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[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 90 points 10 months ago

It’s very depressing to ask someone about their weekend and the answer is always nothing more than TV and sleep.

I know somebody who maintains a gas powered go kart that his son races with. I don’t know much about it, and I’d never be into it, but at least hearing about what he is up to is interesting.

[-] cmbabul@lemmy.world 100 points 10 months ago

What’s ironic is that so many are doing TV and sleep on their weekends because they are depressed and exhausted from the week, with only two days before starting it over, less in many cases

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 10 months ago

This was me for a while. I've found that when I'm depressed, taking the first step out the door can feel like an insurmountable task.

Also related, I'm actually in a conversation with a discord friend right now about how hard it is to feel connected to something as we get older. It's still possible, but it takes a concerted effort. Add things like depression and exhaustion to the mix, and you've got the ingredients for a downward spiral.

There are so many people out there who I'd love to give a big mental hug. So many people hurting.

[-] Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

Right on the nose with the insurmountable task.

The thing is, is that if somehow you get the energy to get out the door, whatever you have planned is (nearly) always a good time. It's just so hard to remember that when depression takes hold.

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 10 months ago

This has been my experience as well. I feel this every time I have something social planned, and even moreso when depressed.

I can be totally aware of what I need to do to feel better, and still get hung up on that first damn step. The psychological struggle is real.

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

I find even taking a step out the door to walk around the block can help improve my mood.

Speaking of which I think I will go do that right now! I could use it :)

[-] khannie@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago
[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Shit I forgot. Ok going now. Bye :)

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[-] bleistift2@feddit.de 23 points 10 months ago

To be fair, sleeping is awesome and TV shows have had 100 years of continuous improvement.

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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 22 points 10 months ago

That's the unfortunate part of modern society. Many people are barely able to make a living to get by that when they do have time off, all they want to do is sleep and do nothing. It's not that they are necessarily lazy or unmotivated, it's that they are tired and need the rest.

People don't create, or get into a hobby unless they have enough free time and money.

If all your free time is spent on trying to get a bit more money to live ... any bit of time you have to just sit will be spent either sleeping or watching TV.

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[-] runeko@programming.dev 55 points 10 months ago

All the coal in the ground was made in one specific period of history when trees were "new" and there was nothing that broke down dead trees for food. Trees that die now do not become coal. No new coal is being made.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

That whole story about how long it took for fungus or anything to evolve to the point it could break down trees was a fascinating surprise to me, that also highlighted how evolution works.

However nowadays, I see it mostly as important to share from the perspective of both climate change and cultural resilience. We all know the connection to climate change, but ….

I love watching apocalypse movies, but an op Ed I read really struck home. The premise was that if there were enough of a disaster to knock humanity back a century or more, we would never be able to recover. So many easy sources of energy through fossil fuels have been picked clean to where they are no longer recoverable without modern technology, and we can’t get back to modern technology without Easy sources of energy. Fossil fuels in general were created once. There are no new ones created. But there are no substitutes that would let a re-building society pass that level of development.

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[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 47 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Maybe you and I are open to hearing about new and interesting things. Great!

But thanks to ADHD, I am prone to acting a little too excited and can sometimes overshare.

Then, when I finally notice the discomfort of my interlocutor, I feel acute embarrassment for being such a weirdo. And that is just no fun at all, ya know?

Far better to keep the ol' mask on and say as little as possible until I get to know someone better.

I can always find people into whatever specific hobby I am into if I want to geek out so it's all good.

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[-] guyrocket@kbin.social 44 points 10 months ago

Reading this thread reminded me of my mother often ignoring what I said as a child. And one specific time when she said she didn't want to hear about a video game I was excited about.

Not huge injuries, there is certainly far worse that can happen. But it does shape who you are to be shut down like that. Shit parenting, as gen x is used to.

I hope I have never done that to anyone. Just listening without criticizing is not difficult.

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago

Those injuries are worse than many people realize, I think. Dismissing your kid's enthusiasm basically sucks the joy out of their life. Kids literally need recognition and validation from parents. Encouragement is a big deal. When you share exciting things and get shot down, you either stop sharing with anyone, stop being excited, or both.

If we can't ever be enthusiastic about anything what's supposed to be the offset to all the misery life throws at us, periods of numb ennui? Lol

My parents often responded to any enthusiasm with some kind of negativity. I don't recall any shared excitement. I'm also gen x, if you couldn't guess lol.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago

"Well, whatever, never mind." --Kurt Cobain.

