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by emptystation 3y ago
If I earn $1000$/m, and I save $100/m - in a year, I'll maybe have $1200 saved up. 10% is so little for most you might as well spend it. Personal rant: I've been saving up 20-50% of my salary for the last 5 years for
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by emptystation 3y ago
I speak Russian fluently but I wish I didn't. I don't find it beautiful and the information that I've involuntarily consumed in Russian throughout all my life did more harm than good. Overall, I am fluent in 4 languages, 2 we
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by emptystation 3y ago
Agree, cities are just plain more interesting for many. I also believe that life should be about discovery and creating but I'm not exactly sure what can be discovered in a shack in a middle of nowhere unless you're very outdoorsy
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by emptystation 3y ago
I think what angers many people in the comments is the fact that OP is not poverty-stricken, he's a downshifter. Nothing wrong with that, just no reason to conflate the two. Downshifting is a completely different situation and lifestyl
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by emptystation 3y ago
Ads insensitive platforms to design a more and more addictive infinite feed. If they cannot profit from children scrolling endlessly, why would they want to enable children to scroll endlessly? If ads for children on social media are banned
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by emptystation 3y ago
Thank you for sharing, very interesting points! I wonder if Silent Gen and Boomers have had a change in their perception of beauty with age. Once you're out of reproductive age as a woman, beauty works differently for you. There must b
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by emptystation 3y ago
It's not only that. Books are not ads. There can be bad books filled with stupid ideas and garbage stories but the purpose of literature is not to advertise something. Modern social media is just advertisement in disguise of entertainm
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by emptystation 3y ago
Right. I got a feeling that the OP is OK with their situation because they feel rather safe in their life conditions, there's an undertone "well if I _really really_ have to, I can take that job, or call my middle class parents, o
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by emptystation 3y ago
>I would agree with that, although my experience is mostly limited to America. I grew up in Ukraine and have been living in the Czech Republic for the last 5 years, it's pretty much the same here, there are some slight differences a
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by emptystation 3y ago
I'd say some co-op games work well if they are paced well - when you circle through levels where you can idly chat, levels where you have to intellectually cooperate (solve puzzles together and such), and something more dynamic (shoote
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by emptystation 3y ago
I am one of those women who would wear an ill fitting bra over a well fitting one if a well fitting one accentuated my back fat. When you're conditioned to look and present themselves a certain way, it's almost impossible to fight