tree_frog_and_rain

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to relax and most importantly stop thinking about the things i could be doing?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Move your attention from your thoughts about what you could be doing, to your breath and your body.

  I find my feet can be quite grounding, I’ve done a lot of walking meditation but our feet have a lot of nerve endings in them they’re pretty sensitive like the hands. And usually our thoughts you know we experience those in our head because we associate it with our hearing.

  By moving your attention down to a different part of your body it helps to make the thoughts feel less intrusive. You don’t have to push the thinking away or get rid of it, just put most of your attention someplace else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I "sabotage" my own online content to throw a wrench in AI training machines?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Make obvious jokes that a computer will think is real.

  I saw an AI quote what was obviously a joke somebody dropped on Facebook about bees getting drunk.

  So basically just have a sense of humor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anarcho-communism is the way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is one source.

  I recommend reading nurturing our humanity. Primates have two observable social systems. And they both exist in all societies along a spectrum.

  Domination and partnership.

  The more domination based a society, the more everybody suffers. Including those higher in the social hierarchy.

  Working class men, they are in a strange place because they have hierarchical status based on gender but not based on economic class. This makes it difficult for them to find solidarity with women. And thus more lonely in a system of loneliness.

  Communists would blame capitalism of course, and they’re not exactly wrong because capitalism is a domination-based system. Marx called this phenomena alienation.

  Feminists would blame patriarchy, and again they are not wrong it is a domination-based system.

  So on and so forth, but we can take a step back and look at ourselves as apes and see domination is the problem. The will to power.

  Buddhism calls this energy Mara, and would call the partnership energy Buddha nature.

  It’s all the same thing, it’s a strategy apes use to relate to each other and survive. Partnership is a better strategy. Assuming your goal is the health of society and the planet rather than personal gain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I also disagreed, I’ve read some very compassionate takes on men’s situation written by academic feminists.

  Bell hooks the will to change for example. Women can be experts on gender, and how systems of domination effect everyone. Men included.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  On the other hand, belle hooks’, The Will to Change, is one of the most compassionate and understanding takes on the subject.

  So she has an opinion on the validity of the experience, and it is that capitalism and patriarchy is alienating for men, just like it is for others. Especially working class men.

  Nurturing Our Humanity, co-written by a female author, uses system science and primatology to validate what men experience in domination based societies.

  I know your point was more long the lines of critics shouldn’t criticize things that they don’t understand, but there are a lot of feminists that do understand and have an informed opinion, because they study how these systems of domination affect everyone, not just women.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The internet kind of sucks right now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hating someone for their political views is different than hating them for their gender, sexuality, or ethnic background.

  And I think wanting to punch Nazis is pretty normalized on the lemmy verse.

  But I hear you, liberals are far to complacent with the far right. But they serve the same master (the dollar). So it’s not surprising.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The internet kind of sucks right now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The forum I call home tolerates a lot of hate speech.

  I think I’m out, but it’s less about the AI scraping and more about moderation.