Not_mikey

@Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you fight doomerism/pessimism in these trying times?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Can slacktivism work

  IMO no, You’re way less likely to reach anyone outside your bubble online unless you have a large broad following , and even then you’re mostly broadcasting to an echo chamber. The algorithms are working against you, they don’t want to show you nuanced takes from the other side that’ll make you think and stop scrolling for a second, if they do show you takes from the other side they’re going to show you extremist rage bait that is easily dismissed by a funny caption.

  That’s why I think phone banking , which can be done through software too even if you don’t have a phone, is better. You’re calling random people, and more of them are less into politics than the people on social media who are seeing political content, so they are less entrenched and more open. I guess you could also get to these people through social media but you’d have to fight against the algorithm to get out of the echo chambers and into the more moderate general spaces.

  In general I think you need to focus on and put energy into things you can change for the good. If you are unable to change others minds then you can still focus and put energy into changing yourself for the better. You can focus on changing your mind for the better, learn an instrument, a new skill hobby etc. that you can see yourself getting better at. Or you can focus on changing your body for the better through exercise and diet.

  For example if you want to fight climate change and probably improve your health with more fiber and can control your diet then switching to a vegetarian diet can be a way to change your body for the better. You can also learn to cook vegetarian food which will build a new skill and improve your mind, a skill you can clearly see / taste you getting better at.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you fight doomerism/pessimism in these trying times?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Tough spot, but some suggestions I can think off the top of my head:

  for organizing: come election time you can phone bank from home. Find a progressive cause or candidate you believe in and they’ll usually have a system set up and script for you to call or text and a list of phone numbers. This can also be an entry point into the campaign to volunteer to do other things and you can explain your situation

  For exercise:

  • you can buy some weights online and use those along with body weight exercise to work out. I mostly do cardio so I’m not too familiar but I’m sure there are plenty of guides online

  • walk a dog. If you don’t have a dog you can probably find a neighbor near you who would be happy to have there dog walked. Idk how restrictive your living situation is but I’d hope that walking the neighbor’s dog would get you permission.

  • try vr if you can afford it, some of the games will get you moving and sweating and are pretty fun, there are also guided workouts as well.

  Whatever you do just start a regiment that you can do and keep to it. You probably won’t see progress for a while but if you do keep on it and make it a habit you should start to notice your mood improve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you fight doomerism/pessimism in these trying times?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Organizing for the things you can change, which isn’t much in this “democracy”, exercise for the things you can’t. Doomerism and anxiety tend to go away if you spend 30 minutes a day running instead of doom scrolling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young will suffer most when AI ‘tsunami’ hits jobs, says head of IMF⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk, I wouldn’t consider entry level software jobs bullshit but those jobs are disappearing quickly with AI. A lot of entry level grunt work jobs will probably be going away, what’s determining whether AI can replace it is more whether it is basic and repetitive rather then whether it’s valuable to society.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk and Sam Altman clashed on X after Musk shared a post about a man who committed a murder-suicide following delusional conversations with ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Surprised grok hasn’t been tied to any deaths yet. I guess that’s one good thing about attaching it to a social media, someone can see your chat and tell you that drinking Clorox isn’t going to teleport you to an alien paradise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ice slipping on ice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is how you know they’re sending in people from bum fuck nowhere Alabama, no midwesterner would look at that and think that’s a good place to run, or even drive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If president abductions are something that can apparently just happen how come Putin or Kim Jong Un aren't in some foreign prison right now?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Venezuela would definitely fight back an occupation, that’s why they’re not invading. There are already Communist guerillas on the border with Colombia. Recruitment would shoot up under the banner of “stop the empire from bombing us and taking our oil”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You do get a hot blue alien wife though...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your mistaken, they do have aliussy, in the newer ones they get pregnant, so the baby has to come out somewhere.

  The tentacle hair is just another erogenous l communication zone, like our mouths.

