Technically every ban here is a shadow ban as you don’t get notified for it.

I don’t agree with the politics of the creators of Lemmy either, yet here I am.

I’ve been here for over two years already.

Excluding porn, YouTube is around 90% of my internet use. However, I must give credit to Twitter for the most accurate recommendation algorithm that almost exclusively only serves me content I’m interested in seeing and has been doing so consistently for a decade.

I’m a plumber. If I’m the chosen one all of a sudden they y’all screwed.

The only source with even remotely accurate information of such thing are the major intelligence agencies and they’re not going to hand out that information for obvious reasons. No government in the world releases exact numbers of their military strenght.

Well, rest assured. This is a meditation app - he doesn’t share his political opinions in there. He has a podcast (and substack) for that for which he’ll also give anyone a free subscription to in case they want to look into this controversy and hear from the original source rather than from the famously anti-Sam Harris reporter, Ezra Klein

And why do people need to be warned of that for?

PM me and I’ll give you a free month to the Waking Up app or alternatively message the support there and ask for a free subscribtion and they’ll give you one for a year and then you can ask again next year.

The people “not gaining weight no matter how much they eat” often aren’t eating as much as you think. I’ve heard people say this of me too but they just don’t realise how often I skip meals. I regularly eat just breakfast and nothing else the entire day. Yeah, you might see me destroying 700 grams of candy at one sitting but what you don’t know is that’s also the only thing I’ve eaten all day.

I know karate,

I know jujitsu,

I drive lika gangsta

When I’m comin’ to see you

Kennedy - Karate

It’s not American thing - it’s a human thing. We tend to group people into us and them.

But also, stereotypes don’t come from thin air. There’s usually atleast a hint of truth to them. However, where people go wrong with this is when they apply it to individuals. It doesn’t work that way. These are group differences. When speaking of individuals there’s a greater differences to be found within a group than between them.

Because you’re reading too much news and the intention of majority of them is not to make you informed but scared and angry. The vast majority of thing you’re scared about never end up happening.

What I find the most irritating about these movies is the complete incompetence of 007. Without plot armor that dude wouldn’t have made it past his 30’s. Just how many times has he snuck into the enemy compound armed with a pistol and wearing a suit only to be immediately caught by a random guard and then the only thing saving his life is the fact that the enemy boss wants to give his revenge speech first rather than just shooting him on sight.

Normal people don’t comment on online messageboards. The fact that someone comments online by definition means they’re not normal.

I wasn’t talking about feeling angry but rather how one expresses that feeling. Swearing, raising one’s voice, hitting and throwing stuff are things people do on top of being angry. It’s the behavior I critizise, not the emotion.

I think one of the most informative features of one’s personality is how they handle setbacks. Nobody’s perfect but I think an adult should be able to control the expression of their emotions. Something like getting angry at a game and screaming at it let alone throwing the controller is a huge red flag for me. I can’t think of a situation where letting anger take control of you has ever produced a better outcome compared to staying calm unless you’re literally in a fight.

I don’t know if it’s my experience with meditation or what but I see anger as such a powerful emotion that it pretty much cannot sneak up on me. The first moment something anger inducing happens to me it’s like an alarm that goes off inside my head telling me to play close attention to how I’m going to react. Something like annoyance on the other hand is much more sneaky and has significantly higher chance of poisoning my mind before I detect it.

Thanks! Glad you find it interesting.

I’m a plumber by training, but these days I work as a self-employed home improvement contractor and handyman. My services cover just about every imaginable job related to maintaining a house, both indoors and outdoors - including yard work. The only thing I don’t do is electrical, but I’ve got a guy for that too. My goal is to be the person my customers can call for almost whatever they need help with, rather than having to find someone new each time just because the last contractor only handled a specific type of work.

I shit my pants once when I was like ten and a certain relative still brings it up on every single family gathering now even over 20 years later.

Thanks! It’s about 90cm high. The distance from floor to the knuckle of your thumb is a good starting point.