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[-] kromem@lemmy.world 38 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Here's a summary of a few passion project research holes I went down over the past few years (citations available):

  • It's very likely that the Gospel of Thomas was related to the writings of Lucretius, there's a high chance the historical Jesus was talking about indivisible parts of matter (atomism) and a decent chance he was talking about natural selection, both ideas extensively found in Lucretius in some cases with near identical language to what's both canonical and apocryphal
  • Nefertiti ("beautiful woman who arrived") and the story of Helen of Troy have some remarkable overlaps, particularly given Herodotus's account of Helen ending up in Egypt the whole time - and the two datable parts of Herodotus's version both line up with the 18th dynasty, which was parallel to the Mycenaean conquest of Anatolia
  • Ramses II was described as appearing to be a Lybian Berber in his forensic examination, and had around 50 sons, which makes the ancient claims the story of Danaus (the Lybian ruler who was brother to a Pharoh with 50 sons) occurred in the 19th dynasty a bit more intriguing
  • There may have been some truth to a Moses/Mopsus narrative at the tail end of the 19th dynasty, but it would have related to the twelve groups of tribes of Anatolian peoples captured by Ramses II at Kadesh and some of their later actions as part of the confederation referred to as "the sea peoples" - this lines up more closely with Greek and Egyptian accounts of the Exodus tale as multiethnic or including Greek ancestors too. Some of those sea peoples were later forcibly relocated to the Southern Levant where there was cohabitation near the local Israelites who later on have stories about these events, talk about Dan "staying on their ships" or trading with Tyre alongside the Greeks, and recent archeology has found Aegean style pottery made with local clay in Tel Dan or the only apiary in the "land of milk and honey" importing Anatolian bees in Tel Rehov, which starts to cast a very different picture of some old stories
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[-] dRail@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 10 months ago

Being autistic, this post hits home. Sometimes I feel too much anxiety about my passion, but then I see something like this and know that it's okay. It's cool when people love stuff.

[-] miss_brainfarts@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 10 months ago

I said it a few times already, and I'll say it again:

Being passionate about something makes a person so, so much more attractive. It's so cute, it genuinely gives me the butterflies.

I love it so much. Go ahead, be nerdy, infodump about that cool thing you're into. I wanna hear it <3

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[-] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago

It depends. I wouldn't listen to Andrew Tate, no matter how passionate he may be. I'd rather try to understand flat earthers than him.

[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

Understanding the flat earth "theory" is hilariously fun, understanding Andrew Tate is just a sad perverse fascination with brain damaged insecurities.

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 27 points 10 months ago

"I would now like to present my theories on Dark Souls lore, and why Vaatividya is wrong about nearly everything."

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 12 points 10 months ago

This is relevant to my interests...

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

For real, I hate that I didn't meticulously document everything day 1 on Elden Ring because there were some bits of text that existed the day it came out that have since been removed and they would have completely changed a lot of what the story is believed to be in that game.

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[-] deus@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

So, you know how most Australian mammals are marsupials (the ones with a pouch)? Well, the fossil record suggests marsupials first arose in the Americas and later went on to reach Australia around 50 million years ago, probably just one lucky small species that later would become kangaroos, koalas, tasmanian devils and a bunch of other fun dudes. The thing is, as far as we're aware, the timeline of events means they got to Australia after it got separated from the rest of Gondwana with two interesting implications:

First, that they got there through rafting, which means a couple individuals crossed some expanse of ocean on top of some floating vegetation or whatever and ended up being lucky enough to survive till they landed on a new continent. Interestingly, that's also the main theory on how (non-human) primates got from Africa to South America.

Secondly, that they migrated from South America to a not-yet-frozen-Antarctica and only then to Australia, which means all their friends who lived on Antarctica and were lucky enough to not end up in the middle of the ocean on top of some floating tree trunk ended up unknowingly condemning their descendants as the continent slowly drifted southwards and completely froze up around 10 million years ago.

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[-] rustyfish@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

When you love someone, you can’t hear enough about their current hyper fixations. “Would you shut up”, “Nobody cares”. These are things I heard a lot as a kid. I had to reach my 30s to finally feel the magic of “Please tell me more”.

I can geek out about 40K, Dune, ASOIAF, Dark Souls. And my girlfriend smiles at me and is happy I am getting exited like a child. It really is something when you give a 20 minute lecture about Necron history and get questions about the specifics. Just yesterday, when we went to bed, she wanted me to talk about Rincewind and Discworld. FREAKING RINCEWIND! When can you talk about him?! She loves to listen to me and I love to listen to her.

