Ask Lemmy

There is no karma, evil assholes get away with it and live to ripe old ages far more often than they should

That eventually you have to say goodbye to parents, grandparents, animals, and loved ones - and there will always be a void you can't fill that they filled.

Life is inherently just suffering. Everything you do to prevent suffering simply prolongs it. Coupled with the fact that most forms of life need to consume other forms of life just to survive.

Even in the most beautiful ecosystem you could find it's a constant war between species just for basic survival with no real meaning behind it

In 1994, I didn't own a computer yet, smartphones weren't a thing yet, I was 12 years old and learning to fix and rebuild lawnmowers and go-karts.

Age 13, I got my first computer, and promptly learned how to crash it that evening. Turned out it had a DriveSpace compressed hard drive, 125 whopping megabytes, and I didn't understand any of that yet on that very evening. But I had the manuals and the disks, and gradually learned the basics over the next 2 weeks to reformat and reinstall everything my uncle gave me.

By age 15 they were starting to shut down the local parts shops for small engine parts. Now mind you, that was way before online ordering was the big thing, and I was still running Windows 3.11, which I later upgraded to Windows 95, via floppy disk of course, because who in 1995 got a donor hand-me-down computer with a CD-ROM drive?

So, I started learning more about computers, and gradually learning automotive repair, the whole time building custom bicycles, because I had way too many spare junkyard bicycle parts.

But today, I dunno what the fuck to do. People don't really want things fixed like they used to, and even when they do, affordable parts are getting almost impossible to find for modern vehicles and devices.

I get by fixing older vehicles like from 2005 and before, wondering what the fuck done happened to society over all these years?

I'm sorry, I could go on and on, there's soo many things I can maintain and rebuild even, if only you could get parts and tools for modern stuff.

Right To Repair!

Getting older and watching loved ones get older

Lord of the flies was a thinly-veiled allegory for how the world actually works. There's no growup keeping it in check, we're on our own, and we're not great at it.

The many ways people try to make it not that. Like just lying to themselves. Or scapegoating some subset of humanity they're not in for it (which happens equally across the political spectrum).

It's the fact that the easier options are bad choices.

It's easier to sit around the house than it is to exercise. It's easier to order pizza than it is to cook something. It's easier to be ignorant than actually learn and change.

The easy choice should be the good one. Making a bad choice should take effort.

It's so long. Like holy shit, I get the picture already. This is egregious.

The monotony. Life has wonderful moments, and there is joy and love. There is also the constant grind. Buying groceries, cooking meals, doing laundry, cleaning. Things that we never thought of as children, but it takes so much time just to continue living and filling basic needs. That's when you start to really appreciate the replicators in Star Trek. Sure at first it's like "I could have takeout anytime", but then you realize oh my god if I didn't have to shop, get groceries, cook, put them away, move them home, the whole thing, we'd have so much more time.

We die too quickly and not all of us experience all facets of life due to increasing inequality and decreasing social mobility.

I strongly believe life would be better for everyone due to these two factors alone

you can do everything "right" in life and still lose.

Childhood that's gone in what feels like an instant before you had the chance to appreciate it, and by the time you do enjoy it after the fact, from memory, the moment is already long gone, no matter how hard you cling onto the memory, its already in the past, you have no time machine to go back and re-do that again.

Egoistic people. Too many just see their own needs, and I'm not talking about basic needs. They are stressed and drive recklessly, don't think about others when making decisions and so on. And in the end, we all pay a higher price for insignificant or no benefit of individuals. Life would be way easier if we could just slow down and stop having all those unrealistic expectations about what should be and started appreciate what is.

And yes I know that the world is a shitshow right now. I'm not saying you should ignore that.

Nothing truly sucks about life. We could literally not exist, but instead we do. Existing is the coolest fucking thing ever. I'm glad I exist. Nothing truly sucks about existing compared to what not existing would be like.

3 years I had a normal blood pressure.

5 years and 2 months ago I had a back.

10 years ago I had knees.

Oh, and I haven't slept more than 5 or 6 hours a night in several years and most of the time I'm lucky to get 4.

I truly do not mind getting older. It has a lot of benefits, but damn... I'd like there be enough of my body left to enjoy it.

I'm struggling to think of an answer, but I guess the injustice of life in many forms. Some bad people have more success and luck than some good people. Alzheimers can make us forget the love of our lives after a long, happy life.

Lack of agency

Becoming old

You gotta get food. Like every day. Even when you can't or don't want to.

Seemin unability to truly live in the current moment. Always have to be thinking about the past or worrying about the future. With a decade of experience in meditation I've seen glimpses of what it could be like when you just are and everything is okay. It's all just so fleeting.

The worst part is isolation. I think most of us are suffering from lack of community

When you hit a certain age, you'll wake up with a new pain and that will be your new normal. Then, your life will be nothing but physical and emotional pain. You'll just have more of a threshold.

People are very selective about who to empathize with. Not everyone, but enough people. I feel like almost all of my problems stem from that, somewhere down the line.

Life is fleeting, it's short, and some people seem to only exist to make it as horrible for others as possible.

Gestures broadly at everything

Physically painful chronic diseases

Your most comfortable underwear wears out fastest. >:(

Having a pattern finding machine between your ears that desperately tries to find meaning/reason/purpose in a meaningless universe

That it is pay to win like shitty mobile games.

living in an open-air prison where escape feels almost impossible.

Probably humans. I said it.

Mostly I love being physically embodied, I love seeing and feeling, eating, sex, lived being pregnant, I love having a physical body and consciousness.

What sucks to me is not necessarily physical decline - in general I've been able to handle what is thrown at me. I do hate time though. Hate the way we experience it in one direction. Hate the irreversible past that leads to the unavoidable future, it seems to just all be rolling out with no way to change it, every action came from some past action. Not just a big ship to turn, more like it will turn or it won't but we can't make anything happen that wasn't already going to happen. Our present the irreversible past of tomorrow's unavoidable future.