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I cannot do a damn thing. Be it easy, be it hard, be it rewarding, be it just pure pleasure. I cannot enjoy a thing thinking it is just waste of time. I cannot carry myself to do a hard task thinking about the high effort it requires. Even if I break it into small parts, I would only do the bare minimum for a day or two and stop it.

When despite the isolation and difficulties and people being terribly ill and dying, there was this feeling of something good might come out of this great reset of society?

Discuss any hobby you've not found an active community for yet.

There's so many communities I found because someone I looked at the profile of someone who posted there. So many I'd missed despite being on a lot of discovery/promo communities. Just a YSK.

But even tho, I feel like I am predicting something crazy persons on Schizophrenia would constantly talk about, I rather feel calm and accept that the dystopia is not part of my life, because I have no issue isolating myself from the internet as a Linux user and just life offline with enough of fun and nature.

Are allowed to tag users as a brand new account 🤔

Just curious why my post got removed in TECHNOLOGY Community. I literally just signed up today??

I just signed up for this instance. I just posted in Technology and my first post got removed.

While there are legit use of gen AI in various automation or more so in advanced text processing, apart from these in real world these are useless gimmick at best. Nobody wants to read AI novels (at least in current SOTA).

I was wondering if anyone here is into crochet. if so, what projects are you working on? I'm making two mushroom guys, one I had to pause because I ran out of the color of yarn I was using lol

Two days ago, I became an unwitting victim of Amazon's lack of policing their 3rd party marketplace ecosystem. I hope I can get this in front of a few more eyeballs to save people from the experience I am now in. Here's how it went down.

Dont forget that nothing bad lasts forever, and previous generations went through wars and hardships too.

Right now, I'm a 2nd year student in university doing Computer Science.

I packed my bags to spend time at my girlfriend’s house to see what it’s like before I move in, so right now, that’s where I am (although she lives next door to my house) and my sister got invited to a sleepover with several eighth grade girls. Apparently they’ll be staying for a few nights but probably just one night.

sorry about crossposting the same thing 17 times, that was my bad. That was *definitely* spam and I won't do that again! Apologies for possibly making a mess out of anyone's feeds.

Last night I had a dream of a song I even know its title it's called "Another song to a brighter world", it's about a person telling another person who is stuck on a depressing present moving on to a brighter future, I faintly remembered some the lyrics it goes "or is it you here for me waiting for a brighter future" "you was there I was here", this is all I can remembered it has a lot more lyric than this. PS: it's not between 2 humans interaction, the one that is not depressed is human but the singer's perspective is not, they're a sea creature that look like human (not mermaid) stuck on a human port town by the sea trying to fit in with everyone else.

what I see in a lot of these communities is that they are about the same as any other community in functionality and how people interact, without any additional accessibility. They just happen to have disabled people and such.

Remembered there was documentation, and understood it a little better this time around!

idk where else to say that 😅

The book I was waiting on was back for me to borrow!

Saw a neighborhood cat lounging about!

not everyone acts like this, but i’ve seen this enough times to be bothered by it.

I was expecting it to be just another post-apocalyptic drama, and I’ve seen so many mediocre ones that Station 11 wasn’t high on my list. I was very wrong.

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Does anyone know of any Lemmy communities / instances that could act as fednews alternatives?

This may be more an ask than anything. To all the data nerds, or those that know them, in the public sector in the US: If you or those you know are working with large public datasets, please consider taking the steps necessary to ensure that data is not lost to the world. Between many institutional organizations local and abroad down to the many selfhosters out there, there are many places this data can continue to live, thrive, and serve the public that has not only paid for it to exist, but benefitted from its use. My mind immediately goes to all those scentific datasets necessary for helping analyze the state of our planet. Of these there are an incredible amount online only because of federal funding. The stakeholders are too great to count, but they are critical not only to the US but all those with access to do so. I can not fathom how much work and research has been made possible. I know this to be true of so much public data. Others may know more of specific needs and methods of preservation. This is a kind of book burning in an abstract sense that would be unrecoverable, too costly, or immensely difficult to restore. The hard work of the collectors, maintainers, and contributors should not be lost due to gross negligence and malevolence.

Random post, also he is quite controversial.

Just getting really unhinged and confused messages from my parents. They are holding on by a thread. I don't even think they know who Musk is.

stan is a very political conservative, especially in early seasons. in season 1 (2005), his daughter hayley says she’s 18, meaning she was born around 1987 during reagan’s presidency.

Likely preaching to the choir with this for many here, but felt like putting together a list of sources and a little explainer of why go out of the way for unrestricted digital media.

Title pretty much. I vaguely remember a post and in the article Grandpa Musk said he was proud to finally embrace Nazism safely or something.

I have just made my first lemmy account on lemmy.world. What happens to my account in the event that this particular instance goes offline temporarily or permanently? It seems like I will have to either wait for the instance to come back online or create a new account, is this correct?

No matter where you go on the internet in 2024/2025, there's post after post after fucking post about Elon Musk. Always about him saying or doing something incredibly stupid or comically evil. There are even entire communities dedicated to it like "enough musk spam" which is ironic because I see more musk spam from them than anywhere else.

If Honda and Nissan can't survive at their size, well Subaru and Mazda are tiny by comparison.

