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[–] 86 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I recommend drugs:

  • ✓ Cheap compared to other hobbies like travel or gambling or having a family
  • ✓ Meet new real and not so real friends
  • ✓ Can make your suffering aka life shorter
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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago

    Sceintific cookies Butter:  Grind about 1-2g of active ingredient  Heat oven (non convection) to 118c (245f), use baking tray & parchment paper to bake 30-40 min, stirring every 15 min or so to bake evenly, remove and cool.  Prep rice cooke to “keep warm” mode  Empty the water, add butter & prepared active ingredients  Heat for 2.5hrs  Check every 20 min or so to make sure it doesn’t go above 93c (200f)  Cool  NOTE weigh butter before adding to recipe, as there may be some water loss during heating-just top up with regular butter/margerine 36 60g cookies 395 g brown sugar 225 g granulated sugar 25 g vanilla sugar 350 g Veg margarine or butter 25 g oil 59 ml water 0 pinch salt mixer #2 speed cream together about 5 minutes 900 g ap flour 3 1/2 g baking soda 20 g baking powder combine dry ingredients add slowly to mixer 150 g chopped chocolate (vegan) combine to mix bake 60g scoop 200C for 7 minutes SCIENCE!

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    [–] 71 points 2 years ago (18 children)

    What is "white person" about this? Working until you die is shit, and pretty much everybody does it.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Wait, why IS race specified? I always was confused by that.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I think blackpeopletwitter came first on reddit and was a pretty big sub because if minorities don't have their own space, their voices aren't heard amongst the majority.

    Or maybe whitepeopletwitter came first

    That's the shitty part of everyone just duplicating reddit subs. If Lemmy does take off, a decade from now someone is going to have to explain shit from 20 years ago from another website.

    It would have been better off to grow organically on its own. But kids wanted to be mods to have all the power but not do any work. So every sub on reddit exists on a every big lemmy instance

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    BPT was first.

    I agree with everything you said. The majority of communities on Lemmy are just reddit clones without any "heart" to them. Same names, completely different rules on what can be posted. They're husks of subreddits filled with the most generic shit

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The majority of communities on Lemmy are just reddit clones without any "heart" to them.

    This would imply that reddit still has heart, which it doesn't.

    Lemmy is still finding itself. For the majority here, leaving reddit was the whole thing that brought them here. It's going to take time to form its own identity that's less of a shadow of reddit and more of a demonstration of the new communities.

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    [+] 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
    [–] 30 points 2 years ago (19 children)

    "Bored" pisses me off. There's too much to do, to learn, to experience to be fucking bored. I mean, unless you're stuck at work or some shit.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's the point isn't it? If we're unlucky much of our life might revolve around going to work and doing maintenance around going to work and sleeping. Now I agree that anyone in that position probably has a choice they could make to free up their life but it's quite a feat of will power to do it. There are also people in this cycle that have started families and don't have much freedom.

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    [–] 27 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    You're supposed to find a passion or hobby that you can excel at in your spare time. Meanwhile, capitalism in the US has decided to make every effort to extract all possible time from you at bare minimum compensation so that you are too tired and too poor to ever figure out a hobby or passion you can effectively pursue.

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    [–] 26 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    It's crazy. 20 years ago, no one would dare post something this anti-capitalist on the internet. Maybe in another 20 years, we'll have posted enough anti-capitalist dystopian nightmare memes that we'll actually want to do something about it.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    20 years ago, no one would dare post something this anti-capitalist on the internet

    I mean, no, people definitely still posted anti-capitalist stuff on the internet all the time in 2003. But it wasn't the majority opinion like it is on the net now.

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    [–] 25 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I'm bored

    Well, go do something!

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    [–] 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    well no, you're supposed to generate as much profit as possible for someone else at every moment. nothing is truly designed to help people or provide a good service anymore, at least not without hefty profit margins -- as is their god given right. i mean its a business they hvae to do the number!!

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    [–] 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

    Surprisingly, I've found the most fulfillment from raising and caring for my three-year-old daughter. I always feel immense pride when I'm tidying up the house and come abroad a pile of drawings or an arrangement not only of her toys, but whatever things she's found of mine (ie; the Peewee Herman action figure I keep beside my PC). But as fulfilling as it is, children are also inadvertently vampires and drain you of nearly everything you have. So I have to take pleasure in other things as well, like reading fiction, playing games with my wife, and spending time in nature. What I really need is a good mushroom trip through the forest, but it's been several years since I've been comfortable enough to step away from responsibility and parenthood to do something like that, even though it's a wonderful tool to bring one's self back to earth and get your brain firing again.

    Highly recommend trying that if you're in the same mental cycle as OP. Definitely don't opt for children if your goal is fulfillment, though. You may gain something huge, but you're also signing off on the other side of your life. It's certainly not a good fit for everyone. You'd think this obvious advice, but a lot of people do just that and wind up miserable and resentful, and their kids in turn grow up with less love and respect than they could otherwise have.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    My brother told me to have kids. He said raising his daughter was the best thing he's ever done. I don't disagree, she's awesome.

    I don't find it surprising that being a parent is super rewarding if you do it well. I can't imagine being a parent who raises a shitstain who does something terrible and having to live with that.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago

    There is no point. At least, there's no overarching design or plan behind your existence. Instinctively we are driven to survive, so the question is: what else?

    While we exist, we have senses which can provide pleasure or pain, so the most selfish answer would be to seek pleasures and enjoy them while you can. The correlary being to minimize pain or suffering, which serves as a check on unrestrained pleasure.

    I like to take this a step further and work not only to optimize my own pleasure, but the pleasure of others around me. Then guilt is no longer an issue because your pleasure is complementary to theirs. They benefit when you reduce their pain and vice versa.

    I believe the original problem stems from artifically self-imposed limitations and expectations on what should be, rather than engaging with what is and imagining what could be.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Work all week, too tired to do something fun. Corporate profits unreasonably high and now I can't afford to engage in activities. Individualistic, nuclear family, isolation because communes reduce profits. Breathing poisoned air, drinking contaminated water, eating trash, refined food. Lost in a maze of suburbs, battling long transit times, alone in a sea of cars. Everyone's left for jobs, or busy working jobs, no time to meet new people.

    What is, like, the point?

    Do we sit in his emotional wasteland, producing for an other, alone and without the energy to do anything but work until we get sick and can't afford healthcare / are told by doctors the elderly are not their priority as they're no longer productive?

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    [–] 17 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    My dad says it's so we can be best friends with some dead guy.

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  • [–] [S] 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I briefly forgot that religion was a thing and was wondering wtf your dad meant by this.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago*

    HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Part of boredom is simply lacking direction and not knowing what to do/where to even start

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    My thought process during covid. I bought a motorcycle and basically can't stay in one place anymore.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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    [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    You can sometimes make coffee or a podcast. The rest is haram.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    As Mrs. Draper says, boring people get bored.

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