JayleneSlide

@JayleneSlide@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can be the reasons for self-sabotaging behaviours when it comes to relationships?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Came looking for this comment. It’s absolutely critical to know thyself, and understanding one’s attachment style is one of the easier bits of self-knowledge.

  One of the most accessible books on the topic is “Attached” by Levine and Heller. For me, that book was such an eye-opener. I read it as my second marriage was imploding, and I was grabbing at everything to try to save it. The example conversations for my and my ex’s attachment styles were uncanny. I kept getting the feeling of “were y’all in the room with us for that argument?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the pros and cons to buying a smart watch from temu?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I am also a bicyclist with three different bikes. One watch replaces three bicycle computers. I can track performance metrics, longevity of components, and service intervals… for all of my bicycles.

  My watch also has functions for sailing performance metrics, kayaking, hiking, running, and lots more sports.

  That’s ignoring the other watch functions: timers, find my phone (great for when the phone slips between cushions and I didn’t notice), compass, barometric trends, notification filtering…

  My partner has the same watch. The longitudinal health stats from her watch was one of the key factors in getting her health complaints taken seriously. One medical facility completely, repeatedly dismissed her concerns as “nothing serious.” Turns out she had Stage-IVb cancer (now recovered).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are currency/monetary base economic systems coming to their logical end?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I misspoke, and you raise a good point. I meant gift economies, and that error is on me. And those are pretty well-documented. I’ll stick to my firsthand experiences:

  • Waianae, Oahu in Hawaii. The weekly take-what-you-need-bring-what-you-can food exchanges there are a huge stopgap for food insecurity and also spur community bonding
  • Burning Man - TTITD, regionals, and much of the hippie festival circuit have a robust gifting culture
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are currency/monetary base economic systems coming to their logical end?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You are confidently incorrect on this. Currency == money. Money is, for we hoi polloi, a barely consentual conversion and exchange system for our labor, hypothetically allowing us to convert our labor into readily fungible exchange units. Money, at the Capital Class level, is debt, and therefore control, i.e. power. Money is just how they keep score.

  There are plenty of barter and Communist (“from those of ability to those of need”) economies, just on scales that fly below the radar of most economists. Your sweeping assertion leads me to believe that you may simply be ignorant of those non-monetary exchanges. Would you be willing to add more context to your assertion?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are currency/monetary base economic systems coming to their logical end?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wampum was used by Eastern Costal tribes as a storytelling aid.

  In the Salish Tribes, dentalium shell necklaces were used as a status symbol/indication of social rank. Some tribes used the necklaces as a type of currency, but I’ve only heard the “some tribes did this” part; never anything about which specific tribes used dentalium as currency.

  Obviously, anything that holds perceived value can be traded.

  Source: went to junior high in a school that taught two full years of Haudenosaunee (also called Iroquois) history.

  Salish source: I’ve been a volunteer naturalist in the Puget Sound for eight years with an annual training requirement, with entire days allocated to history of the original Salish tribe for the area where we’re working.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are currency/monetary base economic systems coming to their logical end?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Salish Tribes existed in the PacNW for over 13,000 years without money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could an animal be taught how to throw accurately?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  :( indeed. This got me right in the feels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could an animal be taught how to throw accurately?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ever see a toucan in person? I had an employee with a toucan he would sometimes bring into work. It could throw things, especially round fruit, with uncanny accuracy. Like it could easily play catch from at least 2m away.

  Glaucous-winged gulls also seem to have uncanny accuracy with defecation, but that’s not quite throwing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One of my favourite games in my childhood⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mashing the upvote for Shadow Tactics and Shadow Tactics:Aiko’s Choice. And agreed, their controller scheme is so spot on. Aiko’s Choice adds some deeply bittersweet context to the first game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the equivalent stereotype of 'women should all be homemakers,' for men?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One of my ex-GFs was fond of saying “Men are good for three things: heavy lifting, outdoor cooking, and sex.” Welp, two out of three ain’t bad.