ivanafterall

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[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

I'm really torn. On the one hand, maybe I would be smiling!? I don't know what happened! Part of me thinks, "I'll have some of whatever they're having!"

But then I don't strongly feel, "THOSE are my people!" and I fear I'd be one of those faces nervously smiling(?) in the shadows at the back of the group. Also I have a strong sense of smell and I don't know if I want to roll those dice.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago

If I arrive at the park and see some guy in a robe doing this with my kid, I'm losing my shit.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 11 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (7 children)

This is the one I was thinking of, but there are several interesting ones. I guess I'm being an asshole, maybe they're all awesome. They certainly seem to be smiling and having fun, so I'm just really the dick here. But here's the picture. Fuck, it is just...a lot. I don't know. NSFW.

spoiler

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

I've been recently suddenly smitten. Been awhiiiile. And of course she's my coworker. On a team of three. At my new job of only three months. So yay person of interest, I guess, but of course there are now 3,000 potential new issues/stressors.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 12 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Bro we're nowhere close to bottoming out, so I hope you're ready. You'll feel it when we pass the point of no return.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 12 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (9 children)

Nope, but I have had the thought that small-scale regional meet-ups could be fun.

On the one hand, smaller old-school forums do/did that sometimes and it can be really cool, if thinking in the spirit of the old internet.

ON THE OTHER HAND, I remember the infamous pictures from the Reddit meetup and good God, maybe not?

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 8 points 18 hours ago

A couple fun ones I haven't seen mentioned:

Myron Cook - Think "the Bob Ross of Geology." Basically he goes out, finds some rock formation, goes "Huh. Isn't this cool? What do you think happened?" and walks you through everything dating back to like the formation of the planet. He's like a teddy bear and his channel is wonderful and fascinating.

Dan Hurd - He's a dorky gold prospector. He may have caused me to buy a gold panning set.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I hope it's Idris Elba. Dude was born to be the next Bond, maybe that's the real reason he couldn't.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hang in there. I know it's just stupid words on a screen, but I'm juuuust on the other side of a painful, painful fucking stretch. I thought it'd never end. I'm scared to even say it, but I think my new boss MIGHT actually care about her employees and view them as people? knock on wood

 

I love the atmosphere of this video. Hans Zimmer practically (and rightly) worshipping at the feet of arguably the greatest living guitar player. The flute player on the right literally jumping for joy.

Not sure how the person who posted the video decided it was "improv" (maybe they said), but it honestly still wouldn't even be my favorite improvised solo of his, if true. He's crazy.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It was made obvious right from the beginning when his first change to the Republican Party platform, before he had even accepted the nomination the first time, was to the language in support of Ukraine.

Why? How does it make any sense?

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well, shit, that part of the sales pitch usually snags 'em.

What about a button to turn OFF...no, that's not much help either...

Fine, you can have your damned exemption.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Not sure, mine's in my weiner I think?

 

It seems like I constantly see "X secure messaging option is actually bullshit because it was purchased by Dr. Evil and Y is actually just e-mailing your messages directly to Xi Jinping."

Is there an authoritatively "best" one I can just...download and setup easily? Is Signal good? Or do I need to solder a Raspberry Pi to the flux modulator of my home Linux NAS GUI, etc...?

 

Besides being a great song, this is a masterclass in live audio mixing. It's significantly better than the album version.

 

If I had a nickel...

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by ivanafterall@lemmy.world to c/music@lemmy.world
 
 
 

I've long toyed with a mid-life pivot into a different field. Mostly, I lean towards IT as the most practical for me, but I love the idea of finally studying a hard science, which I grew to love, but never really got a good formal education in.

I've heard/read, for example, that there aren't necessarily tons of astrophysics jobs out there, so if you only have a bachelor's degree, you might have a tough time. I don't even know that this is true, but I use it as an example.

What are the hard science fields that would be the opposite of this? I could imagine there might be a lot of Chemistry-related jobs, for example, maybe? But I have a hard time imagining what you could do with a pure Physics degree (without also focusing on Engineering or something supplementary)? Would Biology get you anywhere by itself?

Or is it just the hard truth of all hard sciences that you're pretty much worthless with just a four-year degree, from a job perspective?

 

If nothing else, skip to ~2:22 for some wizardry.

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