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- Comment on Work hard enough, and you can replace exhaustion with burn out 2 weeks ago:
If you ignore it for long enough, you can replace burn out with depression.
- Comment on Eat that ramen 2 weeks ago:
allows you the luxury of studying to increase the value of your work output
I’ve always wanted more value from my work output! Or contentment and self-actualization, it was one or the other.
luxury of ennui that gives you philosophical dread on your idle hours
I’m assuming you mean that those idle hours are the luxury? Because I’m pretty sure tedium and boredom existed in the fields and cobalt mines long before it got a fancy French name.
others would kill to be on your not-working-in-cobalt-mines shoes while being fed and safe
Relative privation?
Also, is eating ramen being fed? Is it safety if you’re one illness and insurance fuckup, or a job loss and six(?) months, away from homelessness?
this while having thrived up to an age that for most of human history has basically senility
Extreme infant and childhood mortality explains most of the short historical lifespans. 30 was never senility.
The same logistics and industrial development… is the one that gives you the climate change.
Every step of towards lessening greenhouse gases brings us closer to the fall of western civilization! Fly more, abolish public transportation, eat only beef, set your AC so low you have to wear a sweater!
- Comment on Eat that ramen 2 weeks ago:
In your 40s your body begins to break down. Often your mind slows down too. And you’ll have people relying on you, whether at work as a senior colleague, your children, your aging parents/other relatives, your friends whose bodies have begun to break down, or whatever responsibilities/opportunities you’ve taken in your various communities.
- Comment on How can a US citizen invest outside the reach of the federal government? 2 weeks ago:
Depends on how out of reach. Stocks exchanged in other, possibly hostile countries? Property in other countries that allow it (eg. most of EU does afaik)?
- Comment on What is a metaphor you like in your language? 2 weeks ago:
“Lukee kuin piru Raamattua” (Finnish) Literally “to read like the Devil reads the Bible” Meaning to examine something in bad faith. Never heard it used it in context of the Bible or anything religious, but eg. when interpreting law or contract, looking for the crumbs that could be twisted for your purpose, rather than what the text attempts to convey.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Homeless. My country has decent social security and “housing first” policy, it’s reasonable to expect to be able to exit the situation soon.
US, same, but exit for edgier reasons.
- Comment on What is something that keeps you up at night? 3 weeks ago:
Stubbornly not taking my antidepressants in the morning, whether relenting later in the day or not. Venlafaxine, how I love thee and thy withdrawals.
- Comment on (They're not allowed to legally anymore) 3 weeks ago:
Thank you! I’m content to use Nextcloud News for my feed aggregate, but that bridge seems super helpful for various purposes.
- Comment on (They're not allowed to legally anymore) 3 weeks ago:
This seems like a good thread to ask someone to find/make a RSS feed of WHO Disease Outbreak News. www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news
- Comment on you are the democratically elected leader of a liberal democratic country which so far has had a good relationship with the US, how do you and your country survive 4 years of trump? 3 weeks ago:
You’re talking to a Finn whose grandparents on both sides lost their homes to stalinist USSR. A sapling of a plant they brought with them grows in my yard. I’ve visited the locations and met the new inhabitants (normal people). Trust me, I know land loss sucks. War also sucks, and much as I hate realpolitik… sometimes there’s realpolitik. Of course in the end it’s up to the Ukrainians how long and for what they are willing to fight, with access to whatever aid (hopefully more) they have.
- Comment on you are the democratically elected leader of a liberal democratic country which so far has had a good relationship with the US, how do you and your country survive 4 years of trump? 3 weeks ago:
Fingers crossed, that would make me very happy. Land loss hurts way less than decades of finlandization.
Would have to be a -very- quick process, every day of negotiations would be a massive danger to them, and based on how it went with Finland and Sweden I’m sceptical of that too. And of course US commitments to defend EU Nato members, based on political whims.
- Comment on you are the democratically elected leader of a liberal democratic country which so far has had a good relationship with the US, how do you and your country survive 4 years of trump? 3 weeks ago:
Pretty sure he’ll “negotiate” and likely push through a peace treaty where the new border is the combat line (in Ukraine, Russia loses nothing), and Ukraine is forced into neutrality (such a pretty word for always walking a metaphorical tightrope, have R interfere with your election/election results, not daring to voice your own opinions in the UN or otherwise on the global arena… and of course no trade deals with the EU).
And he’ll tout it as a massive victory and compromise, when actually R got everything they really wanted. If Ukraine doesn’t go along, then they become “stubborn, hateful warmongers” or the like.
- Comment on It's Wednesday my dudes...? 5 weeks ago:
Aww, thank you. 😘
- Comment on Well you see, gam gam... 5 weeks ago:
I accidentally told my 50+ friend what shibari is. No, she didn’t know, she cancelled going to a planned event that would have included a lecture.
She also claims she didn’t know before what “bondage” was, and isn’t in the habit of lying to me. So yay for being a good influence, I guess?
- Comment on Americans Need to Party More 1 month ago:
Depends on the kind of party, it might not take a lot of money. But it does take time and energy.
- Comment on What's the deal with male loneliness? 1 month ago:
I’m confused. Are women on social media interfering on man-to-man friendships?
- Comment on What's the deal with male loneliness? 1 month ago:
You have to admit the “leftist” ideologies tend to be about working together and supporting each other, and the “right wing” ideologies about encouraging individual accomplishments, though?
