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Pencilnoob

@ Pencilnoob @lemmy.world

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Many fall in the face of chaos, but not this one, not today

  • Mild Curse: You are burdened with the perception of your supply chain footprint.

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  • I feel this in my bones all the time, it's why I'm trying so hard to grow my own food and only buy second-hand stuff. It's not perfect, and I still buy new things, but I actively try to do without if I can.

    It's so fucked and taken me a lot of CB therapy to calm down the guilt of how supremely unfair this world is to many people. I don't want someone sitting in a hot factory pressing out widgets just so I can buy a new toy.

    I know this is controversial, but I think everyone should feel this way. Just like everyone should have to work food service until they learn not to be assholes at restaurants

  • Perpetual stew vibes

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  • Not OP but mine is natural gas and definitely produces trace amounts of noticeable gases when run. It gives me a very mild headache

  • Me too, man

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  • That's the real reason it starts early: so two working parents can get the kids out the door and then still have time to get to work themselves

  • get sum

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  • Thanks!

  • get sum

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  • My hypothesis is the decline is caused by a multifaceted change in environment:

    • cost of living crisis caused by inflation, folks are making only about 1/3rd what their grandparents made for the same labor
    • debt crisis caused by the above, crippling debt causes anxiety
    • educational treadmill, folks are working harder for top jobs, so schooling takes longer and is much harder
    • hormonal crisis, many young women are on hormonal birth control which is well known to significantly reduce libido in a large percentage of the population
    • food supply crisis, cheap, poor quality highly-processed food make folks just slightly less healthy all the time, possibly can affect libido with lowered testosterone caused by preservatives
    • social media crisis, evolution caused us to want to be nosy about 70 members of our tribe, not hundreds of millions. Social media is causing us to have the social equivalent of Daredevil's acute hearing, but it's addicting so folks can't easily shut it off (as I write on social media...)
    • fitness crisis, many folks just aren't healthy enough to lift and run, so they have less testosterone which lowers libido for everyone regardless of sex/gender
    • reproductive fear, folks realize they have it bad with little hope of improvement, so they don't want the same for their offspring
    • perfectionism causing a lack of confidence, being able to see the best in the world at any second on your phone causes acute perfectionism that prevents folks from even trying. Look up rates of musical instrument playing to see how few are even starting compared to 20 years ago. Skills in an area lead to increased confidence which makes a person more confident
    • protective parenting combined with extremely restrictive schooling, leads to less "free time" where folks can hang out and build social skills
    • hyper niche porn on demand, every person can access the porn of their choice on demand at all times. This causes unrealistic tastes and lack of confidence.
    • infection fears, everyone is taught from a young age to be afraid of STDs and pregnancy, so it's a looming fear in many
    • entertainment quality, we've created the most addicting games, movies, shows, and apps. These make it more interesting to sit and zone out than socialize
    • anxiety/depression crisis from the above leads to a population with lower libido, SSRIs are well known to reduce libido in a large subset of the population

    All in all, we've got a society that is nearly perfectly designed to reduce libido in the population. Those that manage to avoid or ignore these challenges find a very small dating pool compared to decades past. Those that pair off are less likely to have offspring, such that we will likely have a population collapse in the next hundred years. Hopefully by then have figured enough of this out that we build a society that makes it easy to be a human who finds joy and love in other humans and not in a screen.

  • get sum

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  • wordsmith, you've caused me to laugh, well done!

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    The average c/fuckcars user commute

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  • yeah, but like, fuck cars

  • Microwave Intensifies

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  • We didn't use Pringles, I think it was these big peaches cans

  • Microwave Intensifies

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  • I once made one of these with a bigger can and mounted it on an old 10' satellite dish. Managed to get Wi-Fi across several thousand yards without issue

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  • not everyone did so by force

    if you couldn't get each man to nut ... you were executed on the spot

    "not forced"

  • there is a remote controlled ai agent on every google device that can not be turned off

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  • ok what phone should I get next

  • Having the ability to lie and manipulate with no remorse will get you much further in this world than having morals and being correct

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  • I disagree, other than a few notable counter examples most times folks are only successful when they build reliable business relationships. Most relationships will dissolve if one party is playing games.

    On average it's more effective to follow "The No Assholes Rule". There's plenty of studies (referenced in the book Good To Great) that indicate that humble business leaders produce build more stable and long term profitable companies.

    Lying manipulators can sometimes get ahead but just as often they get found out and blackballed.

    I think it might be like a game theory type situation where if everyone is honest, then the first liar might get ahead a lot (although I suspect in that situation they'd immediately be shunned by all honest folk if found out). If everyone is a liar then honest folk have nothing to hide and probably will just be really defensive in their dealings.

  • What would you have done?

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  • Make butter and freeze it

  • Mini microwave burritos

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  • Ah that makes sense. Do you like the taste better?

  • Mini microwave burritos

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  • It's surprising to me it's more expensive to make at home with the same ingredients. Are you making the beans from dry, and shredding the cheese?

  • Hat.

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  • I'm playing through Another Crabs Treasure and this post gives me flashbacks

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  • walk this way hobbles up stairs, looks back

    the doctor hobbles along the same way

    I must say though, that movie kind of creeped me out as a kid. I really didn't like the blind man just trying to be nice but everything going wrong.

  • Aaaaannnd it's gone

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  • "the poor dopamine seeker, I fear his long-standing obsessions have affected him"

  • Stupid Sexy Trek

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  • Make love not war