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  • My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories

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  • Nah I don't think that's the alternative. It's not about dedicating your life to it. It's about allowing yourself some nice experiences to enhance your daily life even though you have very important bills to pay and can't just buy whatever food you want.

    I didn't even comment because I'm some kind of cooking or dining enthusiast. It was more about the general attitude (which I very much grew up with) essentially that it is silly and self-indulgent to stop and smell the roses when there's money to be made or work to be done. Basically the conservative culture where being a good human means being a productive boot-licking worker bee and not getting into all that touchy-feely human stuff.

  • Fair's fair.

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  • Invoicing intensifies

  • My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories

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  • I used to think that way in general, and personally I am still a bit like that. It's just one piece of figuring out how to get my brain & body to cooperate with me.

    But something I have learned, for me at least, is that leaning into things that engage a variety of your senses in a positive way is often a good thing. And even better if it leads to good interactions with other people that matter to you (insert boo-hiss from my introverted recluse AuDHD side).

    I think in the US especially, we often treat food as a necessary evil rather than just a necessity. People don't have time to waste on preparing healthy food and then eating it with their family. They need to focus on the "important things" like putting in long hours at the office so that they can afford to drive a BMW home instead of some pleb Honda shit. They'll just grab some fast food or something in a box that will fill stomachs provide some macros to sustain life in the near term, and everything will be just fine.

  • My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories

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  • Some people just do not think about cultures outside their own. Like, at all.

    Hey that IS my American culture!

  • Typical monopoly people

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  • Seriously!

    We have a third grader, and he's pretty good at reading. Recently he has been arguing with us about the pronunciation of some new words from his homework.

    The problem is, his arguments are sound! He's accurately following the rules he learned for sounding out words.

    When this has come up in the past, all I've been able to do is acknowledge his argument and explain to him how English has all kinds of weird rules and exceptions, and it's the kind of thing you remember with experience using the words. Like, there is no new rule to learn, and you don't have to freak out about remembering all these exceptions. It will just come with time. (Because we all know there's nothing that kids like more than olds telling them to just wait or give it time, lol)

  • It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"

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  • They can do that because Firefox is open source. If Mozilla disappeared and funding was sent to one of the forks instead, they could hire more developers and maintain it directly. Maybe even hire some of Mozilla's best engineers.

  • Free software has some glib naming conventions

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  • g'news and g'day to you as well, g'lady!

  • Fair's fair.

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  • I used to say this kind of thing when I was an angry young conservative because I assumed the culture I grew up in had a shred of good faith in its arguments and actions.

    The individuals can certainly mean well at times, but they are fed insidious lies that are made to sound good on the surface.

    30 years ago I would have wholeheartedly agreed with you because I knew many people are stupid.

    Today I would wholeheartedly disagree with you because I know many people are evil.

  • Fair's fair.

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  • John Deere has entered the farm

  • Free software has some glib naming conventions

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  • you're not gonna believe this...

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  • Well I just finished looking at their website for 20 minutes.

    Those look pretty awesome, and I know that I'd find reasons to use the thermal imaging all the time.

    Does it run pure android (site says something like that), can you install your own OS, and how is the update support?

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  • Yeah, or along the same lines I would love to see

    • Whole phone as thick as cameras, while still using good cameras.
    • Much of that space taken up by battery
    • Rest of that space taken up by some kind of compact cooling system that even has a thin little fan that can kick on when it's docked
    • Because of course i'm talking about a dockable Linux phone

    (I'm already seeing problems, like the fan probably needs to be part of the dock and the phone use the outside surface of the case as its heat sink)

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  • Yeah your average user today does their "computing" on a device that they never plug anything into except power. And some of them never plug anything in at all.

    I love cables and mechanically rugged tech, but the mainstream does not.

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  • The act of complaining constantly while not doing anything about it is a huge part of what I dislike about the angry white conservative culture I grew up in. It's such a widespread cultural issue, and while it fits my conservative family members like a glove, it is not unique to them.

  • Depression self-help

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  • I think that when we are attacking mental health issues, we need to think of it like the swiss cheese model of security in IT, except that we are on offense instead of defense.

    Everything needs to be on the table. Mental health affects how it feels to exist, which is pretty damn important when it comes to quality of life and finding some fulfillment, comfort, happiness, etc.

    There is usually not a single thing that "cures" somebody. And if there is such a single thing that works so wonderfully, it certainly does not work that well for the vast majority of people.

  • Anyone in tech confirm?

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  • Go for it.

    I got heavy into carpentry this year because another one of my hobbies involved a bunch of construction.

    Working with wood is satisfying as hell. So is building the exact thing you need that isn't a product sold anywhere.

  • Please Don’t Be a Lurker!

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  • I appreciate your concern for the quality of your contributions, and I think this place has a higher proportion of that type of user than just about any other platform.

    This place is small and it's generally friendly and inclusive. Most comments won't get any replies, but the ones that do will generally be constructive. The users here are into the whole idea of the social contract and that we can have something nice if we are just excellent to one another.

    I repeatedly say "generally" because this is an open platform and assholes are allowed to join. The assholes can even have their own instance dedicated to asshole topics! But fortunately the instances and communities are generally moderated by actual decent humans who are much like the users!

    So let that knowledge help you comment more, not less! Even if you get no comments and like 5 upvotes, it actually feels like something of value even if it's just a nod from a few decent people.

    Edit: part of the conclusion was supposed to be that you can consider comments more like a discussion with people and not some strict message board.

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  • Funny enough, Zelenskyy also did take a selfie there because he is the rare national leader that DOES give a fuck.

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  • It's a very widespread problem, and I don't know how much to blame on media and culture vs human nature. Maybe some magical thinking too.

    Basically, it's the issue of people being on autopilot and expecting the life they're supposed to have just happening to them. Interpersonal relationships are a huge part of it.