Does anyone else think Star Wars is a bit muddled? This may be a bit of an unpopular opinion, but I haven't delved into much of it outside the OG 4-6, 1-3, Mandalorian, and a couple games. It just seems that there is sooo much out there. Are they cohesive?

Seriously, why is nobody talking about this??

You find your way to any interesting places of late? Been swept somewhere by a clowder of cats?

Im kinda broke and I want to make some money but just can't find any ways. I live in a remote area so there are no jobs. I don't mean making thousands of dollars but a few just to buy a new Cod or some Nikes. I ain't doing any sexual stuff or sending my pictures!

A few months ago, I shared how I cut my screen time from 8h 55m to just 1h 25m. It’s been 5 months, so I figured it’s time for an update!

Are you tired of all these AI companies saying you don’t own your own AI Generations you’ve worked tirelessly to perfect?

Hi, I'm not sure where I can ask about this since I'm not seeing a Scams help community on here, and I had tried to search for one.

Context: I'm in my early 30s. I've only been on a date like once in my life a decade ago and it was awkward and I hated it. The guy was nice but I didn't know what I was doing and then he wanted to kiss and I didn't (and still don't) know how to do that either and I found it unpleasant.

Blocking keeps my feed nice. See people being assholes? Block them. See a post discussing something I don't want to hear about? Block them. See a community I don't want to hear about? Block them. The greatest thing about social media is the ability to never have to interact with someone again at no detriment to them. Blocking is good.

On whatever topic is in the title and consequently of interest to both the poster and the respondants

I think everybody needs one today

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When I'm frustrated or anxious or upset, I vent to the few friends I have. This is a negative coping mechanism as it damages our relationships. I also experience extreme remorse after doing so, which further perpetuates it because I'm constantly asking to be forgiven.

Can a sentence be both true and false in the same sense? - Dialetheism

What did you get up to, and what are you getting into here in the End of the Week?

Any of you that celebrate Halloween already up to anything? Movie marathons/rewatches, books/short story reading/rereading, playing/replaying games, or whatever else?

both companies notably ruined the internet in the 2010s by consolidating discourse then taking various steps to destroy the user experience and the feel of the communities for profit.

(This post is referring to tiktok, instagram reels, youtube shorts type content)

Is that something people would even need/want here?

what if, instead of pigs in a blanket, you took a full-length hot dog, cut it into 4 spears, cut spears in half, wrap in a corn ‘street taco’ shell and toothpin in place, fry. this is an imaginary recipe idea. any suggestions? i will update if i try it out myself.

I hope this is a good place for this. A few weeks ago I started a simple experiment: Block every community in the All feed that is about the US election in some way.

TL;DR: In four weeks, I’ve cut my average screen time from 8 hours and 55 minutes to 1 hour and 28 minutes on average.

Food bank only had raisins. My food stamps were cut by two thirds. Inflation is way up. Specific shortages. I asked some people around me and they’re also struggling. No emergency announcements. Feels like a cover up. I heard US shale oil is peaking. All this and I live in the central valley of California, ag central. I should have food easily, instead it’s a struggle.

Just caught some Olympic qualifying finals for breakdancing?! Kazakhstan versus Netherlands. They both crushed it and Netherlands won. I thought the Kazaki won the whole thing with his opening move in the final bout.

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Welcome to General Discussion! While this is a community for a broad range of topics, it is mainly intended for *discussions* and with that in mind, there are a few policies to help try to encourage this & direct more specific discussions to their relevant communities.

Hello, I hope this is the right community to ask this. I have a flight in December from Valencia (Spain) to Tokyo with Air France. I have a layover in Paris CDG.

Getting cloudflare loop if i try to access lemmy.world cold, i.e., auto login. Is it just me?

For context, my job involves the use of voice dictation software constantly for 8 hours a day. So I am constantly talking to the computer and thus my threshold to talking to others is significantly reduced.

A moral argument for why all firms should be employee-owned - “Inalienable Right: Part 1 The Basic Argument”

Example 1: I play table tennis, though due to being young adolescent and only having played it for the last ~3 years, I’ve never played in a competition for the local club. I live in Europe, by the way. One of the coaches sometimes talks about how my racket’s lack of really sticky rubber surface forces me into a different play style. He does this rarely, and isn’t all negative about it (“No wonder you did better against L. J., you both have this play style where you seldom enact torque on the ball which forces even me to think more about what to do next because I basically always do that, and expect others to do too”, roughly translated), and the last time he actually told me how I might like getting a new racket with different physical properties was like 1.5 years ago. He gave me a catalogue from a regional store, which I probably threw out some time between then and now probably because of how much I Hate buying things in general. I can see how when I progress in being able to control the ball, I can probably give up some control to gain speed, but I wanted to share how dogmatic I appear to be about this.

I’ve turned search engine suggestions off because they often get me side-tracked, or even get me to completely forget what I actually wanted. If it is something I have visited once already, simply getting that from my history skips the search engine, making the process slightly faster. I realize that my attention problem might not actually be solved by this,

I honestly think mobile ads in free games and other apps are some of the lowest quality piles of garbage I’ve ever had the misfortune to see, and they are constant. How did we get to this point? Where they are so horribly unbearable and yet so commonplace?