zlatiah

zlatiah @lemmy.world 5d ago

I've actually been looking into how music genres/subgenres are defined for the past few months due to the fact that my favorite genre "doesn't exist" (I'm not joking someone wrote a research paper on this)

I think there are research articles on this if one wants to go into details... Like how certain genres separate. Sometimes there are strict definitions (most techno I think are quite well-defined). But practically I think most ppl tend to enjoy ranges of genres that are close to each other... There are also plenty of genre-blend songs too so there's that

Also I second for Every Noise At Once, they have some really obscure genres too for detailed comparisons

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zlatiah @lemmy.world 7d ago

It's always more expensive than I thought
It's always more physically demanding than I thought
There's never a local hobby/support group for it

... Sums up pretty much every hobby I have tried/am trying

zlatiah @lemmy.world 1w ago

1st to 2nd grade so this was what my parents relayed to me after I grew up a bit more

Apparently I was so aggressively autistic (and relatively smart) that I not only did close to perfect on all my exams, I once did the calligraphy/writing homework so well that my teacher had to talk to my parents to know if I cheated by having them do my homework for me... FYI: my handwriting now is as bad as a doctor's

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zlatiah @lemmy.world 2w ago

I'm not a subject matter expert on this so I had to look this up but... it seems that the experimental method was actually introduced over 10 years ago? They cited this paper (https://www.nature.com/articles/nn.3088) from Nature Neuroscience that I don't have access to unfortunately

I also didn't know this before, but it seems that maladaptive "approach-avoidance conflict" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approach-avoidance_conflict) has been known to be a symptom and a predictor of depression for a while (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165032706000139)

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zlatiah @lemmy.world 2w ago

I am doing it... My local convenience store also sells tooth cleaners shaped like tiny brushes which I use. It does help a bit but not entirely

zlatiah @lemmy.world 2w ago

... This may sound a bit pessimistic, but I think the main thing to look for is whether there are viable ways for one to enter said new country in the first place

Using the Low Countries as an example... For non-EU (or a select few countries) citizens, these three only grant residency permits to people who have a really good reason to be there... I believe they allow things such as having a job, having family, going to university, and some other situations. NL has the DAFT visa, but that's only for American citizens (I believe?) and is quite difficult to follow-through

Depending on how young... maybe uni would be a good bet? NL has some extremely strong universities. I'm not familiar with the system there though, from what I just looked up looks like they're quite expensive for non-EU citizens

There are a ton of other things to consider too but at least for me the most difficult part is to get a job in the first place so... everything else (climate, culture, language, ...) was an afterthought by that point

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zlatiah @lemmy.world 3w ago

Wing it

I did worse than wing it actually... half of the groceries I got over the past few weeks were from Too Good To Go, so near-expired food that the grocery store winged-it for me💀

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zlatiah @lemmy.world 3w ago

I'm usually a bit excessively modest, but if I'm reflecting on it... I left my precious job in the US & pulled off a successful cross-continental move with little to no outside help (even though there was a lot of stuff involved). Had a ton of fun traveling during the past year too as a result of that. I guess that would be the thing I'm most proud of

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zlatiah @lemmy.world 4w ago

I remember every single place I've lived in (over a dozen) and remember the address of most of them; the ones I don't I can look up quite easily

I do feel quite sentimental about two specific places (ironically the two "worst" places I've lived in), not much with most others; one I almost hate with a passion

zlatiah @lemmy.world 4w ago

Physically, I don't think so; the main enzyme in saliva mainly digests starch, which humans are not made of

More likely, you'd drown eventually due to not being let out, which would be one of the crazier ways to die I guess, up their with that time when some nobles drowned in fecal matter

zlatiah @lemmy.world 4w ago

Quite a few!

