I think people want to share and be heard so they will speak a bit more than you’d want, but I feel on average it’s neutral and we just put a negative spin on some responses because of our own perception.

But then again, there will be people who simply hate you for being you (e.g. tankies on .ml), just like any other social media (e.g. maga on X). The flavor of hate people are allowed to spew is based on moderation, and by that metric, I still prefer moderation on the fediverse over most corporate options.

I was thinking Lemmy isn’t even a real drug. It’s that weird kid who hands you a paper bag to hyperventilate until you feel high.

Or maybe that shit with the whipped cream cans. Except it’s whipped beans.

There was talk about doing that officially, actually, before our world became collectively stupider in recent years. The argument is actually to get people to take them more seriously since they cause deaths just as much as any other climate crisis. Name and rating, similar to hurricanes.

Ah yes, my first exposure to Hamster Dance was in that room…

Subs; aside from being better quality typically and me reading pretty fast, I also understand enough Japanese to get what’s going on. If you do it for over two decades, you get used to it.

Ironically, my Japanese wife sometimes makes me watch dubbed because she sometimes works with English VAs as part of her localization job, lol.

Dunno. I’m in the same boat but I don’t feel comfortable burying my head in the sand, either. Just tired.

I guess I’m making do with hobbies and nostalgia. Like, when picking up my kids, I used to listen to NPR to stay informed but now I just get the headlines and listen to radio stations I listened to as a teen. Hunkering down, since most of the bad news is rather out of my control.

Hell, I plan for the week, even. I’m the kind of person who doesn’t tend to write things down so it helps me organize my thoughts. I used to do it with homework assignments but now it’s like “kid needs to see her speech therapist on Thursday.”

If it helps, I recall reading something that suggested that even if you’re not asleep, laying there with your eyes closed will still help you feel somewhat rested. But, admittedly, knowing I have to get up at 6am or something still sucks regardless.

Never, but I like conversing with my internal monologue in my head. I’m not quite neurotypical, but I have been pretty good (trained?) to rein in any out of control thoughts if they ever wander by using bait I know my brain can chill with.

When I was a teen, it was sexy stuff. Young adult, plot points for a novel setting I’ll probably never write. Lately, it’s just plans for the day (I sleep so much faster now than I used to, though, since I changed my sleep habits after having kids).

Plus, my own monologue makes sense of how I’m feeling and gives me pep talks! That’s probably a product of coping with abuse, but it’s nice none the less.

I feel that one in my soul, as a fellow part time academic with good teaching evals. Our hiring system sucks and people less qualified get in for no good reason, typically.

My cope is knowing I still would be devaluing my time with that role and that my free time not having to do a full course load (+ attend faculty meetings, advise students, etc) is still valuable, to my family and to myself. I’m still bitter about the jobs I don’t get, but my partner got promoted in large part because I could support them so I guess that’s the way things panned out.

Le Miaou, mon frère. And with a loud HON HON HON after, while I twirl my moustache.

Not for my daughter, I’m starting her early on Arch (she’s 4 but she will learn to love the terminal lol)

I’ve had the 24 hour tracks play while working before, haha.

My kids are making me play K.K. Slider tracks from Wii’s Animal Crossing City Folk in Brewster’s Cafe (I am time traveling to Saturday). Cafe K.K. just played.

Do I recommend it? Yeah, cool cat.

It’s a lemmy.ml community, so don’t be too surprised. The ml in lemmy.ml is literally marxist-leninist, even if it’s just a meme community, lol.

Hell even from day one I’ve known some students even who didn’t like it. I have met pro-AI people, mostly c-suite wannabes though.

Depends. First, if you need financing, it’s probably not a great time to buy although if things ever get sane, you can refinance. The interest has been high. If you can buy outright, though, that’s a non-issue.

Second, it depends on where you get your income. Some sectors are shakier than others. Rely on public contacts? Avoid. Healthcare? Probably fine. Tech? No idea, probably a bad idea. If you might get replaced tomorrow, do not finance a home.

Lastly, consider where. You don’t want a place that’s going to be hazard prone with global warning. Places are priced accordingly but if your home ends up flooded, set ablaze, or lifted to another location by a hurricane, probably not a great idea. There won’t be enough public support to make up the loss.

I’m personally holding down my starter home but I had to buy points to pay down interest to meet a debt ratio, and my math suggested 8 years to make that a net gain. But the above reasons have factored into my holding back.

I want to add an additional point or two; unlike Reddit, people generally don’t care about karma (total up votes aren’t really counted and some instances don’t even do downvotes, etc) so even if we were mainstream you won’t see much karma farming. People post genuinely, although it might just be a dudes memes on their phone, etc.

Another is regarding the culture, as you may still get banned from specific instances. For instance, there are tankies (authoritarian communists) in places we mostly defederated from that ban you if you criticize the Chinese government or even North Korea (!). World, a typical go to for Redditors, tends to be center left but had their own controversial moments. Personally I don’t mind their defederation choices except I have to use another instance to access pro-piracy stuff (which div0 folks have the best of).

I hear my neighbors yell from time to time but our kids are like 2 weeks apart in age and… We get it. We don’t do it, but we totally get it. And they tell me they don’t hear me singing in a silly voice when they must certainly do, and is perhaps embarrassing on the other end of the spectrum, lol.

When the prefrontal cortex is mostly formed, somewhere around 25 to 30. It’s the part that helps inhibition, like controlling your emotions and impulses, and also the last part of the brain to be finished. It’s quite downhill from there!