I think the "people are free to believe what they want to believe" is a mistake. This is the very statement that relativitises opinions and belief systems with facts and creates the illusion that they are all equal.
Look at the "facts don't care about feelings" crowd that believe wholeheartedly that statements pandering to their feelings are facts and disregard any actual facts as fake news. I don't think it's because they decided one day to pick and choose what is a fact and what is not, but they actually can't tell that there is a difference in opinions, beliefs and facts in the first place.
People need to accept that sometimes the truth is painful, that it contradicts what you want it to be, and worst of all - that you may have been wrong.
Edit: that said, I think people are free to believe whatever they want to believe when it comes to unprovable existential esoterica like personal values, afterlife, religion, whatever. As long they accept it is a personal belief and not an universal truth.
I know it’s not popular and I’m typically against it but I was listening to a podcast and it made me think there are absolutely important communities that shouldn’t be on a centralised platform like Reddit. The contents of them are so important that it should be on the Open Social Web. I’m wondering if there is someone...
I'm not against it if it is on a server or a cluster that are separated from the regular feeds. I don't want to be spammed with mirrored content and try to interact with bots.
Had the song It's Raining Men stuck in my head. Got me thinking. Would my home owners insurance cover the damages to my house? And what about the clean up?
I grew up on the third floor without an elevator. Thinking of it, I've lived mostly without elevator most of my life. Some places on the first floor but mostly 2-3 floor. A year on a top floor penthouse apartment without elevator on the top of a hill. Last place was fourth floor with an elevator. Now I'm back to stairs only. It feels perfectly natural for me.
That's not brain fog. You're romanticizing a medical condition. My brain fog feels like my brain is walking through water. I know where I'm going and I know how to get there but every step on the way is slow and cumbersome and takes way more energy than it should. IDK what you are talking about. Delusional euphoria maybe.
I have no idea what you are saying. Maybe the frustration of trying to communicate but not be able to find the right words in the right order are the perfect illustration of what it feels like with brain fog. Except apply it to everything and a massive headache when trying to force it. It's nothing to be romanticised. It's not something anybody would want. Drunken delirium is something entirely different.
My intent was a quite light hearted observation that I've made over the years when a hip crowd takes a liking to a previously neglected area and very rapidly claim to be hashtag-first and whine about gentrification with stickers and chatter in the cafes of which none of its kind has been there before.
Indeed, I agree with you fully. My observation was that the people complaining about the gentrification overlap heavily with the early waves of gentrifiers.
Worth mentioning that it is not about football, it's about the people in and around a football team. I have zero interest in football and Ted Lasso is one of my favourite shows.
I have a supposedly smart washing machine that came with the apartment. Setting it up in my locked down appliances network, it didn't work with home-assistance, required cloud access and wanted me to open up ports in the firewall. Nope. No network connection for you. You are a regular dumb old washing machine.
Depends. I'm homebound due to an accident and illness several years ago and can't take part in activities or have a social life like I used to while I feel like I'm getting older and missing out on so much.
But then again I'm very fortunate that I have insurance so that I don't have to worry about economy and I'm pretty good at making the best of my situation and have projects going so I feel I'm moving forward even though in other directions than before and at a highly reduced pace.
So... It could be better. But it could be so much worse. To be honest, I feel way more thankful for what I've got than sadness of what I have not.
Dog food is after the regular cans are gone and you're desperate. If I was a survivalist, I'd stack up on beans, peanuts, multivitamins and water purification of some sort. But I'm not so I don't. Good thing I have big bags of kibble and booze.
We don't have the same problem with immensely obnoxious self entitled people that you guys seem to have so the need is not sufficient to motivate a sign and hence even less to start a business selling them.
So a quick internet search returns this gem and I don't think it's related to Lemmy. Any place selling merch? Would be a nice way to spread the word and ideally if any profits go to the devs/instances that would be great
Lemmy Kilmister was a real person with a legacy of his own that deserves better than to be a funny gimmicky sticker to promote a social media platform.
I read "it's dying" by people on Discord and Reddit all the time, but the numbers prove otherwise. It's been going up this entire time and sitting over 3 billion MONTHLY ACTIVE USERS!...
Because that is where the regular people are and I for one won't be bothered to try convince them otherwise because I know it is futile. I'll just check in every now and then to keep in touch with them and that's why I'm still there.
I was having a bad stressful dream like I often do. But then I realized I was just dreaming and that I don't want to dream this shite. So then I dreamed something else....
It's done by overriding the document.onrightclick and the selection start something function in the browser. Reset it and you're done.
I know this because of a manufacturers website that does this. So incredibly annoying when the only reason anybody would want to copy from their webbo is for reference of their own products. In my case the product numbers to search for where to buy it.
If somebody theoretically wanted to watch all seasons of the amazing show New Zealand Today when the official streaming is geo locked and has blacklisted VPNs in NZ - how would they theoretically do it?...
