site had significantly fewer authors than it does now, the number of drafts posted in the forums would have been much lower. But as the site grew, the number grew with it, which made it harder for individual drafts to be seen and get critique, so I understand why they would want to create a more structured system for getting feedback, but the way they did that just made the process more complicated and intimidating for new users. I don't know what I would do to fix this, but I definitely think it at least needs an adjustment so that new authors are less likely to get overwhelmed and skip the process entirely.

I've been reflecting a lot on the choice YouTube gives between Watch Hours and Shorts Views and it seems to me so obvious that one approach is easier than another but I would love to get a discussion going on this topic. What are you currently going after?
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hi does anyone have experience like this. over the last few days ive been becoming aware of how many tics i have and plan to pursue a tourettes diagnosis along with the others I'm trying to get right now like autism and adhd. an example would be a motor tic i get while playing a game where i move my camera around (specifically spam it to the right then neutral then right again over and over very quickly during times where i cant move) but now that i care enough to try to stop it and struggle not to accidentally do it anyway its a lot more annoying before i used to just do it for fun because of the urge without understanding it being a tic. usually my tics are very allowable or not something that would bother people so its hard to notice what is until i try to mitigate the behaviour or think about if it feels like an urge to do it. an example of one ive had for a long time that i had a bad moment with the other day though is a tic i have where i go "ill show you [blank]." in middle school i had this tic like crazy and it worked kinda just like a joke even if it didn't always make sense i would just get the urge to say it in response to lots of things mainly if they had a more obsene double meaning but i have very bad memory and can't really remember old responses i had made with it, and that urge died down quite a bit throughout growing up but i had it the other day. i was reading about how my hello fresh gave sour cream instead of yoghurt and then i made a joke explaining that they gave the sour cream instead to my brother and at the end I got the urge to say something about how they have the nerve to send us sour cream(not seriously mad) then "ill show them sour cream" and i swear to god i didn't wanna say this at all and my brother wasn't even paying attention enough to remember but i was super embarrassed i couldn't help myself but say it. back in school people would just find it funny and stuff so it really never mattered. like one of my tics is a lot more normal it's just the urge to say "uhmmmmm" before im gonna say certain things im not the most aware of what triggers that one though i know it just feels clearly like a tic and not just me wanting to say that. i also get the urge to snap and make mouth Popping noises, meow at animals when i see them but the meow is different than just normal animal sounds like ill make sounds and interact with animals and it feels intentional even with meow sounds but there's like a clear tic i accidentally did to my rabbit and i get that urge when i usually see cats separately than when i try to make meows on purpose and stuff like i couldn't control doing it to my rabbit yesterday when i couldn't even think to.
lots of these are things i would've never thought could be tics because of tourettes being so stereotyped and me not understanding it really until just a few days ago. is this a common experience people here have had?

I'm having a lot of trouble with foul shots and lay ups
In the foul shot The ball hardly ever gets in my captain says that my aim is perfect but the powers just isn't enough and when I try to add a little jump to my shot to increase the power the ball just doesn't get in
In the lay ups I keep forgetting to not take more than 2 steps and I just can't control when to he the ball

Before getting into it, I want to make it clear: I love living and being alive, and I am not at all hopeless… I also love my partner but found that we have two totally different ways of communicating our internal thoughts/feelings/ways of thinking and experiencing…
The conversation began with a question: if someone (or something) were to reach inside of you, what would “you” feel like?
They answered that it would feel warm, but rigid. Not spiky or sharp, but that distinct feeling of gripping warmed metal (think popping the hood of a vehicle that sat under the sun, without shade). That their inner “self” would be tangible, but not fit in the palm of your hands, probably not as far as your arms could even stretch.
That was it and I can absolutely feel that from them.
I answered that if someone reached into me, that they would pass through a thin, mucus-like layer into… nothing. There would be an emptiness there.
This was confusing for them.
So I continued- that if someone were to reach inside of me to “touch me” it would feel like sitting in pitch black darkness with your hand in front of your face. That kind of darkness where you’re not even sure of how far away your palm is or how far apart you’ve stretched your fingers. That kind of void where your physical understanding of your own body gets a bit skewed. Disorienting?
Again, confusion.
I kept trying to explain it and ended with “a black hole but in reverse,” thinking that would make it clear - in hindsight, that’s even murkier than all the shit beforehand.
After an extremely pregnant pause, they said “my love, you’re depressed. That’s depression.” I nearly lost it, trying to stammer over myself and clarify everything I previously said (while crying, now, mind you). They expressed they have never felt that way and that “most people don’t feel that way.”
not that I think being depressed or suffering from depression is anything to be ashamed of. Instead, I was trying (am trying) to express that most people maybe do feel this way - that we’re all tired, confused, jumbled up pile of thoughts, feelings, rationalizations, and cells - trying to communicate it all in ways that limited language won’t allow.
But now I look at them differently - after six years of being in a relationship - I’m not sure if I actually AM as depressed as they believe or if I’ll ever be able to accurately convey to them what it is I feel at my core.
This is just a long winded way of saying: we may be vibing in two different levels and idk if they’re down to clown - but man, am I tired.

