What non-political thing do you wish more people would make another consideration for?
What non-political thing do you wish more people would make another consideration for?
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Politeness. It changes the atmosphere of a conversation/community/country when people are polite.
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Everything is political.
That said, I wish people cared more about the arts and arts funding. Conservatives have been trying to discredit it all as weird and worthless for ages now, and that's unfortunately permeated deep into our culture. Art is literally one of the tools we have against fascism.
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Im a sciencey type but throughout my life I have seen the value of the sciences and very glad my major was in the LAS college.
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understanding technology
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Otherwise-smart people who just throw their hands up and say, “I just can’t do this high tech stuff!”
Motherfucker it’s easier to operate than your car, how do you even live
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looking at their car, beat to hell and currently on fire, sideways, in a handicapped spot
"...never mind"
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Self cooking with more vegies and only meat once a week or so. And so sugar in diet
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Obligatory answer on behalf of rest of Lemmy: Linux
Other than that, going for a walk without listening to anything. An idle and undistracted mind is great for mental health.
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Obligatory answer on behalf of rest of Lemmy: Linux
Just because I'm on Lemmy does not mean I run Linux.
I mean...
I do run Linux.
But it's not because I'm on Lemmy.
(I tried to put this on the Will Smith meme, but my meme creation skills failed me.)
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Spacial awareness in public, especially in grocery stores. People often stop with a cart right in the entrance and seem oblivious they are blocking the way for others while they dig in their bag for the shopping list.
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Accelerating when merging onto the highway, rather than slowing down.
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I'd say, even if a driver is making a mistake, yelling at them while they're driving is not the solution. I understand being nervous or frustrated while in the passenger seat, but yelling at the driver just doesn't seem helpful, even if you're yelling useful advice at them. If anything, you're likely distracting them from making a decision at a critical moment.
I'm very comfortable behind the wheel, but my wife is not. I could not imagine yelling at her while she's already in an uncomfortable position like that.
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Spatial awareness? Make sure the amount of space you're taking up isn't prohibitive to others, e.g., let people with burdens through, don't take up more than your share of a walkway
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Reading. Too many people say they hate reading because it's boring or there is no point. Most cite the books they went over (probably never read) in school. They think everything is going to be like Romeo and Juliet or something. They don't seem to realize that you study classics in school and that there are troves of modern books that they'd enjoy. I like to find out their favorite movies and get them an audio book in the same genre. It's easier to get them to listen to one than to read one. I now have a handful of people who come to me asking what they should listen to or read next.
Yeah, school does a decent job at putting you off whole genres of things but there's still many things I'll happily read. Classic literature is so dull.
I knew someone who hated reading in highschool but shortly after highschool discovered she liked reading for pleasure. She started with books like Twilight and The Hunger Games. I personally don't recommend Twilight but I do recommend The Hunger Games.
I think some people are bad at reading through no real fault of their own. Then they feel, consciously or subconsciously, embarrassed and angry when they try.
I also think a lot about a woman I knew that was like "analysis is stupid. Sometimes a story is just a story!", and that was very strange to me. I asked some more questions, and she said she hated how in school they were always reading and being told to find the secret meaning. I was like, your education failed you. The game isn't find the meaning. The game is finding a meaning you can support in the text.
Like, Dracula can just be a book about a dude that bites people. But you can also look at it and be like "hmm so these women abandon their 'motherly' duties of raising children and staying in the home, and the only way to 'fix' them is for some men to hold her down and penetrate her with a big piece of wood? Hmmm"
But, also, you don't have to think hard about everything you read. You don't analyze every TV show, even though you could.
More than that! When Lucy is turned into a vampire, she feeds on children. She turns into the very opposite of the motherly feminine ideal. The same is true of Dracula's brides, who feed on a baby in one of the early chapters. Dracula, by contrast, feeds on adults. He shows an interest in Jonathan (bisexual? Eww, that's not natural!—side note, Stoker himself was likely bi) but most of his attention is focused on women like Lucy and Mina. The expectation of a gentleman being a chivalrous protector of ladies is inverted.
There's also the fact that Lucy, who early in the book expresses her wish to marry all three of the men who proposed to her:
It's the very sexually-forward woman who ends up succumbing to vampirism and being killed for it. But not before receiving the bodily fluids from all three of those propositioners—plus van Helsing. The sexual undertones of the blood transfusions are hardly subtle, but this also ties into another major theme of the book, which is how powerful modern science and technology can be as a tool to defeat strange unnatural superstition.
We've recently been doing a Dracula bookclub over at !vampires@lemmy.zip, reading through each diary entry/letter/newspaper clipping on the day it is set. We are, as we speak, amid the section between when Lucy has died and arisen as a vampire, but before she has her final death at the hands of the crew of light. In fact, as soon as I'm done with this thread I'm gonna go and do today's reading, and I think that might be Lucy's last. edit: I was wrong. Lucy unlives for another night...or two...
I was a voracious reader but there are so many time wasters now. Well and my eyes are not as good as they used to be making reading sorta a pain.
Tbh I hate reading because of school but it's not because we had to read classics, it's because in my school we weren't allowed to read anything out of an arbitrary reading bracket.
Even if you wanted to take home an interesting book from the library you weren't allowed to unless you read all the books between your current level and the level they put the book on. We had to pass comprehension tests to see if we understood the book we just read but we could only do it once a week so going up a single level could take most of the school year.
I can understand their attitude, I don't share it but I can understand it.
It is quite hard to try new books when you're not sure what you might like, it is trial and error with each trial requiring a commitment of a few hours.
I agree with audiobooks, they are a easier to get into just because they don't require to stop everything and allow to do other stuff at the same time.
That's amazing!