Lol, I've just had an ex where we constantly tried to find ways to make our sex better.
That comes from magazines and TV where there's money hiring cleaning crews you don't see or something.
I have some extended family making bank in oil trade, very wealthy, and it's such a trip listening to them talk about life.
Nannies for their kids that come to them. Grocery delivery. Delivery of almost everything, rarely go to the store themselves. House cleaners/maids that do everything. Landscapers. People to drive their kids to and from extracurriculars. Notice each of these is plural. The only thing I can think of that they don't have is a chef.
And they try to be down to earth, but their scale is skewed. Like they get thay most people have less time, but they expect the average person to still have like half the time they do, rather than like 1/10th at best.
They have so fucking much free time, and they use it to keep their marriage and family strong. Date nights every week. Multiple family game nights each week. Both of the parents have rich social lives of their own, hobbies they have time to pursue.
It's astounding just how much of a difference the amount of free time available to them (due to having people to take care of the constant neverending life stuff for them) makes to their quality of life. Most direct example I've ever seen of the difference wealth can make.
And their house always looks "HGTV ready".
Most DRMed ebook filetypes can be converted to non-DRM ones using Calibre and addons for it. That might cover comics, but I can't confirm as I've never been into digital comics.
Apple's iTunes used to let you pay like 30¢ more to get certain tracks in mp3. Others have mentioned bandcamp. About a decade ago Amazon used to be straight mp3 downloads for purchased tracks, but I'm not sure if that's standard anymore.
It's not very complicated, people are cheap and try to save money in the stupidest ways. They also trust lying salespeople.
Can't tell you how many million dollar plus systems/software I've been involved with integrating at my workplace (not law enforcement related) where the main reason the damn thing was purchased turns out to be non-functional due to no one checking the sales guy's claims until the contract ink is all dry.
While I think this is an unpopular opinion, I don't think it's entirely false.
The average person doesn't have the time or knowledge to fact check every new discovery that happens, so they place their trust in certain sources that they believe will summarize it accurately and factually. At some point in the chain, there will most often be an aspect of belief or taking it on trust rather than "I've ran this down to earth to definitively prove it to myself firsthand".
Like, I don't have the tools or skills to trace the electrical signals in my computer. It's possible to do so, but I haven't. I trust that it works how I understand it to work based off external information sources.
It's not blind belief or blind trust, but there is an element of belief and trust there.
Slightly controversial opinion regarding religion
This is why I've never been able to look down on those with religious belief simply due to them having religious belief. I'm Christian now, but wasn't one for a good long stretch of years.
In super short: In life, you have to accept that there are going to be large swathes of things that you don't know and can't confirm, but you have to rely on them working as you understand them to. That doesn't require a level of fully blind faith that religions often ask of there adherents, but it is a lot closer to it than I feel most people are comfortable admitting.
I'm glad you've found medication that seems to work for you now! I've only had to navigate finding the right meds for ADHD, but finding what works for you when it all messes with how your mind works is difficult as hell. I know how much my ADHD, anti-depressant, and anti-anxiety affect me, and how fucked up I can be without them (but unable to see it clearly until I'm back on them again).
Now please, for your own sake, try to get the drugs and drinking under control. That's going to effect things too. You seemed to be aware even when you were having an episode, so it's a start.
Good luck and happy holidays!
Really buddy? You've had plenty of responses to your previous posts about your rich life. You are rich. Very rich. It's past time to accept that and move on with your shit.
If you actually feel any guilt or uncomfortableness about it, instead of posting stupid bait, go do something with your privilege to help those who don't have it.
You posted this in the wrong community. Shower thoughts is not for questions.
No, that's rich.
So to be clear, your answer is "No, I don't have anything beyond a weak as hell ad hominem based off of entirely imagined character traits and motivations."
What are you actually trying to say when you claim I have a lack of curiosity in the matter? Don't be chickenshit. If there's something you believe is false about what I said, be out with it.
Otherwise you're welcome to fuck off.
Nomura's done it again! I love Kingdom Hearts.
Someone gifted this to my wife and I after our successful IVF. Still haven't put our photos in it, and everytime I see it I giggle.
Miracle Love Baby sounds like some magical girl anime shit.
Honestly? That's rookie numbers.
Preface
I'm not trying to call out the mod action of removing my post from the comm so much as I'm calling out the complete lack of mod action leading to the comm becoming shit and having the current top post by scaled, hot, and active being a post that explicitly targets another lemmy user.
That out of the way... !mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world has clearly been slipping from the purpose of the comm for a while now. Most of the posts are actually infuriating and/or political. I understand that what qualifies as either of those can be different for different people, but I feel most of this shit clearly isn't mundane or simple enough to fall under the label of just mildly infuriating.
Here's some examples from the first page right now, sorted by scaled.
While I could have sworn the sidebar had a no politics rule, it doesn't at the time of me writing this up, so politics are arguably acceptable, although I personally feel these all clearly don't match the theme of the community, violating Rule 7.
Sidebar, and expanded rule 7
A few other posts have been made calling this out.
Mod harder and [META] What actually constitutes "mildly infuriating" content?
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Beyond all that mess, we have what was the final straw for me.
Rule 1 (and less so 5), and the current top post by scaled, hot, and active.
I cannot accept that a post to mildly infuriating that targets a specific user while not even removing their username is respectful, and I personally consider it harassment (while it may not violate rule 5 as there is no call to action). Removing the username is usually the bare minimum even in the fucking reddit brigading subs, for plausible deniability.
And regardless of whatever arguments can be had about interpretations of the community's specific rules, it's a dick move. Just block the guy. It reminds me of the god awful reddit dogpiling and brigading. I don't want any of that to come to lemmy.
So I reported it, then saw the recent posts asking mods for action that got no response. I then looked at the mods.
So I did something dumb as hell. Roughly an hour after I reported it, I made my own post (now removed from the comm). I find people who make call out posts about others, and the absentee mods allowing it, mildly infuriating. Yeah, childish as shit. What's done is done.
Modlog:
Removed for "doesn't fit community", but what do you folks think? Does it really not fit when the top post is what it is? Personally I think both should be gone, lest that comm descend further into shit.
Either way, now that I have this yell into the void out of me, I'm blocking the comm. Maybe I should have made my post in actually infuriating? (kidding)
That is a threat.
From some back to school flyer.
I have so many great memories from childhood vacations to Mystery Flesh Pit National Park. I cant believe the disaster happened all the way back in 2007.
At least someone has been collecting and documenting everything they can find from the old place: https://www.mysteryfleshpitnationalpark.com/
I still can't make it all the way through the disaster report.
Definitely a repost, but it fits the season
... maybe? It's "anger powered jet packs" from an ancient meme image that I'm not sure the source of:
Oof, I always forget about that last one.