How the life will look like in postpandemic world.

Honestly working and learning from home has been one of the most demoralising experiences for me in the long run. For me nothing beats being able to attend a lecture in person and engage with people on the topics you are studying, and even being able to sit down in a library to read and take notes on campus is leagues better than being locked up in a home office for two years. I'm lucky to attend a university that was already heavily invested in the online learning space, so the information factor wasn't impacted, it was the entire vibe/aesthetic of it.
What was meant to be the dream research project to cap off 4 years of hard work has turned into a slow burn sitting at a desk 24/7, writing some code, reading some papers and occasionally attending online meetings. While it wouldn't have been that all that different process-wise without COVID, I would at least have had the advantage of getting out to meet people in person or god forbid just go for a walk.

I think early on in the pandemic everyone was excited about the novelty of being able to work at their desk in their pajamas and have all this free time that would otherwise be a commute, but the lack of environmental compartmentalisation for work/home/hobbies is seriously harmful. Some blind executive or celebrity might be like "well just dedicate a room for each thing", but most of us either live with other people or can only afford a small residence, so we work, play and sleep in effectively the same place.

All in all: not good.
100% agree.

The part about environmental compartmentalisation is absolutely true. Its so much harder to switch off and my sleep quality has been impacted ever since. No one really wants a commute but the funny thing is that time to decompress and physically travel between your work and home life was something we didn't realise was necessary until now.

It's like we've ended the work / life balance era and entered into work - life integration.
 
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100% agree.

The part about environmental compartmentalisation is absolutely true. Its so much harder to switch off and my sleep quality has been impacted ever since. No one really wants a commute but the funny thing is that time to decompress and physically travel between your work and home life was something we didn't realise was necessary until now.

It's like we've ended the work / life balance era and entered into work - life integration.
Yeah, believe it or not I miss my 1.5 hour train commute to uni. It allowed me time to read the news, listen to music and watch some YouTube.
 
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Yeah, believe it or not I miss my 1.5 hour train commute to Uni. It allowed me time to read the news, listen to music and watch some YouTube.
lol funnily enough I used to read 1 book every 3 weeks or so just from train commuting and in the last 2 years I've read about 5 books total.

Maybe due to lockdown I just don't feel the need for more time in my own head..
 
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lol funnily enough I used to read 1 book every 3 weeks or so just from train commuting and in the last 2 years I've read about 5 books total.

Maybe due to lockdown I just don't feel the need for more time in my own head..
I used to watch around 10 anime every 3-4 months (not due to seasonal anime fomo, I just like anime) when I was able to better organise my time, this year I have seen a total of 5. I also have the same issue with books, I was a pretty avid reader before the lockdowns.
 
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I used to watch around 10 anime every 3-4 months (not due to seasonal anime fomo, I just like anime) when I was able to better organise my time, this year I have seen a total of 5. I also have the same issue with books, I was a pretty avid reader before the lockdowns.
Interesting how you don't see much reporting on this phenomenon. There's plenty out there on the opposite (i.e. uptick in people reading due to lockdown) so I'm not sure if we're the exception here or if the media are just keen to tout the benefits of 'the new normal'.
 
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Interesting how you don't see much reporting on this phenomenon. There's plenty out there on the opposite (i.e. uptick in people reading due to lockdown) so I'm not sure if we're the exception here or if the media are just keen to tout the benefits of 'the new normal'.
Probably a number of factors.

For me anime and reading were part of a routine that can't exist. I would wake up, go to uni, study, go home, watch an hour or two, play some games with friends before reading a chapter as I went to bed. Now I just wake up, go to computer, get off computer and go to sleep. I guess too much time to indulge makes it less fun, there may also be the lockdown depression lol.

I saw an uptick in reading for people who wanted to use the lockdown time to establish new positive habits, but I don't know how much of that was a fad and how much of it stuck. Great to see more people reading though.
I would expect that lots of people have dropped off hobbies they previously enjoyed, it's just not something people normally talk about because they don't want to upset people or show how bad it's been mentally.

EDIT: Sorry for the grammatical errors, running on fumes at the moment :p
 
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Couldn't have said it better myself.

It benefited me as a student studying in a university at an isolated island, because i had classes that haven't passed for semesters. But to close the Law science school in my city i live was a bad decision despite the big percentance of vaccinated students and professors. When will we go if a lockdown happens again and the government promised freedom, no tests and bonus stuff? In two years i will find a job and i don't want to work in a home with my annoying parents. Opportunities were sacrificed on the altar of individual responsibility, as they call it(Sounds like a word better fit in scandinavian country and not where i live, since citizens act immaturely like toddlers). Also our educational system sucks
 
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tbh everything she posts sounds like trolling. it's just too stupid and incendiary to be legitimate. I refuse to believe someone into the Vapor movement can fall for leftists propaganda so fully
 

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tbh everything she posts sounds like trolling. it's just too stupid and incendiary to be legitimate. I refuse to believe someone into the Vapor movement can fall for leftists propaganda so fully
I don't think being into vaporwave has anything to do with political orientation. Just a thought.
 

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I don't think being into vaporwave has anything to do with political orientation. Just a thought.
sure it does. artistic interest/involvement requires thinking

leftists are devoid of such capability, which is why they worship things like crappy commercialism over art and have only the most shallow, surface understanding of creativity. artistry is a right wing thing

the extent of leftist creativity is..."hey what if we did captain america, but made him black! GENIUS!"
 

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sure it does. artistic interest/involvement requires thinking

leftists are devoid of such capability, which is why they worship things like crappy commercialism over art and have only the most shallow, surface understanding of creativity. artistry is a right wing thing

the extent of leftist creativity is..."hey what if we did captain america, but made him black! GENIUS!"
lmao yea fair
 

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Sorry, but they aren't letting go of their cash cow that easily. They will do everything in their power to keep pumping you with a jab, pill, or anything else that keeps their shareholders pleased on a semi-annual schedule.

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sure it does. artistic interest/involvement requires thinking

leftists are devoid of such capability, which is why they worship things like crappy commercialism over art and have only the most shallow, surface understanding of creativity. artistry is a right wing thing

the extent of leftist creativity is..."hey what if we did captain america, but made him black! GENIUS!"

Jaroslav Hašek, Bruno Jasienski, Gabriel Garcia Marquez? I mean, come on lol. You can certainly make an argument that right-wing people produce better art but this is just silly and wrong on its face. And not to knock vaporwave but if we're talking surface-level commercialism as aesthetic...

 
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Jaroslav Hašek, Bruno Jasienski, Gabriel Garcia Marquez? I mean, come on lol. You can certainly make an argument that right-wing people produce better art but this is just silly and wrong on its face. And not to knock vaporwave but if we're talking surface-level commercialism as aesthetic...


so you dont understand vw or art lol
 

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so you dont understand vw or art lol
I'm really asking if you're serious, if you want to drop the all lowercase cope and elaborate I'm all ears. I don't know how you could actually believe this unless you haven't consumed any media made more than five years ago
 
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I'm really asking if you're serious, if you want to drop the all lowercase cope and elaborate I'm all ears. I don't know how you could actually believe this unless you haven't consumed any media made more than five years ago
media =! art

youre proving my point
 

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media =! art

youre proving my point

You can just be like "I haven't read any of the people you mentioned but I've never seen art that I think is good from someone of a left-wing political background," you don't have to squirm around dodging questions and making nonsense replies.
 
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