I do remember hearing that one of the signs you’re in a dream is that your phone doesn’t work properly

It’s one of the “reality tests” of lucid dreamers. You make a mental note of how you know your phone to behave and if you discover that not to be the case then that acts as an “alarm” that you’re sleeping.

There are other tests as well. Light switches never turn on the lights. Text changes when you look away and then read it again. You can try pushing your hand thru the wall. If you jump you’ll jump really high or may even start flying.

The point of these tests is to do them daily even when you “know” you’re awake so that the habit carries over to the dream world. However when this eventually happens either of two things is the most likely to happen: you freak out and wake up or you rationalize it to youself somehow. For example: “Holy shit I’m flying, this is a dream! Oh never mind it was just a crane that’s lifting me” Speaking from experience.

Also a word of caution. It’s not recommended to look into mirrors when you’re lucid dreaming. You’ll see something other than yourself and this can be really uncomfortable. Also if you realize you’re dreaming and start to freak out but don’t wake up there’s a good chance it turns into a nightmare. The way out of it is to not be afraid, for example go hug the monster instead of running away but this is easier said than done.

It’s the thing I use to apply edge trim on chipboard counter tops.

As an amateur photographer I feel the same way. If I didn’t like my photos I wouldn’t publish them.

What’s up with the quotation marks when you just came up with that “quote” yourself? I don’t feel the need to defend views I don’t hold.

Do you apply that logic to the people posting content that pisses you off as well?

There’s no karma here so idgaf.

What does karma have to do with it? Worthless internet points shouldn’t affect the way you communicate if you’re an honest person. You make it sound like you used to either self-censor when you know your views to be unpopular or alternatively say things you don’t actually believe in just for the upvotes.

If it pisses off dozens of people but there’s one person loving it, wouldn’t it still be accurate to say that the effect is net-negative?

What made me think about this is my girlfriend, who is quite vocal about the harms social media can have on the mental health of young girls, especially when influencers post heavily edited photos of themselves and their lives, which for the most part are fake.

However, she’s active on social media as well, and being quite an attractive woman, she seems oblivious to what I consider a factual statement: her own content is also causing the same kind of concerns for other women who are not as genetically blessed as she is. What she’s posting is not fake, but it is heavily curated nonetheless. She obviously knows this herself, but do her followers?

I don’t personally follow her social media, but I’d be willing to bet she hasn’t posted about being sick for a week and not taking a shower for four days. I don’t mean that as a criticism per se, but I think it highlights how little we think about the effect our own content has on others while still being quick to judge others for what they post.

1 bar is enought to lift water 10 meters up. The pressure gauges reads zero at atmospheric pressure.

And the location of the house/apartment. Houses higher up have lower water pressure and in apartment buildings the upper floors have lower pressure than bottom floors. 1bar of pressure lifts water 10 meters high. When constructing heating lines on a new building we might have the heating on on the first 3 floors despite the ends of the pipes leading to upper floors still being open and half of the building missing. The water wont spray out as long as we keep the pressure low enought that it doesn’t rise to where the pipes end.

Why are you asking me?

That message is written by some 24 year old who gets paid to do 3 social media posts each day on behalf of said bank but is in no way involved in running the bank itself. Don’t follow Chase on twitter and block people who retweet their posts on Lemmy. That should help a little.

Sure. And while they wait for that miracle they can also take steps towards personally easing their situation. Broken banking sector is not the sole reason for people’s financial struggles.

…or spend less.

This has nothing to do with mass shootings.

…and it’s the bank’s fault and theres nothing the individual could do differently? I don’t buy that. Complaining about it on the internet is not going to help, that’s for sure. I know several people like this and they’re all notoriously bad with finances. Many of them even earn more than I do but they spend it all on expensive new cars, getting the newest smartphones, TVs and tech, frequent vacations abroad, homes that are way out of their budget, streaming services, clothes, ordering takeout etc.

What the hell are people supposed to do if the minimum spending to survive is already too much for their meager income?

If one can’t cut their spending then they need to increase their income. Making coffee at home instead of getting starbucks, cooking instead of eating out and not taking a cab to travel short distances is all good financial advice.

I’m not. What am I missing here?

No, I live in the same reality as everyone else but I feel like my grasp of it is generally more accurate than that of an average person, what ever that means. I see people (myself included) as rather predictable biological “robots” that are pushed around by their primitive wants and emotions while pretending to have agency over all the good things happening to them and blaming the world for all the rest. I don’t beliefe in free will in the sense that most people think about it. As in “you could have done otherwise”. It’s not just a philosophical concept I like but something I truly believe in and live by. There’s no going back once you take that pill. You can’t help but see the world and people differently after that and I mean it in a good way.

Most people are unsatisfied with their lives. There are two ways we generally try to deal with this; improve your own situation or try bringing other people down to your level. Many feel like the latter option is easier.

I don’t hate anyone or anything. Hate is a toxic emotion that poisons your own mind but leaves the target of it unaffected. It also implies the thing you’re hating is responsible for whatever it is that makes you hate it and assumes they could choose to do otherwise. I don’t believe in this. People don’t choose to behave badly. They just do and couldn’t have done otherwise.

Daily meditation reliably makes me feel about 10% better