• D61 [any]
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    621 year ago

    All of those words have meanings that have nothing to do with sitting quietly on a flight in quiet meditation.

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    521 year ago

    You: no bathroom breaks and staring at the ceiling of my flight like a true red-pilled warrior.

    Me: steam deck and my entire library of pirated games and a bathroom break every hour.

  • ButtBidet [he/him]
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    341 year ago

    Rawdogging fights means not wearing a mask in the barely ventilated space of the cabin. This article’s concept for rawdogging makes no sense.

  • JustSo [she/her, any]
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    291 year ago

    “Rawdogging” is perhaps the worst synonym for “meditating through” that I can think of. I’m sure dudes who rock will come up with something worse soon enough though.

  • ObamaSama [he/him]
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    271 year ago

    I’ve been flying too much recently and, while I bring my deck and have plenty of other distractions prepared, I usually just put my noise canceling headphones on and zone out. With all the stress of travel and life in general I’m rarely in the headspace to engage with anything while flying, it’s nice to just kinda dissociate for a few hours. I’ll need some kind of stimuli for anything more than like 5-6 hours though.

    I could totally see rawdogging a relatively short flight, the hardest part for me would just be the noise. It’s a bizarre thing to be proud of though, like it’s some masculine feat to sit still in quiet for a few hours? I understand the modern world has conditioned us away from that but you can absolutely choose to do it whenever. The true alpha gigachad move I wish more of these guys would do is just walk off into the wilderness and never return

  • muslimmarxist [none/use name]
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    This actually doesn’t seem too bad. In a way it’s like a mini digital detox. I don’t really see anything wrong with it. Kinda weird to see ppl here acting like it’s “psycho” to try this. Humans haven’t had any kind of tech for 99.99% of their history, so kinda of just being alone with your thoughts has been the norm and what we basically evolved with. What’s actually “psycho” is thinking that constantly having something entertaining at your call and beckon is normal. To anyone that thinks otherwise, take a deep breath, step back, and really look inward and do some self-crit.

    It’s only because it seems to be associated with red-pill stuff that ppl here seem to be so annoyed with it. If it was a marxist that advocated this, would ppl really be so upset? I could easily see Breht from Rev Left advocating for something like this. Honestly this just seems like “bad guy does stuff, so I don’t like” shit. Once again, the western left is basically just “vibes” and “feels” in a weirdly idealist way.

    • @ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net
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      341 year ago

      The weird part to me isn’t the digital detox, it’s doing it on a plane. If you went for a walk in the woods and left your phone at home I totally understand. Sitting out in a hammock with just your thoughts, sure. But a flight? With that constant roaring sound plus the noise of 200 people? Miss me with that.

      • Biggay [he/him, comrade/them]
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        111 year ago

        Right wingers always make something maybe a little medicinal and good into something a little bit extra weird that a marxist or any normal person would just never think of.

    • Cysio
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      151 year ago

      I don’t want to be left alone with my thoughts because I’ve got shitty/disturbing/problematic thoughts

          • QueerCommie [she/her, fae/faer]
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            11 year ago

            I’m pretty anxious myself. Meditation helps a lot. It’s not the only thing, but I do it everyday and feel less anxious than I otherwise would. I don’t think I’ve “fixed” myself, I don’t see anything wrong with myself. Meditation helps living with anxiety (and ironically ADHD). Meditation is not a panacea, but while it takes effort, it can help many things. There are many forms of meditation and everyone is capable if they put in effort. OCD specifically (like what the person I replied to is talking about maybe) in has reputable mindful methods of helping. I recommend ‘Mindfulness OCD workbook’ and ‘You are not a rock.’ I fought the urge to be hostile because I’m annoyed with people saying “it’s privileged to give any advice” when people’s actions have consequences for themselves. I don’t blame anyone for anything because we are products of our material conditions, but I try to be a good influence.

              • QueerCommie [she/her, fae/faer]
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                Of course. I meant recommending as in “if either you or the person I was replying to are interested in actually learning about meditation for people with mental illness then here’s some good sources.”

                O wait, you meant in the initial message. I didn’t mean “you fool, you should be meditating if you don’t want to have those thoughts rather than using them as an excuse,” but “ya know, despite being a little counterintuitive it might actually help.”

    • GenXen [he/him, any]
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      131 year ago

      I don’t think it’s “psycho”, but I only heard about it from dudes I come off as kind of chuddish flexing about it on social media.

    • oscardejarjayes [comrade/them]
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      121 year ago

      digital detox

      They aren’t even staying away from electronics though! They’re still staring at a screen, just a relatively boring one with flight info on it.

    • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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      “this is how we’ve always lived so it’s good” 1) specious reasoning 2) false premise, the airplane is the very symbol of modernity. as an experience, flying economy on a commercial airline bears the most resemblance to a voyage at sea, which was far from a common experience for most people and also the most surefire way we had to drive someone absolutely insane. 3) books

  • Bnova [he/him]
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    251 year ago

    I had to abandon my cell phone in the airport in order to make a flight home a few months back and the two flights I took, totaling about 5 hours were absolutely miserable. The people doing this are psychos.

  • WhyEssEff [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    “I don’t think men have the same ‘treat culture’ that women do, which is frankly a shame,”

    neuron-activation matt-jokerfied

  • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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    221 year ago

    What is it about journalism that if you pursue it you only get a job given you’re the most insuferable person on earth?

    • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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      People basically have to be nepobabies to get a job in journalism to begin with, and then they either need familial wealth to survive on the shit wages and instability or they need to become SEO grifters churning out huge volumes of vapid slop. Those material conditions strongly bias them towards being insufferable in one way or another, whether that’s the out of touch upper/upper middle class failson coming through or the grifter grindset mentality consuming them.

  • Egon [they/them]
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    221 year ago

    We used to lay on grass hills and stare at the clouds, now I die if I have to be alone with my thoughts for an hour

      • Egon [they/them]
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        31 year ago

        I’m pretty sure it’s just because I blast my brains with instant gratification from my phone all day. I didn’t have internet for a week and felt much better.
        Isn’t dysphoria body-based?

        • Findom_DeLuise [she/her, they/them]
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          31 year ago

          Body-based, but you don’t necessarily recognize it as such. It’s more a sense that something is off or wrong and you may not even be able to articulate it if you have any mental barriers preventing you from questioning things that you feel are tied up heavily within your own sense of self. Most people do.

          For me at least, it was like a low-level depression that tinged everything, and I kept it drowned out by constantly keeping myself preoccupied with other things. I eventually hit a point where it was like an intrusive, self-destructive impulse. Any time that I was alone with my thoughts, I’d have no way of shutting it out, and controlling that impulse got very difficult.

  • MaoTheLawn [any, any]
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    221 year ago

    I did this by accident when I was 15. 9 hour flight. Solo. Films didn’t download on my phone. Very cheap airline.

    I got thirsty, they said they only take cash. I didn’t have any cash. So they said I can only have a cup of boiling water.

    Fun times.