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.

…is it time to invest in gold or what?

"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…

Yeah, I don’t agree with his position at all, just sharing an interesting talk that I think gives us insight as to some of what’s been going on the past 20 years. My takeaway was that Russia gave up fighting the US with force si they just try to create as much instability in the US as possible.

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.

That’s the point.

Russia has aimed to destabilize the US since the cold war.

I feel like I’m m taking crazy pills. The cold war never ended. We changed battlefields and everyone shut up about it.

And in the last 20 years we have gotten our balls stomped. Our enormous military is useless if they can turn it against our citizenry.

How fucking dumb are we?

https://youtu.be/5gnpCqsXE8g

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.

As they should.

Money is the bottom line for your populace. We’re the richest nation in history.

You lose your populace to the enemy over a few bucks thats on you.

This country is toast.

New??

$12/hr for someone living in NK is a lot more money than $12/hr for someone in your neighborhood.

I’ve been calling out Taiwan being where it all goes haywire since before I joined Lemmy.

I agree but this post confirms my ‘bet’

Yeah. And that’s why Taiwan will be what starts WWIII.

Taiwan is a red line for us, too.

TSMC goes belly up before we get suitable replacements manufactured elsewhere, and Microsoft, Google, Meta, Netflix, Hulu, OpenAI, Apple, IBM, and many others go belly up with them. Or will at least be so severely disrupted that yeah. Their red line is our red line. Push will come to shove eventually.

If you’re ever dealing with negative self talk, you can always talk back and say “Not true! I am way, way better than that guy.”

Kiuas

Angra

Haken

The Ocean

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.