I really am trying to keep the posts down. Here are some science items I have been holding onto for a few days.
The new Mimaki 3D Printer can print 10 million colors in one model. The models look amazing and printing is becoming faster and more capable at a good but slow rate.
Lasers are in the news. The first one had scientists making their own solar flares with lasers to study how they work. The second had scientists controlling lightning using lasers and filament meta materials.
The last one is about Star Trek Phase II. The first movie was actually for a show where the crew worked on a revamped Enterprise. They couldn't get advertising, so it became a movie.
Thanks! Always appreciate the science stuff and as a Star Trek fan (up to enterprise) I appreciate that trivia. I liked the motion picture though. Did you ever see the fan series on YouTube called phase 2? Definitely more effort went into that.
I haven't seen PhaseII. I should, I just haven't had the chance yet. My Mom's family watches a couple episodes at reunions from the original or next generation.
Deceptive headline. Making a solar flare would mean triggering one on the Sun. You can't make a "solar flare" on earth. I knew that it would be impossible to fire lasers at the Sun to make a solar flare.
Anyway it's a lame, stupid story about how scientists just made "plasma" with lasers, meaning they just fired the lasers at something to make it super hot. It's nothing special or interesting at all. It's a boring paper about magnetics in plasma.
It was hard to word. They are studying the magnetic flow of plasma and making guesses on solar flares from it.
Science stuff is good, particularly as a (wannabe) scientist! 🥽🧬🧪
Positive stuff is also good. The negativity here gets pretty draining, after a while… So much so that I just “tap out”, when it becomes completely negative…
So yeah, as Smith said, thanks for this (stuff)!
I try to post something fun along with the gloom. Life moves on even in difficult times.
That’s good. I’m glad you do, honestly!
And yeah, it really does.
Honestly, I got so bogged down in the bad stuff last year that life largely moved on without me… And that eventually hit me like a ten tonne truck (to the point where I was barely hanging in there, for a while).
I don’t ever want that to happen again, difficult times or no.
It’s important to keep perspective, I think.
For the last few years I have been posting memes and jokes to help people get through hard times on my Facebook page. I have been thanked directly a few times for it.
Before I got married I watched the Pacific Northwest fall. It still has and had great things, but more and more problems happened. I couldn't get a good enough job, or do things I wanted. I ended up becoming a Cub Scout leader and putting my love of history and culture into it. Those kids still keep in contact with me even as they are graduating high school, and moving on to university. I may not get to move one as easily, but I helped them do it, and feel a wonderful joy from it.
Sorry for being such an Eeyore, here (and like, everywhere).
I’m just really struggling. Trying to turn it around, though. Biggest thing, I guess, is starting to forgive myself. Or trying to, at least.
Anyway, sounds like you do good stuff for your community, and I appreciate these posts.
Keep it up! I’m glad you are contributing something positive to the world. You should feel joy for moving them in that way. I’m glad you do. And yeah, thanks for listening. 🙂
Getting some medication isn't a bad thing to help you through it. The other part is choosing to find happiness and doing happy things. I think you are a good contributor to this group and I hope you continue.
I do think helping people is good, so I’m glad you do that. It sounds like you’ve genuinely made a positive impact to people’s lives, both online and in person. I genuinely think that’s great.
I do what I can, where I can, for mine. Hopefully this year I can get back in to helping the homeless/really deeply poor in whatever community I find myself, long-term (which is what I had intended to do at Christmas, if things had worked out differently), and maybe do some volunteering at a dogs’ home.
I’m just not really in the position to do right now. Need stability in my own life first. But hopefully I’ll get there. Just got to roll with the punches of what the next couple of months may bring, first.
I understand. You need to be in a safe place to reach down and pull up. There's nothing wrong with that.
Yeah. I probably should do that. Unfortunately it’s easier said than done (meds), and comes with consequences. But I’m not in denial that I perhaps need that, now.
I think the second part is key, though. I’ve seen a lot of bad things. A lot of bad things have happened to me. So the key part is doing exactly what you just said. I do try. It’s just… Harder than I would like it to be.
Anyway, thanks. I really do appreciate that. Same to you. Genuinely. 🙂
It’s just hard sometimes. And no one wants to hear that. Not in real life. Not online. But… I guess that’s just the way it is.
Like you said, got to find the happy things, and hope that maybe the other stuff comes later.
I’m trying. 🙂
Good egg. 👍🏻
Honestly, props to you for this.
I don’t have the excess energy to expend on that sort of stuff myself, right now, but hopefully I can again soon. Right now Facebook just makes me sad (the notion that people can refuse to lose touch, but then also not invite me to their wedding? I don’t really get that. Like, either be my friend or don’t, you know? That’s one thing, anyway…)
But anyway, keep doing what you do. I’m glad you’re helping people like that. Sounds like it means a lot to them. 🙂
Delete facebook. From most of your comments it sounds like your family sucks anyway.
Yeah. I would say they do. I’ve kind of made peace with the fact that they/that won’t change.
Unfortunately this specific problem is not with family so much, but friends, or at least the people who are or were supposedly my “friends”…
But anyway, like I said in the other comment, the problem is that “going to ground” doesn’t really help anything. Like, life still goes on, even if I’m not on Facebook to see it. And then you run into someone in person and it’s like, “Oh yeah, we just got married last year.”
I guess in the end, this is just one of those things. I have to learn not to care. And perhaps maybe find some better friends, who actually bother to, we’ll, value me enough to invite me to things.
Anyway, it just sucks. The person who I thought was my “best friend” a decade ago, not bothering to invite me to their wedding? Hurt. But I can’t actually do anything about that. Just have to… Move on.
Side note: this is one interesting thing about “the black dog” (although I would put this more down to anxiety):
I have to literally force myself not to retreat away from everyone and everything, again.
Like, even today, I thought, “Should I go to ground again, until I get my life more in order? At least then I won’t see the good things in other people’s lives that make me feel worse…” [wedding photos. It was wedding photos, for yet another wedding I was not invited to].
Never do that. Never let yourself get too comfortable absorbed in your own sad/fear. Because as you say, life moves on, whether we, as individuals, are there as part of it or not.
And things do not get better unless you force them to. They just don’t.
There’s my ten cents, lol.
I say keep posting content you think is interesting and let the community decide if they like it.
Thank you. I am preparing another one for tomorrow