link: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/living-emotional-intensity/201805/feeling-intensely-the-wounds-being-too-much
KEY POINTS
People who feel intensely might be labeled as highly sensitive, gifted, or having a mental illness such as chronic depression or ADHD.
With little awareness, many emotionally intense adults confess to having felt lonely and misunderstood for years.
Signs of being an emotionally intense person include having a grave concern for others and the wider world from an early age.
Some people feel more than others.
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They are often told—spoken and unspoken—that they are "too much," "too intense," "too sensitive," "too emotional," and that their behaviors are either "too dramatic" or "too timid."
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People who feel more deeply and intensely than others are more aware of subtleties; their brain processes information and reflects on it more deeply. People with emotional intensity are sometimes described as sensitive, caring, and attentive. At their best, they can be exceptionally perceptive, intuitive, and keenly observant of the subtleties of the environment. Yet they are also overwhelmed by the constant waves of social nuances and others' emotional and psychic energies.
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They tend to notice and remember a lot and can be overstimulated when things are too chaotic or novel for a long time. This ability to feel deeply and intensely often starts from a young age when emotion regulation skills are lacking and can lead to psychological wounding associated with shame and loneliness.
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Growing awareness of this trait has generated much inquiry, yet psychologists have so far been unable to agree on a single defining attribute. If you identify with the description, there are a few possibilities:
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This may mean that you are one of the 15-20 percent of the population wired differently as a Highly Sensitive Person.
This may mean that you fall on the right side of the bell curve as a gifted person.
This may mean you do have or are mislabeled as having a mental illness such as Emotion Regulation Disorder, ADHD, Bipolar Disorder, or Dysthymia (chronic depression).
The world is gradually coming to embrace the concept of neurodiversity — the idea that particular groups of the population are "different" from the norm, with specific kinds of sensitivity, intensity, and giftedness. However, with little awareness, many emotionally intense adults confessed to having felt lonely and misunderstood for years, being plagued with self-doubts, and living with a lingering sense of existential loneliness.
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Emotional intensity comprises of the following five components:
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1. Emotional Depth, Velocity, and Complexity

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You experience emotions to an unusual level of depth, complexity, and intensity. This makes you feel incredibly alive, sometimes painfully so.
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You have a constant stream of both positive and negative feelings, sometimes together, sometimes from one to another in a short period.
You soar high into bliss and plunge low into gloom in rapid succession.
You know the meaning of despair, but you also know beauty and rapture. When art or music moves you, you are flooded with waves of joy, or get transcended into a state of ecstasy.
You are passionate, even if you do not show it on the outside.
You tend to form strong emotional connections with people, places, and things, and sometimes that makes separation difficult.
You experience life with much tenderness and nostalgia.
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A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.
To him
a touch is a blow,
a sound is a noise,
a misfortune is a tragedy,
a joy is an ecstasy,
a friend is a lover,
a lover is a god,
and failure is death.
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—Pearl Buck
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1. Deep Empathy and Sensitivity

