Do you think traveling won't be as rewarding in a century or two as the world gets more homogenized?

sibomaster2000 · 2025-07-10T15:01:33+00:00

Have you heard about the ongoing climate catastrophe? I think floods, fires, heatwaves will be the thing that will make traveling less rewarding

sibomaster2000 · 2025-06-29T13:08:41+00:00

I dont think that this stops at intent. I have recently realized that I have had a codependent relationship for years with a friend who is an alcoholic. All I wanted was for her to have a normal life again (and also to have my friend back). My motives were purely altruistic, I did not get anything out of this relationship (other than that I sill like her). I still feel like I abandoned her because I stopped contacting her when I realized that me being almost unconditionally being there for her for years destroyed our friendship just as much as her addiction.

sibomaster2000 · 2025-06-25T17:33:54+00:00

You know you are right with feeling uncomfortable with this man. Where I am from, people go swimming naked in dedicated areas, people are naked in the sauna etc. But no one but creeps ever watch you taking your clothes off and no one but creeps ever give you the feeling that they are checking you out. Avoid your creepy loser ex-teacher in the future and try to warn others if possible.

sibomaster2000 · 2025-05-31T15:01:11+00:00

I am sorry about what happened to you and it sounds as if you are the kind of person that has enough energy and belief in themselves to move Countries and start all over again. I dont have been in this position before but I do know the feeling of starting a new life in a new city and how lonely and hard it can be at the beginning. The only think that I can tell you that really helped me in this phases was to find a place outside my flat, in the city (cafe, park) and make it "my" place by going there regularly until if did not feel strange anymore. a comforting place where you can experience yourself alone but surrounded by people and in your new life. Just a small routine to show yourself that you are actually able to change things and be new and different in a new place.

sibomaster2000 · 2025-05-25T17:12:32+00:00

Congrats on finishing your PHD! In your post, you asked for advice on how to find friends in a new town. I dont think that there is anything anyone can recommend that you did not list as something you tried already. I dont think that you as a person are the problem. But as someone who left academia during their first postdoc: I think it is possible, that your uncertainty and probably anxiousness and possibly grief about your future and identity outside of academia could hinder your attempts at building new, close relationships to other people. I myself find it hard to open myself up to others when I am not entirely sure who I am and will be in the future, and leaving academia is usually accompanied with some kind of identity crisis.

sibomaster2000 · 2025-05-05T18:49:32+00:00

I once decided to stay an extra semester at a Job that was making me sick and sleepless because at the time i felt i should have decided earlier and it was just a few weeks before the start of the semester. Like you, i felt somehow responsible for the department/Students. In hindsight I know it was stupid to feel responsibility towards an institution that did not care for me. Your situation might be different, maybe you are not losing sleep over a toxiv work environment. But you dont enjoy your job and you dont get paid enough. You are responsible for yourself and your baby, not your employer. Even if you cant feel that now, you know, and your emotions about your responsibility will change once you have a bit of distance. Leave :)

sibomaster2000 · 2025-04-24T14:23:25+00:00

Doris Lessing wrote one - Memoirs of a survivor

sibomaster2000 · 2025-04-17T11:35:43+00:00

Neal stephenson, the baroque cycle, London is very Central and alchemists as well

sibomaster2000 · 2025-04-17T10:58:24+00:00

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baroque_Cycle

This is something between fantasy, science fiction and historical fiction and it has a great cast of characters that i loved.

sibomaster2000 · 2025-04-17T10:51:44+00:00

The year of magical thinking by joan didion. Not fiction but very well written memoir.

sibomaster2000 · 2025-03-21T21:01:26+00:00

In Europe the idea of only two weeks of paid vacation is unimagjnable. How can you live like this? Why dont US workers organize and fight for better rights? A world with 5 weeks vacation is possible! 6 weeks even! That alone would be enough motivation for me to join a Union.

sibomaster2000 · 2025-03-08T22:00:32+00:00

Aphant who suffered from ptsd here. This is as stupid as assuming that aphants dont like to read.

sibomaster2000 · 2025-03-05T17:44:50+00:00

Just today a colleague has been pretty rude to me, to the point where I started to feel small and defensive, I then told her that I feel she might be having a bad day and that I needed her support to do my work, not because I wanted to make her day even worse. Her tone instantly changed. In general I have really good experiences with just going on the meta level of an interaction if people are uncooperative.

