go away. you are a weirdo if you are reading this.
Yeah, well it's full of malicious actors now, an they generally out influence and overwhelm the ordinary user.
The internet was nice when it was a non-profit space for nerds, but now it's the main way to peddle money and influence in the world so it's nasty and corrupt.
the ideas of the early net were merely ideals and were never going to last once money got involved. very few ideals ever last once money and power become the currency.
it's not hyperbole dude. where in USA culture is being content with what you have celebrated or looking upon positive?
certainly not in our popular culture. maybe regionally sure, i have known mid-western people who were pretty content, but certainly not common attitude in most other parts of the country. maybe in more rural areas that's true, i certainly grew up in a town with people who had no ambition and many of whom never left or never improved their lives.
hell USA is the origin of the prosperity gospel. we are so obsessed with material greed we mixed it up with our religion.
yeah i could use a second bathroom sometimes, but it's not that big of a deal. i do have a hallway that i suppose cuts into my space, but it's basically the playroom for the pets.
I dunno, it seems in my demographic people expect 1500-2000 sq ft for two people, or 2500+ for a family. I've also been in other people's 1/2beds that are quite nice and spacious and listened to them complain about how awful and small they were.
i am considering buying a house, but really for the yard, not so much more housing space, and also to just move to a cheaper and more vibrant place.
Dude, it's lemmy.
anything anyone says means some random person has to come out of the wood work and turn into a historical battle of good vs evil.
you can't say 'i like cake' here without someone appearing to lecture you how enjoying cake makes you a fascist who supports the gaza genocide and if you REALLY were anti-fascist like they are, you'd never enjoy cake again and destroy all previously memories of cake enjoyment
my family are just people man. they aren't especially shitty people, they are just normal americans. they like football and hamburgers and the suburbs and vote republican. so basically... they are pure evil incarnate for the lemmy userbase. I am the weirdo to them, with my urban living and my small car and my democrat votes.
but some of us have lived our entire lives in a gray area of compromise, and see nothing wrong with that. it's just how ordinary everyday life is... full of compromise, faults, mistakes, and laughing about it. not all of us are holy keyboard warriors.
lol dude, they are my friends and family. I can't not be wrapped up in them.
Let me just never talk to people again I've known for 20+ years because they don't think the place I live is nice enough....
Personally I'll never understand the absolutist attitudes that are so prevalent on here or reddit. But hey, I use Windows computers, drive a car, and play video games on a console, I'm a heathen!
You can tell me these magical 'supportive' people exist, but to me they are entirely theoretical and I'll take real people over theoretical people. Just because folks don't support me one way doesn't mean they haven't supported me in others. But again... everything on the internet is this absolutist/extremist take. Clearly if I make a comment on the internet... about a legit social issue... I must be the one with a deep personal issue and insecurity or something... lol
This meme is a take on the whole sexist 'how dare men be happy with a simple home' thing. You know that, right? The 'issue' would exist regardless of me mentioning or not. I was simple relating to it in my own personal way, as I find it amusing how true this is, how folks get bent out of shape over my own home being 'too little' and I don't see 'the issue' with it that they do.
But maybe I should just buy $5000 worth of fancy pillows and that would solve it.
Yeah, but if you don't believe in God and everyone else around you worships that God, well that's just something you have to deal with isn't it?
It's bizarre but it is what it is. Not really on board with the moral purists here who are like 'root out the non-believers from your life'. I personally just don't care that much about housing, or cars, or job titles or any of that stuff. I roll with the punches of life, it's not like it's something I sit around stewing about hours per day, or talk to my therapist about every week.
it's anti social to think anyone who is different than you is toxic.
Yeah, I'm not as anti-social as that. I have never met anyone who isn't keeping up with the Jones.
you were wiping your ass with it, i was jerking off to it.
the world is beautiful.
most single people, or most couples? i'd agree with the latter.
fwiw most women I meet who say this are anti-kid. but they still want large homes. I don't get it, but we're not compatible anyway. I'd rather have a kid and live in a small place... sinking all my money into a large childless home is just weird to me.
Oh, they just tell me I'm a loser with no ambition when i push back. Or if it's someone I'm dating, they break up with me after telling me that. I am the one who is at fault here, not them.
I live in America man. You are not allowed to be modest and enjoy your life here. You have to always be striving for more and deeply unhappy with what you already have. It's the national religion. If you have 50K in the bank you need to want 500K, if you have 500K you need 5million, if you have 5 million you need to want 50 million, so on and so on. hedonistic treadmill never ends.
Where I live owning a modest 500K apartment is not considered achievement it's considered failure at life. Achievement is owning a 5 million dollar home. And in the places where they own 5 million dollar homes, they all want to own 50 million dollar ones.
he parties hard but he is responsible.
all the people i have known in metalwork or maker spacers were all far-left and kept injecting their politics and insecurity about being 'authentic' and 'cool' into everything. it's a major turn off.
i have no idea how heating up pieces of metal to merge them together or other stuff like that has anything to do with politics, but people can't help themselves. Also these spaces in my experience... were all well-off white people desperately trying to 'signal' they were not like 'white people'.
anyways, i take those kinda classes and hobby things at adult education centers and libraries and such... because no politics. a lot older crowd though but a lot less massive insecurity and injection of identity insecurity into everything. turns out the really cool people are the boring uncool ones.
it's a tool for a job for me.
to them, it's a religion.
I have no idea what you're talking about, but that's probably a good thing for me.
I don't understand what a fanbase is. Probably why I just enjoy stuff and don't really care about who else likes it though.
the uncle sleeps on the kitchen table.
so all my friends and family should be cut out of my life?
in the outhouse.
indoor plumbing didn't become widely available until after WW1, and it wasn't until after WW2 that it was universal.
yeah, but you get socially isolated if you don't consume it.
just like 30 years ago if you turned up your nose at mcdonalds everyone thought you were an asshole, because it was considered great thing and only weirdos would not eat there.
further all of this bleeds over into your real everyday life.