cecirdr

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That’s all kinds of messed up. To not value experience… it feels like all over the world in “advanced societies” we live in so much stress and are pulled in so many directions, flailing, trying to stay afloat in a cutthroat world. No wonder people aren’t having babies.

Here in the US housing is unaffordable. More and more young adults can’t leave home and start building their own lives and creating their own families. Salaries aren’t even remotely keeping up with expenses. Without security why would someone contemplate getting pregnant?

The response of leadership in the US feels like they’re creating a climate of forced pregnancies instead of solving the root cause. Such gross economic inequities as we have here create lives of despair and shut down the dreams of humanity. Those dreams are the fodder for building strong neighborhoods, having children, investing time and money into your community. Instead we have despair so people hide in their shells, protect themselves; even to the point of being willing to harm others.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Wow. Those are huge subreddits that are now unmoderated. Is Reddit planning on using bots to auto mod these and hope they catch all the spammage?

 

When I’m browsing I often get interrupted and have to put my phone down. Or I read one post, go back to the main and it refreshes. Often, I recall a post I wanted to read next, but on refresh, it’s just gone.

If I try to search to find it again, I can’t even get the post to show up there. I even use a word that was in the title, to no avail. Oddly enough, if I go to a different instance, I can see the thread/post again, but here on beehaw, it went poof.

Has anyone else experienced this? Does anyone have ideas on what is happening and how to stop it?

Thx!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting. I’m not sure I want fully decaf coffee, but I could see some people might want it.

I metabolize caffeine quickly. So I’m one of those that can drink coffee and it doesn’t affect my sleep. I never get hyped up from it. Never have, even when I first started drinking it. But I am addicted. I get the classic headaches if I don’t have it. So it might be nice to taper off caffeine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

He’s adorable!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh my, does he need a lot less UV than a typical beardie? I've heard that these guys are hard to properly keep because of their sensitivity. I have a leatherback, but her needs are more typical.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dang, now I want brownies too. hahaha! Awesome work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

mouth open...looks like he's got that gecko attitude!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I intend to stay here on beehaw. It will take me a while to get over the habituated behaviors I had with reddit, but the quality of the posts over here is high. I don't feel like voices are getting drowned out over here. So reddit won't miss me. Over time, I won't miss reddit. All good things must end.

Now time to enjoy watching how new communities and the software driving Lemmy develop.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's my thought too. Even before this, I felt like I was reading automated posts and chat bot responses on reddit. It seems like a zombie forum where most of the "people" weren't really real, it was just recycled content, laugh tracks, and being force fed content posted by reddit itself (versus users) scraped from other places.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'm having issues with it too. I think the massively increased load must be causing the interface to misbehave. Nothing like finding all the bugs when volume is high. fun!

Anyway, I tried yesterday to find a post/thread that I'd commented in. No amount of sorting in that community was bringing it up. I could only find it by following the comment link in my profile. So right now, I have the feeling that I'm missing a good bit of content while also seeing older popular content still dominating my feed. I'm hopeful that they've noticed these issues and will see how they can rectify them eventually.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Y'all have done a wonderful job. I'm in this for the long haul. I've donated once and will again. I think I'll set up a recurring one this time.

I work in tech in a financial aid office. We regularly get slammed with last minute changes from the govt with little details on how they need to be implemented. So we deal with high volume, high detail (because money is involved as is auditing), and high intensity/speed. It's an ugly mix. I feel like y'all could be in a similar boat. All I can offer is hang in there. Keep putting one foot in front of the other. We support you and I bet you'll discover some crazy talent in these communities that has the intellect, time and energy to help out.

Interesting times to say the least.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Fixed! Thx for the tip. I tried links that way first, but it didn’t seem to work. The URL just showed up as text. But it works now. :-)

 

I posted here meta thread in the technology community

Later, I discovered that someone asked me a question. I’d forget the link. Their reply was buried in a mountain of replies I’d gotten to a post I’d made. Someone else saw their question and was able to point them to the right spot though.

Out of curiosity, I tried several ways to re-find that post in Technology. No sorting process seemed to show it though. I can only get back into that topic by following the link in my profile to the comment I made. Not ideal. If I haven’t commented, I’d have no way right now to rediscover that topic and see how the conversation is developing.

What am I doing wrong?

Sorry if this is a repost. It looked like my post didn’t go through the first time I created it.

 

Right now, I’m playing the early access version of Baldurs Gate 3. I’m getting ready to put it down (frustrated: BG3 has the potential to be good, but without controller support, I’m getting really frustrated with the UI. ) and switch to Yakuza Like a Dragon.

What are you playing now and what are you looking forward to playing next?

 

I took my buddy camping. He’s 17 years old or so. I got him from the shelter, so I don’t really know. He spent most of the trip just sleeping. 😄

 

One of the steps in a societal collapse is a loss of faith in financial tools. The stock market has seemed like a casino for a long time to me, yet it is still cranking out money for the upper crust. It is the primary driver for business decisions that produce short term gain, but reduce long-term viability for the companies and for the environment.

Currently, there are no other real vehicles for the average US citizen to invest in for their retirements. In my parents' generation, there were more. Heck, they had a lot of money in CDs and even those earned a decent rate of interest. Yet everything now is such a low return, or boom/bust like housing, so little guys like me are pushed into getting retirement accounts that are stocks. I'm not keen on that.

What's even worse is that many jobs will employer match if you put into one of the stock market based retirement funds. But if you want to just put your money into a savings account, you miss out on the employer matching. So there's strong incentive to keep putting your money into the stock market.

So I keep trying to read the tea leaves to figure out when the casino is going to collapse. ...or even if it will. I think there are some folks that just assume that it will keep making money for the wealthy and the rest of humanity will just get left behind.

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My lizards. (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Here are a few my little dudes.

My bearded dragon. Her name is Giz. She’ll be a year old in July.

This is Oscar, my Chuckwalla. He was wild caught and his tail is a little damaged. I’ve had him about 2 years. I hate that he was from the wild though. I didn’t know his history until after I bought him. Sorry about the auto rotation. I don’t know how to fix that.

I’d love to see other folks’ lizards or what you have living natively in your corner of the world.

 

I'm new from Reddit so I'm still looking around the Lemmyverse. I hope more folks from the reptile forums there take a chance and migrate over here.

I have a bearded dragon that's about a year old. She's a champ. I've read that at some point, they shift to being mostly vegetarian with some bugs once in a while. I don't think she got the memo. She still vastly prefers bugs to salads. I guess I get her to eat a salad 1-2 times per week. But she chomps down on superworms and crickets. I'm raising dubias that I hope to shift to instead of crickets though. I figure I've got a few more months before the colony is ready for me to start getting feeders from it.

Anyway, when to beardies start to need less protein? How often does a mature bearded dragon need bugs? Thx!

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