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[ SECRET POST #5316 ]

⌈ Secret Post #5316 ⌋

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What did you learn today (or this week)?

I learned DaBaby is an actual person and not just an opossum from that one youtube farm guy.

I learned that even if you aren't allowed to speak bad about a former employee due to your boss being too nice, the clients are paying attention and if you explain what you can do for them and what is needed on their file that hasn't been done, they'll listen and hire you.

Too much and not enough. I'm trying to use some new developer tools that my coworkers like and I actually managed to recreate the page I made with it using my own edits to their code, which isn't bad for a couple hours, and now I'm getting the gist of how it comes together into an actual web page... but on the other hand I haven't learned how to fix the problem that is the reason I wanted to try to edit their code. :P Oh well, as noted, I only got to spend a couple hours so far.

(Also just now learned, after that secret up top got me thinking about it, that apparently someone recced my ten-years-old Ace Attorney stuff as recently as a couple days ago. Wow. ...If whoever that anon is also hangs out here, that made a tedious day after a depressing weekend a little brighter, so thank you. =))

I feel like a lot of learning is learning how much you don't know. And the more you know, the more you know how little you actually know. The legal field certainly is that way. I feel like I'm learning all the time and still have so much to learn.

Oh absolutely. I joke that I've turned into one of those crabby old devs who just wants Notepad and WS_FTP and look guys, I'll make your website with my own freaking hands. ;) I can see the benefit to CMS and frameworks and all, but there's an actual learning curve and I'm presently close to the bottom.

At least I know I'm in little danger of falling victim to Dunning-Kruger this way, when my younger coworkers keep finding things that make me feel so incredibly stupid. ;)

That Willie Nelson had a cameo in the second Austin Powers movie.

I learned today that when people tag "tw: food" it's a legit trigger warning. This entire time I thought people were doing it to be cute or ironic. My older millennial age is showing amongst the millennial/gen z cusps and gen zs.

:O

I wish people I know did that, but like... I figured that was unreasonable since there aren't a lot of people who get overwhelming nausea at the sight of food some days. :P

My cousin is anorexic, so I learned about tagging my food pics the hard way

I guess your cousin never goes on instagram? It's so much food!

Not sure if you can block tags there.

... how do those people survive in the real world? Like, honest question, because I can't open a newspaper or a magazine without seeing ads for food, there are ads for food in the bus stops and on billboards and the sides of buses, etc.

I think it maybe different. Like I'm more prepared mentally to deal with random bad stuff outside my house in the real world. Having something that triggers me happen in a fic without warning feels much more like it happens to me directly in what should be a safe place. Psychologically for me there's a big difference.

Note: Apparently my own reasons for wishing TW on food is different than the needs of people who are actively implementing it, but...

You're right, it's incredibly difficult to live one's life that way. Some days I can't watch TV because there will be scenes of people eating food or even if it's sports, there will be commercials for restaurants during the breaks, and I just cannot deal with it so the TV stays off. There was a time my GI issues flared up and left me incredibly nauseated during a long drive home and argh, every freaking McDonalds billboard I passed on the highway with the giant close-ups of food made it worse, I kept having to just pull over to the side and close my eyes and do breathing exercises until the nausea receded enough for me to be able to drive safely again.

Then other days it's not so bad because food just looks like any other random object I have no interest in and I don't care. Occasionally I have really good days when I see something that I once would have liked to eat and think "Man, that looks good, if I could eat that without horrible pain..." I don't know if people with EDs have good days and bad days, but maybe they too just have to isolate themselves on bad days. It sucks but it makes life tolerable.

I've read that while it's helpful to tag 'food', it's not great to tag it specifically as a 'trigger warning' because it reinforces the idea that food=bad to people with EDs.

Although I have no experience with EDs so open to being corrected on this (it makes sense to me though).

I hadn't heard about that. I can get really grossed out by seeing certain food, and even hearing someone mention said food. But it's definitely not tw worthy in my case, so the reason the tw exists is for another reason.

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