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"Maybe if we ignore the problem, it will go away"

Based on the friend I have who is an autistic poly climber girl who keeps inviting me to blues dance nights.... yes

Assuming 8 hours of sleep and a 4am wake up, that would be an 8pm bed time. Assuming the person works a 9-5, that is 3 hours from the end of work until bed time. I *suppose* that's enough time to commute, do chores, eat dinner, and engage in a healthy amount of low stress social time... but I have a hard time imagining most people keeping this bed time consistently. Especially since, at least where I live, you'd be going to bed before sunset for about 1/3 of the year. Again, I think a 4am wakeup is dumb for most people, most of the time. There are edge cases, of course. But the average go-getter 9-5er who wants long term success in their career, fitness, and relationships would be better served by waking up later, working out less, and spending more time socializing with other people (preferrably in a healthy way) during after work hours.

Looks like this is the biggest one, but pretty dead unfortunately.

I’ve heard this phrased before as “why are there so many engineers in climbing?” And most people say “something something puzzles.” I then present my theory that the reason is that engineers are a bunch of nerds with poor social skills, and climbing gives them an easy way to socialize

I agree there are edge cases. I just think it shouldn't be billed as the ultimate productivity solution to the average person.

I'm currently in the middle of a workout, doing endless sets of dead bugs as remedial core work so I can eventually have bigger lifts and better climbing performance. This kind of attitude (like, the one the meme is joking about, not the meme itself) annoys me, since I feel like it ultimately sets back most of the people it is supposedly trying to inspire. Like, waking up at 4am is dumb for almost everyone, almost all the time - especially if your goal is to work out. Your body needs a certain amount of sleep to recover and function well, and shorting it sleep to get more training in is likely setting you back more than giving you gains. And if you are getting the same amount of sleep total each day anyway.... why not just wake up later and get your workout in in the afternoon? If you are really that crunched for time and stressed out, the optimal solution is more likely to simply reduce the number of workouts per week. More recovery time means both less overtraining, and a better training stimulus with each workout since you are more rested going into it.

Get pork shoulder from the grocery store. Usually sold in, like, 10lb hunks for $2 per lb. Super cheap. Get a can of chipotle peppers in adobo sauce from the mexican section. Put the whole hunk in the slow cooker and dump the peppers and sauce over it. Put it on low before you leave for work. At dinner time, pull the pork apart with 2 forks to shred it. You have taco meat for at least a week for one person.

Not the point of OOP. The point is that people often see success (say, doing well in a marathon or whatever) and discount it by saying the person is naturally good at whatever. Then they compare to themselves, and use the difference in outcome to claim that the person who is doing better just has some uncontrollable advantage over themselves. The meme tries to subvert this idea by pointing out that while the result is all you see, what you don't see is all the hard work and sacrifice that went into achieving the goal.

You managed to cram an impressive amount of false dichotomies and unfounded assumptions into a single sentence.

If there are so many refutations, then it should be trivial to point me to one. Assume I am an idiot who doesn’t know how a search engine works - I very well might be. Would you be able to point me to one of these innumerable refutations that would disprove me - otherwise, how am I to learn?

Why do libraries work?

I’m not sure what you mean here. If you explain your point of view, I can explain mine. But I will point out that libraries are not a full, functioning society - just part of one.

As the other commenter said, even if your claim about having more free time is true (I highly doubt it, more likely we simply aren't counting the various tasks historical peoples had to do which were still "work", but not their main job, and overcounting the "work" that modern people do when they are actually just scrolling tiktok), as a society we spend far less time making food than we used to. This is obvious by the fact that in the past century, worldwide levels of famine and hunger have dropped lower than they have ever been in recorded history.

One of them commented that he doesnt know how I stay inside and work all day, he really enjoys being outside with the trucks in the morning, then enjoying the afternoon outside with the kids.

He could be taking the local kids out for hikes in nature instead - an activity which also gets him outside, provides a benefit to society, and lets him spend time with his kid and their friends. If he didn’t get paid, do you think he would prefer picking up garbage, or going on hikes with his kid? And even if he finds picking up trash meaningful now, do you think he started the job for the money, benefits, and schedule, and then learned to appreciate the good he was doing for the community after years of doing the work?

pretty sure we can find something better for batteries than lithium

Trust me, bro

would you need someone scanning groceries if there was no money?

