It was an act of God.

Depends on how much you’re investing. Is it an amount that is not a drop in their bucket? Congrats, you’re evil.

Is it chump change to any millionaire? Don’t sweat it. You’re literally incapable of changing the course with your buy in.

Lots of people saying it’s bad to do as a blanket statement might be in horror if they find out the labor practices that go into any of the goods they purchase. There’s no ethical consumption in capitalism. Doesn’t matter if you’re investing shares or buying a cheeseburger.

Because they’ve learned to write responses in ways that get them lots of ego rubs

The medium is the message.

Someone who is good at social media is good at what social media rewards.

Ego. A narcissist.

Can you walk to a place instead of drive daily?

I replaced a 10 minute commute with a 45 minute walk. Got me walking nearly 8 hours a week. ~20 miles.

I think building it into your routine rather than making it an event is key.

No, you locate water, filter it, boil it, etc.

Yeah if you backpack you can make use of it.

Otherwise: no.

"you know how you can’t talk to someone on Twitter.com from facebook.com? But you can email from your @gmail.com to someone with an @yahoo.com address?

That’s the difference, federated social media is like email in this way."

I’m mostly sure even my elderly parents understood it when I said it…

Fart loudly? Idk.

So this answer might come off the wrong way. I wanna start by saying that the reality sucks, and I’m sorry it’s that way and we should all work to better it. That having been said…

A conventionally attractive woman in yoga pants doing yoga in public will catch eyes like a man wearing a speedo at a water park. It’s stupid, it sucks, but it is what it is. The best way to avoid it is unfortunately to not do it. Especially if that gawking is feeling like more than gawking, and you’re concerned for your safety.

Sorry about what you’re going through.

You miss your parents because they gave you love of some kind, whether or not it was the right kind, all your life. The same reason people don’t leave their abusive partners.

As for school, if you’re in the US just take your GED, if you feel up for it. You may be done with high school earlier than you would’ve otherwise! It will save you a year of social obnoxiousness while you’re going through something difficult. And if your goal is college, just be sure to weave in your story in your application essays and you’re a shoe-in. Idk, college boards eat stories like this up, so hey, silver lining!

What your parents did, as per your description, is wrong. I think most people can agree with this. You’re right to be confused. Sorry youre going through this. Just know your confusion is valid, your pain is valid. You’re right to be upset with the way they treated you and you’re right to stand your ground on being with the people who you love.

Nothing more commonly fruitful than a misconfigured print server.

Yeah, I know that I’m reasonably articulate.

If the audience isn’t picking up what I’m throwing down, I ain’t here for it.

Doomers who just respond with negativity

Blocked

trolls who seek down votes

Blocked

Annoying people? Put on notice.

Annoying person on notice annoys me?

Blocked.

Yes. Absolutely. There’s a fuck ton of things you shouldn’t tip for. This is not one of them.

Alright that’s it, let’s do it.

We start the beige party here and now. Well do our best to get everyone in our side. Here’s my ideas for a local government platform. Grass roots people!!

Max ownership of 1 residential property per person.

Our local minimum wage will keep pace with inflation.

Municipally owned internet. Comcast?! No. YourTown Telecom.

We tax your business on an exponential scale, based on whatever the average net worth of the c suite executives is. We will allow your big box stores, but probably not at a price they’ll want to pay 🙂

Farmers markets.

Livenation is not welcome.

We’re paying teachers a lot more.

Our fines will be based on taxable income. Speeding tickets, violations, whatever.

What else?

Aggregates gonna aggregate

The end of daylight savings.

Fuckhead almost did it.

Oh my goodness would you look at that it’s lemmy.ml again

Bye 👋

Removed by mod

thank you for telling me I should block you.

sees lemmy.ml

Sees disagreeing with a very, very simple truth

Yeah, not surprised.