Freedom comes at a cost, what you want is for other people to shoulder the burden and take care of you and that’s not an option beyond a certain age, and having someone do that for you also comes at a cost.

Your basic needs will be met either in the military or in prison, but that’s not freedom.

You can get a job and pay for your basic needs on your own, which while also not freedom, is still better than the military or prison. :)

You can enroll in college and have food/shelter taken care of, but if you don’t have a job to pay for it, you’ll bury yourself in debt, paying for your freedom now, with debt chains later.

You guys must hate it when I point this stuff out:

https://lemmy.world/comment/16101271

Phone functionality is the least of my problems, I need an open source replacement for Android Auto / Apple CarPlay.

Not sure how that would work, you’d either have to emulate it to talk to the infotainment system, or get all the infotainment producers to add an open source layer… Sounds like a nightmare either way.

Dress uniform FTW!

Man, I don’t even know…

Google says… 4/20.

Did you see some of the guys at the Oscars this year?

Colman Domingo SLAYED it.

https://www.instyle.com/best-dressed-men-oscars-2025-11689188

We can have sash belts now? Nobody told me!

Doubling down makes them even more entrenched, then they start believing CRAZIER things.

They actively reject the evidence and believe what they want to an even greater degree.

Confronting them with the flaws in their thinking only makes them double down:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/darwins-subterranean-world/202401/why-do-people-double-down

Mostly? Soundtrack. Put a creepy soundtrack on the Truman Show and it is a horror movie.

https://youtu.be/1nIB5kWU_ok

As a rule, we don’t handle the unexpected well. When my grandfather died from lung cancer, it was a long, protracted ordeal involving hospice care. Everyone was prepared, nobody was surprised.

When my dad died from a massive heart attack in the middle of nowhere in Nevada, a month after retiring, it was a shock, nobody saw it coming. He didn’t make it long enough for the life flight helicopter to get there. Reportedly his last words were “Oh no.”

It’s one thing to plan for a death, it’s another to be slapped in the head with one.

A 3D representation of a classic logo.

This comes to mind:

Common wisdom:

Cheap - Good - Fast

You can only pick two. Is this necessarily true? Not always, but a lot of the times… yeah.

“War is Peace,” “Freedom is Slavery,” and “Ignorance is Strength.”

Diversity of opinion. If all your friends are family members, you’re living in a bubble.

It’s not necessarily a BAD thing, it’s good to be friends with your parents, not everbody has that.

But you should meet more people and have friends outside family members.

I haven’t worked in a library since the early 80s so I imagine it’s way different now…

It was a lot of administrative work:

Prepping new books for the shelves.
Replacing old newspapers and magazines.
Checking books out/in
Shelving
Updating the card catalog
Every now and then helping somebody

Swatting is normal behavior, even among litter mates. It starts as playful grooming, then someone decides to bite for no apparent reason and it turns into hissing and swatting.

They’ll figure it out.

Check it on 4/1 or shortly after, my scores update monthly.

I mean, pretty hard to tell since I don’t work for a reporting agency, but that many credit pulls and cancellations close together, along with the rapid increase and decrease in available credit, plus multiple closed accounts isn’t going to do you any favors.

Do any of your current cards have a credit score option on them? Will be interesting to see how that changes.