I feel this, but more along the line of chosen ignorance rather than actual stupidity. Either a new topic us overwhelming or they worry\fear they’ll get it “wrong”. Also, being from the south, where so much has been politicized, they fear the tribal back lash of thinking for themselves. I don’t know what’s wrong with me, I was never the type to “go with it”.

Organic ,non bot, actual real conversation, is not going to skyrocket. It’s going to grow like a real world thing. This is good imo

All my adult life, his books have been a refuge from (in order of era)

Conspicuous consumption

Boomer narcissism

Yuppies

Reaganomics …

Fundamentalism , extreme Christianity

Class warfare

White supremacy

…

More recently he has laser focused on

Societal roles

Nuerodivergence

Scalding the hell out of Trump and maggats

He’s literally a moral and ethical compass for many and can reach us when we are young.

As he and I have aged, he’s literally been a comfort in the way he writes about our actual ghosts snd what haunts us.

He’s brilliant ,I’m a huge fan can you tell? Cheers

I need this so I downloaded if that’s OK thankyou

If you look at history you’ll find banks have a way of getting what they want or destroying faith. It’s never straight forward. They have teams of lawyers, teams of people who make moves based solely on profit.

I am gainfully employed but keep an eye on what’s available in the US just to see what opportunities are out there. I started seeing some insane salaries and so checked the offers out. Five minutes of research shows that even with the highest salary , there is literally no place to live. Neither rent nor purchase. Because it’s a service like Indeed, I don’t see a way to contact the job poster directly and see if they are even aware this is an issue. Many of the postings are around one month old.

You mentioned nursing, here in the US, hospitals have been pared back to mostly large urban areas. This caused my brain to hurt.

Cheers and luck, I hope y’all don’t end up renting in old age!

We need more well built homes. This is the hidden crisis inside the housing crisis. I have a friend who has actually paid for two homes but only owns one. It’s been one thing after another in large and serious issues.
Shoddy and fast housing has been a problem, but now we are also here ,just after all this flip culture. Be careful and thorough, if we ever get the chance to buy that is.

I wasn’t serious when I said I’d fall in line behind you. Emojis on are a world wide phenomenon. If it doesn’t appeal to you then move on. Are you this controlling and intolerant irl? Or are you just petty online? Since you seem to lack social nuance, I’ll be clear, I don’t really care by asking these questions. I am asking you to ask yourself. Pettiness and coercion are also a social cancer

I’ve loved the thoughtful discourse on Lemmy, I’ve grown weary of seeing news about reddit in the feed. Reddit died long before this last bit, becoming a haven for a particular, ill informed, consensus seeking group.

Then tonight, I had a reddit moment here on Lemmy where some non socialized, rude, consensus seeking user wanted to snipe and sounded like an over protected , suburban, adolescent boy.

I haven’t seen one of those here yet and they are the absolute plague of open discourse .

Please Lemmy, don’t let it go on.

Excuse me, I said hey rude ass, I’ve never used Tumblr. So, why don’t you tell me what this is then, tell me so I can fall in line with your expectations.

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Same here , the other day I thought to myself “how the fuck did I get poor again??!!” Two years ago I was feeling pretty proud! I’m deep in the letter writing currently, one I’ll give to my employer.

It sucks that those are our choices doesn’t it? Live with a little loneliness but a lot of peace and joy , or not lonely but also harassed and always second, third ,or not even there.

Like you, I’ve left the entire idea behind. I dated quite a bit once I was single and was always disappointed. The pool is just not there, at least where I live.

I am way more happy though, and just made peace with things. None of us gets everything in life, I’ve had lots of fun and love my work. I think that is success at this point.

Cheers, glad any of this helped!

This is so extreme! Have they lost their minds? I’ll be looking up "how we got here Greece " now. Wtf?

I live in the south too and the last time this was a problem the water stank smelled like sulfer. If you’ve just moved one of the things I’d check is the water heater . That was the problem in my case.

https://www.corroprotec.com/blog/sulfur-smell-in-hot-water/?zcgas=&gad=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw06-oBhC6ARIsAGuzdw1Ow0bUJLwuv76LMUhRGlMQVCFn3GgqmiAxjuejjjDQ7IpEHoq0GeUaArlCEALw_wcB

This is such a hard thing to see and then to accept as real and truthful. It hurts horribly, so so painful. When I think of what she gave in order to be there for him, it hurts even more. When I finally faced this about my ex ,I cried so hard I couldn’t breath. I couldn’t share the same room with him, it felt like a betrayal to me.
However, to him? It was just the water we all swim in. Heartbreaking for both parties I think. That he shouldn’t experience love in any depth is also tragic.

Wow, mine did the same thing. Eventually he treated my work as an enemy to compete with, which was detrimental because my work is a part of me, it’s not a place I go to, it’s my craft. Much like being a writer. I was the one who would “not work” if the kids were sick etc, he thought very little of my contributions (which were good) to our bills etc. Like I should just presto magic money into being after not being able to work, he’d act as if I was just not working hard enough.

Even at tax return time, he literally was shocked when I told him we should be sharing the refund and he refused.

Eventually, he lost this war , and I’m happily growing in my field. I really wanted to be married, I didn’t want to end our marriage but I couldn’t face myself with this treatment and he couldn’t understand what I was saying.

I can personally attest to this, from my experience, as well as stories friends have told me. It is much worse with older male doctors, also as women age this type of treatment occurs more often. Also, black women get the worst of it, as many recent studies show. Mortality rates during pregnancy are terrifying.

Aye, Thank you! I’m not that sophisticated with this stuff but I’ll snag that link!

Aye, I left when they started up their bs in Canada. I will very grudgingly turn it on once Three Body Problem is out and then turn it right back off. Or even, if I can buy TBP from another streamer or DVD , I’ll wait and do that. This greedy crap from Netflix is personal to me. So sick of greed.