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I agree. At the root of it, people want to feel safe. This is a fundamental need. Religion does this for them because they don’t need to make decisions and they’re promised that if they follow it they will indeed be kept safe. Also spiritual bypass is awesome.

I use YouTube for instructions on how to do things. I can listen to podcasts anywhere.

I do grief work daily. I don’t cry often but I’m grateful when I do. It means that I’m healing.

That was interesting. Thanks for posting.

personally, i'd go for some stability and allow lemmy to create/develop it's own vibe. it doesn't need to grow and get big. those who seek alternatives will easily find it. let the people come to us.

the catchall term is that they're all examples of hierarchies.

Patriarchy

If you’re the type of person who buys new things often then yes. But if you buy the exact same stuff that you’ve been purchasing for 30 years, ads aren’t going to impact you today.

can we get a nsfw tag, that was very disturbing.

i just remember "dios mio no es beno" from that 70's show. i probably spelled that incorrectly.

although i cheated... i took 2 years of spanish in jr. high, and didn't learn shit. so i took my native language in hs and college. got an a- in college.

i just write mmmmmmm because you can never have too many m's.

i use excel. the win is having multiple credit cards that you use for specific categories. this makes keeping a budget super easy - i look at my checking account and know what category hits which credit card.