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subrosa wrote
I took some 2-hour test like that, 15 years ago. It said I should become a cemetary gardener. They were probably onto something.
tuesday wrote
that would be a cool job actually i think.
ukuleleclass wrote
everytime i visit the historic cemetery in my town i always think it would be nice to be the gardener there
mindforgedmanacles wrote
I actually did it as a co-op for my college this summer, at a green burial site. It wasn't all it was made out to be.
asterism wrote
i took one that said my weakness was that I overshare so for a month I was super paranoid I was oversharing.
Turns out I actually dont overshare and those tests are bunk.
Anyway theres the backstory to my forum's name.
tuesday wrote
this just listed the 5 strengths you have. three of mine were about thinking and two were community building. they listed the downside to the strengths though and mine were like "you're boring, depressing and all alone."
asterism wrote
lol, wrecked!
fwiw I dont think thats true. I mean I dont know if your alone but the others don't seem true.
tuesday wrote
it's mostly true. though to be fair to myself a lot of the worst "in my head"ness about me are tempered by the community building strengths. maybe i like to spend a lot of time in my own head and buried in books and research I'm equally curious about and interested in other people. i love seeing people do things they love and i enjoy using my big brain skills to help other people.
Chairman_Meh wrote
They wouldn't let you select your own answers? "These bullshit questions", "This bullshit propaganda class", and "This bullshit clown college alumni meeting posing as school administration" seems like it should be on the list.
State administered negging, happy times.
tuesday wrote
i opted to take the test. like it was for school, but not required. it was an optional thing.
NoPotatoes wrote
I wonder if these tests just confirm your own impression of your self. Whoops!
tuesday wrote
possibly?
but the point is less in your own bias and more about learning how to leverage the strengths you (think you) have. so even if you think that these things are true about you, it's still about improvement.
NoPotatoes wrote
I need weed. Or at least it seems like a good use of my lungs.
NoPotatoes wrote
Got weed. Need some veggies and exercise. Sleeeepppp.
NOISEBOB wrote
I'm depressed and gay
Chairman_Meh wrote
oh shit tomorrow is friday
kinshavo OP moderator wrote
This week was a blur for me
Chairman_Meh wrote
The whole year's been a damn blur for all of us, it feels like. I had to step way back from a lot of my mutual aid activities and activism and try to concentrate on making bills. Thankfully it was my mutual aid connections and network that have saved my ass a lot more than I would have expected this year, and the people have done more to reach out to help, support, and refer me to stuff more than any other group. It really helps cement the need for these types of groups and building some kind of community with like-minded folx, and I wish I'd learned about all kinds of things much earlier in life, and I wish I was more intelligent to know how to spread it more. It really showed me why there's such a concerted effort to attack anarchism, non-state communism, and all the other boogeyman -isms.
How bout you, what's been driving your days together?
fortmis wrote
what sort of mutual aid work are you doing??
Chairman_Meh wrote
Nothing fancy, it's just a way of saying "helping people out occasionally" that helps trigger one side and drag in the other side. Hospital/med/food bank runs, free store help/labor, occasional showing up to lend a body where bodies are needed.
The big thing I was trying that I had to pause for a while was zine/book distribution, stuff like organizing how-tos and the occasional spicier thing. I'll get back to that soon. If I find a spot in here I'll dump my free zine links but I think you all already have the ones I've found.
Chairman_Meh wrote
Coming back to say I got a second job.
.... yaaay....
Maybe I can stop needing to go to food banks in a month or two.
lettuceLeafer wrote
Ugh, for sleeping drug use is becoming problematic. Downers causing drowsiness is something that doesn't work well. I mean at this point in my life being sober isn't too bad. (I don't like getting used to it). Prob for the best, more dependencies on capitalism and imperialist products isn't a cool look.
Also, God damn, trying to stay up all night is hard. By like 1 a.m my brain just becomes downright illogical so I fall asleep for the most ridiculous reasons. Last night I thought "you know what would make me less tired, if I lay in bed and meditate with my eyes closed" very smart stuff.
Tho it's cut way down so it's no real biggie.
tuesday wrote
what is your like default sleep schedule like? like when you wake up and fall asleep without really having an alarm?
lettuceLeafer wrote
I used to never use alarms. Just sleep when tired then wake up when done. 8-11 PM 4-7AM
tuesday wrote
It makes sense to me that you'd be really sleepy at 1am then.
I think that the 8 hour sleep schedule of 10pm-6am that America seems to think is the correct time to sleep is bullshit and probably not how humans are meant to sleep. But I also think that people naturally have sleep schedules of their own. For me, I've always been a night person. When I can keep my own schedule I go to bed like between 2-5am, and get up 10-11am or so, getting around 7 to 8 hours of sleep. Working normie jobs is always suuuuuper hard for me and I end up chronically exhausted and end up sleeping through entire weekends because it's so hard for me to get up at 6am when really that's part of the day that my body wants to be asleep during.
lettuceLeafer wrote
Tru
ukuleleclass wrote
i’m so damn burnt out from school. i’m taking a critical theory class which is awesome but it’s non stop reading about dense topics, some of which are extremely useless to me. currently having to write a midterm paper on a materialist feminist approach to derrida and deconstruction. i love writing about this stuff but it’s not fun when i don’t have the time to write more poetically and grounded and am instead just throwing shit to the wall and hoping it makes sense.
NoPotatoes wrote
School reading / writing schedules are ridiculous.
Throwing shit on the wall sometimes gets the job done, though.
ukuleleclass wrote
thanks haha yea i finished it earlier and it felt great to be done with it— lesson is that you don’t always have to be perfect !
lettuceLeafer wrote
I was watching the east. And the Anarchists in the movie to eat at dinner wear straight jackets And then using their mouths hold the spoon to feed each other's. And God damn, I could see Chomsky fans doing this.
roanoke9 wrote (edited )
Metaphorically makes sense, but literally Chomskyites are too boring. More like they eat just as they always do and call it revolutionary.
stckyfngr wrote (edited )
The very fine line between pessimism and nihilism...
blaze499 wrote
The website control in China has been more serious recently.( Sry for my bad English, I am just a high school student.) I can visit this website without VPN before, but now I can't.
kinshavo OP wrote
Welcome, what do you like here?
And don't worry your English is better than mine probably heheh
blaze499 wrote
I saw some news, memes, and many opinions. Some I never thought before. I can't understand many sentences, but the spirit of respecting and some other living and thinking attitude really changed me partly. And I still have a lot to learn I think. I don't know what attract me the most, I just like here @ω@
mindforgedmanacles wrote
Spent most of yesterday sorting out baldcypress and dawn redwood seeds. I have plans to sequester the seeds in my fridge for a few months, and once they're ready I'm going to propagate them on trays.
I want to make deciduous conifers abundant in southern Ontario again, partially to assist my favourite plants in having a fighting chance to ride out the mass extinction but mostly because I love them more than anyone but my boyfriend.
tuesday wrote (edited )
I took a career strengths personality test thing for school today and my results were that I'm a big brain people pleaser.