scarabic
@scarabic@lemmy.world
- Comment on I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it? 1 hour ago:
You don’t control geopolitics but you do control your own outlook. If you can’t accept a someday threat but continue living today, then you are losing the battle before you even know if you have to fight. Yes, losing the ability to get through the day is overreacting, even in light of the threat potential. I could give you 6 other things to worry yourself into paralysis about if I wanted to. But you control your own outlook.
- Comment on My kitten loves his hammock in the bathroom window, but my neighbor's trash pile ruins pictures 6 days ago:
It will eventually get heaped on there no doubt.
- Comment on My kitten loves his hammock in the bathroom window, but my neighbor's trash pile ruins pictures 6 days ago:
Check the wind first.
- Comment on My kitten loves his hammock in the bathroom window, but my neighbor's trash pile ruins pictures 6 days ago:
A “strategically placed” incendiary device that is placed in your next door neighbor’s lot? Right over the fence from your own house? That doesn’t seem very strategic at all.
- Comment on My kitten loves his hammock in the bathroom window, but my neighbor's trash pile ruins pictures 6 days ago:
Yeah this is a case where some kind of HOA or city blight regulations would actually be a good thing.
- Comment on what was the worst enemy of feudalism? 1 week ago:
Yes you can see this culturally in the old stereotypes about “old money” versus “new money.”
Rich family with a hereditarily passed down fortune, lands, and control = old money = feudalism.
Entrepreneur who came from nothing but tok advantage of emerging economies to become wealthy overnight = new money = capitalism.
Old money hates new money because capitalism dethroned feudalism.
- Comment on Is there a real, actually working way to earn money online without having a job? 2 weeks ago:
Inheritance. Your move.
- Comment on Is there a real, actually working way to earn money online without having a job? 2 weeks ago:
“be part of the owner class” they said - not “be a business owner”
It’s completely possible to own a piece of this and a piece of that and just sit and watch the checks come in. You just need to enter the picture with enough liquid cash.
- Comment on Is it really worth starting a lemmy community? 2 weeks ago:
If you want to support a Reddit alternative, be praised to invest some time and create some content. Moderate without big delays. You may put in more than you get back, but guess what? That’s what it takes to build something. Honestly given the tone of this post I would say don’t bother, you are not cut out for it.
- Comment on at what point in life it's too late to go back to school? 2 weeks ago:
Sure, it can happen. The anecdote sounds ludicrous to me: gatekeeping someone with that much experience over checking a box like that. But the good news is, if you’re in that situation you will know it, and can then act appropriately. If one is not in such an obvious situation, I think what I said is still good baseline general advice.
- Comment on at what point in life it's too late to go back to school? 2 weeks ago:
Did she do it for the joy of learning? Or personal growth and satisfaction? Or was it for career enhancement?
- Comment on at what point in life it's too late to go back to school? 2 weeks ago:
There’s not one specific age you’re going to find is The Answer to this.
When you are young and still developing and have lots of time to find your path, it’s worth making the long term investment of some general schooling to maximize your own growth and development, and prairie yourself for a broad set of possible futures.
However, as your career progresses, it becomes less valuable to invest in general schooling, but specific training for your specific career can still be valuable.
There’s no cutoff point where all this flips. If you are 5 years into your career and still aren’t certain of what you want to do, an MBA may still be valuable. It will expose you to a range of skills and possible roles and give you some good general foundation for things like leadership roles, or starting your own business.
If you are 20 years into your career and want to rank up to earn more money, an MBA is probably more expensive than it is worth. At that point, your experience is much more valuable than shy degree. Sure, you might look better in a job interview with MBA on your resume, but getting an MBA is expensive and whatever small advantage it gives your resume will probably not pay for the cost of the MBA.
You need to figure out where you are in this journey. Do you still feel that you are exploring and looking for your niche? Schooling might help. Are you on a specific path and hoping to power up? Schooling may not help.
I am 20 years in. I took a class for $300 last year that was highly specific to my role and only required two days. That was worth it. Spending $40k on an MBA will not be worth it for me. I could be 38 or 54 years old, age isn’t really the point.
- Comment on Why does everyone put celery in soup stock? 2 weeks ago:
I think at some point you may need to admit that this post is essentially “I don’t like this thing, why does everyone else?” This is subjective and cultural, not logical. You don’t have anything objective against celery, you just think it ”tastes horrid.” You’re entitled to that opinion. But I don’t understand why you seem to struggle so much with the idea that others don’t share it. Personally I think garlic is absolute magic, but I can 100% accept that others may not like it the same way, and some may be violently repelled by it. 🤷♂️
- Comment on All glory to the techno viking. 3 weeks ago:
Nothing gets the blood pumping like a little confrontation. Hardly looked necessary TBH. The dude tripped into someone. She was fine.
- Comment on Movie intros in 2026 3 weeks ago:
I saw all that and thought “damn it’s good to be a grownup.”
