Really not good, maybe a 2 or 3. I’m not in debt or physically ill or anything but other than that I’m really struggling.

My life feels like it hasn’t really started yet, but I’m in my late 20s already. Never been in a real relationship, never done anything meaningful in my life, I’ve always had friends but never really been close with anyone. I’m going back and forth between being intensely exhausted by work and just getting through the week, and then being really depressed and just trying to get through the weekend.

I feel like I’ve already missed out on so much of life, (living with extreme anxiety, living as the wrong gender, etc has kept me from most meaningful milestones in life) and I don’t want to miss the rest of it, but I feel like that’s what I’m doing every day. Part of me still believes that I can still do great things, and that I can love and be loved, but I’m too afraid and in too much pain to really change anything.

I found this one interesting but oddly sad to listen to. It can be hard sometimes to listen to a bunch of accomplished, passionate people happily talking about doing what they love

What is coffee if not bean tea?

I really like this.

I think most people have heard the “you need to work on yourself first” advice, which just feels unhelpful.

And I’ve always felt that people calling themselves “king” or “queen” is them being narcissistic.

But this advice nicely reframes both of those things into a really good mindset.

While I think a lot of people agree with you, this is a real unpopular opinion to me. I love capsule shapes and large radii. I like my ui to feel soft, not pointy. shrug

Rounded corners do create a lot of opportunity to implement it poorly, though. I see a lot of rounded corners that aren’t concentric, or worse, are inconsistently rounded (For example, I’m extremely irritated by some US highway road signs where the border is rounded but the square corners are left on)

I think I agree with most of the comments in this thread, but I feel like your #2 is actually an unpopular opinion! I don’t think I’ve interacted with a scrollbar in the past decade, and the only purpose is to see where on the page I am, which doesn’t feel very important. (something like a pdf viewer where that matters should have a proper page preview anyway)

So I don’t really need scrollbars at all, and I’m glad they aren’t adding visual clutter.

(although I’m pretty sure you should be able to force scrollbars to be visble, at least on browsers)

Don’t forget the year glasses! Although those peaked in the 2000s (with a resurgence in 2020)

Are recommendations based on the “watch history” list, or just your actual watch history? I doubt they are just disregrding data they have on you just because you remove it from the ui.

I think the best of youtube has been pretty consistent, it’s just that there’s exponentially more crap (and the algorithm wants you watching crap).

For games, I do agree that most AAA games are not very good, but we are in a golden age of indie gaming. There are so many amazing games being released constantly it’s overwhelming.

I choose 1 and either learn echolocation, or get a fancy implant that does it for me.

Although if 1 is instantaneous and you have perfect control of the power, you could probably avoid others seeing you by flickering really fast. I bet there’s an optimal pulse width and frequency where you would be effectively invisible to people while still being able to see enough. A high speed camera would still catch you though.

Maybe not that unknown, but:

Vimium - lets you control the browser by keyboard. It uses vim keys for navigation, but I think it’s useful for non vim users too because it also has a mode that adds text ‘hints’ for all the links on the page so you can click them by typing (I’m not describing it well so just check it out)

Personally, panpsychism makes sense to me. Our brains are what make us thinking individuals with memories etc, but the whole universe is conscious. So after we die, we return to pure awareness (without thought or memory)

Basic scrolling feels so much better. And I don’t think it really makes a huge difference for battery life, so I always leave if at 120.

What is that ‘open secret’?

One way roads and split highways exist, but even on any typical divided road, you obviously can still drive the wrong way. Either way, you’re conpletely missing the point. That phrase is used as a way of saying that if literally everyone else disagrees with you, then it’s a lot more likely that you’re the one who is wrong.

In this case, autism really doesn’t have an “opposite”. neurodevelopment is incredibly complex, and while some aspect exist on a spectrum, others don’t. (and the traits or development patterns that do exist on a spectrum in this case exist mostly between autistic and allistic traits, not between autism and some “opposite” pattern.

And the other traits you mentioned exist on their own orthoganal axes.

I love this game. It’s simple in an elegant way, but the gameplay has quite a bit of depth. (A lot of emergent strategy)

before:2023

This isn’t really accurate. Mbin does what Lemmy and Piefed do (Reddit replacement) plus what Mastodon does (twitter replacement). They’re just in different tabs of the interface. You have the option of microblogging if you want, but threads are still pretty much exactly the same compared to Lemmy or Piefed.

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