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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

freaking and burn are bad words now?

[–] Jeremyward@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

What in tarnation

[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Something I think we don't talk about too much that has additionally fallen to the throes of Late Stage Capitalism is the dissolution of nuclear and extended families, as well as the normalcy of shared households.

Before, the everyday tasks of any one domicile could be reasonably expected to be split up amongst its cohorts. Kids do their chores, dad mows the lawn, mom does the wash, nana does the cooking, auntie takes the kids to school/shopping, or your housemates help out, etc etc.

But most of this generation is living in isolated pods, single-serving everything. You are solely responsible for the cooking, cleaning, washing, shopping, studying, working, running to the bank, filing taxes, trip planning, car maintenance, home repairs, and your godddamn mental health. Of course it's too much work for just one person, but it's become so normalized by now that people hardly even notice there's a problem, much less any viable solution to it. Instead, we all resign ourselves to being "tired all the time", physically and emotionally, and not knowing why.

[–] relianceschool@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

And not to go down the conspiracy rabbit hole - I think this is more of a blind "race to the bottom" scenario - but it makes a lot more money for the rent-seeking class when we're socially isolated. A couple shares a house/apartment, shares chores, may even be able to share a car. When they break up, that's now 2 apartments, 2 cars, individual trips for everything, etc.

It's not quite that clean of course, and plenty of folks live with roommates. But there's definitely a perverse economic incentive to keep us detached from community and partnership, and everything from AI/social media/online dating to the gender/culture wars seems to be pushing us farther in that direction.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Our lives wouldn't be so complicated if we had financial freedom via a UBI and didn't have that metaphorical gun put to our heads to make us keep working forever.

Most animals do very little every day, humans are one of the only animals to have no resource scarcity but still work ourselves into an early grave from stress.

[–] teslasaur@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Uhm. Most animals live by the grace of chance and circumstance. Barely getting enough to sustain life.

I think I understand what you're trying to say, but you can't seriously think that pre-industrial age people were sitting around and doing nothing? Post-industrial age came with an explosion of people to match the new amount of resources. If we don't produce the resources then people die.

Do you want a simpler life or an easier life? Those are two very different things.

[–] Ogy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

There are theories that hunter-gatherers worked significantly less. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_affluent_society

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Get a significant other, share the pain.

It's on my to-do list.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 101 points 3 days ago (5 children)

WHO IS CENSORING THE WORD "BURN" ???

[–] JargonWagon@lemmy.world 43 points 3 days ago

FREAKING? FREAKING. NOT FUCKING. FREAKING. WHAT.

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[–] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 235 points 3 days ago (7 children)

So glad they censored fre*king. I almost had to read a minced oath.

[–] imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works 164 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm more concerned about the "barn out"

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 67 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I’m just glad they censored

Trigger warning: non federated platform/r/AskReddit

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[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 27 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

why did they self censor "burn"?

[–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 days ago

Engagement bait

[–] Branch_Ranch@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)
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[–] pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 53 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Why the fuck is burn censored?

[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

You mean,

W*y the f*ck is b*rn censored?

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[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 89 points 3 days ago (3 children)

What the fuck, here there are no algorithms to please, there's no fucking need to censor "freaking" or "burn".

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[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 134 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

My kid got in a fall and I had to leave work to go to Urgent Care. Three hours for a doctor to give my kid a pain med and a bandaid, and costing us $2k.

Ive been helping my unemployed ex-teammates find work and stay motivated.

My wife's side of the family messed up on their paperwork and because they're also dark skinned, I'm worried about ICE.

I took my other kid to the park last week and was called a sexual predator by another mom. Ive been pretending to be okay as the women in my family all blame me for "looking how I look".

My cousins have called me twice in the past month concerned about bills, and I'm sending them food money.

Oh and the Europeans on Lemmy is yelling at me for being an American because I'm not doing enough to stop Trump.

[–] Naho_Zako@piefed.zip 65 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I took my other kid to the park last week and was called a sexual predator by another mom. Ive been pretending to be okay as the women in my family all blame me for "looking how I look".

I'm very sorry for you, and fuck the women in your family for saying something like that. Someone who thinks you look like a sexual predator and says you deserve to get harassed for your looks is no family of mine. I'm a woman, but I'd slap the shit out of someone if I knew they said that to their male family member.

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[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

Smashmouth tried to warn us. The years keep coming and they do not stop coming.

[–] Dayroom7485@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (7 children)

One must imagine Sisyphus happy

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Why is Pepe AI

[–] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 34 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Fuckity cunt, lickety clit screw this god damn censorship shit.

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[–] kahvimaster@lemmy.world 50 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 60 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Have we really reached a point where censoring "Burn out" is necessary?

[–] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 36 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

And freaking freaking. The self censorship is at the point where even the self-censor words are being self-censored

Edit: actually just realised it's probably interaction bait which I fell for

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

In the universe of Chaos, stability doesnt exist. Its an illusion

[–] Soleos@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

They literally teach you this in highschool science. They teach you that the universe is a dynamic system driven by entropy. They teach you that equilibrium, i.e. a state of stability in a dynamic system, is achieved when the rate of structural formation equals the rate of destruction, e.g. bonds forming/breaking, population birth/death, organizing/disorganizing one's room... Managing while not burning out is stability.

The classic question of "when would any of this be applicable in the real world" is intended to be a critique of how school curriculums can be dated or out of touch with chages in how the world works. It also highlights the often understated goal of a good education--shaping students into people who have the fundamental tools and the mindset to actively answer that crucial question for themselves.

[–] WallsToTheBalls@lemmynsfw.com 30 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We’re censoring the word burn now? Fucking what?

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