You’re welcome to do that, but learn to do it properly. If you’re just looking to preach and be outraged, then you’re part of the problem. You can’t change others, but you can change yourself.

I personally love podcasts. I’ll always be able to recommend from there:

You Are Not So Smart: 306 - I Never Thought of it That Way - Mónica Guzmán (rebroadcast). Episode webpage and Media file

If a black man can make friends with the most racist KKK members, and actually get them to change their minds through conversation, then there’s hope for anyone.

Oh look, it’s my 2 kids who decided to wake up at 5am and are wondering why I’m not awake yet.

Here’s a tip for how I’ve improved my social media experience greatly:

Stick to a rule of 1 comment and no further replies.

Strangers online are not going to be convinced by your point of view and there is nothing to gain from getting into a back and forth conversation. Unless it’s a particularly positive or productive conversation about a particular interest you share…there’s nothing to gain from arguing online and lots of potential mental damage you risk.

Punchline isn’t even funny. Anyone who laughs is an idiot and the creator deserves to die.

This is not a question for Lemmy.

Could be anything from dry eyes to glaucoma. Get it checked.

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make you attack me

Oof. Totally not an attack.

Isn’t this the point of therapy? That we can change out own world by working on how our brain perceives and processes it.

Circle of influence vs circle of concern. The answer still lies within you to be able to calibrate your mind to be able to live through a shit situation, and do what you feel able to improve it.

I have trouble making friends and breaking the ice too. I’m going to go around giving out money to break the ice too. Is $7 enough? How much conversation time do I get for that?

I agree completely and struggle with the same.

Lemmy is too small and insular. Only mainstream (politics) or echo chamber (Linux) content gets enough momentum.

Reddit was large enough that you could shun the main communities and still find enough content in really niche communities.

People also don’t stick to designated communities and posts overflow to all sorts of places. I block all politics, but want to see memes. But all the meme communities are overflowing with political memes.

It’s a difficult time politically too, and Lemmy (socially liberal) is very much against incumbents (conservative nationalists) in most parts of the world.

My advice would be to expect little relevant content. Use an app that let’s you block things (I like Boost). Block all the communities and keywords you want (Trump, parliament, elections, Ukraine, etc etc). Ultimately cut back on social media use as it will always focus on politics. Go directly to sites that cover content you like.

The medical community has long since moved on from the cardiovascular definition of death.

UpToDate.com is about the only source I can be bothered mustering up for an internet disagreement at this time of night:

Death is an irreversible, biologic event that consists of permanent cessation of the critical functions of the organism as a whole [1]. This concept allows for survival of tissues in isolation, but it requires the loss of integrated function of various organ systems. Death of the brain therefore qualifies as death, as the brain is essential for integrating critical functions of the body. The equivalence of brain death with death is largely, although not universally, accepted [2,3]. Brain death implies the permanent absence of cerebral and brainstem functions.

Also this video seems to explain what I’m trying to say, although I’m not going to watch the whole thing at this hour and I only skimmed through it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5IhxRSaJ74E

Not having a heartbeat and not breathing doesn’t mean you’re dead. Intensive care departments are literally full of people with medically paralysed breathing muscles (i.e. not breathing) on ventilation machines. People go onto heart/lung bypass machines everyday to have heart surgery and their heart is stopped. You just need to keep oxygenated blood going around, keeping those tissues alive till you get the heart and breathing back online (this is what CPR is trying to do).

When the brain stem is dead tissue, then you’re truly dead (but even then you can be kept “alive” artificially if you’re already on a ventilation machine in a suitable intensive care).

That’s not meditation advice. It’s the rumination expert training programme for people who don’t have enough anxiety.

Ink is for chumps. Real chads buy toner.

I really appreciate you sharing that video with me and really enjoyed watching it.

I used to think “snuck” was correct, but TIL.

Golar bears and Pizzley bears

It is meant to be an amusing post, but you can do this in a socially acceptable way by saying “I’m going to do some other things I need to get to”.

Awesome. And cool that your mom is into old Atari games. Did she play them back in the day?

That’s not just for internet publications of social media anymore…the headline news on the BBC is literally “Prince Harry says he wants reconciliation but the king refuses to speak to him”.