Well, the good news is that I no longer have a gas guzzling suv
The bad news is that I no longer have a car
The bad news is that I no longer have a car
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Forwarded from gentle froggies
pls clean your youtube links. everything after ? is some tracking bullshit, and you can safely delete it without affecting the actual link. the same works for insta and lots of other websites
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Forwarded from gentle froggies
gentle froggies
pls clean your youtube links. everything after ? is some tracking bullshit, and you can safely delete it without affecting the actual link. the same works for insta and lots of other websites
if you use mozilla firefox, there's an in-built button for that
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Forwarded from wahdat al wujūd
while this is a very very important and useful analysis, there is something to be highlighted, at one point in the video, the claim is made that declining literacy rates and reading rates among youth is largely a myth. this is not true.
It has always been bad, but it's never been worse. even in elite institutions, the rot has already reached inward so that management is struggling to process critical context in almost anything they read or wrote.
It's all falling apart and people are in deep denial because the only explanation is that it's by design, and they've been aggressively brainwashed into believing that nothing happens according to the design of a few, angrily and violently lashing out when that possibility is suggested, especially if hard evidence is provided to them.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2024/02/literacy-crisis-reading-comprehension-college.html
Those who cannot deny what they see are desperately grasping at straws to explain it away without holding anyone culpable: "conspiracy-without-conspirators" is the new turn of phrase. It's utterly desperate.
Wo and despair to the makers of this descent to the end of their immense wealth on Earth, for we know what they've done!
It has always been bad, but it's never been worse. even in elite institutions, the rot has already reached inward so that management is struggling to process critical context in almost anything they read or wrote.
It's all falling apart and people are in deep denial because the only explanation is that it's by design, and they've been aggressively brainwashed into believing that nothing happens according to the design of a few, angrily and violently lashing out when that possibility is suggested, especially if hard evidence is provided to them.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2024/02/literacy-crisis-reading-comprehension-college.html
Those who cannot deny what they see are desperately grasping at straws to explain it away without holding anyone culpable: "conspiracy-without-conspirators" is the new turn of phrase. It's utterly desperate.
Wo and despair to the makers of this descent to the end of their immense wealth on Earth, for we know what they've done!
Slate Magazine
I Don’t Know Why Everyone’s in Denial About College Students Who Can’t Do the Reading
These kids aren’t lazy. We’re failing them.
Forwarding this post for the article. Please note that the post is in response to a video that was posted earlier in the channel, one that I have not had time to watch yet, and thus have yet to decide whether or not to include it in my channel.
A few notes on happiness, from someone depressed no longer
I don't mean to make myself up as some sort of self help guru, nor do I mean to imply that these things will make everyone better, but I do wanna say a few things from my life, that helped me get back to a more emotionally normal state. They are as follows:
1. Gratitude: When I get sad, I try to find some things in my life to be appreciative for, and to mentally thank those things for their presence. They don't have to be big, sometimes just thanking the trees for being pretty is enough.
2. Chill: Understand that some things just aren't your responsibility. This can be hard for ethically minded people. To use an example from my own life, I try to pick up the trash I see on the road to my apartment. I try and get a few things each day, and there are some things, for a wide variety of reasons, I simply won't pick up. I really had a bit of a time letting go of the idea that I was somehow "bad" for not picking up everything, but if you live with that mindset, it's a race to the bottom. You can't be perfectly ethical all the time without driving yourself insane.
3. Discipline: Happiness is a discipline. You have to learn to do things that make your life better every day. Whether that's cleaning your dishes or putting time in your schedule to relax, it's a commitment, and you need to change your lifestyle.
4. Don't let your insecurities overwhelm your needs: This was a big one for me. For a long time, I let my need to please everyone, and be well liked across the board ruin my life. I spread myself too thin to care for the friends who really mattered to me, and hardly gave my introverted old self room to breathe.
5. Acceptance. I have been a bad person, at some point in my life, in most ways that someone *can* be a bad person. I've had eras where I said and did things that were racist, homophobic, ableist, antisemitic, etc, I've been a creep towards women, I've acted tremendously selfishly in the moments where I needed most to be giving. I don't necessarily expect people to be forgiving toward those things. This is something I have to accept. But, likewise, I have to accept that I am not that person anymore. That I have grown enough to accept those things. I still get sad about them, from time to time, but moving on is necessary.
6. Get help: I am not at a point in my life where I need to take psychiatric medicine, or have serious therapeutic interventions. That can't be said for everyone. Not everyone has to live a life without those things and, for some people, being removed from them is a massive crisis. No shame in using the resources you have access to to better yourself.
I don't mean to make myself up as some sort of self help guru, nor do I mean to imply that these things will make everyone better, but I do wanna say a few things from my life, that helped me get back to a more emotionally normal state. They are as follows:
1. Gratitude: When I get sad, I try to find some things in my life to be appreciative for, and to mentally thank those things for their presence. They don't have to be big, sometimes just thanking the trees for being pretty is enough.
2. Chill: Understand that some things just aren't your responsibility. This can be hard for ethically minded people. To use an example from my own life, I try to pick up the trash I see on the road to my apartment. I try and get a few things each day, and there are some things, for a wide variety of reasons, I simply won't pick up. I really had a bit of a time letting go of the idea that I was somehow "bad" for not picking up everything, but if you live with that mindset, it's a race to the bottom. You can't be perfectly ethical all the time without driving yourself insane.
3. Discipline: Happiness is a discipline. You have to learn to do things that make your life better every day. Whether that's cleaning your dishes or putting time in your schedule to relax, it's a commitment, and you need to change your lifestyle.
4. Don't let your insecurities overwhelm your needs: This was a big one for me. For a long time, I let my need to please everyone, and be well liked across the board ruin my life. I spread myself too thin to care for the friends who really mattered to me, and hardly gave my introverted old self room to breathe.
5. Acceptance. I have been a bad person, at some point in my life, in most ways that someone *can* be a bad person. I've had eras where I said and did things that were racist, homophobic, ableist, antisemitic, etc, I've been a creep towards women, I've acted tremendously selfishly in the moments where I needed most to be giving. I don't necessarily expect people to be forgiving toward those things. This is something I have to accept. But, likewise, I have to accept that I am not that person anymore. That I have grown enough to accept those things. I still get sad about them, from time to time, but moving on is necessary.
6. Get help: I am not at a point in my life where I need to take psychiatric medicine, or have serious therapeutic interventions. That can't be said for everyone. Not everyone has to live a life without those things and, for some people, being removed from them is a massive crisis. No shame in using the resources you have access to to better yourself.
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Forwarded from /g/‘s Tech Memes (ᅠ ᅠ)
phone/social media use has coincided with a collapse in physical-world activity for young ppl—just as their anxiety and sadness has surged
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Forwarded from Tornpuppy ^-^
Definitely has nothing to do with there being nowhere to go out to that doesn't cost a lot of money in a world where most people are struggling to get by on subsistence wages as adults and teens get paid almost nothing after the expense of commuting is taken into account. Damn near paying to work and trading their last years childhood to do so.
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