• You do get a hot blue alien wife though...lemmy.dbzer0.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Assuming your talking about the top line players making millions, because your median professional athlete is barely covering there costs if you include athletes outside of the big 5 sports in the US and those outside of the top flight leagues. Then like any performer embedded in the monoculture it happened when mass media became a thing.

  Once your able to sell discs, tapes, TV ads on a mass scale with extremely low marginal cost anyone with a claim to that media property can make millions off of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"autism didn't exist back in my day"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  he played for 13 years, with the Louisville Colonels, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Chicago Orphans They had some weird team names back in the day, at least this one isn’t a slur though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a mechanism in the USA to undo presidential pardons years later if political corruption has been proven as motivation to give these pardons?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, it can be used for good. Obama pardoned a lot of non-violent drug offenders who were gonna be in jail into there 60s due to something they did in there 20s because of mandatory minimums.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make me feel like a man⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not his fault, be mad at the person who bred him, not him for existing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rich People Are Becoming Less Willing to Help With the World’s Problems⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re talking about median, and the median person in the US gets employer provided healthcare and usually some form of employer pension/401k contribution plus social security, so I don’t think those would be much different cost wise for a median US vs UK resident. I’m sure Britain uses there taxes better than us and has better benefits, especially for the poor, but I don’t think that fully accounts for the gap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rich People Are Becoming Less Willing to Help With the World’s Problems⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Median post-tax household income is £36.7k

  Wow that seems low, US median household income is $83k, even with taxes and conversion that seems like a significant gap and I always thought US and UK had similar price levels. Are taxes just that much higher? Or are households smaller ? Or are incomes in the US just that much better?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The person was talking about how certain people annoy them, he may have implied it was you but if you don’t think description matches say so and move on.

  But if we’re talking about being a good digital neighbor, you should try and see how your implication is annoying or offensive. There are issues with credentialism but it is not just some arbitrary aristocracy, people put in a lot of work to get there credentials and take pride in them. If you start saying all these experts don’t know what they’re talking about and I found out something they couldn’t is dismissive of all the work those experts put into learning about there field. Like don’t you think doctors get annoyed by all the homeopaths or anti vaxers who dismiss all there work because theyve done there own research?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨il boohoo⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Initially yes, and they were probably grinning ear to ear when they first bought it, just like we were all grinning ear to ear when we first drove by ourselves, but once the novelty and excitement wear off it goes back to the meh face.

  It’s like skiing/snowboarding, the first couple times you go down a run your having a great time, but once it doesn’t become a challenge then it loses its excitement and fun. With skiing though theres a lot more elements of variation (trees, bumps, jumps, narrow trails, grade variations, snow conditions …) to keep things interesting whereas driving roads can only vary with curves and grades, both of which are in a much narrower band of variation for safety reasons.

  There’s a reason tons of people spend tons of money every year going skiing but not too many people are renting super cars to go and drive around the hills.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨il boohoo⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You almost never see anyone happy in a Ferrari either. Look inside one and you’ll see someone with the same blank expression that you see on everyone driving and anyone on the bus. Despite what car commercials drill into your head no car will change that meh feeling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calling all Dickheads!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  wildly inaccurate “natural history”

  If you consider the fact it was written in 1850 it is surprisingly accurate, like it was talking about whales eating giant squids a century before the scientific community accepted that.

  Also the whale descriptions are the point, the book is about the enlightenment drive to understand and therefore master nature with Moby dick standing in as a refutation of that idea, being unconquerable no matter how much knowledge you have. Without the descriptions you could write off Ishmael and the crew as a bunch of idiots who just didn’t have the know how to take down Moby dick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's all relative⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are diabetics (which you’d probably become if you ate cheesecake daily) addicted to insulin then?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You should quit social media for good⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems a lot of your critiques are more of the media in general and not social media.

  if I got my news and my understanding of the world from Lemmy, it would be easy to believe a whole bunch of people in the United States have given up on civil society and committed themselvesto political violence.

  Yeah and if I got my news from Fox News or the New York post it would be easy to believe the cities are full of gangs of maurading immigrants. At least lemmy doesn’t pretend to be a “fair and balanced” representative of the US. Everyone here knows lemmy is far left relative to the US just like they know everyone’s not using or interested in Linux .

