The things boomers spent on astound me. You could legitimately just get your own flipping boat for the cost of a cruise, and use it forever. They could have at least willed you a boat for Pete's sake
I feel similarly. My job uses all kinds of 2FA and email-chain nonsense that pretty much require me to keep one as well. I'm starting to learn how to retrofit a special half-dumb phone to do those required things, but it's quite a process compared to what George Clooney got to do
This. The invisible hand doesn't work if monopolists buy control of all the fingers.
I think Smith would probably prefer playing ball with Marx over whatever this hellscape is
Over the years this has honestly become one of my favorite parts of my brain. I might forget trivial stuff like teethbrushing, but I have these funny bits of people I've lost that I can pretty much revisit in 4k. Probably mostly doing that when I should be doing something else, lol, but I wouldn't trade it away
Is it normal, as a Texan evac, to be afraid of joining PFLAG in another state? I used to feel that was just one of my psychosis symptoms, unwillingness to join a formal rainbow group and actually socialize, but now I'm increasingly unsure
I gotta say as an American I really appreciate some of these recent things the EU is doing with privacy. They seem to have a bigger impact here than any actions American politicians come up with, which is depressing, but still deeply appreciated
I know it's still intense, but I am honestly shocked at the civility level of this conversation. This really is not reddit. In a good way.
I really don't know where I would start explaining this to be honest. In a nutshell, Reddit has a somewhat problematic assortment of communities for survivors of Christian fundamentalist sects and homeschooling. We place a high value on denim and worship a raccoon named Lord Daniel. That's the broad strokes of it
Maybe explain, as you're doing so well here, that your goal isn't to be invalidating. You could point out that sometimes distracting, venting, or leaning on coping mechanisms can actually become the problem. They can become a way to avoid and minimize our own feelings, abilities, and issues. Even basic actions, like taking a much-needed shower, taking a brief walk or finally making it through a whole workday can trigger massive chemical changes in our brain when we're in a crappy place.
I hope this helps. I think you're bringing up a really helpful sticking point here, and having received and misunderstood many a "man up" pep talk during depressive episodes, I gotta say it's a very cool move for you to workshop supportive language like this
In my little college town, there was this intense party culture. No frats, just kegs. In the 80s, apparently a school wide party became so large the local police force was unable to shut it down. The students commandeered an entire apartment building, and everyone just kinda had to wait for it to be over when they said.
As a queer person, for me at least I find the 'default' language pretty funny. I think it could just as easily be seen as acknowledgement of privilege as the other way around
One of my fondest memories was beating our old HP printer to death with the baseball bat we keep for potential intruders. I now print at the local library and regret the beating incident less and less every year.