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Unjust go back to the things that forum admins have done forever: block whole IP continents you don’t see meaningful engagement from but see a ton of bots from. Make new accounts jump through a bunch of hoops. Don’t allow new users to create content for a while, and then make them earn that right over time. Shadow ban the crap you can identify so they waste their strength. Reap inactive accounts periodically. And so on.
- Comment on How does the private equity bubble compare to the AI bubble if at all? 3 weeks ago:
I acknowledge your point about alternate use, but we also need to look at a datacenter we may or may not need as a “power consumption plant.” These jackasses just keep loading and loading up the grid, looking to make a private dollar on public infrastructure. It’s wasteful and not necessarily a baseline good thing ^TM even if AI goes flop.
- Comment on A bear, exhausted from abuse, attacks its trainer— Hangzhou Safari Park, China 3 weeks ago:
Funny as it may seem, that is actually standard equipment under ISO:8110 for animal trainers world wide. And I quote from the text of the standard:
Safety Equipment (503, section C):
Animals of size over 20kg shall require a neck restraint device with a rigid staff. Leashes and chains are unacceptable for their ineffectiveness to protect the animal’s handler. A specialized noose-rod or other neck restraint device with handle no less than 80cm shall be on site at all times, or if one is not available, a basketball hoop is an acceptable substitute.
- Comment on Why isint lemmy more popular? 4 weeks ago:
Because Reddit exists.
Reddit itself didn’t truly take off to massive scale until some other players were out of the way. It was the underdog for a long time.
- Comment on Who shops at small businesses? 4 weeks ago:
Some of these are under threat too. There are online lawyer and doctor offerings now. Maybe not numbers, but there are certainly tech companies trying to own the plumbing referral business (like Thumbtack) and they suck a great deal of the profit margin out of it. Nothing is safe.
- Comment on Who shops at small businesses? 4 weeks ago:
Some local retail makes sense, and some does not. For example, my life would really suffer if the hardware store down the street closed up. I like being able to get a paint match home in under 30 minutes. And sometimes I spend half an hour looking for the exact bolt I need, checking it against the other part it’s going to screw into: you just can’t do all that on Amazon and the big box motherfuckers are further away and far less convenient.
Once I messed up and superglued a wrench into my palm. I couldn’t wait for fucking Prime Overnight. I went down to the hardware store and asked if they stocked ca glue debonder. They didn’t, but the store manager got out some acetone and sat there with me, slowly pouring it on as I peeled the wrench out. He wouldn’t even take my money at the end. You just get that kind of service from Lowe’s or Amazon. I now buy every single thing I possibly can there, to help ensure they stay around.
- Comment on Who shops at small businesses? 4 weeks ago:
Local hardware store stands apart as an indispensable local retail utility and I buy everything I possibly can there, because I like having a local hardware store and occasionally really need one. I buy all the household cleaning products I can there, because they sell them, I need them, and I’m incredibly happy to pay whatever extra 40 cents they cost over having Amazon pack up a box of dish pods into its own cardboard box and truck it out to my house,
- Comment on Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads. 4 weeks ago:
Yeah I actually never expected to have an LCD billboard up inside my home.
- Comment on Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads. 4 weeks ago:
I would merely hate this and curse the manufacturer. But I know that if it were in my house, my kids, with their raw, unhardened minds, would find it irresistible. The slogans would worm their way into their everyday speech. They would talk about new ads over breakfast. They just don’t have the filters we adults have. So I’m so fucking glad I don’t have anything like this. It’s beyond mildly infuriating to truly insidious.
- Comment on Who shops at small businesses? 4 weeks ago:
Why do you even visit them? I’d say if you use them for product discovery but then give all your sales to online merchants, you are an absolute enemy of small businesses, whatever you think you feel about them.
- Comment on Can we have a healthy life only with fruits or fruits and plants combined alone, and if not why? 1 month ago:
Not as a rule, no.
- Comment on Is it normal to see this static when you close your eyes? 1 month ago:
I see brown and tan herringbone with paisley patterns blooming through it.
- Comment on Annoying dark pattern where no means maybe later 1 month ago:
They tried AI the nice way and nobody gives a shit about it but billions have been spent already so they are tightening the screws to make you use it. This is late stage fuckery and hopefully the whole thing will collapse soon.
- Comment on [META] What actually constitutes "mildly infuriating" content? 1 month ago:
And the third is broken into two pieces
- Comment on How do you beat post-work floppiness? 1 month ago:
If you have a good job that’s not too demanding and are still feeling this, then you might think about it as a health issue and look into it with your doctor. You have two paths:
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look for some treatable malady - perhaps depression
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focus on wellness and fitness: exercise more, get your electrolytes, fix your diet
Either of those two paths may lead to more energy. I don’t know how old you are but this kind of thing doesn’t get any easier with age so I highly recommend getting ahead of it as soon as you can.
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