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  • To me, it's more a question of how people interact with each other, independendly from the content / topic:

    • Upvote: respectful, friendly interaction, regardless of whether or not I share the same opinion. Even disagreements can lead to worthwile discussions and therefore contribute to the site as a whole.
    • Not doing anything: Comments and posts I do not care for, or do not understand. Yes, it happens, I am no genius and English isn't my first language either. I also usually do nothing with posts/comments that are off-topic but still friendly.
    • Downvote: Trolls, racists, bigots, scammers and most bots (unless they're helpful in some way and not toally obnoxious). I don't care if someone has the same opinion as me or "proves my point" - when they sound like an ass and throw insults, they're getting downvoted.
  • The same with OCD and depression. I honestly get the urge to kick people using phrases like "I am totally OCD about [something trivial and irrelevant]" or being "depressed" because it happens to be raining outside or some other banality. And don't get me started on "funny" merchandise like T-shirts with respective slogans printed on them, as if suffering from a mental illness was a fashion statement.

  • That's actually a good question. I'm no dental expert mind you, but looking at the highly different diets some species have even compared to close relatives, I wouldn't be surprised if that happened to extinct species as well. I mean, look at bears for example - grizzly, polar bear, brown bear .... panda. Suddenly there is a vegan in the group, but with the same type of carnivore teeth.

  • Fron what I've read, there are differences in breeds (alpacas for example have very small canines compared to other species), females have smaller canines than males (on average), and they're also usually removed / clipped for domesticated camelids (example with an alpaca: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyXSrIUkFNg)

  • Carrot Stew. Carrots, potatoes, maybe butternut squash or sweet potatoes as well and a piece of salted/dried pork belly slowly cooked until tender. Parsley, salt and pepper to taste. It's actually pretty simple as you you just dump everything into a pot and let it simmer until its done, but I will never get tired of that dish, ever.

  • I just took a peek at my formerly favorite sub and was immediatly greeted with 3 dumb shitposts, a scammer trying to sell counterfeit merch, and a repost right on the first page - all upvoted by the thousands. That sh*tshow is almost comical by now.

  • Oh hell yeah. And it's even worse when the coworker then finally figures out who you meant and goes "oh you meant [blank] why didn't you say so?" and you're so relieved that the uncomfortable situation has solved itself already that your brain checks it off as "completed" and moves on to the next task while still not getting the name that was just told to you five seconds ago.... but then it is too embarrassing to ask again so you just roll with it and hope it doesn't happen again (which it of course will).

  • Also still undiagnosed here, and that's exactly the scenario I dread. It also doesn't help that the only frigging doc in the area allowed to / able to make that diagnosis keeps telling me that they don't have any capacity for new patients "at the moment" and that I should "call again a month or so later" as if those dang calls didn't drain me completely for weeks in advance.

    And to be perfectly honest, I find it somewhat sick how some of these psychiatrists think that their job is not to help their patients cope better, but instead to make sure that their patients don't make other people uncomfortable, as if silencing the symptoms would make the core issue go away.

    I wish you the best of luck and hope you'll find an actually professional psychatrist soon.

  • Out of habit. It was my reddit username for almost a decade and the first thing that came to mind when I made a lemmy account.

    Why I originally chose "justlookingfordragon" on reddit: I was looking for fellow Pokémon X/Y players with dragon-type safaris willing to share their codes, but the simplest usernames like "dragon" and "safari" were already taken, and "Imjustlookingforadragontypesafarikthxbai" didn't fit the character limit. I originally didn't even plan to keep the account, so I didn't care that the username was silly and awkward.

    "Wolf Link" was a nickname that came later.

  • In addition to what others have said already: make peace with the fact that you WILL make mistakes, that the first few tries WILL look weird and that you WILL forget an allegedly important step. This is just part of the learning courve and happened to literally everyone who ever learned to make meals in the history of cooking, so do not compare the first ever flattened sushi roll you made with something a master chef with 30+ years of experience is able to do or the heavily photoshopped pictures on food blogs.

    You will learn from those mistakes, and you will gain more experience over time. Small progress is still progress.

    Also, it can help to only make PART of a recipe yourself when you're still a bit unsure how all of it works, like for example buying premade pizza dough and only add the sauce and toppings yourself, or buying premade pie dough and only make the filling. One step at a time.

