when i get to the point i think i am bored i think "maybe i am tired?" or "maybe i am hungry" or "maybe i need to unwind?" and it is surely one of those.

afaik, never really experienced pure boredom.

america is a capitalist country, or so i read and heard. money should be the motivator here.

and i also see your point. the general trend of money is to move upward. your fighting chance is to get the money to stay longer in your hands for you to benefit before it gets sucked up.

all i can say here is don't stay too much on the bigger things. more likely, you will not have control for any of those. focus on the smaller things you can change on the dailies.

i think i remember in the debates, maybe it was JaDonald Vance, saying "it is either we choose to rely in science people, or rely on wisdom and common sense Trump has".

this is that wisdom.

you warn them you are aware but aren't complicit to their addictions(hobbies). then you tell them just this time~

you join them anyways.

lemmy - news and funny pics and the casual convo

x - look at artists' work and get inspiration

yt - yt has chat (social) and clips (media)

fb - for the rest of the family

discord - some local interest news

zero. i guess it doesn't translate well.

i know what it is. but nowadays we already have unsolicited dick pics so yeah.

imo propaganda. memeship. education policies.

propaganda is easy because all the mainstream media is about Trump doing unhinged things. Free PR.

memeship is likely a product of propaganda where the internet regurgitates controversial topics to milk more engagement.

As others have said, a lot of people already have almost zero critical thinking and the elections are just a test of who they remember the most.

• the money involved. someone with no financial backing will have a hard time campaigning. and with mostly private news and entertainment channels, good luck with that.

• separation of church and state, yet you see someone with this "faith council" and church endorsements. i guess, i think there should be some sort of commission to lay down rules and enforce them.

• debates and fact checking, i don't get why fact checking isn't allowed on an event that is supposed to inform people and help them decide.

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Everytime relatives share me their facebook links, I get reminded how bad the facebook web site is.

There's full page banners upon banners reminding you to log in before showing the 2- /5- /7- /20- second video. Some videos play automatically after the target video not even allowing you to replay the original if you missed something. Endless hours of engagement~!

i totally feel you. for close friends / acquaintances:

• sleep deprived? reply: gg, rip
• stuck in traffic? reply: rip, gg
• plans didn't pan out? reply: gg

ooooh, what a politically loaded word. there's a familiar clarence thomas mention there too.

bork rings a bell for me. from the sweedish chef. my headcanon is when you try to work but totally borked it. the original intention may be different.

sus. suspicious. easier to say and since everybody almost knows it, they can easily catch on. totally not "jesus".

gg/rip. good game. i find very flexible to use and feels like it's acceptable in most circumstances to mean "it's over".

BG3 exec-bro played it well with the words.

truly knows what it wants to be could mean different things depends on how you spin it.

When I find some [reasonably cheap] novel taste, I do this.

Knowing the individual tastes involved is part of the fun.

yes. i like the idea of federated communities. even obscure interests have its place as long as there's a community or enough interest to set up an instance.

imo, it takes a kind of effort to be constantly "aware" and "battling/ avoiding" depression. it would be nice if the brain just auto-switches in battle-mode but that's not its natural state.

As for how I battle my own, I do hobbies like plants, walking and reading; and sleeping. Sometimes I do cheat days.

there's usually signs for me to help decide:

• yawning, teary-eyed: I need to top-off sleep
• eyes tired of being closed and/ or mind already wandering: time to get up
• if not those, I can always stay in bed longer and chill

Ads. But only when the ad doesn't stan.

The ones that invade privacy, I feel, are taking too much advantage.

bold of them of assume I cannot increase my emotional salary by paying me more salary