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- Comment on Can't be stopped 11 months ago:
Enough calories to feed you for the rest of your life.
- Comment on Not the most auspicious start of a new year 11 months ago:
Toasting to the new year?
- Comment on The way this is spelled out really irks me. 11 months ago:
I didn’t say I think it’s a good thing, just that the truck guy probably think it is.
- Comment on The way this is spelled out really irks me. 11 months ago:
It’s supposed to be a good thing. I don’t get the context of the stickers either unless it’s just supposed to be a useless explanation of the situation.
- Comment on Another great advert from Threads. Not really looking like my kind of place. 11 months ago:
Imma leave this here since they put it quite nicely. lemmy.sdf.org/comment/6818226
Also, just read their username and you’ll see it’s clearly exactly what we all think it is.
- Comment on What can a thorough sleep study reveal about a person's sleep and well-being? 11 months ago:
Why did you get the sleep study? It kinda sounds like you did it for fun if you don’t know what you’re potentially expecting from the results.
- Comment on Why does the permanent timestamp in CCTV footage sometimes change color? 11 months ago:
No one gonna mention anything about how that dude is lucky to be alive? Holy shit I thought this was going to be a different kind of video.
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid? 11 months ago:
I think it’s important to consider why you think this. Try and explain what makes someone stupid.
I do tend to agree with the general statement that most people are pretty fucking stupid. If IQ were a meaningful number of intelligence, I’d wager that it’s heavily skewed left. Meaning that the common saying of “think of how stupid the average person and realize half of all people are below that” is even worse when you use the median.
For me, what makes someone stupid is lack of curiosity, lack of drive to learn, and lack of critical thinking. I think stupidity is a learned trait, and our modern society is doing its damnedest to make sure children learn it as soon as possible. Never question authority, you only need to memorize so you can pass the test, and you will be spoon fed the information.
Then soon as you get out of school, you have to get a job and occupy most of your time with work or sleep, you’ll likely get only two-three hours of time to yourself each day, meaning you’ll lack the time to break out of the cycle. And the system compounds at most jobs. Your manager is likely stupid, meaning they want you to never question authority, just do what they tell you, and ask them very little questions.
I also think the trillions of dollars that are spent on advertising strongly influences this. And being constantly bombarded with psychological manipulation encourages stupidity.
I also think stupidity is compounding in and of itself. The less you know, the more you can just make hasty assumptions, then use those assumptions as fact for your next set of assumptions.
It’s also contagious. Being around people who are less stupid than yourself makes you feel bad, so you aren’t around them much or encourage them to join you in being stupid.
There is a massive difference between not knowing something, and choosing to not know something. Just about every person in the world has access to the greatest source of information that has ever been created. There are free courses on just about every topic you could ever desire to learn, fingertips away.
There is also a massive difference between knowing something and rote memorization. Being able to follow the logical chain of facts is very important, so is being able to critically think about a topic. I think being “bored” is great at combatting stupidity in this way. Spending time with no stimulation is great for engaging your brain in actual thoughts. Consider dedicating time to just thinking: no audiobooks, music, podcasts, video games, movies, TV shows, social media, books etc. Just sit and be bored for a while. Meditation is a great entry into this.
- Comment on It's dangerous to go alone. Take this. 1 year ago:
- Comment on Starbucks told to reopen stores Labor board finds were closed over union organizing 1 year ago:
Except they were generating zero revenue during the time they were closed. That is pretty close to a fine.
I do also think they should be fined for preventing a union from forming, but having them pay back wages would be more of a fine than most places would be fined because there are basically no penalties for this kind of behavior.
- Comment on and then when I actually try to apologize to people I end up making it all about myself again 1 year ago:
I’m not sure if I’m misunderstanding or if the other commenters are misunderstanding. Sounds like you want to stop being enabled by other people.
