As with most doomer posts, 2/3 of that is just a problem of being addicted to social media - not necessarily a problem with the era itself.
It’s weird that people didn’t get addicted to social media in other eras, isn’t it?
S… skill issue…?
We’ve been addicted to social media since antiquity. It’s literally gossip in a different form reduced to what’s essentially gossip through a crack pipe.
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Social media is just gossip refined and people have always liked gossip. But social media is to gossip what heroin is to poppy seeds.
I mean, it’s not like social media doomerism is some mandatory thing. The internet shows us what we want to see - if someone wants to spend their whole life reading about every possible bad thing in the world, that’s on them.
Social media companies use predatory tactics that abuse our knowledge of the human psyche to pull people into social media. It’s not the fair choice you make it out to be
As someone that doesn’t use social media outside of Lemmy, it’s really not as hard as people seem to make it out to be.
it’s really not as hard as people seem to make it out to be.
Says the guy arguing with everyone replying to him. Have some self-awareness for once.
“I, one of the few who lives without social media, can speak for everyone who uses them”
Old media did this too. Newspapers, yellow rags, pulp fiction, special interest magazines. Chock full of physiology-abusing tricks.
I’ll also add that the other people around you use social media - so if you want contact, it’s now harder than it used to be since fewer people are eager to strike up an anonymous conversation.
This has especially ruined dating.
The Internet used to show us what we wanted to see. Now it shows us what it thinks we will most engage with even if it is not what we most want to see. So if the algorithm figures out that a person on engages well with right-wing media sources, that’s what it will show them more of. It doesn’t matter what that person’s politics are, all that matters is that the algorithm has figured out what the user will most engage with.
And that is how reality is being rewritten with fantasy in real time.
If someone is engaging in a certain kind of content, I would argue that’s the content they want to see. It might not be what they enjoy seeing, or what’s good for them, but you can’t seek out right wing content and then tell me you don’t want to see right wing content. At some point, there has to be a level of personal liability here.
And. Yet. Here. You. Are.
Is that supposed to be some grand statement? Yeah, I enjoy occasionally posting on stuff like this - never said otherwise.
No, see they are miserable so you must be miserable.
They don’t want to not engage with these services that they know manipulate them but choose to do so anyway but deny any responsibility for their own actions because those same algorithms told them they aren’t responsible.
Again, they aren’t seeking it out.
If they’re getting inundated with it to the point it’s affecting their actual mental health, then they obviously need to change something. Whether it’s the quantity or the quality of the content they consume. Logging off and going outside is always an option.
Well now you’re just contradicting yourself. If someone is getting inundated with certain content that it’s affecting their mental health, then that’s not content they want to see. That’s like saying if someone is being bullied, it’s because they want to be bullied otherwise they’d change.
Logging off and going outside is always an option.
For the rest of their lives?
And I thought this was what they wanted to see?
And yet here you are.
The modern internet, search engines included (except Kagi) show you whatever is most profitable, which is usually outrage.
exactly 1/3 of this post is about social media
I’m falling to see how AI being used for stupid shit or rent prices skyrocketing is a byproduct of social media addiction.
Also, there’s something to be said about the fact that we/our governments are allowing social medias to be heavily engineered to be this addictive in the first place
Grow your own blueberry bushes and then you can have more blueberries for 3 weeks during the height of summer than you could possibly use for the next 2 years but it’s too fucking hot to pick them and the birds eat them all so quickly that you end up having to buy those sweet blue balls from the grocery store for the other 49 weeks of the year regardless.
Plus, it’s hard to grow a blueberry bush in an apartment window box.
I’m not a blueberry expert, so I don’t know the specifics, but there are compact varieties that are designed for growing in pots. Those would probably do well enough in a window box if you had the right light exposure and climate. Regardless, if you have the right light and climate for blueberries, there are almost certainly plenty of other fruits, herbs, and veggies that would be more productive, easier to care for, and have a higher return on investment.
Blueberries like lots of light, well draining and slightly acidic soil. They are full sun plants. They work great in pine heavy areas, as pine needles add acid to soil. They are generally very robust and easy to grow, requiring only pruning of dead branches about once a year. Most varieties will grow between 4-6 tall, and about the same width. Some go even taller/wider, and make great privacy hedges.
There are “dwarf” varieties, but you are still going to be more like 3-4ft in each direction. They are 100% a bush, so you need space for that. Not very apartment friendly.
Overall they are maybe the easiest fruit plant to grow if you live in the right climate, have light and the space for them. Highly recommended.
Maybe they are talking about the bilberry (also known as “European blueberry” or in Swedish “Blåbär” literally meaning “Blueberry”) they are much more compact and the bushes are very tiny and the berries are also much much tastier than American cultivated blueberries.
Learn to forage. Today alone, I pulled 2 lbs of fresh berries, and I live in suburban Tennessee.
Today I got slammed into the rocks off the coast of Hawaii and couldn’t even spear a fish.
Can’t the god of blood kill some fish? I don’t believe it.
It makes sense because fish don’t have blood.
I grew my own blueberry bush. It took three years to set fruit, that year my pug discovered he could eat all the blueberries off the bush before they were ripe, which delighted him, and then it tumped over and died. A ground cherry is a much hardier fruit but still not pug resistant.
and then it tumped over and died
bush or dog?
Bush. Dog is still kicking.
Your dog is adorable :)
Thank you! He’s very hilarious even though he’s very old and vision impaired now, but he still is very feisty.
The worst thing is when I look at my life and realise this is the best situation I’ve ever been.
I aspire to someday buy a banana. How much could they cost?
It’s one banana, Michael. What could it cost, ten dollars?
Pfft screw that. I’ve got avocado toast to buy.
shiny rectangles are monsters
To ease the suffering I switch between the use of several different shiny rectangles of various sized and technology. All of them are monsters, but each is different.
They are the best and worst thing to happen to society.
sent from shiny rectangle
This meme is so basic, it’s probably made by a bot.
Don’t give them any ideas. Blueberries and sometimes strawberries are the only thing that’s cheap anymore. Blueberries are cheaper than cereal by a factor of up to 10 (3 cents an ounce frozen or 6 cents an ounce fresh vs 20-30 cents an ounce for cereal). Sure, they’re mostly water and cereal is mostly calories, but the cost of both is dominated by transportation and the blueberries cost more to grow, harvest and handle.
Blueberries are expensive. Look at Mr. Moneybags over here!
Frozen blueberries are awesome. Fresh are nice and I am spoiled being in Washington State but I enjoy frozen blueberries so much. You can eat it for a snack! Dogs love them as treats!
