MeepsTheBard

What’s the difference between befriending someone who’s worse off than you who works in the same building vs someone off the street? Your ability to help them is ~ the same, but you could give them a person to talk to.

They’re not aliens, or pets to be taken care of. If a grown-ass man wants to chat with another grown-ass man about something mutually interesting to both, then why bring prerequisites into the equation?

Now, if it’s a “we hang out every single night and discuss finances and aspirations and such” situation, sure, I can see a disconnect if the higher-up person doesn’t try to help, but your comment almost sounds like a internet-fueled caste system when taken too literally.

“shit, how do I tell her?”

There are no friends in Mario Kart, only those I have yet to betray.

Treat the rest as a dedicated, specifically-timed “thing to do” instead of just “time I need to kill until I pick this weight up again.”

Timers are helpful, as people mentioned, but stretching, evaluating how that last set went/ how next set needs to go, changing weights, and walking around to catch your breath are great ways to stay mostly on track.

And if you check Twitter after switching songs or something? That’s fine. Working out slowly > not working out, so unless you’re annoying other gymgoers with 20-min squat-rack scroll sessions , I wouldn’t sweat a mental lapse.

EDIT: Ope, I think I misread your comment to mean “between sets” and not just “going to the gym,” my b.

It HAS to be a habit. Go to the gym because it’s novel and you want to try it out, then try your damnedest to make it a routine. Make it feel weird to not work out. If you fall off the wagon, try again.

If neurotypicals fail to be consistent (see every New Year’s resolution), you can give yourself enough grace to stumble, too.

The IPO announcement w/ shares being offered to Reddit users. Also, the deal with AI training off of user data without consent. Hard to keep track these days lol.

The people making the big decisions aren’t the ones working. They’re the ones put in charge to make money for investors, who want monthly returns. Not “here’s what will get us 1XX% growth in 6-8 years,” but now.

And you’d think this would only be the case with public companies, but private equity is gobbling up quality companies and milking them dry by cutting costs and abusing their brand’s good name. People want returns on their investments QUICK these days.

Plus other skills to learn to grow the community center. Fishing, tree-chopping, fighting in dungeons. There’s a sense of optimization as you learn, grow, and get access to more tools.

It’s slightly more action-y than Animal Crossing, but yeah, still a farm game.

Been using a Branch chair for ~2 years after having a cheap ikea chair for 1. Definitely notice the difference. You’re going to want some adjustability, especially with lumbar support and arm height/ width.

Otherwise, the biggest thing to feel better is just getting up every hour or so to move around. I try to go for a walk/ run once a day since leaving retail and losing 10k steps of physical activity.

By that same token, sit-stand desks are nice if you have the spare budget. Otherwise, just get a nice chair and exercise.

“look at all the benefits you get from being in a fascist state that doesn’t have laws respecting rights to a fair trial and sufficient burden of proof!”

Like there’s a reason we only see the taliban + authoritarian regimes do this, lmao.

Tenets breaking rules and being shitty mean that landlords lose on their investments (which inherently carry risk).

Landlords breaking rules and being shitty means that people go homeless, live in awful conditions, or cannot afford basic necessities.

Sure, both sides have the capacity to be bad, but trying to “both sides” basic shelter is fucking wild.

You sound really sure about your understanding of statistics and probability, and I don’t think anything I can say can impact that. I’m going to defer to the experts, but you do you I guess.

The thing about long-term predictions (at least ones that get publicity) is that usually the goal is to change them, so few have been “proven”. No one is printing stories about how an isolated set of rocks is going to be decayed by X% due to weather, because no one cares.

Except birth rates aren’t physics that will progress if left alone, they’re dominated by cultural choices that are impacted by economics and governmental policy.

Exactly. Those are the factors that are being considered when making these predictions. If economic factors and policies are making it harder to have kids, then birth rates drop, which is what we’re seeing now. What else is going to have as much of an effect?

