garbagebagel
@garbagebagel@lemmy.world
- Comment on My T-shirt size is L 9 hours ago:
They can also just stop buying from shitty companies like Amazon.
- Comment on What are your approaches to donating? 1 day ago:
I’m not sure where you live, so you may approach it differently.
I’ve been donating for probably 15 years to various charities via regular donations to registered charities. I usually check donation websites to ensure that the charities I’ve picked are spending my money in a way I deem appropriate. This will depend on your country but I use charityintelligence.ca in Canada. Registered charities in Canada are great for donations, because you can claim them in your taxes and get back a significant amount of money on your tax refund. For example, I donate about $1000/year this way and including my donations on my taxes usually increases my tax refund by about $600-700, or at the very least it takes my taxes from owing to even. I can feel more comfortable about spending money on a good cause rather than having to pay money in taxes at the end of the year.
Additionally, I donate to more local causes occasionally (like your artist here) and to artists I enjoy. This doesn’t come with any tax refund usually, but sometimes artists will provide perks for it and at the very least I just know I am supporting someone I enjoy to continue creating things I enjoy.
I know you weren’t fully asking about this, but there are also non-monetary ways to donate that are excellent choices if you find yourself in a more difficult financial situation. You can donate your time (volunteer) as little as a couple of hours per month at local nonprofits/charities/whatever you want to support. You can donate blood or plasma. These are all nice ways to meet people and contribute to big changes in your community.
Good luck on your journey if you decide to continue donating! Don’t feel discouraged, even if others aren’t as generous as you, you’re still making a change in someone’s life.
- Comment on What are your approaches to donating? 1 day ago:
This is really cool, thank you. I’ve noticed things like this anecdotally but it’s interesting to see there are actual studies.
- Comment on :-) 5 days ago:
The thing that having a child and jackass have in common is that both led to net positives for the people involved. Jackass guys got rich, mothers that like having kids get another kid. The only way it doesn’t make sense is for people who don’t understand that having kids is rewarding for some people.
- Comment on Cool Bug Fact! 1 week ago:
How did my internal monologue bug escape somehow
- Comment on me when theres soup 1 week ago:
Maybe with a scrub mommy. Scrub daddys are way too coarse for that shit.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 1 week ago:
Don’t even know if I’d call that transracial, that’s just a person who is of one ethnicity but was raised in a different culture than one might expect for someone who looks like them. There’s no “transitioning” happening there.
- Comment on we are not the same 1 week ago:
I came here to say I have had this dream. This is creepy as shit and I don’t want to go to sleep now.
- Comment on Oink 1 week ago:
I’m very curious if that’s a cultural thing or just a him thing
- Comment on where are worker rights parades? why are we focusing on very limited issues? 2 weeks ago:
I know you’re in the US so it’s probably a lot more difficult, but find union activists…
Unions fight for these exact rights, and the reason most developed countries have vacations and healthcare are thanks to union action. Of course, America has fought very hard to keep these down.
Also, no need to shoot others down while you’re at it. No one is free until we’re all free, and this has always been a class war.
- Comment on Once you are over 30 we no longer want to go out - we want to be left alone, with a beer/wine, a blanket, tv, and tacos… 2 weeks ago:
Same, and I actually always did in my 20s too but back then I was made to feel like I should be out partying and was lame or a loser if I wasn’t.
Now I’m in my 30s and I party when I want or I become a burrito when I want, I don’t really gaf if anyone wants to judge me for it.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
HM maybe the wrong community but it’s an important message anyway. Men’s mental health matters and if we all cared more about it, we’d have a lot less issues in the world.
- Comment on Bachelor Chow slabs, anyone? 3 weeks ago:
Looks like chicken strips to me
- Comment on Late 3 weeks ago:
Might make this my work signature tbh
- Comment on Remember, kids! Unregulated capitalism is not your friend! 4 weeks ago:
I wanted to lay in a wooden box all day before it was cool
- Comment on US Border Patrol detained a nursing mother and separated her from her infant daughter to the point that she needed medical attention as a result of not being able to nurse 4 weeks ago:
I’m not religious and I don’t agree with the train of thought but I would think it’s probably something akin to “god sent these people to help me”
- Comment on I'd choose 4 tbh 4 weeks ago:
Food brings me joy and money brings me food, need nothing else in life.
- Comment on BlackRock is Suing UnitedHealth for Giving “Too Much Care” to Patients After the CEO was Murdered 4 weeks ago:
Historically, it has been violent unfortunately, and I don’t see that changing in this situation. Just hoping the violence is aimed at the right people soon before more innocent people die.
- Comment on We're deep into the baggy era mate 4 weeks ago:
We need an overlay also of the amount of rips in jeans
- Comment on A 19-year old cis lesbian woman was beaten unconscious and robbed after she tried to use the women's restroom at a McDonald's in Carpentersville, Illinois 4 weeks ago:
The adjectives cis and lesbian refer to different attributes. Cis refers to gender identity, so her gender matches her sex assigned at birth (in this case, a woman assigned female at birth). A lesbian refers to her sexual attraction, so a woman who is attracted to other women.
- Comment on Besides money/capitalism, why are tech companies trying to push AI text generators over search engines? 4 weeks ago:
If that was the goal then maybe they should’ve worked harder so that their algo didn’t spit cheap poorly made garbage with a million fake reviews every time I try to search anything remotely purchasable.
- Comment on Great! 4 weeks ago:
But is the meat delicious
- Comment on Tity more tity, the Greed is sickening 5 weeks ago:
Hey it’s nice to know the top results are educational/artistic and not just porn.
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 5 weeks ago:
Jewel is a perfectly fine name on its own, wtf
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 5 weeks ago:
I fully came in here with this name in mind. Lol in the 10 years since I’ve first heard it, I’ve never come across anyone else who has heard the same. I somehow hope we’re all running into the same Abcde and there aren’t just hordes of them out there.
- Comment on i broke 1 month ago:
Mine explained my emotional dysregulation patterns and helped me identify the triggers and how to address them.
By far, the most useful technique they shared with me was the TIPP skills technique, which helps me come down when I am having strong emotional reactions as a trauma response or from anxiety. Essentially:
- temperature - use cold temp to lower heart rate, warm to raise it
- intense exercise - helps manage overwhelming energy levels
- paced breathing - I’m not big on breathing but it works for some
- paired muscle relaxation - my favourite as it also interrupts thought patterns
Hope you’re able to access help though, obviously it is much better when personalized and you also get the safe space to release your fears and anxieties
- Comment on i broke 1 month ago:
That’s kind of better than continuing to charge you if he wasn’t vested in your improvement though.
- Comment on i broke 1 month ago:
Getting more involved with community movements has helped me in this respect 100x more than my therapist did.
It’s not their fault, there’s not that much they could’ve done for me anyway and they were very much on the same “were fucked this is all hopeless” boat as me.
- Comment on Life is unfair to landlords 1 month ago:
Where I live the majority of apartment rentals are owned by large corporations whose sole job is property management, including “renovicting” low income people and letting older buildings go to waste while hiking rent prices. These people are scumbags.
Previously I lived in one building that was actually just owned by one person who had purchased several buildings, and while he hadn’t built the apartments, at least he was also the sole caretaker so he was putting in the work.