SubArcticTundra

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Do you want to see more normies on Lemmy? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Definitely

Do you want to see more normies on Lemmy? in c/[email protected]
For younger generations, what was it like growing up with the internet? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I didn't really use the internet much outside of IT class until I got the iPad mini at 12. I used to play games on our family PC before that and watched TV, but no internet. And even after that it was only a couple of sites (YouTube) that I knew how to use. I guess the reason I didn't use it more heavily was because I had no real idea of what else there was and how deep it went (didn't really Google very much, or know what to Google). I made some YT videos and assumed people would watch them. I learnt about Google images in IT class and was really impressed that there existed a Google, but for images. And somebody told me about Reddit at 14 and I remember being happy cause I had really been hoping that an everything-forum existed somewhere.

TIL there's a known massive oil reserve in antarctica discovered only earlier this year (2024) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

That's fucking stupid. That's like paying someone for not killing you.

I hate the rich in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wtf that goes against reason

i believe i have found a rule. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Beans rule!

What old-style forums do you still frequent? Any you'd recommend? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Used to visit skyscrapercity.com

How capitalism works in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I refuse to believe that someone who calls me 'captain smug' is seriously interested in my opinion.

How capitalism works in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

It's not an either/or situation, there are more alternatives available.

How capitalism works in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You can only make it to the top by stepping on other people's shoulders

TIL about Tuffi the elephant. In 1950 Tuffi the elephant survived a fall from the suspended railway (Schwebebahn) into the river Wupper 12 meters below with just minor injuries. She died in 1989 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

And imagone being suspended above a river from a railway. Poor thing.

TIL There is a subgenre of porn called Zombie Porn. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Hmm I guess I can kinda see the appeal. Can't explain it though

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I'm planning to get this one (lemmy.ml)
 
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3rd year in university and getting nowhere. What should I do? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Lemmy, I have completed tens of modules across several different universities. I have been course-hopping for long enough that I’d have a bachelors degree by now had I found and stayed on a course that suited me. I can’t be asked to commit to one and study it for yet another 3 years before I get a degree*. Yet I feel like all of the effort that I have expended up to this point will go unacknowledged, just because it was spread across several unis and doesn’t fall into any of their pre-defined study plans. I am a person driven by short bouts of intense curiosity of the type that dives down Wikipedia rabbitholes**. I want to do a highly qualified job but am failing to fit in to the rigid framework that academia sets you. I have several Master’s theses that I’d start researching tomorrow if the system let me. Yet without so much as a bachelor’s I might as well go work in a supermarket. How do I move on from here?

*Perhaps it’s also because I’m now in my early 20s and finally want to have some time to explore.
**I am a logical thinker and predominantly interested in STEM topics.

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What is a quote that captures something you've learnt through living your life? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Edit: while I'm at it, does anyone know what I should do when I'm waiting for a coincidence/adventure to happen, but it never comes? I can't really go outside and arrange for it to happen because I don't know what I'm looking for.

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Toothpaste (lemmy.ml)
 
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Is it just me or does this also feel like enshittification? They just keep getting in my way (lemmy.ml)
 

Sorry for the geek post...

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