It’s like someone who has no formal education but has a high level of confidence and eavesdrops on a lot of random conversations.

If you have the money, when stocks go down buy don’t sell.

Yep OP should get out of their misery cycle by at least sharing a little of the misery they feel. Could be helpful.

I think this is a married couple deciding not to walk through a relationship minefield together and it seems very reasonable. Yeah maybe he could be more open-minded but it is very nice of her to not rock the boat.

I was not interested in Harry Potter until I visited the Universal Studios portrayal of Diagon Alley, that is really well done and sucked me right in. Watched all the movies after that. Even then the plots weren’t amazing but the world building is great.

Some people are born into a family with wealth and different advantages.

Money isn’t everything and many of the ways to acquire a lot of money are cruel and exploit people and the environment.

You are more worried about supporting your family and living a good life than trying to get every dollar like Mr Krabs.

I can at least say that Jerboa 0.55 has upvotes and downvotes.

If they’re making less money, any less money, that will hurt their feelings really bad.

At least modern hardware runs the spaghetti code much better than Windows XP used to run.

If Muskrat signs up for Lemmy he will pay someone for a high upvote account.

Depends on the type of religion. One that preaches peace and tolerance and service and is against greed could be beneficial.

But the type of Christian fascists that elected Trump are not beneficial to society. They’re the ones that either want you kiss dear leader’s ass or die.

Let you for now, probably require it later.

You can say that shared photos are higher quality than SMS. That’s how I got some of my friends to switch.

The fact that people are subscribing to office software is the biggest problem here. What sort of technical breakthroughs require so many updates that a subscription is necessary?

This coincides with Google search getting worse and now including the AI slop.

What’s the best alternative to Google these days?

Good people working for evil companies and occasionally sneaking in good things is better than evil people working for evil companies and never doing anything good.

But also he might. This isn’t news.

IME hardest part is getting up and getting out the door. After that things usually aren’t so bad.

I also give myself things to look forward to, reward myself.

The Mandalorian, Andor, and Skeleton Crew are all good IMO.

YMMV but when I’ve listened to videos with action and peril, the sudden shouting/explosions/whatever would wake me up.

If you have ad-free YouTube, James May The Reassembler, Astrum, and John Michael Godier are excellent to fall asleep to.