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[-] pineapplefriedrice@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

I used to eat meat. Don't anymore because the arguments against it are just that fucking strong. Basically unless you advocate for religious supremacy it's hard to make a cohesive argument in favor of meat consumption.

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My vision for this community is a space where people can encourage others to vote with their dollar and with their feet by educating them on the fucked up shit that people and companies are doing. When the community reaches 500 members, mods will also select one "cause" at a time for the community to support.

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[-] pineapplefriedrice@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I would disagree on the grounds that this will functionally just break up the community, which is the best outcome. People will get bored and move on to the next thing, and both reddit and discord will lose.

[-] pineapplefriedrice@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

They're fighting a losing battle, but I hope a side effect of it is that new people come in and change both the economics and artistry of Hollywood. Most Hollywood content sits in a very rigid box. It's repetitive, unoriginal, and unappealing. People are encouraged to eat ramen for every meal in order to "make it", simply because far too many of them try (which is partially the result of the "follow your dreams" narrative in America as well). The further down you are, the worse your compensation. Good ideas get missed or thrown out and relegated to dollar theatres all the time.

If this strike goes on long enough that it starts to flush people out, I'm ok with that. Sucks for the people who are going to lose their livelihoods, but for some of them that was an eventuality. Hopefully in the end creators will have more creative freedom and receive more proportional compensation.

When I was a kid my teacher told my parents "she has something that nobody else at her age has, and that's genuine empathy". Now I'm an adult so it's not an applicable compliment anymore, but I still appreciate that comment, and I'd like to think it was true.

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As part of my endless and possibly futile quest to be a less pathetic version of myself, I've embarked on a campaign to stop watching TV and movies. For me it's low hanging fruit - some people really love movies, but I honestly can't remember the last time I watched something that I truly enjoyed. It's just something to fill dead time when I'm too tired to think. It BOTHERS me that I've spent so many hours mindlessly watching shows that I didn't even like. I feel like I'm wasting my life every time I watch TV.

I've tried reading and podcasts with limited success. They're good to a point, but the type of content I like is usually either pretty heavy or requires some thought (philosophy, human rights, law, etc. are my areas of interest), and I'm increasingly having trouble with my attention span too.

I already cancelled Netflix a long time ago, but I just never found a good replacement for it. Usually I find myself doomscrolling or watching the same few movies I already own or playing chess on my phone. I decided when I started that I'd let myself finish watching the shows I already followed, but just wouldn't expose myself to any new ones. Now one of the last two shows that I had been following has been cancelled (which is understandable, the last season was AWFUL) and the other won't have a new season for a while because of the strike (go strikers), so I'd really like to make TV and movies a non-factor in my life.

So I'm looking for advice here. What other activities are less of a waste of valuable time but not mentally tasking? Has anyone had success improving their attention span? I'd love to become a bookworm but goddamn is it ever hard to keep my ass on a chair long enough to get through more than two chapters. I don't even know why my attention span is so bad - I actually used to tear through book and had no issue concentrating until about 5-10 years ago.

Any ideas?

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So I grew up poor-ish, and my parents were always looking for a way to get us a bit of fun because most of our money went towards essentials. A childhood staple of mine was take it or leave it bins in various forms. One was at the garbage collection place (we had to take our own garbage because it costs money to have a garbage collector come in some places). People would put anything there that was still usable. We got furniture, electronics, and one time even one of those children's outdoor playground sets that would have sold for hundreds new. My mom would drive me to the local swimming pool (random place right?) where there was a take one leave one book place, and I would get a new book and drop off an old one.

Now I live in an apartment building that has an informal system like this. There's a basket/shelf thingy, and people leave stuff there, and someone else scoops it up. It gets cleaned at the end of every month, but most things get taken. I got most of my kitchen supplies that way, and have also given tons of stuff (the other day I saw someone wearing a dress that I gave away). I would honestly consider this one of the #1 selling points of my building.

Where can I go to find more of these? I'd love to trade in something I don't need for something that I'll use, or that I want to try out to see if it's useful. They are so in line with minimalism - rehome what you can't use, take what brings joy and utility. It's a shame that they aren't everywhere.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by pineapplefriedrice@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

Everyone knows the classics. Only use cash (eh). Wait 30 days before making a purchase to see if the impulse wears off. Track your expenses. Save X% of your paycheque. But what are some more interesting ones?

[-] pineapplefriedrice@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

By this magic where they OPERATE IN EUROPE.

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Also, request your data people: https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request

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If anything, cannabis seems like a much better (and more profitable) drug around which to build a leisurely establishment.

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I'm not a digital nomad myself, just curious about the lifestyle. I've spent significant periods of time abroad, even working abroad, but I always had a place to come back to, usually the tiniest shoebox apartment somewhere.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by pineapplefriedrice@lemmy.world to c/reddit@lemmy.world

TLDR: This is a list (incomplete) of companies that advertise with Reddit and put money in its pockets, and some contact forms for popular companies.

Brilliant Earth (www.brilliantearth.com - scroll to bottom and choose contact method)

Universal Studios (https://www.universalstudios.com/contact/general-and-miscellaneous)

Microsoft

Focus Features

Mitsubishi Motors (https://www.mitsubishicars.com/contact-us)

IBM

Intuit

Autodesk

Electronic Arts

Ally Financial

Discover

Up Australia/Up Banking

ClearScore

Noosa Yoghurt (https://noosayoghurt.com/contact/)

BMW Mini Cooper

Adobe (https://www.facebook.com/Adobe/)

Adidas (https://www.facebook.com/adidas/)

Adrenaline Australia

GameStop (care@gamestop.com)

H&M (https://www.facebook.com/hm OR https://www.instagram.com/hm/)

Liquid I.V.

