Uh, most reasonable people want this. Extended Universes are so early 2010's.

In fairness, at the time, many Europeans believed in faries nd other creatures, including these guys:

https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/720095/view/mythical-horned-beasts-17th-century

One step closer? Wrong. That line was plenty crossed when he had both his daughter pushing canned Goya goods from the WH, as a Senior Adviser(!?), and his son-in-law working in the Middle East file. Corruption or grifting? Why not a bit from colummn A and B?

https://www.citizensforethics.org/news/press-releases/ivanka-trump-beans-ethics-complaint/

Best way, try to be as self-reliant, both as an individual and as a group/family/friends. So it helps to have the same mindset. Quality will always beat quantity in this regard. Not to mention will help make you more content. Ignore happiness, it is a short, fleeing feeling that marketers will exploit. Contentment lasts. Seek that. Worth noting my background was in Marketing before I walked away from it.

So, minimize consumerism, keep it reasonable, ethical and try to grow or make most or at least part of your food. The more the better. Learning how to cook well is a good start. Highly limit social media in general.

I stopped watching TV cable over a decade ago. I am amused and minimally horrified at ads online and on TV these days. Social media is little different.

Use uBlock on FF derivatives and you will never see ads. That alone is very worth it, specially over time.

Saving up can be done with things that have value, focus on real world assets. Never too early to start.

Looking at the post at face value, and joke aside, it sounds that it was a one way conversation for 30+ minutes, non-stop.

Esoteric knowledge can be interesting. A sure sell selling point about you to a stranger on a first meeting it ain't.

"Hi, how are you? ...Good? Great. Let me go on for 30min on a topic you may care or not about and do so uninterrupted, and if you don't like it, I will make a quippy post online about it, okay? Like, for sure people will take my side. Win/win."

Most people dislike her. Most black people do not lile her. She bleeds black staff constantly, this was on the news. Like what has she really done with her given portfolio? Most people are barely aware of what it even is.

Just saw that Biden will be not taking a Mental Cognitive Test on his next physical. Wonder why.

Maybe because there are a number of videos lile this plus all the recent stuff. It is concerning. I bet they will swap for Newsom.

https://t.co/v4rgPrOqV8

Always knew my unrelated OSM API key was useful for something. LOL

As a side note, OSM does trails in parks and the like with exquisite detail, much better than Google Maps. Just in case.

They can't and they never could. NATO used the conflict as a proxy war to weaken their Geopolitical enemy, Russia. Down to the last Ukrainian. The Goverment us now also throwing women into the war.

A Peace Treaty could have been put in place back in 2022, but the UK in behalf of NATO told them to throw it out and fight. Look at them now, the USA is done with them. Funding is over. Hundreds of thousands dead for next to difference, the Ukrainians decimated. Not to mention dead Russians which was the USA's calculus. I mean, they say this openly now. A proxy war meant to weaken Russia.

And before anyone who drank the Kool-Aid thinks I am a Russian supporter, go screw yourselves. I have no care for Putin. The reality is that the USA and NATO promised to not entrench themswvles into Russia's sphere of influence back in ~~1985~~ 1991, and then proceeded to immediately break their word for the next 30 years. Playing behind the scenes manipulating the Ukrainian goverment for the last 20 years. Essentially the same shit that we all call Russia out for doing.

The Cuban missile crisis almost threw us into WW3 because the Russians dared to stretch its field of influence to 90 miles off Florida. But when NATO does the same and more, somehow Russia is meant to not care? Come on. I agree that we are biased but we cannot be so blind of such hypocrisy.

No superpower wants another superpower, either next to their borders or for even near. China funds North Korea just so they do not have South Korean jexto their border and the USA had a fit with Cuba back in the Kennedy days.

It is just the same old Geopolitics, played by the USA, Chiba, Russia et al. But you could not say this 2 years ago, because our propaganda pushed the notion that stating reality somehow made people "Putin puppets." Got to give it to USA propaganda, made people feel so strongly about a country most Americans could not have even been able to find on a map days prior.

Edit: All anyone has to do is be honest with themselves and literally open a history book and will see that Everything I say is true and correct. Facta do not make me a Putin or Biden supporter, just makes me objective. Albeit I may be off with the year 1984. Will update.

Of course they are. Mods there in general are ridiculous. Remember when less than 20 supermods had a huge hand in controlling hundreds of the top Subs?

Or, how they talked about standing up during the API change with the blackout and then almost immediately folded when even the whiff of their imaginary sense power was threaten? Never have seen such incredulous mass backpedaling.

Screw that platform. Too much over centralisation, anyway. Fediverse is the way.

The Lockdowns ended up being poison to the middle class. Not to mention horrible for the mental health of millions and removed the development of children in specific demographics. :-(

That is impressive since the world share for Linux is something below 4%. So the uptake is over double of that of the rest of the world.

Makes sense, when I check new distro/apps videos on YT, something like 70% of them are made by Indian people.

Lots of users swear by the app. They would use it if they could. They can now, for Lemmy.