Very little as I disagree with the things continuing on.

We made it through the Cold War, but as any student of history will note, barely.

This has, I think, given us a false sense of confidence and it’s like the drunk driver who claims that because they survived last night they will do so again tonight.

I don’t 100% know things will go wrong but I do know that many different countries are A) pursuing nuclear weapons B) entering very politically unstable times and C) are just about to start hitting serious consequences as a result of climate change.

America went from the richest country in the world to the richest country in the world, freaked out and elected trump. How crazy will other, nuclear armed, countries get when food and water become serious issues?

There’s of course a good chance we pull through, drunk drivers tend to survive or the issue would’ve self corrected long ago. But I dislike being forced to participate in a global game of Russian roulette.

For others who have been less than impressed by the accuracy of rawStory’s headlines, looks like he legit said something like this. Admittedly, an off the cuff thing we’ll take too seriously but it did happen.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-crime-solution-mocked-the-purge-b2621024.html

I notice you’re not denying the super powered robot from the far future part…

Don’t be ridiculous.

Though, it may have been the 12 foot piranha bees.

Weight training can be super dangerous if you don’t know what you’re doing, you can easily do significant damage to your back or knees doing fairly basic exercises like a deadlift or squat incorrectly.

Especially as weight training is increasingly encouraged for the elderly, personal training seems a fairly reasonable job. Admittedly, like any other job, there are folks who provide little to no value (think of the teachers just waiting to collect their pensions) but that’s not to say it can’t be a super useful industry.

That’s what the Golgafrinchiam people thought and they are no more! Let their fate be a lesson to all who would overlook the importance of telephone hygiene!

Could you set a timer or somesuch? I did that when I was doing windsprints and it worked out. (Though never felt like it came quickly enough.)

Ha, I wish!

Edit: Wait… If we send a message to a court, we can make it happen!

Also, gotta ask, is your name from the old Marvel villain or?

? What in there got you so upset? The notion that playing sports could be fun? The horror of someone, ugh, criticizing communism?

I’m genuinely surprised and morbidly curious.

I feel like anon watched this for inspiration:

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/EXNPWNWibeoQ7Wsg/?mibextid=Le6z7H

(Sorry, best video I could find after a quick google)

I’m beginning to think RawStory exaggerates their headlines for clicks. An organization has asked a court to arrest them, a FAR cry from facing immediate arrest.

I’m not sure how applicable mine are but here goes:

About a decade ago, I got back into soccer as an adult. I played as a kid so it wasn’t as bad but my fitness took a couple years to get back up to snuff and I had a bunch of pulled muscles the first couple years. Now though, it’s my favourite thing and I play 3 times a week (which is admittedly, too many times) and for those three hours, I don’t think about the world, work, politics, life or anything, all that matters is keeping a ball out of our net. (And of course I’ve made some great friends along the way.)

As part of the getting back into shape, I’ve really dug swimming. It’s easy on these old man muscles and you can feel the improvement. (the hot tub afterwards is pretty nice too.)

I also got back into reading non fiction. I hadn’t looked for anything really new or interesting since the mid 00s, and reddit for all its faults had some really interesting suggestions in r/fantasy and r/sciencefiction which were a blast to read!

During the pandemic, I tried video games. Not really for me but some folks love them.

There’s an independent theatre down the street and I love just popping in and seeing what weird and wild stuff they have. Sure, at home is cheap but there’s something amazing about the big screen especially for a slower movie that would be way too tempting to bust out a phone for. I would never have made it through Lawrence of Arabia, the Good the Bad and the Ugly or Skinamarink without busting out a phone if I hadn’t been in a theatre.

There are some great little indie music venues in my city, there’s something refreshing about watching a young garage band that’ll go nowhere but is having a blast.

Some of my buddies are really into board games, which are fun. Not quite my thing but I fully get it.

I dunno, maybe some of those appeal? But really, I think the question is what are you interested in? What makes you smile? Or what has made you smile in the past?

I, like most of us on Lemmy, live a better life than almost the entirety of the rest of human history.

Life is full of wonders and joy and there’s so much more to enjoy!

It just breaks my heart a little.

Places like this could be so awesome and so conducive to good public discourse but instead we get, well, this.

So you support people detaining journalists against their will and forcing them to delete their notes.

No. Not at all.

But to pretend that they were threatening the reporter’s family is disingenuous and makes it look like the media is blatantly spinning a story. This story’s headline and others like it are part of why people don’t trust the media, which is a dangerous state of affairs.

I love that someone was so annoyed at either the idea that lemmy is addicted to outrage or making fun of downvotes that they downvoted your innocuous comment.

Some fragile folks out there I guess?

You aren’t saving yours for a cash prize at the end?

And judging from the downvotes, lemmy doesn’t like being being reminded of this fact.

Oh absolutely, he shouldn’t have been accosted etc. But I really hate this clickbait nonsense, it’s irresponsible and part of why things are as bad as they are. Most people will look at the headline and think these people really are targeting reporters’ children etc. It’s lazy, irresponsible and is helping make politics as bad as they are.

Preventing someone from leaving, especially a reporter, is not a good look but the gulf between that and “we’re coming for your kids” as implied by the article is huge.

Had the article headlined with reporter accosted, physically stopped etc, totally fine. But this clickbait crap is nonsense.