I just miss when you could search for things on search engines and find what you were looking for. I miss when putting operators, quotes, and parentheses actually changed the search results.
I miss when AI wasn’t shoved into EVERYTHING. I miss when the internet was usable to be honest.
You don’t know the political affiliations of either of the people you’re insulting. I’m not going to bother replying to you, as you seem to have lost all sense of good faith.
If you cannot have a discussion without devolving into insults and inflammatory statements, you are not someone I would want as a friend, ally, or even acquaintance honestly. I suggest you seek some means of centering yourself emotionally, as I genuinely think it could be of benefit.
I hope that you have the day you deserve, and in the future can enjoy calm and rational discourse.
No, my friend. You are upset and directing your anger in the wrong direction. Their solution was simply saying you can help mitigate the problem. Not that we can fix the problem without upsetting someone’s feelings. Nobody blamed the working class. Again, you are directing your anger unreasonably at those who should be your allies. You want to lay blame, but you isolate yourself from those who appear to be agreeing with you. Seems that commenter just meant that even if you can’t completely fix it, you can do a little bit. If you can do a little bit, then why wouldn’t you?
Because it won’t fix everything is not a reason to not do all that you can. You can only control yourself, so you may as well try your best.
So your solution is to do nothing and give in? Yet YOU are the one insulting the commenter you’re replying to? Lay off the superiority and fatalism, and maybe you will see a path to helping.
Will we solve all the world’s problems? Not even a little bit. But does that mean we shouldn’t even try? I would argue that we should absolutely do our best to mitigate any damage caused by anyone, because we all share the same earth. Of course I would also argue we should all abstain from insulting each other, so maybe my opinion doesn’t matter.
I also use the autonomous ergo pro. Or 2. It’s the green one. I absolutely love how customizable it is, and it’s got some amazing lumbar support. I had a gaming chair at the start of the pandemic, and my back was in so much pain by the end of the day.
It’s much better now.
I don’t think much can compete with the Herman Miller Aeron, but if you can’t find a good used one nearby, the ergo would be my next recommendation for sure.
I think Soylent tastes pretty good honestly. It’s just not great to be the only thing you love off off. It gets a bit monotonous after a couple weeks.
It probably would be honestly. It kinda to me was like drinking a glass of chocolate milk that was mixed with chalk. It doesn’t sound appetizing but it really isn’t that bad.
Yeah, I tried it toasted. I dealt with this for over two months. I tried just about everything. I know everyone is coming from a good place with these suggestions. I’m trying not to come across unpleasant, but it feels like it has the same energy as asking a depressed person if they’d tried being happy before.
I promise, I tried it. I put effort into putting food into my body that wouldn’t get caught in my throat and make me feel like I was going to choke and die. At one point I had 7 appointments with 6 different doctors in a two and a half week span. I really genuinely put effort into finding something I could eat. Soylent and mashed potatoes and soggy bread got me through it. I got sick of people telling me how much weight I’d lost like I didn’t own a mirror. I got sick of people telling me I’m just not cooking things right.
I went through something I think is similar to op, and I offered my suggestions. I’m not saying this is what op or anyone needs to do.
I’m just saying this is what helped me when I couldn’t eat, give it a shot if you want.
My issue was with my swallowing. So actual toast was too crunchy to reliably get down. When the butter melted in the microwave, it sort of “set” into the bread. So it was super soggy and easily “dissolved” in my throat. So I personally couldn’t really eat “solid” foods. Microwaved cinnamon toast was the best way I found to get carbs.
Edit: could to couldnt
Yeah Soylent is still my go to for breakfast since I have a hard time eating in the mornings in general. I definitely am glad I can eat solid foods now, but Soylent is definitely convenient, easy, and nutritional.
I will admit I’ve only ever had the chocolate and vanilla. I’m not a big vanilla guy, so I pretty much “ate” only chocolate Soylent for a couple months lol. I had to “eat” more often since it’s only 320 I think calories per drink, though. I personally had a goal of 5 a day, so it was definitely hard to keep up the pace, and it got expensive for a time there.
To add to this: cinnamon toast. Butter some bread, smear cinnamon sugar on it and microwave for thirty seconds. With bread goes down easy, and cinnamon toast is definitely the best way I came up with to get some carbs.
I’ve had illness that broke my swallowing. Soylent is relatively good tasting, has the nutrients you need, and goes down fast and easy. It isn’t pleasant to live on, but I did it for almost two months and it was way better than only eating soggy bread. I definitely recommend Soylent.
Edit: there’s also (I’m sorry I don’t remember the brand) a really good cinnabon breakfast shake that tastes good and helps break up the monotony of a meal replacement shake only diet.
The website i work on has some pages that absolutely don’t work on Firefox. I know this because I often have to switch to chrome to see if the code is broke or the browser isn’t rendering correctly.
Equally as expensive but I’ve found high quality office chairs are much better. Gaming chairs used to be fine for me until WFH. Every day after work my back was killing me, and I couldn’t ever game after work.
I got a relatively cheap ($500) office chair and it’s been fantastic. Ergonomic, fully adjustable in every way, and shaped for someone to sit in for 8 hours a day. Fantastic. I’d love an aeron but even used they’re over 1k and 500 was already a lot to spend on a chair for me.
Echo chamber usually implies that the only voices being heard are those in agreement. Anyone who disagrees gets curated out one way or another. This leads to people believing they are right and people who disagree are wrong. It validates their beliefs and reinforces them. It allows them to other those who disagree.
It’s incredibly unhealthy and leads to radicalization. Just look at all the echo chambers that have led people to commit mass atrocities. Sure, there’s likely a preexisting likelihood of radicalization, but having everyone around you telling you how evil somebody else is can’t be a good thing. There’s so much disinformation that doesn’t have an opportunity to get debunked. There’s hatred of various groups that is being reinforced and propagated.
Incels killing women and couples because they deserve sex with anyone they desire because they were… born? I honestly don’t know the reasoning there. Trans folk being targeted because they’re… bad for children somehow? Or something, I don’t get that one either. People dying of covid after taking their horse dewormer. People driving to other states to shoot a bunch of people to “protect”… something? The problem becomes that when all you hear is one thing, it becomes fact and no longer up for debate. If people were exposed to more of those they hate, there would likely be less hate in the world.
But hey, who hasn’t been there? It’s easier to hate and sit in your bubble knowing how right you are instead of talking to people and trying to change their minds. And if you don’t let their voices be heard, how can you help them grow? How can you grow as a person if you’re only ever exposed to those who agree with you?
My buddy’s mom took his pc as punishment for some nonsense. We cobbled together some parts so he could secretly play an online flash game with me. His frames were seconds behind mine. But we installed Ubuntu on it since we couldn’t afford windows in high school. So I learned about Linux.
Oh that is interesting. Thanks for the info!
That’s interesting. Why is it called gardening leave?
I keep seeing this sentiment. Am I the only person who remembers pop up ads? Was that a fever dream? I remember those being all over the place in the late 90s and early aughts. All with geocities style colors.