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What's a common feature of video games we could really use in real life? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Pause.

Who do you consider a Great Author of the last 50 years or so (first well-known work after 1970)? I'd like to get a feel for who's who in modern literature. Any language/culture. Fiction only. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Alan Moore

Saga of the Swamp Thing and Watchmen are two amazing runs of comics he wrote.

Huge fan of his recent-ish novel, Jerusalem.

'Doom spending' takes hold among younger consumers in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I've seen this and known the end was coming since I was a teenager 25 years ago.

Who care about consumer spending when I've been watching the current biosphere die off for my whole adult life?

I'm supposed to save for a future in a society that's pretty obviously collapsing as the biosphere deteriorates?

I don't have zero hope for the future but the idea that this current infinite expansion system can continue is obviously wrong.

Video showing how divided Congress has become in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Obviously there is more than just this, but Newt Gingrich has a lot to answer for

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/newt-gingrich-says-youre-welcome/570832/

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Literally boots.

Work boots for my jobs doing physical labor. I would spend around or slightly under $100 every year for a new pair because theater, construction and pest control destroyed a pair a year.

Then I bought Redwings for close to $300. They lasted 3 years before the pandemic and likely would continue to last in those types of career for years to come.

Minneapolis mayor calls remote workers ‘losers’ who sit at home with a ‘nasty cat blanket, diddling on their laptop’ in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago

It's the same with a lot of us millennial people.

I graduated into a job market still largely crushed by the dotcom bubble bursting, had my entire life and career path destroyed by the GFC, then another destroyed by covid.

Let me just spend a third of my monthly food allowance on food I can make better myself to please the downtown economy god, I guess lmfao.

Americans, mostly women, are becoming more liberal: Gallup in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 79 points 7 months ago (52 children)

The American political system has done nothing but ratchet to the right for about a hundred years.

It's so far right that people think liberals are left wing. That shit is center right lmao

I'm an adult rule in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Sleep.

I want deep, restful sleep.

For 8-10 hours uninterrupted by anyone or anything.

ADHD imposter syndrome at work in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Everyone is just playing a role while at work. Humans are more than their function in a business or society.

If you're in the US, I'm pretty sure they can't fire you because of ADHD related causes. They can come up with other reasons, but your neurodivergence is a recognized medical condition.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell on 60 Minutes: The US is on an unsustainable economic path in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

https://realprogressives.org/debt-ceilings-for-dummies/

Just gonna drop this here to try and spread some knowledge.

First game you played in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

River Raid for the Atari 2600

former smokers, do you ever have random moments months or years later where you just get textbook "cravings" symptoms? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm one of those people who has never really stopped having cravings. It only gets bad when I'm really stressed but it is low key there 24/7.

Thankfully, it's only really a battle when I'm stressed.