Although not officially a tropical storm, a weather system that continued to drench much of Florida Wednesday with heavy rain and thunderstorms is associated with a tropical disturbance over the state, one that the National Hurricane Center is giving a 20% chance of development into a depression or tropical storm over the next...
I didn't know if it's a backend issue or not. Also, I'm just a user, not a mod or magazine owner.
That said, I do know that, having come back from break, there was a godawful number of spammers and spam posts that I ended up blocking just to make things usable again; and a comment by someone else in another thread (https://kbin.social/m/ModHelp/t/1078805/Scripting-for-Moderation-Tasks) asking for help in clearing spam said:
The spam is endless and it seems like other instances are defederating.
I know that I heard people talk about defederating due to spam several months ago; while that didn't seem to happen back then, it seems a possibility now.
Edit: I just checked, and I've blocked 48 separate accounts in the past 27 hours. Some were blocked with only a couple posts, but there were others with multiple pages of posts.
I really prefer kbin over the other instances I've tried and I've tried to remain faithful, but if the spam issue, downtime, and defederating continue ...
When Sri Lanka's economy crashed in 2022, people sought work abroad wherever they could find it -- including ex-soldiers who joined forces fighting in Ukraine after Russia's invasion....
I'm really torn on this. It's good that they're trying to support their families. And they went to Russia in 2022, hopefully before they knew how brutal the Russians would be on Ukraine.
On the other hand, they were willing to take behind-the-scenes jobs to free up Russian soldiers to go fight in Ukraine - killing Ukrainians and making their lives and their country absolutely miserable in order to (supposedly) have a nice cushy life for themselves and their families. And they're complaining because they themselves are being backed into a corner to force them to fight.
I’m trying to give someone advice on choosing a career that will suit them better than the one they’re in and hate. I wanted to get together a list of good questions for them to ask themselves so they can use the answers to compare options like “do you prefer to work sitting or moving around,” “do you want to not work...
Okay, so, my advice is to get a recent edition of a book called What Color Is Your Parachute?; they update it every couple years, so it's important to find a recent edition. What they do is they ask you a series of questions like "tell a brief story about three different times you felt really proud of something you worked at?"; note that the 'something' could be actual work, a hobby, school, etc. You work your way through the questions, and do your best to provide meaningful answers.
Then the book provides a framework to go through your answers and analyze them. It helps you identify your strengths and weaknesses and the characteristics of things you love (and hate). I'd important to do this step, because you think you know yourself, but you really don't because you've never fully explored all your strengths; because you didn't realize all your strengths because some of them are just so natural to you that you think everyone has this skill or they just didn't learn it properly; because you've been comparing your abilities to those of your friends, family, coworkers, classmates, and books/media depictions.
Then it takes your list of skills and things that make you happy, and it suggests jobs for each (this is why you want a recent edition, because jobs go obsolete/come into being all the time, and the skills needed for them change as well).
It sounds both like a bunch of work and really simple, but it's great because it helps you find something that really fits for you and the skills that made you happy, and it helps you find careers you might have otherwise overlooked. Like my mom: my dad and a number of his friends were programmers and analysts, so she never felt she was particularly good at analysis; and her skill at numbers was just something that everyone could do, it was that easy; and several other things as well. But she got through the analysis section and realized that she really was good at analysis and her natural ability with numbers wasn't common, and that she really loved (or hated) doing tasks with certain common elements. And then the book suggested jobs for her innate abilities (because those are less struggle) and things that made her proud or happy or whatever (because those are the jobs that keep you wanting to work them).
So, yeah, that's what I'd recommend: a recent edition of What Color Is Your Parachute? (you're library might have one, or could get it through interlibrary loan, or it may be in the deeper corners of the internet). You're a good friend, to help your friend out with this!
Latest! 'A wall of water' is falling on Florida. Hurricane forecasters are watching.
Although not officially a tropical storm, a weather system that continued to drench much of Florida Wednesday with heavy rain and thunderstorms is associated with a tropical disturbance over the state, one that the National Hurricane Center is giving a 20% chance of development into a depression or tropical storm over the next...
Anybody know when Kbin will start federating again?
Can’t help but notice that federation isn’t working. Is there a backlog, or another problem?
The 'duped' Sri Lankans fighting in Russia's Ukraine war (www.news.com.au)
When Sri Lanka's economy crashed in 2022, people sought work abroad wherever they could find it -- including ex-soldiers who joined forces fighting in Ukraine after Russia's invasion....
Is the Y cut the best way to slice a sandwich? (www.popsci.com)
Experts slice up the horizontal vs. diagonal vs. Y cut debate. So what is the best way to slice a sandwich?
The Spaghetti Thief - Antonio Cifrondi (1656-1730) 🇮🇹🍝
How many stars die in the Milky Way Galaxy every year? (www.infoterkiniviral.com)
According to James De Buizer, a scientist at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute,
When did you know a career was either the perfect or the worst match for your personality?
I’m trying to give someone advice on choosing a career that will suit them better than the one they’re in and hate. I wanted to get together a list of good questions for them to ask themselves so they can use the answers to compare options like “do you prefer to work sitting or moving around,” “do you want to not work...