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Engineering. Programming. Any kind of field with good jobs or stability.
I don't know how to articulate it properly, but I can't care about anything that is human-focused. I tried engineering and it made me extremely uncomfortable; like my soul broke apart and got put back together in the wrong way. Doomed to be a poor af zoologist/plant biologist :(
As a failed (not really, but academically) engineer who is only comfortable around non-humans I find this very relatable. But is it more the human contact or the human contact with engineers in specific or the technology that gives you soul damage?
I actually love tech, but I also think a lot of modern tech is overkill and shouldn't exist, and I can't get excited about modern gadgetry anymore.
Machine learning will continue until morale improves.
@trashgirlfriend @schmorpel noob question, how do you include the previous comment in your response text?
> at the start of the sentence makes a quote
@trashgirlfriend
>Oh!!!!
Wait but how did you do the > without the quote?
> Add a space?
Hmmmm
backslashes remove all formatting so *hello* can be written as \*hello* without becoming hello
you can also escape other backslashes
@trashgirlfriend
>Hello
\>hello
*whoa*
๐๐๐thanks for the tip!
Is there like a list of all the secret formatting stuff that's available?
Uhh not sure.
I think the formatting is called Markdown? But sites like this usually use a limited form of it, so I'm not entirely sure.
The italics, bold, link formatting , quotes etc are all pretty common.