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  • All my adult life, his books have been a refuge from (in order of era)

    Conspicuous consumption

    Boomer narcissism

    Yuppies

    Reaganomics .........

    Fundamentalism , extreme Christianity

    Class warfare

    White supremacy

    ........

    More recently he has laser focused on

    Societal roles

    Nuerodivergence

    Scalding the hell out of Trump and maggats

    He's literally a moral and ethical compass for many and can reach us when we are young.

    As he and I have aged, he's literally been a comfort in the way he writes about our actual ghosts snd what haunts us.

    He's brilliant ,I'm a huge fan can you tell? Cheers

  • And the law passed that family members could sue doctors for administering mis...priizone? Sp.

    Even in non pregnancy cases if the patient could possibly pregnant.

    From an interview with an Idaho doctor who was trying to decide if they would stay or go.

  • I am gainfully employed but keep an eye on what's available in the US just to see what opportunities are out there. I started seeing some insane salaries and so checked the offers out. Five minutes of research shows that even with the highest salary , there is literally no place to live. Neither rent nor purchase. Because it's a service like Indeed, I don't see a way to contact the job poster directly and see if they are even aware this is an issue. Many of the postings are around one month old.

    You mentioned nursing, here in the US, hospitals have been pared back to mostly large urban areas. This caused my brain to hurt.

    Cheers and luck, I hope y'all don't end up renting in old age!

  • We need more well built homes. This is the hidden crisis inside the housing crisis. I have a friend who has actually paid for two homes but only owns one. It's been one thing after another in large and serious issues.
    Shoddy and fast housing has been a problem, but now we are also here ,just after all this flip culture. Be careful and thorough, if we ever get the chance to buy that is.

  • I wasn't serious when I said I'd fall in line behind you. Emojis on are a world wide phenomenon. If it doesn't appeal to you then move on. Are you this controlling and intolerant irl? Or are you just petty online? Since you seem to lack social nuance, I'll be clear, I don't really care by asking these questions. I am asking you to ask yourself. Pettiness and coercion are also a social cancer

  • I've loved the thoughtful discourse on Lemmy, I've grown weary of seeing news about reddit in the feed. Reddit died long before this last bit, becoming a haven for a particular, ill informed, consensus seeking group.

    Then tonight, I had a reddit moment here on Lemmy where some non socialized, rude, consensus seeking user wanted to snipe and sounded like an over protected , suburban, adolescent boy.

    I haven't seen one of those here yet and they are the absolute plague of open discourse .

    Please Lemmy, don't let it go on.

  • Same here , the other day I thought to myself "how the fuck did I get poor again??!!" Two years ago I was feeling pretty proud! I'm deep in the letter writing currently, one I'll give to my employer.

  • A show about engineering to solve water problems in Italy were both inspiring and heartbreaking to me ,being here in the usa. We really are so far behind ,and more than a little scrubby.

    Capitalism and Reaganomics, Citizens United , was the beginning of our decline. It's all been fast food culture since. I hate not feeling proud of where I live.

  • I went to join Planet Fitness, they insist on an app. They watched me leave. Kroger charged more than advertised, ooooh it was a digital coupon only available through the app. I left the item with the cashier. Order out? Only on an app? I guess I didn't want to eat that so much anyway.

    Edit to add: I don't know how we are going to deal with apps that are forced upon you, that feels really gross especially if you are younger, like at your school. Forced commodification should be illegal.

    Not going to do it, it feels controlling and abusive and I've worked too damn hard to let that shit go on.