I find most of the time I’m trying to claim time back doing something I enjoy. As 95% of my day is shit for work or other people.

So the 2 hours is like a protest of that and actually being a person seperate from the demands.

And I know as soon as I fall asleep. Works back again.

Millenial here. Never used online dating. Never used arranged marriages. Never used newspapers.

Dated a bunch. Just met and befriended a lot of people through shared areas of interest. Indoor soccer mixed league / gardening group / dog park / dog events at a local shop.

I also wasn’t creepy and bothered people with trying to get a relationship from these events. Just a chatty comical person. And with regular attendance - bumped into similar people over time and eventually did more personal shit with them and felt out why.

Online dating sort of (to me) turns the act of dating into a hobby or even a profession? and then people land these relationships where they expect something out of the other person. “You need a perfect resume with good line spacing and indentation, if you want connection!”

When I just pursued my hobbies and enjoyment areas and bumped into people who mutually enjoyed those things and would just talk about those things. Like at most seek connection to the things you love and do them with people you like. And then build on those connections. That’s what people really want when they log into profiles.

Note I don’t have any social media other than Lemmy. Haha.

So as a hiker I have a jet boil, msr, and one of those green square stoves from like Coleman and that one has an adaptor for tank propane or those small green bottles.

Stocking up on food and supplies.

Water jugs and a hand pump if power becomes unreliable

Easy prep meals that keep. (Small cook times but store able / propane time to cook ratio sort of thought)

Propane camp stove.

We just sort of double or weekly orders and rotate the oldest stuff up into the house from the basement.

Full range Medical kit with gsw treatment options and tourniquet

If extended black outs are something we are faced with you should own a firearm or have a big barky boy (dog lol). Rolling blackouts multi day can lead to some chaotic situations in people.

One of my accounts banned for “my Lu Ouija board spelled CEO. What’s that mean?”

Or something along those lines.

Haven’t been back since. Timeline is essentially accurate to my baby lemmy face here^

Am a dude on thyroid medications - hormonal impacting drugs and hormone variations are fucking brutal.

I talked with my wife to get off BC and we started using condoms again after my ordeal of getting stable with thyroid meds. I was like why would you take that shit when condoms exist.

For folks saying 99% whatever - like my condom busts up 1 in 50 or so. So might be better odds on a med.

This is in a lighter direction to your comments with which I agree. My wife wanted to start a dating app called “Broken Bros” that required the male to go through therapy on the app - before accessing the date swipe left swipe right stuff - And be cleared by the therapist. And having ongoing check ins if things aren’t going well (or based on feedback anonymously provided over x amount of dates)

The rest being “bumble” like. Feel like it would be an interesting take in a capital driving country like we are in.

I will say in multi day hikes I spot every single wild animal, insect, flower etc. though. Probably was our evolutionary advantage that kept our brains around for all those years haha.

For the most part sure. But connection and conversation and intimacy have all improved even in my preferred settings and even my confidence in self of getting things done or remembering things even when on a multi day hike. Which is just tent / walk / water / eat / tent. And no tech.

It’s weirder that I recently was diagnosed as a 35 year old and now see memes everywhere. Knew something was off forever. But was “successful” so disregarded until I couldn’t.

Yeah totally agree - which should make workers movements that prioritize wins for all American workers the goal. Child care / education systems that work / health care coverage that works - helps the 8% rugged manufacturing as well as like 50% of the active work force. Vs. bringing back high labor work / low skill - which if we pull it off would mean I what? 2-4% expansion of those industries? So…. 12% of the workforce would be prioritized? (as they expand those sectors).

Internal manufacturing to secure specific interests makes sense. (Medical supplies like during COVID or reduction of reliance from certain super powers sure.

But the current admin is at odds with financing sectors or even stimulating or supporting sectors with policy (it’s actively cutting and damaging policy in them) while also slamming tariffs across the very same sectors.

So it makes no sense. But that’s what I figured going into all this. We are reducing class mobility, while reducing health and safety, with every policy and cut. While increasing the debt simultaneously. It’s wild.

Yes but that was when manufacturing was 33% of the workforce.

Today it’s only 8%. Machinery and robots do the labor and generate extreme wealth in tech and other spaces.

So theoretically you would not REQUIRE the same degrees of exploitation to achieve a middle class similar to that time period.

The win of factory and laborers work is unionization. Tech means decentralized workforce and less likelihood to trust your peers and unionize which was one of the largest wins of the 50s. When you are rubbing elbows with your coworkers - and are geographically living through similar cost of living as your colleagues - you are more likely to strike or require the same or similar types of improvements at the same moments.

I left however many days ago my Lemmy account says - from being a daily user ^

So it was me that caused it.

Obviously the man is better than the bear - all he wants from the woman in the woods is for her to live a life of servitude to him as his psuedo mommy, wife, child producer and lover, because he has epic Viking battles he has to deal with…. of taking the trash to the curb, and waiting in traffic to get to work, because therapy is too expensive, or feminine?

Lmao

I got banned because I was posting - my Lu Ouija board spelled CEO what’s that mean? On Luigi Mangione posts. lol.

Worth it.

Somehow I feel that may be the saving mechanism for them right now.

Overextended inventory - turned into straight cash via insurance claims.

Really hurt Perdue pharma - they still are laughing in their mansions.

Yeah so any space where a caregiver or worker can get fined huge sums of money for not taking adequate action it should just be illegal for AI to inherit that space then?

Because when I worked in the psych space if I was told XYand Z - I would need to act or as an individual face 30-100,000 dollars in fines.

If it’s left to the company you will just see shell corps housing the AI client facing hub. That will dissolve when legal critical mass forms and costs now outweigh the revenue wins.

“We formed LLC psych screen services, who will help our hospital team with mental health call volume!”

“Psych screen LLC is facing 27 lawsuits and is committing bankruptcy!”

“We formed LLC psych now using a different AI tool!”

So insurance companies use AI to screen claims.

It denies a claim for life saving intervention - person dies. Who is responsible for that? Historically it would be the insurance company - and worker. Would it be them or the AI company?

Psych screening tools were using it to pre screen calls.

Ai tells the person to kill themselves - who is at fault if they do it. Psych screener would lose their job and their license. What and who is impacted if AI does it.

QA check on a car or product is passed by AI but should have failed.

Thousands die before the recall. Who is at fault for it? The Company leveraging AI. Or the AI itself?