Smokeydope

@Smokeydope@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1+1=⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey TherapyGary I speak as a Locallamma bro, its so obvious this is chatgpt generated. Its in bad taste to copy paste AI slop in discussion fourms. Write your own words using the mushy neural network in your brain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Percentages⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Very weird fun fact about arrows/darts and statistics, theres 0% chance of hitting an exact bullseye. You can hit it its possible to throw a perfect bullseye. It just has a probability of zero when mathematically analyzed due to being an infinitesimally small point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon shares how they survive⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do speak as a person from north america and made tried to cover my ass with the beginning statement of this isn’t going to apply for everyone figuring europe or other countries will have different challenges in government and feasability. You do raise some good questions. I get the impression you don’t really have any use for my answers though. Someone who measures saved money in frappachino lattes and is so cemented in their particular job they are unwilling to commute long distance, switch jobs, or move to a cheaper area, probably isn’t willing to sacrifice any amount of convinence for the kind of lifestyle im advocating. Regardless ill answer your questions earnestly and hope it informs.

  For food, you cook your own meals obviously. 12v fridge and house batteries or perserved shelf stable foods. Most people who live in cars have propane or disel fuel for cooking and heat, or enough battery capacity to run a portable induction cooktop and electric water boiler. You can even power appliances needed for your precious frappachinos to make yourself. You spend free time at public parks and nature reserves, go hiking, camping, find things to do besides sitting around in one place. On bad days you still can hang inside the car. In north america theres a lot of free public land for recreational use and free dispersed camping especially out west.

  Having a mailing address to put down on govt and banking paperwork is a challenge if you are homeless. There are ways to get a mailing address and there are mail forwarding buisnesses that you can use. I think the endgame scenario is you would eventually get a plot of land and register a mailing address.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon shares how they survive⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for sharing you and your wifes story. Ive been watching Bob for many years he’s a huge inspiration and source of hope for many of us in these harsh times. Good luck on your journey I wish you guys the best with finding cheap land or whatever other choice you may take.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon shares how they survive⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Those two steps are the core tenants of our global economy. You need money to live, its just a question of how much you need and how ell you can save. If you want to boil down my five paragraph essay into a slightly smaller tldr its more like

  1. Have any amount of money from work, passive income, social security, pension, or other legit means. Be smart with your finances and start budgeting what little you have. Try to learn how to grow passive income so you don’t have to work for every scrap of money.

  2. Find ways to reduce the amount of money you spend each month in every way you can. The biggest expense most people have is rent or mortgage which easily eats over 1k per month or 12k a year. If you have a car consider moving into it for a few months and save up a couple thousand for a nicer car or cheap plot of land or to take a long sabbatical.

  Everyone needs a bit of money to get by in this world. Some people make buckets of money and are still broke by the time the end of the month comes because they live in high COL area or have poor financial sense like buying a new car every year as status symbol or collecting warhammer figurines.

  Some people make barely anything at all from meager social security and still find ways to save up a few hundred a month just by budgeting and reducing expenses. Whether or not you have money often is determined from a place of psychology not privilege.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon shares how they survive⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Alright lemmy commenters you want the real secret sauce on How to live comfortably with the least amount of money? I can tell you my strategy. This won’t work for everyone, and many of you won’t like what I have to say.

  loans and rent are a scam. Never go into debt, never open a credit card. Pay for convinences and nice things with the money you actually have saved up or learn to live without. don’t subscribe to anything recourrring but phone and internet payments.

  Live well below your means, not right at them or slightly above. If you live paycheck to paycheck and arent able to save up a dime for an emergency fund you will get screwed eventually.

  invest in ways of generating passive income. diversify, have a portfolio, learn the difference between money, value, and assets. Leverage the concepts and apply them. Take a chance and put 100$ somewhere in the financial market, fail and loose some money, learn something from it, try again until you start growing money.

  live out of your vehicle. Rent is a scam that preys upon your willingness to whore yourself out socioeconomically for quick illusionary scraps of safety and convinence that month. Any car, van, or truck can be converted into a liveable space. Its hard to adjust to such a different way of living at first but if you can do so the benefits of adapting to that kind of lifestyle is massive. You become your own landlord and pay yourself rent. Your only expenses becomes insurance and maintance.

