• solsangraal
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    15 hours ago

    every day it gets more incredible to me that people are so fucking addicted to fake validation and fake likes from fake friends that they still use fucking twitter

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      15 hours ago

      Yeah! I like my fake validation and fake likes from anonymous friends over here on lemmy. Fake friends are overrated.

      • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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        15 hours ago

        the secret is i don’t think anyone on lemmy is my friend. i find everyone here frustrating and annoying! the system works!

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            13 hours ago

            Damn,… Ruffalo looks young in this picture… then I realize, he was and we all got fucking old. This was 13 years ago!!!

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              12 hours ago

              Yep! Wait until you have kids that are older than your co-workers.

              Source: My kids are older than many of my co-workers. It sucks.

              The only way to fight it is to stay fit as fuck. Oh and retire early like I did. Takes some of the pain out of getting older!

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                12 hours ago

                Exactly my plan my friend! Why bother grinding if you can’t afford anything? Better grind less and live more.

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                  12 hours ago

                  Agreed. I basically took early retirement–I’m 55.

                  My pension is small since I bailed early, but I have zero debt, and very few bills, so I get by just fine. My kids are grown. My house and cars are paid off. Property taxes here are very low.

                  Sure, I won’t be traveling the world, but the park next to my house is beautiful, and I can see the mountains from my front porch. All is good.

                  Good luck to ya, mate!

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                    Hell yeah, that sounds like the way to do it. I’m much the same way, being a decade younger and having a kid that will be 18 in a decade. If you are able, why not make your own home into your favorite place to be?

                    I don’t have mountains to look at but I built a koi pond in the back yard. There are a lot of birds in the trees out there, plus we have a bunch of other pets of our own. Just chilling and observing natural beauty and being in that moment can be so nice.

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        12 hours ago

        There’s a pretty big difference between drinking mild poisons at a Nazi bar and a local bar. Zoomed out, sure, drinking alcohol at all can be considered pretty dubious, but the difference between the two scenarios remains.

        edit: replace what autocorrect put as “consistent” to “considered”

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      14 hours ago

      The dumbass kid at work “I just use it for the art profiles I follow.” Not worth it kid, not worth it at all.