Pandemanium

@Pandemanium@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All my sisters are Independent Workers (Dentist, Manager), while all my brothers and I are salaried workers (Oil Company, Restaurant, Food Distributor).⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Restaurant work is not typically salaried unless you’re the manager. I’d say that one might be an outlier. This is the first time I’ve heard anyone refer to hourly wages as independent work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instead of paying for a therapist every week I'd be willing to pay like $100 a month for someone to harass me into going to social events.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Find a Mormon. They will be ecstatic to do this for free. Of course all the social events will be church related and they will certainly try their best to convert you… But harassing people into participating is what they’re best at.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best thing you can do for genuinely free stuff is share it with others and talk it up⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just found out you can get into some local museums for free on the first full weekend of the month if you have one of three specific bank cards. I think Thursdays are free for anyone, but that can be hard to arrange if you have a 9-5 job or want to take the kids.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I'm at threat to lose my job because I never shut up about politics free speech means nothing to me.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand where you’re coming from, completely. It definitely feels like being silenced (again, because let’s face it, this shit is mentally throwing us right back into childhood when our needs and feelings were ignored). I understand that desperate feeling of needing to be heard. But we’re adults now, and the people at work aren’t your parents. There’s nothing obligating them to listen. Even my spouse needs time where I’m not ranting about politics. An hour a day is all he can do right now, and this is someone who cares about how I feel. But this isn’t a rejection of my feelings.

  One thing I’ve personally had to realize is that the stuff about politics isn’t actually you. You have to find a way to have a degree of separation between the political and your actual core. I know it looks like they’re the same thing right now. But think about what you really want to accomplish, think about what kind of culture you want to create at work. Do you want everyone to be as upset as you are? Would that make a good working environment? If you want others to be more compassionate, I think coming from a place of compassion yourself might work better. Right now it sounds like you’re treating people in ways you probably wouldn’t want others treating you. You can still be true to yourself, your ideals, and values without being quite so forceful. For some reason beyond my immediate comprehension, demonstrating the intensity of your feelings doesn’t translate into people caring - it’s rather the opposite.

  This was a really hard lesson for me and took a few weeks to fully understand and think through. I hope you have someone likeminded in your life you can talk to outside of work. If you don’t, please consider trying to find a new friend. You need someone who already understands, who you don’t need to convince, to blow off steam with. Good luck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who here does NOT have intrusive thoughts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No, those are different things. Intrusive thoughts are your brain telling you terrible things like you suck at your work or your hobbies, you’re worthless, your friends don’t actually like you, and hey remember that time you did a cringey thing in front of people? They’re not true, and you’re not intentionally having these thoughts, but your brain can’t easily rationalize them away. It’s usually something that builds up over a lifetime so that you don’t even realize it’s happening. Thats how so many people get stuck believing the intrusive thoughts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe Says Artists Should Embrace AI If They Want to be Successful.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When I am amazed by a piece of art, it’s because a person was able to conceive of a scene and then use techniques they’ve learned to bring that scene from their mind into reality. I think, “Wow, how did they decide to blend those colors together in such a way, and why? I wonder how hard it is to get that right? How long might it take me to learn the same technique?”

  But when I look at a piece of art made by AI, I think, disappointedly, “Oh, they didn’t. Nobody leaned the technique to paint this, there may not be any feeling behind it, or any point at all, other than ‘it looks good.’” It’s just not impressive.

  And I’m pretty sure that most people could learn how to prompt successfully in a matter of days or weeks. Real artists practice their craft for years, learning and perfecting techniques and often developing their own unique style.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Amazon has different prices for different people⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, but that would be a whole crowd’s worth of demand. Why would you raise the price of something after only one person shows interest? One person is not “demand.” And also, there probably isn’t a finite supply of the product in question like there would be for hotel rooms in one town.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn't apple a popular ice cream flavor?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe it’s less popular because so many people buy ice cream to eat with actual apple pie, or some other kind of pie which might taste weird with apple pie flavors.