/u/Spez (creator of /r/jailbait)

oh 🫣 I’ve probably heard that before but I must not have committed it to memory

Well that explains why Reddit was so ridiculously pro-porn and porn-riddled in general.

Value is decided arbitrarily in our current economic system - beauty in the eye of the beholder. Ideas, even really basic ones, are worth a lot when pitched to people who have the money and will to implement them - think of shark tank/dragons den.

Last time I went for a blood donation an old nurse there handling recovery was telling everyone that there’s millions of pounds to be made in creating packaging for use in hospitals - I think she was saying they need more easy tear stuff? Or maybe resealable, because that would be better for the environment. Already I’m losing my handle on that ticket out of poverty…

Anyway the point of that story is that it sounds like a simple idea, because anyone might realise they need better packaging for stuff; but it’s the realisation of those ideas that escapes us.

I’m really fond of the Netherlands because it neatly distributes towns, water and farmland. Admittedly I don’t think it has the most effective system of wilderness, but I appreciate it for the many things it achieves.

I’m fond of all the cold places in the world - Alaska, Canada, Finland and Russia, for instance. That said I now love warm weather much more than cold weather, but I like the appearance of snowy places.

Me too!!! My favourite Norwegian city I think

I uae youtube like a podcasting site nowadays, i only use it to listen to in the background

As a kid - 5 years old - i woke up confused because i thought about 2 years had elapsed. I think i experienced something akin to the famous lampshade story where a guy dreams of an entire simulated life. Tbf though that guy’s dream sounds like it was induced by a concussion, but I had nothing of the sought.

I remember having many particularly vivid, surreal, dreams around that time. Unfortunately I can’t remember for sure if I dreamed an entire 2 years of life, nor do i remember the contents of the dream at the time, but i remember feeling like I’d time travelled and I think i told everyone I’d dreamed i was 7.

Almost more interesting to me is the fact that me and some others in my family all have short, decently detailed, precognitive dreams; we get a ‘vision’ of events before they happen, in our sleep.

It mostly occurs with conversations, just me sitting alone somewhere, or with going to a new place.

Having read about “second sight” in scottish folklore, the way it manifests for me and my relatives is exactly like that. We likely have scottish ancestry as well.

Hey OP i search for this post again because i realised i forgot to mention to amazing YT channel Ready to Harvest

“We send them to your planet with a briefcase full of counterfeit Earth currency”

conservation status: least concern

Scientists: “Kill it off.”

So strange though. It’s like a tree which didn’t get the memo that trees are supposed to be nice, friendly and helpful.

Maybe - i suppose one way around it is newspapers run by specific organisations or for specific topics. For instance, universities have their own free newspapers, there are newspapers in my city for artists and musicians to share news relevant to their craft and any gigs going on.

Or you coukd have a completely digital one run by volunteers who have an interest in journalism, websites, and are willing to pitch in a bit. Also they can charge fees for anyone who buys it.

Could ban ads but allow for “free space” for local businesses to put ad spots or for people to advertise their freelance services or make headhunting requests. Remember how people used to seek dates using newspaper spots? I guess thst’s obsolete now. But still.

I have heard so many bad things about Eucalyptus trees.

In fact, the latest bad thing i heard about them was in a koala copypasta submitted to the animal thread from last week, where it was insinuated that the abundance of eucalyptus trees is a large reason why Australia is barren/ecologically weird, due to their very low provision of calories. This obviously will not do. A mammal’s main love of trees is their ability to bear fruit.

Likewise, in California, the mass plantation of Eucalyptus trees led to very severe wildfires in the future (our present day). In part, this is just a debuff of any forest monoculture, but i have similarly heard that they’re actually more flammable than many other types of trees. [Edit: while source hunting, it looks like Eucalypti are actually known to BLOW THEMSELVES UP to remove competition. This makes them the suicide bombers of the natural world!!]

And what really bites the biscuit is that Eucalyptus trees STINK!! Their ultra minty sour fragrance seems so artifical to me - like worn down tyres, melted down and mixed with equal parts of antifreeze. I had the misfortune of trying eucalyptus flavoured chewing gum on a few occasions and it almost killed me. Psychologically. One of the worst things i’ve ever tasted and smelled. It’s like an alien plant trying far too hard to get us to like it.

they’ve already proven they have better technology than we do, what else do they have that’s better? Or for that matter what do we have that’s better?

We have better garlic alioli, they have better escape rooms. We have a better ocean, but they have better feather dusters

Don’t know if they’d qualify as experts but for many it’s a leading explanation for why the USA has an abnormal rate of abductions

When they kidnap and sex traffick people he does

Don’t tell the aliens this, but some people theorise that all abduction stories are actually demonic encounters because of the anal probe aspect. Which is interesting.

I get all my clothes from 3 brands:

• 60% from Marks & Spencers - i actually really like their stuff
• 15-20% from Fat Face (noticeably more pricey but has many sales and is quite eco friendly) Some nice stuff
• 20-35% from H&M - very geared towards my age range

These aren’t the cheapest places to get clothes but when i get clothes from other dept stores like Primark, they fall apart really quickly. Every single time. It sounds snobby but i can physically feel the difference between sturdy clothes and something which will fall to pieces soon.

These are also the places my parents generally brought me to shop at

Don’t wear any of the ‘biggest brands’ like nike that plaater their logo over everything

Lemmy alone bro!

I said i can’t remember any good quotes, (which somehow got 3 upvotes) edited it and started to type out the whole scorpion and frog fable, got bored and couldn’t finish, deleted it

Now that it’s morning i can remember some of my favourites;

• All the world’s a stage,

~ William Shakespeare

• life imitates art far more than Art imitates Life

~ Oscar Wilde

• And some books: Journey to Ixtlan and Stephen King’s book on writing

A good life is something that you notice rather than decide. You probably have to go through hardship to acually appreciate when life is good.

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Neutral standpoint:

• Religion for Breakfast
• UsefulCharts, e.g how religions are relwted to one another
• Let’s talk religion, like in ImWaitingforRetcons’ comment

Christians:

• Mike Winger
• Michael Heiser (RIP) - see the Assorted Clips channel by Stefan Louw - or Heiser’s Naked Bible Podcast (the bible is naked, not the people)
• Gavin Ortlund - Truth Unites Podcast (Spotify Link)

Anti-religion:

• Knowing Better (critical of Mormonism but not other religions)