lazyslacker

@lazyslacker@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weird 🤔⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  On a percentage basis I’ve gotten more downvotes and disagreements on Lemmy than I ever got on Reddit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do younger people go home earlier now? Or go out less? Is it since COVID?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As we both know, the 1918 Spanish flu was unusually virulent, and back then we had no vaccines. Comparing to that flu would not give us useful data. It would be misleading. As you know, I meant today’s flu.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do younger people go home earlier now? Or go out less? Is it since COVID?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  How are their symptoms though? Not bad right? By saying COVID is over I mean the now dangerous forms of it from 2020 and 2021 are gone. It’s barely worse than the flu at this point. I’m not saying people aren’t still getting it. It’s just mostly inconsequential.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do younger people go home earlier now? Or go out less? Is it since COVID?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That seems like a separate issue. I acknowledge your dread. It is important and should be addressed appropriately. I just don’t think the actual threat that COVID currently poses warrants such dread. You should be more afraid of heart disease, or car accidents, or something like that. Those things kill more people than COVID. Especially in 2023. It’s barely worse than the flu now. I was afraid of 2020 COVID. It’s not the same disease as it was then though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do younger people go home earlier now? Or go out less? Is it since COVID?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Opinion: unless you or a loved on has some kind of immune system issue, COVID is pretty much over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do younger people go home earlier now? Or go out less? Is it since COVID?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My town actually has a square. It’s nice to have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do younger people go home earlier now? Or go out less? Is it since COVID?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude even stuff like bowling is too much now. An hour for two people can approach $70 at certain places. Not the bougie places either, those places are even more. I was browsing Google reviews for one place nearby like that and the owner responded saying that they should look for a Groupon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is America Really That Bad?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree that it was just “slave holding states”. This is obvious to us, maybe, but when presenting the issue to non Americans I think it’s important to be accurate on this. It was meant to give states (slave holding or not) with lower populations a larger voice. It still does that. Our system of government was never meant to be a pure democracy. The president wouldn’t have to care about the priorities of smaller population states at all without the electoral college. They would just have to trust that he’ll keep them in mind.

  With all that said though, with how homogenous the county is culturally and with communication and travel barriers between states and between the state and federal governments pretty much non existent, at this point I think it has outlived its usefulness and should be abolished. Also the difference between the most and least populated states are, percentage wise way bigger than they were when the county was founded. Also, if my voice as a populated state dweller is smaller because of this system, it feels less like the president is “my” president because I had less of a say in picking him. At the end of the day the president is everyone’s president equally so the election of the president should be a purely democratic process.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s nice to be alone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As an American, whenever I try to do an English accent it ends up as Australian. That one is much easier. Even the affectations feel easier to do.