Can confirm: childhood trauma leads to valuable interview skills. For me i got really good at guessing what people are wanting and then subsequently became good at giving or then managing the negatives around not. Super good at touchy hair trigger situations, not very good at making friends though. 3/10 would not recommend

There was no denial that Freddy Mercury engaged in sexual relationships with men, but those relationships should not delegitimize or downplay his relationships with women by insinuating that any relations with a man make him gay and only engaging with women to fit in.

You can have both excessively early sexual exploration and excessive self repression as a product of social media. Just to postulate: at early ages self consciousness hasn’t set in making sexual activity just a thing, and then when the teenage mind forms and self consciousness sets in one sees sexual behavior as childish. It is absolutely possible that what you see and the statistically observed sexual repression of modern youth are a product of the same forces

I think America has farther to fall before a serious conversation about Marx’s ideas can hit mainstream. Right now “socialism” just means “progressive reformation” thanks to the propaganda machines. Fox news has been peddling “anything i don’t like is socialism” for so long that American’s just call good thing socialism.

On top of that the general price increase over the last 25 years has come with considerable increases in set intricacy, piece count, and variety to both piece shapes and themes. I love to dunk on corporate price gouging but i really struggle to fault LEGO. I personally use “a person can comfortably buy LEGO as toys for their children” as my personal litmus for what a good wage should be; they’re pretty solid for maintaining a price/value ratio and Americans should all be making at least 150k/year by now even out in the boonies, just deduct it right out of the fortune 500s margins

It crosses into willful ignorance once they reject an empathetic articulation of the information and they become malicious at roughly the same time. Though this is less “becomes” so much as “is revealed to be” i think

I understand and empathize with your frustration, as a commuter long boarder i have similar sentiments about how politeness can inconvenience me because of the precautions i have to take to stay safe. I would, however, like to point out that you are complaining about people putting in an earnest effort to exercise empathy for you; those who don't bike or otherwise do not have the experience to know that predictability is key, but they are otherwise attempting to care for your well being

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What you are describing is absolutely not “mild depression”. I have seasonal and mild depression and exercising is absolutely a cure-all for me, when winter is running a bit too long i start getting back into running to get out of having to otherwise be on antidepressants seasonally.

My wife, on the other hand, has depression like you describe, and she requires a lot of support to keep her afloat. This article is definitely not talking to target your situation. I am so sorry you have to experience life the way you do, i hope for the treatments and support you find to bring the right balance for you to experience the full breadth of the joys of life

What the heck does this mean? Is the number 5280 just painted all over billboards in Denver?

World has always been fucked (see Billy Joel's "we didn't start the fire" for simple reference). Life is what you make of it

I think the typical answer is to start digging into the definition of “love”. I am personally of the opinion that the number of self serving, narrow ways to interpret the Bible significantly outweigh the number of holistic, neighborly interpretations. The history of Christianity is filled with selfish power hungry people using whatever means necessary to justify their quests for power and domination.

How the Bible is interpreted is a perpetually evolving art practiced differently by different group. Do the laws of the old testament apply to modern life? Is the book of Revelation a metaphor for how to live or a literal prophesy for the end of the world?

I personally find great amusement at some of the contrasts between what Jesus teaches and what are taught in the epistles. Most amusing, of course, is how openly Jesus associated with women vs what Paul keeps espousing at the end of 1 Corinth 14 and 1 Tomothy 2.

So to more succinctly state it, since God is manifested in significant part through our actions, the rules are ultimately made up and the points don’t matter. statements like “God loves everybody” is as a declaration of the state of the universe in so far as it is an admission of one’s own moral values. It is imperative to espouse and defend this narrative that God loves everybody because otherwise it becomes false.

If this constructed version of God doesn’t make sense, we can perfectly swap “God” and “Mother Nature” as they are interchangeable concepts. I find some rest in the belief that our existence aligns with the inherent nature of the universe, even if we can be real boneheads about it sometimes.

I have stuff, a job, kids, a wife, and all that and i’m still a miserable loser. Enjoying life is a thing you have to chose to do in spite of your circumstances, rather than because of them.

For further reference, see Elon Musk: the dude literally has it all and i catch myself genuinely feeling sorry for how pathetic he is from time to time, that man couldn’t enjoy life even if he had literally everything

What tags does pokemon go use to determine biomes? I occasionally contribute updates around my local area, that would be a neat thing to apply

Taxing churches just for being churches would be counter-productive. What needs to happen is the current set of rules regulating what counts as a church and what doesn't needs to be tightened and enforced. There are tons of shit people running churches as their own personal profit machines and those need shut down. The Methodist churches built in every town in America, for example, are only barely hanging on by a thread and bring more good to their neighborhood than they do harm; their loss would be tragic.

The enshittification reaper is coming for Discord; the writing is on the wall, they are planning an IPO this year. The draw is that it isn't Discord and that you can own and control the data produced by your organization (or peer group), and have reasonable control over how the platform is changed. Now if none of that appeals to you then you probably aren't the target audience.

I never understood the draw of matrix.org as a service, the ideas originally driving matrix's development back in 2017 or so was to be to Discord/Slack/Teams what Lemmy is to Reddit.

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I don’t have her passwords, she doesn’t have mine.

Having the means for each spouse to get the others passwords can be pretty essential when dealing with critical emergencies and death. It's good to have some way for someone you trust to get your online accounts when you pass away so that everything can be concluded and canceled and sentimental content preservation and all that.

For my relationship the means to gain access to my password manager are available in the case of an emergency. Maybe shove the credentials in a bank security box and put access to it into your will if you don't feel you can trust your partner with the knowledge while you are alive.

Even though i do get the privilege of being born into a lucky circumstances, i have to watch all of my peers in my age group suffer while i am somewhat compelled to spend all my time with folks in older generations because all of my fellow millennials are too busy being exploited or exhausted just to keep their head above water.

Will i be one of like a handful of millennials who fair a passable life? When i get to a possible retirement will i even have any peers to hang out with? Am i a shithead for not sacrificing enough of myself to make a better world? What could i even sacrifice to make a better world? after all there needs to be organizations to turn sacrifice into change, and all the organizations are run by boomers who are quite comfortable because millennials will barely even show up to community social groups, let alone commit to leadership let alone play the bullshit social games to fight for power and control.

What even is the point for me - an okay off millennial - to fight for the cause of the rest of us when everybody in our age bracket seems to be lining up to give the best excuse for giving up? If things are already this shit, then surely the odds are in y’alls’s favors to take a cause and go into the community and make a belligerent stand?

If you listen closely you can hear the sound of the joke completely going over your head