So “unqualified labour” might make more sense? Makes you sound like a bit of a wanker saying it, but maybe that’s a good thing.

That, and dealing with dipsticks who think your job is easy

I’ve done one or two nights of hospitality work. It wasn’t fun, and I had fairly easy roles. I appreciate it when others do it for me.

Yeah, but it’s not gonna grow unless people use it…

Also, Lemmy’s Scaled sorting algorithm (which everyone should be using, though I’m not sure it’s the default), will up-weight posts from low subscriber count communities.

Ask on !bulgaria@lemmy.world ?

edit: Or !bulgariaeu@lemmy.world ?

This article is worth a read, despite the mildly obnoxious title: https://scribe.rip/https:/towardsdatascience.com/data-science-is-not-science-bb95d783697a

This. I’ve done a bit of all of it (science trained), and worked with others too. People with good science and stats backgrounds seem to have a better grasp of the pitfalls of data analysis. People with only software or data science background sometimes struggle with stats concepts.

Basically, it’s easy to pick up enough coding and data viz skills by yourself if you understand the stats. But it’s NOT easy to pick up statistics by yourself if you only understand coding and data viz.

Yeah, I know, I meant to you.

What makes art good?

It’s pleasant to see such a long post so full of good takes. Nice work!

It’s absolutely fascinating. I was really enjoying watching it evolve. That’s tapered off a lot now.

But I also find it really off-putting when people use it for meaningless illustrations that just reek of laziness. Especially so when the images are supposed to represent something meaningful, but are full of errors and nonsense. This is particularly the case when the illustrations accompany academic texts. Fucking gross.

Probably if we lived in a society that didn’t inventivise doing meaningless, environmentally destructive shit for profit, then I might be more into it now.

No disagreeing, but do you have a “why” for that last sentence?

I think it’s important to get a diversity of social interactions. That way you learn how broad the world is, and people can disabuse you of your wack ideas. It doesn’t really matter how you find that diversity though, so if your dad has lots of friends, that sounds like a good avenue (albeit not super diverse).

You could also look around for clubs or groups of people that do the hobbies you’re into, and go check them out (perhaps with your dad).

Depends on where you work I guess

You might wanna edit and mark this post as SFW

Ah, you’re right, I got my left and right mixed up in that example 😅

Anyway, I use both.

Yes. E.g. when typing a capital P Q. But less often for more complex chords, I use left hand modifiers more often when using multiple modifiers.

I do. I was offering an explanation for why someone else might be feeling depressed.

Personally I think the aim should be to focus on neither negative nor positive news, but to try to get the clearest, broadest understanding of the true state of things, which means trying to focus on news that has systemic relevance (I think your examples do).

Unfortunately I do think it’s pretty reasonable to be … maybe not pessimistic, but at least fairly worried about the state of the world. Some things are definitely changing for the better, but some things are really fucked, and looking like they could get a lot worse, really quickly (looking at you in particular, US politics). My personal reason for optimism is that a) it could mean the end of US capitalist hegemony, and b) it could open the way for a massive progressive backlash. But who knows? We’ll fund out soon, I guess.

I don’t think it’s a therapist’s job to fix your problems. It’s a therapist’s job to help you figure out how to fix your own problems. If you don’t what that, they will absolutely be useless.

That’s possible. Or you could be paying a lot of attention to world news.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_law