Lemmylefty
@Lemmylefty@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why do dentists have such a bad reputation compared to other kinds of doctors? 1 year ago:
Which is so silly when you think about it: “this tire expert isn’t a REAL mechanic”. Okay…and?? We need both.
- Comment on What exactly makes a shoe "orthopedic"? 1 year ago:
A discussion of orthopedic shoes.
Note: the above site is trying to sell you on them, but the concepts/justifications they discuss pertain to your question.
- Comment on Is America Really That Bad? 1 year ago:
America is harder to live in the poorer you are, and it’s on a steeper scale than in other industrialized nations because there are fewer and less robust social services, especially health and child care, and declines in union membership have paired with a rapid increase in wealth inequality that is forcing the shrinking middle class downward and stomping on the poor even harder.
You can live a comfortable life (for now…) if you are firmly middle class and up. Your higher salary than your counterparts in Europe is eaten away at by higher costs, and you deal with risks that they don’t in the form of transportation being car dominated (more accidents and less walking exercise) easy access to guns (the most dangerous being the one in your own home, to you) and less strict food safety laws. Compared to those in Eastern Europe, however, your likelihood of suffering from a foreign attack is drastically lower, not that it was ever very high to begin with.
One thing that Americans take pride in (and rightly, mind you) and full advantage of is our First Amendment right to not have our speech be curtailed, so a large amount of the bitching about America, and especially in English, is Americans bitching about America(ns). So there’s a cultural element to it that may or may not exceed the truth.
- Comment on Is this it? Is there anything more to life, am I missing something? 1 year ago:
This comment right here.
With burnout and depressive states your ability to foresee the good in life, or even experiences outside of the grind, is severely curtailed: you essentially develop emotional tunnel vision. A psychiatrist can help you break the negative spiral.
- Comment on How common is it for atheists to be against homosexuality/abortion? 1 year ago:
The question as posed paints with very broad strokes. I’m guessing by “religious people” you’re probably thinking of American christians of the larger denominations.
Why do you think that religiosity is necessary to oppose queer people? In my experience, opposition to the queer community and expressions of queerness is tied to views on gender and conservative/regressive views overall. While there is certainly overlap between orthodox/regressive religiosity and said roles, you can still see a lot of bigotry from people who don’t care about what any god says, they just think “that limp-wristed fairy isn’t a REAL man”.
As with anything outside the mainstream, the experience of being an atheist (and being “out” as an atheist) can lead people to question more things that are considered normal and empathize with others, but it isn’t a given.
Sometimes deviance enforces a sense of humble and earnest examination of common truths and connection with others and their own struggles, and sometimes it enforces the view that this person knows better than the crowd so no need to really question what is definitely their own views.
- Comment on How common is it for atheists to be against homosexuality/abortion? 1 year ago:
An “abortion” at that gestational stage is induced labor.
- Comment on How could we have let this happen? 1 year ago:
I dunno but it’s the size of England.
- Comment on What is the difference between roasting and baking, since they are both referring to cooking something in an oven? 1 year ago:
- Comment on Your move 1 year ago:
Does your username come from a mistaken identification?
- Comment on Cognitive AI for ADHD 1 year ago:
Just gonna…click…and save this for later, and…
-never returns-
- Comment on Don't you find it disappointing that people apply Herd Mentality for upvoting top comments, even if it's not the best one out there? 1 year ago:
Well yeah, that’s just kind of the nature of conversations. That’s why a witty retort made an hour later just doesn’t have the oomph as a less funny one made in the moment.
In order to facilitate conversation, comments need to function like conversations, and those things just aren’t set in stone.
What it really comes down to is, when you comment, are you hear to talk to people, to listen to them, or to get votes?
- Comment on Don't you find it disappointing that people apply Herd Mentality for upvoting top comments, even if it's not the best one out there? 1 year ago:
If it bothers you, why not sort by New and ignore votes?
You’re not going to avoid herd mentality when socializing within a social species. That’s just how we work. So if it bothers you, curate your experience to how you want it.
- Comment on Will there be a Sort by Controversial option like on reddit? 1 year ago:
Agreed. For every earnest but intensely debated opinion expressed there will be thirty people trying to toe the line so as to pull in replies. The honest and willing debater is going to post anyway, but trolls are incentivized by, uh, incentives.
If you build it, they will come, etc.
- Comment on Youtube frontpage in 2023 1 year ago:
This is destroying my fantasy of it being a short story about a non Muslim equestrian falling for a Muslim girl who’s afraid of horses.
- Comment on Major 4-day workweek study suggests that when we work 5 days we spend one doing basically nothing 1 year ago:
“This reply was sent during work hours.”
- Comment on Influencers Navigate Strike Minefield 1 year ago:
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Well that’s a new one on me: first time I’ve seen class action mentioned in a Terms of Use popup.