“You look a little small. Are you drinking enough water?”

Interesting that the career aged adults are the most unsure

Thank you much for these insights, it’s definitely going to take a bit of experimenting to get everything figured out. I’ll be referencing this comment for a while.

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Mannish Boy

I don’t think you responded to the right comment.

Looking back at the post, I definitely made some poor word choices. I do think social groups are good, but they don’t change the fundamentally isolating aspects of our modern society like cars. They’re also not a solution when a person doesn’t have time for them which is mostly a problem of capitalism.

I want the hopeful narrative that society will be better when we have a successful socialist revolution, we just need to get people on board.

I think a strong factor that shaped the problems you describe are a result of capitalist need to make a profit on colleges, as well as the type of education system with standards that were set by lobbyists wanting to create productive workers that will advance capital. I think socialist college would look very different and be a lot less dehumanizing

I don’t think you give capitalism enough credit. Especially using college as your example.

I don’t totally agree with what you started saying but you do get to some good points. I will say what I’ve said elsewhere that I’m talking more about advice on meme posts about large trend issues more than specific issues a singular person deals with.

I guess I would like to see fewer coping strategies that help you do capitalism better and more that work by subverting the powers that entrench capitalism. Also I do think frequently acknowledging that the cause is capitalism is important in the building of consciousness.

I don’t think I’m using a straw man to argue against capitalism. I think I’m using the assumption that capitalism is the main problem to argue against a straw man.

Also, there’s a difference between offering remedies on a forum where that’s expected and responding to a meme about how there’s not enough time in the day with your personal rigid schedule for everything. I’m talking about the latter though I might not have expressed it very clearly.

I feel like this comment most understands what I’m saying. I like that addition to the metaphor with the rescue from the burning building being escape from the capitalist economy.

I should add that the posts I was referencing were meme posts talking about less specific problems that relate to a great many people. Problems with not having enough time aren’t helped by someone else showing off how he follows a rigid schedule.

I fully agree that if someone is truly reaching out for help then you should offer whatever you can, even if it’s just what worked for you. Just don’t prescriptive about it.

It’s not just a burning building, it’s a building with multiple fires in many locations with varying intensity. If you spend all your time putting out the individual fires you’re not actually addressing why the fires keep getting lit.

Also the comments I’m talking about aren’t actually buckets of water, they’re more akin to telling the person inside the burning building to cover her mouth and stay close to the ground. Sure it might help keep her alive for a little bit (if he can manage to do those things) but he’s still inside of a burning building.

Especially when you’re not sure which of the mental illnesses is going to be doing the talking

20HE-S0EM00

Intel i5-7500u @ 2.50GHz

8gb ram

64 bit x64-based processor

Does that tell you what you need?

I’m more of a concert guy but I have some more AV work coming up. I definitely need wireless workbench and a media player, but also a Qlab equivalent (I guess obs could still work?) and whatever else you think I need as a 25y pro. What limitations do you see or experience as a Linux user?

I think both things can be true. Maybe before it was 90% posting to legacy platforms and now it’s dropped to 70%

Just theorizing though

I think part of it is people leaving the biggest platforms, making everything more decentralized but still on proprietary servers so no federation. That and it’s tough out there right now.

Sounds like a phenomenal system to build a global economy on /s

FDR was the president who did the most to increase social welfare, but he was still a capitalist.