Stuff I found interesting enough to share
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shadowkat1. Found this exchange entertaining - via Reddit. They took down the post of a fish wheeing when it jumped out of the water and in again (apparently).
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KEbab Chief: Dude! Stop throwing me back in! I'm trying to evolve!!
2. The NY Times Corona Virus Briefing managed to nail what I've been feeling for the last three or four months now...
The science behind Covid ‘blah’
A year in, and we are languishing. That’s the academic term for the collective fog we’ve endured for more than a year — trouble concentrating, trouble staying motivated, trouble getting excited about the future.
Languishing isn’t burnout, which is more a lack of energy. It’s not depression, with its lack of hope. Instead, it’s a sense of stagnation, of emptiness, of just-getting-by, a malaise that might be the dominant emotion of 2021.
Adam Grant, a professor of management and psychology at Wharton, suggested we think of languishing as a midpoint between flourishing and depression.
“Flourishing is the peak of well-being: You have a strong sense of meaning, mastery and mattering to others. Depression is the valley of ill-being: You feel despondent, drained and worthless,” Grant writes.
There’s still more research to do, but giving the emotion a name might give us a way to move forward, Grant argues.
“It could give us a socially acceptable response to ‘How are you?’
Instead of saying ‘Great!' or ‘Fine,’ imagine if we answered, ‘Honestly, I’m languishing.’ It would be a refreshing foil for toxic positivity — that quintessentially American pressure to be upbeat at all times.
Article HERE
I'm languishing. I don't really care all that much about anything. Feel sort of numb.
Talk to my mother twice daily trying to boost her spirits. She's worried that she'll never walk again or be able to drive or anything. My father talked about walking on the beach together soon and she quipped that she didn't see how, and he said, they could try. The problem is - of the two of them, my father has always been the more optimistic and courageous. Mother has the worry gene. My brother and father have told her that she always imagines the worst case scenario - aka the worry gene. I've got it too, but I'm working to get it under control.
Today - I told my mother, while we were discussing The Great Gatsby (my mother and I have discussions about literature among other things), that I finally understood the frivolity of the 1920s. It took experiencing a pandemic to get it. They had just come out of the Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918-1922, after experiencing WWI. I don't want to go to the roaring 20s, because that lead to the stock market crash of 1929, the Great Depression, and WWII. But, I don't think we'd repeat it quite like that - since if you look back there is an interesting pattern emerging in human evolutionary history.
I think humans are stupid. But hey, NASA figured out how to fly a little robot helicopter on Mars. Mars actually has a sky and clouds.
3. Oooh, Marvel's Shang-Chi Trailer Looks Good!
4. Hmmm...
* There’s a giant blue whale at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. You can soon get vaccinated beneath it, if you’d like.
* Alaska will offer vaccinations to tourists in June to boost tourism-related businesses, Alaska Public Media reports. [I'd like to visit Alaska, but I already am vaccinated.] (Apparently it's tough to get a vaccine appointment in France - maybe they should fly to Alaska?)
* The U.S. military will begin offering vaccines to detainees at Guantánamo Bay.
*“Joe’s Covee Car” is decorated with dryer balls that look like the coronavirus. And it ferries people to vaccine sites in New Jersey for free, The Washington Post reports.
* Navajo Nation reported no new deaths for the seventh consecutive day and just two new confirmed cases of the coronavirus, The Associated Press reports.
* After the N.F.L. canceled its in-person draft combine, pro prospects and the teams scouting them have been forced to adjust.
* Airports in Australia and New Zealand were filled with emotional scenes as thousands of passengers were allowed to travel freely between the two countries for the first time in more than a year.
*Eyeing tourist season this summer, Greece will relax its quarantine rules.[Greece actually is ahead of the game on vaccinations. It did rather well.]
* The pandemic has exacerbated Argentina’s economic crisis: In 2020, the national economy shrank by nearly 10 percent, the third straight year of recession.
* Cambodians could get 20 years in prison for breaking pandemic rules, under a new law that human rights groups say pushes the country toward “totalitarian dictatorship,” The Guardian reports.
Hey /u/KebabChef, thanks for contributing to r/aww. Unfortunately, your post was removed as it violates our rules:
Rule 1 - No "sad" content, such as pics of animals that have passed away (try r/petloss), animals that have been injured/abused, or sob stories (e.g. found him in a dumpster). more
Your title must be "100% happy". No mentioning death, injury, RIP posts, finding abandoned animals, sick/survived cancer, pets being put to sleep, "I miss...", etc.