Because this is the most efficient way of keeping track of how many goods leave your moneyless store, and ensuring assholes aren’t just taking everything for themselves and hoarding it. Tracking how many goods leave the store at any given time allows you to order an appropriate amount to keep things in stock so that people who need things don’t go without, and is especially important for perishable goods like fresh produce.

What’s left can be rotated out or done by lottery,

People have different skill sets and specialties. Many jobs take years of training and practice to reach an acceptable level. Also, you just invented state-sanctioned slavery/a non-military draft. What do you do with someone who refuses to perform their lottery-assigned job?

and those doing the undesirable labor get to have more luxury items or whatever.

That’s literally the system we have now, but more authoritarian, since someone has to decide what is a “luxury good” and how much undesirable work is required to attain a given level of luxury.

people have been doing it for centuries.

Citation needed. Concerns: authoritarianism; scaling; maintenance of the modern standard of living

This altruistic instinct rapidly tapers beyond one's immediate community. Sure, we have the instinct to *try* helping others, even those who are very distant. But without reinforcement of our good behaviors, any given behavior will peter out. Like, suppose you are making enough money to live comfortably. You then hear about a charity that builds wells to provide clean drinking water to people in impoverished parts of the world, and decide you can spare $5 per month to help them. So you donate $5. However, this charity focuses *entirely* on doing the actual charitable work, so you have to remember to donate and manually type in your credit card information each month. And they don't do any PR. No monthly emails with personal stories about the people they helped or anything like that. Instead, they simply have a publicly accessible spreadsheet that has data on wells built and people served. *Almost everyone* would stop donating to this charity after a month or two, simply because they would forget or procrastinate until they forget, because our brains don't assign relevance to things which don't create an emotional impression on us. Compare this with, say, helping your child and their new partner build a home with your own hands. This kind of project provides lots of positive reinforcement - exercise, time outside, time spent with others, seeing progress being made day by day, the appreciation of others, the knowledge that you have helped someone who is important to you. Hence why most people find most jobs to be unpleasant in one way or another. Not many people want to spend their days pumping a stranger's septic system. The unpleasant work (aka, "work") is what is left over after everyone does the pleasant work for free. Also, some anthropologists theorize that the beginning of labor intensive agriculture and large permanent settlements was only possible via forced labor, coerced by violent, authoritarian leaders. Evidence shows that early agrarian life was significantly worse in just about every way than nomadic hunter-gatherer life, which explains why hunter-gatherer tribes almost universally fought against or fled from agrarian settlements.

We already have better farming technology. People prefer to grow gardens in their back yard with compost made from their coffee grounds instead. Iirc, John Green calculated that - even excluding the cost of his own labor - one tomato that he grew in his garden cost him $18. There are certainly a lot of problems with modern agriculture. But food is far cheaper than it has been for pretty much all of human history, when the collection and preparation of food took up the vast majority of most people's time.

The acronym ACAB stands for “All cops are bastards”, which is basically a ragebait lefty slogan which is popular on Lemmy. OP makes a joke by inverting the expectation, and showing us a picture of “a cab” (a taxi)

What if the minorities are causing harm to society by being wrong, such as distrusting vaccines?

It’s not real, bro. The bad man can’t hurt you

Or latine. Or just latino/a, depending on context, as is the norm in all of spanish.

What if the minorities are wrong?

