Almost all foods are processed and most are some degree of premade. You better hope so too, because “processing” gets rid of like the insanely high risk of contamination that food has in nature. Eating meat of a deer carrying some virus or bacteria or simply being poisoned by fungi affecting some plant was how non-agricultural humans died a lot, and it’s only once we started processing everything, like e.g. ultra heat-treated & pasteurized milk that food quality improved.

Woaah now we’re talking opportunities? I never mentioned that at all.

I think it’s fairly obvious that in a world where we would no longer have to do work and there wasn’t a need to work to survive ala capitalism or hunter-gathering that people would have literally unlimited opportunities and unlimited time, and that’s what this conversation was originally about.

When you claimed “not everyone is a leader” in that context you are referring to innate ability only, not opportunities. There is an implied “all things being equal” in there.

You and I obviously agree on what you wrote in regards to equity etc, these are basic humanist notions, but they are also irrelevant in this discussion.

All things being equal, if a person could not find meaning in their life to move towards I would judge them for it because I was able to, and if I see myself as not innately better than others, then there is no reason that innately others shouldn’t be able to accomplish to a similar level that I had done.

There are billions of people alive today that don’t have the mental framework to cope with this kind of change because our education systems are abysmally incapable of teaching people how to think critically, structurally, and existentially.

So if I can, what does that mean?

Because I’d prefer to assume, out of empathy, that it means that others are capable of it as well. I am nothing special at all, if I can do it, so can others.

If anything that’s the humble, empathetic assumption. I did not need to be taught, I went out of my way to learn these things. So it must be that others are capable of that too, right?

Because the alternative would be to assume less of others than of myself, which is actually the ugly, unempathetic assumption, which I’d prefer not to make.

My worldview rests on judging myself by the same standard I judge others, extending a theoretical stranger the same benefit of the doubt I’d extend myself. That - to me - is empathy.

Am I missing something? Is there a third way? Because I’d love to hear it.

Yes

Discovered hard/aggro phonk like Ghostface Playah, TXN4, and KSLV Noh.

No idea wtf is with the gym association and images of Guts from Berserk everywhere but the music is great ngl.

Reminds me of IDX(?) or like that more modern adjacent microgenre that Femtanyl and ZØMB occupy.

I was also having a brain fart earlier after my gf showed me this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3Esp6ikwDc because I just assumed that Hungarian fascists would use Franz Liszt because he’s like the Hungarian composer, but I could’ve sworn that song is by Berlioz.

Indeed it was, and Berlioz was indeed a romanticist… a French romanticist though. He died in Paris too.

As far as I’m aware (which isnt very far at all), he was not living in or ever active in Hungary at any point. Liszt was also alive and active around basically the exact same time in the early to mid 1800s, so it wasn’t motivated by revanchism/reactionary idolisation of a particular period, and Liszt was also a romanticist, but y’know, actually a Hungarian one.

The only way it makes sense is because that part of Damnation of Faust by Berlioz is called “Hungarian March” so I guess they just went with that? Honestly nationalists do be shallow lol 😂

Might as well have gone with Hungarian Dances by Brahms or something. I guess that one is too nice sounding, and they wanted a “are we the baddies moment?” with that villainous theme, kind of embarrassing to lose a war after that too lol at least the Brits had a bit of levity to their colonel bogey song, forever immortalised in my mind as victoria 3 final boss music.

We always have, I’ve never seen a meme template used incorrectly without lots of comments calling it out for being wrong, even when it was actually funny.

See idgaf about how a template is used as long as it’s funny. If it’s used incorrectly but is funny it’s a ‘spin’ or variant or remix or even a ‘subversion’ if the joke is about the template itself (meta commentary).

The former shows knowledge of the template and intent.

But if it is unfunny and it’s used incorrectly then oftentimes it is so because it’s used incorrectly.

The latter shows a lack of knowledge of the template and lack of intention.

