Just a consideration to add to the others, but you may want to consider some neck stretching and exercises. Tension in the first two or three cervical vertebrae can cause migraines.

Added bonuses include that this option is free, it takes up very little time, it can be done almost anywhere, plus it’ll help you hold up that big ole brain a lot better in the future!

Non-smoker/drinker, formerly very physically fit person weighing in. In the five or so years surrounding 40, everything suddenly fell apart. Knees would ache after pickup games. I picked up an empty suitcase and slipped a disc. Shoulder started feeling sandy. Hands got arthritic.

It snuck up on me until one day I realized that I couldn’t remember what it was to not have something hurting. I hate to say that I could easily wish it on my worst enemies, but not the average person going about their business.

Yeah the way you describe it makes it sound like we could build an AI forum where each user is the only one in there and all the rest are ai bots whose only purpose is to generate the content and interaction we’re looking for.

I think Reddit is just the beta version.

Biden could announce tomorrow that he has a proven plan that will end world hunger forever

I can’t figure out what my uncle would say but I feel sure it would be something like:

“That’s actually the Trump Plan he’s talking about and it would absolutely do what he was saying about it, but Biden’s gonna put some sorta socialism spin on it and really mess us up. Ain’t nothing to do with socialism that’s ever done one thing to benefit the country. Oop! There’s the time and I’ve got to get. Gotta hit the interstate and get by the bank to cash my social security check on my way to the VA.”

Yeah, I probably should have specified the comments section.

I finally found that hot garbage dumpster fire smell I was so familiar with on Reddit. Just had to randomly bump into a post about politics.

If your “we” is Democrats, then you may want to think twice before running head long into battle. Gun ownership among Republicans outnumbers Democrats more than two to one. That figure is per person and not a gun count per household, which is much higher with 2/3 of the gun-owning population owning more than one gun.

The only way you’ll win is by persuading the swing vote as Independent gun ownership is almost as high as the Republicans. But you probably won’t get all the Independents because a lot of them are right-leaning.

All that is to say that while I don’t expect us to ever get in a combative civil war, and I hope we don’t, I also think it’s in everyone’s best interests if no one is thirsty for one either.

Source: https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2017/06/22/the-demographics-of-gun-ownership/

Oration is a personal interest I have. (See username) I’m not great at it, but it is an interest.

I think you’re correct on all accounts. I’ve listened to a few of his clips, but I wouldn’t call myself a fan or even a listener. His cadence is often casual but slows a bit when he wants to stress a point. He likes storytelling. If he speaks about things that are universally frustrating, you can feel his speech begin to clip faster and his voice raise. Good intonations. And he seems good at having something to talk about and staying on task.

Good and bad people can be fantastic storytellers. I don’t know enough about him to make a judgement on his character, but I think he’s a good communicator.

Honestly, reddits API change was an awful thing to do but my phone usage has plummeted since then. I’ve been trying Lemmy but it’s not been an easy 1:1 replacement and I find myself not engaging or feeling so invested in conversations and content as much.

That works in my favor, though, because I really have been spending way too much time looking at screens anyway.

Boring is now a feature imo. I’m so fatigued by news cycles, social media, and Trump that a boring candidate sounds fantastic. Unfortunately, we in the U.S. are hooked on controversy and division, which only benefits politicians and corporations.

Oofos have some exactly that except I find them to have far more comfortable soles.

The are quite expensive though.

I’ve rode in the back of something similar. Don’t be jealous. The cage really decreases the ability to appreciate getting to ride in one.

I haven’t, but thats actually surprising. Back in 2001 someone had my name for their Yahoo email (it’s an unusual but common one) and decided then that I wouldn’t let it happen again.

For the next few years, I would immediately register for everything that looked like I would use it.

Got a good Hotmail in the 90s. But later on I would register for every little thing like Hushmail. Shushmail. Then MySpace. The best, though, was when I managed to get an invite in late 2007 for a little email service provider that was called Gmail.

Suck it every other variation of RhetoricalOrator@gmail.com!

(Not my actual email.)

" I feel like this is where people who can, and actually do, read and understand everything before responding are hanging out."

Don’t worry, me and other new users will get that corrected ASAP!

But for real, the users and vibe here seem far less caustic and I’m enjoying it. It’s been a nice journey recognizing that I want hooked on Reddit because of content so much as because of the dopamine hit I got from endlessly scrolling through a lot of low effort content.

I think security warnings are kind of like cancer warnings in the state of California. If virtually everything causes cancer then warnings become just a normalized part of life.

I wasn’t trying to make any personal attack or really even be snarky or whatever. My attempt at humor just didn’t land.

Dad Laws dictate that when my children ask, “Can I have a popcicle?” that I must reply with, “I dunno, can you?”

Edit: Oops! Just saw that you weren’t replying to me. The thread makes more sense now.

Huh, TIL that my old person trait is being petty and plainly wrong.