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Gustephan @lemmy.world
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"take a few months off and take care of yourself"

I'm currently working on a PhD, and I had a meeting that felt like an intervention with my advisor where she encouraged me to take a few months away from the program to take care of myself. For context, I used to work for the airforce, and apparently I picked up some pretty severe mental health problems that have lead to not sleeping and panic attacks when I read papers about military hardware (not ideal when my current interest is hardware side cybersecurity).

What the fuck does "take care of yourself" mean? Like, I don't know what to do with my hands. I've spent my entire life with a fast paced schedule, either with school work or some other crisis I've needed to attend to. Now I'm like... trying to accept going to therapy and I'm doing yoga with some people in my research group a few times a week, but i don't know what to do with my time otherwise. I feel like smoking all of the weed in this state playing video games and rotting in bed isn't the answer, but that's where I'm at. I'd love any advice or to hear from anybody who's been in that position of being told to take a few months off for mental health

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Physics
  • I can't remember which text it is, but it opens talking about a bunch of physicists studying stat mech then suck starting shotguns. Then it goes "and now it's our turn to study statistical mechanics"

  • Like chicken but tastier: Plant-based nuggets outperform chicken nuggets in world's largest blind tasting
  • This is my entire take on most veg meat replacements. I won't use substitutes in place of higher quality meat, but if I could I'd replace every single instance of low quality meat in my diet with some tofu/cauliflower/tempeh/whatever substitute.

    It's like, I get the nostalgia of shitty chicken nuggets, but 0% chance of biting into a piece of gristle? Sign me up

  • uwu
  • You can actually save up to 13 frames if you take the warcrime L early, but getting through the Hague takes 5 different pixel/frame perfect inputs so most runners avoid that strategy

  • MAGA panics before Donald Trump's first debate with Biden
  • Idk. I was in a highschool debate club a bit over a decade ago, and I was very good at the public forum event. Like, regularly in the top 32 for both the NFL and CFL national tournaments good. There were other people at the top of that ladder with me that made very effective use of the "pound the table" strategy, and how well it worked often boiled down to judge variance. People act that way in debates because it absolutely works on some viewers

  • What's the deal with anime?
  • Yeah that transition would throw me for a loop. Those two pictures look like two distinctly different people me. That seems like the kind of story I'd need to read rather than watch to get anything out of it, haha

  • What's the deal with anime?
  • In a lot of them the main characters are all different bright primary colors if you squint. I find it significantly easier to follow stories with something like that to differentiate and identify the characters

  • Big, tough guy.
  • What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Corgi Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Cat-a, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in german shepherd warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US canine forces. You are nothing to me but just another treat. I will wipe you the fuck out with pawcision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of staffies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, cat-boy. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can have zoomies anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare paws. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Kennel Club and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little bad-dog. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "catty" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have worn your fucking cone. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.

  • Someone appreciates you at least
  • I like hard shell tacos, though I will say it's often an exercise in creatively holding broken pieces of taco as I eat it. The secret is to spread a tortilla with refried beans (or any other food that can serve as glue; guac, sour cream, melted cheese, etc) then wrap that around the hardshell taco for a best of both worlds experience. It's also very much a white people taco night thing; I'd never want a hard shell for a good Mexican or texmex style taco, but if you're talking about ground beef in a Mccormick spice blend with peripherals from the "mexican" aisle of an American supermarket, hard shells are dope.

  • Man who calls women "females" hopes to one day be allowed within 500 meters of one
  • I can certainly see it being a struggle for non native English speakers or English speakers from other cultures. Referring to women as females is one of those things thats accurate according to the language, but a lot of bigots have figured out that they can use common words as slurs and people are slower to catch on. Female is unfortunately one of those words; it evokes big "I see you as livestock" energy

  • Joe Biden: Pushing America Deeper into the Russian/Ukrainian War
  • Again, I'm not here to defend words I didn't say. Go ahead and try again though, surely the third time you put words in my mouth it'll work and I'll be baited into changing the subject.

    I do think it's impossible for a mature, thinking person to suggest that the appeasement suggested by Nader in this article will lead to less war. We definitively disproved that concept in the 1940s

  • Joe Biden: Pushing America Deeper into the Russian/Ukrainian War
  • Yeah? I said all those things? That's certainly news to me. Here I was thinking I only said the words that were in posts written by me. It almost seems like you're trying to put words in my mouth to draw attention away from the validity of the points I have actually made.

    In response to "everything i don't like is Kremlin talking points" you can honestly go fuck yourself. If I had any doubts before that you were engaging in bad faith, they are gone now. Fearmongering about Russian nuclear capability and trying to get the US to exit the Ukraine war are explicit Kremlin talking points.

  • Joe Biden: Pushing America Deeper into the Russian/Ukrainian War
  • Yes he is. What you posted is a hit piece on other American politicians, and to substantiate that he references Kremlin propaganda about the war in Ukraine and hints that we should have appeased the nation in fear of its "nuclear arsenal and Putin’s dictatorial rule". For sake of discussion I'll assume that he probably isn't an active Russian agent, but he is certainly advancing their propaganda for the cheap political points it might earn him in attacking his political rivals. That makes him a useful idiot at best