I felt this way when I was in high school. I wanted to take a year off, but was repeatedly told I’d never go back if I took time away.
I was depressed, miserable, and had no clear vision for what I wanted my future to be
PaddleMaster
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The stadium is so convenient to get to in its current location from MD. Public transportation makes it very easy. Plus DC is a great city, I go early and enjoy walking around and grabbing some food.
I would never travel to VA for these teams. The traffic isn’t worth it, and getting there via public transportation also sucks.
That being said, I am a transplant, these are not my teams, and I travel a far bit for the teams I like. I just enjoy going to sports games. I am sure there’s others that share the same opinions about going to VA - they would loose MD people who attend these games, but they might pick up more VA people.
Reddit is so hostile to women that I never felt comfortable posting anything. I was a lurker. It took me 3 years to make an account, just so I could sub to places and not forget they existed. But in all my years on Reddit, I never posted. I saw how women would get roasted and never felt like part of that community. I would report many comments that were hateful towards women just for the report to come back and say “sorry, nothing wrong here”.
I went back to look up something and it just seems like a cesspool of bots. The front page is nothing but stupid questions that I’ve seen asked more than I can count, memes, screenshots of texts and AITA with the most outrageous scenarios and answers. And guess what, I still see the same hostility towards women. It’s hard to feel welcome and participate with a culture like that.
Way back in the day, Reddit was a place people would argue something to death. If you disagreed with the hive mind, you were shunned. And don’t even think about making a spelling or grammar mistake, you’d get blasted for that too. And every so often, someone would post something compelling, and Reddit would collectively hold that opinion as truth.
I left facebook in 2016, and Reddit feels a lot like facebook was when I left. And now it’s time to move away from Reddit; at least for me.
I have a Beehaw account and another that federates with .world. I enjoy my Beehaw account much more, to the point I almost never use the other account. There’s just much more valuable content here.
I do miss some of the more niche Reddit subs i frequented before the purge. That’s probably the only thing really lacking. And it probably more a testament to how busy I’ve been this year. I just don’t have the time to explore other instance’s communities that Beehaw does federate with.
We’ve got a threat briefing on all the recent PLA activity. I’m going on vacation, so I’ll miss it which is a bummer.
The hospital my partner works for had a ransomware attack. They haven’t publicly disclosed, so I’m hoping that means they had actual back ups and nothing was compromised.
Personal anecdote: so many things were breached lately. I have an extreme uptick of calls from my “best friend” Scam Likely. I get more calls from Scam Likely than anyone else, hence the “best friend” designation.
I am not in marketing, and neither is my degree.
But this sticks out to me as something interesting, mostly because I am not religious. But I am interested in what religious texts actually say, and not what is said/repeated in religious ceremonies.
To market your community to the correct audience (I.e. not internet trolls) you’d need some statements if you don’t already have them. Like what is your intended purpose, what are your goals/vision. From there, you can tease out your audience. This will help you decide how to increase visibility of your community. You can advertise to your audience through ads, email lists, other social media. Your strategy, is really dependent on defining these things. Every cybersecurity tech startup has the same playbook: start company, establish a blog. Publish a ton of blogs/articles with appropriate keywords/hashtags all over LinkedIn, twitter, whatever, then get visibility and eventually customers.
Example; If you’re focused on being more academic, I’d imagine you’d target universities or colleges, start regional clubs, or put up fliers with a QR code for people to find you. My university is heavy on using Discord as a communication tool. Every community, club, and even individual classes has a discord channel. Many people dislike discord from a privacy perspective, but many people enjoy it too. There’s QR code fliers all over campus advertising clubs, tutoring, etc.
My research grant was funded. Now the hard part- executing with the goal of getting year 2 funding.
Also going crazy because everyone wants their risk reports before the holiday. As if they’ll even get read before vacations start.
It’s a dark time when the law tells a Doctor they could perform a life saving procedure, but afterwards will need to defend their action in court.
Darn those Obamacare death panels (/s if that wasn’t clear…)
It’s a terrifying timeline to be a woman. Or anyone else who isn’t a white, straight, Christian man.
You can try Dosa!
That’s hilarious. I thought I for sure the article would be The Onion.
I always grinded gathering stamina ingredients so I could eat stamina food before running out.
Don’t be afraid, dying isn’t a big deal with how often the game auto saves
My situation was quite a while ago, so I have lots of empathy for new grads. With everything going on in the world, and how expensive everything is, we should be encouraging young people to explore their options. Instead we squeeze them into a one size fits nobody box.