General Discussion

Dont forget that nothing bad lasts forever, and previous generations went through wars and hardships too.

It certainly feels like madness is in control of the US, but its just greed and lust for power and attention. There is no difference between the undeveloped child that is taking the entire sandbox and these people. Some humans desire nothing more than to take from others until there is nothing left. Maybe its part of their spiritual evolution.

Perhaps there something to learn from their behavior. We get reminded of how not to be towards others. They are a very clear example of souls that feels much more primitive than the animals we have around us.

This too shall pass. :)

Right now, I'm a 2nd year student in university doing Computer Science.

In my later years of high school and first few years in university, my parents (especially my dad), have been very much forcing me to study and getting yelling at me over a single bad mark. While it did give me good marks, it made me so stressed out that one day I just decided that I couldn't handle it anymore and resisted. At the time I also thought that if my parents kept on managing me like that, then I'll never really learn how to be truly independent and take control of myself.

After that, they did leave me alone. However, the next semester after that, I failed a course - something which has never happened before. I told myself that it was just a hard course at the time.

This semester, I have lowered my course load from 5 courses to 3. However, I'm always missing or being late to my classes (either it's because of bad time management, having to rely on the bus, or I just don't bother to show up, or I just woke up too late because of my sleep problems) and have a lot of missing quizzes/assignments. I also have never managed to pay attention during lectures and get myself to study as much as I need to and do my assignments on time (and no, I've found that rewarding myself doesn't really work). I just got my 1st midterm mark back and it was a 50%. I fear that this semester may go the same as the last one.

Over the last few semesters, because my dad has stopped forcing me to wake up at 7 AM, my sleep schedule has gone terrible. For example, yesterday I got to bed at 5 AM and get up at 2 PM and if I need to be at school by 11 AM, I get to bed only at around 2 - 3 AM and wake up at 9 - 10 AM and am usually late. Despite my efforts to force myself to go to bed earlier, I've failed. I believe the only thing that can make me go to bed and wake up on time is if either someone else was forcing me to or I had a completely unavoidable and super important reason to which I'd even be willing to sacrifice sleep for (and most days I just don't feel like that). I've tried melatonin and setting an alarm clock far away from my bed and it didn't really help.

I just feel like I really suck and am ashamed of what I've become. Any advice?

I packed my bags to spend time at my girlfriend’s house to see what it’s like before I move in, so right now, that’s where I am (although she lives next door to my house) and my sister got invited to a sleepover with several eighth grade girls. Apparently they’ll be staying for a few nights but probably just one night.

sorry about crossposting the same thing 17 times, that was my bad. That was definitely spam and I won't do that again! Apologies for possibly making a mess out of anyone's feeds.

Not a very good introduction to myself, so let's start again (without the spam).

Hi, I'm sbird, and I like to make fun projects in my free time. I enjoy programming, 3D printing, and photography. My favourite food is rice. The best Harry Potter book is Prisoner of Azkaban, and I joined the fediverse a few months ago and Lemmy very recently.

My thoughts on the fediverse so far have been positive. Pixelfed has been very nice, and Mastodon has been pretty good too. I love that there's so many different third-party client apps for all three of them!

anyways, I have exams to study for, cheers!

Last night I had a dream of a song I even know its title it's called "Another song to a brighter world", it's about a person telling another person who is stuck on a depressing present moving on to a brighter future, I faintly remembered some the lyrics it goes "or is it you here for me waiting for a brighter future" "you was there I was here", this is all I can remembered it has a lot more lyric than this. PS: it's not between 2 humans interaction, the one that is not depressed is human but the singer's perspective is not, they're a sea creature that look like human (not mermaid) stuck on a human port town by the sea trying to fit in with everyone else.

what I see in a lot of these communities is that they are about the same as any other community in functionality and how people interact, without any additional accessibility. They just happen to have disabled people and such.

Like, I want to find a place that uses tone indicators, or writes posts with alt-text, or even removes ableist language like I've seen in some videos or articles (I'll put a link to that one)

https://youtu.be/aiWARkBCwaA

Do yall have recommendations for that kind of thing?

