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New comment by n00b_heal in "My Struggle with Doom Scrolling"

n00b_heal — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 13:33:17 +0000

Tried this for twitter as there are some people I still like for their concise content, but I don't want to be drawn into curated corporate doomscroll. Doesn't work as good as I thought, but I still consider RSS to be a valuable tool to put a safe gate to personal internet use

New comment by n00b_heal in "My Struggle with Doom Scrolling"

n00b_heal — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 13:08:14 +0000

more like sleeping and dreaming I guess. Do you think the more free people are the more they gotta somehow justify their freedom with simulated struggles?

New comment by n00b_heal in "My Struggle with Doom Scrolling"

n00b_heal — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 12:52:05 +0000

I guess the problem is twofold: some of your mental faculties rather want to drown in digital distraction while you engage other mental faculties to stop the former

While some people can engage in moderation, abstinence has it's place so that you don't spend double your energy just to stay on track. Imagine someone made a fresh cooked BBQ steak and puts it close to your work place and tells you "it's alright, moderation buddy! Keep working!". So everything has it's place and time, it's usually the blending of different places and times that makes things difficult

New comment by n00b_heal in "My Struggle with Doom Scrolling"

n00b_heal — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 12:43:29 +0000

Of course I can! I just don't want to right now, maybe later!

New comment by n00b_heal in "My Struggle with Doom Scrolling"

n00b_heal — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 12:41:26 +0000

yes, "distraction" but distraction from "what"? That's the subtle difference. Where basically back in the 1920s but instead of physical cocaine it's digital now

New comment by n00b_heal in "Byzantine-Sassanian War (602-628 CE): The Last Great War of Antiquity (2023)"

n00b_heal — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 10:02:27 +0000

"CE"? Ahh, Christ Era, what a weird spelling though. Isn't it "AD" (Anno Domini) usually?

New comment by n00b_heal in "You can't use your $6,299.00 Camera as a Webcam. That will be $5"

n00b_heal — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 09:48:26 +0000

I know, some things you don't know beforehand, but by buying this you endorse this greed. You make it perpetuate. Don't

New comment by n00b_heal in "Ask HN: How do you prevent the impact of social media on your children?"

n00b_heal — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 12:49:23 +0000

let's not forget the parents addicted to tv shows yes they still exist

New comment by n00b_heal in "Ask HN: How do you prevent the impact of social media on your children?"

n00b_heal — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 12:48:36 +0000

seems like you have to learn it first, how else is he supposed to learn that?

New comment by n00b_heal in "Nobody cares"

n00b_heal — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 12:14:37 +0000

Why don't people care? Maybe because they can't anymore? Look at the skyrocking number of silent quitters, of people doing the bare minimum. Look at the perpetual doomposting from the media since around 2015. The world is in a perpetual decay, it's not a single bit the same as it was pre 9/11. The world most of us grew up in is lost.

So why care? If the past decade was nothing but disruption, change, disruption, change, why would anybody put in "constant" effort? Many still do, as I hear from the medical professions and those running the grid. But man, if those higher up the ranks won't start to listen to the friendly outcast from the bottom, things will become worse and worse. They either don't listen or they listen to the outcast that hates them. Both are ways to make the world worse.

New comment by n00b_heal in "The mistake of yearning for the 'friendly' online world of 20 years ago"

n00b_heal — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 13:05:23 +0000

Doubt that author really lived in that era for multiple reasons. And if you don't like corp AI slop, maybe you should leave the silo'd internet?