You may tell the complete story, unhappy parts and all, in the comments section.
Silver lining stories still fall under Rule 1. For example, "Jakey was hit by a car and had cancer, but he is a happy little fella today!" is not allowed.
Please read the sidebar and rules before posting again. If you have questions or concerns, please message the moderators through modmail. Thank you!
KEbab Chief: Dude! Stop throwing me back in! I'm trying to evolve!!
2. The NY Times Corona Virus Briefing managed to nail what I've been feeling for the last three or four months now...
The science behind Covid ‘blah’
A year in, and we are languishing. That’s the academic term for the collective fog we’ve endured for more than a year — trouble concentrating, trouble staying motivated, trouble getting excited about the future.
Languishing isn’t burnout, which is more a lack of energy. It’s not depression, with its lack of hope. Instead, it’s a sense of stagnation, of emptiness, of just-getting-by, a malaise that might be the dominant emotion of 2021.
Adam Grant, a professor of management and psychology at Wharton, suggested we think of languishing as a midpoint between flourishing and depression.
“Flourishing is the peak of well-being: You have a strong sense of meaning, mastery and mattering to others. Depression is the valley of ill-being: You feel despondent, drained and worthless,” Grant writes.
There’s still more research to do, but giving the emotion a name might give us a way to move forward, Grant argues.
“It could give us a socially acceptable response to ‘How are you?’
Instead of saying ‘Great!' or ‘Fine,’ imagine if we answered, ‘Honestly, I’m languishing.’ It would be a refreshing foil for toxic positivity — that quintessentially American pressure to be upbeat at all times.
Article HERE
I'm languishing. I don't really care all that much about anything. Feel sort of numb.
Talk to my mother twice daily trying to boost her spirits. She's worried that she'll never walk again or be able to drive or anything. My father talked about walking on the beach together soon and she quipped that she didn't see how, and he said, they could try. The problem is - of the two of them, my father has always been the more optimistic and courageous. Mother has the worry gene. My brother and father have told her that she always imagines the worst case scenario - aka the worry gene. I've got it too, but I'm working to get it under control.
Today - I told my mother, while we were discussing The Great Gatsby (my mother and I have discussions about literature among other things), that I finally understood the frivolity of the 1920s. It took experiencing a pandemic to get it. They had just come out of the Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918-1922, after experiencing WWI. I don't want to go to the roaring 20s, because that lead to the stock market crash of 1929, the Great Depression, and WWII. But, I don't think we'd repeat it quite like that - since if you look back there is an interesting pattern emerging in human evolutionary history.
I think humans are stupid. But hey, NASA figured out how to fly a little robot helicopter on Mars. Mars actually has a sky and clouds.
3. Oooh, Marvel's Shang-Chi Trailer Looks Good!
4. Hmmm...
* There’s a giant blue whale at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. You can soon get vaccinated beneath it, if you’d like.
* Alaska will offer vaccinations to tourists in June to boost tourism-related businesses, Alaska Public Media reports. [I'd like to visit Alaska, but I already am vaccinated.] (Apparently it's tough to get a vaccine appointment in France - maybe they should fly to Alaska?)
* The U.S. military will begin offering vaccines to detainees at Guantánamo Bay.
*“Joe’s Covee Car” is decorated with dryer balls that look like the coronavirus. And it ferries people to vaccine sites in New Jersey for free, The Washington Post reports.
* Navajo Nation reported no new deaths for the seventh consecutive day and just two new confirmed cases of the coronavirus, The Associated Press reports.
* After the N.F.L. canceled its in-person draft combine, pro prospects and the teams scouting them have been forced to adjust.
* Airports in Australia and New Zealand were filled with emotional scenes as thousands of passengers were allowed to travel freely between the two countries for the first time in more than a year.
*Eyeing tourist season this summer, Greece will relax its quarantine rules.[Greece actually is ahead of the game on vaccinations. It did rather well.]
* The pandemic has exacerbated Argentina’s economic crisis: In 2020, the national economy shrank by nearly 10 percent, the third straight year of recession.
* Cambodians could get 20 years in prison for breaking pandemic rules, under a new law that human rights groups say pushes the country toward “totalitarian dictatorship,” The Guardian reports.