Some time ago I had a fever dream confusing reality thing and when I woke up I had reason with myself that "no, I can't run a program in my brain". I couldn't decide if it was a disappointment or a relief.
At least 20 Indian citizens are trapped on the front lines of the war in Ukraine after being tricked into travelling to Russia and then forced to join the army....
Randhir Jaiswal, spokesperson for India’s Ministry of External Affairs, said that the Indian government is aware that around 20 people are stuck in Russia and they are doing their best to get them released as soon as possible.
“We have also told people not to venture in the war zone or get caught into situations which are difficult,” Mr Jaiswal said. “We are trying our best and we are in touch, regular touch with Russian authorities both here in New Delhi and also in Moscow and we are trying to do our best,” he said, adding that India was deeply committed to the “welfare of all Indians.”
Damn. I'd expect the Indian government to be at least a little pissed at Moscow for luring and forcing Indian citizens into the Russian military grinder. This sounds like they are trying to sweep it under the rug.
Golden retriever are the Volvo of dogs
What's the most embarrassing thing about you?
Using Ubuntu may give off hipster vibes to the average PC user, but within the Linux community its has the opposite effect.
hot take?...
If somebody spends the whole day watching fox or religious propaganda, gets worked up and all he can think of is owning a liberal or converting an unbeliever, is this person a victim or just gullible?
Let me explain the question:...
I'd rather be an unknown fish in my own pond
Apropos "it's better to be a big fish in a small pond than a small fish in a big pond"
Reddit mirrors
I know it’s not popular and I’m typically against it but I was listening to a podcast and it made me think there are absolutely important communities that shouldn’t be on a centralised platform like Reddit. The contents of them are so important that it should be on the Open Social Web. I’m wondering if there is someone...
What's a candy that's practically crack for you?
True friend
It would be terrifying if it were to actually start raining men.
Had the song It's Raining Men stuck in my head. Got me thinking. Would my home owners insurance cover the damages to my house? And what about the clean up?
What side do you open a banana from?
People that lived in walk up apartments *with no elevator*, did you like it?
Again, with no elevator....
What does "brain fog" feel like to you?
OMG, it's incredibly, profoundly difficult to talk about this....
The first step of gentrification is that the people that protest gentrification have moved in
Is there anything on tv that isnt sex and violence
Chinese schools testing 10,000 locally made RISC-V-ish PCs ( www.theregister.com )
We should count in base four
We have basic words for the numbers zero to three, so why not use them to count?...
Homeowner baffled after washing machine uses 3.6GB of internet data a day ( www.newsweek.com )
Do you think/feel that you are living well? Happily? Embodying your values and dreams? If so, how did this happen?
people that look good in still pictures are called photogenic.
so, people that look good in moving pictures are called clipgenic, i guess....
Lemmings who have tasted dog food, what brands do you recommend for after the apocalypse?
Or any pet food I guess.
If I had an artisinal shop of any kind in America, I'd have an emergency button under the counter that lights up an enormous neon sign behind me that says "NO!"
I've seen enough of the internets to know this is a must have. Damn, if I was in America this would be a business idea in itself.
Lemmy stickers/t-shirts/merch? ( infosec.pub )
So a quick internet search returns this gem and I don't think it's related to Lemmy. Any place selling merch? Would be a nice way to spread the word and ideally if any profits go to the devs/instances that would be great
What song do you put on when you need to 'get shit done'?
Mine is Shia Labeouf - Just Do It (Make Your Dreams Come True) [Ultimate Remix]
Why is Facebook still so insanely popular? ( midwest.social )
I read "it's dying" by people on Discord and Reddit all the time, but the numbers prove otherwise. It's been going up this entire time and sitting over 3 billion MONTHLY ACTIVE USERS!...
Looking for a parody or joke type sub. Where you take real stories and run with it. Ex: Minnesota is in the middle of a snow storm right now. But in that sub maybe it gets changed to Minnesota is
Experiencing the start of an ice age....
Dreamy
I was having a bad stressful dream like I often do. But then I realized I was just dreaming and that I don't want to dream this shite. So then I dreamed something else....
Do you have some minor life advice?
Mine is to to keep chocolate in the fridge. It's a lot crunchier and has more chocolate taste.
This website that threatens anyone who right clicks ( lemmy.world )
Tinkerbell if designed by H.R. Giger ( lemmy.world )
New Zealand Today
If somebody theoretically wanted to watch all seasons of the amazing show New Zealand Today when the official streaming is geo locked and has blacklisted VPNs in NZ - how would they theoretically do it?...
Long trek home ( lemmy.sdf.org )
Indians ‘tricked’ into fighting for Russia in Ukraine with promise of jobs in Dubai ( www.telegraph.co.uk )
At least 20 Indian citizens are trapped on the front lines of the war in Ukraine after being tricked into travelling to Russia and then forced to join the army....