c/Superbowl
For all your owl related needs!
I have one because I finally found a fun pic that was mostly round so it with fill up the avatar bubble enough to still be distinguishable what it was. Most are way too small to make out what it is, and not intriguing enough to click to the profile just to see it slightly larger.
If mine didn’t serve slightly as a promo for my community, I’d likely still have the default.
If you like animals, I’ve almost 2000 owl posts you can look through at !superbowl@lemmy.world.
A lot of it isn’t just random pictures, they’ve got stories to go with them and I’ll add facts or answer questions and there’s often more pics in the comments, so you can kill a lot of time there.
Doing it for so long got me to volunteer at a wild animal rescue this year so I’ve been learning more about all kinds of animals and I love to read and research so feel free to ask as many questions as you want. I try to respond to everything.
It is a nice feeling to see it means something to all of you!
I like your very targeted responses!
With money in the billions, I agree that I couldn’t not help fellow humans first.
Your proposals also have some fairly immediate benefits to a number of different groups of underserved people.
And then you even came back in the end to include some of the critters as well!
I like your style.
Work does suck the life out of me, but I’d hope I can still pass a Turing test! 😜
There’s always going to be people that value facts and knowledge and they will always find each other for their own sanity.
With a focus on animal stuff, there is a lot of AI that I come across to try to win cuteness karma. I do see some convincing looking things that make me do a double take, because animals can do some weird things after all, but some stuff is never going to be physically possible. Some color combos just don’t exist. It may take a more trained eye to spot things, but there’s still going to be people calling stuff out and there will be forums where things will get pulled down if they’re not real.
In that regard, I worry about some real things being lost, at least to view to some of the general public, where real things that can’t be verified get downvoted/taken down/etc. But those with real interest will still work to conclusively verify or disprove things of questionable value.
People just want truth to get out. Whether you’re interested in education or conspiracy, from whichever direction most of us approach things, we just want to know the truth to the best of our abilities. That does bring inherent troubles and creates avenues to poison the well, but as hard as the bad actors will work, the good actors will be working to clean it just as hard.
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Trust is almost becoming a thing of the past because of unprecedented digital threats.
I also encourage people to question me. I’m happy to be able to confirm things, because I want you to also learn what I have learned, because I found it cool enough to study and share with you already. Questioning what I present to you also leads me to learn about more things, exploring subject matter I wouldn’t have thought to pursue on my own, or to finally learn about something I’ve been meaning to get to. Someone questioning my knowledge is both an opportunity for me to teach and to learn. And if I was wrong, hopefully afterwards I will know what is correct, and that has strengthened me as a whole if I accept I was wrong and have learned from the experience and not acted immaturely about it.
We just collectively need to improve vetting sources. It’s something we can do individually, or collectively through moderation.
I mainly just share pics here, but I do try to give a decent chunk of educational content as well. I take what I share seriously, because I want it treated seriously at times. I’m honest I’m not an expert, just a hobbyist. I always include sources or share if it’s something from my personal limited experience. I try to verify things from at least 2 sources before sharing things if it’s a new source. I always try to be clear if I’m hypothesizing about something and I’m not certain of it.
It’s probably taking my content more seriously than necessary, but I take pride in what I post and I want to be seen as a trusted person in the community.
I think the last few years have made it clear to anyone capable of understanding that we can no longer just take people at their word without some process of establishing trust. Like anything else, we can wait for someone else to fix it, or we can up our own games, on both providing and receiving information.
I liked seeing my score in the beginning, as coming from being a long time lurker, it made it feel like I was contributing to building Lemmy.
Now my post and comment counts are higher than I ever would have thought, so I’m fine without it. As the score doesn’t count for anything, now I find it more satisfying to see my actual contribution.
I try to make my jobs work for me as much as possible. I find things that annoy me, and see what I can do to change them. Big things I’ve encountered in a few jobs now that we’re solvable: moving physical paper things to electronic records wherever allowed, automating routine tasks, working out better workflows, improving usability of documents and forms.
All those things have multiple benefits. Time savings, uniformity/less confusion, and I learned new job skills to get better paying but still annoying jobs. It also sneakily molds the jobs into something that while I still find it largely pointless, it fits into my personality better because I took ownership of things and made them work in a way more compatible with me instead of them being things that someone that doesn’t do my actual work said was good enough and called it a day.
It’s near impossible to eliminate many of the stupidest aspects of a job, but inefficiency and having to redo things is one of my biggest energy vampires, so these things make it more bearable to me. No amount of bitching or bullet points will make a boss change the job, but invent a better solution on your own, and odds are they’ll let you do it if you show it has merit. Or just do things in secret if you’ve tested them. I do that plenty too, and as long as work is being done timely and correctly, usually nobody notices.
Also, I focus on things I can actually accomplish. There is a lot of special equipment I need, and you would never believe how rich our company is by the way they maintain things. If something is down, I try to not let it upset me. I just report it to my boss and move on. I used to pressure myself to come up with a solution, but that’s Management’s ordeal once I report it. Just find ways to let go where you can. Keep doing an honest job, but don’t sweat what work doesn’t enable you to do. That is their responsibility to you.
Also have activities you look forward to after work. Work may always suck, but if you’ve got something positive you know is coming your way after work, it goes better than if you just work>home>sleep>work.
Same for me. It didn’t even click in the beginning, I just enjoyed that the show seemed to be ultra relatable, and as things went on it started to feel all ooooo this isn’t good I can identify with this many things.
It’s just way easier to identify problems in others than in yourself because you have all these internal justifications and false ways of remembering events to your own benefit, but seeing it laid out neatly in a show and where the consequences are much more immediate and spelled out, it made me start self-reflecting on my own life.
It got me to the point of understanding and admitting that the depression I had carried around most of my life wasn’t normal and that I was the main destructive force in my life at that point.
It was also nice the show covered a lot of different types of depression and anxiety. I feel most shows wouldn’t have handled Princess Caroline, Mister Peanutbutter, or even Todd the way that they did. And nobody was up or down the entire time, which was another thing letting me tell myself I didn’t have severe depression, because I had plenty of good moments too.
The show handled everyone pretty respectfully and gave them all realistic but positive outcomes, but didn’t smooth over anything that would be pretty irreparable in real life. Things like Hollyhock needing to keep her distance or Dianne still being glad they met but knowing that she can’t be around him felt very real and sincere, not placating by having everyone make up at the end.
I will say I just finished a rewatch, and parts of the last season did trigger me in a way I hadn’t had to deal with in years now. I’ve been feeling more depressed this year than I have in a long time, and while a lot of the show made me glad of how far I’ve come, there’s still plenty in my life I don’t want to own about my past and it still makes me feel sometimes that I don’t deserve to be happy and that I’m a bad person. It really put me in a dark spot for about a week.
Tuca and Bertie was another great one and carried on a good bit of what Bojack did, and I’m upset it got cancelled right as it was getting into the traumatic stuff. I would have liked to see that get the same chance to tell its story as it was telling a similar story but from a female perspective and having something similar for people dealing with the fallout of sexual assault could be helpful in the same way BJH helped people understand depression.