I am currently 29 but work in payroll retirement auditing. So I actually know a little about people not retiring.

I work in the education system, and people who work in the education/public sector have a HARD time not coming back to work. Our retirement agencies have gotten stricter and stricter with retirees working after retirement.

Why? Well people who work in public and education system usually work their entire life in the industry. Especially teachers and admin. And they honestly don’t know what to do with themselves. They don’t know how to handle freedom.

They have been institutionalized. If you have seen shawshank redemption you will have a good understanding of what that means. Here’s a quick clip from the movie.

https://youtu.be/jeMux1GjA7Y

I have read testimonies from other people who have gone through economic/political instability and hardship. What i got out of it is that prepping will help for a week to a month maybe. But after that preppers just feel dumb after that as all that work didn’t mean much long term.

The only thing that universally matters is having community ties. Unfortunately… USA aren’t very community friendly or even have the opportunity to create strong local bonds. As all community events are during work hours so only retired people part take in those.

At the end of the day there is no reason not to. Not like it takes any effort or costs anything.

That being said, I usually won’t the closer I am to home/on my main commute. Why? Because I’m driving next to the same people every day. The same work truck with a giant butterfly on it and that one dumb ass looking cyber truck. Along with the other 100 other commuters the same day.

Civ 3 was my first civ. I loved putting like a 100 units on the same tile.

I was thinking of civ 6 specifically though.

I have such a nuanced opinion of Nintendo.

I would prefer to pay for high prices to a company that has the reputation of “consistently fun no matter what (unless its online)”.

Why? Because I am tired of paying a ‘good’ price for other media (or any goods/services) with a bunch of hidden aggressive enshitification. I know that when I buy mario kart, I am getting mario kart.

Can’t say the same for most other stuff, especially AAA video games. Nintendo might ask for high prices, but they deliver their product. And that is what I was promised in a capitalist economy, but rarely get it. So I am ‘happy’ as long as Nintendo doesn’t screw me individually.

BUT!!!

Fuck Nintendo for what they have done historically to the smash community. I won’t forget.

Damn I love building railway systems in civ for my army. Something so satisfying about it.

The heart from your hate in my ass

I can only imagine that EU is just quietly finding ways to not be dependent on the US right now.

What Trump is doing/does is unacceptable. But US citizens have been groomed to accept everything from their perceived leader.

EU has not been groomed to accept these things. They know to just ignore while they can and get ready for a trade war, cold war, or any sort of war.

Cool.

Your party has proven that one can avoid taxes, but I don’t think you can avoid death as well.

Does anyone know about any other self-hosted/open source projects that are like this? As in, “everyone” could find these useful?

Other ones I know about are Mealie (cookbook) and Warracker (Warranty Tracker).

Good.

Fuck my country. Never been proud of it, and how I am only ashamed of it even more.

This must be a personal hell. Growing up, I wanted to get out of my small town because I hated being surrounded by idiots. So I did.

Now… well… there is no escape apparently.

Our modern day concept of ownership.

Yeah no shit. Then the new ones literally have less features than the old one. Like connecting SharePoint calendars

This is the main reason why am I have a tiny bit of hope.

They are just so so so incompetent. And you can’t say they this is for show to make us think that, this is just ridiculous.

To be a cruel leader, you NEED to be effective. And they are not effective.

I wish I could time travel 200 years just to read how they talk about us.

I don’t even know how to talk about us.

It really just depends on your climate, geography, and infrastructure.

Where is I was raised, it would be consistently 90-100 Fahrenheit throughout the summer. And one week that was always up to 110.

I had no ac, but a constant broken swamp cooler. So basically no real ac.

In the mornings and night when it did become cool, you would open all the windows and doors for the air and wind to blow through, and then about 9am you would close the windows and blinds and deal with the heat.

Sleeping through the worst parts of the heat is not a bad idea.

Can you imagine what was going through his mind?

Alright, time to go to work and be a bodyguard for the president. Gotta do my best. He’s giving a speech today. Martial law? Must be one of those politician words, he is pretty knowledgeable.

Wait… why is everyone freaking out? This isn’t normal. Why is everyone whispering? Why is everyone giving my boss the death glare? Looks like everyone wants home gone? Maybe I should take a look at this Martial law thing?

It’s probably just some sort of everyday law that is just a little controversial…

Fuck. I have to guard this guy with my life?

Yup.

If I can’t say basic words and facts like, this woman was raped, this man died, etc.

I just don’t use the website in any meaningful way.

Good article, does bring up concerns. But I don’t like this argument.

Though this content could flourish in pockets of the fediverse, the scary scenario of prevalent child sexual abuse material is not the case.

It assumes that non-fediverse sites don’t have this problem. But the few articles I read about this news, Facebook is usually the way they share this disgusting content. So while yes we need to do something to stop it, it is not like traditional social media has solved it either.

AI is useless for most people because it does not solve any problems for day to day people. The most common use is to make their emails sound less angry and frustrated.

AI is useful for tech people, makes reading documentation or learning anything new a million times better. And when the AI does get something wrong, you’ll know eventually because what you learned from the AI won’t work in real life, which is part of the normal learning process anyways.

It is great as a custom tutor, but other than that it really doesn’t make anything of substance by itself.