  As for the favoring of longer form more in depth content vs short form out of context content, that’s just what people like and are drawn to regardless of the media type. More people will watch TV news with shorter segments and less content then a newspaper, and more people will watch late night with even shorter form and less context then TV news. And then there are people who don’t watch or engage with the news at all because they have other things to do.

  If anything lemmy is better then a lot of the other social media because it doesn’t disincentivize links. Most other platforms the algorithm is optimizing for watch time / keeping you on the platform, so links to long form news articles get down rated because if you click on that link and go to that site for 5 mins, that’s 5 mins your not spending on the platform. For that sample you took half of the top posts were links to articles, see how long it would take you to find one article link scrolling through tik tok.

  Of course, the most passionate, angry, dramatic, and emotion-provoking memes get the most upvotes and go to the top of the algorithm.

  Again this is a problem with all media, if it bleeds it leads has been an adage for centuries.

  In general lemmy is showing people what they want to see, which media in general has always tried to do. Yes there are a lot of valid critiques of the behavior that this prerogative incentivizes, but that’s different than the critiques of algorithmic social media that prioritizes engagement and staying on the platform, which brings in a whole new set of problematic incentives in addition to the standard problems of media.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You should quit social media for good⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, most of what the article complains about is algorithmic social media and how it boosts engagement of any kind, whether positive or negative. This leads to “extremist” takes gaining ground easier then moderate takes. Combined with algorithmic siloing, echo chambers etc. That we’ve heard a million times, make people more radical and disconnected from reality.

  The “algorithm” most people use on lemmy is just most up voted, so controversial takes rarely rise to the top. A lot of the stuff would be considered controversial outside of here, but within lemmy there’s a “hard left” consensus where the moderates are probably democratic socialists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't like the doors⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Was going to write a list but I’m too lazy so I’ll just go with the first one that comes to mind: all falls down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GET THAT BREAD⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe they did, guess i meant dark web market links

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dubious Islands⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is missing the island of southern Ontario made by the trent-severn waterway Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GET THAT BREAD⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wonder if lemmy cares about posting dark web links like reddit. Here’s a listing:

  drughub666py6fgnml5kmxa7fva5noppkf6wkai4fwwvzwt4r…

  Let’s see if this comment gets deleted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was the fall of Rome this stupid?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This, people love to think Rome fell because of moral degeneracy and corruption, but that was probably at its height under Commodus or Nero when the empire was very stable and secure. The later emperors were relatively modest and to an increasing degree impotent, so it mattered less if they were incompetent, though many of them were, and that didn’t help.

  The reality is empires all eventually fall, they lose the military edge that won them the empire, either by degrading or the “barbarians” learning and catching up, and the forces that were kept in check by the military tear the empire apart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The crab housing market⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  desires a system where the larger and stronger crabs should have their pick of the housing market and less powerful (smaller) crabs simply have to take whatever smaller, less desirable housing is left over.

  Power and strength have nothing to do with it, they aren’t fighting over who gets the bigger shell, they’re trading.

  Smaller doesn’t mean less desirable, otherwise the small crabs would not give up the big shell voluntarily. They want a shell that fits there size, not the biggest one.

  This system takes into account size as opposed to our current housing system, which is all about power (in the form of wealth). We’d be better off if we considered size as we have a lot of small families in big houses (empty nesters) and big families in small houses (families just starting off in a small apt) and redistribution those could help both parties.

  The problem is that we are in a “bigger is better” mindset, and that empty nest family doesn’t want to give up their house even though they don’t need it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2022 vs. 2026 FIFA World Cup ticket prices⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sucks to be Mexican. The world cups finally coming to your country after 40 years and the tickets are too expensive for the locals to afford.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2022 vs. 2026 FIFA World Cup ticket prices⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Will probably be great in Mexico and Canada, they’ll probably fill the stadiums there with the people who don’t want to go to the US to see it.