Tedesche

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

Try to find a job you enjoy from 9-5. That means focusing on activities you enjoy that are the main activity of said job. I worked in a pet store because it afforded me 30% of my time playing with puppies, even though the remaining 70% was cleaning puppy shit and stocking goods. I now work as a therapist because I spend 70% of my time talking to people about their problems (which I enjoy), and 30% doing paperwork and correspondence. Make your job something you enjoy most of them time and it gets much easier. Then, you retire and collect Social Security. As long as you’ve worked for most of your life, that’ll be a decent retirement. You’ll have to live frugally, but it’ll be livable.

Also, if you can manage it, invest $10,000 as early as you can in a stock market index fund and pay for a fund manager. By the time you retire, that will provide you with a substantial cushion to rest on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

Quest for Glory series. Got me into RPGs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

It was so traumatizing he had to go see Richard Dreyfus for therapy.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That’s a limerick conservative parents tell themselves to feel better about their rebellious kids.

And not what I’m talking about at all.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (4 children)

As a serious answer, I’d guess Lemmy skews younger. Too many idealists here to think the average user base has the wisdom that comes from experience.

Sorry, younglings. You’ll know when you get older: the long view clearly demonstrates optimism is a lie. History is a corkscrew. Progress is made, but only through endless repetitions of past mistakes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

LOL. Omg I’m such a survivor. I’m only a survivor because I survived this long. I would be a completely different person if I I just survived longer than this. 😝

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Because you invested in a shit plan or simply made your investments poorly. I know plenty of people who are doing well on their retirement investment plans, and I’m doing fine too. Don’t blame America, the country, for your shitty decisions.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 weeks ago

That movie is like watching my own childhood.

Hopefully without the intellectual impairments all the main characters have?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Napoleon Dynamite, but that’s intentional.

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

Lemmy will never understand how amazing this movie is.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

No, you’re wrong and I’m not going to debate this with you. Study some psychology before making false claims. Good-bye.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

No, the reason religion is excluded is because delusions aren’t supposed to reflect cultural conditioning. Delusions are, by their very definition, an abnormal brain process. Cultural beliefs are not abnormal brain processes, no matter how irrational they are.

Please understand that this exception is accepted by the entire field of psychology. If you disagree with it, you have 200 years of psychological debate and study to contend with. Don’t pretend you’ve read enough to claim you have grounds to disagree with something the entire field of psychology considers a settled issue. No matter how much you wish religion is a mental illness, it’s not. Sadly, the irrationality of religion is fully explainable within the bounds of normal human psychology.

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