Free_Opinions @ Free_Opinions @feddit.uk

Independent thinker valuing discussions grounded in reason, not emotions.

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None, it's the web version.

Sorry for late reply, I no longer use this account.

Somehow they seem to think that one small cigarette butt is so insignificant that it doesn't matter despite the fact that they can see these small cigarette butts literally everywhere.

Anxiety / stress. Usually it relates to finances either directly or indirectly. I have enough savings to survive few years with zero income but having recently transitioned from employee to being self-employed, there's quite a bit uncertainty about future. I'm not losing any significant amounts of money currently but I'm barely able to save anything either which makes me quite uncomfortable as someone who for the past 10 years has lived well below their means.

That's my experience as well. In order to get a healthy, moderate amount of news you have to actively avoid them. I even tried avoiding weather forecasts at one point but people kept telling me.

It’s around 20 years old, if not older. What’s interesting to me is that when I bought it, I hadn’t done any research - I just walked up to the Leatherman display at the store, fiddled with all of them, and the Wave was the one I liked best. Only 15 years later did I find out it’s one of their best selling models.

The only feature from the newer models I wish it had is one handed operation for the pliers where you can just flick it open like a pocket knife.

I'd rather stay informed too but not at the expense of my mental wellbeing. It's not political posts that's the issue here - it's the amount of them.

Mine is 17 years old but last year I upgraded the last original parts in it (MB, CPU & RAM) so now only the case is original and I don't think it counts as the same PC anymore.

Our body!

I've always assumed that the average user here is around 30 years old.

Let me guess; Knipex?

• Kitchen knives. No reason to replace them with others that would do the exact same thing.
• Cast iron skillets. Indestructable, will easily outlive me.
• Shemagh scarf. Oldest piece of clothing I have. I've had it for almost 20 years.
• Bushcraft knife. Indestructable, does everything it needs to and nothing else. No need to upgrade.
• Leatherman Wave. There are newer and better ones out there but it has sentimental value to me and 99% of the time when I need a multitool it's either the pliers or screwdriver that I'm after.
• Yeti thermos mug. Can't possibly imagine what new feature a mug could have that would make me want to upgrade.

Either of two things:

Nothing. However, I don't think most people quite grasp the meaning of that. Kind of how they think that before the big bang there was just empty space. No, empty space is not nothing. There's no empty space, there's no time, there's nothing. By definition it cannot be experienced. Experience simply ends. It's as if nothing ever happened. The universe could just as well have never existed.

The more optimistic theory is that consciousness is in a way immortal. You can only experience being, not not-being. It's kind of how when you go under general anesthesia and then wake up it's quite unlike sleeping. When you've slept you have the sense of time having passed in between. With general anesthesia this is not the case. One moment you feel sleepy and then you wake up in another room. From your subjective experience you never lost consciousness to begin with. Whose to say that something similar doesn't happen with death. Instead of experience ending it just moves elsewhere. It's a pretty difficult concept to explain but it's somewhat similar to the idea of quantum immortality.

I'd embarrass her so hard after talking to me like that.

It’s pretty disingenuous to suggest that my decision to block political posts on Lemmy comes from a desire to stay ignorant.

No they don't, you only notice the ones that do. It's called toupee fallacy.

sticking your head in the sand and hoping it doesn’t effect you until it’s over is probably not the best way to handle it.

Consuming anger inducing political articles all day every day is probably not the best way to handle it either. For most people, this likely has far greater effect on their mental wellbeing than what these guys are doing policywise. On Reddit, there atleast was a slim chance that you could make an convincing enough argument that someone would drop their support for them but good luck finding such person on Lemmy. We're preaching to the choir here.

That is what does most of the heavy lifting for me too. Nearly all political discussion here is, in fact, discussion about either Trump or Musk. I'd be willing to bet that at any moment, atleast third of the posts on anyone's front page includes either of those names.

I'd like to be informed too but at this point it's essentially a choice between being firehosed by american politics or blocking all of it. I wouldn't mind if it was just the occasional article when something actually newsworthy happens. Now it's for a large part just recreational outrage.

No worries dude!

That is not even remotely what I'm saying.