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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

This is for @melbaboutown. I was reading about how you're worried you can't focus because you keep looking at new things.

Looking at new techniques and materials is awesome, not a fault. NOT A FAULT.

What I was taught at art school is to do projects. Every new student is encouraged to choose a project, every week they are guided in learning and practicing technique and materials for the project. More than one project is encouraged.

So focus on the project but at the same time your interest can drift in all kinds of directions, and the drifting can all go towards achieving the project.

A project is typically something than can take a lot of hours of research, reading, testing, thinking, learning, practice, actually doing. A project is a work of art.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Thanks! It's only a problem when I collect hobby stuff or never really progress or finish anything due to not being able to apply myself

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Just saw the clip for the new "Roadhouse"... Why don't they just call it something else?

Then watched the trailer for the original. Hot damn, Patrick Swayze.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

My daughter has been invited to study (online) some sort of science subject at Southern Cross University in Queensland in which she maybe offered a scholarship later on. She will do the subject but will not take the offer for said scholarship.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (11 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ted is on the left????? It's getting really hard to tell them apart.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Déjà Vu. They've changed something in the Matrix.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ted is obviously scheming about biting your bum again.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Nup. Too cute!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Just speed watched "The Gift", a beautifully produced 3 series Netflix show from Turkey.

Turkey really is a very beautiful place. The clothes were lovely. All the different Hittite, Assyrian, Seljuk and Turkic peoples were represented.

This was the slowest episode of Ancient Aliens I have ever seen. Every single story line from Ancient Aliens was in it. I really hate Ancient Aliens, it's neo-nazism as written by von daniken.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Cheers darlings! 🍺

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

🧃 what about those without bodies

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Woo, got a call back for the job I applied for. Interview week after next. Still feel numb about it but it's something! Not getting my hopes up but it'll be good practice and a relief to shut up my brain that thinks I'm unemployable after 7 weeks of bumming around

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Tell brain to shut up! This is the universe telling you that you are fully worthy of a good and great employment experience. That having been said, though, I wonder if this job is exactly right for you long term. Thinking of it as a good stepping stone seems pretty sensible to me. And no real need to weep if it doesn't happen. There most definitely is the right job out there for you. Might take just a tad bit longer to find it.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's awesome, I really hope you'll have some good luck with this.

Is it a good role?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's so-so. Pay could be better and I don't know what the org/team is like, also would be a bit of a drive away - but the experience level is just where I'm at, varied tasks, and a good foot in the door in local gov. If I got it I could see myself doing it for a year and moving on

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Hamilton soundtrack blasting for the afternoon

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

My name is Aaron Burr, sir

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

You say, the price of my love's not a price that you're willing to pay.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I'm sorry but a maximum of only four years for this crime? Honestly I just think some folks are so fucked you really do have to lock them up and throw away the key, if nothing else but for the safety of society.

https://archive.is/20240209015919/https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/slain-boy-s-dad-hugs-prosecutor-after-guilty-verdict-for-four-attackers-20240209-p5f3pc.html

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Disgusting. Brutally kill someone, and get a slap on the wrist. I bet those kids were laughing and fist bumping as they drove away. I just feel so deeply hopeless and depressed when I see stuff like this. Some people are pieces of shit, and that includes the judge.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

someone's gonna reply saying stricter sentences don't work for youth crime. That investment in public health services and early prevention are far more effective.

I'm going to be downvoted for what I'm about to say here but I don't give a fuck: Rehabilitation is a joke we tell ourselves to sleep at night whilst more people get killed.

I knew someone who was killed by an asshole who had previously been charged with violent sexual crimes who had no business being released and yet somehow made parole. He shouldn't have made parole, we should have killed him (or at the very least locked him in the deepest darkest hole ever).

How can I say such a horrible thing? Because that's exactly what happened. The fucker attacked a police office after the murder and was shot and killed. He committed a violent sexual crime, we let him out he did the same again before someone finally did what we should have done in the first place. As a society we failed the victims. Both the first, the second and the police officer that was attacked.

Judges make calls as if we can rehabilitate people. But we lack the infrastructure or investment to actually do that. Someone's gonna tell me "But TinyBreak, that's callous! Think of the human life". To that I say: I am. I'm thinking of the victims. You attack someone your no longer human.

Either we get serious about rehabilitation (never gonna happen) or we get serious about punishment. You want it both ways? get comfortable with stories like this.

Sorry, rant over. I just... have a lot of feelings about this. The world was a better place with the victim I knew in it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Serious personality disorders like psychopathy can't be rehabilitated. Ever.

I would not be against evaluations before sentencing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

You dont accidentally violently rape someone either.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

I'm a bleeding heart leftie for the most part, but shit like this makes my blood boil.

Age should play no part when sentencing in such an obvious case.

Cannot imagine what the victim's parents are going through

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So um, how come this guy opened the door twice? Why didn't the driver lock the door? https://youtu.be/I7j_IYYEYaE

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Driver should have locked his doors, but the dude on the scooter (and his mates) are just drop kicks

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I have just discovered 30 seconds to Mars. I did listen to a couple a few years back but not sure why I didn't stick. That's exactly my type of music so it's very strange.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I really like some of their music, but then… Jared Leto. :/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

i would've gone to their concert if not for him

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

He gives me the squick. Wants fans to worship him, takes himself a bit too seriously. Lots of rumours of him liking young female groupies, but nothing "official".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Oh yikes! I had no idea 😵‍💫

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

He has an island and um...followers.

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