@moonbus said
Luxury problems. Like, ‘my Truth Social stocks just lost 35% of their imaginary value.’

Just like 'billionaire' problems just on a smaller scale.

@Russ said
A fairly significant web site update is about to land soon. If you would like to help test this beta, you can preview it right now at Beta.RedHotPawn.com.

Please login, just do your normal thing, and provide any feedback to :

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Looks cool, nice layout, more user-friendly, and lots of new features and buttons to do stuff. Faster too if Im not mistaken. Homepage seems to have more info. Good. I like it.

@drewnogal said
Give up factory farmed meat and give a few turkeys a happy short life in your garden. They’ll taste much better with a stress free life 🐣

Good Idea, but about half of the US population do not have a garden. Of those that do about half of them have only flowers and other inedible plants. Even less have chickens running around. The average family in the US have only dogs and cats. These stats are similar in most first world countries.

In fact having a garden that produces food or contains animals for food is banned in some residential areas, as the priority is preserving the market value of the neighbourhood.

@bigdogg said
I place a pickup order online with my local grocery store, and they're out of the very thing that prompted me to make the order.

Of course, their website doesn't warn you about this in advance.

You're hanging your hopes on the idea that no one in-store will buy the last one before the pickup-compiler-person does.

And the order is locked down on the website, so I can' ...[text shortened]... n people 😲 😫 as I wait for the pickup order to come out.

Why do bad things happen to good people.

I know your post is sarcastic, but do people in general still eat turkey slices? These things are carcinogenic.

@drewnogal said
There are links between childhood trauma and addiction.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/understanding-addiction/202109/why-trauma-can-lead-to-addiction

What would you say is the cause of childhood trauma?

@very-rusty said
I'd love to know what country you live in?

The working class are not always middle class you know. Have you heard of the working poor?

-VR

Its in my profile. Do you really believe all countries are like yours, and face the same kind of addictions like your society? Or that family life is the same? For real?

@cliff-mashburn said
Problem is we have to cater to them or be condemned as racist.

Thats what I said. If by catering you mean allowing them to abuse teachers the authorities have failed. It makes no difference what people condemn you as ... whether it is racist, bigot, islmaphobic, or whatever nonsense is in fashion. Being labeled as failures should be the prime concern of authorities.

@very-rusty said
That is all a thing of the past. In the real world in order for families to make it both parents need to be working. What you're talking about was done in the past. Name me a country in the world where it is possible for just one person to be working, and I am talking about the working class here not the very Rich would can afford to be with their children most of the time ...[text shortened]... are sent to boarding schools as the parents can't be bothered once they get to a certain age.

-VR

Are you saying that "stay at home middle class moms" do not exist in your society?

@cliff-mashburn said
https://www.amren.com/news/2024/04/student-slaps-woman-teacher-twice-across-the-face-while-hurling-profanities/

Your society has failed.
Your parents are weak.
Your teachers are lame.
Your government is hopeless.

... if youall are unable to discipline teenagers.

@very-rusty said
I believe the way the world is now, both parents have to work just to make ends meet. So that leaves the youngsters a lot of time without their parents around. It is not a parental control matter in my way of looking at it. More is of a society issue and way the world has changed, especially in the last 50 or so years.

-VR

In some parts of the world yes. Apparently materialistic living has become a priority. Raising good children took a distant second or third place in the lives of parents. Note that there are some some parts of the world where family life is the priority and these children grow up with far better values and zero addictions.

@very-rusty said
In my opinion all they managed to do is replace one addiction with another one.

-VR

It would be worthwhile to try to deal with the root cause of addiction. All these addictions is a fairly recent thing. I would think that some of these causes are:
- weak parental control
- parents and society that have addictions themselves so they are in no position to correct neither can they lead by example
- too much free time among young people.
- boredom

@shavixmir said
What the hell are you on about?

America is walking a fine tight rope on this Israeli question. They support Israel, but they don’t really appreciate murdering thousands of women and children in Gaza.

So the US administration is trying its beat to de-escalate the situation. Which is very hard to do with right-wing religious nutjobs in power. In Israel, Gaza and bloody ...[text shortened]... esponse was measured (so far).

Nothing trump could say or do would make the situation any better.

Well tell your Iranian buddies that Israel is now going after their nuclear facilities whether or not they are capable of producing nuclear weapons. Israel is not going to fire 300 lame missiles are random targets making fools of themselves.

@drewnogal said
Sounds like a nice way of life.

It is but there are some serious drawbacks [healthwise] being on a small island as health care is limited. There very little variety in the seasons as the temp is blazing hot and humid all year. Vacations require flying. In your case youall can get in your car and drive across Europe. I wish I could do that. All I can do here is relax on the beach anytime I want with a cooler of beers.

@wildgrass said
These comments in a thread on climate change make me think you have a couple dresses in your own closet.

Climate Change Fanatics = Drama Queens + Conspiracy Theorists.

Im not any of those 3.

@shavixmir said
I’d love a sex change. Multiple orgasms?
Fukk man, I’d have a giant mirror above the bed and would finger myself to death.

Go for it.