moistclump

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[–] moistclump@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Does that affect how you feel when people refer to now as the end days?

[–] moistclump@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Absolute classic. One of my favourite music videos, simple but creative and effective. And mesmerizing!

[–] moistclump@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

I want to be a mushroom.

[–] moistclump@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But then wouldn’t you want to put democrats and conservatives and kamalas?

 

I’m a 30 year old woman who’s only really played card and puzzle games on my phone. Im considering new hobbies. Is it worth trying to get into video games for the first time. Where would I even start.

[–] moistclump@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Going to name my kid [NULL] so he has a fighting chance.

[–] moistclump@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

I’m. Tired. I wish I wasn’t.

[–] moistclump@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

If anyone’s curious about where that ranks, I was surprised it wasn’t a higher rank overall by country but quite a significant difference in how US rates compares to say UK.

Though the U.S. doesn’t top the list of countries with the highest prevalence of obesity, it has seen significant increases during the survey time period and has higher rates than some other wealthy nations. The U.S. adult obesity rate increased from 21.2% in 1990 to 43.8% in 2022 for women, and from 16.9% to 41.6% in 2022 for men, according to the study, placing the country 36th in the world for highest obesity rates among women and 10th highest among men. By contrast, the adult obesity rate in the U.K. increased from 13.8% in 1990 to 28.3% in 2022 for women, ranking it 87th highest in the world, while the obesity rate for men rose from 10.7% to 26.9%, making it 55th highest for obesity.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2024-02-29/more-than-1-billion-people-worldwide-suffer-from-obesity#%3A%7E%3Atext=The+U.S.+adult+obesity+rate%2Cand+10th+highest+among+men.

[–] moistclump@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Oh man. This speech. I needed this, thank you. It’s so poignant and perfect. Every time I stumble on it every couple of years I feel moved and hopeful.

[–] moistclump@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago

Not Tim Cook, the inventor of the Cook apputer?

 

I have a wonderful senior dog and he’s my best friend. And I’m so scared of his aging. As he’s slowing down and I keep an eye out for medical issues I just can’t imagine how and when to make a call about his life.

I work all day away from home and live by myself, which was not the situation when I’d adopted him initially. I don’t have a community or friends or family around to help during the day if and when it comes to that. I can’t afford dog sitters especially not ones with training.

What if he could be fine with more support and money, should I give him back to animal rescue?

 

But according to NYT it’s not a word.

 
 

“Basement dwellers” implies parents with multi level houses. I feel like the kid living with their parents for a long time will become more of a thing but they’ll be lucky to have the privacy and space of a whole basement.

And so I say, basement dwellers? In this economy?

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I enjoyed the exchange of ideas here and the way things were described and debated. Made me happy to be on Lemmy.

 

Saw this comment from someone in Germany, 3000-4000 euros and very intensive process. https://feddit.de/comment/7204601

 

On these types of forums it’s easy to jump into an argument about the technicalities or a post or comment.

You should know, though, that there is a theory called Ways of Knowing which defines Separate Knowing and Connected Knowing. It’s been a part of my masters program I’m taking.

Separate knowing disconnects the humanity and context from what’s being said and tries to only argue the “facts”. But facts, and the things people say, don’t just occur in a vacuum. It often is the case when people are arguing past each other, like on the internet.

Connected Knowing is approaching the thing someone said with the understanding that there is a context, humanity, biases, different experiences, and human error that can all jumble up when people are sharing information.

Maybe even just knowing that there’s different ways to know would be helpful for us to engage in a different level of conversation here. I’m not sure. I just wanted to share!

https://capstone.unst.pdx.edu/sites/default/files/Critical%20Thinking%20Article_0.pdf

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