This all also applies to art

Thats specious reasoning, I see no evidence anyone is a “leader” any more than anyone else, so I think you should be your own leader. Self-governance in your humanity and your life is a joy to be celebrated.

If my needs were actually covered by the surplus of productivity brought about by automation instead of going to some rich asshole so he can buy another private jet to do ketamine on or lobby for racism or whatever it is they do anymore, I’d be very happy with it all.

structure (“I know where to be at 9”)

That’s stupid, you can create your own structure freely if you need it so much, but you also just don’t need it. Needing a paternalistic structure is intellectual laziness.

community (office friendships, shared memes, gossip),

But not a consensual one. It is more like prison inmates, even if you like them. You should find your own community.

Identity (“I’m a nurse / teacher / carpenter,” for the lucky ones),

That’s skill and passion though, not wage labour. That’s why some jobs mean something and others do not.

My job doesn’t even remotely touch on my identity even though it’s my profession and what I studied for because while I love studying complex computer systems for flaws, I don’t actually give a shit about preventing some dysfunctional private equity portfolio fodder company’s bottom line from dropping.

•a script (“I know what next year roughly looks like”).

More intellectual laziness. You can write your own script if you need one or just do what you actually want. Obviously that requires asking the hard question of what you actually want, but this shouldn’t be hard.

Take that away and you don’t get instant utopia. You get a psychic freefall.

I’m no psychic but this sure feels like projection, and not the astral kind.

Imagine millions of people waking up one day structurally unnecessary to the economy, with no replacement narrative in place. Not “You’re free now,” but “The system doesn’t know what to do with you, please manage your own despair.”

Thats great as long as the economy is restructured such that I no longer have obligations to it and benefit from productivity increases.

That’s not liberation. That’s cruelty on a scale our nervous systems are not built for.

That’s stupid, sweeping statements about what our nervous systems are and are not built for have no basis in reality, even the basic idea of “we were meant to x” based in the pseudoscience of evolutionary psychology that’s parroted wildly by various bad vibe cottagecore enthusiasts and other conservative past romanticizers doesn’t make hold any more water than me saying that my nervous system was actually meant to post comments on Lemmy.

We weren’t meant to do anything, no one exists and nothing happens for any particular reason, we are a chaotic yet structured event on the way from a big bang in a race towards the thermodynamic equilibrium and ultimately the heat death of the universe.

This is a good thing, actually, because it means that you have the freedom to find your own purpose outside of merely wage labour or some other manufactured divine intent.

Go explore, go learn something or make something, once capitalism no longer demands of us the wageslavery we provide, we will be truly free to be ourselves, and I look forward to that day.

Hopefully the age of jobs will end as it should.

Americans have a weird idea that fast food isn’t just mostly the same ingredients you see in a store + sugar and preservatives and that by cooking you somehow elevate the ingredients to a higher quality.

It’s not funny and it doesn’t work, because the meme template was used incorrectly.

Important stuff. I think critical analysis of luddism, romanticism, nostalgia and general idolisation of the past should be required reading/understanding for leftists. Too many people with anprim tendencies or who’s views are best summarised as “technology bad, society bad, fuck gays and the disabled if it gives me an excuse” rather than any meaningful set of beliefs.

Progressive movements should be associated with tower blocks, abundant housing, skyscrapers, dense cities, urbanism, technology and science and distribution of the benefits of it equally for all rather than the few, and people should be exposed to arguments that show why this is desirable, rather than have their disillusionment with capitalism be subverted into a hatred for modernity.

That’s what solarpunk is about. Technology for the benefit of humanity, not technology against humanity not humanity against all technology yearning to delete access to information or recombine waste and drinking water all the same.

As someone who never romanticized the past or saw utopias in traditional fantasy (genre?), I could never understand why others would, even the cute versions seem awful because they have no internet, but it’s always nice to hear a perspective so alien to my own.

Did this with Reshade playing that Radiohead Amnesia Exhibition thing and Marvel’s Insomniac’s PS4 Spider-Man on PC. It was great!