I mean, I exaggerate a little. But only a little. OSHA regulates how we attach ourselves to the structure - harnesses, lifelines, lanyards, etc. But how we do the pulling is, as far as I know, completely unregulated. You're a professional - don't drop shit. In my home market, we *do* often use progress capture shivs, and this improves safety since if you fuck up and let go for some reason, the shiv takes the weight. But one wheel only provides a redirect of force - which can mean a more advantageous pulling direction, but isn't technically a mechanical advantage. If you set up a 3-1 to pull a point, you would almost certainly be demoted to stagehand, since you would be pulling more than 3x slower than everyone else. And considering that I regularly do fairly strict one arm deadlifts on the 20mm edge of my tension block with about 130lbs, pulling a 100lb chain isn't a huge deal. Also, we are one of the stricter, more conservative markets, since a lot of both our riggers and managers are rock climbers who have little ego attached to the job. Other markets can be significantly more cowboy. A climber who rigs for a living wants to get the job done efficiently and go home with enough energy to climb hard the next day. But the blue collar guy who got the job because he had too many face tattoos and too little patience to learn to weld will see his job as an opportunity to get his rocks off and prove his masculinity or something. And a tour rigger who just landed after following the band through UAE, Rio, and Mexico City will laugh and say OSHA can suck their dick as they slam pins with an unteathered hammer, legs snaked through the tower truss to hold on, since they climbed up with neither harness nor hard hat. So yeah, straight pulling your point *is* quite common.

I’m a concert rigger. My job is to bend over, balanced on a 6" beam, and pull a 100lb chain 100feet in the air over and over again.

I know this is a joke, but I have this rant locked and loaded, so it's going off. Just fucking lift things. The reason you always see this advice with the beige corporate art style is because that's who invented it. Corporations. They noticed they kept having to pay workers comp when people threw out their backs on the job, and so started parroting this line rather than actually doing anything to solve the problem. Essentially what they are trying to get you to do is use a powerlifting style squat/deadlift technique to lift everything. Which makes some sense. Powerlifters can lift a lot of weight. But it doesn't make that much sense because most things in real life *aren't barbell shaped*. They are weird and bulky and awkward and asymmetrical and have no good places to grab with your hands. You grab them however you can, and lift them however you can, because the job needs to get done. The human body is not a delicate flower that will wilt and die if you don't use perfect squat technique to lift every object you ever lift until the day you die. We know this because you've lifted all sorts of things all sorts of ways and you've *mostly* been *fine*. Does technique matter? Of course! That's why real weightlifters and powerlifters practice it obsessively. You aren't gonna pull 600lbs raw without having some damn good technique. But *you* aren't pulling 600lbs when you pick up a bankers box full of tps reports. The real way to avoid back injuries is: 1) Move around a lot during the day. If you work an office job, stand up and go get a coffee and talk to Bill in accounting, or go for a stroll around the parking lot. Stretch out a little if something feel tight. 2) Exercise. Start by just going out and doing literally anything - hiking, cycling, playing soccer, yoga, etc. The most important thing for back health is just having a core that is fairly strong and fit, which is trained by doing "fun" sports. If you are already regularly exercising, you can supplement with some heavy lifting. 3) Don't overdo it. Most tweaks happen when people are fatigued, and their muscles aren't coordinating in the way they usually do. So if you are getting tired, call it early. Now, what should the person who lifts things for their job do? Well, fingers crossed you aren't already injured. In that case, start hitting the gym - probably just one day per week, or as job fatigue allows - and start building up the big lifts. If you *can* pull 600lbs, you *probably* won't throw out your back moving a couch, even if you are moving couches all day.

Six pack abs are also aesthetics, tbf. But as someone who keeps chasing abs to make up for his personality - I feel ya, bro

Sounds like California

Idk, an autist who hangs out on lemmy who understands basic economics?

In my view, it is more the difference between something that is pretty good vs something that is perfect. After all, supposing you are getting paid the same hourly rate, would you rather get paid for 20 hours of work, or 0? Taking the example of ridesharing, for example - if you are looking for a job, and it is all restricted to traditional cab companies, they might not be able to afford to pay you full time plus benefits to work for them, so you get $0 working as a cabbie. And the result is that there are fewer people driving cabs, and therefore higher prices for cabs, and therefore fewer people taking cabs (and maybe driving drunk). The result of requiring full time pay for all rideshare drivers isn’t that all the drivers get full time pay - it is that a lot of them get laid off. In either the case of having UBI or not having it, presumably you would prefer to be making some income over no income?

I’m a concert rigger. My job is already a gig. I like it. I just got back from spending 3 months in mexico. Texted my boss “hey, I’m back in town”, and he started putting me on shifts again.

