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thethrilloftime69

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  • Be honest: Do you still use mainstream social media?

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  • I use Mastodon/Lemmy as my primary social media accounts, but i still use Instagram and YouTube pretty consistently.

    I want to be off corporate social media permanently, but most of my friends are still on Instagram and there really isn't a good replacement for YouTube. I have tried to encourage people to switch, but it hasn't taken yet.

  • "If I can't win an argument, I must change my mind." Do you agree with this view?

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  • You should stop viewing arguments as a win lose proposition. They are an opportunity for all participants to learn. All parties should be open to changing their mind. They should enter into the argument hoping to gain consensus and something closer to the truth.

  • What does marriage mean to you?

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  • What does she gain by being married to you vs you being married to her?

  • This may be a stupid question, but how do you decide in what community to ask questions?

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  • Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse

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  • I think even if shills, bots and influencers gain traction in the fediverse, it's still better than reddit or Instagram because of federation. There won't be one corporation algorithmically feeding you ads. You can curate your experience more than you can on another platform.

  • Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect

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  • As a doctor who has been practicing for 8 years. I have been prey to multiple "consultant driven" interventions that never ever seen to help.

    Hiring a consultant is akin to money laundering.

  • People who journal, why?

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  • I don't journal to document my life. I journal to get my thoughts out of me. Expressing something can be cathartic regardless of it's veracity. It doesn't have to make sense, be interesting, or fun. The act of writing can clear your head and let your honest feelings come to the surface.

    I don't go back to read what I wrote. The act of writing is enough.

  • How many of these "What from reddit do you hope to never see on lemmy?" replies have aged like milk, and which have aged like wine?

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  • I actually have never had that experience. Maybe something to do with how you curate your feed?

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    Why doesn't Daredevil just get 'good' rich people to pay off judges and the anti-vigilante task force police, or get them to make sure Fisk doesn't get into office?

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  • Bro Batman isn't a real person. He doesn't need you to defend him.

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  • Humanity is doomed bro

  • What to do if it is difficult to read novels or web novels?

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  • First off, great job for trying to read more books. Last year, I decided that reading books were a better use of my time than doom scrolling.

    Maybe looking at screens is what's giving you a headache? Why don't you try to get a book from the library?

  • The Arab American community that helped propel Trump is now grappling with lran war's fallout

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  • If you ask the rest of the world, the US has been a fascist country for most of the post war era.

    I also think the US hegemonic system produced this result. I think whatever Trump was going to do was inevitable because look at their opposition. The most milquetoast resistance imaginable.

    So people blaming minorities for not voting against Trump can suck my nuts. This was an inevitable consequence of the system America created. Y'all are mad that the US just took it's mask off. I'm sick of Americans blaming everyone but themselves for the shit they put the world through.

  • The Arab American community that helped propel Trump is now grappling with lran war's fallout

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  • I'm saying there were no good choices. So I don't know why I'm responsible for the Democrats failure to be even decent.

  • The Arab American community that helped propel Trump is now grappling with lran war's fallout

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  • As a Muslim, I don't blame anyone for abstaining. The choices were genocide or genocide+. Trump at least went to meet with some Mosque leaders in Dearborn Michigan. Kamala couldn't even be bothered to do that.

    The Democrats demonstrably abandoned us to our faces. Trump at least acted like he was going to care (which anyone could tell you was a lie, but he did make a show of it).

    My parents, aunts, and uncles all seriously considered voting for Trump because we all felt abandoned by the Democrats.

    Don't blame us, the Democrats abandoned us to our faces.

  • What's the most moving experience you've ever had?

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  • My grandparents both lived with us for most of my life. Over the summers when I was a kid, my brother and I would stay up late playing video games and my grandparents would sit in the same room watching TV. My grandfather would make fun of whatever my brother and I were doing. My grandmother would tell him to leave us alone. It was gentle fun ribbing all around.

    My freshmen year of college, my grandmother died suddenly while she was visiting my aunt in California. I didn't even know she was sick. It was such a shock.

    My grandfather was devastated. He used to tell my dad "I had no idea how much I needed her". He was diagnosed with lung cancer a month after she died. My parents and my aunts and uncles all took turns taking him to chemotherapy. We all tried to keep him going, but the dude had given up. He seemed like he didn't think there was any point in going on without her. We all tried to raise his spirits so he could keep fighting, but he just didn't have it in him anymore.

    My sophomore of college, my mom would call me periodically and tell me "I think Dada is going to die today." It happened so much, eventually it just became background noise to me. I was home on spring break, I went to see him at the rehab center and he was telling me he could see grandmother. Being 19, I figured he was just delirious from all the drugs. I went home and went to bed. Next morning, my mom called me and said "Dada got sent to the ER, I think today is the day". He had been sent to the ER so many times at that point, I was kinda numb to it and I just went back to sleep. I woke up an hour later and got my brother "hey we gotta go to the hospital and check on dada". No rush, very routine at this point.

    We get there and the doctor wants to talk to my dad like asap. So I called him and told him the doctor needs to talk to you. My dad rushed over. Doc tells us my grandfather had a GI bleed but he was too frail to survive the procedure to fix it. So there was nothing they could do.

    My cousin came after that. So we sat there in the ER for hours. Looking at the heart monitor. Watching it slowly count down from 100. It took hours. The four of us silently sitting there. None of us knew what to say.

    As soon as the heart rate monitor dropped to 0, we were all in tears. Nobody could speak.

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  • I've never heard of Hexbear. Care to explain?

  • Do you think there's too much emphasis in popular media on working your ass off?

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  • Maybe. This is all conjecture, but it seems convenient that Tupac who advocated for helping the poor in his music was murdered and all the black artists who popped up after him (Beyonce,JayZ, Kanye for example) are all about "get my money" music.

    Of course, I have no evidence, but if you've read about all the various CIA psyops over the past 80 years, it doesn't sound that far fetched.

  • Do you think there's too much emphasis in popular media on working your ass off?

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  • The media is owned by capitalists. Anything that threatens capital needs to be snuffed out.

    https://youtu.be/eXvBjCO19QY

    This is Tupac who was murdered.

    https://youtu.be/E58qLXBfLrs

    This is Kanye West who is a professed Nazi and still alive.

    These songs were within a decade of each other. I know that's not enough data, but I think the differences in tone can be accounted for which was was more acceptable to power.

  • TIL One of the two brothers who founded the Guinness Book of World Records was assassinated by the IRA

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  • McWhirter put a bounty on them. I think whatever motivated this is more complicated than they just killed people.