You are asking mostly nazi Ukrainian supporters, for a war where actual success of nazis, means nuclear strikes on USA.
Let’s just say Lemmy is incapable of unsticking head from ass. Militarist nazi diminishment of russia, but with higher minimum wage and healthcare? Sign them up
Weed and booze
I’ve cut down dramatically on the booze, increased the weed and feel a lot better. You can smoke so much more if you don’t drink, it’s awesome
Knowing it’s better than the alternatives being touted.
Cannabis and passive suicidal ideation
My stupid body took the cannabis away from me, now all I have is the passive suicidal ideation… It’s also my retirement plan! Good ol’ 40
9mm1kIt’s also my retirement plan! Good ol’ 40
9mm1kJesus Crist! I get wanting to overkill serving yourself a Kurt Cobain breakfast special, but where the hell did you even find a 409mm gun? Do you own a battleship?
We all own many battleships in America! The trick is having them let you on board at the right time. Lol
I just like thinking about it, ya know?
The only freedom i have left in my life is deciding when I die, so i get to feel a little free whenever i decide that today isn’t the day…
I go to asklemmy threads and try to sneak my message by their partisan hack, censorship/ban-happy mods by leaving subtle jabs like this one:
Simple, it’s play to win so I played and won. Whining and crying are not my style. Neither is this pessimistic, self-loathing, victim mentality.
Folks managing to win at the monopoly board game be like.
LOL, you in the wrong place. All we do around here is whine and cry about our victimization. Oh, and we hate ourselves.
Like you, I’ve chosen not to lose. Not doing outstanding, but my failures are all on me.
You are a super tough guy. I’m very impressed with how you played and won. Great job.
Share how to win strats then
First I realized that I was reading the news for entertainment, not to actually get informed in any meaningful actionable way.
Then I started to doubt any headline that confirmed my biases. “Trump says terrible thing” boils down to a 3 second sound bite with zero context. “Trump voters regret voting for him” is a summary of 8 tweets taken off a recent trump post. “New study” has 23 participants.
In other words read the damn article. Things are bad, but not quite as relentlessly bad as social media would have you believe.
Also, I vote, I donate, I march. There’s not much else I can do, so what does all this “being informed” do me? Me being miserable doesn’t help anybody.
Second: stop consuming rage bait. 50% of Reddit is just videos of people being insane in public. It’d have you believing that we live in a warzone. We don’t. There is nothing to be gained from watching that shit.
Outside of that, picked up some video games and even started reading books again. Trying to deprogram the brainrot that makes it hard to concentrate on anything for more than 10 seconds.
Oh, and alcohol.
Simple. Learn to play that game and try to succeed.
If you get up and just go to work every day expect to fail. Learn to use the stock market. Learn to use options. Start small. Like real small. Don’t use real money. Just write down on a piece of paper and figure out your results.
Once you’re making money on paper then put in a small amount of money and try. Try. Try. Try. Try again.
You can’t stop capitalism but you can use it in your favor.
I’m all for trying to make it out, but for most people day trading in particular is a terrible idea and 90%+ lose money. I think most people would be better advised to just dump money into an index fund or other longer term investment and not think about it too much, at least that way you are betting on the market as a whole rather than your personal trading skills vs pros, which isn’t likely to work out.
Do be mindful that this attitude is precisely how our ancestors entrapped us in this terrible catastrophe of a situation to begin with. Don’t blame–that’s what they did too.
Sorry but name something better then capitalism to allow people to change their position in life.
feudalism, tribalism, mercantilism, anarchy, colonialism, distributism, mutualism, syndicalism.
Who are the ‘people’ you’re referring to here? The privileged and powerful or the distraught and the hopelessly impoverished? Why is ‘position change’ our compass of goodness concerning economics systems? If you’re planning on just playing the ‘false dilemma’ game, I will concede immediately–if it’s only this or that, you’ll find me hard-pressed to vote in favor of anything non-capitalism, but that’s only because I know the alternative is something much worse yet still technically capitalism with a different name/label
Who? My brother. Moved from being almost bankrupt to now living in a nice house and owning a business.
My godfather built his own company, lives a good life.
A friend of mine who has gotten into investing and is now making a nice living doing that.
