Reddit refugee, gamer, bird and kid mom, crocheter, curmudgeon, post-civ anarchist
My bird's channel: https://www.youtube.com/@echo\_bo\_becko
My gaming channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/OriginalGamerGirls
Speaking as an older person who's been on the internet since it became a public thing, I don't think it's necessarily older folks' fault. Most of the crappy interactions I had on there were with young "edgelord" male gamers.
I think it's more nuanced than any one group.
Basically, if you build it they will come refers to the dross, who come in droves once something is a recognizeable "thing" and then we all have to abandon ship for greener pastures and more measured discourse.
Playing hypothetical games like this are poisonous to a relationship. My advice is to not do that kind of thing anymore.
I'm speaking as a woman who's been hit on at work. We're paid to be nice to the customers and too many customers take it as some sort of come-on. It's uncomfortable to be put in that position and you should be thinking of her comfort at her place of business above your own desires if you're really into her.
People who hoard more money than they can spend in several lifetimes while people are literally dying in the streets cannot be good. These things are mutually exclusive.
The saying, "the thief thinks everyone steals" applies here.
Everything he is accusing those aligned against his bullshit of is stuff he has done, or would do. He can't see the world in any other light.
Until and unless they break up these predatory property management companies, anything they do push through won't be anywhere near enough.
They can do it anyway, without threads being in the mix at all. Unfortunately the only way to be sure no corporation can scrape your data is to not be on the internet at all.
Too bad medical science can't invent a killer virus that takes out right wing fundamentalists with pinpoint accuracy.
Good for you for listening, and good luck.
No, it's not safe at all. You should be disposing of that battery immediately.
Well, now she knows he's not worth the trouble of the first date.
What could possibly go wrong? (everything)
A grief support group could be what you need. Check with her oncologist or your doctor to find one.
It's one I gave myself: I told my adult and nearly adult sons this year that we aren't doing Xmas anymore because we're atheist and anti-capitalist and as a holiday it is counter to our beliefs. The kids didn't care and I'm off the hook from now on. Best Xmas gift ever!
Warframe is free to play and nothing is locked behind money. it's got a really steep learning curve but pushing past it is well worth it.
Just a nitpick, that bird is not a parakeet. It's a female eclectus parrot.
There are a number of parakeet species so referring to a bird as a parakeet isn't specific. The most common parrot kept as pets are budgerigars, or budgies. Which is the one I think you were referring to.
Parrots being a special interest of mine I had to drop this on impulse.
Yeah, like 20 years ago. He's gotten so horrible over the decades.
One of my birds died a few months back and I cried in terror for the other one (who is still sick on and off). Up until then I thought all my tears had been burned out by a 15 year family court struggle with my abusive ex.
I've bought three versions of NMS over the years due to platform changes and at one point a snapped disc.
Hello Games also has other titles and they're a small dev team. They're an example of what game companies could do if they wanted to, rather than strangling the player base with microtransactions.
I personally don't think this is a thing. Acting is pretending. I used to LARP an evil character but it was all just role-playing. Being able to use one's imagination and walk in another's shoes (evil or not) doesn't change who you are as a person. It just makes you a good actor.
Only when forced to by the phone breaking, switching providers, or, as in the case of my last phone, when they shut down a network (2G).
Get a large bottle of 91% isopropyl alcohol, block the holes, and fill it. Let it soak overnight. Rinse well and enjoy.
The day they stop trying to shove their own personal religious choices down everyone else's throat and criminalizing what should be a woman's own bodily autonomy is the day I stop feeling this way.
I did once because the driver completely ignored my delivery instructions and I called to cancel the tip. They refunded it immediately.
Our building has a problem with theft, which I noted in my instructions, and they left the order in the lobby despite my clear warning to the contrary.
I got my first Linux system two years ago when I was 57. I took one of the COVID checks and bought a Linux laptop from System76. I had the choice of PopOS or Ubuntu so I just took straight Ubuntu. It was set up and running when I unboxed it and everything I need to know how to do I can just do a web search for. And that's really not much. Best of all the thing starts up in seconds, when Windows was always taking its damn sweet time and shutting itself down for two and three hour updates when I needed to use it. As for gaming, that's what my PS5 is for.
Buying a pre-built, pre-installed Linux system was perfect for me. It might be what would work for you too. It takes a lot of the guesswork out of where to start.
I will brace myself for the inevitable storm to come.
Contact your county health & human services agency. Medicaid might be able to help, I don't think Medicare will.
Tail end of 58.
I'll be 59 this year and have been gaming since Pong. They'll pry my controller from my cold, dead fingers. Also, I'm a woman as is the circle I play with, who are also all older women (45+). We do exist and couldn't give a fuck about what society thinks about it.
Better gaming than just being a potato watching TV every spare minute with no other outlet.
Gaming's been shown to help prevent dementia because it keeps the brain active.
Consider that the women that you've been trying to date that don't appreciate gaming just aren't the right partner for you.
I feel the same way about grocery store club cards. "Let us vacuum up your buying habits to sell to information brokers while simultaneously ripping off everybody that doesn't use a card."
My family was secular so I didn't have religion shoved down my throat as a kid. I got curious about church when I was around 8. I went for a year or so then had an epiphany about how nonsensical it was that a loving god would consign people to hell and stopped going.
I toyed around some with occultism in my teens but have been an atheist ever since. Nothing about religion makes sense and I live in the material, rational world.
I'm on Mastodon, Lemmy and kbin and I'm 58.
I've noticed that some posts and comments are appearing in my scrubbed profile once subreddits that were private open back up. And just the posts/comments in those subreddits. I'm keeping my account open until the 30th so I can periodically check back and make sure there isn't anything else that needs removing.
Are you using Power Delete Suite? You can overwrite comments with an edit before deleting them and it makes things a bit easier than doing it by hand.
I deleted my 7 year old 1 million karma account, at least all the comments and submissions. As subreddits open back up from private more keep trickling in and I'm having to run Power Delete Suite again to get them all. I am waiting until the 30th before full deletion just to make sure I got everything because I don't want them to profit off my posts and replies in the future.
I seem to have misplaced my violin as it's so tiny.
But to quote their ridiculous ancient book of nonsense, you reap what you sow.
I have all these things because of subsidies and welfare, or I'd be out on the street because I'm a disabled older person on SSDI. And even these things are a pittance, barely allow me to make ends meet, and are always in danger of being cut or completely gutted by the rich fucks hoarding all the money. So yeah, I think multi millionaires and billionaires are bad people by default.
People know the difference between fantasy and reality. Unless someone's questionable anyway I don't think pretending to be evil will change someone. People play violent video games and don't tend to go out and shoot up their neighborhoods. Same thing.
I just watched a TV series on Netflix about this exact scenario playing out in Poland. The rural folks weren't having it but got steamrolled by the government anyway. High Water
It's not appropriate to ask a woman out when she's working. Service staff get hit on all day and they're just trying to work.
You can slip her your number if she shows up at your place of business and leave the ball in her court though. If she doesn't contact you then there's your answer.