Boring, but I looked at my desk and saw a rolodex and a cisco switch. DEX CIS to DEXSIC
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The article mentions the types of people who left these states, but I am more interested in the economic activity in the years to come with all this movement. This is a classic example of people voting with their feet. Reagan spoke of this stuff back in the 80s.
[...] this is one of the—the built-in guarantee of freedom is our federalism that makes us so unique, and that is the right of the citizen to vote with his feet. If a State is badly managed, the people will either do one of two things: They will either use their power at the polls to redress that, or they'll go someplace else. And we've seen industries driven out of some States by adverse tax policies and so forth. - Ronald Reagan, November 19, 1981
We have yet to see how all this movement will impact the individual states themselves or the country as a whole yet. For example, we do not know how all this will all play out economically for the red/blue states. COVID mixed with Remote Work has upended a lot of the soft lines that kept people within a state to begin with (for many, but not all). Truly wild times we are in.
How old are you. It could be a factor? I am in my late 30s, and have been gaming on PC/Arcade/Consoles since I can remember. The older I get, the more I find video games in general to be 'less fun'. The issue is not the games generally, but what I want out of the games. Also, time is an issue. I have other things that compete with video game time when compared to when I was 12 or 18, and those other things are usually more fun. So playing a video game is the alternative to doing something else I wanted to do, which makes it a chore or not as enjoyable as if I wanted to play the game in the first place.
Take a popular game like Call of Duty. My friends and I sat around the room playing Modern Warfare on the Xbox 360. Passing the controller around, talking smack with each other, being social. That was the experience that was fun, not the game itself. Playing CoD alone on my couch was and is boring/frustrating if you are not in the mood to go super sweaty pro gamer mode.
I'd rather just hang out with my friends than play a video game because that is what I usually did anyway when I played video games. And when I was playing games solo when I was younger, it was because I had no other options or choices for things to do, so the game was fun.
I don't want to be the old man trying to tell others what to do, but I can say what works for me. I have:
- 1 game I play as an option for when I generally just want to play a video game over anything else. For me, that game has been Dota since WC3 days.
- 1 game I play for fun when I have nothing else to do (currently Diablo 4. If my wife is asleep or I have no other plans with 1-2 hours to spare, it is a nice way to relax).
- 1 game where I can hop on a discord voice chat and play with my friends. This is random, and is sometimes spontaneous. This is a way to recreate what my friends and I had when we were younger. The game is on, and we are playing it, but the social component is the fun part, not the game.
YouTube without an adblocker is such a mess. I wish alternatives like https://odysee.com had more of the content I watch and less Nazi bullshit though. YouTube really needs some strong competition since they have an effective monopoly on long-form videos on the internet. :(
I personally think that this framework is better than what reddit currently has.
For example, a single instance dedicated to programming with its own various communities within it is a lot easier to manage and moderate than having all those communities (aka, subreddits) on the main reddit page itself. The fact that all these individual instances can interact with other instances (or not, if desired) makes this more robust. The fear a lot of people have right now with reddit is that the reddit staff will just kick out all the mods of the popular subreddits, instill mods that will obey them, and essentially perform a corporate overtake of all those individual communities. That doesn't seem like it would be a problem with lemmy.
I am excited to see how this all plays out long term.
Comeback cats have done it before. They are making it harder on themselves though. A lot of little mistakes that Vegas is capitalizing on.
Edit: And there is Montour playing billiards with the puck of the blades of the Knights. Comeback on the way.
Vegas is the better team overall, but when Florida is 'on' they are on. If Florida can become more consistent next season they will be a contender for the cup again for sure.
If you don't mind me asking, what is your age? It may play a factor in your thinking.
Not having a fear of death is not the same thing as trying to avoid death when faced with "personal annihilation". For example, I try to take care of myself, exercise, eat well, and not put myself in situations that would kill me (e.g., drive 150 mph with no seat belt while drunk) because I don't want to die earlier than I need to. I am not trying to die faster.
The existential crisis that is triggered when we contemplate our own deaths just began to fade away as I got older. The same thing that happens to all of us -- that inability to comprehend\accept the void of nonexistence. Existential anxiety.
If you are under 25, it is very common to have Existential anxiety. Some people need therapy to stop having that anxiety, and that is fine. We're all on this rock together, and we all progress and deal with things at different rates than others. Life is too short for us to worry about what we know will happen though, so it is better to focus on the now rather than the reaper later on.