I, personally, grew up with a giant lack of self-confidence. After I turned 25, along with quarantine to truly understand myself, I feel I have gained more confidence/self-worth....
There are always things people have in common. More-so today with the accessibility to media provided by the internet. That said being a friend to someone isn't about checking a bingo card of similar interests. It's about listening to their experiences and being interested.
What do people watch on tv, what are they listening to, where have they vacationed recently, did you hear about xyz happening in the news.
Kids. People with kids talk about their kids.
Some of that might overlap with your experiences, some of it won't, it doesn't need to. You just need to shoot the shit, hear what they've been up to, say what you've been up to, and enjoy doing it. Maybe do an activity of somekind while your at it, maybe just eat dinner.
The age range is just when people get busy with life and have less free time to actually do things. So they have less to talk about. Work becomes their lives. That changes eventually, wait another five year period. You get settled in your career and your focus shifts more towards what's going on in your actual life.
You should look up 'speech communities'. It's a linguistic anthropology thing. Essentially boils down to 'people talk differently and about different things depending who they're talking to and where'. In your case you want a group of work friends to talk about work topics with, separate from your group of childhood friends, who you can talk about non-work topics with.
I took it the other way, instead of us teaching the machines, we should have the machines teaching us, or develop the machines to teach us at least.
What's the point of having all the information in the world at our fingertips if we're just going to ignore it in preference of what we already agree with?
Lol, shitty business man does shitty at business, blames it on his not-customers. Sell me a product bitch. I ain't fuckin sold on an overpriced pillow. Let alone his overpriced pillow. How many competitors this mother fucker have? It's a goddamn saturated ass market of fucking pricy pillows. Where's his marketing? Where's his diversification? How often are people buying pillows?
This asshole made a fucking niche ass product for a niche ass market and then went on a fucking midlife crisis rant bender about some conspiracy bullshit.
Maybe that was his hair brained idea of marketing. He wanted to sell his pillow to crazy tinfoil hat fuckers. Mother fucker made his niche market even nicher. Maybe he mistook niche for Nietzsche.
I guess it's kind of technically not referring directly to racism. They are technically white people who are also technically nationalists.
Nationalist - "a person who strongly identifies with their own nation and vigorously supports its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations."
-the google first result definition
White Person - "White is a racialized classification of people and a skin color specifier, generally used for people of European ancestry, although the definition can vary depending on context, nationality, and point of view."
-the google first result definition
So you could have people who were nationalistic for other reasons, such as economics, manufacturing, self sustaining infrastructure, military power... who also happen to be a white person.
For the sake of argument, semantically, not wrong.
It should be noted that a nation is not a race.
The fact that there are a significant number of racist white people who call themselves white nationalists just ruins the term for the rest of the white people who are also nationalists without the racism.
I assume Nazis like the term because they support a "white nation" and are not treating white and nationalist as two grammatically distinct terms. Kind of a racist double entendre.
Just another example of Nazi's adopting something and ruining it for everyone else.
I don’t think human psychology will allow a united approach to global warming. Too man people are too stupid, to egoistic or just in such a tight spot they can not afford being “climate-friendly”....
Reading through these comments is depressing and my only hope is that I will be dead before the droughts lead to food shortages that effect me. I like eating, I like eating good food, I like having good food available when I want it. I don't like being hungry. I hope I'm dead before I have to deal with starvation. At least nuclear war would be quick.
Megaprojects are a pipe dream. We can't even deal with a lowball pandemic together as a nation. What hope do we have of coming together as a world? Let alone for something that isn't going to have immediate consequences slapping us in the face. We're a pathetic society that can't do anything good. All we do is consume. Mr. Smith was right, we're a virus.
We're heading for a post-apocalyptic sci-fi future, and all the horrible shit that goes along with it.
In a fucked up way, our only hope is if a mega power somehow dominates the world through some horrific war and consolidates power, while somehow avoiding nuclear war and then does a quick 180° straight into eco-fascism. That's the glorious future we have to look forward to. Life under a global authoritarian regime with severe austerity measures to deal with global warming. People will starve, people will be executed. The horrors of Stalinism will be our reality, and it is the only thing that can save us from ourselves.
I fucking hope I die, because I wasn't built for suffering.
As the title says. I have an older black and decker rice cooker. It’s been working ok but it always burns the bottom. Does anybody here have a brand they recommend?
I also use an instant pot for cooking rice. It works great, but I have to set the time manually because the pre-set rice setting overcooks my rice.
