[-] PascalPistachios@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I think there's a novelty factor in a lot of "innovations" that claim to be the secret to solving climate change. And while not inherently bad they sort of miss the picture in my opinion. Like, the future, in my opinion, should be made of trains and apartments. The dull things that we know work.

On a much more insidious level (not that I think anyone here has ill intent, nor the people working on these technologies) it almost implies that we don't have the technology to stop our impact on the climate. We have the technology, it's all political will.

[-] PascalPistachios@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

cries in Australian don't think I'll get any here...

[-] PascalPistachios@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

STOP BULLYING MEEEEEE.

Jkjk, it's meant to be a midweek treat for my workplace. Thursday is the middle of the week for us. But yes. I know fruity Friday works so much better, so I just act Extra Gay those days.

[-] PascalPistachios@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

Fun fact, pineapple was originally on this one. But the pineapple I bought, when cut open, was genuinely the most disappointed I've ever been in a pineapple in my life. Poor thing was so pale I'd have thought it had seen a ghost (if it had the eyes or mind to be spooked by one that is).

But coconut! Ohh you're right, if I manage to find one I aught to try it.

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I make a fruit platter for work each week, decided I might as well start posting them here. Any thoughts for what fruit I should go with next week? I kinda just tossed this together, haha!

[-] PascalPistachios@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Adding onto this, you can't really overhaul your entire life unless you have a place to live.

I'm speaking from the other side, I spent some time homeless, and I agree with you. Some people do need more than just a place to live. They need mental health treatment, they need assistance with their drug dependency. They need professional help.

But, it's also impossible for someone to consistently get professional help unless they have a consistent place to rest their head.

Because again, I am agreeing with you, but the part I disagree in is the order of where mental illness comes in. Because I reckon for a lot of homeless folk, they start off fine, and then the trauma of the situation sends them completely mentally loose. I was lucky to have the internet and my friends to keep me stable enough, and even I have plenty of screws lost now.

It's a hard issue to solve, and I genuinely think it'll take decades of actual effort (not half measures) to see some actual gain. And homelessness is literally ingrained into an economy of winners and losers. Because it is a lot more than just stop making people homeless at this point.

[-] PascalPistachios@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I think reddit is going to die (if only due to the process of enshittification and the consequences of going public) but the idea of a mass exodus is a bit of a dream. Anyone who has had a conversation going on in one channel, and then have a mod tell them to move it to a more appropriate channel should know this. The conversation doesn't move, it just stops 9/10 times.

But we shouldn't be preoccupied with reddit as a community. Give what you can to Lemmy and enjoy it for what it is, not wishing it to be reddit.

[-] PascalPistachios@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago

Same. Replacing doom scrolling on Reddit with posting on beehaw.

[-] PascalPistachios@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

Hell, even if people move back to reddit, I've made the choice to stay on Lemmy, and give a small community everything I've got.

[-] PascalPistachios@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

All I'm seeing is a place to upload video instructions to the tutorials I'm going to post here. Heh.

[-] PascalPistachios@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I'm going to stay on beehaw where at least they require an application to join. We need smaller and more spread out communities anyway to avoid astroturfing.

[-] PascalPistachios@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

I'm with you on Persona 5. My favourite in the series is Persona 2. Plays like complete ass but some of the best writing I've seen in a videogame. So it balances out. Then Persona 3 came out and they changed direction with the games, and... Well, I guess it makes more money and being told you're the best is a lot more fun than the weirdness of early persona.

Weirdly enough, I could never get into Stardew Valley. Whenever I play it, the path to complete optimisation is just so annoyingly clear. Something ALWAYS needs to be done to be optimal. So I always feel like I'm not doing it right or I'm falling behind. My personality just does not work with Stardew Valley even if I really truly want it to.

[-] PascalPistachios@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I agree with this whole heartedly. I think the issue, remote or at work, comes down to the fact that it isn't the workers making the choice, but their boss. For me, I don't do tech work, so I have to go into work because I'm legitimately doing work with my hands. And I like it that way. I know that if I had to work from home, I would become miserable QUICK. That's just my personality.

But the choice is made from up high, from people who don't give two shits about the workers. As with all things.

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