Same. I blame 80s TV montages.

You jest, but someone I know had them on and off for almost 15 years. The full backstory is uninteresting, but the conclusion is that it was what got them into studying dentistry.

Considering my bad luck, from very, very old age.

Since I’m not particularly creative I’ve thought of picturing everyday objects in all its ordinary glory so that I don’t feel the need to represent them accurately.

I don’t know if that makes sense to you or of it even helps, I’m not particularly qualified on the subject.

Ps. If you feel like posting your artwork, there is a neat community [email protected]

This is very insightful, thank you!

I don’t have a definitive answer, though it certainly helps to broaden the perspective.

anything but doom scrolling I felt this. I’ve had times where I’ve been able to quit, for up to a few months, but since I don’t feel significantly better, I just fall back into it.

I have a stock of art supplies gathering dust. I feel bad for not using them, but also I feel like using them is a waste of material bc anything I do will suck.

I get the concept of ‘keep sucking until you don’t’, but I don’t have the mind and emotional energy for that.

Is that a huge dog or a tiny armchair?

I want what those designers are having

I’m being held hostage by the cells’ survival instinct.

Everything is awful is like the parody cover of Everything is awesome?

BTW sometimes I say to my self in a sing-songy voice ‘Everything disgusts me’, perhaps we’re on to something…

I’ve tried really hard to ‘remember’, there’s some stuff, but none seems bad enough. And the only thing that I could label as messed up happened when I was like 9 and an isolated case so it seems like an outlier.

My only guess is that whatever happened, assuming it did, was so early that my memories are both fuzzy and pre-verbal so I literally couldn’t put words into them and are more like vague feelings.

I usually tell myself that nothing happened, at least I have no recollection of anything ‘bad’ really happening to me at an early age to justify my issues. And I don’t really think I have ‘repressed memories’, if that is even a thing. But then, so many of these symptoms are so fitting that I don’t know what to make of it.

So, the confederates played the long con.

Why no exoskeleton? are we hermit crabs?

I’m usually more bothered by the “I should be doing something” thought, with the implication of productivity but not necessarily profit oriented, more like house chores and so.

Aside from the unfortunate name of the university, I think that part of why LLMs may be perceived as smart or ‘smarter’ is because they are very articulate and, unless prompted otherwise, use proper spelling and grammar, and tend to structure their sentences logically.

Which ‘smart’ humans may not do, out of haste or contextual adaptation.

Thank you for taking the time to reply and thoroughly so.

I think the best differentiation you made between ontology and religion is key. My issue with religious texts is that they (usually but not always) demand a full commitment with other practices and beliefs that I don’t find fitting for me personally, and it seems like an all or nothing approach, so I end up quitting.

Let alone as you mention how these ancient practices have been stripped of their original intentions to be made more palatable to western audiences. Not only that, but now some people have even tried to co-opt them by sticking a western religious approach, further (imo) disrespecting and confounding.

I’m being kinda contradictory, and this is why I haven’t sorted out my internal conflict between the search for inner peace -I wouldn’tbe so pretentious as to call it enlightment-, and my unwillingness to submit to religious dogma (I’ve had enough bad experiences, and not only with one religion).

I used to get really annoyed with blatant errors but I’ve grown more tolerant whenever they seem to be bona fide.

What I find a harder time with is the anti intellectual attitude of some people (I’m speaking overall online, not specifically on Lemmy), where writing poorly is used as a kind of code. And in the same vein, people who write using proper grammar and spelling being mocked.

So real it hurts reading it.