- Comment on Help 1 month ago:
Seriously, it’s not that hard to find.
- Comment on These dames wanting inclusivity 1 month ago:
Somehow this stuck with me, and while you are correct, in any conversation about menses I’d probably want to include the people who eg. use contraceptive methods that temporarily stop them, and people whose periods are so irregular they simply don’t know if the next one is coming or not (my group). Personally I’d also want to include and hear from people who used to menstruate but no longer do, or who are likely to start soon.
In statistics afaik they tend to use “women of fertile age”, which makes sense for those purposes, to limit it to one clear-cut group for clarity. In gynecology for individual patients I don’t think any term is used, just a list of properties (“G0P0 menarche 12 cycle 28 duration 5 normal flow, last period 1.1.2025”) and then you move on to the issue.
And that’s for periods, a relatively clear-cut thing. Then you get to “people who had the female/male experience when growing up”, or “people who perform the traditionally female/male role in a relationship” or the like.
- Comment on the aliens monitoring our planet know that we are idiots 1 month ago:
Any reason to celebrate in a way all participants/effected find enjoyable is a good reason. Not very intelligent aliens.
- Comment on Yule Tidings 1 month ago:
I also liked the idea of New Year’s bingo, things you’d enjoy doing the next year and then seeing if you get bingo/s.
But nah. In 2025 I’m going to start a company that will cheaply generate near-unlimited clean energy from greenhouse gases, pollutants, and (only discarded) plastics. I will install it for free and provide the energy at something like 10% of oil/coal equivalent. By threatening to turn it off, I’ll extort those in power to stop wars (yup, within the year) and obey the experts on how to improve the wellbeing of the bottom 10-50% in individual countries and globally.
- Comment on These dames wanting inclusivity 1 month ago:
Do you often find yourself in discussions where the trans-inclusivity/exclusivity of the term it is important to know?
Because whenever I use “men, guys” or any other such term, whether it includes trans people doesn’t even cross my mind. Like the discussions if we should welcome “guy friends” at our girls’ game and gossip nights, or if I’m being too naive around “men”. Talking about “males” like an alien species would be weird and mildly offensive. (Mildly because the Finnish word “uros” can imply admiration for a man’s masculinity.)
If you wanted a term for potential partners you could possibly reproduce with, none of the “female, woman, male, man” terms by itself would do, because (even personally known) infertility for various reasons exists.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Well, if you’re for real, you pretty much answered your own question there. Many guys online are creeps, and you’d prefer to talk with women rather than try to find the golden fun normal person in a haystack of men.
- Comment on I don't have a purpose in life and feel like a robot. This cannot be good for my mental health, but I don't know how or what to change. How do I change? 2 months ago:
This, so much. You majored in philosophy, you know more about absurdism than I do. You also know there’s no such thing as “being ahead” or “being behind” in life, just being closer or further to your own values.
You’ve got an approximate 30-40 years of good cognition and physical ability left, and soon after you’ll die and nothing will have mattered anyway. “Existed safely until s/he died” is one possible path to take, but it sounds like you want permission to step out of it. Go for it, the world doesn’t care.
- Comment on Are Increased Colorectal Cancers Rates Linked to Using Laptops on Stomachs? 2 months ago:
Anything to excuse our unhealthy diets, huh.
- Comment on how do you workout when you don't have much time? 2 months ago:
You’re aware of low-volume HIIT? Max 15 minutes per day, evidence-based for cardiovascular health same as “normal” exercise. Not for building muscle afaik, and finding your own among the many more-or-less tested ones can be a chore. The popular “Scientific 7-minute workout” and it new versions would probably be a good place to start, and are targeted more for building strength afaik.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37939367/ …nytimes.com/…/the-scientific-7-minute-workout/
- Comment on Scalper economy 2 months ago:
Yea, absolutely, hence the approximated 4-6% return on investment - some years more, some years negative.
There is this apartment that I’ve been eyeing for a while, and I’ve seriously considered becoming one of those loathed landlords myself. Feels like trying to do right by the apartment and by a tenant would be putting out more good to the world than a passive stock fund, you know? So been reading up on it quite a bit lately.
- Comment on Scalper economy 2 months ago:
If you get an investment house you plan to keep for 20+ years, those in-demand areas change (here’s hoping the next areas to lose their lustre will be the car-dependent suburbia).
- Comment on Scalper economy 2 months ago:
“Sold it for a much higher price without ever using or modifying it.” Proper upkeep over several years counts as “modifying it” IMHO.
- Comment on Scalper economy 2 months ago:
I think most of you are underestimating the cost of housing maintenance. We had some bad luck and a couple of structurally necessary renos were bigger than initially thought, or didn’t address the issue as well as we hoped, requiring new renos. In the last 20 years we’ve paid the cost of the townhouse apartment once over, easy. And now the bathroom, kitchen, and flooring could use an upgrade (25-50 years old), which is again expensive. In that time its value has risen maybe 50%, not quite keeping pace with local inflation.
Not complaining, we bought it for living in and it’s been great for that, and now that everything is at the end of its lifespan is a good time to really make it ours. But house prices aren’t rising insanely everywhere, house upkeep isn’t free (there are always “modifications”), and at least here the average ROI for being a landlord is abt 4-6%, same as stocks lately, and that’s assuming no major surprises.