again, this is all long term executive function that you are generally incapable of performing or even contemplating when depressed. maybe you can protestant-work-ethic yourself out of depression but that doesn’t mean everyone can. oh yeah lemme just keep being fucking harsh with myself, that’s the ticket.

what i want to hear is

• take a bath
• have chamomile tea, it binds to your GABA receptors
• go outside to breath the fresh air and look at the moon
• etc

simple, actionable things that don’t have barely-hidden contempt or disinterest behind them

i like how the answers are the exact same generic unhelpful drivel you hear 20k times a month if you’re depressed as well. real improvement there. when people google that they want immediate relief, not fucking oh go for a walk every day, no shit. the triviality of the suggestion makes the depression worse because you know it’s going to do nothing the first week besides make you feel sweaty and looked at and alone. like if i’m feeling recovered enough to go walk every day then i’m already feeling good enough that i don’t need to be googling about depression tips. this shit drives me insane.

we really need to stop centering the WFH discussion around ‘productivity’; MBA sickos will always come up with a way to continue dragging out and romanticizing the 9-5 grind.

the goal of remote work is not increased productivity, it is a dramatically improved quality of life for workers who enjoy it. it’s about not having to commute, not having to wake up early to get ready, not having to spend the bulk of your time and most alert hours in a shitty building that no one wants to be in. why would i not want to be with my cats and listening to my records while working?

at the end of the day, i don’t care about ‘deeper work’, i care about not feeling deep, unrelenting dread every evening when i know i have to wake up and be at work the next morning.

i still can’t believe we were meant to accept ‘we’re actively gambling on the buildings’ as a viable excuse for why people should return to the office

the people that make a case against stuff like this are some of the dumbest and sickest in the world, with an obnoxious and particularly stupid dog’s understanding of morality (well ACHSKULLY it was Illegal then and you still wilfully and wantonly broke the law because you saw fit to thus the punishment was warranted!!)

i cannot stand git. nobody is physically capable of explaining how it works and how to actually use day to day. the vocab seems intentionally chosen to be confusing – ‘push’ and ‘pull’ are too similar and vague [edit my uni taught the tree concept first, and explained in such a way that i could never remember if the server would push an update down to me or i would push an update up]