The weirdest music seems to be middle eastern and Indian/Pakistani videos of things as innocuous as machine shops and auto repair. They blast music over some guy fixing a broken wheel hub.

Christian apocalyptic belief has been poisoning right wing politics in the US for ages now. Things like relations with Israel have been heavily warped by it.

I grew up with all of these idiotic Nostradamus shows and books that claimed he was foretelling the end of the world in our times. Of course his predictions were so vaguely worded you could slap them anywhere in history.

The book of Revelations is a feast for people who love to interpret symbolism.

Even the ancient Greeks used to complain that society was devolving. They talked about earlier generations being gold and now they’ve devolved to iron.

Just need to do a dnf update on them all…

We are afraid to use common greetings now? How about we all refer to each other as “carbon units”?

This is a misinterpretation of a study on peasant life. It called certain religious days “holidays”. What it meant was those days were days they didn’t have to work for their lord. Peasants were obligated to work a certain number of days per year on the lord’s land. The other days they still had to work their own land. Agriculture was back breaking work and if you weren’t working in the fields you were constantly working on things like making cloth, repairing things, preparing food, etc.

Lemmy is too quiet and has little local activity so I still glance at FB and Reddit

I lost my 10+ yr old account because I got auto banned from a mess of subs for leaving a comment on an anti vax sub CRITICAL of them. You have to love lazy mods who ban without any consideration of context. Now I just glance at the posts and comments and avoid the urge to participate.

In old fashioned diners in the US the older woman would call you “Honey” frequently. This seems to bother the woke crowd. Me, I like the old school waitresses.

What a bizarre thing to be upset about. It sounds like the guy had a screw loose.

How dare they ask me how I’m doing! None of their damn business!

I treat people like that like I’m dealing with a rabid dog. I detach emotionally and treat them like a thing to be careful around.

Probably because it was a popular name for a while so the odds they’d have that name are good.

Another name ruined

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Sounds like they were in quite a pickle.

“I’ll give you $5 if you sniff it.”

Yup. You look through history and FAR worse shit has happened in the past, even the recent past. The present though is what everyone has to deal with and that is your burden to bear best you can. Like you said, you see this sort of thing go in waves.

I know this sounds like a pat on the head but you also have to count your blessings in life and not just obsess over the things that are wrong with it or you’ll always be miserable and never able to find any happiness. To say “everything is shit” is as unrealistic as saying “everything is wonderful”.

“Do you believe our species will ever reach some form of enlightenment”

If there is anything history has taught me is that we repeat the same basic behavior over and over and have done so as far back as we can see. We are essentially very intelligent monkeys, obsessed with social status, manipulation, altruism and cooperation mixed with hostility and exploitation. I think the basic sociology of humans is baked into our DNA and the very nature of animal life. People have always imagined they can create some utopia on earth but it always ends up a failure because of the very nature of man and the impossibility of even defining a utopia for everyone.