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Came to the comments just to see if anyone else saw Oliver. It’s literally him I just know it.

It should be illegal to hit someone with this much nostalgia

I’m curious if anyone else is able to provide an example here. Personally, I grew up in an extremely right-wing, very isolated, very culty version of the southern baptist church. I was around young-earthers, anti-vaxxers, anti-evolution folks, dinosaur/man co-existence, believing black people are black because they’re cursed—all sorts of crazy whackadoodle shit. I never once met someone who didn’t believe in space. I think you’re right that this was a YouTube Fact™ that she picked up somewhere.

Never related to a meme so hard. Now that I’m here and not dead—what do I even do? Lmao lemme know if y’all figure it out.

I’m unfamiliar with their Everest video—I just watched a clip of it though. What made you lose respect after that one?

Ugh what is wrong with people

I related to this article a lot. It’s the same sentiment of this classic Family Guy clip: The game is Euchre (YouTube Link)

I like the idea of everyone sitting around a table, effortlessly playing a game and having a great time—but adult friendships are tough. When you get to hang out for an hour here, two hours there, every few-to-several weeks or months, investing an hour or more into learning the rules of a game that may or may not be fun is a tall order.

America is such a strange place—I know a lot of conservatives will probably cheer in response to this doctor leaving the state. The resulting huge void in the ladder of pediatric care and the poor health outcomes for children are just collateral damages in the struggle for republicans to be able to openly hate and discriminate against the queer community again. It’s ironic (or maybe just hypocritical?) that the republicans have pivoted all their messaging to “we have to protect the children,” while directly creating situations like this that hurt children.

I remember being a kid and finding out churches don’t pay taxes. I told my uber baptist parents that didn’t seem fair, and their response was “if churches had to pay taxes, they wouldn’t be able to do any charity”

Our church barely did anything that could be considered charity anyway, and society would be a lot better off if religious orgs had to pay their fair share just like everyone else.

All true. It definitely feels like there’s at least a shred of schadenfreude driving the behavior, but its hard to be sure. I read this piece last night in case you’re interested in learning more:

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-lying-flat-movement-standing-in-the-way-of-chinas-innovation-drive/

It doesn’t estimate exactly how large this movement is (which is the main thing I was hoping to learn), but it’s apparently at least large enough to garner state-sponsored propaganda against it.

Hang in there! I highly recommend using something like https://lemmyverse.net/communities to search for communities. Lemmy (and most other parts of the fediverse) are a double-edged sword: you’re not being algorithmically fed content, so you’re able consciously curate what you devote your attention to, you’re not being surveilled for marketing, etc. However, because of this, it’s harder to accidentally find an interesting community because they’re not actively presented to you.

I just started using the search above to type in keywords of interest. I’ve found some established Lemmy communities I don’t think I would have stumbled across otherwise.

Although I totally agree with “the kind traveller” that downtime, boredom, and other forms of “lying flat” are good, I agree with you: I wonder if depression is a factor here.

Disclaimer: He is born and raised in totally different culture, so maybe there’s some innate understanding that I’m lacking here.

I feel like a lot of times, the goal (or at least the ideal outcome) of this sort of lifestyle is to have your time back so you can focus on what matters: family, friends, charity, hobbies, learning, spirituality (if you’re into that), nature, new experiences, conquering fears, etc. There wasn’t any specific endorsement or rejection of these things, so maybe his thoughts on that just don’t appear in this selection of translated posts—but I agree that it sounds a little like ennui, malaise, and lethargy associated with depression. Depression runs in my family, so I’ve lived and witnessed a similar lifestyle before, and it’s certainly not conducive to a joyful existence.