Fleppensteyn

It takes some time to block out stuff to make Lemmy usable. So much anime, bots and dumb American politics.

It’s nice there are a bunch of apps for Lemmy, but using it without an app is not very welcoming. It needs a lot of improvement (e.g. manually compose urls to subscribe to communities on other servers).

Sure, I was always interested to see where everyone was traveling. That’s what I had Facebook for until it turned to shit.

I don’t have to hear anything about babies though.

I use a prepaid sim so I’d rather not use data when I don’t have to. Subscription is too expensive imo (half the price of home internet) and when do you really need internet outside the home anyway

Data costs money

Because they don’t have change?

Happened to me before. The ATM only gives out 20s but the driver only wants small coins, only cash is accepted.

It happened in several countries and it’s still a mystery to me how you’re supposed to get small change when you’re fresh off the airplane or something (or why they don’t just take card).

In the last week, I came across 2 videos that started with an ad. Both were embedded YouTube videos. They must have found a way to circumvent adblocking.

It’s loud and annoying and I don’t have the patience for this. I just didn’t watch those videos.

Many people my age have terrible boomer parents who just had kids because “that’s just what you do”. They didn’t even consider you could just not make babies.

Maybe we just think more for ourselves than the older generation.

You’re out of touch. Employers don’t want overqualified people. They are the ones that decide for you that you can’t possibly be motivated for such a job. You’ll only leave when you find something better they think, which is definitely true when you claim to just “bridge the gap”.

I remember always switching to another channel when ads came up, but later that became impossible because they all started ads at the same time. So it seems to be on purpose to prevent people from switching channels. This was in the Netherlands, though I haven’t listened to radio anymore since Napster came out.

It’s normal to get such weird brainfarts, like the call of the void or imagining murder or other bad things, just like when a song suddenly gets stuck in your head. A healthy person thinks “wtf brain?” but when you start to think “that’s a great idea I want to act on”, maybe that’s not completely normal.

My yearly dental works always cost a fortune, but my teeth are great now, since:

• I got an electric brush and floss sticks;
• I now drink coffee without sugar (you’ll get used to it pretty quickly);
• I almost completely stopped drinking sugary drinks (mostly bubbly water now, boycotting evil companies and being poor help).

Well Americans are kind of known for not keeping to themselves and being chatty with strangers, when abroad at least. Even personal questions etc. So it’s strange to draw the line at helping others.

What a strange and sexist question. I’ve been asked by random mothers to carry their buggy with kid up the stairs, off the train etc. before. If I would speak the local language where I live, I probably would’ve offered. Judging by the comments here, I’m glad I didn’t make that mistake.

Never. Had to Google what it even is. I had something similar once as a child.

If you’re not a wage slave and have a bigger home, think of all the hobbies and interests you can pursue, new things to learn, time to meet people and space to host them, charity work… And you have the energy for things that a job would drain from you otherwise. I think life would be drastically different.

There are no pronouns in symbols ♂, ♀

Apparently nearly 70% of US is religious, so I don’t know why you’d be surprised about people believing in ghosts. I would even say you need a deeper understanding of the world to understand why ghosts can’t exist.

If interest rates rise, what will typically happen to bond prices?

Is this basic financial literacy? Who deals with this on a daily basis?

As for the other questions (inflation, interest), any average person knows this. What kind of people did they ask?

I never saw someone got bullied for their clothes in my environment.

But kids got bullied for wearing glasses, let’s hope they ban those then. Also, better to not let kids with weird accents in school. Wouldn’t want to provoke the bullies.

When it comes to chocolate, the US says it’s OK to import products made from slave labor since the violations don’t happen on US territory.

US doesn’t grow chocolate but they do build (crappy) cars. How convenient