Asafum
@Asafum@feddit.nl
- Comment on Congrats to all 2024 college graduates! 1 day ago:
The only hobbies I actually enjoy require space: gardening and lapidary “arts” (gem/stone cutting). I can’t buy equipment because I don’t have the space to store them and having to move every 2-3 years is not only very difficult when you have more stuff but also really damn expensive.
So there’s that, and there’s retirement. Having set expenses (aside from taxes) is super important and you’ll never have that with renting when you’re retired.
Then again who am I kidding, I’m 38 and working in a factory. My retirement will be whenever I decide to buy a gun lol
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 1 day ago:
While it’s still in the “vegetation” stage look up how to “clone” plants and you can make that one plant into as many as you can successfully clone!
- Comment on Birds of a feather 5 days ago:
I’ve heard this in terms of “doors” so couldn’t you just ask “are you a door?” The liar has to say no
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 1 week ago:
This is pretty much where I’m at too. I don’t hate conservative voters, but I have such distain for conservative politicians for all the hate and pain they foment.
For most people I believe “no one is the villain of their own story” they believe they’re doing the right thing with what information they are presented. For politicians, they’re the fucking scum of the earth and I wish hell was real so those fuckers could rot in it.
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 1 week ago:
There are a few there I would argue arent specific to conservativism like labor having value and freedom of religion, but yeah I could see those on the left having an issue with too much concern over spending as the government isn’t the same as your personal bank account that needs to be balanced.
- Comment on 2x2 lumber at Home Depot is now 1.28x1.28. Nominal size is supposed to be 1.5 1 week ago:
And they all had onions on their belts as was the style at the time.
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 1 week ago:
And why “just find a group hobby to meet a girl” is such bullshit advice. I worry about making women feel uncomfortable when they’re just out living their lives so the only place I have to actually reach out to anyone are the absolute atrocious hellholes that are online dating sites…
- Comment on I diagnose you with dystopia 2 weeks ago:
“Welcome to Costco, I love you.”
- Comment on It helps to set your preferred age range from 18-110 for full coverage 3 weeks ago:
Same, 38.
It doesn’t happen for everyone. Life isn’t a fairly tale. :/
- Comment on Anon has an asexual gf 3 weeks ago:
Why? I honestly don’t get it. I want my partner to be my best friend, but I don’t think about my other friends sexually.
I don’t want kids so I don’t think about partners in that respect. I do want them to be my last relationship though.
- Comment on teachings 3 weeks ago:
I wish it was that easy! I stopped thinking and I’m still stuck here… Stupid Descartes
- Comment on Give them 10 minutes, tops. 4 weeks ago:
My friends sister literally watched the people drive away with her car and immediately called the cops. Their response was “we won’t be able to find them, call your insurance company.” Thanks guys, dont even bother helping people… They couldn’t be more than 3 blocks away, you fuckers have cops all over town waiting to jump on a speeder but you can’t put out a call to be on the lookout for a car of her color and make?
- Comment on natural sciences be like 4 weeks ago:
Sunlight, all light really is absolutely fucking mind blowing.
Hell, all things are absolutely mind blowing when you get down to the point that you’re discussing excitations of this or that specific field…
- Comment on no thanks, crystal mami 4 weeks ago:
My last serious relationship was with a girl who got really excited when I finished her sentence “most people don’t realize (our area) is…”
“mostly Quartz!”
I still miss her… She moved away to go to school, but it was only a few hours away so I don’t think she misses me lmao
- Comment on High quality channel 4 weeks ago:
That fucking flag man… What was it like 6 years? MuH hErItAgE!
The vast majority of my families ancestry comes from Italy, but as an American from a family who has been here for over 100 years, keeping an Italian flag just feels incredibly stupid and “fake” to me.
- Comment on Ask ChatGPT to pick a number between 1 and 100 4 weeks ago:
Yep! The hitchhikers books are so much fun lol
- Comment on United Scams of Assholes 5 weeks ago:
“I know you had plants growing and the electricity is expensive for those bulbs. Also the garden was messy during the winter so I’m keeping your security.”
…it was a 50w led running on a timer. Get fucked.
- Comment on it works! only 99.99$! 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on gaming 5 weeks ago:
No, but we should be.
- Comment on Greatest train robbery ever 5 weeks ago:
“I see a lot of diabetic squirrels in your future… My god that’s a lot of diabetic squirrels…”
- Comment on My moon is in Silty Loam but my Sun sign is Clay. 5 weeks ago:
My favorite “Big X” thing was something I just found on lemmy recently, it had me laughing harder than it really should have tbh.
“Big Small is just trying to get you to buy more less!”
- Comment on aliens. 5 weeks ago:
What I love about those things is that no one that believes them stops to think “these aliens were smart enough to create vessels capable of traversing the vastness of space, but they can’t comprehend the fact that we use written language not whatever the hell crop circles are supposed to mean other than Visual Math Pretty.”
- Comment on I'm working on it, ok? 1 month ago:
Psh look at this sun breather. I just de-evolved myself by my bootstraps and float near a hydrothermal vent like a real adult
- Comment on I feel old 1 month ago:
That one has me a bit torn because the n-word is used for any black person and obviously meant to hurt them. On the other hand, “the w-word” just means a white guy who dresses and acts like a gangsta rapper from the 90s-00s
Is that offensive?
- Comment on Quest 1 becomes near-E-waste Apr 30 1 month ago:
Thank you for that info! I have a really hard time spending a lot of money on myself so I’ve been putting off buying a vr set for years and years now, but if I was to get one it would be valve or pico because screws Facebook. Now I guess it’s just valve though…
- Comment on Why do people around me tend to increase their responsibility load (i.e. have children, become a manager, do charity, etc.) while I (30M) try to avoid it as much as I can? 1 month ago:
Empathy. Yep you read that right! Ambition isn’t the only driving force to take on more responsibility. Empathy can lead people to see the ways to improve others’ lives, workloads, and more!
I actually really resonate with that one. I pretty much ended up in the psudo-managment position I’m in because I kept seeing ways to improve life for those around me and it required me getting more and more involved in things outside of my specific role. It got to the point that I became the “go to” guy and ended up with a bunch of responsibilities, but at least the work is a little easier for those I work with directly on the factory floor and a few people in the office as well.
- Comment on My go-to formula 1 month ago:
I do it in specific instances where I want to express a pause, like “that was…ok?” I also use it when I want what I’m saying to come off as annoyed. “The shipment was late, again…”
I actually worry about exclamation points because I use them like OPs image, but I always worry people take it as yelling or something lol
- Comment on Thrill seekers 1 month ago:
Considering my retirement is essentially whenever I decide to buy a gun I agree with this.
I’ve been forced to be alive this whole time for my family, but once I hit a medical “wall” I’m out and I just hope whoever is left can understand I can only suffer for so many decades lol
- Comment on When a cave has better wifi than I do 1 month ago:
OP is a camera
- Comment on Nerding out in group is fun tho 1 month ago:
This is exactly my problem. I love explaining things, as a kid I wanted to be “that guy” you’d see on discovery channel (before it was all mermaids and reality TV bullshit.) but I can’t stand pretty much anything about myself lol
I hate hearing my own voice and I think I look like Peewee Herman after going through a wood chipper and getting pummled in an MMA match. No one should have to suffer through watching me lol