The faux leather on my Beyerdynamic DT770 started chipping off the moment the Chinese bought Beyerdynamic. Go figure

As a medium, the image board is really interesting. No usernames (there are tripcodes etc.), no accounts, no upvotes. In the low traffic SFW boards that don’t really trigger people’s emotions (fashion, cooking) it can be pretty comfy with how low stimulus it is.

“As soon as the incident was detected, our teams blocked access to the affected system and tightened our security measures.”

whew thank god, nothing to see here /s

Which is cheaper:

• lift 50 tons of metal off the ground burning 20,000 liters of fuel
• make 50 tons of metal run over the ground using electricity

How is this obvious?

I don’t get Tusk why the first bill sent to the new president had to be “trapped”. He knew Nawrocki doesn’t like the wind turbines but he knew that his campaign promise was to lower electricity prices. So Tusk decided to put sweet and sour candy in the same package.

It’s like he wanted the first message from the govt to be “f- you, I know right now we’re not gonna have a good time anyway”. In a few months they’ll start saying something that the govt and president can’t cooperate. That would probably happen regardless, but it’d be funny - “we treated him with hostility and now the relations are bad”

You may be interested in reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Alone

There’s a lot to blame - dual income households, suburbanization, religion declining in popularity (religious communities are communities)

I mean something like this: https://www.gymshark.com/collections/2-in-1-shorts

Polskę chyba czeka to samo za parę lat jak e-doręczenia wejdą na dobre. Kurier uplasował się wyżej niż listonosz w łańcuchu pokarmowym.

Maybe you could try those “2-in-1” shorts? Instead of a mesh liner they have solid fabric “underwear” sewn into the shorts themselves. Unless these are the ones you’re wearing right now.

I also wonder if you bought Patagonia shorts (they only have mesh liners, not full spandex) and then brought them to their repair program (check if you have their store locally). Not sure if they’d replace the liner for you, maybe ask their customer support

Thank you for a civil and thoughtful response :)

It’s funny how this post is just a greentext story about a guy trying to talk to a girl in class. But some of the comments are negative or have such divisive vote ratios: assume bad hygiene or “Seems like an appropriate response to a man who takes a womens studies course to try and pick up women”

Am I the only one that’s surprised that the comments are so negative? The interaction from the greentext seems like a somewhat “standard” thing to happen in one’s life

I, for one, feel some (shallow) sympathy for the protagonist of this plausibly fake story on the internet. I’m sure he showered and put on roll-on deodorant like a decent citizen, only to be crushed by the reality where social capital has been dwindling for decades, as presented by Robert D. Putnam. In my essay

edit: don’t downvote me I’m serious

we should improve society somewhat

It’s likely a Dell 2725QE, I have the exact same one because it’s (or “was” if something new came out) the only choice with the new generation of the IPS Black panel (that has 120FPS) and a USB hub. Samsung (that owns the technology) hasn’t released anything yet when I was buying mine.

In any way that creates social capital/community in real life. I don’t mean counter-patrols. It’s just that a patrol happens to be social capital (of the bad kind)

⚠️ 🇵🇱 You have alerted the horde

Counterintuitive, but do they make skinny jeans without elastane? I’ve seen people complain about elastane blends greatly reducing the longevity of the pants

Please edit the title to something non click baity. You don’t have to re-use the original source’s title

I struggle with this as well.

I wonder if maintaining a social life could be more difficult today, because the “social infrastructure” isn’t what it used to be. Your society’s habits don’t carry you as much as your parents’, so you have to do more work yourself.

And then you may even not know how to do the work - as other commenter here said: being social is a skill that is learned. I haven’t figured it out the puzzle myself. I’m a few years after college where many people just moved away and I’m in the same spiral that other people in my situation describe.

My coping approach has been more like “leave the house” rather than “meet new people” which sorta works for me, for now. Being around people is also humanizing. At the risk of describing something banal, I’ll describe my learnings below.

One of the first struggles I’ve come across is that staying up to date with what’s happening in the city is work. As I described in the beginning, the reason that building social capital for yourself is so hard is that the social infrastructure isn’t there. One of the best ways to learn what’s going on in the city is to have something mentioned to you in a conversation, or to be invited by someone who’s already going. You passively learn or participate by leaning back on the other person. It’s expensive to be poor.

The way reduce the amount of work is to find cyclical events. That way, you learn about the date just once then keep coming. I’ve found that the best way to learn about them is to subscribe to e-mail newsletters of cultural institutions (museums, galleries, operas, theaters, cultural centers). Some will never send you an e-mail, but some are pretty active. Sometimes the e-mails contain info that isn’t available anywhere else - my local museum holds free visits with a tour guide every Sunday at 9AM, but that isn’t mentioned anywhere. The benefit with e-mail is that you’re passively being poked by the institution about an event. What doesn’t work in such a way is e.g. Instagram, where you have to open the app and doomscroll through unrelated things in the eventual hope of finding some event.

Instead of e-mail you can also sometimes use RSS but completing the list of institutions, finding the feeds and then remembering to read through them is very work-like, as opposed to e-mail.

This of course doesn’t solve the problem of loneliness, as you’ll be going somewhere, but still alone. In spoonfeeding-a-social-novice terms, random events are a bit further in the social pipeline, where you’re “not supposed to” go alone, but where you’re going because you’ve already met people people to go with in earlier in the social pipeline in hobby groups.

“Big Bazooka” in headline

journalism has fallen

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