Otoh, rideshare offers far more flexibility for workers. And they created legitimate value via the user-friendliness of their apps. And as much as it is bemoaned, the star rating system made taking a cab far more pleasant. I’m honestly quite confused by this idea that every job in the economy must provide the job-holder with full and unequivocal economic security. In my view, many jobs simply are gigs. They need to get done, but the nature of the work means that they will never be a super-consistent source of income. And that’s okay - many people are quite happy to piece together their income from multiple sources in order to have more flexibility.

Tbf, an instant pot can replace a slow cooker and pressure cooker, and so is less of a single use item. And the air fryer is kinda just a riff on the toaster oven, and imo, this is a good thing for the american pallette. The problem with a full sized oven is that it takes time to heat up, so people are hesitant to use it when they just want to heat up something quick for themselves. The toaster oven/air fryer makes oven cooking more convenient. It isn’t the alternative to the oven, it’s the alternative to the microwave, so your leftovers will actually have texture instead of being a soggy mess. I share a lot of your sentiment here about buying hoards of single use items. But I really put the instant pot and air fryer in a different category than, say, the vegetable juicer, electric can opener, or rolly pizza cutter.

/c/nothingeverhappens

50% of lemmy is mostly normal high functioning autists who have crippling social anxiety about the idea that anyone might find them creepy. The other 50% are creeps

Oh… that’s how I do math in my head anyway?

That’s like saying Atticus Finch isn’t a hero in To Kill A Mockingbird because you, personally, are racist and don’t think fighting for the rights of black people is a noble persuit. A character is a hero in a story if they are good according to the morals implicit in the story’s world.

Also, I don’t usually see these questions asked in an overly critical sense, but rather with a sense of humor or with an eye towards world building. It’s about having fun

Its not even trolling. It’s just british level deadpan

DADADUH

Imagine being so difficult to deal with that someone would rather swim across an entire sea than interact with you…

Mr Bushby, who wants access to a service tunnel separate to that used by the trains, said: “If I have to swim across, I obviously will. But it will be colder than the Caspian.” I mean, obviously

You don’t. I mean, maybe you are different. But I’m someone who loves spending time in nature, and who does pretty well alone. I’ve thru hiked ling trails alone, including the OHT, during which I saw maybe 3 other people the whole time. I’ve solo’d big wall climbs completely alone. I’ve taken solo bouldering trips where I wandered the forest alone for days at a time. The thing I’ve found - being alone, in general, fucking sucks. Simply from a practical perspective, you have no one to turn to to say “hey hold this for a second, I need another pair of hands”. If an animal or bad person attacks you, you’re fucked. If you take an unexpected fall and sprain your ankle, you’re fucked. If you become ill and are too weak to travel, you’re fucked. Then add to this the psychological issue of being alone. The world takes on a ringing hollowness. You can go through the motions, sure, but with no one else around to reflect your experiance back to you, all your actions feel empty. You might think you enjoy being alone because you can go days at a time talking to no one and scrolling the internet. But that isn’t really being alone. Being on the internet, playing video games, watching tv, all scratches the social itch you have. Not perfectly. But it scratches it. But strip that away, and being alone suddenly takes on a new meaning. Not to say that you shouldn’t do this. Sure, go ahead and go backpacking solo for a weekend. A week. Maybe two. I think it is a good experience - both the good and the bad parts. But just don’t mortgage a little cottage in the middle of fucking nowhere until you’re really sure that’s what you want.

This doesn’t make utilities cheaper. Utility prices are almost universally set, in one way or another, by the government. If the government wants to lower utility prices, they can do so easily by just voting. This ignores the issue of how we actually pay for the actual cost of utilities. That’s a whole other thing. But long story short - NO, you should not expect utility prices to come down if your government builds solar capacity.

I believe this is an idea most legitimately championed by Nick Bostrom. Here is a video explaining his perspective. I feel like, at least from the stance of abstract philosophy, he makes some good points. And I’m not enough of a philosopher to refute them (though I’m sure some have). Personally, my stance is “I’ll cross that bridge when I arrive at it” - I expect to die before that happens.