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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Lasting happiness? There’s always going to be downs as well as ups in life. Stoicism will teach you how to handle the pitfalls in life without dwelling on them and helping you to get on in life. Buddhism will help you to understand that life is full of sorrow but that the journey is it’s own reward and that joy can be found anywhere.

    A perpetual state of satisfaction can be reached that’s liberally peppered with happiness. Happiness is not an end goal. It’s the after affect of a effortful life that invites playfulness and new experiences.

    The key word here is effort. Happiness should not be the main goal. Living your values. Finding a process and journey that meets your values and challenges you slightly will bring satisfaction.

    Be carful of self help books and systems. Many are designed to put you on a perpetual wheel of needing more and more books to buy and classes to take. They are money generators that will tell you they offer the golden cure. And if you didn’t succeed with the system in a few months then here’s part two you can buy.

    I do like THE HAPPINESS LAB podcast as a starting point. There’s a free Yale course too. The teaching there can get you to examine some stuff.

    Be kinder to yourself but do put some challenges in your way. Happiness is not about having a placid life.


  • I’d guess it depends on the thickness of what you are pasting. They’re thin and I’ve only put down postcard like items. There is a double sided sticky tape out there too that’s thinner. The dots are easier to manage. The tape a little messier. They both come in a self applying dispenser. I got mine off of Amazon. The tape is not temporary. You’ll need to be precise your first time applying it.

















  • First off I’m no expert. I’m new here. But from what I’ve been reading, if an instance wants to have an advertiser there’s nothing to stop them. The thing is other instances might unfederate from them.

    Personally, I don’t see an issue with advertising as long as it respects the user’s privacy. In a community for EDC go ahead and have every tenth post followed by an ad for pens, flashlights, pocket knives, or whatever. I just don’t want those ads following me around all of Lemmy and the internet.

    But advertising with strict rules wouldn’t last long. In the end we do need to figure out how to support the Fediverse.




  • The thing is that Meta and Reddit are masters of social manipulation through their algorithms. They know what low common denominators get the most engagement. I blame FB for a big number of echo Chambers and that just fed people their own negativity right back, made them spiral into a bad place mentally.

    If they have any ability to post to the Fediverse or to track things they’ll do it all over again.

    It’s the halcyon days of the Fediverse. Negativity on my feed is nonexistent. There’s discussion. There’s respect for differences. I know things will change with time but it’s important that the big instances never work as proxies for big tech. It’s important that big tech doesn’t get a seat at the table. Voices should remain individual and not some mouthpiece to an industry that wants centralized control.