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From an early age, you have a grave concern for others and the wider world. When others are abused or mistreated, you feel as if it is happening to you.
You may resonate with traits of being an "empath," due to your innate ability to feel and be affected by other people's energies. In social situations, you can intuitively identify with others' emotions, and you may feel that you "absorb" their physical and mental ailment, to the point where you get overwhelmed.
Because of your responsiveness and insights into others' pain, you tend to form soulful and meaningful connections. You are loyal, idealistic, and romantic.
However, being naturally open and sensitive also means you are vulnerable to relational injuries from a young age. Your natural tendency to be open and loving may get stunted due to early rejections and trauma.
Having a heightened sensory system means that you are extremely sensitive to your surroundings. You have an increased appreciation of sensual pleasures such as music, language, and art, as well as intense reactions to sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell. This may also cause you to feel overwhelmed or uncomfortable with too much sensory input. You may be sensitive to loud noises, strong smells, or tactile sensations such as clothing tags and rough surfaces.

1. Highly Acute Perceptivity

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Being perceptively gifted means you can sense and perceive things that others miss. With acute awareness, you can see beyond superficiality, grasp patterns, and make linkages.
Insights, intuition, and the ability to read several layers of reality allow you to assess people and situations rapidly. You can sense incongruence and their intentions, thoughts, and feelings that are underneath the facades.
You have a sense of knowing when something is about to happen, or about other people's inner worlds.
However, your abilities do not necessarily make life easy. You are bothered by hypocrisies and unfairness and struggle with inauthentic people and situations. You cannot help but be the one who points out the "elephant in the room," but your perceptiveness may seem intimidating to those who felt "seen through."
In a family situation, you may be scapegoated to be the one who carries the painful truth that is unsaid in the facade of normalcy. You may carry the role of being the "problematic one", the scapegoat, or the black sheep.
You have an innate urge to push the boundaries of conformity, to question or to challenge traditions, particularly those that seem meaningless or unfair. Paired with a strong sense of justice, you are often frustrated with corruption and inequality in the world.
Although this may indicate a challenging life path for you, you also have the potential to thrive as a visionary leader.
You may constantly feel older than others around you, like an "old soul" that has somehow lost your roots.
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1. A Rich Inner World with Sensual, Imaginary, and Intellectual Excitability.

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You have a rich inner world that is imbued with words, images, metaphors, visualizations, vivid fantasies, and dreams.
As a child, you might have resorted to your imagined world as a haven in times of emotional turmoils.
Intellectually, you are inquisitive and reflective. You have a strong need to seek to understand, to expand your horizons, to gain knowledge, and to analyze your mental content.
With an ability to process information with speed and depth, you absorb and surge through information very quickly. You are likely to be an avid reader and a keen observer. You may appear critical and impatient with others who cannot keep up with you.
You also can integrate intellectual concepts with your deep feelings for original conceptions. You may have a constant stream of ideas, sometimes so many that you feel you cannot keep up with it.
You tend to experience zealous enthusiasm about certain topics and endeavors. When you get excited about an idea, your mind runs faster than your words can keep up, or you find yourself talking rapidly, perhaps even interrupting others.
When you become absorbed in your love for a piece of art, literature, theatre, or music, the outside world ceases to exist.
You are highly capable of contemplative thinking and self-reflection. The flip side is that you may be occupied with obsessive thoughts and scrupulous self-examination. You may also suffer from perfectionism and self-criticism.
You are extremely open-minded. You are sensitive to the spiritual world or were drawn to the spiritual path from a young age. This may or may not manifest as some form of psychic ability.
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1. Creative Potential and Existential Angst

