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I'm doing my small part.

Went from 100% lurker on Reddit to regularly active lemmy commenter

How could you forget about the famous trash city of gary Indiana?

There’s also Wire

E2EE and can be used as desktop or phone app interchangeably. No phone number required for signup.

Family has been using this for years now

But how do you know if it’s censored 🤔

Right?

Came here to say fake and gay but damn, that last line changes everything

I pay for kagi because it's genuinely less frustrating to use than searxng, duckduckgo, bing, and whatever shit Google is up to these days.

They're fine search engines but after years of using them I found they annoyed me sometimes; their limitations will surface if you use them long enough. In contrast, I haven't ran into a kagi search results page yet that has annoyed me by not finding what I expected to see.

The problem is that Google was good for a long time and then that became the bar everything is measured against. None of the free ones I tried came as close to that Google-like search from the before times as this paid service does.

I think you’re overestimating the influence of doomscrolling, internet and politics in the scope of needing meds to feel baseline, but it definitely plays a part.

Those things, broadly speaking, are somewhat transient unless said politics directly affect your safety or rights to live life, or of those you care about. This applies to a lot of people.

Now I'm retired at age 55. My house is paid off. I have no debt. Live in a beautiful mountain city of 500,000 people. I have chickens in my backyard

now I just fuck around on Lemmy all day, write and publish my fiction, and take trips with my gf.

This is more in line with why many in my cohort are struggling. Your situation is out of reach for most of us now because of a whole lot of economic reasons outside of our control. The singular person being able to side hustle their way to a house with backyard chickens and money for vacations is a win no doubt, but also the exception to the rule.

Lifting our noses off the grindstone and looking at the horizon shows a future without hope of any of this changing. Too much stacked against us.

And for lots of other long term reasons. One off the top of my head, the microplastics accumulating in our bodies. That’s definitely going to be a problem.

My point is that a lot of people would be well served by not worrying so fucking much about the state of politics and the world at large

The cliff notes version is that people are surviving, not living. You are living.

You should enjoy the fruits of your labor, truly. Just be aware your path isn’t one we can follow anymore

You will find that there are lots of folks these days that have trouble coping with the collective stress of a bleak present and future.

Meds just help us feel closer to normal so we can function instead of having a nervous breakdown every other week.

I’m a little envious that you have the resiliency and coping mechanisms outside of meds to deal with it all

No better way to get people who used to voluntarily give you money to give you more money than threatening them.

Let's be real, anon would be back in his cave within the first week. You don't go 2 decades of not lifting a finger to being a hard worker no matter what the pay is

Jesse, we need to produce more Balenciaga

What’s the game plan if they did?

Trade restrictions?

China already proved those did fuck all to stop them from developing their own model.

Ducking knew this ai bubble would burst sooner or later, just glad we can finally get on with it now.