Remembered there was documentation, and understood it a little better this time around!

idk where else to say that 😅

hopefully i feel better tmrw

The book I was waiting on was back for me to borrow!

Saw a neighborhood cat lounging about!

not everyone acts like this, but i’ve seen this enough times to be bothered by it.

if i did nothing to you, you don’t have to treat me like crap because you’re miserable. and i won’t talk to people who blow up and can’t control themselves every time something happens. and then some of the same people wonder why im not speaking to them…

I was expecting it to be just another post-apocalyptic drama, and I’ve seen so many mediocre ones that Station 11 wasn’t high on my list. I was very wrong.

Station 11 was well written, well cast, and interesting (if confusing at times).

like:

“But, Johnny didn't care

He was an outlaw by the time that he was ten years old

He didn't wanna do what he was told

Just a prankster

A juvenile gangster” (Only a Lad)

“ From the day he was born, he was trouble

He was a thorn in his mother's side

She tried in vain

But he never caused her nothing but shame

He left home the day she died

From the day he was gone”

“Shootin' up junk

He was a low down cheap little punk” (Eddie’s teddy)

they just give me a kind of similar vibe

Does anyone know of any Lemmy communities / instances that could act as fednews alternatives?

With all that's happening, I've found that subreddit to be a valuable source of news, and I also think that means it'd be a prime target for Musk and co if they gain even more power than they already have.

In the event that happens, perhaps a new Lemmy community / instance would organically grow, but I think there might be real value in having a "ready-made" migration location, especially if r/fednews users can be informed beforehand.

Before you asked, "why not you, OP?"... I just don't have the time to properly moderate a community, nor the technical know-how to run a large instance.

This may be more an ask than anything. To all the data nerds, or those that know them, in the public sector in the US: If you or those you know are working with large public datasets, please consider taking the steps necessary to ensure that data is not lost to the world. Between many institutional organizations local and abroad down to the many selfhosters out there, there are many places this data can continue to live, thrive, and serve the public that has not only paid for it to exist, but benefitted from its use. My mind immediately goes to all those scentific datasets necessary for helping analyze the state of our planet. Of these there are an incredible amount online only because of federal funding. The stakeholders are too great to count, but they are critical not only to the US but all those with access to do so. I can not fathom how much work and research has been made possible. I know this to be true of so much public data. Others may know more of specific needs and methods of preservation. This is a kind of book burning in an abstract sense that would be unrecoverable, too costly, or immensely difficult to restore. The hard work of the collectors, maintainers, and contributors should not be lost due to gross negligence and malevolence.

I've recently been listening to The Sojourn as of late. Its quite the good podcast. It's a space sci-fi/fantasy. The show is a NebulaTV original though they have some other sources on their website.

One fun thing I found was their YT channel. It has lots of lore bits, excerpts, ship break downs, and even some animations.

Just thought I'd recommend the show.

Here's a trailer (teaser thing): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QKZTS8YnVY

Random post, also he is quite controversial.

So, this guy I used to be friends with (maybe he gets some slack, I’m 18 and he’s 17) is a very far-right individual.

He doesn’t date trans people (which is fine) but he also thinks that they don’t count as “actual” men/women and that they’re some other category, and says he can’t date them “because he’s bisexual”.

He also heavily criticizes Democrats/non-Trump supporters and praises anyone who supports Trump, even if they’re bad people because he doesn’t believe bad people support Trump?

My friend also says it would make sense for him to be bisexual and support Trump since he heavily prefers women and would therefore “fit in with straight people” and not understand LGBT stuff. He seems to support it as a bi dude but the way he talks about other stuff heavily outweighs his support.

He also believes every non-white person should “go back to where they came from”, that they’re all illegal immigrants (bonus points if they’re Latino), and that people who aren’t white are secretly out to get white people.

He even tried to tell me that my friend of Caribbean descent was bad and that he would end up killing us all and tried to persuade me to stop being his friend.

But seriously, prefers the opposite gender or not, he is still bi, and I don’t really understand LGBT Trump supporters much.