Wait, all these baby hippo posts have been a single baby hippo? I thought people were just posting cute baby hippos.

Despite new evidence to the contrary, I will continue to hold this false belief 🦛

To me, this says that your workplace has acknowledged and accepted that the way they do business is leading to burnout, at least for some people. But rather than using that as evidence that their business practices need to change, they’ve instead opted to individualize the problem. Our growth projections aren’t unreasonably ambitious, you just need to do more deep breathing.

It’s like how I’m told to take a vacation to relax, only to return to the same (or an even larger) pile of to-dos that I left behind.

Edit: If this resonates with you, check out the book “McMindfulness” by Ronald Purser.

Yeah, outrageous headline, obvious hypocrisy. But if you read to the end, the article is basically in support of it:

But let’s get real: both sides of the political aisle are pointing fingers and making things worse. Trump and Vance have their supporters, while the Democrats are no strangers to throwing some fiery jabs themselves.

One side is spreading lies. The other side is calling bullshit – but that’s rude, so BoTh SiDeS aRe aT fAuLt.

The 19 words: “…because democracy basically meaningless…” (pause) “Government by the people, of the people, for the people… but the people are [fools].”

I’m inserting “fools” cuz I don’t wanna use outdated insults.

Does it need to be online and continuous?

Hot take of the day: academia doesn’t need social media.

I encourage others to seek treatment for mental health issues if ever necessary, and I’ve heard a few success stories of people who got the help they needed from a psychiatric inpatient stay. But I’ll be honest, shit like this really worries me.

I’ve been living with depression for many years now. It terrifies me to imagine what a full-blown crisis would be like – not just because of what I might do, but also because of what the health care system might do to me.

We’re already using that on the org chart.

Banned from club: penguins

Unhelpful idea: practice as-is until you’re good enough to beat it in one sitting

What if this was just a scheme to get everyone free monitoring

If only it were so easy

Where article? Am I stupid?

Imagine the incentives tho. It’s free real estate, but how would they sell it to advertisers? “Here’s some ad space, but we work really hard to make sure users see it as rarely as possible.”

But if they do manage to sell it, the dev team then has this wacky incentive to trigger BSODs often enough to hit revenue targets, but rarely enough that they don’t drive away their user base. As another commenter put it, cynical and absurd, but… I mean, there’s a universe where it could happen… hopefully it’s not this one.

I am sort of in this position as well. The day-to-day can get way too busy at times, so I get burned out fairly often, but I’m still sticking around. I’m loyal to the team like you said, but there’s a variety of other reasons as well. I appreciate the mission, it’s a good fit for my skills, I have a decent amount of flexibility in my schedule, and on and on. Also… I really hate looking for jobs. So I’ll probably put that off for as long as I can.

Any job will have its mix of pros and cons. You have to make a call based on what matters to you.

From knowyourmeme.com:

The Hawk Tuah Girl, also known as the Spit On That Thing Girl or Spit On That Thang Girl, refers to a woman who was interviewed in a viral TikTok video and was asked, “What’s one move in bed that makes a man go crazy every time?” to which she responded in a Southern accent, “Oh, you gotta give him that hawk tuah and spit on that thang,” resembling a spitting sound amid oral sex.

That’s why programmers have all those monitors. They’re each hooked up to a different computer.

You could take any one of those completely out of context and they’d still be solid.

Do you suppose folks on the moon will shift the clocks by an hour twice a year as well? I don’t like the idea of moon kids having to walk to school in the dark during the winter.

But for real tho, maybe there are some tiny time dilation effects that require a separate time system for lunar missions. But I’m not sure, I’m not a physicist.