This is the real answer. I mean some compromise is normal and healthy in a relationship, but for the most part everyone just do what you are comfortable with and find people who are good with that

Amazing. It's telling that I'm at a point politically where I think this might be an improvement

Looks the mushrooms are feeding on the gecko

I like it, although I want want to see the mushrooms being somehow mobile/able to follow the gecko for this. That seems mutually beneficial for all parties involved

I mean yes definitely fucked but also I'm kinda here for it. If shredded garments become the new prefaded jeans you won't hear me complain

Even for people who generally like the function of AI (which seem to be fairly rare here) the absolutely obscene climate impact and implications for peopes jobs and livelihoods, privacy breaches, and general internet enshittification is surely reason enough to be against it.

Our office allowed voting to elect a committee to determine what return to office should look like. I was elected to it. They also hired external contractors to mediate basically. Some people came into it thinking everyone should go back to office, but by the end of it we settled that being in office should be required for certain types of work activities and not for others, and apart from the required activities for in office employees could be wherever. We drafted this up into a formalized agreement and everyone was happy with it.

Then the president who did that program retired and the new guy immediately scrapped the whole thing and forced everyone back into the office overnight without any discussion from the committee or other employees.

I hear an alarming large number of people can trace their ancestry back to Genghis Khan and I am not sure you have him beat. Maybe though

Fucking good. They are just mad palworld is more fun than their latest pokemon launches

Meanwhile in America "you guys got trains?"

I feel this deeply. Others have said it already, but the thing that's helped me the most is getting involved with the solution. Local community organizing, mutual aid groups, political candidates in your area, etc etc etc there are many options (and feel free to message me if you want more help finding them) and nothing felt ok until I could feel like I was doing something other than passively sitting around watching the country/world collapse.

Others have also said closing off news and social media. This is also a good step, but I would caution against doing so 100%. Maybe set aside a day or two a week where you get caught up for an hour or two then turn it off the rest of the time. It's still important to be aware, particularly as the suffering is becoming more and more local and ubiquitous, but it definitely becomes all consuming if done too much.

You sound like an empathetic person, and people like you are needed to help drive change. Fascism won't go away in it's own or with one more election cycle to vote it out. The upshot is most organizing and community strengthing efforts are just generally positive for mental health in their own right and may lead and may lead to new friendships and activities that you enjoy

It's rude to discuss your salary at work

I sooooo wish this were true. Quality protest strategy

There are billionaires in the DNC, and billionaires who back them. Maybe not as many, but still enough that taxing the rich has never gained any traction even under democratic governments. Billionaires fear nothing in DC, they have proven over and over again they can buy pretty much whoever they need to.

pushes up glasses

Typically people losing at monopoly actually prefer going to jail and sitting there since it is preferable to having to pay for hotels.

Not that it makes the analogy much less dark though

Yes but also probably not a ton outside relatively small tribes so might still be low numbers

whatever my opponent was doing is op and broken af, devs plz nerf

Either that or claims current gas prices are somehow still bidens fault. Or perhaps Obama

I mean even if you genuinely thought that's what it was asking for, just ceiling is extremely nonspecific

Yep. My partner is basically the same as yours here. Too many niche communities on other social media and unwilling to give it up in spite of the ideological issues.

I think it's just harder for some than others. I was never THAT attached to social media anyway so...this is fine for me. If I run out of content on my feed for the day its probably time to log off anyway