Could be as trivial as a type of food, a TV show, or something more serious.
I Think You Should Leave. I feel like something is wrong with me. On paper it should be right up my street and two of my closest friends (both of whom I have a near complete overlap with in comedy tastes) are massive fans but I just don’t get it? I get the jokes but I just don’t laugh. I feel like Bart in that episode of The Simpsons where he sells his soul when I watch it.
To me, the skits tend to go on about 10% too long.
The first thing I ever saw of his was a YouTube clip of the faux lawyer advertisement for homeowners that gets increasingly deranged, and the clip cuts short the ending, which tightens up the humor and makes it better.
I like absurdist humor, but there’s an element more than “wow wacky guy in normal situation” that needs to elevate it for me. Some of his skits have it, and some don’t.
I didn’t like it until I watched Detroiters.
Pickles. I love fermenting things (beer, bread, yogurt, cheese, jalapeños) but cucumbers are gross in any form.
Pickles is what I came to say. My exception is that I don’t mind cucumbers at all. I love vinegar and haven’t met a seasoning or herb I didn’t like. Except the combinations used in pickled cucumbers.
I ferment and pickle my own other vegetables. I should love pickled cucumbers. I’m not a picky eater. I eat bizarre stuff from around the world. But pickles is the one food that just shuts everything down immediately.
Maybe you just don’t like dill. You could try making some with other stuff in it!
Having IRL friends. I have one. I’ve known him since high school and we still hang out regularly from time to time. I get a long great with people IRL but I always cut it at acquaintance and keep it at that level.
I just can’t get invested in other people’s lives because honestly, most people don’t get me once they know me. I’m also estranged from my family so I don’t see anyone on either side.
It’s not important to me to be popular. Who cares how many people show up at your funeral? It’s not like I’m going to be there to shake peoples hands anyways. I could count on one hand the number of people who will attend mine and I’m perfectly content with that.
All that being said. It would be nice to be invited to social events or parties that aren’t work related. I also wouldn’t mind having some drinking buddies or something. I tried hanging out with a veterans group once but that didn’t pan out very well.
Kinda related for me, is keeping in touch / communication / or just talking in general. It’s the reason why I don’t have any friends left, and that’s because I can’t be bothered to stay in touch with them (and I hate social media).
At the same time, I’d like to have some friends to go watch movies with, or go to a restaurant etc. I almost stopped going to the cinemas after I lost touch with my old work friends.
I wish I could have just casual, activity-based friends so there’s no commitment to keep a relationship going and you just meet up for an activity when you feel like it with no expectation of any follow up communications or getting involved in their lives.
I absolutely feel the same way. I also don’t have any other social media accounts other than kBin. I nuked everything else ages ago and haven’t looked back.
Life has a lot leas drama this way 😁
Sticking to one champ in League of Legends and cilantro (fucking soap gene).
Weed. Every time I try it, I regret it. I feel like with alcohol, I might be uninhibited, but feel in control internally. With weed, I feel like I can’t complete a thought internally and I hate it.
is it legal where you are? because I found out I like certain types that don’t do well on the black market.
Yes
Do less lol.
That doesn’t mean go out and do it, but next time you might, cut way back on the amount. If one puff makes you feel that way, do 1/4 of one.
For me, it just makes me feel like I’ve taken a sleeping pill and not really anything else. I can see why people would like it if they can’t sleep, but it’s not exactly fun or enjoyable to me. I’ve taken very small amounts. With alcohol, you get a fun mental effect. With weed, I’m so drowsy and sleepy that I cannot do anything at all and it’s unpleasant. I don’t get a mental effect with it besides making it harder to concentrate.
It’s not for everyone, and I definitely wouldn’t imply otherwise.
That sounds like potentially it could potentially be lower quality stuff, though. The more plant material you have relative to the cannabinoids, the more dulling you get. (No I can’t source that. Just my opinion.) And also the actual blend between different chemicals.
Yeah I’m not in a legal area so my experience is minimal. I don’t have a “plug” and I’m not interested in finding one and getting in that mess. I wish they would just legalize it so I could try different types.
Yeah I for sure wasn’t trying to say that you meant it’s for everyone. I was more just relating to the topic of the OP about something I don’t enjoy but wish I could.