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You have always been concerned with the big questions of life. From a young age, you may experience existential depression and have felt grief over the meaninglessness of life, death, and loneliness.
You might have felt frustrated that those around you were not prepared to discuss and consider these weighty concerns.
Your existential angst may manifest as an unnamed sense of urgency, a constant impulse to move forward. You get a constant "niggling" feeling that there is something important that you should be doing, even when your vision is not clear yet. You live with a feeling that somehow time is running out, and you are not doing what you should be doing.
For some unnamed reason, you feel a weight of responsibility on your shoulder, even for things you are not responsible for.
Your angst propels you to learn, to expand, and to advance in your life path, but it can also paralyze you. You may be prone to creative blockages such as "artist's block," "writer's block," procrastination, the fear of exposure, or the Imposter Syndrome (the feeling that you are a fraud).
Nevertheless, you have always known deep down that you are dissatisfied with a life that is meaningless and task-driven.
You may be a polymath, or a "multipotentialitite" — someone with multiple interests and creative pursuits, and not just one calling.
When you have a strong vision or innovative idea, you can feel the split between belongingness and authentic expression — you want to express with your full, authentic self but you are worried that it means being rejected, or leaving people behind.
A Caveat
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The above conceptualization of the emotional intensity trait inevitably involves some simplification of human complexity. Any typology is necessary a simplification compared with the real, unique human being in front of us. We as a human species are both different and much the same, in a paradoxical unity. We must not forget that what always holds more weight than the theory is the here-and-now-ness of the living human beings, who are constantly changing and evolving.
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The Gifts and the Perils
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Dr. Mary-Elaine Jacobson, the author of The Gifted Adult, has identified some of the top criticisms a gifted individual often faces:
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“Why don't you slow down?”
“You worry about everything!”
“You are so sensitive and dramatic.”
"You are too driven.”
“Who do you think you are?”
Emotional Intensity is not a pathology. For someone who is emotionally intense, however, the pain that comes with a pervasive sense of being "too much" is not to be taken lightly – a person can be made to feel ‘wrong" for the most part of his or her life, and internalizing this sense of shame can lead to depression, low self-esteem, inability to self-regulate, and inner emptiness.
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The good news is, with the right information and support, liberation from the pain of "being too much" is possible. Once you have discovered the origin of your differences, you may begin a journey of retrieving long-lost gifts.
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Suddenly, your whole life history makes sense. You realize that a lot of the shame and depression they bear come from ill-informed and uninvited commentary about your unique qualities, and people's fear of what is unfamiliar. In fact, your high level of awareness of subtleties is not only unusual but also extremely precious.
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As you step into embracing your unique qualities, you learn to trust your unique ways of relating to the world and can connect to what you have to offer. Themes such as authentic existence, the meaning of life, and purpose of being come to the foreground of awareness, and here you are, embarking on a true journey towards your full potential:
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"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen."
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"Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?"
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"Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."
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"Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit.
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“Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but really loves you, then you become Real often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.”
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—Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit

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Here are some behavioral trends to consider as suggested by chatgpt that can account for the behaviour of pioneers in the Pi ecosystem.
The inclination of people given free tokens, or any form of free goods or incentives, can vary depending on various factors. Here are a few key observations from behavioral studies:

1. Reciprocity: The principle of reciprocity suggests that when people receive something for free, they feel obligated to reciprocate the gesture in some way. This could result in increased engagement, loyalty, or a willingness to support the provider of the free tokens.
2. Loss aversion: People tend to value losses more than gains. If individuals are given free tokens, they might develop a sense of ownership or attachment to them. Consequently, they may be more inclined to use the tokens or spend them rather than let them go to waste.
3. Endowment effect: The endowment effect refers to the tendency for people to value items they possess more than identical items they do not possess. When individuals are given free tokens, they may develop a sense of ownership and ascribe more value to those tokens than if they had acquired them through other means.
4. Framing and perception: The way in which the free tokens are presented or framed can influence people's inclination to use them. For example, if the tokens are positioned as a limited-time opportunity or exclusive benefit, individuals may feel a stronger motivation to take advantage of them.

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Hi all! I've been looking to buy a flat in London for a while and I have recently found one I really like, however the service charges seem a bit high. I have asked for a breakdown of the service charges from the owner and some of them seem a bit extravagant, so I'd appreciate any opinions on it.
For a bit more context, the apartment building is roughly 20yrs old, it has a concierge and off street parking and the inside courtyard and hallways are kept pretty clean, but there are no other amenities other than these. Additionally, the flat I would be purchasing is a rather large one (1000sqft) so I appreciate that is also a reason for the rather large service charge. I have also been told that the building insurance has not yet been adjusted to reflect the remedial works for EWS (they have been completed some time last year) but I'm not sure how big of a reduction that would be.
The breakdown for the service charge is here https://i.imgur.com/ULK61Ls.jpg