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[–] [email protected] 24 points 18 hours ago

That sounds like one of my parents. They are a narcissist.

They're doing it to save face and appear nice. They know they rules of society and push them as far as they can to gain advantage. If they know that being mean to you gets the same results as being nice, they will be mean.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

Lemmy is cheaper. Some don't have health insurance or do but it's garbage tier insurance.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (4 children)

The "work yourself to death" is a stupid boomer concept. It's a hugely negative aspect of traditional masculinity.

When people say weird stuff like this, I always question why. Why would you have a kid and then work so hard to be away from it? Why would you work for a company that will lay you off the moment it earns them a higher stock price to do so? (no modern company deserves your loyalty.) Why would you brag about suffering instead of relaxing?

I understand that we're all wired differently but those values literally don't make sense to me.

 

These look neat!

 

My favorites:

Drag building produces one merge undo action per the whole drag, instead of the individual undo actions for every entity built. Space platform "request missing materials for construction" will no longer request items for entity ghosts which can't yet be built

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

If I stay informed then I start to spiral. I have to disconnect. It's hard but it helps. My habits are to spend time on my phone to get away from my thoughts. But being on my phone gives opportunity to have spiraling thoughts. It's very confusing.

 

I got 8/10 of these. Probably 9/10 when I was a teen.

I don't know this person or their credentials with a grain of salt, but, uh.... wow.

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

And even at night the church bells go on and on,

Is there a noise law in your town? Night bells seem problematic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

This is an ml community. Anything that praises the USA or normalizes it (that is, reducing the awfulness) is gonna get down votes.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

I wish. No one IRL treats me like this. Everyone's eyes glaze over or they freak out. There is no support.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Every vote counts. For Democracy!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This is my life story. Every day, I understand more and get closer to "old man lives alone with his dog in the woods"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Oooh this may be it. I've been told before that I do this. (the first paragraph)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Mine wasn't animated but same glitch text. Goes away by scrolling up and down.

https://i.postimg.cc/jqDDyfKG/Screenshot-20250226-094929.jpg

 

I'm looking for a job. I saw Alice works at ACME brick. Bob knows Alice. Bob and I used to work together. I asked Bob if he could introduce me to Alice so I can ask Alice 1) for help getting in touch with the hiring manager and 2) what the company culture is like. Bob said yes and I asked Alice my questions, with Bob CC'ed in the message.

This has seemed OK with most people. However Bob said my conversation with Alice seemed one sided and excessive and like I was taking advantage of him just to get to the hiring manager. I am, correctly, asking for help getting to the hiring manager, for inside info. I am not only asking that, but it is part of what I'm asking. I am also asking about company culture and advice when talking to the interviewer. Bob was very upset and I think I've burned that bridge.

Is this wrong, in general? Is it OK but not asking too often? Most people seemed to be OK with it, but I worry they were just being polite and I've been unknowingly pissing off my entire social life and hurting my chances at getting a job. (why yes, I do have anxiety and take meds.)

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