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How do I manage my inbox?

Easy: leave all emails that might be important as unread. That way, you know they're important because they're unread. Continue to never read them until you've got over 400 unread emails in your inbox. Then just mass delete any more than a month old, because they can't still be important or relevant. Continue to feel guilty and not read emails.

Absolutely flawless system for me so far.

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Men are cowards

This is toxic masculinity, and the idea that men have to be successful, strong, brave, etc. hurts everyone.

Being 'soft' or 'weak' should be perfectly normal and accepted human traits. How about we allow men the space and patience to access and acknowledge their emotions, instead of placing some patriarchal ideal of how they have to be big, strong, rich, successful, dominant etc. on them?

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Is anyone else more than a little disappointed that the rampant misogyny, objectification, and "whataboutmen-ism" seems to have followed the reddit migration here?

Yeah I was feeling pretty positive until there was a shitpost about unrealistic male body standards in media, and the majority of women's voices saying "this isn't there for us" being piled upon and dismissed was kinda staggering given the infancy of that community.

So many men fighting with women in the comments telling us that most women are attracted to and oggle over Hemsworth as Thor. Never mind our experiences I guess (literally never met a straight woman who'd pick Thor over Huddleston's Loki).

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Debating disclosing my diagnosis with work

I think your hesitance is key here: seems in your gut you feel the risk is likely.

If you do not feel inherently safe disclosing to your manager and/or HR, then I personally wouldn't disclose. That's not to say you absolutely shouldn't, because we don't know the context, the history, the location or size of your organisation.

Before I knew I was AuDHD, I saw neurodivergence weaponised a bunch in one of my previous jobs. A couple of autistic men often got away with wildly inappropriate behaviour and preferential treatment because management made sure to coddle them because they were 'different'. Briefly, an 'out' autistic woman started in the same area and she was labelled as needy, impossible to work with, constantly denigrated, and quickly dismissed. I saw a lot of myself in her and wonder if the only difference in how we were treated, was that she disclosed.

I have disclosed AuDHD to my current manager only because she makes me feel extremely safe and she's keen to learn about ND so we can work together more effectively. I would not do this if I sat under any of the other managers in our area, because I do not think they are equipped to understand, nor do I think they'd attempt to.

I appreciate how complex this is and it's something I've been thinking about a lot lately... Whether it's for some societal greater good that I be "out" about my ND to give visibility of different neurotypes. But I'm also hella tired and don't want to be the Neurodiversity Champion at this point in my journey.

Whatever decision you come to I really wish you all the best.

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Why are folks so anti-capitalist?

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This is extremely reductionist as it's actually a fairly complex school of thought, but it's essentially just: everyone is equal and thus should have equal rights and treatment under the law. A basic example:

I have a cake and take it to a party with 7 others. We agree everyone should have equal right and access to the cake and so cut it into 8 equal slices.

Where as Capitalism is like: I decide because I came up with the idea of getting cake, I deserve more of it, so I take 50%. The host of the party gets a 20% cut. And the remaining 6 guests divvy the remaining 30% amongst themselves.

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Patch Notes 6 July 2023

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One thing to be mindful of is that mystery chest locations will change if the 24hr clock rolls over to the next hour.

So say you're in an active Helltide (e.g. with 40mins left of Helltide), looking at the user updated map, and it's currently 13:55. At 14:00 the mystery chests will respawn to one of the other potential locations (but can also remain in the same location). So if you're checking it just after the hour, the location may not yet be accurate.

As an aside, that means if the Helltide timer crosses over the hour, you have the potential to open 4x chests instead of 2x!

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If it is a Katamari reference, it's kinda on theme with some of the extreme horror that comes out of FromSoft games (a barely perceptible alien causes minor inconvenience by rolling up your paperclips, suddenly causes total global extinction and sacrifices everyone and everything on the planet to the cosmos).

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What movie did you rewatch most often?

Mean Girls - this is my absolute comfort movie. Elf is mandatory watch every Christmas and I never get bored of it.

Movies I'll always sit down and watch if I see them on TV that I've not seen mentioned yet:

  • Breakfast Club
  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off
  • Time Bandits
  • 12 Monkeys
  • Muppet Treasure Island

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Is anyone else more than a little disappointed that the rampant misogyny, objectification, and "whataboutmen-ism" seems to have followed the reddit migration here?

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Not un/fair at all, I did completely miss that out of my comment because I just didn't have the energy to talk about the impact of the Patriarchy and masculine beauty standards on men.

The image in question (now removed) pitted women's very valid concerns about sexualisation/objectification of women in the media vs. hyper-masculine portrayals of men (mostly superheros) in the media as if they were parallel issues.

Many comments were woman pointing out that hyper-masculine bodies are glorified in these movies, usually not for women to objectify, but to provide a power fantasy for other men. Plus lots of talk trying to explain male gaze vs. female gaze.

Not for a moment denying the negative effects this has on men's self-image. It hurts men, and that hurt is more often than not being inflicted by other men. Absolutely LOVE that men are starting to have the conversation, but it shouldn't be framed as the fault of women.