I hear you OP, but in my region (northern Spain and Portugal) you would have to reeducate 99% of the population over 40. Especially in rural areas. It was freeing living abroad in Ireland because people would actually stare at me less, even though I was a foreigner. It's a weird cultural thing 🤷♀️
What are they to do?
Shrinking discretionary budget, more and more responsibilities at work (multiple roles condensed into one), and a looming sense you are easily replaceable with layoffs and AI tools.
On the other, if you are taught your only worth is your job, there is no point in exploring outside of that, and spending your energy on things that won't make you a good worker.
I took one month off on unpaid leave. Not only did it confirm that I didn't miss a thing from my bullshit software dev job, those were 4 busy and productive weeks, with many projects I had left on hold. Plus, I felt much better in terms of health. It allowed me to taper off an SSRI. And I lost weight too!
I had been trying to go off my antidepressants for a while, and tapering it off is the recommended way to do it. However, there are still side effects, and dealing with the side effects while having to stay on my normal work routine and stress was too much for me.
I get the argument for getting a job, though. Here is my perspective: I would find something I could do part te, and that I felt was really useful. I have consideredany times working in a nursing home with elderly people - being able to help them and hopefully even bring them some joy would benefit me, because my personal sense of purpose is tied to collaborating and giving back to the community around me. Plus, it's the type of job no one wants to do; if money weren't an issue, and I didn't have to put in 40+ hours a week, I would be happy to pick it up.
I don’t care what reason you think you have, to explain this bullshit behavior. There is no good reason. Even if your government literally refuses to put signals, stop signs, etc, that’s still no excuse....
Downvoting not because it is unpopular - I actually agree with parts of it -, but because it's an incoherent rant fueled by anger against some "undeveloped" country where magically everyone can fix engines with a piece of string. Big "hate the global south" vibes from this one.
That's a common misconception about mindfulness that I fell - and sometimes still fall - for. It's not about knowing a tool or framework, and using it when you think you need it. It is not debugging a one off. It is a practice. You do it as a routine, and it slowly shifts how you face the world and yourself. It's not the answer we are looking for, especially in a crisis, it's not a fix. It's a change, it takes the rest of your life, and it's not a linear system of inputs and outputs.
I don't know you or your mind, but from that, it sounds busy AF.
That's not what a mindfulness practice is like at all. To be clear, I wasn't referring to a dictionary definition of mindfulness, but to the Buddhist meditation kind. In mindfulness meditation you would be working to get to a completely different state, where you simply observe, instead of analyzing.
I could be projecting, and I apologize for that, but I see myself a little in what you described: I used to scan myself all the time, and think of things to fix and improve, dwell on what I did wrong and what I am going to do better tomorrow, think through many moral scenarios and arguments so I would act in a sound and correct way. That's fine and very valuable.
It is also why mindfulness was hard for me to get into - because I couldn't be inside my head like that all the time. It is almost the opposite of that. It's hard to step aside from that torrent of thoughts, especially if you are an introvert and used to tapping into that rich inner world. Mindfulness meditation is training your mind to reach a sort of silent tranquility, a blank slate where you can draw your true intentions on and then maybe reach deeper insights. It helped a lot when I accepted that we are not entirely rational, even when we think we are acting purely on logical thoughts. We need to connect somehow to that latent emotional side, to recognize it more often. And this only clicked on my late twenties, until then I thought I could just think myself into any desired outcome (spoiler alert: it didn't work).
I am sure there are many resources out there that explain this better than I can. My point is introspection != mindfulness.
This is so alien to me, do other Europeans struggle with cursive? Is it a geography or an age thing?
Personally, it feels like a natural way to write and link letters quickly. I think it's taught in a backwards way, and a lot of people never develop their calligraphy skills because of that, but once you understand the point of cursive, it makes sense. And it's one more way to express yourself. It can be as legible/ambiguous as you want to make it. You can add fancy ligatures, or keep it clean.
Thanks for the explanation! That's exactly what I was wondering about, especially after reading some more comments in this thread. Sounds like it is an unfortunate consequence of how cursive is taught :(
Cool article, I feel like I learned more about linked lists in a 5 minute read than over a few classes in college.
Plus, I love that it references Vera Molnar - hand executed algorithm art is not that widely known, and people always look at me as if I have two heads the first time I bring up the topic.
It would be beneficial for all here if you could learn to not take things so personally, and take in some fair criticism about this particular post. But please stick around, the topic of the article is definitely interesting, thanks for that!
I was just randomly checking out what Funerals costs and was shocked how expensive it was! €3.500 to €5.500! I live in north Germany, and we have here some very deep Woods. So I was thinking what would happen if I just die there. Let’s say no one ever finds me. Are Animals just going to eat me, and will I just be gone in a...
I love the sentiment: "just don't die because it's awkward AF". If "joie de vivre" doesn't make you cling to life, there's always social anxiety even after death 🤣
If you, like me, live in the EU, Facebook is now entirely clamping down and forcing free users to make their personal data available for monetization....
I would love to ditch WhatsApp, but then I wouldn't be in touch with my family half as much, and it would be a lot more difficult to get anything done.
I am in Spain where people simply assume you have WA, and the majority of small business use it extensively.
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Duo euthanasia: former Dutch prime minister dies hand in hand with his wife (www.theguardian.com)
Dries and Eugenie van Agt, both 93, died as number of couples in Netherlands choosing joint end to life grows
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Young adults set an earlier bedtime as they navigate economic fatigue, wellness trends, and a loneliness epidemic (fortune.com)
think of the shareholders (slrpnk.net)
If your country is one of those where the traffic is insane, and everyone just point-blank refuses to obey 75-100 percent of all signals and rules of the road, I don't respect your nation, at all.
I don’t care what reason you think you have, to explain this bullshit behavior. There is no good reason. Even if your government literally refuses to put signals, stop signs, etc, that’s still no excuse....
How do I get over my ex?
Posting this here because I’m unsure of where else to post something like this....
Couples should be limited to a maximum of 2 children, in the whole world.
Continuing to increase the world population is absolutely nuts....
Shunned in computer age, cursive makes a comeback in California (news.yahoo.com)
FULLERTON, California (Reuters) - A generation of children who learned to write on screens is now going old school....
Untangling Non-Linearity: How the Linked List Changed Everything (schmud.de)
Japan crashes SLIM spacecraft upside-down on the moon and calls it a "success" (www.techspot.com)
This is devastating (startrek.website)
What happens to my Corpse if I die in a Forest?
I was just randomly checking out what Funerals costs and was shocked how expensive it was! €3.500 to €5.500! I live in north Germany, and we have here some very deep Woods. So I was thinking what would happen if I just die there. Let’s say no one ever finds me. Are Animals just going to eat me, and will I just be gone in a...
Salmon pink
South Korea passes law banning dog meat trade (www.bbc.com)
Timmy gets his wish
YouTube Launches Experimental AI Feature With Voice Clones of Major Artists (www.rollingstone.com)
Ferrari poster for the 2023 Las Vegas GP. (sh.itjust.works)
If you live in the EU - you may also be faced with this Meta prompt. Info in text. (lemmy.world)
If you, like me, live in the EU, Facebook is now entirely clamping down and forcing free users to make their personal data available for monetization....