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[–] yarn@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

I know about two forms of meditation: mindfulness meditation and transcendental meditation. They're both pretty much exactly the same, except in mindfulness meditation, you focus on your breath traveling through the tips of your nostrils, and in transcendental meditation, you focus on a sound/word/phrase in your head.

This guy explains transcendental meditation really well. If you want to try mindfulness meditation, then just change his instructions to focus on your breath instead of a sound, and keep the rest of the instructions exactly as they are: https://youtu.be/nBCsFuoFRp8

One thing to note is that there's transcendental meditation, and then there's Transcendental Meditation™. They're the same exact thing, except with with transcendental meditation, you pick whatever sound you want, but with Transcendental Meditation™, you pay $1600 to have some dude sprinkle a bunch of essential oils or some shit on you and pick your sound for you. Plus, who knows what kind of recurring hidden fee nonsense you're signing up for, so I suggest avoiding Transcendental Meditation™.

[–] yarn@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

What is this referring to?

[–] yarn@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, it's a safe bet that it's just my current job. I was a lot happier at a previous job with a government contractor that was very low stress. I'm going to start applying for new dev jobs.

I'll most likely stay in the dev field because it's the path of least resistance for me, and because the job security most definitely shields me from a lot of new stressors I'm probably not even aware of. But I still wonder sometimes what it would be like to have a job outside like that one guy who said he became a wildlife ranger. Or to have a job where you solve physical problems with your hands, instead of abstract problems with your brain.

[–] yarn@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Cool, thanks for the update! Coincidentally, Liftoff put gestures with no option to turn them off in their latest release, so I've been a little unsatisfied about that. I'll try Thunder again.

The play store release is a huge deal too. Ngl that I probably wouldn't have used Thunder if I had to manually update it from github for each new release.

[–] yarn@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

It's not as black and white as that. There's obviously a point where the West would have to push back against Russia. Most likely this grain deal won't be enough for the West to make any significant new moves apart from what they're already doing, but Russia is playing a stupid game by using mass hunger in poorer countries as a pawn in this war.

[–] yarn@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 year ago

Good, so this scenario was already planned for

[–] yarn@sopuli.xyz 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (20 children)

This is some bullshit. The first time Russia blockaded Ukrainian grain in the Black Sea, they had the plausible deniability that they weren't aware it was going to cause mass food shortages in poorer countries. Now they know full well that's what will happen, and they're doing it again.

The West would be justified in clearing a path in the Black Seas themselves, in my opinion. Russia's being little terrorist bitches.

[–] yarn@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the info. Yeah, two year Associate Degree might not be too bad, if I really wanted to make the transition.

[–] yarn@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

That is a whole lot of new insubordination. Hopefully this all starts materializing to broken Russian defensive lines.

One paragraph called out a Russian division which has apparently already threatened to abandon their positions if their favorite insubordinate commander is arrested:

Insubordination among commanders appears to be spreading to some of their soldiers. Russian milbloggers shared an audio excerpt on July 16 in which the alleged elements of the 7th VDV Division threatened that they would withdraw from their positions in occupied Kherson Oblast if the Russian MoD arrests Teplinsky or threatens his life.[14] The elements of the 7th VDV Division also claimed that they would defend Teplinsky against the Russian MoD and asserted that the high command is targeting Russia’s most combat effective commanders. This audio appeal, if legitimate, is a threat of mass desertion in the face of the enemy on behalf of Teplinsky. Desertion in the face of the enemy is a capital offense in many militaries. The VDV servicemen are blackmailing the Russian MoD to ensure that Teplinsky continues to command troops in Ukraine, despite Teplinsky’s previous affiliation with Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin who had led an armed rebellion on June 24 to overthrow Shoigu and Gerasimov.[15]

[–] yarn@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's a good one, thanks for the suggestion. You mentioned another contributing factor to my hypothetical career change too. I sometimes wonder what it would be like to work at some place that has a more direct impact on my community. My current job is more indirect, I would say.

[–] yarn@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Definitely my current team is a huge contributor. My previous job was a government contracting job with basically no stress, but now I'm in banking, and the stress is off the charts. My team is also a bit mismanged, which doesn't help.

I think if I could find another team like my previous job with low stress, then I'd definitely be happy to continue being a web developer.

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