Nemo

@Nemo@midwest.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is empathy based on a financial bell curve?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’ll find that at every level. It’s certainly very prevalent anong middle-class suburbanites.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is there such a negative connotation with the poos of horses, bulls, and bats?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, meaningless or spurious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are ghosts never racist?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How do you know you haven’t?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is there such a negative connotation with the poos of horses, bulls, and bats?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Bullshit is meaningless talk or meaningless tasks.

  Horseshit is a falsehood.

  Batshit is crazy or deranged.

  Dogshit is something low-quality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does Dairy Queen sell food?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So you can get dinner and dessert at the same place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you ever feel like your inside thoughts are leaking out?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No.

  TBF, I don’t really try to keep most things inside anyway, so there’s only a few I need to keep the lid on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spicy food never affects my gut and everyone thinks it's really weird. How unusual is this and what could be happening to explain why spicy food doesn't affect me?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I share this blessing. I’m still confused by how exactly people are tasting how spicy their precious meal was when it’s on the way back out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is empathy based on a financial bell curve?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, the working class and the lower class are both very empathic. I’m guessing you haven’t spent very much time with us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been carfree in Chicago for two decades, I highly recommend it. I keep my license current for emergencies and the odd once-a-year rental situation, but don’t own one. It’s cheaper and safer this way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  MRW I’m on a list with the CIA and the NRA but it’s the Culinary Institute of America and the National Restaurant Association.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That, and so they have an excuse to incarcerate or kill the leadership, see: Haymarket 7, Joe Hill, &c

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen if the Earth was sucked into a black hole?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’d suffocate and then be crushed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instead of asking all my stupid questions separately, could I just get a ton of "How to Adult" type resources in the comments?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your first time doing taxes, go to the public library and grab the paper copy of the instructions, even if you’re submitting it electronically. Read them and highlight anything that’s confusing or important.

  Laundry: Use less detergent than you think, and colder water than you think. Don’t machine-dry any wool and most synthetic fabrics.

  ADHD? Look into a bullet journal for keeping track of important info. This is not a product, it’s a method, and you can do it with a 50¢ composition book. The main benefit for someone with ADHD is that it’s stupid easy to start and doesn’t break if you forget to do it for a day or a week or a month.

  Buying insurance? Hiring a contractor? Know your budget and get at least three quotes before deciding.

  You don’t get promoted by being good at your current job. You get promoted by asking for it, or by jumping to a different company.

  Start investing now. Pick a stock or fund that’s boring but steady and buy $50 worth (or more, if you can afford it), rain or shine. Don’t stress about optimizing it; even boring investments should have a return well above inflation.

  Never lend anyone money. It will destroy your relationship 90% of the time. If someone needs help and you want to help them, just give them the money. Either they’ll pay it back some other way or they’ll pay it forward, but no matter what it won’t be hanging between you.

  If times are hard, don’t be afraid or ashamed to take advantage of programs or food banks. That’s what they’re there for. You’re not taking it away from someone who needs it more, most food banks have a big overflow from week to week. If you feel bad about using these programs when you’re down, well, make sure to donate or volunteer when you’re up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When an instance like lemm.ee shuts down, what happens to the posts and comments?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, there won’t be any new posts, so that’s not all that much of a problem in the end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The hell I can’t!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are you here and not on Reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  not what I wrote

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are you here and not on Reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Upvoting and down voting were always about sorting content by worthiness, and they are the same function here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are you here and not on Reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  because the official app is ad-infested bloatware without decent modtools that gobbles my data bucket and keeps trying to show me popular / all instead of just my subscriptions

  and because reddit cancelled all my coins and then brought out a new microtransaction currency within the year

  and because spez is a shill for the US President and his reactionary right-wing entourage

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are you here and not on Reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  same but RIF

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are you here and not on Reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No ads, working third-party mobile apps, better community, better discussion, fewer farmers and bots and less spam, and people generally post a text synopsis when linking to a video

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bonfire's new software lets users build their own social communities, free from platform control⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It mentions Mastodon, but presumably there will be a “flavor” that is more thread-like and connects well to lemmy/piefed/*bin?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say “the sky” but either way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you read and understand this passage?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, and I can translate it for you if need be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did people experience doom scrolling with newspapers and magazines?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe not, but they definitely did with television.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's something that you find unintentionally scary/creepy but isn't?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I personally find the children’s poems of Maurice Sendak creepy, but I think that’s intentional. To my mind, it’s Carol King singing “Chicken Soup with Rice” all cheerful that’s misreading the vibe.