Universal Monk

Yep! And yes, you are overthinking it. If you are worried about them profiting from you, then just pirate their stuff.

Join a union and ask for their advice.

Yep! But here in the US, unfortunately not everyone has that ability. The last few years of my working life I was union, and it was amazing. I’d never work at a non-union place again.

I never understood the appeal of Tik Tok. I hated it the second it came out. What’s the point of watching a 15-second vid of someone lip-syncing to a song?! I don’t get the appeal.

but even before Musk took over it was ALWAYS a fundamentally negative force.

Yep! What’s hilarious to me is that so many people would post how much they hated Twitter, how it was ruining society, etc. Then Musk gets it, then all of a sudden people say they are gonna stop using it. Ok, well you hated it just as much before, but now you are not gonna use it?

Also, they didn’t stop using it. The platform didn’t die, like everyone gleefully predicted, and it’s still sucks. It sucks equally as bad as before Musk.

I quit twitter long before Musk, and never got back on.

Lemmy is quickly becoming the same way. People have started entire threads in different forums to try to get me banned from Lemmy, just because they don’t agree with me. Rather than just be mad at me and block me, they legit go to other threads, and even call out admins, in an effort to get me banned from every instance.

All because I didn’t vote the way they wanted me! lolol

I still prefer Lemmy to Reddit though!

Preach! I’m a fairly terrible boyfriend, and I have no idea why girls continue to give me a chance. And that just reinforces my bad behaviour.

Good for you, brother! Stay strong. I’ve stayed drug-free/alcohol free my entire life, but only because I’ve watched loved ones go thru addiction, so I realize how tough it is. The fact that you got out of it after so long, is a major accomplishment. Good on ya, mate.

Addiction is not a joke people.

This is why I hate to see how casual Lemmy is about drugs and alcohol. Some actually brag about posing while high or drunk–and then get a shitton of upvotes for it. They don’t realize how quick it happens. and how addiction doesn’t care who you are. It can happen to anyone.

Great post!

Greed has altered the course of life many times over.

I continually fight this myself. I made a fair amount of profit in crypto, but I 100 percent realize that it’s just blind luck. I like the idea of it and I love the news about it, so it’s very difficult for me to not to go 100 percent in every time I see a trend!

So far, I’ve resisted the urge to go to crazy with it, but ugh, it’s tough . And I lie to my gf and tell her that I just follow, but don’t invest. So I’m pretty much the kind of asshole that I grew up despising. lol

I’ve never invested more than I can afford to lose, and cash out the minute I make a little profit. But I can see how addicting it is and how easily some people could fall off the cliff.

Only one of those is me though. I have nothing to do with those other people. I don’t have any alt names; only alt instances.

People are totally free to block people on that list if they want to, but has nothing to do with me, friend.

Your account is only 5 days old. So seems like you have some sort of alt thing going on.