Choosing to filter out content from your social media feed isn’t necessarily about denial or apathy. For many people, it’s a conscious decision to preserve their mental clarity and avoid being constantly pulled into emotionally charged, tribal, or manipulative discourse. Being well-informed doesn’t require immersing yourself in an endless stream of outrage, nor does stepping back from that mean you’re turning a blind eye to anything.

There’s a difference between ignoring reality and choosing how and when to engage with it. Most of what passes for “news” online isn’t a sober presentation of facts or ideas - it’s performance, manufactured outrage, and algorithm-driven noise. If someone wants to stay sane and focus on things they can actually influence in their immediate life, I don’t see that as sticking their head in the sand. I see it as setting healhy boundaries in an environment that’s often designed to provoke rather than inform.

People aren’t morally obligated to be constantly exposed to negativity just to prove they care. In fact, thoughtful action tends to come from those who can step back from the noise and think clearly, not from those who are perpetually consumed by it.

If you don’t mind the tactical look you can’t go wrong with Savotta. It’s a Finnish brand that makes outdoor gear for hikers and the Finnish army. All made in Europe. Check out Jääkäri S or Niukka 20L for example. Guranteed BIFL.

Sold at Varusteleka for example.

There’s some amazing stories of identical twins discovering eachother at later age. I believe the claim there was that it’s among the strongest bonds between humans that there is. You’ve never met before but when you do, it all immediately just clicks.

I guess the question that remains is: how much of that is due to being hit and how much due to having the genes of parents who hit their children?

I intend to trim the feathers a bit but I didn’t have scissors with me and didn’t want to attempt it with a knife.

Yeah I actually thought about meltin some spruce resin over the thread to prevent it from coming undone.

I’ve been getting into slingling a bit. It’s wildly inaccurate but you can reach impressive distances and it packs quite the punch.

The primitive way is to use animal sinew instead of a modern string. You apply it wet and once it dries it shrinks tighter and glues onto itself.

Yeah it’s quite a bit of work. I don’t think I’d have the heart to actually shoot this even if I did have a bow. I put way too much effort into it. They recommend making these in batches of 5 if you’re actually intending to use them too. This is more of a proof of concept.

The audacity of some people… I simply cannot comprehend it. I’d feel so ashamed of myself.

I’m obviously being facetious.

I’m talking about forest trails. That’s where most people ride MTBs. Obviously I have zero issue with people riding electric motorcycles on roads.

Big wheels roll over potholes better.

Finnish law treats 250W pedelec the same way as bicycle meaning that I’m allowed to ride it pretty much anywhere - even on private property. Mopeds however I’m only allowed to ride on public roads or on private property if I have a permission from the land owner.

The moment bicycles become as powerful as mopeds is when they get banned from most of the places where I ride now and that’s because of “ebikes” like this. This will very likely include low powered ones as well.

I have nothing against electric mopeds - just don’t call them bicycles and don’t screw up things for cyclists by pretending to be one.

This isn’t an example of a broken clock being right twice a day. Torvalds is complaining that his inbox is flooded with bug reports because everyone’s monkey suddenly started outputting Shakespeare.

Duplicates don’t add anything to the conversation

But it’s not the same person reporting the same bug multiple time but rather a new tool enabling multiple people to discover that same bug at the same time.

Not reporting it because “someone else probably will” is a sociopsychological phenomenon called diffusion of responsibility.

Well people using twitter surely aren’t to blame for that which is what I was responding to here.

People using LLMs do drive up the demand for computer components, I’ll give you that, though even there it’s a bit more nuanced than that.

That same logic makes you a communist then. And me a communist fascist I guess? Go figure… Difficult to keep up with the insane troll logic you’re displaying here.

People could just buy EV SUVs and Pickup trucks so the degrading road infrastructure would be less of an issue.

Or they could order doordash once less a month and put that money towards the common good.

I consider myself quite active on Lemmy yet I still only average 12 comments and half a post per day. For all I know, Lemmy could have these same limits and I’d never even find out about it.