Doing stuff. Exercise, learning, projects, etc.

I can’t understand people who want to do nothing. As in, sit there passively and watch a screen and/or drink and complain about their life. I feel like a lot of people do this and it is why they are miserable and unhappy. At least that’s how it comes across to me. I only ever want to do that if I’m exhausted, injured, or sick. In fact I most of the last month watching TV because I was injured, and then very ill for about a total of 3 weeks. It was super depressing/miserable, I also was so weak I had to get delivery of meals/groceries. Blows my mind that many people I meet want to be like that 24/7, like I went on a date two weeks ago with a lady and she said 3 weeks sitting around doing nothing sounded blissful to her… I was going absolutely insane.

I find it hard to make friends because I want to do things and most people… don’t. Most of my friends are very active people, but it feels like the vast majority of socialization among people is just complaining and drinking. My Thanksgiving holiday was 3 days of listening to people complain, watch sports, and drink.

I have on a regular basis. So much so I quit a lot of stuff to avoid their endless insane stupidity and their raw emotional takes that are totally delusional.

nah this is exactly why i gave up a lot of social stuff. too many bubble-brain idiots who become violent the second they hear an opinion or an idea that they mildly disagree with. it’s not just young people either.

i never dealt with such craziness 10+ years ago, but it started exploding with social media growth and is rampant now.

we only ever put the heat above 64 if we had comnpany and that was to 68.

never had central AC my entire life.

isn’t that because of taylor swift?

i don’t record anything. people tell me i’m a selfish asshole or i’m a liar if i don’t have vids or pics of stuff that i did.

i spent most of my teens and 20s at the movies, 5 bucks a movie was easy to justify. i went religiously every other week.

now it’s 20+ bucks and there are always assholes kids on their phones or talking during the movie. i go maybe once a year now. i rarely have a good time. my 4K OLED tv w/ 4K is a way better picture than most every theatre. i have a better time going to the library to rent a blu ray for free than I do going to the movies.

because you’re buying cheap non stick stuff.

you can. it’s just a lot of work. you also have to clean it without soap.

cast iron isn’t ‘easy’ to use or maintain.

non stick is fine if it’s seasoned or anodized.

i have anodized non stick and it’s worked for over a decade. it’s not cheap though, easily $80 a pot/pan.

Everything has it’s pros and cons. There is no ‘better’. A stocked kitchen will have variety of different cookware types, a professional kitchen will have more than one heat type as well. most people for whatever reason, only use one cookware type and convince themselves it’s the ‘best’, but that isn’t true at all. i’ve taken professional cooking classes and they use every type of cookware and tell you to but certain types for certain styles/dishes.

choose your heat source first, then your cookware. non-ferrous cookware won’t work on induction stoves.

personally i have non stick, stainless steel, cast iron, and ceramic. i don’t bother with carbon steel because i don’t do high heat cooking that works best with it. i have a couple of basic alloy stock pots too, because they are lighter.

most of my fun subs got you insta banned from more serious subs becauase no joking or mockery of weirdos was allow. had to separate out my accounts. even then I’d have crazy reddit weirdos stalking me and reporting my comments on other subs trying to get me banned for one comment i said in their sub.

lemmy.world is the least aggresive with moderation i have seen. i’ve been banned from other instances, mostly for not agreeing with politics or linking to factual sources that don’t agree with their narrative.

i have never been banned from anything on .world.

you were probably banned by association. could have made a post 10 years ago in a community that was banned and thus you were banned.

remember when social media was just stupid shit your friends were doing? and there were no influencers?

can’t agree enough. most of the focus is on the performative bullshit, not enough on actual policy that might result in a positive goal.

i remember how many ukraine flag people were ‘against giving ukraine more weapons because war is bad and people will die’…

same with the trans stuff the past few years. most of the people who freaked out about pronouns are the same types who refuse to vote because ‘voting is pointless’ or voting is ‘supporting the system’. also if you actaully wanted to talk about trans issues… you were a bigot. talking about it makes you a bigot.

You mean I’m not a delusional internet revolutionary who thinks using Linux and making internet comments is going to bring about a communist utopia? Yeah, I’m one of ‘those people’.

Only person making your life miserable is you.

Yeah it has. It’s been way worse, actually.

But don’t let history get in the way of your doomer beliefs I guess.

at least it wasn’t her cop dad that was home?

Long time ago. Went on this date from a dating website. She seemed cool online. We talked about cooking, hiking, and gaming.

Within minutes of meeting up she got put out a really weird vibe. She tried to change our plans from meeting at a bar for a drink to some expensive dinner place. I said no, lets just get to know each other first. She got angry, but stayed. Kept telling me how weird I was but she thought I was cute anyway. OK. We ended up going to another bar after like 20m, that was basically the same as the one we were in but she thought it was nicer or something. OK.

After sitting down at the second bar, and ordering a drink, she gets serious and stares me in the eye real hard and goes 'What is wrong with you? Why aren’t you in love with me yet? I’m trying so hard and you must be messed up in the head to not be totally in love with me by now. Every guy I meet loves me within minutes of meeting me." I just laughed my ass off at this absurd outburst. She got so angry, like gripped the table and starting ranting on and on about how men suck, how stupid I am, how amazing and hot she is, how pissed off she was because I should be eating out of her hand.

Anyway, I let her rant for awhile, maybe half an hour? She basically started talking to herself and like trying to convince me to bone her, and also going on about how she was some yoga teacher and had mental superpowers or something totally ridiculous. I finished my drink and dropped cash on the table and told her what a wonderful time I had, and I’d never like to see her again. She was completely mind-fucked by that and went totally silent. In her delusion land apparently no guy could ever not want her.

She sent me a bunch of really weird texts later and I ignored them. I’ve never met such a totally delusional weirdo before or since. Ever since that date I refuse to date anyone to references Burning Man as something they like doing.