People in this thread are hell bent on the excuse that prisoners have it easy as they dont pay for housing or food while majority of people here easily manage to pay for the basics and easily have enough time to workout and read. Its such lazy cope. Stop pretending like you have it harder than a prisoner its cringe.

And before some sap comes in and tells me they work 16hrs in the mines and are starving and disabled with no healthcare and no home. Ok you are the exception but most people here have a job, buy food and have free time. Enough to do some bodyweight exercises and read a book.

Getting jacked and reading old books are examples of hobbies. If these sound strange and foreign to you, you should look into them!

Hobbies are activities that you do because you want to, not because you are forced to. (Pause for fellow Americans to catch their breath…) Hobbies have the potential to help you enjoy life, to have something to look forward to, get excited about, and hopefully even improve yourself or broaden your horizons in some way.

You don’t have to make money at it. You don’t have to be “efficient” at it. You don’t even have to be any good! But if it’s something you care about, there’s a strong chance you’ll end up pretty good at it.

My example is along the lines of the meme of the linkedin profile that ends … -> Senior Architect at Microsoft -> Goose farmer.

I’m a middle aged computer nerd software engineer, typing this in LibreWolf on Linux. 100% on-brand Lemmy user, lol. But I am a science & nature nerd first, and I have a distinct memory of a divide in my high school science classes: I gravitated towards physics and especially electronics and mechanical design, and I really disliked studying chemistry. My chemistry teacher was awesome and shared lots of college stories to prepare us, and that left me notably terrified of organic chemistry on top of the general dislike.

So it might not be a surprise to find that I am into carpentry, woodworking, and home automation, given some of my past. And my love of animals has led to lots of pets, including a pond in the back yard. The surprise? I kinda fucking love organic chemistry as a hobby! What is your Oxidation-Reduction Potential, babyyy?

I’ve done time. Getting jacked and reading books is like… 75% of what you do…

God I read so many books. It was a fucking rainbow. I read everything from atlas shrugged and tolstoy to one piece and the new 52.

Men in literal prison tend to have more time on their hands than people with jobs.

Plato-maxxing

Yes, but men in literal prison don’t have to worry about neither rent nor mortgage.

Men in literal prisons are provided food, housing and healthcare.

Ironically, arguably not being in prison prevents them from doing that. When your basic needs are taken care of (and assuming you aren’t in a state which still allows mandatory prison labor), you have a lot more latitude for choosing how to spend your time.

In the US at least prisoners do not really have a choice of reading material. Men in prison get jacked and read what they can get their hands on which is not necessarily what they might want to read. This is a good DB. Prisoners might also have to pay to read if it’s digital. I would personally contend that it’s harder to read in jail than prison but I don’t have a good study for that. More people go through jail than prison so the ability to read is much lower overall.

The rest of the world might treat prisoners a little more like human beings so I don’t know if this works outside of the US.

sentences that smell like privilege

They didn’t say anyone was preventing them from doing this, they just expressed a desire. I don’t understand why you would go on the offensive for such a tame post, even if it is a bit cringe.

Non stop work and exhaustion that comes with it in order to have a place to live is a barrier so bad take.

While I know the big takeaway in the comments here is “it’s easy to do when you don’t have a job”, it’s also worth highlighting the various options to spend time in general and how being in prison changes that decision making process.

I know a lot of people who complain. About not having money, not being in shape, not having the time to do what they want, always feeling anxious and depressed. And I don’t mean to undermine that- material conditions can be very real, you cannot simply budget your way out of poverty, and mental health is a real issue to be treated professionally.

But I do think there is also room to reflect on our habits, decisions, and environment. Right now I could be working out or reading a book, and instead I’m on Lemmy looking at memes and commenting. How many hours have I wasted in the past on social media? How many hours have I wasted watching video essays on things I can’t remember? How many hours did I waste watching all of the Marvel movies and TV shows through Endgame because my wife’s friend was insistent we HAVE to watch them all and they’re great (spoiler: they were all pretty much soulless forulaic corporate cash grabs).

How much time and money do we spend going to bars and restaurants? How much time spent sitting in cars or buses or trains or planes? How much time with my face in some mobile game to kill time?

I don’t bring these up to say none of us should ever do those things, but I think a lot of people need to look at their priorities. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve noticed the people around me who seem the most dissatisfied with their personal lives are also the ones who never make time to get to “lower” priorities. Sometimes it’s the sheer financial truth that people need to work several jobs and basically dedicate their entire lives to chasing income. But other times people are trying to maintain too many relationships. Too many friends and friend groups, not enough time spent on maintaining or improving their self. It’s a balance everyone needs to find, but I feel like social media (especially for-profit platforms) has driven a lot of people to be dependent on the constant stimulation and validation that comes from constant connection to several other people.

I don’t know what INT is but gzzz on 99 strength. Did you get your skill cape?

Tbh, your own body can prevent you from doing the former.