Berttheduck

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[–] Berttheduck@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Most universities in the UK have a careers officer where you can talk to people with lots of experience helping students with these types of questions. If your institute has the same then my advice would be to talk to them about your options, what you could use your degree for or how to look at other non related options.

[–] Berttheduck@lemmy.ml 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I get mine done about every 1-2 months. Usually when it starts poking me in the ears and getting annoying.

My mate at work who's very fashion conscious gets his done every 3 weeks or so.

[–] Berttheduck@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago

You know you can block users right? If you don't like someone's content just block them and move on rather than complain on their post.

Or make another post to ask the community and involve the mods.

[–] Berttheduck@lemmy.ml 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sign up for a first aid for children course. The best way to manage these feelings and fears is to be prepared to manage them directly. If you learn some first aid then you'll be able to manage a lot of problems yourself and know when you can't and need help.

[–] Berttheduck@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I wouldn't want them with people driving then, I'd definitely want some sort of automation to be in charge especially if there were similar amounts to road traffic.

[–] Berttheduck@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Helicopters aren't exactly convenient personal transport. We could definitely make smaller maybe autopiloted transports.

Regarding post scarcity, that was the point, we could do it now with enough motivation.

[–] Berttheduck@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)

Flying cars.

Asteroid mining.

Maybe a Moon or Mars colony.

End poverty.

Universal basic income/ post scarcity society.

Least to most fictional I think.

[–] Berttheduck@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 months ago

So I'm in my 30s and from the UK so maybe not the most relevant person to get this sort of advice from.

It sounds like you're not in love anymore and have very little in common. If you have no strong reasons to stay together (financial, children, housing etc) then you could have an amicable divorce and maybe gain some more freedom to explore and enjoy yourself.

[–] Berttheduck@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

No but that's what anxiety makes you think.

[–] Berttheduck@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

That one is social anxiety and is because in the past if you got excluded from your group of humans you'd starve or freeze to death. We aren't evolved to deal with the hundreds and hundreds of people that the modern world requires. More used to like extended family groups and small communities.

[–] Berttheduck@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago

It depends what your anxiety is driven by. Social anxiety is mostly the fear of being driven out of the group, which would evolutionarily lead to death. You'd be better with social interaction games or multiplayer ones to connect with more people in a safe environment.

Generalised anxiety where you're hyper aware of every risk and on edge all the time expecting something bad to happen, horror games might work with desensitisation though often in horror the bad things do happen and you just happen to survive by running away or fighting back which is probably not the most helpful thing for anxiety.

Specific fears around ghosts - play FEAR and shoot ghosts. Specific fears around zombies play resident evil, probably the remake of 4, and shoot zombies. Existential dread about what makes you human and the existence of consciousness and souls, play SOMA (has a mode where the enemies don't insta death you now so you can experience the story and the incredible locations), probably won't make it less scary but is a great game.

[–] Berttheduck@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Can I ask what you recommend? I just have the standard add block and sponsor block running which definitely helps but the user experience could definitely be better.

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