  • ... and you can't even remove ads from your own channel. As a content creator I was happy to find a "disable advertisements" option in the settings menu - my channel isn't monetized anyway, so getting rid of those super intrusive ads sounded like a win/win situation.

    Turns out this only disables "interest based" ads so my viewers still get shoved ads down their throats, just that those are entirely random now instead of custom-tailored towards their interests. Thanks, youtube - very helpful and exactly what I wanted. /s

  • You know, that's actually a fair point. Especially since one of them also heavily relies on online competitions against the rest of the world, where you need to be as aggressive and brutal as possible to even survive the first few rounds. That is bound to promote and reward a specific mindset over time ...

  • It won’t die. It will just hollow out.

    The result is still basically the same IMHO. It's like saying "it won't die, it will just turn into a zombie" ... sure it'll still move, but it's dead inside and rotting on the outside either way, devoid of the life and soul it once had.

  • then quickly finished my tasks in 30 minutes

    Sounds hella productive to me. For your job, it doesn't matter whether it takes 8 hours or 30 minutes as long as all assigned tasks are done at the end of the day. For your personal wellbeing, private situation and overall productivity, being done in 30 minutes matters greatly as you now have 7.5 more hours to yourself while being just as productive as before.

  • Maybe I was lucky in my community selection?

    It absolutely depends on the communities in question. I've been an active member of the 'Breath of the Wild' sub for years and even tho there was of course still the occasional troll / bot, the sub as a whole was positively wholesome. At the same time I occasionally posted in a Pokémon-related sub of similar size, and even simple, innocent questions were mass-downvoted, insults thrown left and right for the most basic and irrelevant reasons, and they had so many scammers that they needed to keep a list of "trustworthy users" for online trades.

    I will not directly link examples to avoid giving reddit free traffic, but one particularily striking example were posts made by people who didn't like the games in question:

    • "I don't really like BotW"

    Topmost answer: "That's okay. Keep in mind that BotW is very different from former Zelda games and the new formula isn't everone's cup of tea. If it is [XYZ] that bothers you, there are these in-game solutions to make your life easier: (listed those things) ...and if you are looking for a more Zelda-esque experience, there are these games: (list with alternatives and explanations about how they're different plus the pros and cons of those games)"

    • "I don't really like Pokémon Sword/Shield"

    Topmost answer: "Get fucked"


    PS: Sadly that sub went down the drain in the meantime as the "wholesome" people seem to have left and what remains of the former community are the trolls, bots and jerks. It honestly saddens me a bit, but at the same time I'm glad that I jumped ship before it happened.

  • Sleep mode in dim light: While flies seek out a place to sleep in the light of a single tea candle, you can still see them. Incredibly useful to get rid of flies in small spaces like a caravan or a tent. Possible explanation: They just lack vision, so their only option is to chill at the closest surface.

    Seems to work on mosquitos as well BTW. Whenever one of those bastards made its way indoors, I turn off the lights, point a flashlight at the brightest wall in the room and wait. In most cases the mosquito will land somewhere on the bright part of the wall eventually (might take a few minutes tho) and can be swatted.

    I totally need to try out that water bottle trick tho. That sounds like a neat, poison-free alternative to hunting the buggers down yourself.

  • Personally, I don't mind ads that are not extremely obnoxious. A clickable link on the sidebar advertising something or a random picture here and there - no problemo, as they're easy to ignore.

    What I can't stand are the extremely intrusive ones - pop-ups that obscure half of the screen with such a tiny little X in the corner that you need to click it in a pixel-perfect manner so you won't "accidentally" open the ad itself. Ads that play music at full volume without warning. Unskippable ads in videos. Sites that greet you with "we noticed you're using an adblocker" and just won't let you view the actual site content. Ads that make the rest of the site lag like hell or freeze entirely. Rapidly flashing ads in neon colors that almost make you have a seizure by looking at them. Those can GTFO and if my adblocker isn't able to / allowed to hide them, I simply won't use the site in question anymore and that's it.

    To make an IRL comparison: I don't mind at all if there are advertisement brochures just lying around on a counter while I'm in a mall, because I can decide on my own whether or not I want to take one of those. But if there is an employee blocking my way, screaming at the top of their lungs and slapping me across the face with said brochure, and I am not allowed to knock them out cold, then I'll never set foot into that store again, ever.