Ok, thanks for clarifying, it's quite interesting to try and understand other people.
13esq
joined 2 years ago
I disagree.
I do understand where you're coming from though, you're opinion is very common. When you've worked your whole life to be comfortable and you want to understand why some people are living in comparitive poverty, it's nice to just think about how lazy and feckless they are and how hard working and diligent you are.
I'm not saying that your opinion is even entirely untrue (although I do think it's mostly untrue), but I am saying that good chance has an awful lot more to do with it than most people consider.
You could be the most hard working person in history, be born in Africa and die of dysentery at age five. Likewise, I myself am doing OK as an electrician, but the only reason for that is that my dad was an electrician and he helped me get on to a path in to the career via an apprenticeship that I was very lucky to get. I have no idea what I'd be doing today if I hadn't gone down that career path by pure chance.
All our lives are absolutely random, even if it doesn't appear so, you were one of trillions of sperm and are one of billions of humans.
It can be argued that everything in your life is down to pure chance. I know that some people don't like that idea, especially when they are somewhat successful and want to talk about all the hard work they did to gain their achievements.
I hate posts where the answer is the top search result on Google. We're not here as a proxy for a search engine.
Some subreddits had a "use Google first" rule.
Ah right, I thought you were doing a monkey's paw thing
Fair question and it's telling that your post has downvotes but no one willing to put forward a counter point.
I'm out of the loop.
Didn't the embargo start because Cuba were allowing Russian military bases with nukes? Presumably they're not doing that anymore so why still an embargo?
Jokes on you, parents are already divorced.
If they get to choose, it's probably going a pawn every time which kind of makes the option null.
Explosive would be interesting as it could force you to choose a less than optimal piece to prevent explosion.
I accept that Lemmy is very similar to Reddit, that is why I'm here, but that I do think we have an opportunity to make it even better, even though that's just my opinion.
For me, not trying to be an active part of making Lemmy as best as it can be for everyone would be like leaving the US for the UK because of Trump and then voting for the Tories.
I'm not really asking people to be "nice" with their downvotes, just to restrict them to comments that are off topic, against the community rules, hateful, misleading etc.
Typing a query in to Google is faster than making a post on Reddit and yet people still wanted you to do it for them. I never posted "have you tried Google?", or anything like that, but lmgtfy links were always a fun option.