https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation

those goals conflict with each other

how do you handle situations and outcomes beyond your control?

obviously if they’re situations that I’m not personally handling, then I do not handle them. Simple.

I assume you are also financially comfortable

I have €8 in my bank account lol

analyses like these make it clear to me that class consciousness is gonna appear in the anglosphere long after it appears everywhere else, because it gets so close to the mark but never quite reaches it.

I don’t get how you went from the talk of stress/overwhelm to ‘the Anglosphere’ and ‘class consciousness’

Averages are not very useful for making sweeping generalizations.

Workweek statistics aren’t just mean/average. There’s also regulated maximum working hours (48 hours a week here)

This is like a Reddit comment; all they talk about is that fat lad.

There’s no way the constant discourse about ‘stress’ and ‘overwhelm’ that’s been going on most of the 21st century is because of one politician.

I had cancer last year and lost 25 years of life expectancy

What I’m talking about is the stuff like, “Life today is so busy and hectic! How can we cope with the stress? We are all under constant pressure!” – but are we really? People watch 78,000 hours of telly

Health problems, sure, they’re an adversity, but they’re also very normal, that’s the standard package of human life.

Has the ectopic pregnancy issue you mentioned touched your life?

thanks for sharing

I spend about 3-4 months a year in African LDCs (Least developed countries) (not gonna say which ones coz it identifies me) and people there are oppressed by poverty, but not hectic. Actually they’re very bored and unemployed.

The ‘poor people are happy’ narrative doesn’t square with my experiences, but neither does the ‘everyone is busy’ narrative.

I worked 80 hour weeks for a few years, and yeah I’d feel it then, but that’s not mainstream. And friends in Shenzhen yes they feel it, but it seems far from universal.

being normal today I see

the uniparty is the problem I agree

France’s two party system was overturned electorally within the past 10 years, the UK’s is currently in the process, but maybe the same thing can’t happen in the USA

Have you noticed the phenomenon on fora where people decline Greek and Latin nouns incorrectly?

touch is the sense that’s most commonly bothering ya, creating discomfort

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Do these two things –

• Reward good behaviour
• Punish bad behaviour

Avoid doing these two things –

• Reward bad behaviour
• Punish good behaviour

An example of the 4th: the dog is having fun in the park. You call it over and it comes like a good dog. Then you put the leash on it and take it home.

An example of the 3rd: the dog begs for food and you give it food.

An example of the 1st: the dog gives up begging, slumps down in resignation, and then you give it a treat.

your kind of politics is status-quo-enjoyer

Thank you for telling me what my kind of politics is.

Do I owe you a fee for the diagnosis?

OP is not the only one who has noticed a lot of content on here is shallow&political

If you don’t like political posts, don’t read them.

If only it were that simple. These nerds pop up all over the place. Like when I posted about the World Cup, nothing but politics-nerds in the comments: https://lemmy.ml/post/45406364