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  • Freezing soup in glass mason jars?

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  • I had a jar crack, because I don't know what I'm doing. I infer it's best to cool the soup completely first in the fridge, then allow it to freeze.

    And now all the people who can't resist correcting me will chime in. Go for it!

  • How to finally silence your inner critic, according to psychologists

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  • Silencing your inner critic is not a thing you can finally do once and for all. If it were, there wouldn't be entire families of therapy approaches aimed at doing this.

    Some things sometimes help some people. Ethan Kross has summarized modern findings in Chatter.

    I like ideas from Internal Family Systems therapy (the voice in your head is trying to protect you, so show it gratitude while you remind yourself you're safe) and basic mindfulness (the thought is merely a pattern of the mind and you don't need to give attention to it, let alone believe it).

    But, you know, that's just, like, my opinion, man.

    Peace.

  • atlas shrugged as jesus wept

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  • What damage? Where? Citation needed.

  • I'm about to get fired. How do I make sure my next job is a better place to work?

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  • It has its moments, but it also led to significant terror every year, wondering whether this would be the last year people would hire me.

    I started accidentally. I stockpiled cash from my IBM job, then I wrote some things about a topic that was becoming popular. Then people noticed me. Since I didn't have to settle for another crappy job, I could take a chance on doing a few gigs that paid good money.

    Two years later, somebody identified me as The Person to write The Next Book on that topic. And then a few influential people amplified me.

    And then a few more.

    That was the luck I needed.

  • I'm about to get fired. How do I make sure my next job is a better place to work?

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  • My first Adult Job (not a teenager job) lasted 4 years and ended in 2001. After that I became a freelancer. Since then, the longest gig I've had is 11 weeks or 1-2 weeks every 4-6 weeks for about 4 years. Otherwise, I have worked with clients 2 hours to 5 days at a time.

    I got away with that for 25 years and now I'm struggling to figure out what happens next.

  • I'm about to get fired. How do I make sure my next job is a better place to work?

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  • Make sure? Impossible.

    All jobs are an experiment and a guess. Interviewers are often on their best behavior, just like candidates are. There is no way to know. Hope for the best and be ready to leave, to the best of your ability.

    I'm really very sorry that the situation isn't better for you. I believe I'm facing similar issues.

    Good luck. Peace.

  • 𝚒𝚏...

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  • Given the stereotypical difficulty of "product folks" and programmers agreeing on and building shared understanding of what to build, this joke seems clear and straightforward. It works because of course, the customer and the programmer failed to agree on something simple.

  • Inte bara fingrar som AI har svårt att hålla räkning på?

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  • Kanske är det bara att AI vill para ihop fingrar och rövhål? Romantiskt, eller?

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  • Nope.

  • (cant find the aita community) am i a bad person for saying "women" instead of "people who can get pregnant"?

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  • I really love this reply and especially how it promotes genuine decency rather than coerced decency. I know I'm not exactly adding to the discussion, but I really wanted to recognize how warm this reply felt to me with something more than a mere upvote.

  • Need advice picking my next grinder

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  • I read "grinder" as "gender" before I realized where I was.

    I really liked my Rancilio Rocky. I love my Niche Zero.

    Go to the top of your budget, then try again in five years. Enjoy the ride.

  • Do any of you actually call your cats by their names?

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  • When we had several, I tended to use the name only to distinguish them; otherwise, they were all simply "cat".

  • None of it is real until they experience it

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  • Cool.

  • None of it is real until they experience it

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  • People are responsible for their choices and people are not to blame for the influences they had no power to refuse. We could help them overcome those influences, but it's tiring when their influences seem more prolific and powerful than our patience.

  • None of it is real until they experience it

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  • Two strategies that decrease the amount of empathy in the world:

    • Teaching directly that empathy is a weakness.
    • Blaming people for learning that empathy is a weakness.

  • Sneaky one. White mates in 2 !

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  • Is there any chance that this position is unreachable without White losing the right to castle? 😉

  • How I imagine mathematicians...

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  • Surely you mean 5318008.

  • How I imagine mathematicians...

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  • Za.

  • Ideas for an Eleventh Commandment?

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  • Thou shalt stop trying to make sense of the writings from which come these commandments, since thou knowst they are internally inconsistent and that's really not the point.

    That's more in keeping with the Old Testament.

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    The Hole in the Blinds Gang

  • System76 @lemmy.ml
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    Firmware update notification, but no update applied

  • unket @sh.itjust.works
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    Den här låter ju bekant...

  • Pop!_OS (Linux) @lemmy.world
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    Why did I need to restart to upgrade my recovery partition?