At least in Europe most of our governments have made it amply clear that they would return to the status quo in a heartbeat. With some concessions, sure, and there’s a lot of market related damage that they couldn’t undo if they wanted to but the general sentiment seems to be that “we had a good thing going”. Trump is entirely unpredictable as a partner but I don’t see things as hopeless long term.

They’re on it I hear

Bomb squad

As in both were perfectly fine religious symbols before they got appropriated by genocidal right-wing governments and now context matters. In that sense you’re right. But only in that sense.

Thanks for asking, I do not.

Kid named FingerFinger

Ladies and gentlemen, we got him.

In 3 days:

My neigbors are doing this weird fetish thing where one openly shits on the ground and the other one watches from the safety of his shrubbery. What do I do??

I wholeheartedly don’t care about any of that. I just go with the flow and give the present moment my full attention.

i don’t really participate in social media or any of that.

That’s probably the main difference. I spend like 20 minutes a day on lemmy and that’s it. I used to be very active on TikTok and Reddit. Went from a depressed and anxious mess to having a job and being happy and outgoing basically by focusing on what’s in front of me rather than what’s on my screen. Many people stay in their defeatist echo chambers and that’s the only reality they engage with. There are plenty of reasons to be worried but the thing is there always are. Life, society, family and so on have always been fragile. All you can do is enjoy what you have in this very moment.

I don’t believe him but the thing is if I was locked up at home with a technological device strapped to my ankle I’d 100% fiddle with it out of curiosity so I gotta say he kinda picked a reasonable excuse.

Sure but it’s not worth dwelling on is what I’m saying.

You got a lot of genuine replies engaging with your thoughts. I’d focus on that over the negative.

Sex sells

It used to be instant. Now I draw it out when I can. It’s a bit like meditating.

If you really wanna blow your mind and prove it

You can also see them by holding a (not too bright) flashlight against your cheekbone and pointing the beam at your eye. The light needs to come from right below and you might need to move it around a little until you get the angle just right.

Ah, the united union of bootlickers. Too bad their role model probably couldn’t even point at Belgium on a map.

That’s 100% true and it’s kinda sad to see you getting downvoted. I went though hell before learning this lesson and I hope not everyone has to.