Oatly (https://www.oatly.com/contact OR https://www.facebook.com/Oatly/ OR https://www.instagram.com/oatly/)

JOE & THE JUICE (https://www.joejuice.com/contact)

Excedrin (https://www.excedrin.com/contact-us/)

Rayovac (https://www.rayovac.com/contact-us/)

Nespresso (https://www.facebook.com/nespresso/ OR https://www.instagram.com/nespresso/)

Novo Nordisk

BackMarket

Caliber Fitness (support@caliberstrong.com OR https://caliberstrong.com/contact-us/)

Lucozade (https://www.lucozade.com/support/)

Moen

Uber

HP

Tezos

Truebill

Ulta Beauty (https://www.ulta.com/guestservices/contact-us)

MeUndies (https://meundies.kustomer.help/contact/how-can-we-help-HyfOyZn0o)

Lagunitas

Aviva

Beyond Meat (https://www.beyondmeat.com/en-US/contact/)

Bitstamp (support@bitstamp.net)

Hootsuite

Zoetus

Wolt (https://explore.wolt.com/contact)

Fineco Bank

Alienware

Tails.com (https://shop.tails.com/contact-us/)

Duracell (https://www.duracell.com/en-us/contact/)

Creative Assembly/Total War: Warhammer III (https://www.totalwar.com/support/)

Finder Australia

Virgin Galactic

Bungie

Discover Financial Services

Capcom

Allergan Aesthetics Coolsculpting

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Right now the strategy is "sit there and hope it catches on" so... open to really any suggestions beyond that.

It's not a niche community, so it's both harder and easier that way - you can't promote it in any niche communities, but it also has somewhat broader appeal.

Sorry, unfortunately nutrition is more complex than what you can sum up in a few sentences. To answer that though:

  • Chicken isn't categorically "unhealthy" in the same way double stuf oreos cooked in lard are - I said in another comment that it's the ultimate neutral food, and if you look at its profile I think that's a fair statement. It's not completely devoid of nutrients, it has a couple of things in significant quantities - phosphorus, selenium, and B3 for example - but overall it's not very nutrient dense. It doesn't have a ton of huge negatives either - a bit of saturated fat, but nothing to write home about. If you're looking at a "Hitler-Hanks" spectrum where the lard oreos are on one end and a spinach chia seed broccoli whatever salad on the other, then chicken is probably right in the middle somewhere. Its D&D alignment is True Neutral. The point I was making in my earlier comment was that "protein" doesn't make a food healthy, and that there's a lot more to it than that, and if people use that mental shortcut they might end up making misinformed decisions.

  • The nutritional profile of chicken would be a lot to type out, but you can look at the NCCDB or Cronometer Gold (which uses NCCDB among others) for an elaborate breakdown. Just keep in mind that it doesn't capture everything - it's an amazing tool, but it won't cover the catechins in your tea, for example.

Ultimately though, if you're reading this, let me take this opportunity to encourage you to GO SEE A REGISTERED DIETITIAN. Your insurance will often cover 80+% of your first appointment, but even if they don't it's an amazing investment. You'll live longer, probably spend less on food, and spend a lot less on hospital bills after your first heart attack.

People need to check moderators' profiles on Lemmy - some people are trying to do the same here. If the person moderates more than 10-ish subs it's better to create a new community before theirs catch on.

[-] pineapplefriedrice@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That is an objectively sad life. Imagine people asking what you did with your life and your answer is "I had imaginary power on a now-defunct internet site doing unpaid work day in and day out. I spent hours upon hours of my life creating charts that only apply in this digital universe to make myself feel important while people who scrolled my page for five minutes a day on the subway were out doing things in the real world".

My question is who took those screenshots. I don't know the context, but if this is some sort of weird ass grass-touching PR stunt that would be next-level gross.

I'm not familiar with the mechanics of this sub obviously, but I'm given to understand that an emergency ascent should have been initiated by this point if everything was fully functional. That probably points to a design flaw - you should always keep those systems as independent of each other as possible so that if one fails, you can fall back on the other. Of course it's possible that they've since ascended and haven't been found, or got stuck, but assuming they haven't that could imply that the sub experienced an insurmountable failure and they're looking for people who are either gone or near-unrescuable.

I would also say that I don't think people SHOULD be risking their lives at this point. We're looking at a case of people who took an informed risk and understood that there was danger associated with the recreational activity they were undertaking. These people either had vast monetary resources and could have consulted the best experts in the world, or had significant prior experience and knowledge. While obviously withholding information interferes with informed consent, and that may or may not have played a role, I don't think this is morally equivalent to rescuing someone from a burning building. There's also simple probability - the odds of rescuing them alive and well aren't good, and to put someone else's life at risk for the off chance that they succeed would be unethical in my opinion.

Just to defend this as an engineer (though not one that works with submarines in any capacity), using a video game controller might sound funny, but it could actually make sense vs. using a device of your own creation. They're highly replaceable, so you have an infinite supply of reliable backups to draw upon. It's not prone to design flaws in the same way a "homemade" controller would be. OTS devices are often designed to withstand certain conditions or modes of use, such as force or moisture or whatever else you anticipate in your environment. They're also widely used, so there are troves of publicly available information on them to draw upon. It might seem silly, but if I were building a titanic submarine YOLO ship thing, I'd probably use something similar.

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