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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The other shoe drops, and this time it is covered in dog shit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone with shit income but a nice savings buffer, holy shit it makes things so easy, compared. “Cool dress, I’ll get that for next summer - cool coat, I’ll get that for next winter”, no problem. Just got my cat’s meds for the next 4 months at a sale, and the next sale should be in that time. Also could get her thyroid radiotherapy, that’s already paid for itself (compared to permanent expensive meds, of course not compared to no treatment). Appliance starting to make a noise or performance dropping, time to add that to my second hand watch list and keep an eye on sales of quality brands, rather than being forced to risk it failing and then getting something in a hurry, possibly on some payment scheme with a high interest rate. Pantry items on sale and/or in bulk. And of course the kind of main shoes that have held up for 5+ years, just could use a resoling soon.

  I can’t even imagine the constant stress living without it would be. Ow. :/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Completely opposite for me. Full bush keeps everything more “airy”, whereas shaven is underwear directly against the parts that bleach them, plus it all gets all sweaty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨can European intelligence substitute the American one?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not disagreeing, we should strive for good or at least civil relationships with our neighbors, even if we don’t exactly like each other, but the problem is that

  • any agreement or peace deal with Russia isn’t worth the paper it’s written on, they’ll just ignore it when they want to
  • make peace with one country in Middle-East, you’ll anger another
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I consider myself bi or should I just say straight if I want to date women but just can’t find any that attract me?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When True Men fuck, women just get in the way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Work hard enough, and you can replace exhaustion with burn out⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you ignore it for long enough, you can replace burn out with depression.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat that ramen⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  allows you the luxury of studying to increase the value of your work output

  I’ve always wanted more value from my work output! Or contentment and self-actualization, it was one or the other.

  luxury of ennui that gives you philosophical dread on your idle hours

  I’m assuming you mean that those idle hours are the luxury? Because I’m pretty sure tedium and boredom existed in the fields and cobalt mines long before it got a fancy French name.

  others would kill to be on your not-working-in-cobalt-mines shoes while being fed and safe

  Relative privation?

  Also, is eating ramen being fed? Is it safety if you’re one illness and insurance fuckup, or a job loss and six(?) months, away from homelessness?

  this while having thrived up to an age that for most of human history has basically senility

  Extreme infant and childhood mortality explains most of the short historical lifespans. 30 was never senility.

  The same logistics and industrial development… is the one that gives you the climate change.

  Every step of towards lessening greenhouse gases brings us closer to the fall of western civilization! Fly more, abolish public transportation, eat only beef, set your AC so low you have to wear a sweater!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat that ramen⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In your 40s your body begins to break down. Often your mind slows down too. And you’ll have people relying on you, whether at work as a senior colleague, your children, your aging parents/other relatives, your friends whose bodies have begun to break down, or whatever responsibilities/opportunities you’ve taken in your various communities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can a US citizen invest outside the reach of the federal government?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on how out of reach. Stocks exchanged in other, possibly hostile countries? Property in other countries that allow it (eg. most of EU does afaik)?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a metaphor you like in your language?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Lukee kuin piru Raamattua” (Finnish) Literally “to read like the Devil reads the Bible” Meaning to examine something in bad faith. Never heard it used it in context of the Bible or anything religious, but eg. when interpreting law or contract, looking for the crumbs that could be twisted for your purpose, rather than what the text attempts to convey.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Homeless. My country has decent social security and “housing first” policy, it’s reasonable to expect to be able to exit the situation soon.

  US, same, but exit for edgier reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with male loneliness?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m confused. Are women on social media interfering on man-to-man friendships?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with male loneliness?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You have to admit the “leftist” ideologies tend to be about working together and supporting each other, and the “right wing” ideologies about encouraging individual accomplishments, though?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seriously, it’s not that hard to find.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the aliens monitoring our planet know that we are idiots⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Any reason to celebrate in a way all participants/effected find enjoyable is a good reason. Not very intelligent aliens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yule Tidings⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I also liked the idea of New Year’s bingo, things you’d enjoy doing the next year and then seeing if you get bingo/s.

  But nah. In 2025 I’m going to start a company that will cheaply generate near-unlimited clean energy from greenhouse gases, pollutants, and (only discarded) plastics. I will install it for free and provide the energy at something like 10% of oil/coal equivalent. By threatening to turn it off, I’ll extort those in power to stop wars (yup, within the year) and obey the experts on how to improve the wellbeing of the bottom 10-50% in individual countries and globally.