Thanks! You're right that I wasn't thinking about chlorine which does get added to the water where I live. I suppose that doesn't entirely kill all germs and pollution going into the water, but it helps getting rid of it.
Also, yeah. When I am out breathing pollution, it feels really bad for me
Good guy EU!
I logged out and then back in and all looked normal except I couldn't see my total up votes. I can see each comment and post up vote, but no sum total (0 across the board)
Chill out RobotZap1000 (though, I suppose your alias suggests you're a fierce robot punishing earthlings 😄)!
I was just making a joke about the fact that normally we're constantly receiving feedback to do/not do so something and we're never entirely free to decide on our own
I haven't watched the video, but...
(1) If I watch it, it's on YouTube (a form of social media) so I'll be influenced and manipulated.
(2) If I don't watch it, it's because I've read its title on Lemmy (another form of social media), so I'll have been influenced and manipulated anyway.
Bottom line: being influenced and manipulated is everyone's destiny, yay!
That's an interesting (though different) take of how people can convince you to be lucky!
Wow, this book actually claims thinking can change reality to make it how you'd like it...
A person once told me that in life you need to learn to be lucky. When I asked him how to learn that he replied that you need to want to be lucky. And that's it.
He was very serious and, to some extent, I think he wasn't saying something crazy (and in fact he's been very successful in his life, without resorting to help from others).
I think he meant we make our own luck: we work as hard as possible to create several occasions and maybe we screw lots of them but, if we try, try again, we can seize some of them.
I suppose the message really was: you need to be persistent. If you're so dedicated, you end up grabbing some opportunities you didn't even know existed (but you kind of created)
Thanks for coming to my TED talk... Be lucky!
"Online fury" is a most excellent expression.
Online furies have been awakened and now you can't stop them, Wendy's!
Edit: fixed grammar
I don't mean to defend him at all (in fact, I do eat cereal, but it's local store brands and not Kellogg's), but isn't it normal for a person selling a product to tell people to buy its products?
At the same time, I agree it's terrible advice he's giving!!!
Sorry, I don't work in economics so I don't follow this (but it looks like a great analysis for someone who doesn't understand it!).
Do all these things mean Reddit IPO is likely to tank (though one never knows)?
I'd like Spez to pay for all he's done to 3rd party apps and driving mods (and us users) away, but in the end I'm afraid it's only going to be regular employees to feel the pinch and Spez just cashing out...
Also, Reddit has a ton of users and some other article these days said they're going to sell everything to AI services that are going to train themselves on Reddit for a lot of dollars. Would this be enough to keep them afloat?
Ah, interesting. I should hope not all pollutants dissolve into water, but I wonder: wouldn't they still be bad when ingested even if not dissolved into water?