I aim to be more human. I aim to be less apathetic as a human. Apathy grows, like a tree, and I aim to prune my own.

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  • Genuinely probably easier to manage when its just always one temp extreme versus having to keep track of major weather changes and how that plus activity impacts and all.

    At least with warm you can just assume its too hot. And probably be right.

    I mean, in winter, overheating is easy if you don’t plan in layers and take them off according to the outside temp and how it makes you personally feel. And if you live in a place with winter you have to keep track of so many temps through the year and whether or not a body can manage them… more temperate means less caution for extremes.

    I wear shorts when its above 40, as long as that happens between December and July. When it happens in August to December, its so cold because my blood hasn’t thickened, so i don’t.

    Edit to add: i sent a message directly to make sure this was passed along but one of the youtube creators I watch does diy material science stuff, and one of his recipes is a PCM (phase change material) made from salts that stays cool, not cold, for dozens of hours. Very long time. Feels like the cool side of a pillow for half of forever.

    So here’s that video

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqxjfp4Gi0k



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    When I first joined lemmy years ago (this was my first fedi account, so however old this is) I was not aware that some instances censor certain things prior to feeding content to the rest of the fediverse, so I’d come across [redacted] quite a lot, with no context for why it was there.

    So I started writing it myself for fun, I can’t be the only one out of the loop and it was frequently hilarious in context, so thought nothing of doing it myself. I bet that confused a lot of people, since I’m not on a censored server. Lets just say that was intentional ;)

    My app changes the whole comment structure when comments were deleted, so thats super obvious and the chains ITT are unconvincing and obvious at best. Idk what desktop looks like, maybe that works better. But either way the censorship is inline and doesn’t have “maybe is maybe not” for legitimacy.






  • Then you should be fighting against at-will employment. That’s really where this comes from, the ability to fire people for any reason or no reason at all.

    If we had even rudimentary worker protections, that wouldn’t really be much if a concern. You might still get let go, if your conduct is bad enough, but you’d have time to not just suddenly be unemployed and scrambling. But it’s a lot less likely to get to that position when employer over-reach is less of a thing to begin with.

    Meanwhile our companies and oligarchs think they own us, cradle to grave, and they aren’t that far off, so no wonder they act like that’s the truth.





  • Depends heavily on the sect. Theres a group near me who are quite modernized and I have regular contact with them. They are nice people with an off-grid lifestyle and religion makes up a substantial part of their lives, but are otherwise largely like everyone else.

    They have solar panels and in floor heating, they don’t milk by hand or anything, and they scoff at groups who don’t have such leniency. They visit non-amish and watch tv with them and stuff. Very chill.

    Basically, the specific group near me I’d almost be willing to join. But I’m an atheist, so that wouldn’t work all that well for me.

    The group I grew up around is a totally different bag. Very regressive, very insular community, not a great situation and not people I want to spend time around. They also weren’t very nice to anyone not part of their community, almost like they wanted to be hated. Persecution complex shit.