I feel this, but more along the line of chosen ignorance rather than actual stupidity. Either a new topic us overwhelming or they worry\fear they’ll get it “wrong”. Also, being from the south, where so much has been politicized, they fear the tribal back lash of thinking for themselves. I don’t know what’s wrong with me, I was never the type to “go with it”.
The kitchen disco requires really good headphones. You don’t get ear covering sound without a jack.
I was shocked when he got a gov’t contract after he admitted to all that fuckery in Ukraine. Wtf is happening in gov’t???
This is what I came here for
All my adult life, his books have been a refuge from (in order of era)
Conspicuous consumption
Boomer narcissism
Yuppies
Reaganomics …
Fundamentalism , extreme Christianity
Class warfare
White supremacy
…
More recently he has laser focused on
Societal roles
Nuerodivergence
Scalding the hell out of Trump and maggats
He’s literally a moral and ethical compass for many and can reach us when we are young.
As he and I have aged, he’s literally been a comfort in the way he writes about our actual ghosts snd what haunts us.
He’s brilliant ,I’m a huge fan can you tell? Cheers
I need this so I downloaded if that’s OK thankyou
If you look at history you’ll find banks have a way of getting what they want or destroying faith. It’s never straight forward. They have teams of lawyers, teams of people who make moves based solely on profit.
I am gainfully employed but keep an eye on what’s available in the US just to see what opportunities are out there. I started seeing some insane salaries and so checked the offers out. Five minutes of research shows that even with the highest salary , there is literally no place to live. Neither rent nor purchase. Because it’s a service like Indeed, I don’t see a way to contact the job poster directly and see if they are even aware this is an issue. Many of the postings are around one month old.
You mentioned nursing, here in the US, hospitals have been pared back to mostly large urban areas. This caused my brain to hurt.
Cheers and luck, I hope y’all don’t end up renting in old age!
We need more well built homes. This is the hidden crisis inside the housing crisis.
I have a friend who has actually paid for two homes but only owns one. It’s been one thing after another in large and serious issues.
Shoddy and fast housing has been a problem, but now we are also here ,just after all this flip culture.
Be careful and thorough, if we ever get the chance to buy that is.
I wasn’t serious when I said I’d fall in line behind you. Emojis on are a world wide phenomenon. If it doesn’t appeal to you then move on. Are you this controlling and intolerant irl? Or are you just petty online? Since you seem to lack social nuance, I’ll be clear, I don’t really care by asking these questions. I am asking you to ask yourself. Pettiness and coercion are also a social cancer
I’ve loved the thoughtful discourse on Lemmy, I’ve grown weary of seeing news about reddit in the feed. Reddit died long before this last bit, becoming a haven for a particular, ill informed, consensus seeking group.
Then tonight, I had a reddit moment here on Lemmy where some non socialized, rude, consensus seeking user wanted to snipe and sounded like an over protected , suburban, adolescent boy.
I haven’t seen one of those here yet and they are the absolute plague of open discourse .
Please Lemmy, don’t let it go on.
Excuse me, I said hey rude ass, I’ve never used Tumblr. So, why don’t you tell me what this is then, tell me so I can fall in line with your expectations.
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Same here , the other day I thought to myself “how the fuck did I get poor again??!!” Two years ago I was feeling pretty proud! I’m deep in the letter writing currently, one I’ll give to my employer.
This is so extreme! Have they lost their minds? I’ll be looking up "how we got here Greece " now. Wtf?
I went to join Planet Fitness, they insist on an app. They watched me leave. Kroger charged more than advertised, ooooh it was a digital coupon only available through the app. I left the item with the cashier. Order out? Only on an app? I guess I didn’t want to eat that so much anyway.
Edit to add: I don’t know how we are going to deal with apps that are forced upon you, that feels really gross especially if you are younger, like at your school. Forced commodification should be illegal.
Not going to do it, it feels controlling and abusive and I’ve worked too damn hard to let that shit go on.
This is exactly what I’ve encountered. I only opened Indeed to see what ppl in my profession are being offered in other places. Places with affordable houses. I’m worried my living situation will become a problem in the area I live, it’s only getting higher.
Like you, I find employers are completely unaware of this and aren’t offering enough.
They are also asking for more qualifications than they are willing to pay for, so far I’ll bide my time.
The other annoyance is I can’t ask for any feedback on why my application was passed over.
Maybe we can get the gd bailout for once? Call it payback on their overdue loans?
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I lost the ability to comment on insta bc I commented in my representatives page. He is not only an elected representative, he is pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atl. This is the pulpit MLK led hia movement from. So yes, I am extra mad that he has not even made a statement. I have already done the emails, they don’t care. So I figured a public comment on his insta post would stir something up, it did. Meta told me I’d be stfu for a while.
So once I was able to comment again I stated that meta can fuck right off and I’ll be signing up for telegram. At least journalists can post freely there.