recapitated @ recapitated @lemmy.world

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I have been downvoted and it caused me to introspect.

It doesn't necessarily change my values or even my position but it is a signal for me to think about the way I'm thinking about stuff. It means I'm clearly missing a perspective.

In the case of you, I think there are enough people trying to reply with reasoning that the up votes and downvotes are just other people supporting positions and expressing their rejection of a position which is already being refuted. They're adding signal without noise.

Doesn't look like a comfortable chair, but I don't see why not.

My man, do you hear yourself? You're on tirades flying off the handle all over the forum. Bent out of shape over Internet points, meanwhile other folks are actually replying to you. Get over yourself. Hug a family member or something.

Sometimes I downvote something when I'm annoyed by the time I spent reading it, and I'm merely trying to signal to the good folks here that they can spend their time a better way. Not every dumb take deserves an actual reply. In fact almost none of them do. I just want to help people who value their time, as they have done for me. That is pretty much the purpose of the voting system. We're helping each other out.

Thanks for the perspective. I guess I got in at a good time, and I didn't hear any reports of long lines in my area.

I don't know why so many people are hurt by this statement. The turnout was abysmal.

What should someone even do to respond to a viewpoint like this?

I'm pretty excited to see the left wing numerologists emerge from the woodwork. Don't forget to buy those supplements.

This is like the R. Crumb style

I got in line to vote. It was a very short line.

Now that's just a signal for training reinforcement

Guilty <-

Great.

These are just regular ass manipulative shithead moves... What else would anyone expect from Trump and Cult 45?

Like so many other things, I doubt his camp even cares.

Daily beast published the referenced samples on YouTube.

This is small potatoes but pretty often I ride my motorcycle to go to green spaces to go for a run. Which means people sometimes see me step off my bike and just start taking off my pants and stuff. (Spoiler: I'm wearing running gear underneath my protective gear.)

I think it's because people want patterns to exist even where they don't. But this one is extra sensitive. The declaration becomes even less interesting in non-base-ten systems. I'm not even sure why 225 would be intuitive to anybody. I guess that's what makes it a shit post.

We should just have elections on presidents day.

It's alright, it's art. You can't expect it to reach everyone the same way.

Once a day, think of one simple thing that a depressed person would not do. Do that. For some examples:

• Take even the shortest walk around the neighborhood.
• Read just ten pages of any book.

Also, think of something that you do especially when depressed, and avoid doing it. For some examples:

• Don't watch TV
• Don't scroll on social media

Sometimes habits become compulsive, you can do a lot for yourself by adding even a small amount of friction to doing those things. For some examples:

• When I notice that I go through periods of poor sleep due to habitually reaching for my phone, I might remove the charger from my phone and put it in a living area and charge it there at night. I might prepare 8 hours of podcasts and connect my Bluetooth before bed so I can have something to take my mind off things in case wake up or cannot sleep.
• Simply logout of social media sites, so that I'm forced to take a deliberate action to log back in to start doom scrolling again.

For more proactive maintenance things I try to do, which are important to establish when I'm mentally in a good place, I might make a weekly list of happy chores, like make sure I talk to a family member, make sure I talk to a friend, make sure I actually see someone in person, or play a video game in a way that I'm making progress at it, or spend 10 minutes practicing an instrument.

You need to exploit your good times to establish patterns of good habits for your hard times.