Japanese Natto. Look it up, it’s fermented soybean. I can barely be in the same room as it. Yet my Japanese wife and toddler seem to love the stuff and it’s healthy and easy to prepare— when I’m not gagging.
My wife introduced me to natto and I guess my reaction is the complete opposite of yours.
Engineering. Programming. Any kind of field with good jobs or stability.
I don’t know how to articulate it properly, but I can’t care about anything that is human-focused. I tried engineering and it made me extremely uncomfortable; like my soul broke apart and got put back together in the wrong way. Doomed to be a poor af zoologist/plant biologist :(
As a failed (not really, but academically) engineer who is only comfortable around non-humans I find this very relatable. But is it more the human contact or the human contact with engineers in specific or the technology that gives you soul damage?
I actually love tech, but I also think a lot of modern tech is overkill and shouldn’t exist, and I can’t get excited about modern gadgetry anymore.
I actually love tech, but I also think a lot of modern tech is overkill and shouldn’t exist, and I can’t get excited about modern gadgetry anymore.
Machine learning will continue until morale improves.
@trashgirlfriend @schmorpel noob question, how do you include the previous comment in your response text?
> at the start of the sentence makes a quote
Like this
@trashgirlfriend
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Wait but how did you do the > without the quote?
> Add a space?
Hmmmmbackslashes remove all formatting so *hello* can be written as \*hello* without becoming hello
you can also escape other backslashes
>Hello
\>hello
*whoa*
👌👌👌thanks for the tip!
Is there like a list of all the secret formatting stuff that’s available?
Honestly, the fact that engineering isn’t public facing was a big plus! But it’s the tech part. I’m a zoology/maths major that switched to engineering for a bit. I thought it’d be great! I love combat robotics, and I tinker with gameboys ffs.
I actually love tech, but I also think a lot of modern tech is overkill and shouldn’t exist
This resonates. I have boundless wonder for the amazing things in the universe that we get to witness (using said tech) from the molecular level up. I don’t know why this stops at human-created things, as I do like tech too - as a layman.
It just feels like human development and expansion is a zero-sum game with nature, and my heart is with the biodiversity we are destroying. I was so excited for circuits class too.
May I ask what you ended up doing? Did you become disillusioned with the field?
I think I got lured in when techbros had some credibility, and I hoped to learn enough to participate in creating technological solutions to remediate ecological destruction - renewable energy, e-mobility, … I was an adult student who had half of her licenciatura in EE done (like bachelors I think?), then Covid hit and it was the perfect excuse to give up university and spend some time considering the doubts that had been building up.
All the hard science just didn’t add up. Somewhere in my thermodynamics semester it just started to dawn on me that a lot of the so called technological solutions were just greenwashing bullshit while we were still celebrating endless growth, endless innovation and endless consumerist bliss. The big picture was still missing, and any ethical or philosophical training was entirely missing from the curriculum, so you have all these clever youngsters being trained to earn good money in tech and never spend a single thought about the larger implications of their activities.
I’ve simplified my life. I work as a technical translator - like I did before studying EE. My brain wouldn’t do complicated stuff for a long while, and as this capacity grows back slowly I try to put it to good use in small scall permaculture - I tinker with ram pumps and electric fence. I’ve took my drone out the other day to see if it could be used for searching lost animals in the mountains (happens often where I live), it’s too much of a fire risk this time of the year though. Solar cooking and heating is another field where I’ve done some stuff and want to do more.
I also try to figure out where using tech is useless, especially on the farm. Transporting stuff for example can be reduced to a minimum. Often the laziest method wins. We don’t bring the food to the animals but the animals to the food. We compost things in place whenever we can. We use animals for land clearing, fertilizing, weeding, removing pests. A lot of this can also be applied to non-farm life. I plan to document as much as I can, so I guess I’m in research, popular research.
People. Because they are such a disappointment.
Waking up to a new day.
Myself.
Going to the gym… I know it’s good for me, I know I should be going but I can’t help but feel that I’m wasting my money, only to be doing something less productive that I don’t really enjoy doing…
Also watching shows, ik one-piece is probably good, I’m not watching 1000 episodes of anything, no matter how good it is
I agree with the gym. I hate being in the environment of the gym, way too many people and I hate working out but if I could do it, it would solve so many problems.
