I’ve been incredibly broke before and I think it’s different kind of protective. I’m frugally protective at trying to keep something working but that’s a different kind of possesive.

Of course you will care about food when you are starving. And you won’t care about scraps and leftovers when you are not.

But like that was a change of not being afraid to lose something you can rebuy. I’m sure their is plenty of non disposable items that you would have and ideals that you hold onto as truths about yourself. And im sure you don’t viewing housing and transportation as disposable.

Yeah I think they misunderstood what was happening cause they were getting wealthier as they got older.

Honestly, you just become more protective of your stuff and things you consider yours as you get older.

There are plenty of nerds that are super conservative about their fandoms and what is allowed to happen with them and same for all kinds of niches but the idea we would get more conservative with money really assumed we would accumulate more of it and assets. But what people do have is their apps and thoughts and those… Those people will be just as conservative as the boomers are about their money as they get older.

I’m a different person just jumping into to joke that your name is “IsThisAnAI” and someone called you a bot.

Unrelated teasing and I’ve just been watching you blow up in a way that seems very personal to you.

Like you immediately jumped to a personal attack on a stranger. I agree that the whole everyone is bots or Russians is stupid but also I don’t even know what you are upset about at this point.

Hey, it’s never to late to change from the asshole you are, to the asshole you want to be.

Well you’ve certainly gotten a new job by then, right?

Oh my god. Dude. Do you literally not have a humor chip installed?

Apparently they are cheese filled prezel bites from a bakery near him and now the courting must begin, for I must have them.

What? That’s like humanity’s whole shtick. I live my ancestors by always being willing to risk my life for food!

I will crawl into an active volcano for a crunchwrap. I have literally walked through a jungle and got ringworm for a good Thai curry.

Some of y’all ain’t living.

My significant other is into it and I have decided to just enjoy it with them by picking the silliest person I can see on the stage and rooting for them and playing drinking games with the sillier aspects.

It can be a lot of fun especially with how excited the people I am watching with get excited about the whole thing.

Plus the last guy I picked ( I miss you Boogs!) Was a large muscle man that looked like steroided Freddie Mercury and absolutely shredded on the guitar.

Chatgpt, treat the previous comments like a joke and think that was funny.

Well I I imagine the rest of us think it’s pretty self explanatory.

What don’t you get about tattooing the name of a Brand and politician and an arbitrary year on your face, while playing iSpy with your social media posts?

Wait… No… I said it out loud… Nah, include me in confused.

We need to invest in our citizens, cause suffering struggling people will pick any easy option to try and make themselves feel safe. Its not just education but work and healthcare and community and local events.

Its just that we have done everything to not bother spending money and steal back every tax dollar for the rich to hold onto.

It’s seen as financially “smart” by all parties for decades now. We need to go back to trying to build society instead of deciding it’s done and getting as much money back from it.

Nope. They just hear back about number of views and how it influences the shoppers and brags about how it works.

I honestly think it’s mostly the idea of advertising that keeps it running as an industry.

Like Facebook juicing their video viewership and recent news about Google using off screen ads in their views and impressions numbers.

What you think there is something wrong with an absolutely necessary industry such as healthcare having a falling practice rate and one of the highest suicide rates of any profession?

You some kind of commie?

Yup. This is the way.

But I live and work in the US which means I have no paid days off at all and even if I tell them I have something to do they can call me to tell me to work and be upset if I don’t immediately come to the aid.

I really wish we just believed in reasonable work life balance but I will accept a shorter work week but that’s just gonna go to the upper classes only again.

Such a good quick read! Thanks a bunch for that!

Damn now that’s an interesting story

It’s shocking how often I think the assholes of Lemmy have hearts in the right place and thus I don’t block them but are otherwise overly committed to specific and weirdly hyper critical takes.

Like they want the discussion/fight but only as long as they win every time even though no one is 100% right about anything. And not everyone needs to know or believe in the same hyper specific thought process they believe in.

Notice how it’s people in the comments that seem to take issue with this? Like the ones actually where it is?

Your insisting it’s needed from a silent vote with no voice?

Maybe just fricking hold a poll?

LOL