The internet is such a funny place.
Open Lemmy and see this on the front page today with a ton of upvotes, yet I make a post a while back criticizing Boomers and my account gets brigaded and spammed. Hope that’s not happening to you OP!
Lemmy is almost as toxic as Reddit these days.
Healthcare gang represent!
We talk for our dog. We don’t have children, but our dog has full on conversations with us but it’s just my wife and I making his “voice.” It always goes along with the context and it seems to be what he would be saying. Our old dog and our current dog even have their own distinct intonation/dialect when saying things.
It’s to the point that sometimes we look at each other and go “huh, it’s weird when you think about the fact that he’s never actually really spoken before….”
Folie a deux?
Yep. Been saying for a while that it feels like old Reddit.
I wonder if it’s a nerd-level thing. Reddit devolved as it turned into another social media outlet instead of a niche internet techie place.
This is so true. I try to explain this to my wife and she doesn’t understand.
If I’m on my phone I’m either:
I hate social media. I’ve hated Reddit since API. Lemmy is great but I’ll go days sometimes with the same home page. So I basically cycle through the same 3 sites endlessly. I got a Steam Deck to try and help with this, but when I hop on it my wife thinks I’m “playing video games so should be working on something.” I’ve tried to explain that using a Steam Deck is the equivalent of her scrolling social media, but alas.
So yeah. Basically nothing to do these days. I think the most frustrating part to me is how most content seems to be geared towards making me angry. I never remember it being like that.
Think of your sleep as reading a series of engaging books, where each book represents a sleep cycle, including chapters of both deep sleep (SWS) and dream sleep (REM). When you finish a book (sleep cycle), you reach a satisfying conclusion to that story arc—this is akin to waking up after a full sleep cycle. You feel refreshed because you’ve concluded the narrative neatly, without interrupting a tense plot twist or leaving a storyline unresolved.
However, just finishing one book doesn’t mean you’ve completed the whole series. If you stop after one book each night, you’re missing out on the depth and development that comes from reading more of the series (accumulating more sleep cycles). Initially, you might feel okay because you’ve concluded a story (cycle) properly, avoiding the grogginess of waking up mid-chapter (mid-cycle). Yet, this approach doesn’t give you the full, enriching experience (or rest) your body and brain need over time.
As days go on, if you continue this pattern, you accumulate a ‘reading debt’—akin to sleep debt. You’ve missed out on the broader, deeper insights and the full narrative arc that only comes from reading (sleeping) the whole series or book. This debt reflects not fully recharging your brain and body, leaving you progressively more tired. While you might feel a temporary refreshment from completing a cycle, without the full, restorative rest of multiple cycles, you’re not truly at 100%—you’re running on the satisfaction of a finished story, not the full restoration that comes from a complete series.
Yeah, it’s about getting enough REM and SWS cycles. The effect decays over time, though. If you time your wake up to a full sleep cycle (around 2.5-3 hours) one night, you may wake up feeling fine. If you do this multiple nights in a row, however, you will build up a REM/SWS debt. So on day one it feels fine, on day two it feels less fine, and on day three you’re dragging.
This meme is either very old or was made by someone in the midwestern US (always years behind on fads).
All of the bistro burger joints have gone the way of the dinosaur in my neck of the woods. Now it’s all smash burger fast food knock offs.
It’s like back in the day of Internet forums. I don’t mind it at all.
Totally agree. Never spooked me out.
Yeah I was shocked. It’s just a different world now. Insta fitness models have just ruined it for everyone.
Literally thought the same thing looking at this picture—“Man, he seemed to much bigger back then!”
Ran into a college student the other day at the gym who had just started lifting. The dude casually dropped that he was taking tren. One month of lifting and you’re on tren… how about like some whey protein to start?!
Oh god, where to start.
Pay for early check in, show up, get ghosted by the host for two hours.
Receive a text—“Go to this Starbucks and await further instructions”
Get texted a 20 page pdf full of crazy shit including a line “If someone comes knocking on the door in the middle of the night asking for Chris tell them that you leased the apartment two months ago because he stopped paying and no one has seen him.” PDF includes GPS coordinates to a telephone pole with a master lock lock box on it that contains the keys to the place.
Arrive at the condo and it’s—I’m 100% not kidding—FILLED WITH SAD CLOWN ART. It was literally all pictures and statues of sad clown shit with an added touch of Jewish devotional stuff.
Go to a conference the next day and return to all of my shit moved around.
Literal horror story. Never again.
EDIT: Preemptively I was poor at the time and it was for a work conference that had already been reimbursed. I should’ve contacted AirBNB. But I was young, dumb, and wanted to advance at my place of work.
Yeah, all you need is one shady AirBNB experience to forever turn you off to the idea. I had a horrible one in 2018 and haven’t stayed at one since.
I agree with other posters—I’ve had some better experiences using similar services to rent like entire villas for large work groups, but other than that I don’t think it’s worth it.
I don’t think the problem is that the government “wasn’t the best ever,” I think it’s that it hasn’t changed. And the US hasn’t done a lot to enforce some of the groundwork beliefs of the framers.
I still think the idea and balance of power of the US government is one of the best—but it was created to change with the times and address practical flaws (amendments) and hasn’t.