PascalPistachios

joined 1 year ago
[–] PascalPistachios@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I'm a very flitty sort of person, and can be pushed off balance decently easily. My job is pretty fast paced, so I can't just go for a walk or meditate for 10 minutes. So my rule is to not focus on everything coming up, but just focus on what's directly in front of me. Which, yeah, I know sounds dumb but it honestly does work.

Instead of thinking "Oh, that line of customers is long" -> "Oh god I'm not going to be able to serve the customers fast enough" -> "oh my god they're going to leave and I'm going to get in trouble for not being fast enough."

I don't even acknowledge the length of the line. Look directly ahead, and focus on what you're doing right now. Shit will always be coming in from every direction, but quick steps make for shorter journeys.

Outside of work, hobbies, crochet, gardening. Getting in touch with nature is a big one for me.

[–] PascalPistachios@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

In my experience, a community with even the most basic and rudimentary filter to join has consistently higher quality people in the community. Kinder, more active, and better posts. A bigger community does NOT mean a better one, often the inverse has been true ime but blah blah analogies aren't evidence.

I like that the mods are prioritizing healthy growth over just growth. It's easy to look at number go up and get excited, then to open the flood gates. And whenever a community does that, a bunch of people whom are not wholly interested in the point of the community swoop in and push out the invested crowd.

The only downside would be wanting to answer something more personal, but making a throwaway account isn't exactly easy with this system. That's, really, the only downside I can immediately point to.

[–] PascalPistachios@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I think there's a novelty factor in a lot of "innovations" that claim to be the secret to solving climate change. And while not inherently bad they sort of miss the picture in my opinion. Like, the future, in my opinion, should be made of trains and apartments. The dull things that we know work.

On a much more insidious level (not that I think anyone here has ill intent, nor the people working on these technologies) it almost implies that we don't have the technology to stop our impact on the climate. We have the technology, it's all political will.

[–] PascalPistachios@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

God, I. I don't know why, but just you bringing up the ability to have a post last for more than a few hours... It hit me for some reason.

I never really realized, but reddit always felt so fast, looking back. A constant, unending stream of novelty. And the only way to be heard was to get in before the rushing tide. It's nice here. I can reply to the people who talk. I'll post and people will engage, I can engage. It's obvious now but I can't believe I didn't notice for so long.

[–] PascalPistachios@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Adding onto this, you can't really overhaul your entire life unless you have a place to live.

I'm speaking from the other side, I spent some time homeless, and I agree with you. Some people do need more than just a place to live. They need mental health treatment, they need assistance with their drug dependency. They need professional help.

But, it's also impossible for someone to consistently get professional help unless they have a consistent place to rest their head.

Because again, I am agreeing with you, but the part I disagree in is the order of where mental illness comes in. Because I reckon for a lot of homeless folk, they start off fine, and then the trauma of the situation sends them completely mentally loose. I was lucky to have the internet and my friends to keep me stable enough, and even I have plenty of screws lost now.

It's a hard issue to solve, and I genuinely think it'll take decades of actual effort (not half measures) to see some actual gain. And homelessness is literally ingrained into an economy of winners and losers. Because it is a lot more than just stop making people homeless at this point.

[–] PascalPistachios@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I think reddit is going to die (if only due to the process of enshittification and the consequences of going public) but the idea of a mass exodus is a bit of a dream. Anyone who has had a conversation going on in one channel, and then have a mod tell them to move it to a more appropriate channel should know this. The conversation doesn't move, it just stops 9/10 times.

But we shouldn't be preoccupied with reddit as a community. Give what you can to Lemmy and enjoy it for what it is, not wishing it to be reddit.

[–] PascalPistachios@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ace Attorney games, I believe the newest trilogy that's set in the past?

[–] PascalPistachios@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Man, maybe I should dust off the old account and do the good ol "taking Tumblr screenshots and posting them on other websites" work myself.

[–] PascalPistachios@beehaw.org 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Same. Replacing doom scrolling on Reddit with posting on beehaw.

[–] PascalPistachios@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

Hell, even if people move back to reddit, I've made the choice to stay on Lemmy, and give a small community everything I've got.

[–] PascalPistachios@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

All I'm seeing is a place to upload video instructions to the tutorials I'm going to post here. Heh.

[–] PascalPistachios@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Oh trust me, I'll be spamming the instance with my pictures like a proud parent with a child. I was inspired by finding this website that documents the different dyes different eucalyptus trees can make. Gorgeous browns and greens galore. I absolutely want to post my adventures into spinning and yarn for each step.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by PascalPistachios@beehaw.org to c/diy@beehaw.org
 

A 2 ply with this lovely merino blend I got. All my coworkers are asking me to make stuff now that I have proper spinning wheel. Anyone else here into spinning yarn?

While I'm on the subject, would anyone else be interested in a write up? I don't want the information to stay on Reddit. And while I'm VERY much not an expert, I can at least start posting resources for folk.

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