I don’t believe in accepting “the lesser of two evils”

I’ve been seeing this argument alot this electing cycle. Can you provide an example of a politician that has done committed or supported an action that could be considered “evil”?

My sister-in-law was diagnosed a couple of years ago. It has only improved the quality of her life by allowing her to work with her doctor on a treatment plan that has mitigated the health issues she used to struggle with.

She is currently looking at going for a PhD in the field of her chosen career.

You aren’t necessarily wrong. Have you ever seen Friends without a laugh track?

Some refrigerators can dispense cold filtered water.

Not the first time people “bought” digital media only to have it taken away.

Physical media or local downloads is the way to go.

Public transit, in the United States, is primarily owned and operated by various government agencies.

What you are describing fits into the conspiracy theory that automobile manufacturers “lobbied” politicians to pass laws, subsidies, zoning regulations, public transit expansion plans, etc that would favor / encourage car ownership while limiting the growth of public transit. I believe that there where some trials involving auto manufacturing executives, which support at least part of this theory, but I don’t know those details.

It’s a turkey for the American Thanksgiving holiday.

Again?

China is claiming…

Aaaand I no longer have any confidence in the validity of this claim.

It sounds like you are describing depression. Here are some things that help me when I get to feeling like this. It’s not easy to do when battling with low energy and a lack of motivation, but they help.

• Do more outdoor activities. Normally in the form of walks, or biking to nearby locations instead of driving.

• Drink more water. Basically, I just have a glass of water before drinking anything else.

• Eat better. Nothing too extreme, I make an effort to prepare more foods at home and include more vegetables.

• Change things. I’m not talking about a life change. Rearrange furniture, put up some different wall art, change your lighting, swap out the background images on your computers and / or mobile devices, etc.

• Spend time with your thoughts. I would try to spend about 15 minutes to an hour each day sitting in silence, with no distractions. I don’t force any thoughts. I just wait to see what bubbles to the surface. It usually helps me identify problem areas that I need to focus on.

It is also possible that you have started down a life path that you feel you are “supposed” to pursue and not necessarily a path that you want to pursue.

It could also be that you are burned out between school, work, and social obligations. Making more time for yourself or taking some time off, if that is an option, might help.

Here’s my theory that is based on no research whatsoever:

Cigarette companies used to pay to have characters smoke in movies and TV shows. This would cultivate a social acceptance and “cool factor” around smoking. During the 80s and 90s, this practice came under fire and smoking in movies and TV dramatically dropped to the point of almost being non-existent.

Then time passed, vaping became popular, and people stopped caring about the impact of normalizing or even glorifying smoking. So the practice of paying studios to have characters smoke started to return. Nobody said anything, so it is becoming common place again.

It doesn’t matter if it is unhealthy, it is profitable.

I would think magnets.

They used in dynamos to generate electricity, in motors to convert electricity into mechanical energy, they are used to hold items together, plus I’m sure many more technical use cases that I am not aware of.

When all your stress and worries melt away.

how do you feel happy when you aren’t?

Personally, when I was younger I caught myself using relationships to define my self worth and distract me from dealing with my own negative thoughts. So I started working on myself. I would sit in silence, with little to no distractions, for prolonged periods of time at least once a week (e.g. taking a long bath, or a road trip with no radio). This forced me to spend time with my own thoughts and, before long, something would bubbled to the surface (a past argument, memories of a past breakup, feelings of inadequacy, etc). Then I would take a look at that subject and / or allow myself to just feel any negative emotions. The objective was not to “solve” the issue, just to be mindful of it and understand why I was holding on to those thoughts. Eventually, I came to terms with most of my inner turmoil in one form or another. That got me to a place where I could be alone without being lonely and that, in turn, allowed me to be happy whether I was in a relationship or not.

Not sure if that is any help to you, but it worked for me.

Ah yes. He was really on fire back in the day. Got a lot of attention for a while and then, almost overnight, it was like he and his most devoted fans were just gone from this world.

Some others I’ve found (with “lemmy” prepended)

• lemmy.by.ninja
• lemmy.without.me
• lemmy.without.rest
• lemmy.is.legal
• lemmy.is.global

Gonna stop there because I don’t think that I can top the “is.global” domain.

Likewise, the “forme” domain name has some good tld’s available.

The winks domain name looks to have several good tld’s available for it. You could use a South Park reference and go for a lemmy.winks domain.

Some examples I saw available:

• lemmy.winks.rocks
• lemmy.winks.host
• lemmy.winks.site
• lemmy.winks.cloud
• lemmy.winks.website