My parents, in their 70s, started receiving a guaranteed income supplement (they’re Canadian). They’re still poor, but finally they can afford the basics of survival without having to work full time.

It’s such a huge change.

I mean I’d rather not die gasping for breath

You’ve got me there

Raisins in cookies is high tier. It’s got the sweet and the chew

There is nothing that cinnamon can’t improve though

From my perspective it’s the keyboard that is painful!

All valid points, but if I may, for me it’s more like

1. I don’t want more drink
2. I like it diluted - lasts longer
3. Cold = sensory heaven
4. It’s never ever cold enough
5. Crunchy water snack when you’re done!

I can gulp like a champ, but I’ve got nothing on this

But the tinkle of ice in a frosty glass though ☺️

Zonal heating and exchanging mêmes with my partner

I don’t want to like suck all the joy out of your life, but check out the cheap hobbies! Reading, writing, knitting, drawing, some sports, etc.

I briefly made the dumbass decision to take up cigars and cognac as “hobbies.” Ugh I don’t know what I was thinking. Anyway, quitting smoking and drinking has moved to much more reasonable substances, like tea and baking.

I’ve never actually been on a vacation, so maybe my view of what constitutes luxury isn’t the norm… Yeah without context I get that 100k+ is just a really good livable income.

So I suppose it depends how long they’ve had it and if they have generational wealth. Like I’ve earned 100k but I’m the only one in my family to do so, so I spend most of it working down debt, and supporting family.

I get that there are richer people. But of my personal experience, it seems like people that don’t have that kind of reverse inheritance of poor roots get to live such carefree lives.

While still being working class ofc

Growing up poor, and eventually working my way into a tech job dealt me a long stream of culture shocks. Just socialising with people earning over 100k is wild. The vacations, hobbies, and even anecdotes, are all so different than what I imagined. I feel I betray my roots a thousand times a day.

I know this is just basic working class petit bourgeois stuff (that I’m part of), but the carefree attitude is so alien to me. I can’t imagine feeling so entitled to luxury.

Haha as always, you do what you can

Or god forbid, a person of colour. Clearly the US isn’t “ready” for that.

/s but also not /s idk honestly, it depends

I don’t know how the driving screenshots can look so fun, but they do. I don’t even love racing games

So messy is good, or…

I’ve always loved a messy house. I think it’s cultural

I went through a cowboy phase as a kid, and this salutation is the only remnant. I don’t even think about it, it’s just how I’ve been greeting people for all my life.

I only really think about how it sounds when people chuckle or smile at it. It just sounds normal to me.

I had a teacher who was rumoured to make up their opinion of a student in the first two semesters, then just eyeball it from there.

I submitted my final assignment hosted on a web server and gave them the link as my submission - saving the logs to see who connected to the URL. Anyway, no one outside me connected to that web server before it was graded.

83/100 which honestly feels about exactly what it deserves. So even knowing they just skimmed the source code on most of my assignments, I never found that the grades were out of synch with how I myself would have graded them.

Fair enough, but endless feeds and short form videos are also widely regarded as dangerous to mental wellbeing, so I agree with them on that point.

But I’m more interested in getting people away from the adtech platforms, so also happy to see decentralised alternatives pop up.

The great thing about decentralised social media is I’ll always have my anti dark pattern folks in one corner or other.