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Me everyday at 8 p.m.

Not sleepy, just worn out mentally.

If the same event has multiple versions of the same story on the same site, that would be lazy but most likely intended to draw in different readers by being presented in different formats.

Are the articles recycling the same wording for the body but with different titles?

Are you sure they aren’t about different incidents with similar events?

Are they expanding on a prior story with new information, but reusing prior article text to show the ongoing trend?

Articles that I can think of from major news sites tend to put out new articles involving ongoing events with the new stuff at the top and then cut and paste from the previous article for context. Kind of lazy, but also providing consistency for a developing story.

Quests are a feature of Discord, so they’re not ads

Being a “feature” doesn’t mean it isn’t an ad.

The advertsising will eventually become required and features that actually benefit users that are expensive to maintain will be removed because that is the parh of enshittificstion.

Honestly, most doctors just give you a note if you go in no matter what anyway, so I’ve always felt that it’s more about your workplace tracking you than trying to make sure you’re alright.

It has always been about discouraging people from taking sick time by making it sound like they might not be able to get a doctor to justify them being out sick. All my low paying jobs enforced it because we didn’t have sick leave and they didn’t hire enough coverage for people to be out sick.

My current job has it in the handbook that if you are out more than 2 days that you might need a note to return to work, is phrased as existing to ensure people who were out sick are actually well enough to return. I took a note in once after being out for 3 days and they said I only needed it if there was a chance I might still be contagious or have something that would make it dangerous to work for liability reasons. Haven’t bothered with one since!

But that’s not what it looks like to you. It’s what you remembered it looking like. If it looked like that to you, you’d have a completely different experience of discord than anyone else. I didn’t downvote or anything, but you basically said “you’re wrong”, but they were correct.

No, I did NOT say that nor did I imply that. It is also pretty fucking arrogant of you to asssume everyone notices and remembers everything. Fuck, I even posted screen shots to show I tried to check to see what I was missing!

No, I don’t think I will.

Instead of trying to lay for one in a professional setting, start dating and seek out a therapist as a significant other. The time it takes to solidify a relationship and get help that way will take less time and money than seeking it through the medical system.

Saying they are committed to producing no rubbish on site on a sign, then selling things that result in rubbish, is hypocritical.

Thank you!

Currency does function that way in small transactions.

Unfortunately the banking system and stock markets and other speculative systems that pretend to be trading the same currency is far different than IOUs. An economic system where currency is just currency would be great.

Cultural systems tend to be maintained over time by force.

Also the local community can dump their waste in the river because it benefits their local community and they don’t care about the people downriver!

The system still needs a structure for interacting with other communities beyond the local one.

That looks like screenshot from any user to me. The highlighting is the same as me taking a screenshot of a comment where I @ someone else. It also looks the same when I see someone else’s comment @ someone else.

Edit: thank you all for down voting me for admitting that I didn’t notice the difference in the background and replied thinking they might be referring to the name highlighting. Clearly I must have been disagreeing with the comment I replied to and not just trying to learn something!

That’s a train whistle.

Generally the more monetarily successful people reach that point by being selfish, so it would make sense that they don’t care about others and only start to care when it affects them personally.

People who are not selfish can become wealthy, it is just a lot less likely because they tend to spread the wealth.

In the replies there willl be a lot of examples of advice that actually does work forna lot of people, but not everyone. They are valid examples of bad advice at the personal level because it doesn’t work for them, but the advice itself is not bad advice in general. A lot of people do hold themselves back by not trying or do wallow in self pity (not clinically depressed) and most people can overcome those thing by just doing something, but not everyone can.

Like I have ADHD and I have tried enough memory tricks and failed at them to know adding more things to remember is counter prodictive for me, and that scheduling tasks only works up to a certain number of tasks in a time frame before being overwhelmed.

But there is one piece of advice that is actually the opposite of what the saying literally means and where the phrase came from. “Pulling yourself up by the bootstraps” was an example of doing something that is literally impossible. It was used as an example of how impossible the thing that was being asked of people was. Now it is twisted to mean that success is possible if you try hard enough, which is the opposite of what it means. It is literally the worst advice because it is saying "do the literal impossible thing’. .

Credit to the admins and mods of the fediverse that keep spam down to the level where we just have one semi successful spammer to laugh at.

The movie going price is competing with a frequently equivalent or better experience at home with the proliferation of large and fairly inexpensive tvs. Being annoyed by other movie goers, extremely overpriced popcorn and other snacks, and needing to go at specific times is just not enough to justify a larger screen and louder speakers except in a rare few movies each year.

I go about once a year and the rest of the time I’ll just wait for streaming or watch the massive backlog of movies and shows available on streaming. Going to the theater was fun in the 90s when I had a small tv and we still had dollar theaters and other reasonably priced options.

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I’m not trying to convince you, just explaining why I see it as a parody.