cRazi_man @ cRazi_man @lemm.ee

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If I were dying, or lost my job, or had a bereavement; I would find any one of these to be incredibly comforting:

May the force be with you

Live long and prosper

Here's looking at you kid

My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get

You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain

Cowabanga

Apes together strong

If you find yourself alone, riding in the green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium, and you're already dead.

You have my sword, and my bow, and my axe.

Why do we fall sir? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up.

I live my life a quarter mile at a time.

I'll be back

Which would be worse, to live a monster or to die a good man

Buy all the games......but play only Balatro

Podcasts are my thing. I've got you covered.

Depends on what you're into:

More or Less: Behind the Stats - analysis of some statistic from the news

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos - what science says about how to be happy

The Audio Long Read - long form articles from the Guardian newspaper

You Are Not So Smart - cognitive science related. How we know things, our biases, how our thinking is flawed, etc.

Dan Snow's History Hit - One of the few history podcasts I really like

Short History Of... - a short history of some specific thing

The Forum - expert panel discussion about some topic

Behind the Bastards - Very well known podcast focusing on some bastard personality

CrowdScience - in depth investigation of a listener science question

Radiolab - in depth investigation of a topic of their interest. Quite broad scope.

Unexpected Elements - a very varied mix of discussions around a science topic from the news

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford - Tim Harford is the podcast king for me. This show is a deep dive into something that went wrong in news or history, and an investigation of all the systemic failures around it. It tries to show how blame is hardly ever warranted on a single person and the systems are at fault.

The Martin Lewis Podcast - UK consumer advocate and saving guru

Show Me The Meaning! A Wisecrack podcast - a couple of philosophers talk about a movie

The Inquiry - a deep dive into a news story

Revisionist History - Malcolm Gladwell's podcast about a range of different things

The Law Show - UK legal system issues

The Infinite Monkey Cage - comedy science panel show

The Supermassive Podcast - space related podcast

File on 4 investigates - detailed story from deep investigative journalism

Thinking Allowed - light philosophical ramblings

When It Hits the Fan - two public relations experts talk about PR issues from current events

Discovery - science related. Currently mostly doing shows about "a life scientific" I.e. talking to a scientist about their life

Overthink - philosophy made accessible

What It's Like To Be.. - a person from a particular occupation talks about their job

People Fixing the World - people from different parts of the world fixing some local problem in their community in a creative way

Hidden Brain - my absolute favourite. Cognitive science related. Explains how the brain works and how to use the understanding to male your own love better.

Within Reason Your Parenting Mojo - evidence based parenting. Can be a very dry long-winded research presentation, but this has improved my parenting (and life) immensely

sideways - different ideas and how to look at things differently

Darknet Diaries - stories from the dark underbelly of the internet

The Reith Lectures - once a year short lecture series, but well worth listening to the backlog

Evil Genius with Russell Kane - comedians discuss how some villains from history weren't so bad and how some heroes from history were terrible people

Owls at Dawn - ramblings of a couple of philosophers

Sound of Gaming - excellent music show about music soundtracks from videogames

Playing god? - medical ethics discussion

30 Animals That Made Us Smarter - this series has ended but it is worth listening to the backlog

50 Things That Made the Modern Economy - this series has ended but it is worth listening to the backlog

A History of the World in 100 Objects - this series has ended but it is worth listening to the backlog

I would also recommend the podcast series made to accompany the Chernobyl and Last of Us TV series.

S Town - a nice fiction mini series drama story.

I thought breast support was the reason they use a bra.

Lack of pockets would be the sole reason if I used a bra.

Tik Tok vertical videos?

Someone who does not spend excessive amounts of time on specific kinds of social media to consume memes and get steeped in the current internet "culture" and in-jokes.

Nobody wants "nobody".

1. I've really been getting into retro emulation recently and would highly recommend it.
2. Pixel graphics are the best even in modern games (Enter the Gungeon, Dead Cells, Stardew Valley, Celeste, etc).

I think other large supermarkets do too.

Your caveman brain. People think they're educated an enlightened and everything they do now is so well thought out. Nope, the caveman is in the driving seat for all of us. Even your most high level meetings and interviews are influenced by how hungry, horny, or hurt you are by a teasing comment yesterday. Everyone is looking to establish dominance at any cost, when you don't really need to.

Are you the actual OP here? I hope this isn't just someone else's content posted from elsewhere.

But now? I’ve embraced it.

This is so great to hear. Own it. Your response is great. Your feet are huge. Take up a martial art with a lot of kicking.

I'm both cases my view on the people is the same: they do understand. The information has always been there and publicised. People wanted this.

We don't like what they want and we call them dumb, but it is no easy task to effectively use propaganda on this many people. It's also easy to label people "stupid", which is not true. This mindset genuinely exists. America is a Trump supporting nation. UK is a Brexit supporting nation (I don't know if current regret surveys would translate into votes, Reform has more support than ever and it is increasing, and surveys last time also predicted that the majority didn't support Brexit).

There have been a lot of podcasts looking academically how this polarisation and thinking has come about in the last 2 decades. I'm really interested in getting to the bottom of answers of how people are so convinced like this rather than the simplistic and inaccurate conclusion that "they are all dumb".

I was about to finish my training and no jobs were coming up. Then the guy in the job I wanted in my local area died just as my training was about to finish (he didn't seem old or sick to me, and I still have no idea what happened there). They put this job out to advertise rapidly and hardly got a couple of applicants.....and I've been here since.

See myself in a Teams meeting. Try to get rid of my resting bitch face. It somehow comes back again in 2 min.

This inflicts chip damage.

All news sites should be consumed via RSS. Their front pages are the equivalent of social media algorithms and you only see what they want to show you. When you use RSS you get a list of news in time order and see news stories you would never see on their website because of how fast they drop it from their front page and bury it in menus.

Spectator sports is entertainment.

Speak to someone who knows your context. Someone preferably with some experience to give some perspective. Try some introspection. Read things written by people wiser than Lemmings.

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

I wouldn't drop someone with such a long history and lots of positive features so quickly from my life. My parents can be racist. My family can be judgemental. My friends can be intolerant. A single aspect doesn't define the whole of someone. If you go having deep conversations with people you know, you'll quickly find some aspect in everybody that you deeply dislike.

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.

Even if you want to break off the friendship, you don't have to do it today. The thought of that is obviously causing a lot of pain. See how things play out. Giving things time is almost always a good idea.

This is the most true statement in this whole thread and the best advice here. Don't ask Lemmy.

Late 30s myself. Hair was pretty much individial scatrered follicles at the top by the time I was 22. Rocking a number 1. Very short length is surprisingly high maintainence as even a bit of regrowth shows quickly so it needs to be trimmed back down every 2 weeks max. I alternate between "I'm not paying someone to do this, I'll trim it myself"; and "I can't be bothered with this effort, I'm going to get a barber to do this".

This is part of my identity now. Being called "bald" doesn't sound like an insult and just sounds descriptive to me now (my pre-school had started calling me bald everyday and patting my head). I refuse to even consider any hair regrowth treatment. If it magically grew back one day, I would provably grow it to short-medium length and complain the whole time about how much effort this shit is.