serpentofnumbers

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[–] serpentofnumbers@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've felt this way quite often in my life, including recently, and I usually get through it by focusing on the small moments that I can enjoy. But reading your words and thinking about that feeling again this time made me think "I should do a random act of kindness for someone". It sounds cheesy and kinda pointless, but helping someone else or doing a random nice thing for someone else can sometimes make the world seem like a better place. And when the world seems like a better place, it has the potential to become that. I guess it's the old "be the change you want to see in the world" thing.

This is all stuff people have told me over the years when I've sought help for depression, and I usually brushed it off, to be honest. But I empathize with your words, and I wouldn't want anyone else to feel the hopelessness about the world that I've felt, so I thought "maybe a niceness would prevent that feeling for someone else".

Idk, I'm rambling now, but I hope this makes sense. And I hope you (and I) find a way to feel better about the potential of our world, as opposed to its apparent current state.

[–] serpentofnumbers@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

And when those people eventually get caught, they would be dealt with by the populace. Consequences for people's actions is the same deterrent that currently "stops" people from stealing shit all the time (i.e. people still steal shit with the existence of police)

oof I certainly hope so

[–] serpentofnumbers@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think you're probably right, but a world where robots do art and humans do the tedious manual labor sounds eerily similar to the world we live in. At least, it is not outside the realm of possibility.

[–] serpentofnumbers@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Basil Hayden, Woodford Reserve, Knob Creek, Angel's Envy, Old Grandad, Bulleit are all great choices.

Basil Hayden or Woodford would definitely be my first choice though.

ah, the "Shane Gillis" approach

[–] serpentofnumbers@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Not sure if this counts as brutalist, but the post made me think of this example from Portland

[–] serpentofnumbers@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 11 months ago

"ghosts aren't real"

"well of course, but they don't know that"

[–] serpentofnumbers@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 11 months ago (14 children)

I was able to quit cocaine, cigarettes, and alcohol and of those 3, cigarettes was the hardest to quit, with alcohol being a close second. I don't want to get into a discussion about the roles of behavioral addiction vs. chemical addiction when trying to quit something, but sugar has been just as difficult as alcohol and nicotine, if not more so. It doesn't help that it is seemingly everywhere and included in all the food. It's not as easy as "I'll just stop having ice cream", of course anyone can do that. If you start paying attention to all the foods sugar is added too and try to avoid those foods, you really have to completely rethink your whole approach to food (where to buy, the role it plays in your life, i.e. why you eat) and spend a lot more energy trying to find "healthy" foods.

[–] serpentofnumbers@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is there some fuckery going on with the creation of this poll? Or can this just be attributed to the majority of Americans being jingoistic morons?

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