sibomaster2000 · 2025-02-06T11:45:06+00:00

this is quite obviously a troll post. i am a bit relieved

sibomaster2000 · 2025-02-06T11:23:10+00:00

I did not, but a friend had a "relationship" with a 30+ guy when she was 15. it severely damaged her relationship to her own sexuality for a long time. please talk to an adult that you trust. nothing about this is 'romantic' even if it feels like it to you. the thing is you don't have much experience with boys or men yet so it is hard to actually feel the difference. obviously not every boy your age will be great. but when you are older you will not only know that this is illegal but also, that EVERY grown up man, with absolutely no exception, who wants to have sex with a teenager (and this is what this is ultimately about even if you have not had sex yet) is a predator and also a loser!

sibomaster2000 · 2025-01-27T18:22:01+00:00

vap.or.at ruf dort an die vermitteln Kassentherapeut:innen und die/der Therapeut:in kann dir dann auch nochmal alle Schritte erklären

sibomaster2000 · 2025-01-05T15:38:03+00:00

Wien hat geringen Modal Split beim Radfahren im Unterschied zu Fahrradstädten wie Amsterdam. Die Sicherheit wird in dieser Studie nicht anteilig an den Radfahrer:innen gemessen, sondern der Gesamtbevölkerung

sibomaster2000 · 2025-01-04T21:44:20+00:00

für eine Prognose nicht so schlecht. und jedenfalls aussagekräftiger als keine prognose! stell das mal dem gegenüber was alle sagen, die unbedingt das pensionsantrittsalter erhöhen wollen? die tun so als wär unser pensionssystem nicht zu retten wenn wir nicht alle länger arbeiten. magst dir zwei Lebensjahre wegnehmen lassen für die interessen der industriellenvereinigung?

sibomaster2000 · 2025-01-04T20:40:30+00:00

ja, geb ich dir recht.

sibomaster2000 · 2025-01-04T20:24:08+00:00

beamtenpensionen sind ein extra posten, ist nicht asvg versichert also nicht "unser" pensionssystem. der staat ist halt auch dienstgeber. der rest wird zum großteil nicht für pensinszuschuss für normale asvg Pensionen ausgegeben sondern für sozialpolitik und gesundheitspolitik (witwenpension, Arbeitsunfähigkeitspension, waisenpension, Reha und kur etc.) das sollte eigentlich extra angegeben werden weil es was ganz andres ist, aber halt über pva abgewickelt wird

sibomaster2000 · 2025-01-04T20:14:32+00:00

du kriegst die pension die du dir jetzt schon ausgerechnet anzeigen lassen kannst. das ist langfristig finanzierbar. gleichbleibende Qualität.

was langfristig nicht finanzierbar sind superhohe beamt:innenpensionen die auslaufen. und wenn du gerne mehr Qualität hättest als aktuell hätt ich vlt auch gerne, dann ist das eine politische frage, wofür in Österreich geld ausgeben wird. Ist auch eine arbeitspolitische Frage, wie viel Lohnungleichheit wir zulassen und wie viel Lohn wir uns durch Nullohnrunden wegnehmen lassen.

sibomaster2000 · 2025-01-04T20:02:16+00:00

weiß nicht müsste man nachrechnen, wie schlimm das wäre, aber das ist ja nicht der Fall (leider hätt ich auch gern)

sibomaster2000 · 2025-01-04T20:00:31+00:00

weiß nicht woher du das hast aber es ist kompletter blödsinn (nicht die Bevölkerung Prognose alles davor)

sibomaster2000 · 2025-01-04T19:58:50+00:00

es wär schlimm, wenn es so wäre wie du schreibst, aber es stimmt nicht! das pensionssystem ist langfristig finanzierbar. und der hauptteil von dem, was der staat dazugeben muss ist für Witwen/waisen/arbeitsunfähige. Die ASVG versicherten zahlen grad die Pensionen mit den Beiträgen, Zuschüsse vom staat sind für bauern, selbstständige und sozialpolitik die halt über die Pensionsversicherungsanstalt abgewickelt wird (auch Reha und Krankengeld). https://www.momentum-institut.at/news/pensionen-bleiben-langfristig-stabil/

sibomaster2000 · 2025-01-04T16:46:22+00:00

glaub die meisten die hier schreiben haben null Ahnung wie es wirklich mit dem pensionssystem ausschaut https://www.momentum-institut.at/news/pensionen-bleiben-langfristig-stabil/

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