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Cake day: July 30th, 2023

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  • All my adult life, his books have been a refuge from (in order of era)

    Conspicuous consumption

    Boomer narcissism

    Yuppies

    Reaganomics …

    Fundamentalism , extreme Christianity

    Class warfare

    White supremacy

    More recently he has laser focused on

    Societal roles

    Nuerodivergence

    Scalding the hell out of Trump and maggats

    He’s literally a moral and ethical compass for many and can reach us when we are young.

    As he and I have aged, he’s literally been a comfort in the way he writes about our actual ghosts snd what haunts us.

    He’s brilliant ,I’m a huge fan can you tell? Cheers



  • I wasn’t serious when I said I’d fall in line behind you. Emojis on are a world wide phenomenon. If it doesn’t appeal to you then move on. Are you this controlling and intolerant irl? Or are you just petty online? Since you seem to lack social nuance, I’ll be clear, I don’t really care by asking these questions. I am asking you to ask yourself. Pettiness and coercion are also a social cancer


  • I’ve loved the thoughtful discourse on Lemmy, I’ve grown weary of seeing news about reddit in the feed. Reddit died long before this last bit, becoming a haven for a particular, ill informed, consensus seeking group.

    Then tonight, I had a reddit moment here on Lemmy where some non socialized, rude, consensus seeking user wanted to snipe and sounded like an over protected , suburban, adolescent boy.

    I haven’t seen one of those here yet and they are the absolute plague of open discourse .

    Please Lemmy, don’t let it go on.







  • Very same here. I delivered pizza in Atlanta in 1988 and shared a two bedroom on Piedmont park for a total of 550.00 month. I was so worried about making it too lol. Now as a person 30 years in my field and making fair money , I am paycheck to paycheck with little ability to save. To be fair, I’ve started over a couple of times , divorce etc. Starting over is expensive and takes a long leveling off but this economy is adding a lot of time on it.