• m532@lemmygrad.ml
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    16 days ago

    I just woke up after a dream that was, like, a music video of talking worker animals showing their collective power to the boss in a restaurant. I think they were 2d animated, gangster style, wolf-like, with long hair.

  • Jeanne-Paul Marat@lemmygrad.ml
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    15 days ago

    I really wish work was more…robotic? Not like severance or whatever. What i mean is that i wish it was easy to “just” be tired. But being exhausted usually is not just a physical thing, but an emotional one. I can deal with being tired or having to work a lot, but if I overwork myself I just end up crying and being depressed.

    I’m looking at my uni grad plan rn and I could theoretically graduate on a 4 1/2 year plan (currently on year 2) with both a Chinese language credit and a physics minor, but I’d be taking 16-18 credit semesters and summer courses. I should be able to do that. I know it’s physically possible (and i dont even mind summer courses because i think summer break is dumb), but I dont think Itll be emotionally possible. It would help so much, I could get a masters in nuclear or materials engineering, i could go to China, I could get a good job and I know china is looking for highly educated professionals right now. I’d be great. But…I wanna live. And at a certain point there’s some unconscious thing in me that acts like a barrier that stops me from working. I’ve had it ever since Jr. High. I don’t know how others do it.

    It also goes back to the thing about sleep I talked about a while ago. If I didn’t need to sleep I’d be able to do it, presumably. But unfortunately I do…

    • Che's Motorcycle@lemmygrad.ml
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      15 days ago

      Why can’t you take an extra semester or two even? Any institutional or financial barriers to that? If not, don’t push past your limits. Nothing but burnout comes from that.

      • Jeanne-Paul Marat@lemmygrad.ml
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        15 days ago

        Idk…something about taking more time (even the extra semester I’m taking already) makes me feel like a failure. [Edit: to my family. We come from a poorer background and I’ll be the first person to graduate college since my grandma (who herself is an exception). Ergo I feel spoiled or entitled asking for another year]

        I’ll think about it. Obviously I don’t have to decide everything now, and I can try taking one semester of 16 credits and see how I feel.

        I think it’s more like I just know it’s physically possible. Like, i know there’s people who have gotten their degree in even less than 4 years. If they can do that why can’t I do this?

        • Che's Motorcycle@lemmygrad.ml
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          15 days ago

          People who finish quickly are most likely from privileged backgrounds and don’t have to work. The only plus side of my working during college was that I had a long bus trip when I could read. But I still pushed myself, failed a semester, and ended up graduating in 5 years anyway.

          We all need to take time for ourselves to rest, recharge, and have fun. Hustle culture is toxic.

  • Space-Love [Any]@lemmygrad.ml
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    16 days ago

    In the hardships of life under capitalism, I’m glad I can have our little community here.

    Sleep’s been scarce but hopefully this weekend will help. Stay strong comrades

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
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    16 days ago

    Politics is a funny thing. The Belgian coalition parties in the government are launching ‘save public transport’ campaigns. At least the socdems and the Christian dems are doing it.

    The same parties who are in the government. Approving budget cuts. On public transport. And their voter base are so positive in the comments. My dudes, you VOTED for the budget cuts get a grip.

  • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Chinese people do not want their own government to intervene in Iran for the same reason Americans do not want their government to bomb Iran. The only difference is that chinese people actually have a backbone and a rich history of rebellion against their own governments meanwhile Americans are defeated before they even fight.

  • yunah-knowles@lemmygrad.ml
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    18 days ago

    having a shitty academic time. then i go online and read about random western ‘academics’ like a james gregor. kill everyone

    • yunah-knowles@lemmygrad.ml
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      18 days ago

      me when i am analyzing usa relationship with marcos admin and i find most comical heritage foundation article written by a james gregor. idk kill everyone

    • La Dame d'Azur@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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      16 days ago

      Reading about how newspapers manufactured consent for the Spanish-American War was what convinced me, even as a lib, to be skeptical about the reliability of media.

  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmygrad.ml
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    19 days ago

    Have a great week, everyone! Keep up with whatever it is you’re trying to do, steady progress yields steady results!

    As always, communism will win.

  • Jeanne-Paul Marat@lemmygrad.ml
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    19 days ago

    Honestly seeing people talking about the incident at the BAFTAs involving tourettes [albeit, the response from the organization was shit] reminds me why I don’t talk about my psychiatric problems. The “it’s am explanation not an excuse” crowd don’t ever actually care about disabilities and just want to judge people

    Fuck it I’m making a post about this