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Can we bring back casual conversation? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Good! I had a comfortably lazy weekend- nothing special but hey that's the beauty of it. Lately I've been thinking a lot about what "wasting time" actually means. If I spend an entire day reading a good book or binging a show I really like, is that waste of time? I would say no. But if I spend a whole day browsing memes, I feel like shit for not doing anything constructive with my time. So what's the real difference? The Reddit exodus has lead me to try and spend my time more productively, but the older I get, the fuzzier the line gets between recreation and productivity. If I spend an hour watching a documentary about lions, I feel like I'm expanding my horizons. But you could say that since lions have no place in my day-to-day life, learning about them is a waste of my time. Knowing a bunch of stuff about lions is effectively just as useless as knowing a bunch of one-liners from action movies. I don't really have a point to this, its just been on my mind lately.

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Can we bring back casual conversation? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I remember several years ago r/Casual Conversation was brimming with interesting and candid discussion. As it gained more and more traction I saw it go through the same evolution that killed r/IAmA and r/askreddit. More popularity means more traffic, more traffic means more posts, more posts means stricter moderating, stricter moderating means less "casual" posts. Before long it was just another upvote machine, and that's when I dipped out.

So having said that, how is your morning going? Did you do anything cool this weekend?

If I had a stack of $100 bills, and I told you that for every bill you eat I will give you one to keep, how much money do you think you'd walk away with? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

If you managed to eat several hundred bills I wouldn't dream of snitching on you out of respect and sheer awe. I'd probably give you a few extra just for the show

If I had a stack of $100 bills, and I told you that for every bill you eat I will give you one to keep, how much money do you think you'd walk away with? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

You think this is my first rodeo? You gotta put down a credit card as collateral. Don't worry, the bills are clean. I'm in the money laundering business.

If I had a stack of $100 bills, and I told you that for every bill you eat I will give you one to keep, how much money do you think you'd walk away with? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They are 25% linen and 75% cotton. Neither are very good for digestion but probably harmless unless those crumpled corners cut your custard dispenser on the way out

What is your favourite Lemmy community, which is not on lemmy.ml? in c/[email protected]
Good everyday shoe in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I speak with authority on this, and I think you should get shoes that light up when you walk.

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If I had a stack of $100 bills, and I told you that for every bill you eat I will give you one to keep, how much money do you think you'd walk away with? (lemmy.ml)
 

All in one sitting. You get one condiment of choice, and a large glass of water. Bills can be torn up before consumption but nothing is stopping you from housing full Benjamins and digging for gold in the bathroom later. I think I could probably eat at least 10, and I would pick BBQ sauce.