Thanks for dystopian content

Rural area, I know all my immediate neighbours and a few people from the villages around. It’s really great to be part of a small community, and since a lot of the original population emigrated the old folks around are generally really welcoming even to foreigners like me. I got so used to greeting everyone I sometimes confuse people in larger places with too much waving and smiling where it’s not common.

Admittedly the insults here on lemmy might be a bit more old-timey quirky compared to reddit, but we have to work with what we’ve got! You’ll find it’s quite groovy here once you warm up to it.

Not money (although it helps), time. The nuclear family is an invention of the industrial age. But parents can easily be relieved through a local community or a professional childcare system.

I just listened to him for five minutes and felt he was wasting my time. I like people who pick a topic and then follow through with it.

Wait what’s it called then, the tiny image next to my name? Inquiring luddites want to know!

Clearly AI generated, too many legs in weird places!

‘Dag’ sent me straight to the dictionary. Very accurate, 10/10 would be insulted again by this user! 👍

Going back in our very long human history there are probably more instances where a person held a rat like in the pic above than where a person was using a mouse like below. Therefore holding a rat is more natural. As a former owner of a pet rat, but also a modern computer user, my usage ratio of rat/mouse is probably something like 5/95 at this point while skewing towards the situation pictured below.

Hey there, as a spinster I refuse to be associated with the shitrobot in any way! My yarn is nothing but finest local sheep wool.

looks at own avatar pic

sees business opportunity

Fed up with your annoying human employees? Want to rule over an army of yessayers? Shiny surfaces make you drool?

SchmorpAI has got your back! Let a million bullshit machines loose onto your business! Watch everything burn! Look, look at the flamesss!

The garden I’m growing. Just keep throwing seeds on the soil and add water regularly. Some shit will grow. There’s these incredible beans - the flower starts out a buttery yellow, then turns a whitish violet when it opens. Or pansies - first time I grew one from seed and I could just stare at them for hours! While humanity disappoints often even the smallest of plants makes me incredibly happy.

In one trip I ended up telepathically communicating with a genet cat (a small wild mammal, it was actually there and I didn’t hallucinate it) and then losing all concept of language (which was a little scary) till waking up the next morning. In another trip I synesthesically saw/listened to a Pink Floyd album. I like mushrooms more even though they made me believe I would die on a few trips. Both acid and mushrooms are fungus-based psychedelics so I would say they work similarly, but found a better learning effect with Psilocybe, and also prefer using plants and mushrooms instead of extracts and synthetic compounds. I don’t take them for euphoria and don’t take them often, last time was 3 or 4 years ago, before that I didn’t touch them for 15+ years. I find that the wisdom (or advice) I receive in a mushroom trip can be useful but has to be taken with a grain of salt, a bit like when a friend who is not entirely aware of your situation gives you advice.

Ah, I like this comparison - something I can relate to. I mostly listen to either European Pre-Renaissance or world music/folk jazz these days. What would that be in programming languages?

Starts with the Jaquard loom, I already love it, thanks for sharing!

Since I’m off the cigarettes I will have a cup of tea or coffee between activities now and half a blunt instead of a full cigarette. I’d call it an improvement but not everybody would.

I don’t think we should accept those people’s money anymore - what are these billions, trillions, gazillions, schmoozillions even supposed to be. I’m happy to trade in sea shells or your kiddo’s drawings with you instead if you have an honest face!

That Europeans discovered the ‘new world’, and that it was inhabited by ‘savages’ aka people with forgettable cultures, skills, and lifestyles.

I experience the transition from one activity to another a little like a jump into cold water. It’s just very intense and I guess that’s why my mind wants to avoid it. I learn to better anticipate and vow to accept the brief mental pain of starting something new and it makes it easier to jump to new activities.

I also used cigarettes to ‘mark’ the transition between activities. They help, and also are rotten bad for your health, expensive, and stink like hell.

I experience the same problem. I am a grown ass woman and functional in most areas of my life. I deliver my freelance projects on time. I’ve studied in the university and finished all the assignments. I keep animals and plants alive. I’ve raised a child. But something in my brain compels me, absolutely compels me, to ignore the good advice I give myself at least some of the time and binge on something - can be different things from substance to activities to mind obsessions. While being completely aware that ‘it only gets harder when you sabotage yourself’. And that is what the whole ADHD issue comes from. That you can’t will away the executive dysfunction.

So it’s good for you that you manage to obey the reminder, but not really possible that easily for many people. Besides being aware that you want this for yourself (this does help me as well when I remember to remember it), what else would you say contributes to you being successful in this?