*exist for the good of those in power. I really don't see the value of concentrating power into a single point of failure.
gundog48
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German government procurement is horrendously inefficient, but it's because of incredible levels of transparency to try to prevent corruption.
It means that even the most minute purchases come with lots of beurocracy attached.
You can look at it almost as its own kind of corruption, that syphons money into the beurocracy, but it does mean that things aren't happing without people knowing, and that, for an extreme example, when you decide to invade another country isn't the moment when you discover that you discover that most of your equipment had been sold for vodka money a decade ago!
A company is much easier to crash than a monarch or government. A government will lock you up or kill you for planning to overthrow them.
Efficient and not necessarily too neutral, classy. But coiling that condenser/feed through every single plate must have been a real fucker!
Hm, I've been on it for about 6 months now which has made me doubt it. I will continue on this lower dose and see if it helps!
I don't really do any specific exercise. I work quite a physical job, although these days I sometimes spend all day at a desk, but I'm usually on my feet all day, lifting heavy things. Perhaps doing more office work and not doing exercise to compensate could be a big part of this.
What kind of stuff do you do? I'm quite limited as to what I could do at home due to hours and noise, I'd default to something like press-ups. I could do something more substantial in the warehouse when everyone else has gone home, though! I don't know anything about how much or what kind of exercise is required to satisfy my amygdala, but I'll do some research!
Yeah, revenge procrastination is definitely big for me, I'll often only get the boring shit finished quite late in the day, then think 'but I haven't had any chill time yet!' and spend a few hours gaming or something. This is my usual issue, which I generally manage okay with. Usually when I hit the pillow, I'm asleep pretty fast, but recently I'm just in bed lying there, completely alert.
That's usually worked 100% for me. Either listening to an audiobook, or listening to a genre of video on Youtube I can only describe as "long-form space and quantum physics shit that I don't understand but find weirdly soothing".
Usually works great, but I just can't seem to switch off, if anything, it can actually start adding to the discomfort. Weird really, maybe I need to find something that fills the same gap, but is different.
Thanks, appreciate it! Yes, definitely ping-pong between good and bad, you have a very similar outlook to me, in terms of having phases of good and bad and trying to make the good ones last!
I have an active job, but I think some kind of other exercise would be beneficial. Unfortunately whatever I do would need to be quiet, and preferably not involve trying to sneak in and out without setting my parents' dog off! I was just thinking pushups or similar.
I hope you find the tools you need too, sounds like medication may help you, although I found it doesn't help with all the new obsessions!
Can someone fill me in on wtf is going on with drag in the US?
I'm from the UK, drag is like our longest running joke, and families go to pantomimes all the time. Recently theres been a more direct association with the LGBT community in the popular understanding of it. I'd say that most people's view on drag here is:
- not necessarily an LGBT thing, though it very often is
- kinda traditional
- can be funny, or just a fun performance
- pretty lighthearted
- not expected to be overtly sexual by default, depends on context
Some of the stuff I see out of the US is bizzare. I realise that the weirder stuff is always going to be amplified in the news, and people are not necessarily trying to show the full context in photos. But I've seen shit like
- rightoids getting so worked up that the pickets outside resemble the Gaza Strip or, as I'm reliabily told, the average us abortion clinic
- performances in weird places like libraries
- people watching a clearly sexual show in dive bars with their kids in tow that look like they're starting at a painting in a gallery pondering the meaning of nothingness and looking way out of place
Like, wtf? Drag isn't the problem, it's the weird-ass way that people seem to be responding to it. Go to a show if you think you might enjoy it, read up on the performance or use context ques to understand what kind of drag performance it's going to be. Certainly don't go for political reasons and ruin the fun for performers who are just trying to have a good time. But equally, don't plan shows that are meant to provoke a reaction for political reasons, for the same reason.
And why the right wingers care so much if fucking beyond me. Imagine having enough free time to consider that important enough to spend your precious free time protesting it rather than doing literally anything else.
Just chill, it's a fucking stage show. It's like the whole toilet thing again, just hysterics over something inconcequential. I'm trans and fabulous as fuck and don't seem to consider these issues nearly as important than a middle-aged cishet blue collar dude from Texas who may never have met a single trans person or encountered anything like this outside of the Internet.
Is only fun show, why you heff to be mad?
Yeah, I've been on Reddit for over 10 years, I've seen the site get progressively worse and hostile to users, I use third party apps because Reddit didn't have one, and when they released one, it was awful and remained awful.
I use old Reddit and RES because the new UI is not only horrible, but the whole layout isn't as suited to the things that I think make Reddit good, it's suited to boring generic social media shite.
But Reddit has snowballed in popularity in recent years. People who probably didn't know there was a different UI for a long time. People who landed there by a search and were prompted to download the app. Or people who browsed on the web and searched 'Reddit' in their app store and downloaded the app, not even thinking to look for an alternative.
Lots of people are only finding out that these apps exist due to the protests, and it's quite clear that most don't even know what they are like or what they do, which is why you've got people talking like it's just some obscure admin tools.
Lots of people don't understand why this is a big deal, because they didn't expect these things even existed, because they see Reddit as another social media site.
I'd be a liar if I said I don't use it for searching things still. Communities are getting going here, and it's great, but Reddit is sitting on over a decade of information, and has niche communities that haven't gotten traction here yet.
I think for lot of us here, this will be a case of using Reddit less and less as we switch to Lemmy, when the good apps close, people won't be using it for casual browsing anymore.
Like a lot of important things, it's about moving in the right direction, not about absolutes and an idea of 'purity'. The important thing is to engage in communities that are positive, help grow better alternatives, and try to minimise engaging with companies like Reddit, Facebook, Google, etc. It's not about self-flagellation over clicking a link that solves a problem quicker, or because your muscle memory has you scrolling after a long day.
Go easy on yourselves and others, this is where I'll be hanging out now, where I'll be posting, commenting and engaging, and trying to be a part of the cool communities growing here, but I'm sure I'll still check Reddit for information, maybe ask questions if there's not an alternative community here, and click links to shit my friends send! And as far as I'm concerned, that's okay. I'm here because I think it's better.
Examples? I would love some free billions!