Yep and it needs to use hyphens and not slashes. It helps avoid missed typos or mis-reads in some situations, especially if hand-written.

Yeah it's the compact economy cars that are $30,000.

I bet it's some of what you said, and maybe some of the well-known "buy experiences, not things" saying.

I'm not suggesting that saying is wrong, but I think people can mechanically go through the process of acquiring fancy-looking experiences because that is what you're SUPPOSED to do, just like people can collect fancy-looking posessions on auto pilot because that's what it means to be a successful person.

The last thing you said about people who claim they are "traveling" and not "vacationing" just REEKS of a hollow charade trying to prove that they are part of the upper crust of society.

The catch in all this is that we all have our own individualized needs, and a big part of the self-care work we need to do is figuring out what those things are. Like traveling and having fun vacations is awesome, but for most of us it's not going to be some instant key to life fulfillment. In my case, have always loved nature in general and aquatic life in particular. Some of my best vacation memories are swimming in little pockets of the ocean that looked like giant aquariums full of colorful fish and corals. But that's a rare occurrence and I will also never want to live somewhere tropical. Solution? I built a nice koi pond in my little back yard (in addition to all the other pets my family has). And in addition to the whole "caring for and interacting with water critters" angle, I got to do a lot of learning about chemistry and biology that are nowhere near my professional field, and I got to do a lot of DIYing, and I got a lot of exercise and fresh air out of it too! It helped much more than just my brain.

Your first point is so huge IMO. If you can't enjoy being at your own home then trying to have some kind of fulfilling life is going to be a steeper uphill battle than it already was.

Look at it like the Buddhists and stoics. Thinking your happiness is out there waiting on some beach, or in some fancy car or McMansion, is only going to perpetuate your suffering in the actual real now.

Or put another way, if you decide to find happiness and fulfillment in your home and your local community, and it works, then THEY can't stop you. Whoever that is in your case.

Many people treat their dog like it's a piece of furniture, like it's just something you are supposed to have in a normal home. Hell, plenty of people seem to be that way about their own human children.

I guess some of them might have their dog for paranoia reasons too, like its presence is going to make them more safe.

Go after the companies

Sir this is a Merica.

That quote makes it sound like he really understands why the users might not want him to destroy reddit.

Which also makes it sound like he is fully aware of his own conscious choice to destroy what could be a valuable resource for millions of people just so his sorry little ass can get slightly richer than he would have already been.

It would be nice to be able to consider more asian brands than just japanese and korean when next replacing a car and ignoring everything American.

American Christians' two most hated hot takes on fellow humans seem to be what Jesus says about marginalized groups and what the Statue of Liberty says about marginalized groups.

If I may achkshually your achkshually, I believe that heat is the energy in the collective motion of particles of matter, and infrared photons are one way that energy can be radiated away from one body and absorbed by another.

usenet + fediverse = that good internet you been looking for.

I have enough content in emulators alone that it would be pretty damn easy to just stop buying consoles and big studio titles entirely. Which I guess I've kind of done already.

Hell even if you forbid old PC games, my AuDHD ass could bounce between Chrono Trigger and Symphony of the Night for years.