I use the mini-instant pot, the regular one is just way too big unless you're trying to feed a family of five.
It is nice to reduce the number of kitchen appliances I "need". Instead of a pressure cooker and a rice cooker, I just have a pressure cooker and use it to cook rice.
Edit: I should also add that apparently instant pot went bankrupt, so you might not be able to find one or replacement parts ever again? Maybe?
I vaguely remember something about them trying to revoke some kind of licensing that let people use their intellectual property, but they ended up settling for rewording the licensing because the backlash from the customers was significant. Ie. Boycotting.
Or something along those lines. Business fucks around, business finds out. They'll try again in the future, but there are plenty of other table top games people can roll dice to now.
Mining our information and selling it has proven to be a 1 trillion dollar speculative industry. Not sure what they want to do with it outside of trying to sell me shit I don't want, don't need and don't have money for. Maybe someone will notice that people aren't buying stuff based on ads, then the economy will be in trouble.
Okay, so today I am at the zoo getting drunk and ogling animals, and after a long chat with one of the zookeepers, I am now forced to ask this question....
Canadian banks need to take steps to assist mortgage holders who are struggling to stay above water after a rapid spike in interest rates, according to new guidelines issued Wednesday.
I'm curious about the state or Zika and West Nile now too.
West Nile got here in the early 2000's, and I was hearing about Zika in 2016ish.
Now we can add Malaria to the bingo card.
Just need chikungunya and dengue fever now.
And that's just mosquitoes.
Tick populations booming, so thats Lyme disease. Not to mention the invasive swarming ticks.
What other fun bugs do we have that spread diseases?
Sand flies?
Deer flies?
Sen. Wendy Rogers shared sexual images of Hunter Biden with her more than 300K followers on Twitter, where users have to be at least 13 years old to sign up.
Hello, this is a follow up on my previous post, where I showed off the upper logo. I changed some stuff, as was suggested in the comments of that post. And I am looking for some more advice (:...
Mega-Lot 1, a 100 story hellscape of crumbling concrete and rebar. Each level is ruled by a different gang and they are constantly at war. Child soldiers and suicide bombs are a norm. The basement is a tent city full of addicts and those that prey on them. The parking attendants are somehow more corrupt and dangerous than the gangs. Your parking pass costs you $2000 a month, it doesn't guarantee you spot, and owning a parking pass is a stiffly enforced requirement of vehicle registration. Escaping the parking lot each day is a mix of luck and bribes. It saves you 5 minutes off your two hour commute. Being late for work is an indictable offence with a minimum sentence of 15 years manual labor, performing maintenance on Mega-Lot 1.
The White House cautiously endorsed the idea of studying how to block sunlight from hitting Earth’s surface as a way to limit global warming in a congressionally mandated report that could help bring efforts once confined to science fiction into the realm of legitimate debate.
Long story short: we have been meeting each other for a while for semi-professional reasons, around two years now, although we only got close in the recent months. We have a very strong group of friends thanks to which we interacted a lot recently....
I'm seeing a lot of people saying take the chance.
At the same time I can't help but think how disappointing it must be as a woman to not be able to have a platonic friendship with a guy without them thinking it's something more or wanting it to be. Maybe she thinks you're just a decent friend. If you take that shot there's a good chance she'll keep her distance in the future.
On the flip side I can't help but think of all the stories of girls flirting with guys who are completely oblivious.
Not enough info to make a good determination, other than life is short and you're young, you can afford to take a risk or two. Personally, I wouldn't but that's cause I'm a coward.
It is happening. I looked into it briefly and it is happening in Europe, but the interesting part is that they haven't been able to determine which type of orca is doing the attacks.
Orca's are essentially tribal. Different parts of the world have different types of orca, but they're not really a different species. It's more like how we have different 'races'. Certain geographically defined groups have certain identifiable characteristics. And the orca's doing the attacks don't uh... fit the description... of the orca's that are normally found in the region. Which is pretty interesting in itself, it could be a rare trait, a chromosomal disorder, or interbreeding. Interbreeding between orca groups is also pretty rare because they're kind of racist against eachother and quite territorial, not to say it doesn't happen though.
When it comes to spreading disinformation about climate change or the risks of smoking, I can clearly see how it protects economic interests (e.g. the value of the assets of the fossil fuel industry or the tobacco industry). I therefore understand that these lies are (have been) regularly pushed by people who do not necessarily...
