MystikIncarnate

@MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hedgehog X-ray⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope the little guy got all fixed up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hedgehog X-ray⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, I hate it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We really don't want to talk about our problems⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  None of us did.

  I didn’t get a say in whether or not to be born. I’m just here now and I have to deal with all of this shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We really don't want to talk about our problems⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  29 days “lost” at sea, is therapy for all of the external bullshit we deal with every fucking day.

  By “we” I mean people in society, not just men. Everyone struggles with making their way in “this world” we built for ourselves. We made it to be this horrible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We really don't want to talk about our problems⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I felt this comment.

  Thanks, I hate it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can it take months to get over being laid off?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been there, done that. Welcome to the club my friend.

  The only reason I got through my last layoff without stooping into a deep depression is that I’ve done this dance so many fucking times that I’m tired of it all.

  Luckily I had a new job about a month later, which I 100% acknowledge is luck.

  I still miss my previous job, it was much better than the one I have now. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not angry at being employed, I’m just sad that I didn’t get to remain employed with the last workplace.

  I get it, 100%. Nothing you said is really all that abnormal. You clearly liked the job, and there’s no good way to express that loss. It’s just something you have to go through all the stages of. Eventually the whole ordeal will seem further and further away and you’ll settle into a routine and get your life back to where it should be. You lost something and it’s okay to be sad about that.

  What isn’t good is if you start getting any worse than where you are at now. If you start sliding deeper into it, or you feel like you’re drowning, please seek help. The people who care about you don’t want to lose you.

  My advice for the future is: never invest more than you’re willing to lose, whether you’re taking about money or emotional investment, the reality is that you can lose it all in a snap. Make sure you know what you’re risking and ensure you can sacrifice what you’ve invested if there’s a sudden change from management. Take care of yourself first, then worry about everything else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They are so dumb they want to piss everyone off for a lousy 15 minutes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For feedback, I would just print off the federal labor codes for my country, highlighting specific sections. I’d just hand it to the management verbatim. I wouldn’t cherry pick or leave anything out, just emphasize specific passages.

  Guess what? That’s illegal here.

  It would be a thinly veiled threat that I’ll ruin their lives if they don’t back track immediately… All said without uttering a single syllable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am two of them⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As a straight, I agree with this.

  Me personally, I’m ok, for the most part. I’m sure you are too … But all of my fellow straights? Most of them are… Well… Very not ok.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am two of them⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who is straight/cis/male, and very secure in that… Anyone who takes offense… Probably gay. Just saying.

  I don’t take any offense to this stuff. I know who I am. I know what I like. I know where I stand in the grand scheme of things. I live by a very straightforward philosophy: don’t like gay sex? don’t have gay sex. Don’t like gay marriage? Don’t get gay married. Don’t deny someone else of what you don’t want for yourself.

  We’re all different, and that’s a good thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am two of them⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do not apologize. That’s quite the story you have.

  If you’re unhappy with where you are, who you are with, or who you are, you can always change. It’s never too late and trust me, as a long term supporter of the LGBTQ+ movement (despite being very straight/cis), they are a very accepting group.

  As an outsider, I can’t tell you what, how, or when changes are going to work best for you, nor what changes you could, or should make. That’s entirely your decision and it’s a big one, and I’m sorry about that. I’m only saying that it’s not too late to figure out who you are and how to be comfortable with your life.

  All the best. Take care of yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is what it is⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I need to check into this, but maybe someone knows.

  I assumed that if you’re using incognito and you don’t sign into your Google account, the activity wouldn’t be tied to your Google account. It might be recorded and sent to Google, but anonymously, unless you signed into Google/Gmail/YouTube/whatever, while incognito.

  The obvious is that your activity wouldn’t end up on your Internet history in your non-incognito Chrome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  None of these answers are wrong.

  Pretty sure we had CRTs in highschool, back when I was a teen many years ago that were Kia brand… IIRC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Crazy, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh damn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Manufacturing of any kind always causes an environmental impact. This is the way of things.

  The one thing we can’t get that would mitigate the environmental costs of making stuff, is if stuff was built to last…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honda built a rocket

  Me: of course they did.

  They launched the rocket

  Me: naturally.

  They landed the rocket.

  Me: on the first try?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hilariously, light is an electromagnetic wave.

  So, yes, we can see electromagnetic waves… Just, only a very small segment of them.