I guess I can see the appeal, though for me this seems mostly like an issue with the home setup.

For me, I don’t really care about price, it’s not that expensive.

But what kills it for me is I can’t vape or pause the movie or rewind or flip on subtitles or control the volume, I can’t take a break to take a piss and I can’t comment on the movie with anyone I’m watching it with and I get to pay 20 bucks plus waste my day on travel so I could hear random strangers munch popcorn while I am forced to watch military recruitment ads and trailers for movies that somehow outslop actual AI slop that are always called some shit like “$80s_intellectual_property_name” or “shit world: dominator” and they always seem to have that one lady from the avengers in them.

At home I watch web-DLs (and BDRemuxes for special occasions) on a 24 inch computer monitor with somewhat dodgy 2.1 Logitech speakers (basically classroom ones but with a subwoofer unit) from over 6 feet away and I lounge on the chespest IKEA couch. It feels like paradise to me honestly. But thanks for the perspective.

Aye, true that, I don’t think I said anything contradictory to what you replied with.

Also, FYI, when scientists say “blue light” they don’t mean literally the colour blue, they mean short wavelength light typically emitted by LEDs.

As far as the hue goes, the results in animal testing have been inconsistent, there’s a paper from 2022 that says it has no influence, and this one from 2020 that actually found the opposite to be the case https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(19)31368-5

In my personal experience I do the exact opposite of all conventional advice as admittedly a diagnosed ADHDer.

I cannot sleep without a good scroll and never have, before phones I had books and before I could read as a child I had music and my mom to read to me.

As an adult if I keep listening to something or reading something intently while comfy I will eventually and fairly quickly fall asleep.

I also sleep much better when I sleep immediately after or while scrolling/reading/doing anything than if I try to sleep “normally”.

The number one way for me personally not to fall asleep is to “try” to sleep. Any sort of “ritual” around sleeping or attempt to deprive myself of stimulation and my mind will go pretty crazy with infinite thoughts and infinite random bullshit and I will fling out of bed in an hour full of energy and start projects, after working on something for 10-20 min I’ll feel sleepy again and could even fall asleep while doing them easily, much more so than in plain dark.

It also helps me to not have any sort of ritual and just sleep whenever I feel sleepy if the circumstances allow. I have no idea why or how neurotypicals have sleep schedules and I’ve given up on understanding it. For me, as long as I get 8 hours or so it doesn’t actually matter at all when I get them, i will feel as fresh and awake waking up at 3AM as I would at 10PM or 7AM as long as I get my hours.

So I pretty much get 8 hours, and sometimes more every day and I feel nice and fresh when I wake up usually with sad exceptions during particularly rough work weeks where I end up staying up way late.

All’s I’m saying is YMMV, I’ve never had any issues with sleep nor do I feel particularly tired, I don’t drink coffee nor alcohol, but if I ever explain this to a doctor they go nuts and assume I have insomnia, they try to offer “treatment” when I literally don’t have any problems with this at all.

Nope, it looks good here on Jerboa

That’s so cool! Thanks for sharing it!

Companies not to vertically integrate. Production studios should produce movies, and streaming platforms should provide a platform for people to access movies. If Spotify made its own music it would be absurd, right? Well, yeah.

Benzos. Pretty convinced I had a minor seizure discontinuing that shook me awake with what I experienced as like a flashbang inside my brain.

Psychologically it was quite easy to make the decision to stop and taper down etc. as the drug had accomplished what I wanted from it and I no longer had a solid justification for it, but physically it was an endurance marathon, didn’t unclench my jaw for what felt like weeks.

Sleep was rare and awful. My leg was so restless I’d work up a sweat just shaking it trying to not freak the fuck out. It was like a panic attack that just didn’t go away for weeks.

Other than that I don’t think I’ve ever had any serious addictions, nor any psychological addictions at all which is what I think people usually mean by “addiction” as opposed to physical dependence, but yeah.

Oh dear