  Donate your plasma. It’s a relatively safe procedure, You can do it twice a week, and it provides a part time jobs worth of income.

  Change your psychology. Society has ingrained upon us from birth a sense that our worth as human beings is determined by productivity and value we can provide. You see a lot of people in the comments here rail on NEETs Who aren’t currently in the job market while still somehow living a life. You dont need to be employed all he time.You don’t need to work all the time to live a comfortable life. If you live the way I just described you can work 6 months or a year saving up the money and coast on the funds for a year or two before working again. You can be free to travel the country living dirt cheap for many many months. Is that NEET life? Maybe. But wouldnt you like a sabbatical like that? A break from the years of work grinding?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wtf Cambrian⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I always felt that humanoid aliens were also a way to get the audience to more easily emotionally connect and treat them as characters. We have a hard time recognizing sentience and the capability of feeling in other animals. Its easier to relate to blue cat person than to the Blob

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨circuits⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  W E R I S E ⚡

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨circuits⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Circuit analysis was so boring and teedious I didnt like doing it at all. Thanks for the relatable meme for all dozen of us EE on sciencememes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon visits the Philippines⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah australians are too busy surfing, smoking pot, hanging out with sasquaches, partying at the indigenous peoples sacred islands, and shooting the local wildlife. At least, thats what I learned from watching The Big Lez Show.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AND THEY DIDN'T STOP EATING⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At least we will have mummy jerky… For now.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions our energy sector⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Since we are talking hypotheticals, an ideal scenario would be a nearly completely renewables approach where each household is its own self contained energy production center equippef with solar arrays, wind turbines, thermoelectric generators. Various means of production. And have either propane or diesel as a backup. Most importantly a big battery array for storing energy long term during bad weather.

  Most household electrical wiring is redone for DC transmission and all consumer appliances possible are run straight on DC for optimal efficency. Energy efficent heat pumps for cooling and heating. energy efficent cooking appliances like induction heaters. Electric cars that act as backup battery banks would be awesome.

  Humanity simply does not “stop” because we run out of non-renewable electrical energy. We did fine enough before the industrial revolution, the Amish do fine now, backwoods countrymen do fine now, and renewables + energy efficent consumer devices have improved a bunch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lab Assistant Jobs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Your centipede would be drone striked and the jumbo-wumbo gun research would be used to fuel a new division of the military industrial complex before NATO ever got a chance to add it to the no-no list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Responsible Adults⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You eat this mandelbrot set right now mister or theres no desert for you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Horrors We've Unleashed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am a hippy nature person who tries to be merciful and kind to plants or insects. The sole exception is mosquitoes. Those fuckers want to take my blood and dont settle for one serving if they get the chance. Were in a biological armrace and so far we’ve been loosing. Let’s see how they like being fucked with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#STOPIT⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, thats impossible. I just saw her and the kids last week. This is the last case I swore to crack before we head off on family vacation. Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#STOPIT⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sandy Loam. Who is she and why can’t I reach her?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon gets a pizza⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey hey people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon takes the welding pill⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Google Search gotten so much worse in the last couple of weeks?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am glad to have helped you out@angrystego hope you enjoy searxng! Paulgo is an excellent instance choice for first instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Google Search gotten so much worse in the last couple of weeks?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to a hater of Kagi but honestly its a damn good alternative search engine. I still prefer a good searXNG instance but if you haven’t try it out. Here’s my simple guide on search engine alternatives

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The best part is the name⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dear lord FlyingSquid I could handle the unhinged Trekkie rants but taking a picture of a monitor or TV screen instead of putting in the extra legwork to screencap? You’re not just unhinged, you’re a phoney. A big phat low-effort phoney!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wild times in a wild world⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol when I read their comment I also thought “Okay Biff Tannen”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wild times in a wild world⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cheating? I didn’t think the geneva convention had a section covering time-based warfare. Damn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wild times in a wild world⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on how far back you go and who you contact about he incident and the evidence to solidify the claim. 9/11 could have been stopped relatively easily with a few days notice to national security. The air force could have shot both planes out of the sky. Just call the civilian deaths a tragic casalty of terrorism and use it to help fuel the war. The twin towers could have been shut down that day.

