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[–] naught101@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

Lucky you can't, I guess?

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

Are you a palaeoclimatologist who is struggling to convince someone of something?

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

For sure. Quitting is not an option for many.. Job security is hard to come by in a lot of places. I don't think you need to state reasons for it not doing it, it's enough to know you've considered it and it doesn't seem viable to you.

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

There's a journaling format that I really rate call "jackal journalling", invented by Kate Raffin, and based on NVC. It's basically what you say - brain dump of abusive/judgemental thoughts, but with an added layer of going back and analysing the feelings associated with each thought, and trying to identify the unmet needs they express. It can be really helpful for turning a head full of anger/despair/whatever bad thoughts into a useful assessment, and it can help give direction as to what to do next too.

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[–] naught101@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

That sounds fucked, dude. Best of luck with your complaint.

TBH now that you say this, it sounds like might be in a similar situation to me at my last job, which I persevered with for 3 years of riding burn-out (because the work was almost ideal for me, and the people were mostly amazing), and then quit.

There's already lots of other good suggestions here, but one point that might be worth noting: I think there are two different purposes types of therapy: psychological help (e.g. understanding your own brain, and figuring out ways to change it), and counselling (listening to your problems, and probably offering some professional guidance).

It sounds to me that given the circumstances you describe above, counselling is probably more immediately valuable - what you really need to do is to get some clear external perspective on your situation, from someone with whom you can share details privately. A good counsellor should be able to help you find multiple paths out of your predicament (you might also benefit from seeing multiple different counsellors, since they will all provide different perspectives). In my experience this really helps to ground your understanding, and helps answer the "Is it me, or them, or something else that's the problem?" question.

IF that process provides more indication that your angry outburst are because of what's going on in your head, and not just a fairly justified response to a shit situation, THEN maybe it's a good indication that you should look in to psychology or anger management approaches, or similar. If your angry outburst have existed prior to this work situation, then perhaps you could skip the counselling step, but it still might be worth it.

At my last job I was having angry reactive outbursts (which I had had in the past, but to a much lesser degree, and they were now spilling over onto family and friends), and getting anxiety (which had never happened before). I saw a few psychs and counsellors, and the last one I saw while at work said something like "If you anxiety is about a real work problem, and not an imagined/exaggerated/catastrophised problem, then it's not anxiety, it's stress". That really tripped a switch in my mind, and made the decision to quit super clear. Immediately after handing in my resignation my anxiety levels dropped off a cliff, and my anger slowly dropped back to tolerable levels over the following months.

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

White house paint still had lead in it in Australia, just at much lower levels than before the ban

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (4 children)

How much of the situation is within your control?

Perhaps you can't change the supervisor. You can still leave.

Or perhaps you can change the supervisor (e.g. talk to someone else in the org and get help).

Or perhaps the way you're reacting is part of the problem, and that is amplifying the problem, and perhaps you can change something about how you're acting, to reduce the problem.

There are always multiple ways to change a situation, but you have to actively seek them out yourself. People on the internet might give you useful ideas (there are lots in this thread), but they don't have the full context, so they can't give you off-the-shelf answers.

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Oh, absolutely. I just worry that American authorities won't see it that way.

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

The board game is amazing. Really cool asymmetric mechanics, which really strongly tie into the theme.

I'd be pretty interested to see how this compares with Defenders Of The Wild Almanac - there's a bit of theme overlap.

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Your ethical choice to not just steal it is the only thing stopping you.

 

Some games are complicated - they have really complex rules. Examples of this are games where you have to track many different types of tokens, with different rules for each.

Other games have really simple rules, but still manage to produce extreme complexity in they way they are played.

Go is the perfect example of this. It literally has 2-3 rules, but because you can play anywhere, the complexity it can produce is wide and deep, to the point that tomes have been written on how to play it.

What other boardgames exist that have very simple rules, but produce complex and interesting game play?

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by naught101@lemmy.world to c/musicproduction@lemmy.ml
 

I've been getting in to sampling more over the last couple of years, as I've moved to focus more on hip-hop. Really keen on grungy boom-bap beats, and I'm enjoying the workflow of having samples limit my knob tweaking.

I do find actually finding samples a struggle sometimes, and also knowing how and where to use them. Trial and error works, eventually, but sometimes the error part drags on and gets a bit off-putting. So I'm wondering about approaches or ways of thinking about it that might improve my hit rate.

Any thoughts/tips/questions/rants?

Edit: to be clear, I'm not only interest in hip-hop, or hip-hop suitable sampling approaches. I'm interested in sampling methods for any scenario.

 

I know there are some good memorisation techniques for remembering small sets of thing, like the memory palace method. But I don't think that's suitable for remembering lots of words.

I have a few use-cases:

  1. Remembering lots of celebrity names, for trivia
  2. Remembering lyrics for songs while singing
  3. General vocabulary building, for rhyme writing.

Are there any techniques that might work for any of these? In general, I'm less worried about remembering a small number of things well, and more interested in learning a lot of things, so I have more to reach for in the moment.

 

Would anyone else be interested in a "making hip-hop" community?

Considering how small Lemmy still is, I reckon it would be best to include multiple aspects - music production, rapping, freestyling, turntablism/scratching, beatboxing. Could always split some of those out into separate communities later if needed.

I would see it as a complement to the !hiphopheads@sopuli.xyz community, but more focused on how to make, rather than sharing cool stuff others have made.

 

If you're not middle aged, pick a younger age, IDK

 

I often come across ideas for new communities (sometimes I even have them myself), but I'm not always sure whether they would get traction.

How about a "suggest a community" community, where people can post suggestions, and get feedback on the idea, maybe tweak it a bit to be more useful, and also look for co-moderators?

It could act in parallel to !newcommunities@lemmy.world

Anyone have any ideas for how this could work better? Anyone want to co-moderate one?

 

A few observations about this community:

  • Most posts are economics-related news posts
  • not many (recent) posts about actual economics (though I haven't read many of the news posts, I'm guessing most don't go into much depth on the economic implications)
  • No description in the sidebar
  • No mods

I'd be pretty keen on a more theoretical economics community. Would it make sense to have a separate economic_theory community? Or would it be better to make a separate economic_news community?

Does anyone want to mod this community? Perhaps @MicroWave@lemmy.world or @cm0002@lemmy.world , since you two post a lot?

 

I'm generally a fan of pretty shit beer (XXXX is my day-to-day). But even I have my limits.

Back in the day, it was clearly Tooheys Red Bitter, but I think these even Red is getting a run for it's money, e.g. from Byron Bay Premium Lager, which is something like James Boags but with all the soul sucked out through the nostrils. Obviously Foster's fucking sucks too, but I don't think you can even buy their lager in Australia, the only place I ever drank it was on a Singapore airlines flight out of the country, and once in Paris. Though I just realised that "light ice" was theirs too, and my Grandparents somehow always had one bottle of that in their fridge in the 90s, and it was shit too.

Anyway, there's about a million types of beer produced in australia these days, and heaps of them suck, but I want to know if Red has been knocked off it's podium for the worst beer ever.

Red drinkers: fite me.

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