You have the choice to sacrifice 1-3% of your people in order to unify them against a common enemy with no risk to yourself. Add in the chance to take some of your enemy down with them, and convert some of your enemy to your side.
It's a net profit.
Are the ages 25-30 people see the most drastic changes in personal circles/friends?
I, personally, grew up with a giant lack of self-confidence. After I turned 25, along with quarantine to truly understand myself, I feel I have gained more confidence/self-worth....
S'il te plaît, arrête ✋ (sopuli.xyz)
Jailing unhoused people for sleeping in public is no solution to homelessness (web.archive.org)
Original: latimes.com/…/homelessness-laws-sleeping-in-publi…
Deep toots, high toots
Mike Lindell Selling Off MyPillow Equipment: They ‘Did Cancel Culture On Us’ (www.huffpost.com)
Senator Tuberville Faceplants When Told White Nationalists Are Racists: ‘That’s Your Opinion’ (www.mediaite.com)
Stop global warming using technology?
I don’t think human psychology will allow a united approach to global warming. Too man people are too stupid, to egoistic or just in such a tight spot they can not afford being “climate-friendly”....
Need a new rice cooker
As the title says. I have an older black and decker rice cooker. It’s been working ok but it always burns the bottom. Does anybody here have a brand they recommend?
ELI5: How do you play Dungeons & Dragons?
I’ve heard a lot about this game, but I just don’t know how to play it. Can someone fill me in?
Russia is on the edge of civil war, Ukraine spy chief claims (uk.news.yahoo.com)
‘Russian society is torn into two pieces,’ says Major-General Kyrylo Budanov.
The Zuck suck is in full swing. (social.fossware.space)
cross-posted from: social.fossware.space/post/123876...
Why isn't there a DNA archive for endangered species anywhere in the world?
Okay, so today I am at the zoo getting drunk and ogling animals, and after a long chat with one of the zookeepers, I am now forced to ask this question....
Canada Adds Guidelines for Banks to Prevent Mortgage Defaults (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)
Canadian banks need to take steps to assist mortgage holders who are struggling to stay above water after a rapid spike in interest rates, according to new guidelines issued Wednesday.
7 people have acquired malaria in the US. They’re the first in 20 years. (www.vox.com)
Wendy Rogers may have violated Arizona’s ‘revenge porn’ law by tweeting x-rated pictures of Hunter Biden (www.azfamily.com)
Sen. Wendy Rogers shared sexual images of Hunter Biden with her more than 300K followers on Twitter, where users have to be at least 13 years old to sign up.
#1 won by a landslide! Thanks for all the voting and feedback everyone! Now, what is his name? 🤔
Edit: Vote on the poll for a name!...
Which of these logo's do you like more? And what would you change? (lemmy.world)
Hello, this is a follow up on my previous post, where I showed off the upper logo. I changed some stuff, as was suggested in the comments of that post. And I am looking for some more advice (:...
Parking Rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
PSA: while upvoting exists, to get the "move closer to the top" effect that reddit's upvote had, you need to click boost
a small difference, but important to how people use the site
White House cautiously opens the door to study blocking sun's rays to slow global warming (www.eenews.net)
The White House cautiously endorsed the idea of studying how to block sunlight from hitting Earth’s surface as a way to limit global warming in a congressionally mandated report that could help bring efforts once confined to science fiction into the realm of legitimate debate.
Am I (24M) being delusional over possibilities of a relationship with my crush (21F)?
Long story short: we have been meeting each other for a while for semi-professional reasons, around two years now, although we only got close in the recent months. We have a very strong group of friends thanks to which we interacted a lot recently....
Google admits Reddit Blackout made search results worse: Report (www.moneycontrol.com)
Google CEO Sundar Pichai reportedly told employees that users don't want to see
In 1987 a group of orcas spent the summer wearing a dead salmon hat (beehaw.org)
I heard about this today. I thought no animal could be as silly as humans but here you go.
Reddit's Valuation Has Fallen Even Further, Fidelity Says (gizmodo.com)
Fidelity estimates Reddit's holdings are at $15.4 million, which is down over 7% from the fund’s estimates of $16.6 million from this past April.
What are the strategic considerations behind the active spread of anti-vax theories?
When it comes to spreading disinformation about climate change or the risks of smoking, I can clearly see how it protects economic interests (e.g. the value of the assets of the fossil fuel industry or the tobacco industry). I therefore understand that these lies are (have been) regularly pushed by people who do not necessarily...