It sounds paradoxical but a lot of the things we were taught and developed presumptions of from our parents become obsolete. For example, while thrifting never becomes obsolete, simply working hard and saving alone are not enough anymore to enjoy life, buy a house, raise a family and then retire comfortably. This is something that older generations don’t grasp on the frustrations of today’s young adults. This is why it’s important to either have side hustles, or do investing if they can-- anything to supplement the traditional means of income.

The world constantly changes at an exponential rate, but the human mind isn’t evolved to deal with such rapid pace. While some but not all traditional knowledge becomes obsolete, the human capacity to adapt doesn’t.

Problem is if it’s a coworker to whom you’re interested in. A lot of people are hesitant to ask their coworkers for date because of the adage “don’t shit where you eat”.

Shh…some will be offended when you call reddit and lemmy social media!

my argument against it is that the total reliance on passive voice makes research FAR less accessible to people for whom english is a second languange and neurodivergent people. older academics tell me i’m being anti-intellectual.

That’s fair and completely understandable. One of the major reasons for anti-intellectualism are experts talking down on average people. A lot of experts and academics are typically affluent who hardly have to live with salt-of-the-earth, everyday workers and working class. It’s a well-known problem who in academia who scoff at student and laypeople. I am not an academic by profession, although I try to know the audience and talk to their level. But I admit that maybe I have come across as smug before without realising it.

younger academics tell me they don’t know what passive voice is and don’t believe it exists.

I guess the person just have to read academic literatures in their field to get the grasp on how to speak passively. It took awhile for me to master it.

If by social media you mean the brain rotting, ragebaiting sites like Facebook, X or Instagram, I don’t argue on them.

I spent so much time in academia. A lot of us are trained to make objective and impersonal analysis (such as avoiding the use of personal pronouns “I”, “we”, “us” etc.), which I did not realise before sounds dispassionate and cold to laymen. Someone asked me if I’m a bot because apparently I sounded like an anime character. A couple of times, I get into arguments because normal folks would accuse me of “yOu aRe mAkInG ExCuSeS tO TyRaNtS!!” for making a realpolitik analysis of a situation (/r/geopolitics in Reddit is heavily derided for this by average Redditors).

Academically trained folks are ingrained to be conscious of bias and rather encouraged to be more descriptive with the analysis, and less with prescriptive. Otherwise we’d get accused of bias. But when academics do voice out their opinions based on evidence and careful study, they’d be accused of bias. I probably don’t need to elaborate how often educational institutions are accused of being left or liberal. News flash: academics do not come in with inherent bias towards left/liberal thinking, it’s just that their study led them to be more left leaning. Wait until I tell people I am an advocate for a world government by giving UN more power. I might be accused as a globalist bot.

I wasn’t ready for this level of quantum level analysis of Jurassic Park.

I’M JUST HERE FOR THE DINOSAURS!!

Not so much as ragebait but unpopular opinion. I think most Lemmy users are highly paid middle class, tech workers who are out of touch with the genuine grievances and feelings of the working class, whose previous manufacturing jobs were outsourced and left with no alternative. They are then left to compete with just as poor immigrants for artificially-induced resource scarcity. And then Lemmings call them ignorant redneck hillbillies without listening to their lived experience. Sure, many former manufacturing blue collar workers could re-skill, but it is easier said than done, since most people find it hard to re-adjust and prefer to stick with their trade.

Now that there is huge lay off of tech workers the past year in preference to cheap immigrant labour, and cost-free AI, many Lemmy users are starting to realise and feel the experience of working class who had been left by globalisation.

I am increasingly becoming socialist. At some point we will all need UBI.

The stupid 2FA-ception is the worst. You need 2FA app to use an app that requires you to register with an email and then asks you to use another 2FA app. Thankfully, I am using a FOSS 2FA app that got rid of the complications.

I don’t see much difference between here and Reddit tbh. The major difference,however, is the in-fighting amongst the instances here, namely the tankie instances such as .ml and hexbear versus the rest of the fediverse.

If The Onion is an actually serious journalist website, this will be their type of headline. They’ll fully embrace sensationalist headline without being clickbait.

Crunk music. Except for one song, i can’t believe I used to like the genre. Me and my school friends loved crunk. It dawned on me that I can’t criticise what children are listening to these days, when our music is just as bad if not worse.

If a person could not handle being monogamous, and the other could not handle polyamory, they should find partners compatible with their desires instead of cheating on one another.

Consent, mate.

It does not work for most people because they couldn’t handle the jealousy.

VICTORIA NULAND!!

I’m not poor, but I hate that I don’t feel financially secure enough to do more whatever I want. Working alone isn’t enough anymore to save a house but at the same time to have fun.

How do we even know you’re not working in a troll farm?

Crime of passion? That’s still a thing?

70 year old: But I am fast.

Maybe you have ADHD.