Maybe they like to stand out but don’t like to be searched out.

Hang in there. All the best for getting all good with everything.

Actually the “communist” places often called themselves democratic too. They weren’t that either.

Honestly pretty good. Family’s good, work is good. Can’t complain really. Although I’m British, so the phrase “mustn’t grumble” is to be used with a degree of resentment. Wait - I’ve got it - of course! The weather! It’s been pretty rubbish this summer. Too hot, too cold, too dry, now too wet. That’s better.

Heyyy! Dharma Curious! Long time no interaction! I can’t remember what comm we interacted in, what we said, whether it was before I moved instance to .world, or why I like you, but I do, and it’s good to see your name on my screen again. Hope you’re doing good.

(Me too, by the way.)

Er, sorry dude/dudette, I’m off to bed very soon.

I like your style.

No. Do you have sex during sex scenes?

I think horses are FAR more expensive than you think they are.

Some executive noticed that they can’t sell you larger cloud storage if you haven’t used it up.

Then someone on the office copilot team said they wished they had access to more comprehensive data about what people write with office apps and the rest is history.

You’re right.

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https://www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue-with-an-ai-booster/#table-of-contents

What’s a left leaning site that has lots of ‘adult’ or ‘harmful’ content?

Dude, it’s very simple. Homelessness is caused by poverty.

I don’t know about your country, but here in the UK, over half of homeless people are adults who were previously in the care system. I told you this and you clearly didn’t listen: if you’re in the care system, when you hit 18 your family placement evaporates and if you don’t already earn enough to pay private sector rent, you’re homeless. I don’t know about you, but I wasn’t financially independent of my parents until I was in the second half of my twenties and it’s much harder now than it was when I was starting out. Good luck getting a job and claiming benefits if you don’t have an address.

Say after me: if you don’t have parents or family to stay with, and you can’t make rent, you’re stuffed. It pisses me off when people treat homelessness as a character defect rather than a complete failure of society to care for those who can’t cope. Fuck right off with your judgementalism.

It’s all very well you sitting on your comfy sofa declaring that they have brought it on themselves and and that if they only cut down on the narcotics they’d have enough for a nice little apartment somewhere, but your cosy little plan isn’t going anywhere on the hard pavement at 2am when some lads piss on the homeless guy’s sleeping bag because, like you, they think is his fault, because you have no fucking clue and your holier than thou moralising about how you’d definitely stay squeaky clean if you ended up on the street being kicked night after night and treated as non existent day after day is BULLSHIT.

I think the person who you’re replying to wasn’t laughing at people with addiction problems at all, rather they were pouring scorn and skepticism on the idea that some wonder drug can fix all the problems of people who end up with drug addictions.

Let’s take homeless people for example (who are frequently people who were in the care system as children, so don’t have parents or relatives to go back and live with when money gets too tight).

All the things that I do to cope with my (much less serious) problems, like chill on the sofa on my phone, take a long bath, go for a nap on my bed, hang out with my friends at the pub, talk it all over with my wife or my dad, none of those are open to them. Sleeping rough is painful. How do you escape that?

So to expand on what @gibmiser@lemmy.world said, if you treat the drug addiction of a homeless person on its own, you will completely and utterly fail to treat the drug addiction problem.

Tell me you’re American without telling me you’re American.

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Ding-ur-ding-ur-ding brrp
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Actually I quite liked that bit. It was reassuring and familiar and you knew it was working.

What I didn’t like was taking 20 minutes to download a tiny video, anyone picking up the phone instantly killing your connection including the software download you’d been watching download for the last 15 minutes and the cost per minute and unreliability that taught me to connect, download my email, open my messages page, on the forum, disconnect, write all the forum replies in notepad and email replies in my client, then dial up again, hit sync on the email client and paste all my replies back in the forum.

I do not miss dial up.

Just pop in a magnetic screwdriver bit holder and you have strong power and perfect control.

It countersinks with ease but without the risk of screwing too deep like its electric counterpart all too easily does.

Top notch stepdad.