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Father Throws Chair at judge after Driver who Killed his Family got 120 Hours of Community Service in c/crazyfuckingvideos@lemmy.world
I crave ancient memes rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone
You don't know what you've got till it's gone in c/tumblr@lemmy.world
[–] 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You say wasteful, I'd think very efficient. If it's just enough fun to get everyone in an office to engage and use it, a manager now has an accurate tool to check who is where and what they're doing. Plus if it actually makes anyone actually have a little fun with it and have a better day, bonus wins.

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    • egg📚irl in c/egg_irl@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    My generation was probably the last one to get told "You won't have a calculator in your pocket all the time" by our math teachers. in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
    [–] 4 points 1 day ago

    Another '96er here. I had teachers in my last couple years of highschool mention how wrong the saying was. Notably my machine shop teacher said it A LOT my freshman year (9th for non-US) and retired my senior (12th) year while saying "I guess you actually will have calculators in your pockets at all times now". He wasn't even behind on tech, calculators just being one of the standard things enmeshed in something as ubiquitous as cellphones would end up, just didn't occur to him.

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    • rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    What drink tastes awful but somehow people still act like it's amazing? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
    [–] 5 points 2 days ago

    Part of what they're saying is tequilas aren't smokey. A good tequila is made with steamed blue agave. Mezcal is often made with roasted agave that gives it a smokey flavor, although this isn't a requirement for it. Tequila is technically a mezcal (not all mezcal is tequila), with a more specific definition that should usually mean it's pretty much never smokey.

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    • manic rn in c/femcelmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    does anyone remember what charlie kirk said, i googled it and found nothing of note at all in c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
    “Whether we like it or not”: Finland says must keep military ties with ‘Israel’ in c/europe@lemmy.ml
    [–] 6 points 1 week ago

    People often down vote bad news without thinking. It's that old problem reddit would have, certain people aren't voting with the idea of "does this contribute to the overall environment well" and just treat it as like/dislike and anything that they don't like, like bad news, goes down.

    Either that or an astroturfer with multiple accounts. People check shit and speculate on that but I lack both the skills and desire to check.

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    • The Art Forger Who Became a National Hero - Priceonomics in c/longreads@sh.itjust.works
    I'm so ruled 😞 in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Terrified of coming out and life in general. (lemmy.world)
     

    Hey y'all, so I'm having a hard time even typing that I've had the crazy epiphany that I'm transfemme? I'm shaking with the anxiety it's inducing just to write that out.

    I barely even know where to begin or where I want to go with this. I'm 30, and recently I had some thoughts I'd just labeled as "weird" and tried to shelve away. Funny enough my mental health had hit a new low at such a particularly close timing, wild coincidence I'm sure 🙃 Well yesterday night my lovely girlfriend (who, as I type all of this, I'm becoming more suspicious already knows) decided the next movie on our list HAD to be "I Saw The TV Glow" (not a first watch for her) and holy shit I've never had a movie hold a mirror up to me so plainly as to make me nauseous. I'm normally a huge crier and while it had my partner in crime leaking from the eyes at several points, I was left tearless and feeling like I'd been repeatedly punched in the gut before the ending made me feel sucker punched for the extra effort.

    And the fucking movie still made me feel FUCKING HOPEFUL about this is I can just come out.

    My family is all the type to support me, so I'm not as scared there (still pretty terrified tho). My biggest fear with all of this is disappointing myself again. I've done a lot of that and I don't know how much of that I can still take.

    I don't even know what I want to hear from others right now but I appreciate anything. I'm just hoping writing this post keeps me from getting an ulcer.

    Hope I'm not breaking any rules posting something so rant-y.

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    Lemmy users lack nuace and it stops actual discussion. (lemmy.world)
    submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world
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    I seriously cannot have any degree of nuanced conversation here.

    Like I get it, we all know capitalism is bad, but it feels like every time I or anyone go towards discussing the steps that need to be taken to address current looming problems in the short term, someone has to jump in and shut it down with "capitalism bad >:[ " and tear down any idea presented because its not complete and total destruction of the current economic model.

    The result just feels like an echo chamber where no actual solutions get presented other than someone posting whole ass dissertations on their 33-step (where 30/33 steps are about as vague as "we'll just handle it") plan to fully convert the world to an anarchist commune.

    Edit: I still vastly prefer Lemmy and the fediverse and a whole, my complaint here is that many of you are TOO INTENSE. You blow up small scale discussion.

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