potoo22

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on Too late · c/lemmyshitpost · 6 pts · 313d

Wow, imagine being disappointed by your team and the internet decides to immortalize your disappointment.

I'm good at math, but I dislike it for the same reason I dislike cutting the grass: it's work and my ADHD brain doesn't get reward dopamine for accomplishing work.

People have the memory of a goldfish. In 2028, the democratic candidate is going to have some obscure flaw that'll be pushed to every media station and social network that caters to the party that punishes opponents, and most Americans will forget the past 4 years and focus on this one flaw.

It's just speculation. No real motive has been determined. https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-09-12/what-we-know-about-the-suspected-killer-of-charlie-kirk

LA Times wrote this less than 15 minutes ago:

Investigators are still looking through evidence and trying to determine a motive in the slaying.

The only things in writing are the words etched into the bullets, and those are mixed. He wrote an anti-fascist statement on a bullet casing and other text on others, but nothing to indicate he had liberal or conservative ideologies. If anything, he appeared to be mostly mad at the whole system.

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/asklemmy · 6 pts · 1y

Seriously. The human psyche was not designed for information overload. It evolved for hunting, gathering, socializing within a small group, and having a limited diet.

Now we got dopamine machines in our pocket, peer pressure from corporations, and rich foods that screw up our health, but leave us hungering for more. And we *can* have more, we're told we can have more, it will improve our life more, so we crave more dispite the cost to health, sanity, and immediate social groups.

Depends on the library. A family member worked at multiple libraries. First one was as a part time aid at a small-town library. It was mostly quiet save for some parents who thought of the library as a daycare. Parents were instructed not to leave kids alone. Some just watched their kids run amok. That job was okay. Mostly shelving books and occasionally helping with a community activity like children's storytime

Family member was offered an opportunity as a full-time librarian at a large city. That got too stressful. As a librarian, not an assistant, she had to do community outreach, event planning, managing the catalog, but handling the community seemed the most stressful. They had hundreds of visitors daily. Most were cool, but some people are... problematic. Unruly kids could cause problems. Angry adults are stressful (angry for various reasons, most often not staff's fault). And occasionally dangerous people can enter.

But, on the other hand, she did feel like she had a bigger impact at the large library. She provided countless resources to people who needed basic life information, like where to stay if homeless, how to interview, how to use computers, etc. Her outreach also brought in more people who could really capitalize on their services and improve their lives. Eventually she had to quit for medical reasons, but the burnout probably contributed to her poor health. The city was also considering cutting library spending which made her feel unappreciated.

I have another friend who is a bookworm and got the full library sciences degree. She volunteered at a few libraries and decided library work isn't for her.