  But you’ve gotta materialize right in front of the commander in chief, bring a mountain of carbon datable evidence like news papers and original classified docs, and hope that you don’t get brained on the spot before you make your case.

  As for covid, you probably can’t stop it but maybe better warn and prepare world governments so they can get their population ready through subtle conditioning like trying to get wearing mask be a fashon trend or advertising bidets heavily as the new rich yuppie thing to show as a status symbol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you set up wake up alarm and not miss it ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Layer it so that you have 5 alarms 5 minutes apart. You might miss the first or second but generally your ass is up by the 5th

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Socialism⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You have the wrong community, this is crazy people Facebook material

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude did it never occur to you that you can manually add custom search engine into Firefox?

  Settings>search>manage alternate search engines>add search engine

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow reading through these comments makes me a little sad. Looks like all the effort I put into that that simple search engine guide was in vain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨obesity⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just wanted to give some input as someone who dealt with lifelong obesity. As a fat person, some people just don’t like to face the music or give themselves an honest look in the mirror. They don’t want to call a spade a spade. Changing around words to describe things in more complex and softer language doesn’t change the situation any, it just helps you psychologically cope with your own insecurities.

  The same with playing the blame game on outside factors like genetics and disability. Blaming everything you can but yourself and your own choices and failures and unaddressed mental insecurities. Thats not a fat person thing though, thats a general human being thing I tend to see in most groups of people one way or another. Its easier to believe you never had a choice, than to own up to the consequences of your failures.

  When you have fat rolls, and stretch marks litter your stomach, and you look more like a slug than a human being, and you need help wiping your own ass or a bigger toilet to support the weight, when you have to go shopping at specialty close stores (before amazon) just to find a size that fits, and you have no self control or desire to change your habits to stop the self destructive spiral, thats obesity. Regardless of arguments on BMI or CICO or genetics or whatever else, you’ve got a serious problem that needs addressing or it will destroy you slowly but surely.

  “At least I’ll die happy!” my type 2 diabetic father would always gleefully tell me as he shoved another tasty cake in his mouth. I don’t think they ever did make him happy though. He had mental health issues he never worked through in life. Instead, he relied on the temporary relief of junk food for pleasure, eventually having his addiction dominate and guide his existence.

  As for me? I’ve gone through cycles of gaining and loosing 100 pounds. Right now im on a downward trend, lost 40 pounds this year. Hope to loose another 40 by this time next year. I gain the pounds during cycles of extreme depression, and loose them during cycles of great determination and self-agency. Our physical well-being is tied to our emotional and spiritual well-being. Self destructive cycles are much easier to enter when you feel nihilistic and out of control of your own life.

  How do I loose weight? I don’t eat. Simple as. I eat one meal a day, if that. Maybe snack on some dried preserved nuts and fruits once or twice.I drink water and lemon juice. Maybe this is a little unhealthy but I try to imploy some anorexic type thoughts like “Im strong enough, I can withstand the hunger for another hour or two. Lets sip on some water and endure it.” Often the hunger is boredom disguised. Its hard, im hungry every single day most of the day. But I see the results of my conviction when I step on the scale expecting it to raise 5 lbs and seeing it drop 10 lbs. I look at myself in the mirror, examining my stretch marks and folds to remind myself of what im doing it for, and the price ive already had to pay for my insecurities and failures to control myself.

  The physical act of loosing weight is hard and requires self-control over a very long time often multiple years. The mental act of introspection and reflecting on what lead to your obesity often requires analysing the roots of your negative aspects while confronting those past traumas. That requires a mental strength and intelligence many people lack. At the end of the day, its easier and feels nicer to twist words and point fingers than fix your own problems.