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I purposely avoid using my phone to browse. Unless it's something like restaurant review or urgent news as I'm out. I try to stay present, enjoy my space, and tell myself that I can just wait to look it up when I get home.

When I 'm out and look around I see everyone just staring down at their screen. It's annoying to see. So I decided not to be like that. Now I actually hear birds, feel breezes, take in sights and smells. And I take my time. For me pesonally, 100 percent improvement of life. I'm rarely ever in a bad mood now.

People even mention how I always seem in a good mood. It's because I'm not doomscrolling on my phone all day (like most of Lemmy does)! lol

And when I get home and use desktop, I do fun things like create music, write novels, etc. Life is awesome without the 24-hour doom and gloom.

Not sure about that. I see a LOT of lemmy posters who seem to never have had a girlfriend or are too scared to talk to girls in real life. lol

I finally decided .world could fuck off

Wise choice!

Well, the thread is about "unpopular" opinions. Tho with the upvotes, I guess my opinion isn't as unpopular as I thought! :)

What is the reason for the gay wage gap tho? The wikipedia gave the stats but not the reason.

Desktop computers are way better and more fun than using phone for browsing, wikipedia, news, and Lemmy

I rarely use my phone for anything other than texting. I like using my desktop computer to browse and post.

ya got my upvote! It's something I've witnessed for most of my working life.

Yep great examples. And I see a LOT of Lemmy posters just unable to accept any of this. So much doomscrolling and choosing to be pissed/unhappy about every little thing.

100 percent true. But I disagree that almost no one can do it. I think lots of successful people do it. I mean, the ones who went through a LOT of failure before they reached success.

I personally have done it in my life regarding a few things. Stoicism is a great resources for doing this, in my opinion anyway.

Basically you can't always control shit that happens to you, but you CAN learn to control how you react to it.

Lemmy is not academy. This is a web forum, most of us are not here to do formal science.

Great point!!! OMG! Daily I get variations of statements from people demanding I defend some random news article I've posted. I'm like, "dude, I don't give a fuck, just don't read it if you don't want to!"

Not everything is some logical political discourse with references. I don't give a shit. Just ignore and move on if you don't like it. lmao

Which village is this?

Most people on Lemmy aren’t as kind or open-minded as they like to appear. There’s plenty of hate here on this side of the aisle, but it gets excused because they believe they’re “on the correct side.”

tl;dr: You’re just as hateful and close-minded as the people you claim to be fighting. Same behavior, different colored hat.

Lemmy is full of bad people

More hate than I ever encountered on Reddit.

I still like Lemmy better, but ugh, the hate--especially for people who have different political opinions that majority here--is icky.

But yo, haters: I ain't going anywhere. So keep on all ya want. :)

They should be banned from the platform.

To be honest, I don't take any politics very seriously. I realize that Lemmy has a more tech slant that attracts peoples who's brains work, um, a little different. And more on here are apt to get fixated on something.

But i'm not one of those. So many here make politics their entire identity. I don't.

It's fun to discuss here and there. But my real life is just about fucking women, chilling with friends, fucking around with AI stuff and enjoying life.

I think Lemmy takes politics WAY too seriously and way too personally.

Most politicians suck. Most aren't really looking out for us. So I just do my own thing.

Stopped reading there. If you’re just going to invent strawman arguments no-one said

Guy, you literally said: "No, their politics are unwanted."

Which means they are different than yours. I mean, hey you are free to stop reading. Def nothing says we have to have a conversation.

But unwanted politics means they are different than yours. Not sure why you found that so controversial.

I'm not gonna change your mind. You're not gonna change my mind. And that's ok. Carry on your way, and I'll go mine.

So seeing this just dissolve under natural circumstances seems like a game changer.

Agreed! I def hope this becomes a common thing now.