• federalreverse-old@feddit.deEnglish
      41·
      2 months ago

      Trees and grass and other green things around you in the garden have a positive psychological effect. The feeling of having done something visible has a positive psychological effect. Getting a physical workout has a positive psychological effect.

      I know yours is a humorous comment, but a child digging in a garden has nothing to do with them yearning to be an early-capitalism style child laborer.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    I mean, yeah…

    I grew up on a farm, if kids got too hype, they got chores.

    If you keep a husky puppy locked up in an apartment all day, it’s gonna act out and destroy shit and be difficult.

    Same thing with a human kid.

    You gotta let them burn that energy kut, giving them an iPad isn’t going to make them tired.

      • Որբունի@jlai.luEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Crazy thing is, walking 20 miles a day isn’t burning that many calories. By the end of the day, if it is flat ground and you’re used to it, 20 miles isn’t even enough to be sore or tired…

          • JDubbleu@programming.devEnglish
            3·
            2 months ago

            Similar to ours just not crammed into shoes with tiny toe boxes. If you look at a baby’s foot their toes are spread super wide which is how human feet naturally are, but most shoes cream your toes causing you to develop narrowed feet over time.

            I started wearing barefoot shoes two years ago and my back no longer hurts when I walk, and I can walk 10+ miles now without my feet killing me. It took a few months to get used to but once my feet adjusted they got much stronger. Now normal shoes are painful to wear and difficult to balance in because I’ve gotten used to being planted firmly to the ground.

  • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    Turns out exercise and purpose is good for kids. Breathing through disappointment is a buddhist technique, a letting go technique. But letting go is only half of mental health. The other half is going after things.

    • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Humans are not evolved to be sedentary. We need to be going out and about to be stimulated, not just physically but also mentally.

  • Juice@midwest.socialEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    I love to dig. My dad used to get mad at me for failing classes in school, which happened often. He’d say, “Do you wanna go dig ditches for a living?!”

    Now I’m a software developer and yeah I like it. It shuts my brain off. I wish I could do it part time or even just as an exercise but I live in a suburb and any time you want to dig you have to make a phone call and wait for someone to come out

    • DesertCreosote@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Have you considered calling the locating service, get them to mark the entire yard, and then taking pictures so you know areas are okay to dig in going forward? I’ve been considering doing that for my yard just so I know where I can safely landscape.

  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    A 6’x3’ hole?

    Little dude is chill now because he’s dug your fucking grave, man!

    Talk about cathartic. Everytime he feels like you’re a dick to him, all he’s gotta do is think of that hole waiting to swallow your body.

    And he’s got a blunt instrument with a handle to fix the size difference, that he’s getting real good at wielding.

    Hand him the shovel if you want, but don’t turn your back.

      • shneancy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        2 months ago

        for a week or two yes, but once the novelty of just chilling runs out you start feeling like shit

        • Cryophilia@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          2 months ago

          People who need work always assume everyone else is like them, and anyone who says otherwise is a liar or defective person. Like morning people, or sports people.

          I would happily spend the rest of my life not working.

          • Mmagnusson@programming.devEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            But presumably you don’t just stare at the wall. “Humans need something to do” is mainly bound to not just sitting around twiddling your thumbs. It’s the reason we get bored, the brain is annoyed at not having anything to focus on.

            It doesn’t have to be literal work, just something you find engaging, be it going for a run, tending to houseplants, or completing your entire video game backlog.

            And of course there is variation between humans. Some people cope well with having little to do, others always need to do something they find productive.

            • Cryophilia@lemmy.worldEnglish
              01·
              2 months ago

              I’m pretty sure no one at all was talking about literally doing nothing, because what a stupid scenario to even consider

          • ikka@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            0·
            2 months ago

            I’m pretty sure he’s talking about doing literally nothing, as opposed to not working.

    • Syn_Attck@lemmy.todayEnglish
      0·
      2 months ago

      Who was that guy that discovered something very important in physics, and he said the elves told him about it? The elves that were in the massive holes/caves he would dig in his back property, as his outlet. I forget how large his friends said the tunnels were, but he clearly spent a lot of time digging tunnels.

      Edit: Seymour Cray, of the Cray supercomputer. AKA The Father of Supercomputing.

      John Rollwagen, a colleague for many years, tells the story of a French scientist who visited Cray’s home in Chippewa Falls. Asked what were the secrets of his success, Cray said “Well, we have elves here, and they help me”. Cray subsequently showed his visitor a tunnel he had built under his house, explaining that when he reached an impasse in his computer design, he would retire to the tunnel to dig. “While I’m digging in the tunnel, the elves will often come to me with solutions to my problem”, he said.

      Cray has been called solitary, uncommunicative, secretive, and difficult to get on with. Frank Sumner, Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Manchester, met Cray on several occasions and refutes suggestions that he was a prickly character: “He was a very friendly man, and perhaps the greatest all-round computer scientist ever”, says Sumner.

          • Technus@lemmy.zipEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            This passage from Wikipedia is infinitely funny to me:

            DMT has a rapid onset, intense effects, and a relatively short duration of action. For those reasons, DMT was known as the “businessman’s trip” during the 1960s in the United States, as a user could access the full depth of a psychedelic experience in considerably less time than with other substances such as LSD or psilocybin mushrooms.

            “Have you always wanted to have a transcendent psychedelic experience but just could never fit it in to your busy schedule? Now you can, with DMT™! Ask your dealer about it today!”