For sure, “live like it’s your last day” is a very different thing, and not good advice. You should also take your chance at making whatever memory when it comes (within reason), but you should also go to work (preferably at a job you can at least tolerate).

There’s things that don’t fall in either category that you have to ration, though. Slot machines seem like a pretty uncontroversial example. Gaming or streaming can be worthwhile, YMMV, but few would argue every hour done has been worth it. Doomscrolling is a little bit of a self-own to put on Lemmy, but the same for that.

Basically, it seems like old us would want us to use time, not waste it.

Yes. Obviously, there’s a whole lot of other axes at play here. What “race” and gender they are, how rich and powerful their parents were, if they had a career in computing or slide rule sales…

Just taken as a lump group, and compared to younger lump groups, though, there’s no contest.

I mean, time is always finite. We just seem to start with the delusion that it’s not.

Now I want to know what demographic is second, and what demographics if any are shrinking. Do you have a link?

Sure, maybe. I guess until it’s us young people’s turn, it’ll be hard to know how much is real, and how much is directionless crankyness or early dementia.

And FWIW there’s dumber things to build a hierarchy around. The very young understand little.

Someone on Lemmy told me your body will hurt all the time in your 30’s. On the subject, old people IRL were all like WTF, no. I’m guessing the cohort here is pretty sedentary.

It’s like their ego grows to the point it strangles their joy, although I’m still only at the beginning of seeing this in my peers.

Unironically?

I mean, it’s a surface designed to be walkable. Wait until someone drives on it.

You’ve just got to assume any moment now you’ll be elderly and on your deathbed. You never waste time that way.

It’s an underrated tragedy.

I’m not ancient, but I do think about all the shit I had to painstakingly learn, and that everyone who’s born has to painstakingly learn it all again.

Rampant discrimination against older people, especially women is crazy and something you don’t fully notice until you or your peers are affected directly.

I hear old people talk about this, but then they run every government and large business, have most of the money, and get like the majority of government services as well.

If this is a practical question, would you consider something like vermicompost poop? Sure, it’s gone through a worm, but at some point of tiny and low-energy that becomes pretty indistinguishable from microbial action.

Otherwise, yeah, plain old compost. There’s still going to be microscopic worms in there, but I have no idea how much of it actually goes through their digestive tract, in the end.

Guano reserves ran out by 1900 IIRC. It’s concentrations of nutrients in ancient mineral deposits now (and peak phosphorus is coming).

Queer people posting this kind of thing is a definite phenomenon. Since it’s the internet, it could totally be that IRL people think they’re creeps, just the same as if they were straight. It’s hard to say.

It’s because “just asking” is a common tactic for certain people who definitely aren’t, and a different kind of toxic person turns that into “you can’t ask certain questions”. (And telling people not to answer isn’t better)

Something like “sets that aren’t even hypercomputable aren’t real”. Inventing proper classes, which are like sets but randomly can’t go in other things, is a pretty lame solution, anyway. Although, it can probably emulate the former approach, and it’s easy to describe.

Source: I have some flab some places.

Hmm. Well, that’s a bit out of left field. A transverse wave, or a longitudinal one?

Well, there’s more than one dimension here. There’s distribution of wealth and distribution of income, as well as absolute wealth and income. Poverty itself has gone way down, globally. Poor countries are able to start exporting stuff and get way richer. Ones that really have it rough benefit from the existence of aid programs, as well.

In China specifically, things began to get super unequal starting around 2000, but the economy’s growth has been so fast it probably more than offsets it, as seen by the average person. At least on the eastern side of the country.

I should point out that historically, wealth pretty reliably self-accumulates until a war breaks out. It’s not like an exclusively modern trend, either.

China actually saw a worse growth of inequality in the same period, for what it’s worth. Not sure about the rest of the third world, although inequality was insanely bad there to start with. You might not need that caveat, it’s just a bad story all around.

That’s kind of an exotic approach. Normally, morality is built around the idea you shouldn’t inflict suffering on others, and to suffer requires consciousness (or something similar).

Sure, there’s other reasons to be a vegetarian as well, like just your own health and saving money.