joel

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[–] joel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago

I know a lot of homeless people where I'm from suffer from mental illness and drug addiction, and a small subset of them are probably violent. I'm not sure how that makes them unworthy of help though? But regardless of empathy and compassion, wouldn't society be better off if we provided mental health care and helped them get over their addiction? They could even become functioning members of society!

[–] joel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 10 months ago

Maybe, but chances are it'll get taken down in the next few days

[–] joel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Oh dang, that's $32 AUD! Bit out of my price range!

[–] joel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Have you ever tried listening to hardcore history by Dan Carlin? I find he's the right level of captivating to keep me interested, but slow enough that I can still drift off to sleep

[–] joel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

My suggestion is to spend maybe half an hour in the evening learninga new hobby/skill, then when you're in bed go over what you learnt in that half hour in your mind to cement it. You'll find that just running over the knowledge in your mind induces the "counting sheep" effect and will help you drift off to sleep.

If it doesn't work, then at least you'll learn a new skill much quicker!

[–] joel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Frugal Usenet works great for me

[–] joel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

And carpel in the middle there

[–] joel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree that the pile-on wasn't necessary, people tend to just give their kneejerk response and then move on. Having said that, you probably could have explained your case a bit better too in the original post.

[–] joel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Food is a non-toxic, organic substance that provides nutrition in the form of carbohydrates, protein, fibre, fats/oils, and/or vitamins and minerals. Sure there are some edge cases which you can argue the point in, such as a lump of rock salt maybe, but for the most part it is something which provides sustenance. Sure you could eat mud or plaster and it won't kill you, but it won't help keep you alive either, so its not food.

[–] joel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

I'm with you bro, although we don't need to mine the moon or asteroids, the tunnels can be airtight enough with reinforced concrete. They've already made multiple sustainable concrete formulas, and I think 150 years is plenty of time to assume these will be mass adopted. If fusion has becomea thing and we have an abundance of energy then the costs of such an enormous project will also become more feasible.

[–] joel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

idgi, who is that?

[–] joel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Worth a shot, you can always dual boot to try it out to start with 🙂

 
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