LavaPlanet

@LavaPlanet@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hits me right in the feels⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Be angry, also, at the people who have rigged the game, those in power, artificially inflating prices to line their own pockets. And I’m so sorry you’ve had such bad runs! I’m also a little proud of you for, not only getting as far as you did, but a few times! Well done! I say we fucking eat the rich.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A genre of Country Music...⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  $50 bucks says, he still never feels like it’s enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flux capacitor problems⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to play that game! Simpler times! I called it doppelganger, and I would just shout random celebrities names, as if I was seeing the real celebrity, but it was just someone who looks slightly like them. I would have loved to get selfies with these dopples and just pretend I thought they were the real thing to other people, even when they looked almost nothing like them. Until it was so obvious I was taking the piss, there was no fooling anyone any more. Then I would keep doing it just to be annoying! It would never lose flavour.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lets just make landlords illegal⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I completely get your point there, public housing has become very rare and impossible to obtain. I believe, seeing as almost all the politicians are landlords, (at least where I am) that’s by design. How is that not insider trading. Fr.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lets just make landlords illegal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean like public housing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The only way forward⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I was being facetious, buddy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The only way forward⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean like, people who don’t get nuance or social cues?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨apple users in a nutshell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So what you’re saying is that low level workers are socialised to feel like lesser (even though the pandemic really proved who actually matters in the scheme of the whole job system) and also feel trapped by the design of the employment system, under capitalism and angrily try to take some ground back by having just one nice thing, bought with the feeling of pride, but are actually accidentally buying into the system that oppresses them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The reason CEOs want workers to Return To Office is because they want you to quit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what I was thinking, it essentially makes bosses obsolete and they don’t want the system to be deconstructed from the top down, ever. That’s toppling capitalism, kinda talk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What kind of upbringing makes an incel?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t it going to be more likely the men who taught him to hate women than women? That’s kinda incel thinking that the women caused it / deserve it, somehow. Incel is a cult, it’s fed by a lot of stuff online. It’s my take that extremely unbalanced overblown ego + not getting what they want = hate the things that don’t just give them what hey want, rather than be capable of self reflection. And the whole upbringing of men is socially oppressed by toxic masculinity to “be the best” (= toxic ego / never question the self), because if they are “the best” it’s others that are wrong, it can’t be them, and they can’t handle the cognitive dissonance of having any faults (aka being human) which would equate them to being not “the best”. So by their maths, the equation is “actually it’s everyone else that’s the problem and if I have to twist logic, reason and reality while crating crazy conspiracy theories, rather than self reflect, I will”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I could totally do that if I wanted...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I know this isn’t in the spirit of things, but, If you go through life comparing yourself to others, there’s always going to be someone more practised at something who possibly had more privileges and therefore came out ahead of you.

  But really we shouldn’t be measuring ourselves in how much $ we produce, that’s a made up thing, anyway and we are worth more than how many $ we can make someone else. And we’re pretty much all stuck in that oppressive system. And part of being stuck in that oppressive system is brain washing you into believing your value is tied up in how much you generate. But even on a basic level we actually know that’s not true. You don’t treat disabled people like they’re worthless, but their earning capacity in a society built around able bodied people, isn’t equal.

  You are a deep, rich, and complex, electrically animated meat puppet, and you have vast worth, you have just been trained not to see it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can I practice being more emotionally available as a man?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  How connected are you with your own emotions and emotional needs? How do you go filling your own emotional needs in healthy ways? First and foremost you have to start there. Reconnect with your emotions, sit with them, every day, and just really listen to them. You don’t have to do what they say, but they’re an important form of communication from your instincts and human needs, to you and for you. Your emotions are for you.

  Emotions are kinda like, when you put your hand in the shower before you get in, to test the heat, imagine ignoring that, wouldn’t go well. Emotions come up to tell you something about your environment and what you need from that environment.

  Sometimes your emotions just need reassurance. If you’re in the practice of ignoring your emotions, they get loud, and eventually fester, so it’s important to listen to them, validate them, acknowledge them, and then they usually move on, that’s all emotions want. if it’s an inconvenient emotion for your situation, acknowledge it, notice it without judgement, remind yourself that you are not your emotions, you are the entity observing your emotions, and that one doesn’t serve you right now, thank it and let it go.

  Connecting with your own emotions in a healthy way and sharing them, is part of emotionally connecting with others.

  The other part is connecting with their emotions and caring for those. Make space for people to have emotions, all of them, be curious about people’s emotions, ask questions, validation their experience (because all emotions are valid, regardless if they’re showing up at what is considered by some as the “right time”)

  When someone is talking about their emotions they may want you to validate and acknowledge, sometimes people fall into the trap of trying to “fix” the issue associated with the emotion or situation causing the emotion, but actual emotional connection is validating and acknowledges that emotional response and making space for it to exist.

  Imagine the emotions people are feeling are like a huge meal they’ve painstakingly cooked and put all their effort into. If someone came along and said it was bad or threw it straight in the bin, that would be really dejecting. Take time to work through each piece of emotion that crop up in a situation, for people around you, and the effort and energy that comes along with each step, like you would ask how they make each part of the dish, break it down to beginning to now, in process. You don’t want to just sweep it off the table. When did the emotion start, go back to then, and then relate, you can understand feeling like that, and it’s understandable for anyone and just leave space for them to talk. People are kinda using others to emotionally regulate, so letting them know their emotions are welcome and safe to express and validating them, makes them see you as a safe person.

  It all starts with connecting with your own emotions, so practice makes perfect, keep at it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨McDonald's franchisee group says new $20 minimum wage California fast-food bill will cause 'devastating financial blow'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I call bullshit in Australian minimum wage, because they’ve been doing just fine paying more than that here, for quite a while.