Pretty much. I’m not sure I totally buy into that it’s much of an increase though. Or people would be dropping like flies.

I think the bigger issues is just being generally overweight. The percentage of overweight people is crazy, regardless of their jobs.

I’m 55 and not to be an old man and say “in the old days”, but in the old days, when I was growing up. I knew ONE overweight person. Yeah, just one. It just wasn’t common. Look at pics from the 1970’s, and you just won’t see a whole lot of overweight people.

Now? Everywhere I look. I’m sure more office workers have added to that, but that doesn’t account for everyone.

I work in an elementary school. And I was sitting at lunch just looking around and thinking about it. Teachers are actually pretty active. Lots of walking around the classroom. Very little sit down time in an elementary school.

Me and two others are fit. Rest are all overweight. How did this happen?!

Ok, rant over. Just got me to thinking. :)

Really? And here I am trying to figure out how to live forever!

No, don’t do that. Stress is bad for the heart too! lol

Good points! I should have remembered telemarketing, I actually did that for 3 years! But two years in office, covid let us do it from home.

I’m surprised to hear a phone for $100 referred to as cheap.

Fair point. That was the cheapest I could find one that did GPS, cam/vid, and have some apps on it. I do have a crappy flipphone for $30, but I found out that girls I date like to text. A lot. So texting/sending pics/vids was something I found I needed.

But yeah, my gf has a $1,000 iPhone. I’m like wtf! lol

Good to know. I may have to revisit this idea.

In your experience, is making your own bread cheaper than just buying bread? Or do you do it for the love of making your own bread?

I like the idea of it, but if it ends up being more expensive anyway, I don’t really wanna do it. It’s just so easy to buy a loaf of bread at the store.

But I also like the idea of making some tasty bread and mixing in some protein powder so I could have protein bread. lol

We need this in my city. I recently got a very inexpensive e-bike and it will be perfect for this. But they are just now putting in decent bike lanes here. And the drivers here pretty much hate on bikes pretty regularly. lol

Love this.

Note: this is an old text (2012) but I just stumbled into it and found it was still relevant.

Yep, and unfortunately it’s gonna keep being relevant for a while yet.

This is exactly why I am so frustrated that my youth was spent on girls, drinking, fucking off, and avoiding anything to do with all authority.

That lifestyle is behind me, and I want to do all this cool stuff, but lack the skills and the income to pull it off.

But this article has inspired me to really jump into a whole new DIY thing. Love the mindset and innovation for this. Thanks for this post!

This reminds me that I need to start using the Pi that I have. Life got busy, but I wanna refocus on it. Thanks for this, OP!

Love this cover!

I actually like the look of these!

I like the idea of it. I live in a house. And the windows thing stresses me out because of the expense of fixing them if broken, easy access for intruders, etc. lol

suppose we must push harder for remote work

But most remote work pays enough that housing isn’t an issue. Many lower paying jobs require us to be on-site, and we’re the ones that can’t afford housing.

So I think the option is way more affordable housing, and removing the stigma around that. In my area it’s called Section 8, and of course, those options always seem to be in the more crime-ridden areas. So frustrating.

I love the name and the idea. I’m def going to try to be a bigger participant of this sub!

Just curious, and not to beat a dead horse, but if Lemmy can give us notifications that comments are removed, why can’t it do a simple ban notification as well?

Because I always get notified when a post or comment has been removed.

Seems simple enough make the removal notification that led to banning something as simple as “Your comment has been removed for xxxx reason. And now you are banned from the community due to reasons xxxxx.”

I realize that my particular situation here has been resolved and we can move on, but I’m just curious if the lack of banning notifications is a software issue or if it’s a philosophical issue for Lemmy and the fediverse.

Holy shit, that’s a great point that I wouldn’t have thought of. Great fucking point.

Fuck universal, that’s not the issue.

Hey now! lol

But yeah, to your point, I agree that any bots that ban, also need to notify. Especially since it’s a bot, and it’s automated, so it’s not like it would be much harder to do than the auto-banning. And I don’t routinely check modlogs before I post to a community.

This particular bot–if I understand correctly–auto bans based on someone’s downvotes, not necessarily on content. Even if those downvotes happened on another instance. Which to me, seems even worse, because some people can be right, even tho downvoted.

The issue started because I had no idea I was banned, and I accidentally posted to the community.

Apparently, it banned my same username from another instance that I was on. My time on that instance was pre-election, so in the weeks leading to it, Lemmy was quite um, passionate about downvoting anyone who wasn’t openly supporting Harris.

But I haven’t been controversial or posted any controversial content from this slrpnk instance. And I do not have the same downvote ratio on this instance because I stay away from politics here–except for the post to his community. Which was about Bernie Sanders–who I adore.

But the username thing may be an issue in the future too, because some people’s usernames are generic enough that that as we grow bigger, duplicates may be used unintentionally on different instances.

So banning based on downvotes of a user name on different instances, without reading content, seems problematic to me.

I have no problem with him running it in his community tho. His community, his rules, but the noise started because I had no idea what was going on until he posted this here.

But I definitely got the point, and won’t be posting to his community in the future.

I hope that there won’t be many communities doing the same sort of bot modding though.