Yes I forgot about the vertical too. I guess it’s because the video isn’t worth the effort to turn the phone horizontal.

How does this work? You watch 100’s of ~10 second videos in a row for hours? Trying to understand because this seems to be a common thing these days.

I have never tried tiktok and only saw some YouTube shorts. I see one or two and it annoys me because it’s clipped badly, gives bad information, or just shows something meaningless. Random loud music. The same video keeps playing on a loop as I try to think.

Even if it was great content, my brain just couldn’t stay focused beyond a couple videos. The constant changes to a new video would be exhausting for me. There’s also no time to think about what you just saw.

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Boss forced everyone to come into work because she was tired of using tech. Wanted people to come in and eat ice cream while brainstorming with post it notes. Said anyone not there is fired.

Well she didn’t put any effort into planning it, and it was very inefficient so everyone ended up using their computers like they had been doing at home. Just with more distractions and needing to commute. Not much work got done so everyone needed to work from home that night after hours to meet deadlines.

Well it turns out the guy passing out icecream was also passing out covid. Every single person on the team got sick. None of the projects were completed by the deadlines and the entire department was shut down. Everyone lost their jobs.

The boss herself is still unemployed over a year later because she is now disabled with long covid. Has a heart problem from it where she can pass out at random times. Can no longer taste ice cream.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Graham

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This is surprising to me, I actually experienced the opposite. Reddit had a lot of teens but Lemmy seems to have older posters who are more thoughtful about what they post. In my 30’s myself and wasn’t able to get anyone younger than 34 to join.

It could just be the communities you subscribed to?

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So kind of like K Mart?

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It’s mostly for the people processing it later on at a sorting facility. If they see a lot of boxes or it’s something expensive it’s especially important.

Might be just an urban legend, but word of mouth was someone might target houses based on what they find. Maybe even someone else’s trash that just happened to be by your address.

The samurai were also nobility and highly respected. Their lives were probably not bad until it came time to go to war. When war came I probably would be wishing I chose to go herd some cattle lol.

I was thinking that one was probably the worst one but was thinking more historically. Imagined it as living seasick on a gross packed ship of men eating the same old food. Always at risk of scurvy, being arrested or killed. The boat can sink at any time. No hygiene. Few people respect you since you are an outlaw. Then you have to risk your life killing innocent people to steal stuff.

Thanks for the quality comment. It really is difficult to define since the sense of self is just a concept to begin with.

By being yourself, I would take that to mean being true to your intentions, interests, and general demeanor in the moment. All those can change with time.

Avoiding things like pretending to be interested in sports, pretending to hate comics, pretending to be a “player”, pretending to be overly macho, hiding politics, etc are all things that I have seen people do. If your interests change that’s normal but I wouldn’t recommend feigning things that are untrue for you in the moment.

I think aspiring for self improvement would still count as being true to yourself if you genuinely want to improve.

Just be yourself also is good advice. Not that it will always be successful in advancing the relationship. But it will be less stressful for you and prevent you from wasting years of your life with someone who only likes you for your fake personality.

If you have a horrible personality work on that so just being yourself doesn’t mean being an asshole. Even then though at least anyone getting into the relationship will know that ahead of time and not after the divorce.