Thank you ^^

Safety factors into all that, yeah? I think that’s valuable. Even if a coal mine isn’t great, at least they ARE running inspections…

Your current job sounds pretty important to me though! Accessibility is important.

Yep and yep and I’ve been incredibly lucky. I help run a spirituality (Buddhism-ish) related website. I don’t have much formal training, I’ve just been a shut-in nerd for decades and picked up skills that turned out to be useful for the teacher (they tried to make a website that was total shite and I told them as much. Long story short, they hired me).

I’m actually on permanent neetbux due to mental health issues ('twas partly the treatment resistant depression that led me to look into spirituality) but I’m allowed to earn a certain amount without losing my benefits. I get paid that exact amount and I largely choose when I work and how much. From my perspective, I’m now getting paid to do the stuff I used to do as idle fancy. Which is awesome. I’m also mentally in a much better place thanks to my own practice and the community. I definitely couldn’t handle neurotypical life but at least I can do a bit of work, kinda take care of myself and not let my home devolve into a total legbeard nest. Glad to be able to help provide service to others that was helpful to me. Plus despite not having very good people skills, I’m appreciated by my boss and the community and I’m welcome to be as I am, I don’t have to mask or sell “good vibes only”.

Joo.

Kyllä.

Pliis.

Mielestäni eri näkemysten opettaminen olisi helvetin tärkeää. Vanhemmat saa sitten ihan itse kotona opettaa omaa uskontoaan, jos niin haluaa, mutta julkisen koulun pitäisi opettaa tasa-arvoisesti vähän kaikkia eri näkemyksiä. Ja ennen kaikkea antaa työkaluja niiden henkisten opetusten ymmärtämiseen. Samalla voisi myös opettaa Suomen muinaisuskonnosta ja Kalevalasta (niin pitkälti kuin nyt mahdollista). Siinä voi kaikki sitten vanhetessaan ajan kanssa miettiä ihan itse, löytyykö sieltä jotain merkityksellistä.

Ihan liian moni aikuinenkin nykyään kuvittelee, että jos joku puhuu vaikka “henkisyydestä”, on väkisinkin kyseessä suurin piirtein Kristillisyys ja usko asioihin, joita ei voi todistaa. Mikä aiheuttaa lähinnä myötähäpeää, jos on vähääkään perehtynyt uskontoihin ja ymmärtää niiden hyvinkin suuria eroja. Itse olen vähäniiku (Zen) Buddhisti, ja omaan harjoitukseen nimenomaan kuuluu kaiken kyseenalaistaminen. Mutta jotenkin aika moni on valmis ilmoittamaan mulle, että uskon yliluonnollisiin asioihin jne. koska koulussa ei ole muuta opittu.

I just finally got around to watching Jojo in my starvation for a long running anime. Just about to get to episode 9 after which I hear it starts to really pick up. So far I’ve been mainly a bit confused but I did keep watching Gintama despite it taking like 50 episodes for it to click lol

My understanding is that Haki system hadn’t been developed yet when Shanks did that thing. But that’s what I meant with Oda being good at modular story telling. He consistently gave himself places to expand upon without having to do blatant retconning.

And yes. The pro-social aspects, the inclusivity, resistance to tyranny etc. but I also just adore Luffy as almost like a spiritual guide. He’s totally surrendered to pursuing his goal and is almost always in full acceptance of whatever that may lead to. And he does so with a joyful heart. And he is forgiving. There’s some Buddhist undertones there that I appreciate. I’m also just glad to see a popular show in this point in time that has a lead character like that and handles it well.

Yeah it’s stunning. I’ve watched the early parts a few times and just started watching again from the start with a friend who fell in love with the live action version.

It opens up even more when you have more context, even if Oda “retconned” stuff, he has always been pretty good with it. He’s like the master of modular storytelling. And you have so much absolutely amazing things ahead of you!! Stoked for you!!

Actually I am right at this very moment waiting for my friend to finish dinner so we can watch the first ep of OPLA s2 :D

Yeah, One Piece easily. I feel straight up privileged to have started watching it some 20 years ago and still enjoying it to this day.

Looks great! I never tried making ramen from scratch but I love to pimp up the instant noodles I like with various things.

The marinated eggs are pretty easy to make but yeah, need forethought, which tends to become an issue for me. Really like them though. Rum works well with them.

Top 5 is hard but I’ll give my favorite:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hands_Resist_Him

I heard of it the first time in relation to it being a haunted painting. Not that I believed it but the next night, I had a nightmare about it, which is extremely rare for me. It’s so incredibly eerie. I’ve been going back and forth on if I wanted a print of it but I get legitimate fear at the thought. I feel like I’d be inviting something in my home that I shouldn’t. I mean yes, probably just psychology but I’ve experienced some weird things in my life so… I’ll go with my gut and admire it from afar only.

Besides that, I love Caravaggio.

These balls were so satisfying to handle.

Does she really want to make profit or do her own thing? Can she afford it?

Crafts are very hard to make profit from. Many people just think of it as making their hobby slightly cheaper.

Thanks!

Dude, “boring” is what I want from an OS. No surprises. No sudden changes. I’m 40.

As someone considering Win to Mint, why do people keep saying it’s basic? What would I be missing? I need the computer for playing games, some hobby media work, internet.

You do you. But it may have an impact on people looking at your profile. As people in this thread write. But on the other hand you might also attract the attention of someone who is more on the same wavelength as you. It’s up to you to weigh the pros and cons. Do you want to fit in with the inexpressive, professional corporate tone, or do you want to add a bit of color? You can’t please everyone anyway, but it might serve your interests to conform to the expectations of people you DO want to please.

(I’d do it, even though I normally don’t use that many emojis. But I know it annoys some people way more than makes sense by any degree so that’s a good reason UwU)

Not what I said. I moved my attention to your post instantly. Then I sustained attention to reply.

Does it? I put all my attention on your post and could do so instantly. Sustaining attention of course takes as long a time as it does.

I appreciate that you seem to think that my brain is any better than that an low-effort and low quality idiot but it’s not.

The neurotransmitter person gave a quite confident account about the nature of attention and nature of human psychology. They clearly felt it was relevant to the point I was making. Surely someone like this has an university level degree in the subject and isn’t just a random computer nerd who occasionally consumes some pop-science content online. It makes more sense to me to dip into their reservoir of knowledge instead of making a feeble attempt at reading some AI Summary on the topic.