• pHr34kY@lemmy.world
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      8 个月前

      It’s fun to play and complete in your local sportsball league. It’s exercise while being fun. Spectating is fun when watching a sport that you also play. Seeing the pros play is it properly lets you bring something back to your own game. I don’t actually care who wins. That’s tribalism.

      Going to a “sports” bar to watch fat people get drunk and place bets makes no sense to me.

      I also hate sports trivia. It’s just celebrity trivia but for people to star on the field instead of in movies. If I get asked who won a particular award in a particular sport in a particular year, I would have absolutely no idea. If you aksed me to explain the “infield fly” rule, I’ve got that covered.

      And yes, a full 8 minutes of the nightly news covering sports is just insane. I just don’t care.

  • dotslashme@infosec.pubEnglish
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    9 个月前

    The human body. We often take it for granted, but when you start looking at all the different things individually, you’ll see how enormously complex the human body is.

  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 个月前

    Reality itself: “Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.” —Niels Bohr

    • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
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      9 个月前

      And then ultimately math, which is somehow both the ultimate unreality, yet simultaneously the only thing that is real.

        • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
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          9 个月前

          1+1=2… but one WHAT!?

          Except then you get quantum mechanics, and math either no longer models reality, or reality itself doesn’t follow math, except conversely math is the only thing that it does follow (sometimes). 😜

    • spacecadet@lemm.ee
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      9 个月前

      If 2016 taught me anything it’s to not trust polls. Doesn’t matter how hard ahead Kamala is polling until your ballot is actually cast.

      It also doesn’t help that you have the “Lemmy.ml” crowd calling you a fascist if you vote for Kamala, because in their twisted world having trump win is better eomehow

        • tibi@lemmy.world
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          8 个月前

          That would be terrible for worldwide peace and stability. US has too much power and influence for an implosion to not cause worldwide chaos. Trump would mean US siding with other dictatorships, like Russia, China, Iran. Russia would likely succeed in Eastern Europe. Taiwan would likely be occupied by China. NATO vs an alliance made of US, Russia and China would be very uncomfortable.

        • HelixDab2@lemm.ee
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          9 个月前

          …Without realizing that the only things that are going to fill that power vacuum are worse.

          Are there better countries than the US? Damn skippy there are. Do any of them have enough power to do anything if the US implodes? Absolutely not.

    • dfyx@lemmy.helios42.deEnglish
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      9 个月前

      I get it when it’s a 20+ year old game where the remake just has modern graphics, some quality of life upgrades and maybe content that was cut in the original. That way, the new game feels more or less like what we remember from back then.

      What I don’t get is remakes of games that are less than ten years old, still run well on modern platforms (i.e. PS4 games on PS5). Often it’s a matter of taste which version looks better and the new one has bugs and performance problems that the old one didn’t have. Looking at you, Until Dawn remake…

      • Ookami38@sh.itjust.works
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        9 个月前

        That is explains why steam keeps pushing until dawn to me. I didn’t realize it was a remake. I thought it was literally the same game, there was NO way that game had a re-release, and it isn’t exactly a dlc type of game. Wow.

    • MySkinIsFallingOff@lemmy.world
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      8 个月前

      Some days, like once every two years, you actually do it by accident; you come in, get shit done all day, and you get like a months amount of work done.

      And then you get all nervous that someone might find out and set new expectations for you, so you have to kind of spread out the results of the work you did on that miracle day.

    • crunchrecalls@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 个月前

      Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door–that way Lumberg can’t see me, heh–after that I sorta space out for an hour. I just stare at my desk, but it looks like I’m working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too. I’d say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.

    • NineMileTower@lemmy.world
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      9 个月前

      I am productive for less than an hour a day. I don’t do anything. I have nothing to do. I drive for an hour each way to sit and do absolutely nothing so I can feed and house my family.

      Some days I have to convince myself not to drive my truck into something at 85 mph. No person is meant to live like this.

      • Randomgal@lemmy.ca
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        9 个月前

        Can’t you do something yoh like for the rest of the time? (I don’t mean LITERALLY the other 7 hours xD) Like reading, learning to draw, learn Thai on duolingo etc.

        • NineMileTower@lemmy.world
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          9 个月前

          I try. I can’t really look like I’m not working or I’ll get in trouble. Sometimes I read, but that gets boring after a while.

          • loveluvieah@lemmy.world
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            9 个月前

            I relate to you. I only have about 2ish hours of actual work a day on average, and I have to drag it out all day just to look busy. I never expected that it would feel soul sucking to have so little work but still be chained to your desk. I thought I was lucky! (And I certainly am in someways)

            The irony is that when I first started, I was efficient and would read when I didn’t have anything to work on. But my boss didn’t like to see me reading, so he would give me more work. The issue is that there is only so much he can do at a time, so it resulted in me finishing assignments, and him being so overloaded he wouldn’t get to them until weeks or months later. Now I just pretend to be busy, so he doesn’t feel like he needs to give me more, and I’m not having to remind him of documents in review that are weeks old.

            Sorry for the rant, I am currently sitting here pretending to be busy while slowly dying inside.

            • Randomgal@lemmy.ca
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              8 个月前

              I agree! I’ve spent years perfecting the art of looking busy, and that makes my free time more enjoyable. Although there still are rough days.

        • NineMileTower@lemmy.world
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          9 个月前

          That’s a fantastic question. The company is foreign owned and it’s just a sales office. The CEO is a fantastical liar that hides things well, and firing a bunch of people would not look good for him. As long as we are making a profit, no one really analyzes how much fat could be trimmed. I don’t even care if it were me to get laid off either. Actually, please lay me off.

        • mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          8 个月前

          It’s fairly common. We have a team of 11 people that does the work of half a person. The 8 person team I’m on now does less work than I did by myself 2 years ago on a different team between those 2 teams, there are also 4 managers

        • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          8 个月前

          My last job was like that. I was needed for about an hour a week. I just sat and listened to podcasts all day every day.

          My current job, I do about an hour a day, and outperform all of my colleagues. Luckily I’m at home most of the time and just lay in bed watching things all day with my cats. When I have to go into the office, it’s painful.

    • doingthestuff@lemmy.world
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      8 个月前

      Designated drivers are a thing. And I haven’t had more than one drink at a bar since I lived in Europe in 1989 where they actually had public transportation. For many years I’d just drink at home or at a friend’s house if my wife was driving. I recently quit drinking though.