Absolutely. And I really don’t want to fault those people if they believe their employer is a good source, but… block.

I am ruthless in that way.

My mother was a drug counselor who refused to ever even attempt to quit cigarettes.

She died at 62. I spent three years of my life caring for her at her end as she begged for cigarettes.

Her death broke my Dad, and I still care for him as he lives life as a hermit, fifteen years later.

I don’t have children of my own, or maybe one unofficially adopted one.

I am willing to make a number of sacrifices for the ones I love. This resolve has been tested but not yet broken.

But I am a stoner and a drinker, so have not escaped the same traps exactly.

I am more mindful of the choices I make, or at least that is what I tell myself. I keep a close community of those that I love and trust.

Stay away from tobacco. And probably alcohol as well. (And the hard drugs, coke/meth/opiates, of course.)

I have been obese my entire adult life. This year I have lost 30 lbs so far. But my despair has grown as I am also unemployed, so that weight loss has stalled. I can get back to it and will. This post was a good wakeup call.

This is also aggravated by the amount of posters who predominantly post from the same obscure source with no explanation.

I am not gonna vet your preferred news source. I will assume they are fringe and biased unless you make a case for them.

(This is also aggravated by RSS repost bots that cannot vet their content or its validity or appropriateness for the community in question. I tend to just block those firehoses.)

Prehistoric bananas were also vicious predators.

Easy. They are orange cats.

They don’t think, so they don’t believe they are. That is up to their worshippers.

You’re a real mean drunk, Superman.

No, he plays the masks.

Obviously the, ahem, climax is an orgy of Weird Als.

And so do I!

There was an old book I was listening to at work, in a crowded room (everyone wearing headphones) and snorted quite loudly as the line “He ejaculated about the room.”

What does Seal have to do with all this?!

I did say stealth sequel, so be wary.

Same author, great story, very different book. I’m sure you will still enjoy the read though.

It is a wonderful stealth sequel to Snow Crash as well. Good callout!

I have two dogs and four cats.

When I refill the pet fountain, my golden retriever loves to drink from the water as I pour it in.

It’s pretty cute, but I realize all the other animals have to drink her watered down spit.

I am lucky enough to live in Minnesota, where we already prioritize green spaces, and all those leftist values are generally centrist. And yes, the rest of the comment is directed at those in the thread who call us racist Nazis for being Americans who dare resist.

Sock shoe, sock shoe, because I have a golden retriever and don’t want her fur on my socks.

My protest was to leave and never return. I have been on Lemmy since that week.

The drug war has destroyed way too many families.

The left eats itself, but only faster than the right does. I thought the left might unite under the threat of fascism, but this thread shows that the far left and the far right just want most of the world dead. They want revenge, not solutions.

I increasingly feel that the only way to pull out of this is a new centrism. The opposite of neoliberalism, focusing on human rights, living wages, and liveable spaces. Environmentalism too, if that is even possible anymore. Basically things that are hard for anyone to deny the value of.

Work on your negative self-talk.

Each time you remember something and cringe or insult yourself, you overwrite that memory with you feeling shitty about it. It’s a terrible feedback mechanism.

Instead, laugh at your silly mistakes, celebrate your successes and failures, and forgive yourself.

It will take a long time to unwind the stuff you have done to yourself, but this is one technique you can just start doing - recognize when you are beating yourself up and do a little better.

It’s about the remake.