Why would anyone not want to change their position in life? Why would anyone want to stay where they are? Be nice to move up enough in life to own your own place and actually retire at some point. By retirement I mean never worry about your bills. Not worry about "oh no my hot water heater went out, now I have to choose go to my grand kids graduation or replace the hot water heater ". Actual retirement.
oh so by people you meant you and your family. Clearly the selfless capitalism is convenient for you isn’t it?
If ‘move up’ means a lower standard for everyone else, how ‘good’ can it really be? I don’t really know where you got retirement from. That’s a 20th century invention that most want no part of.(Most retired people come out of retirement at least once for a reason boss.)
So because I choose people I know to demonstrate a point then that also means that I don’t know anyone outside of a friend and family circle that capitalism has helped?
“Clearly the selfless capitalism is convenient for you isn’t it” nice but if snark there… So much for an actual discussion.
If you are retired and WANT to go back to work is completely different from not having a choice when you are old tired and no one will hire you and you don’t have enough money to live on. Bit of a difference there.
I don’t know of anyone that does not want to retire. Many who come out of retirement only work part time. Not full time, again they want to. Not that they don’t have a choice.
If you don’t want it that’s fine, but anyone I’ve spoken to does.
Have a good night. I’m out.
i am glad you have been lucky in playing the game. most arent and will never be, no matter how capable and talented.
I say “thank goodness I don’t live in China, or worse.” Then I go back to trying to improve my life.
China, while isn’t great, isn’t actually that bad, just look at North Korea, or Taliban controlled Afghanistan, and that’s what bad really means.
Yeah I did say “or worse” but I clearly draw the line of superiority between capitalist hellholes and an actual fucking dictatorship.
Dreaming about becoming a billionaire?
projecting?
Lol because China doesn’t have them, is that what you think?
I go to work, enjoy my hobbies, support my family, and drink a lot.
Username checks out
I don’t. I’m literally on suicide watch trying new psych meds and wondering if the emotion storms are triggered by news, or the new drugs. Whee.
When the entire country is tilting day by day over the precipice about to fall into the abyss of fascist, one-party autocracy, it feels like the night before the Martians emerge with their tripods and heat rays. I feel like Fiver seeing the notice board portending the disaster of Sandleford Warren. I feel cursed for slighting Apollo somehow.
People are carrying on as if there’s nothing wrong or nothing we can do, and I can’t understand how they continue to function.
Good luck in your journey fellow human. I don’t have anything else to offer but that someone read your words and you created thoughts in my head. Truly hope you best of everything. Cheers.
Thank you.
So long as Federal shennanigans don’t accelerate my situation (say by killing Social Security) then I should be okay.
But yeah, I’m super vulnerable like brain surgery during a hurricaine.
Vintage non-internet connected devices, self hosting open source services, buying used clothes, while I slowly prepare my retirement as a hermit in the mountains of west virginia
I act like this is not a drill. We’ve put together an emergency kit. We have a reverse osmosis water filter. I’ve been stockpiling seeds, personal care items, first aid supplies, and shelf stable food. I spend my time reading, playing board games and doing puzzles with my spouse. We’re spoiling the heck out of our pets. Trying not to spend money unless absolutely necessary. Towing the line between staying informed and doom scrolling. Some days better than others.
I should probably be more active. I shouldn’t drink at all, but I still do on occasion. I should be eating healthier and engaging in my community. But I only have so much energy and to be honest I’m barely holding on. Secretly praying for a Hail Mary because I can’t believe this sham of an election is going to go through. I just can’t.
Weed.
Eventually it stops working. I’ve been blowing through ounces faster than I ever have, feel like I barely get high anymore
Yeah that’s the dopamine receptors burning out alright
Same here. I’m actually forcing myself to stop. It’s expensive and I get high for shorter and shorter times. I’m trying to make it to spring, but we’ll see.
I’m literally just trying to make it to sunset lol I was growing for a while which made it worse. The weed was basically free so I was just smoking joints all day
Underwork when I can, especially if I feel underpaid and under appreciated. Humanity is doomed to destroy itself, so I don’t worry all that much about things. Hell, at this point I would enjoy watching it end. But until then, I’m gonna chill, smoke weed, make music and spend time with the good folks around me.
Underwork when I can
Yes 🐸
That’s one way to hurt the parasite’s profit.
Another way is to be a discerning consumer.
Owner class exploits us on both sides, the fight has to be fought on both fronts as a wagie and as consoomer