These predictions don’t exist to take bets on. They’re not scrying into the future. They’re just binoculars that point to where we’re going.

No, they just need to be kept in that context. We trusted science on chlorofluorocarbons impacting the ozone layer, and chose to fix it rather than let it keep going. Was the projection “wrong” because CFCs were regulated, or did we just interact with it in a practical way?

The same applies here. There’s a population issue that (as you mentioned in another comment) without other factors, will come into effect. China can fix it, or let things play out and see if the “unknowns” can fix it for them.

“AI isn’t good enough to replace workers yet, but it’s good enough to convince CEOs it can.”

Okay, I think the practical reasons you gave are sound. Pre-dividing a userbase into more chunks than necessary makes the site seem smaller than it is. And trying to “force” the same subs that were on Reddit into Lemmy prevents uniquely-Lemmy stuff from forming.

And the “need” for white people twitter is basically “if we give everyone but white people a twitter space they’ll get mad and say it’s racist” lmao. I 100% agree that it doesn’t talk about “white issues” anywhere near the same degree as other communities talk about what they face.

With that said, I’m still not seeing a reason why the sub shouldn’t exist. I might eventually agree that it’s not necessary, it’s redundant, or it’s not funny… But that just means micro blog memes needs to get better posts and drive interest. Both are silly little communities with silly little posts, and each can right for more users.

Sorry about the long post, it’s mostly quotes!

…we’re on Lemmy where none of those communities are big enough to necessitate separating them.

For now. Unless you’re assuming Lemmy will be small forever, in which case why are we here to begin with?

I also completely disagree that posts from other races don’t do well. People of all races LOVED blackpeopletwitter because it was funny as hell.

Yes, because there was an explicitly-carved-out community that was able to express themselves within the context of the black experience. Trying to introduce race-centric memes to a general audience is a recipe for disaster, as it’s really hard to judge intent.

The main dividing line on Twitter posts is political vs non-political.

Yup. And race has an effect on how one is affected by politics. This feels like the conservative mindset of “there are two sexualities: straight, and political”. (Mostly kidding, but there’s truth in there).

Plus, we’re talking about screenshots of tweets…not actual discourse.

Comments. Comments are where discourse happens. A screenshot is posted with a hot take, shared experience, meme, whatever, and people talk about it. It’s an echo of what goes on in actual Twitter comments, but here.

I’d respectfully disagree. The X people Twitter communities are for people who grew up within the context of their race to talk about things that are relevant to that race.

A lot of blackpeopletwitter posts wouldn’t “do well” (receive upvotes) if they are presented to a general (mixed race) audience, simply because the majority of people may not relate to it. Therefore, there is a demand for black voices to speak to black voices. This extends to all races–my wife is Mexican, so I’ll hop into latinopeopletwitter on occasion.

So why stop whitepeopletwitter? Unless there’s something exclusionary/ problematic/ Nazi-adjacent happening, it seems like a good way for stereotypical white peeps to make dumb jokes about meatloaf. Micro blog memes has a similar-ish vibe, but that’s mostly because the site is mostly white lol.

“But there’s no such thing as “white culture” in the same way that black culture in America developed from having their cultural identity taken away, and being forced to create new traditions to navigate slavery, civil rights, and modern America! They already have cultural traditions tied to their country of origin, like Germans or Irish celebrations!”

Yup! But the concept of “whiteness” is becoming a thing, and it’s fun to make memes about. That’s all.

You’re correct, and I agree. It does shift dems to the right slightly. But again, it’s hyperbole to say dems are now “radical” on the border, which is what I was responding to.

Feel that. The hivemind on Lemmy can be brutal (coming from Reddit), since it’s a smaller community.

So now the dems endorse the radical rights position on the border. You don’t see how that’s an issue?

Equating “letting the opposition party fuck themselves as they try to pass a bill THEY don’t even want” to actively endorsing extreme policy is hyperbole.

At a very surface level you’re correct, but using that to state that the entire democratic party has abandoned their morals is absurd.