It's not a wall of text when it has paragraph breaks, and I read every word of that comment.
Communities are better when we're respectful and kind to each other. Idk what's going on with your day to make you lash out here, but if you need a friendly person to talk it over with, I'm here.
I love that you found your ikigai!! 🥰 I helped my husband find his in small engine repair and vintage garden tractor restoration, and I'm working on figuring out my own in the administrative and creative stuff I do for our business.
A few years ago, I found this ikigai diagram, printed it, and hung it up in the bathroom where it's visible from the shower, and I think seeing that every day has fueled our shift to self-employment and community engagement.
Can you even imagine how anyone involved felt?!? The exultation and relief of the researchers when they not only didn't accidentally kill their patient but fixed him, the mind-blowing reality that he can move again as it sinks into the patient's brain.... !!!! I cry about every overwhelming emotion, good or bad, and I don't think I'd be able to stop crying for weeks.
I'm a little hesitant to wade into these waters - I've not been around Lemmy long and know Lemmygrad only by reputation - but I was a r/CTH lurker/commenter before it got quarantined, during the quarantine, and right up until it got banned, and from what I remember, the kinda tankie stuff I've heard that Lemmygrad espouses (however jokingly/sincerely) would get the kind of real pushback on CTH that started slapfights and flamewars. Idk how strong the "those bastards killed Rosa" component is over at Lemmygrad or how effectively they counter tankie bs, mostly because I'm too old and busy to bother with things that don't enrich my life (like arguing online). Consequently, I absolutely understand and sympathize with not wanting to waste whatever precious time someone might have left to live engaging with genocide denial and other authoritarian handwaving.
I almost commented this reply from my lemmy.world account, but I decided to switch to be commenting from my midwest.social account - an explicitly leftist server - to back up my assertion that I've not seen any indication that lemmy.world is anti-left with demonstration of the federation between the servers. Idk why the defederation happened, but I'm skeptical of the idea that it was simply the fact of their leftism.
My mom was in the hospital over Thanksgiving, and I cannot fathom the devastation I would have felt if I had come home from all the stress and difficulty there and discovered my beloved little buddy was gone; to say my heart breaks for you sounds hyperbolic, but I've got tears in my eyes typing this. I am so sorry.
I have an irrational fear that someone is going to do this to me whenever I have to park the cart to go use the bathroom - what if one small object is removed while I'm peeing, and I don't even notice until I get all the way home?!
The total opposite of this happened once, and it was genuinely one of the weirdest experiences of my life. I was in the grocery store looking at packaged meats, and another lady comes up and parks her cart next to mine to look at them too. She starts making some choices, loading her arms up, but I'm not really paying attention because I'm comparing prices and thinking over my own selections... Until suddenly she starts putting the meat that she has chosen on top of my groceries, in my cart - that looked nothing like her empty cart, which she then grabbed the handle on and pushed away while I stood there watching, absolutely bewildered by what had just happened.
I did not buy the meats she had chosen for me, and I live in both fear and hope that our paths might someday cross again.
I don't dispute for a second that Elon's an idiot, but his ex-wife did ask him to buy and kill Twitter:
"Can you buy Twitter and then delete it, please!? xx" Riley allegedly texted Musk on March 24. "America is going INSANE."
Maybe it's not 3D chess but just transparent - yet effective! - stupidity. Buying Twitter was fiscally foolish, but it does seem like he's gonna kill it, so 🤷
His ex-wife did ask him to buy and kill Twitter:
"Can you buy Twitter and then delete it, please!? xx" Riley allegedly texted Musk on March 24. "America is going INSANE."
🤷
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