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- Comment on I'm pretty sure all of us have given up on any boomer giving us anything anyway 10 hours ago:
My aunt talked her mom out of kitchen remodel because it’s going to cost so much (that she’ll get smaller ineritance then) while my grandmom, who already spends most of her time alone at home then can’t even spend her savings to make her surroundings a bit nicer.
- Comment on I'm pretty sure all of us have given up on any boomer giving us anything anyway 11 hours ago:
I don’t see that. To me it reads as guilt tripping the parents for wanting to spend the money they themselves earned.
- Comment on I'm pretty sure all of us have given up on any boomer giving us anything anyway 11 hours ago:
My criticism isn’t aimed at parents who want to leave an inheritance to their kids. It’s directed at those kids who expect it from their parents, as if they’re somehow entitled to it.
- Comment on I'm pretty sure all of us have given up on any boomer giving us anything anyway 13 hours ago:
Inheritance from who? Your poor parents?
- Comment on I'm pretty sure all of us have given up on any boomer giving us anything anyway 16 hours ago:
What on earth are you talking about? Generational wealth is not a binary thing. There are people rich enough to pass their fortune to their kids and then there are ones who can’t. That’s how it has always been and that’s how it’s always going to be.
- Comment on I'm pretty sure all of us have given up on any boomer giving us anything anyway 16 hours ago:
What’s infuriating about this? Why the heck should I inherit something I haven’t worked for? I’ve always told my parents and grandparents that dying with an empty bank balance is the ideal way to go. Hell, preferably be in debt.
- Comment on Sure, WSJ. Next do an article on Selection Bias 1 day ago:
Maybe if we just go around shooting everyone whose better off that ourselves then one day we’ll all be equally poor and miserable.
- Comment on We need a new Amazon 4 days ago:
Ebay and Aliexpress seem to work just fine. I’ve only once ever ordered something from Amazon.
- Comment on how do I become the dullest, most boring coworker so this needy man leaves me alone? 4 days ago:
Maybe you should just tell him?
- Comment on TW: suicide 6 days ago:
I imagine in the worst case you could miss the brain but the muzzle flash could potenttially blow off your lower jaw.
- Comment on This app requires access to your contacts 6 days ago:
I know you’re joking but a toilet that analyzes your stool would be quite remarkable health monitoring device to go along with our smartwatches and stuff. I bet there’s loads of health markers you could see from it.
- Comment on Is there anything Lemmy has more/better content for than Reddit and other mainstream sites? 1 week ago:
I think one of the few things Lemmy is better at is that I can go into 8hr old thread with 120 replies and write a comment and then have people actually read that comment too and react to it.
With 99% of AskReddit threads for example, posting a reply was complete waste of time unless you were among the first ones in. Almost all of the top comments were always also among the first comments.
- Comment on What are examples of things that would get you banned on reddit, but is okay on most major instances of Lemmy? 1 week ago:
Getting banned from Lemmy is orders of magnitude easier. During my 10+ years on reddit I can only remember one occasion when I got banned from a sub but it has happened on Lemmy multiple times over the 1.5 years I’ve been here and comments being removed is a regular thing.
On reddit you need to actually break the rules. On Lemmy it’s enough that a mod doesn’t like what you’re saying.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
So the previous accusation didn’t quite stick so lets ignore that and start accusing me of something else instead.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
Except that if you read it again, you’ll see that it’s not, in fact, a blanket statement. I intentionally avoid speaking in absolutes, and I refrained from doing so here as well, buddy.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
You asking wether people making blanket statements have any nuance in their views?
In the most cases I’d say no.
- Comment on Bumper sticker 2 weeks ago:
Fun fact, a recent study reported that cis women have an advantage over trans women in sports due to their higher testosterone levels allowing them to build more muscle mass.
It’s more nuanced than that. It depends on how long you’ve lived as a male before transitioning and how long ago you transitioned. Also not all trans people are taking hormones.
- Comment on Bumper sticker 2 weeks ago:
I especially like the crybaby bitch in the end which makes sure the people this is directed at just double down on their stance. Perfect example of what’s wrong with U.S. politics.
Also not a meme.
- Comment on what's the best way to react if a guy stares at you like he wants to have sex with you when you're doing yoga? 2 weeks ago:
“I’m not interested in trying to convince you otherwise” is such a simple statement, yet you keep asking the same thing again and again. If this is too diffucult of a concept for you to comprehend I can’t possibly imagine you to grasping my nuanced view on any of the subjects you mentioned. I’ve engaged with enough of people like you to know to pick my battles.
- Comment on what's the best way to react if a guy stares at you like he wants to have sex with you when you're doing yoga? 2 weeks ago:
I’m not interested in trying to convince you otherwise.
- Comment on what's the best way to react if a guy stares at you like he wants to have sex with you when you're doing yoga? 2 weeks ago:
I cannot defend nor explain the cause for a view I don’t hold.
- Comment on what's the best way to react if a guy stares at you like he wants to have sex with you when you're doing yoga? 2 weeks ago:
I’m not interested in trying to convince you otherwise.
- Comment on what's the best way to react if a guy stares at you like he wants to have sex with you when you're doing yoga? 3 weeks ago:
You’re free to think of me what you want. I’m not interested in trying to convince you otherwise.
- Comment on what's the best way to react if a guy stares at you like he wants to have sex with you when you're doing yoga? 3 weeks ago:
You already said “I’ll take that as a yes” and that’s more than fine by me. You’re free to think of me what you want. I’m not interested in trying to convince you otherwise.
- Comment on what's the best way to react if a guy stares at you like he wants to have sex with you when you're doing yoga? 3 weeks ago:
No need to apologize. I’m only amused by this.
Please tell me more about me. It’s my favourite subject.
- Comment on what's the best way to react if a guy stares at you like he wants to have sex with you when you're doing yoga? 3 weeks ago:
Oh no. A random person on the internet thinks I’m something I’m not. How can I ever recover from this.
- Comment on Why did the first people to settle in very cold climates decide to settle in such a harsh climate? 3 weeks ago:
As a Finn I’ve often wondered about the same thing. In the summer the air is filled with mosquitos and in the winter it hurts your face and lungs yet some people were like “yep, we’ll settle here”
- Comment on what's the best way to react if a guy stares at you like he wants to have sex with you when you're doing yoga? 3 weeks ago:
No, but intentions matter. Autistic people are often socially awkward or clunky as well, but you wouldn’t call them a dipshit because of it, would you?
- Comment on what's the best way to react if a guy stares at you like he wants to have sex with you when you're doing yoga? 3 weeks ago:
If what I’m saying even remotely resembles something your caricature of the “other” might say, then the only logical conclusion, of course, is that I must be exactly like them.
- Comment on what's the best way to react if a guy stares at you like he wants to have sex with you when you're doing yoga? 3 weeks ago:
So you know he had good intentions yet you’re still calling him a dipshit.