I looked into learning Mandarin - because it is a good financial decision. I started to learn some of the basic Japanese fonts because it seemed doable and fun.

I could get around with a single alphabet vs 2500 signs.
And don’t even start me on the tonal part. I’m considering if I really want to learn Chinese I actually have to think about it as singing and not as a language.

Lastly: I waste my life reading online magas - the Japanese and Korean ones are just higher quality, and I found less than a dozen readable Chinese ones.
Their storyboard is just that foreign - spending panels on things that doesn’t make sense translated to English, then skipping important details and just leave me hanging with the story.
And they just span like 400 episodes for no good reason.

But if you have a great adventure /romance / fantasy recommendation that has a good female lead with male characters actually having a personality I am all up for it! Ohh and the story also not just the Palace and harem and eperor bs…

If you like suffering like me: you can buy dollarstore seeds and to grow them from scratch.
Every spring they have everything you need to start: pots, crappy soil, seeds and watering can.
Then you can learn the skillz.

I’m honestly struggling growing sorrel from seeds. (Those were more expensive seeds) After it gets to about 4 leaves it just dies.

I did the mint idea once… The spider mites came with it killed my basil. You can call it karma. :D

I haven’t seen Cooking, Baking and even Gardening on the list.
These are hobbies that saved you serious amount of $$.
Making food from scratch is always cheaper and healthier.
If you don’t have much space you can have a tiny vertical garden (pallet) or just a few spiceso n your counter.
And technically growing weed to smoke is gardening and also saves money (tho I don’t know first hand, I don’t partake).

Edit: forgot about: hand sewing and hand embroidery, crochet and knitting. You can fix up clothes so they last longer - and you can spruce up existing clothes also.

I think it is how our brains were trained.
These sites - do not help with older content. This is a perfect example to an other post about how Internet used to have spaces.
Lemmy isn’t designed for long term - “let’s go back” content. Not even WordPress is.
Tho over there you can have tags and groups for articles so you can read it more easily.
At this point probably a wikia-type site would work better for readingbolder posts, but obviously not good for engagement and convos.

Yes, that’s makes sense.

Even when he is not doing it for you to enjoy? I mean he only does things he wants and doesn’t care if its doing anything for you?
I mean that’s a kink also. No shame here.

If we are talking like pizzahut kinda pizza: ham, pineapple, mushrooms, cheese - regular, sometimes stuffed crust.

If we talk pizza pizza just plain margherita.
Real great pizza don’t need much toppings.

Don’t you have to actually get your partners off? It means actually giving a shit if the other one enjoys it?

I’m not sure that mentality is capable of that.

If you don’t have schooling to get actual career going on - you might as well stay.

If you don’t like the job opportunities right where you speak the language and has full legal status - I guarantee you won’t like the jobs where you could get to.

Maybe the random junk I keep for crafting.
It was yesterday when I cut up a disposable container’s lid to keep a flat 4inch round see-through part. (I was thinking about using it as a base for fridge magnets - I can attach felt and embroidery to it)
I could just buy a big sheet of foamcore from dollar store, but no: random junk it is!

I suspect it is somewhat similar of women looking at each other and judging each other about "giving out free milk. Biggest slut shamers are women, tho men are right after them lol.

So from a purely guessing point of view:

Place in society, and perceived safety of norm enforcement and the fact, that historically being gay was (almost/mostly) a death sentence.

Raising yourself up by hating someone else “at least I am not XYZ” or “it would suck to be XYZ I’m so much better” is an easy copium.

And distraction also: if you hate someone else, you won’t have time to hate yourself.

Today - or technically yesterday, I rescued/relocated a tiny gecko. It was so tiny! And it was quick!
Out from the building to the bushes away from humans and birds.

He didn’t duck

Bitcoin machines are a huge ‘business’. And most people on the airport don’t need them, they already hid their valuables. But I have stories to tell about those machines - one thing is sure out of 10 customers 9 is a scam: usually older lady with their life savings in yheir purse and they will be on the phone. They will insist the one on the call is their son - although they are using heavily accented English and call them Ma’am.
The tenth one is a couple of people speaking in a Slavic language.

Just look at this picture: https://esahubble.org/images/heic0406a/
This is my go to when my problems start to feel too big :D

Maybe a chance meeting with a nameless person who made an impact on a bad day.
I like to give out genuine compliments to random people - great dress, love your hair, I love your wibe etc…
It would be lovely to be remembered and forgotten as the nameless stranger.

They taste awful.
“Equal distribution” of wealth sounds way better.

Apocalypse by default isn’t survivable.

Probably I would try to enjoy the last 3 days and at the end I would repent because it would not hurt to cover all the bases.

If it would be survivable: I would not last long. Medical / vision / dental coverage is in short supply during the end of days.
Find a good fortress/ship with water and solar panels, download Wikipedia (annas archive), gather seeds and growing supplies, tools to fix stuff, duct tape: Realistically not happening.

Nope h the question of “why would they pay for that?” Comes often to my mind.
I just saw a pearl white wrapped tesla. It had a very very light pink sheen to it, it was basically 99% white…