Spicy food: didn't grow up in a spicy-loving part of the world but tried a lot of Indian food in college and decided to just upping the spice level. I can handle some pretty extreme stuff, which always comes as a surprise when I meet Southern Chinese ppl
Coffee: turns out it was less of an issue with my tolerance and just that I needed a good setup and locally-roasted beans
Beer: surprisingly easy to get into, similar to coffee I just needed high-quality beer. I prefer the fruity ones over blondes/browns/pils though
K-pop: unwillingly, because I play a "K-pop" game... I think I'm starting to get the appeal now though

zlatiah @lemmy.world 1mo ago

There are! Problem is that most of them seem to be either "jobs" that companies don't want to pay a full-time employee for, or require lots of entrepreneurship skills that I don't think fits most people... I don't see how someone living in a developed country would benefit more from an online gig than getting a shitty minimum-wage job at the local grocery store, but there definitely are options

A few non-scummy ones (at least by my standard) I could think of:

Most practical one I could think of is to teach English/foreign languages. The East Asian countries (especially China) have a huge demand for these types of roles, and I'd presume they have platforms where you can do it as a freelance tutor (at least that's what my parents told me lol)
If you have any in-demand skills, it is possible to become a self-proprietor to do contracts for businesses... ranging from the classic IT consultant to selling art commissions on Twitter/X
If you are good at crafts, I believe it is possible to make a small but reasonable amount of money by selling crafts online on places like Etsy, some ppl are really into these and I think ppl generally have a very positive view of these type of careers. Bonus is you might even be able to do some in-person events at conventions/markets/etc
If you have a fun personality (or if you are a complete train-wreck), content creation/streaming. Standard Twitch streaming, YouTube streaming, making edutainment like the funny bike guy, if you are willing to let go of some morals then Kick... Quite fun if you are into it, but competition is fierce and most people don't make it; and a lot of people who "made-it" chose to relocate to low cost-of-living countries where they only need like $500 a month so....
Extension of previous point, if you have any sex-appeal... lots of places to "sell your body" online and make decent profits. Not doable without good genetics though

zlatiah @lemmy.world 1mo ago

A bit of a hot take... bigger communities tend to get harder to please, regardless of anything else

I saw a few gacha game communities (please don't judge me lol) grow in real time, because gacha games need as large as a player base as possible for their business strategy (which is a separate topic)... Saw the level of toxicity rises in real time as my main game's community get bigger. Like the community literally went from being okay with just about anything to arguing over the weirdest details on character designs and complaining about every live-service event. And then there's all the rumor about communities of Hoyoverse games... including once when someone almost murdered the company CEO over a bunny girl event (I'm not making this up)

Among similar sized ones I'm not entirely sure

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zlatiah @lemmy.world 1mo ago

I assume you mean ppl who literally have "mathematician" as a job title? A few I could think of...

I'd guess most likely as an academic researcher. There are academics in just about any field you could imagine, a lot of which are even more abstract/"useless" than advanced math. Not a traditional "job" in the sense that academics don't directly add value to the economy... but are paid to do research that hopefully other people can add value based on. Downside is that these job openings are insanely competitive especially for the aforementioned "less useful" fields, because they are based on an organization having spare money to support research...
As a cybersecurity researcher maybe? A lot of modern-day cybersecurity (the original "crypto", before it became associated with bitcoin) are based on advanced math, so I'd imagine such expertise is still needed
Somewhere in finance maybe? A lot of modern-day finance are built on data science/statistics, although I suppose this job fits statisticians better...

zlatiah @lemmy.world 1mo ago

Disclaimer: level 1 ASD, low support needs

Was it ableist for my ex-friend to say “[all] autistic people make her uncomfortable “?

... maybe? It is true that the majority of Autistic people (including those with subtle symptoms, maybe especially those since uncanny valley and everything) tend to make NT people uncomfortable whether we like it or not, so just having that thought alone might not say much. I would assume most reasonable people would prefer to keep thoughts like that behind closed curtains even if they have those

As for your ex-friend's specific case... I think the bigger issue is that your ex-friend was an asshole more than anything else. My understanding is that talking behind someone's back is a big no for most people. There are... some parts of Asian culture where this type of behavior is more accepted, but if your ex-friend is American then I'm not entirely sure what's wrong with them

zlatiah @lemmy.world 1mo ago

That's cool! For me Chinese (Mandarin), although it has something to do with language regulations: a lot of Chinese dialects really should be classified as different languages...

Speaking of that and Spanish... I was quite curious about Catalan actually, have a colleague that's from that part of Spain. My understanding is that Catalan is considered a separate language but is quite similar to Spanish?