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  • pimento64@sopuli.xyzP [email protected]

    Telling people "calm down" is a very unconstructive de-escalation tactic because it has no substance. People respond much better if you address specific conduct, explain a potential consequence, ask for something else, and then give space.
    For example, when someone needs to calm down, I tell them "You'd better fix that attitude problem of yours before it gets you into trouble", and then as soon as they begin to respond I interrupt with "Close your mouth" and I walk away. This makes people realize they're overreacting and they calm down right away.

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    Sounds like a great way to get a chair upside the back of your head.

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      None of that sounds productive to me. It seems accusatory and self-satisfied to the point of being abusive. Sounds like the kind of things infuriatingly rude people say and do to try and deflect from their own toxicity.

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      I thought that was the joke; this is such terrible advice that it's obviously a troll/sarcasm levels of joke.

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        I know this is a joke but it made me think how messed up it is that we've outsourced recognizing our own emotions lol

        Also, now a bunch of companies have tons of data on when and where we feel things

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        The “take a minute to breathe” thing is on a timer; it doesn’t react to detected emotions.

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          The “take a minute to breathe” thing is on a timer; it doesn’t react to detected emotions.

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          No, but the “Your heart rate is above 120 and you don’t appear to be moving” notification does.

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            I kinda like it when my watch tells me that im stressed out and to do a breathing exercise. it helps me realize that I'm probably upset over absolutely nothing in the heat of a moment.

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            • pimento64@sopuli.xyzP [email protected]

              Telling people "calm down" is a very unconstructive de-escalation tactic because it has no substance. People respond much better if you address specific conduct, explain a potential consequence, ask for something else, and then give space.
              For example, when someone needs to calm down, I tell them "You'd better fix that attitude problem of yours before it gets you into trouble", and then as soon as they begin to respond I interrupt with "Close your mouth" and I walk away. This makes people realize they're overreacting and they calm down right away.

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              The number of people addressing this post as serious advice is troubling.

              Laughing when I got to "Close your mouth"!

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              • pimento64@sopuli.xyzP [email protected]

                Telling people "calm down" is a very unconstructive de-escalation tactic because it has no substance. People respond much better if you address specific conduct, explain a potential consequence, ask for something else, and then give space.
                For example, when someone needs to calm down, I tell them "You'd better fix that attitude problem of yours before it gets you into trouble", and then as soon as they begin to respond I interrupt with "Close your mouth" and I walk away. This makes people realize they're overreacting and they calm down right away.

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                  My Fitbit like to congratulate me on getting so many In The Zone minutes. I'm not working out, but thanks I guess?

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                  My Fitbit does this because my resting HR is so high, lol

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                    None of that sounds productive to me. It seems accusatory and self-satisfied to the point of being abusive. Sounds like the kind of things infuriatingly rude people say and do to try and deflect from their own toxicity.

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                    Calm down.

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                      The number of people addressing this post as serious advice is troubling.

                      Laughing when I got to "Close your mouth"!

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                      It is, but keep in mind that if you don't intentionally misinterpret things you know to be jokes, you won't get to act smug about how awful they are. It's good to see we have some people bringing the core aspect of reddit culture here.

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                        DHL forgives you

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                          I had the same reaction when my my Google Assistant told me that while it was not a real person that my words are real

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                            This comment section has revealed that a disturbing amount of Lemmy is insufficiently paranoid

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                              I had the same reaction when my my Google Assistant told me that while it was not a real person that my words are real

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                              Did you tell it to fuck off? I ask because that's the same response I got when I did that.

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                                None of that sounds productive to me. It seems accusatory and self-satisfied to the point of being abusive. Sounds like the kind of things infuriatingly rude people say and do to try and deflect from their own toxicity.

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                                You better fix that attitude problem before it lands you in some trouble.

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                                  This comment section has revealed that a disturbing amount of Lemmy is insufficiently paranoid

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                                  Because they use fitness trackers or for clicking that dodgy-ass link?

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                                    Because they use fitness trackers or for clicking that dodgy-ass link?

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                                    It's not that dodgy. Backblaze is a cloud storage company and the this is their endpoint for serving S3 object storage. Piefied links straight to that instead of proxying it themselves.

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                                      Did you tell it to fuck off? I ask because that's the same response I got when I did that.

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                                      In order to test this I have determined that there are various different profane terms that it will respond to with this particular message. At this point I'm not sure what I said to it originally.

                                      I just did it again and it says "I'm a virtual assistant but your words are still very real, please be respectful"

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                                      • pimento64@sopuli.xyzP [email protected]

                                        Telling people "calm down" is a very unconstructive de-escalation tactic because it has no substance. People respond much better if you address specific conduct, explain a potential consequence, ask for something else, and then give space.
                                        For example, when someone needs to calm down, I tell them "You'd better fix that attitude problem of yours before it gets you into trouble", and then as soon as they begin to respond I interrupt with "Close your mouth" and I walk away. This makes people realize they're overreacting and they calm down right away.

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                                        I'll try this at work with manager. Thanks for the advice!

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                                          I kinda like it when my watch tells me that im stressed out and to do a breathing exercise. it helps me realize that I'm probably upset over absolutely nothing in the heat of a moment.

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                                          After I learning I'm physically stressed almost all the time and didn't realize it, I decided to save battery life by turning that feature off.

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