  How wrong he was. Now we use EM daily for everything… Communicating via Wi-Fi, listening to music in the car (FM broadcast), or via Bluetooth and using LTE… Even heating our food. Not to mention medical applications like X-rays…

  There’s a shitload of stuff we use EM for without even thinking. It’s all around us, all the time, like the matrix. I love EM science.

  This goes to show you that, just because someone discovered a thing, doesn’t mean that they have any idea what to do with that discovery, or that the discoveries end there…

  Before, reality was just what humans could touch, smell, see, and hear, but after the publication of the charged electromagnetic spectrum, we now know that what we can touch, smell, see, and hear, is less than one-millionth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree.

  1. You already have a government space agency. Maybe give them more funding so they don’t have to rely on space-x to get their stuff into orbit?

  2. There’s a national telecom network already in place. It at least has the potential to be faster and more reliable, if it isn’t already… At least compared to low earth orbit satellite coverage.

  There’s no good reason to continue providing Elon or his companies with any government handouts. Pull that funding and give it to… I dunno, students who have more debt than homeowners with a mortgage… NASA… Literally anything that helps people?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mushroom mushroom

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do I drag my feet when it's time to start a new task even if I know I'll enjoy it once I get started?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, I didn’t think you were disagreeing.

  My entire point is that since task paralysis can be a symptom of an executive dysfunction, it is worth the time for OP to talk to their doctor about it.

  I don’t think that the previous poster said, nor implied that OP definitely has an executive dysfunction because of this one symptom.

  Neither of which I think you have refuted at any point, in any capacity. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do I drag my feet when it's time to start a new task even if I know I'll enjoy it once I get started?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still not a doctor, but as a first-aid certified person, signs and symptoms can be extremely useful in helping someone. It gives you a starting point to try to figure out what’s happening.

  Further investigation is always required.

  Medical diagnosis is a science. Things need to be proven. You can’t just go on vibes or feelings or whatever.

  Since OP describes some symptoms that can be associated with executive function disorders, doesn’t mean that they definitely have those conditions. Only a qualified doctor should be making that kind of conclusion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do I drag my feet when it's time to start a new task even if I know I'll enjoy it once I get started?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh… Uhhh… Hyperactivity in the name, isn’t behavioral hyperactivity. That can certainly be a symptom but the naming comes from hyperactivity in specific brain functions, as in, your brain works too much on things inappropriately.

  While that can manifest as hyperactive behaviors, it doesn’t always.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do I drag my feet when it's time to start a new task even if I know I'll enjoy it once I get started?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  … Which is probably why they qualified their statement with “might”.

  OP might have an executive dysfunction.

  I am not a doctor, but I agree that the possibility that OP has an executive dysfunction is nontrivial. Depending on where you live, finding out might be free. Just saying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Neither of those keys exist.

  Probably because I keep uninstalling the software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. Question sucks. Teacher is a tool. Kid needs bonus points for a creative solution.

  This always pissed me off about all formal school. They don’t want a good answer, they don’t even want the correct answer. They want you to give them the answer they previously told you to give them, regardless of all other factors.

  Real life doesn’t work like that. In reality, the “correct” answer is anything that completes the objective. In this scenario, the answer provided was reasonable, logical and most importantly, it was not incorrect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Heh, it’s a small business and bossman isn’t exactly anti-AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think GDPR and related laws, really tempered what Microsoft did to the whole of the European region. They didn’t want to deal with it, so they made as much as they could, opt-in. As opposed to the north american policies of either opt-out, or forced-on.

  IDK. I don’t work at Microsoft, I’m just guessing. 🙃

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For those curious, if you can get a European Windows product key, you can install the “N” version of Windows. Be warned, it only works with certain product keys…

  The standard Windows installer should give the option of “Windows 10” or “Windows 10 N” (or similar). The N version is basically bloatware free out of the box…

  The regular version has a bunch of promos pre-installed, like candy crush, and other things that most people couldn’t give a shit about…

  Recently I’ve been playing a “fun” game with my work laptop where I’ll remove copilot, and a few days later it will appear again. Weeee. In that case, it wouldn’t surprise me if there’s a policy in place to enable copilot on my works systems… I’m sure someone who works here, probably higher up the food chain than me, wants it enabled, and the ham fisted policy maker can’t create a policy just for those who want it, so everyone gets it because the bosses son Shane decided that he wants to see how much of his work can get done by AI so he can do even less while on the clock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The solution to many problems⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure why the perpetrator being trans was important enough to put in the title, considering it didn’t seem to have anything to do with the crime…