Many fall in the face of chaos, but not this one, not today
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14·3 months agoeverywhere I look I see his one eye staring back at me
I should call him
I don get it. A Cameron Diaz?
You can block entire communities, that’s typically what I do. I just Boost for Lemmy and on the triple dot menu for each post there’s a block option for user, community, or server. I make heavy use of community blocks.
I’ve blocked several hundred communities with news, comics, politics, pretty much anything depressing or upsetting. I want Lemmy to be a place I come to chill and relax, not a place that riles me up and makes me afraid.
Some folks have argued with me that I’m sticking my head in the sand, but for news I’ll check AP News a few times a week for a limited time. I’ve got a Leechblock plug-in that restricts how many minutes a week I get on AP News, so I’m not doom scrolling it. In that time, I’ll decide if I’m making any changes to my behavior for the next few days. This way I’m greatly reducing my time spent worrying and stressing about current events.
The way I figure it, 99.99% of the time I used to read news daily on social media, I would get more angry and scared but it was entirely an internal torment. I’d never change my behavior, I would just become more tortured and stressed. This became a very real addiction, I craved feeling the rush of cortisol from reading some outrageous political news. I can’t live like that anymore.
41·3 months agoI definitely have both ADHD and caffeine makes my symptoms worse. Even a single cup of coffee will have my eye twitching and I’ll be anxious. The other day I accidentally drank two mugs of caffeinated coffee and I kept feeling like there was a being standing behind me all day at work just out of sight even though I was in an empty room.
It also makes it impossible to focus on anything. I’ll be clenching my jaw racing from a painting to a sewing project to violin practice to work and then I’ll be out in the yard gardening and back inside trying to organize a shelf. That time with the two mugs I also couldn’t stop obsessing over growing bonsai trees as an investment opportunity, and how I’d setup an automatic watering system for the 200+ bonsai I was going to start from cuttings from a tree in my yard. Good times
So yeah caffeine is not great for my brain. What helps is plenty of sleep, journaling, meditation, eating plenty of fiber, and quitting alcohol and caffeine.
Absolutely brilliant and accurate
get AfterShocks, made for listening to music while swimming
4·4 months agoYou are correct good thinking
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geez or just plant like clover or oregano or something. There’s plenty of excellent options between shitty British grass and shitty plastic garbage
almost certainly not too much
however the wise and financially savvy toker takes a tolerance break at least once a year to reset tolerance and spend less $. A four week break every year means you’re spending way less to get the same effects
also the wise and financially savvy toker switches from combustion to edibles or dry herb vapes so they stop inhaling hydrogen cyanide, ammonia, benzene, formaldehyde, and other carcinogens with every hit. Each of those are cancerous which is no bueno. Who cares if it’s “better than cigarettes” it’s like saying stabbing yourself with a small knife is better than with a big knife. Also edibles and herb vapes are a lot more efficient so you’ll get a stronger effect for less $
It’s possible to design your devex to require an unreliable SAAS vendor for even basic tasks! If you try hard enough you can logjam your entire team!
4·6 months agoIn the USA the big cities are fully paid, the suburban areas are a combination, and the rural areas are fully volunteer. I’m in a combination department, where the paid staff handle most of the medical calls and both respond to fire calls. The biggest issue with growing income inequality is folks just don’t have as much free time to volunteer so it’s hard to get enough members to fully staff an apparatus. That means paid staff but those are expensive and require a lot of logistics to maintain.
I started out thinking firefighters should all just be paid and it’s unreasonable to expect folks to volunteer. I’ve come back around and think it should be “volunteer or pay”. We obviously need the money for expensive gear and apparatus maintenance. Also it’s helpful to not have to get out of bed in the middle of the night when tomorrow is a work night
On the other hand, I think it’s extremely beneficial to have the resilience of a lot of skilled firefighters in the community. When there’s a big call you want as many people as quickly as possible. I also think it helps with PTSD to be able to just take time off from calls without losing your job. So I think there should be a lot more volunteers and an easier path to getting enough skills to become a volunteer.
I consider doom scrolling to be an unhealthy way to consume news and an ineffective tool for political change. Protests, strikes, and voting change politics. There is little to be gained by algorithmically filling my body with cortisol and adrenaline.
My head is not in the sand because I read apnews and reuters periodically.
I prefer for lemmy to be an enjoyable place to visit. If it was an endless feed of doom I would uninstall and read a book instead.
Every time I see a politics news or comic or meme I block that community. It’s great my entire feed is fun stuff and cool art
From one chaotic to another, may you be blessed with a peaceful soul and find a deep and healing rest
There’s not such a massive difference between where we are now and where we need to be to disconnect from fossil fuels