zarathustra0

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[–] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 16 points 21 hours ago

I feel you, but you need to remember that the world is generally a pretty chaotic place and predicting the future when complex systems pass tipping points and transition to new equilibria (as they are at the moment) is pretty difficult.

Invest in yourself, your ability to cope with new and unfamiliar things, and build resilience. Resilience being the ability to bounce forward when you hit rocky patches. Don't expect to bounce back and end up where you left off, but learn to adjust to the chaos where you need to.

Develop your capabilities until you have a sense of being a competent, worthwhile and dependable person outside of the circus going on around us. Someone that isn't quite so dependent on the big bad system we are often forced to be part of.

[–] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Surely small Government means repealing all that red tape enforcing individual property rights too?

[–] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 44 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Is it really a law if it's unenforceable?

[–] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Can't we make a society people want to live and procreate in instead of slapping a sticking plaster on a civilisation that doesn't want to go on anymore?

[–] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

That's not microdosing. That's macrodosing.

[–] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 99 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Is this what an out of control madman looks like?

[–] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Your brain is constantly processing the inputs from all of your senses and pretty much ignoring them if they fit with what it is already expecting.

Your brain is lazy. If everything seems to fit with what your brain expects then you believe that what you are seing is reality and you generally ignore it.

Generally the mind only focuses on what it believes is salient/interesting/unexpected.

[–] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I was gonna ask if they asked Trump to decide the headline.

[–] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Well, it depends where you want to stick it, doesn't it?

[–] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I apologise, poor future human, who has been revived from this crystal so that some far flung future rich person can hunt you for sport.

We knew not what we would unleash.

[–] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I heard child labour was legal in the US again? Or is this not in Arizona?

[–] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You read all of the news?

 
 

I've recently been reading a little about Nijinsky and am wondering whether there is any online film of Nijinsky dancing available.

He was committed to an asylum in 1919 and was active shortly before this. This is well within the bounds of film and given his contemporaneous popularity I'm surprised I haven't been able to find any clips of him dancing online.

Does anyone know whether any footage exists?

Because I've lured you here with my question I'll give you this clip of Paul Giamatti doing a brilliant reading from Nijinsky's diaries: https://invidious.protokolla.fi/watch?v=XYnxo9K9fQo / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYnxo9K9fQo (beware, probably NSFW).

 

A UK Member of Parliament recently suggested that there should be a Government minister for men which would presumably do similar things to the existsing minister for Women.

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/reactions-pour-in-as-mp-renews-calls-for-official-minister-for-men-356501/

This has thrown up a series of heated discussions on social media about whether this is part of the 'backlash' against feminsm, or whether there is a legitimate need for wider support of men's issues.

As a man who believes that there are legitimate issues disproportionately affecting men which should be addressed, what I really want help in understanding is the opinion that men don't need any targetted support.

I don't want to start a big argument, but I do want to understand this perspective, because I have struggled to understand it before and I don't like feeling like I'm missing something.

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