I hate the gym too. But I need to exercise. So I joined a soccer training thing. So happy.
Get a garden instead. You get to workout, time outdoors for some vitamin d, and grow some food. Triple win. The light-, smell- and soundscape in most gyms is horrible.
Getting a garden ain’t easy… Especially in a highly urban area like the one I live in… Would love to though
Even a small box can grow a surprising amount of veg. My bf set up a box of about 1 x 3 m, 60cm high, filled it with manure, branches, straw and other organic matter, and planted butternut squash, sweet potatoes, chili, sunflowers. It looked mad when it reached its prime, like some c movie garden tentacle monster. So far we got 25 butternut squash, endless chili, and we have eaten the first few sweet potatoes. It’s on top of stone slabs, not even soil. Or a community garden, or guerilla gardening. Many things involving plants or animals are very rewarding and make one more happy.
@Presi300 @MisterHavoc it’s tough - I find that I dislike exercising just for the sake of exercising. Going on a bike ride or hike feels like exploring, seeing nice scenery. Playing sports is FUN, and the objective is to get the goal/do the thing, not make pain in body to make it healthier.
For me the key was to find something I liked doing where being active was a side effect. (Like someone mentioned, gardening! I hadn’t thought of that one)
I LOVE hiking, though I don’t do it much anymore because I don’t have all the time in the world, I still think it’s fun
@Presi300 Yes!!! Especially ones with a view - slowly working your way to a waterfall or overlook is like finding a hidden secret in the woods. Even on repeat hikes, you get to see the seasons change etc.
YES
Try a combat sport instead. I got bored of the gym, so I started BJJ. It’s fun, and it basically gives me a skill I’ve learned.
Social connection. It would be nice if I could be confident and good at making friends with strangers. I have no idea why I feel so lonely when in the crowd and even more lonely when I’m alone.
Trust me, it’s overrated. Besides, you’re avoiding COVID naturally. That’s a perk.
Math and by extension programming. It makes sense. Then I fill in the numbers, it enters my brain and then just goes to a garbled mess. I get lost in a for loop. WTF…
Maybe your just learning from the wrong place? A lot of people who say they aren’t a “math person” often just have a shitty education.
I didn’t say I’m not a math person. It literally becomes confusing. I imagine it’s like how dislexia works. They know words. They know what words say, just putting them together doesn’t happen the same way as everyone else. I fundamentally understand the individual elements but I just can’t assemble them properly in my brain like I can with everything else. Even if I know the formula and put the numbers in the right places it’s like the processing step in my brain just…doesn’t, or won’t. Hard to explain.
Dyscalculia?
TIL there’s a name. I suppose that would be it.
From the Wikipedia this is spot on.
Ability to grasp math on a conceptual level, but an inability to put those concepts into practice.
Yeah, a lot of math education teaches memorization. This isnt math. If you can understand how a formula was derived, rather than just memorizing the formula, I find it a lot easier to remember. I’m not really memorizing a formula exactly, rather I understand better of how I get from what I have to what I need.
I agree, my highschool often just stated mathematical equations without explaining what they were. They told us you find the sidelength using sin and gave js a formula and thats it. They didn’t say what sin actually was/represented, how to calculate by hand or even show us the classic unit circle like on this website https://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/unit-circle.html
Vegetables. And fruit. They’re obviously very healthy - essential even. I have them in almost every meal, but I hate the taste of all of them. Apart from potatoes I suppose, but all the others.
I don’t know if this is of any help, but herbs when cooking things like broccoli in the microwave works wonders. Also: if you pan fry zucchini or paprika, use butter or olive oil, or even roasted sesame oil, and give it some nice dark spots.
Yea, some grilled vegetables are so much better. And like you said, add butter, oil, herbs, lime or lemon… Just hide that shit under more shit.
I wish I liked eating a ton of raw veggies.
Add Hummus.
Just have them as a boredom snack. Carrot sticks, red capsicum sticks (I think they’re bell peppers in the US), and little grape tomatoes - they have enough sweetness to feel snacky and if you just have them in a bowl next to your computer, they’ll become a habit to munch on. Doesn’t need to be a lot. But you’ll be introducing a good dose of fibre and vitamins into your diet without much effort.
Red capsicum (are you from AUS?) are red bell peppers in the US, just for confirmation. (=
