I feel like it would be almost impossible for the app ti reach critical mass in any local area

Just please, less cynicism

Come on man, isn’t Lemmy cynical enough already?

Thank you

Any idea about alternative ways to suppress your DMN and make some things click?

Yeah, I was wondering if shrooms would be good for this. It’s a shame it’s such a tricky thing to make happen, I have neither anyone I’m close enough with to trip sit me, nor a place to buy the shrooms right now…

Oh, I definitely feel for you. Best of luck with dealing with it

My rule as of late has been to not try to argue with political opponents unless it’s in person. Online it just feels like a time sink (theres an infinite amount of opponents to persuade), plus being face to face ensures some level of civility.

Yeah I find like spending time on discord servers/WA chats etc. is much better than scrolling feeds

Ok this one is good

I’ve swapped brushing before bed to brushing after coming in

I brush my teeth whenever I come in from outdoors (even if that’s multiple times a day). That way, it’s doesn’t block me from going straight to bed once I start falling asleep in the evening.

Whenever there’s elections I wait for somebody to mention the result in conversation unprompted and find out that way, to stop myself from doom scrolling

skews the market in their favour by getting a bigger share of finite attention/exposur

Oh, that makes sense

Surely wouldn’t the best music spread by itself, by virtue of its quality? Maybe I’m underestimating the role that the established music industry still plays.

I think the thing, at least with music, is that creating it nowadays is next to free (you just need a DAW), so it is very possible for the biggest bangers to be created by a hobbyist with some skill and free time. In a way it is better today than it was before because there is nothing financially stopping the biggest natural talents from raising to the top.

GrapheneOS can uniquely block presidential alerts though.

I love open source

Wow, the US govt semi-nationalising parts of an industry was not on my bingo card. Actually they’re among the last countries I would expect such a move from

That’s good to hear. UK Labour have practically become defenders of the status quo.

Have you considered UK/Ireland/Aus/NZ?