The answer is you cut those people out. If they are actively encouraging bad behavior you have expressed the desire to change, then your only option is to minimize the amount of time you spend with the person. Martial Goldsmith has a really nice book on how to effectively change behavior called Triggers. (Yes the name of the book is terrible)
Or maybe I’m just extremely sleep deprived and not getting the joke.
- Comment on Very few people realise how environmentally devastating this game is. 1 year ago:
I have never seen a golf course next to a hospital… Maybe it’s regional, but near me, most courses have many made ponds that hold rain water and you can smell the pond water when the sprinklers come on. The ponds can hold several Olympic swimming pools worth of water.
- Comment on Very few people realise how environmentally devastating this game is. 1 year ago:
Most of the US corn crop goes to animal feed, so no you don’t get food from it. At least not directly. If you totaled up all of the land used by golf courses, you’d be at .1% of just the amount of land used for animal feed. And about 1% of the land used by home lawns.
They’re not that bad, there are much worse enemies than golf courses in general. Again, courses that are in the middle of a city that do nothing but increase property value are terrible, but most are perfectly fine and use way less water than you think.
- Comment on Very few people realise how environmentally devastating this game is. 1 year ago:
Most courses use man made ponds as both hazards and as retention ponds so they can use that rain water.
You know what uses three times the amount of water per acre? Corn. And almonds use about ten times more water than corn. And people have only just started caring about lawns, that use two orders of magnitude more water, fertilizer, and land than golf courses.
Golf courses really aren’t that bad from an ecological point of view when compared acre per acre to other large man made structures. They’re generally pretty small when compared to other large landscaping projects at 30-80 acres. The issue is when a city has like twenty courses just for the purpose of driving up housing prices.
Would that land be better as a park? Probably, but this is the US, someone would see an unprofitable “empty” plot of land and throw million dollar houses on it.
- Comment on How do I tame my frustration toward my aging parents? 1 year ago:
Controversial, but until they are diagnosed with a mental illness, you have to assume they are in control of their actions regardless of their age. If a medically mentally sound 70 year old man is sexually harassing people, he’s just as guilty as someone half their age (not saying your parents would do that, just proving a point).
My personal opinion is you choose who you have relationships with, including family relationships. If you want to keep a relationship with them, you have to accept that they are choosing to act this way (again, assuming no medical/mental conditions) and decide to love them anyway.
If they are actually experiencing mental decline and not just relaxing their inhibitions, as so many older people tend to do, then you need to get them to a doctor fast. Everything from medication side effects to vitamin deficiency can cause mental decline. If they have early dementia, or some other incurable mental ailment, talk to a therapist about how to handle the situation and stay sane yourself. Caring for someone you know will never get well is extremely hard emotionally.
- Comment on The condom business does not seem sustainable tbh. 1 year ago:
Yes. That was my point. Definitely not that children are a handful and many people would rather not have that responsibility thrust upon them.
- Comment on The condom business does not seem sustainable tbh. 1 year ago:
Stories I’ve heard in the last year from my friends and co-workers:
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Bragging about how they got 5 hours of sleep last night because their newborn finally slept until 6am
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A “funny” story about how their 5 year old managed to get a hold of some chewing gum and got it stuck in their hair and all over a rug
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A potty training “success” story about how their toddler remembered to pull down their pants, but remembered mid shit they should have sat on the toilet, so they shat all over the bathroom.
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They found a juice box their kid bit a hole into and then tucked under their car seat… By smelling it rotting
Trojan just needs to get a group of parents together to tell stories about their kids and paste them word for word on the back of their boxes.
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- Comment on 😲😲 1 year ago:
I love Japanese architecture and Japanese food. And I’ve watched my fair share of anime and read my fair share of manga.
Anyone who doesn’t know how terrible Japanese culture is to outsiders needs to educate themselves, there’s a reason they sided with Hitler. That culture never really went away like it did for Germany. Talk to an actual Japanese person, who went to school in Japan and see how much they know about their war crimes, and then talk to a German.