Don’t let shit people spoil the fun for you. You are beautiful, your weird hobbies and fixations are beautiful. Go find a good person who will be weird together with you.

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[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 21 points 10 months ago

I'm fascinated by this woodworking tool called the Festool Domino. It's got the form factor of a biscuit joiner, but it's a router instead of a circular saw, so it cuts a deep, short, wide mortise to receive a loose tenon they call a Domino.

This tool is still protected under patent by its inventor, it's brand new. But the type of joinery it's for - loose tenons - are older than writing. Prehistoric wooden structures have been found held together with loose tenons. Some 8,000 years we've been making mortise and tenon joints, and the technology is STILL under development.

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[-] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 20 points 10 months ago

This post made me think to recommend the series 'Connections' by James Burke if you vibe on the strange relationship between odd events and inventions in history that lead us....here.

Caveat: it was filmed in the 70s so enjoy polyester and bell bottoms, but also scary prescient predictions, some of which have already come to pass.

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[-] paddirn@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

Most of the time I hear, “Oh, yeah? That’s cool.” End of conversation. I still like my interests and tons of other random people on the internet do too, but my interests don’t generally align with my IRL co-workers unless we’re talking about our kids.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I know from personal experience what it's like to spend a few minutes passionately pouring your heart out about something that fascinates you to someone only to find out they were barely listening. I will either hear someone out or try to stop them before they get too far if I know I'm just not going to be interested in it.

Because there's hearing about people's passions and then there's being too polite to tell a guy to shut the fuck up about your little ring you got that's going to help you with archery that you've been talking about for half an hour because we're trying to play D&D here. (Years later and I'm still annoyed I didn't try to bring that monologue to an end 20 minutes earlier).

EDIT: I just realized those two paragraphs are unrelated. My personal experience was me doing the same thing to someone else and realizing (in much, much less than half an hour) that it wasn't worth my time.

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[-] Jackcooper@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

So they dropped 2 fun facts that can be interesting stories.

When I think of someone telling me about their special interests I think of someone telling me about their Roblox loot for 20 minutes straight.

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[-] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Wait is the Saturn's ring thing true? That would be awesome if it was true.

[-] Worx@lemmynsfw.com 19 points 10 months ago

Saturn's rings are very unstable in terms of geological timescales. Sharks are also older than them. (as a species, not individual sharks of course!)

[-] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

There is that one old ass shark that is like "when I was a kid Saturn didn't even have rings."

I am going to have to do some reading now thanks.

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[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago

Ya know, the Appalachians are old enough that they're split across the Atlantic Ocean.

The international Appalachian trail is a thing.

Plus, there's sections of the Appalachiana in the south that ended up being "settled" by people from where the biggest section of be Appalachians in Ireland exist. There's a major Scots-Irish population in my neck of the woods.

"Settled" refers to the fact that there were already people in the area as a whole, so saying that the Europeans that took the land settled it is a a matter of not having a better word to use that wouldn't also require an explanation.

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 10 months ago

I agree! Hearing people being very enthused and happy about something is very comforting to me.

As others have pointed out, there are exceptions -- flat earthers, religious fanatics, violent people -- but even then, it's not the hearing part that's the problem -- it's more the problematic content itself

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[-] Tolstoshev@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

If you do like learning such facts, go watch all this guys tv shows:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Burke_(science_historian)

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[-] sebinspace@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Some model trains operate on a system called DCC, or Digital Command Control. As an alternative to DC, or Direct Current-driven models, it’s a commonly-held misconception that DCC runs on an AC, or Alternating Current circuit. In reality, it’s still using direct current, but combining it with PWM, or Pulse Width Modulation, to embed digital signals at slightly higher voltages than the regular operating voltage. These signals can be used to address individual models and send commands that allow for a model to have more functions than a DC model would be capable of, such as more sophisticated lighting, finer motor controls, sound features, consists, speed matching, automation, and a lot more.

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[-] ed_cock@feddit.de 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Remember though that it's supposed to still be a conversation, a give and take. I've been talked at for hours in the past without being able to get much of a word in, let alone ever tell them something about me. I just don't know how to politely tell someone to slow the fuck down/stop.

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[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 10 months ago

this post is my spirit animal

[-] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

I would like to learn of the connection between the compass and the atomic bomb.

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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Why not just say the latter without the former? Everything doesn't need to be a confrontation.

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[-] Mango@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

I like lots of stuff, but no special interest. Am I basic?

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