Well I am happy, but would be happier if the public transit here was good. Because the city would be so much better.

More money would make me less anxious but I have a reasonable lifestyle already (only took a half century and 4 wage earners in the household) and am satisfied with it.

It’s not busy but Ask Lemmy NSFW is pretty nice, open-minded and certainly hard to shock.

A visor.

It depends. My mom wanted to break even when she died. Not leave us money, and not cost us money, but did rely on my sister to help out, not financially much but with some care. I sent maybe $500 total towards that, so pretty close to what she wanted.

Husband’s parents are loaded, but if his mom needed care I’d help because she has been so nice to me, I was not close with my mom but have been lucky in mothers in law. I don’t expect anything from them, think their plan is to skip us and leave some to the grandkids, but in any case they are rich-ish and do not expect anything in the way of financial help.

I took time off to raise my kids, so don’t expect to retire but no, I would hope to not need financial help and don’t expect it from them. It’s a win if they don’t need any financial help from me!

In your case, if your parents sacrificed their future income to raise you, I understand why you feel you owe them, but I don’t really think that way, you don’t accrue debt for being raised. It’s more like whoever ends up best off helps the others, so my most successful daughter wants to be “the rich uncle” who can do that, she helps out her sisters, and my hope is like my mom’s - to not burden them and to die with close to nothing.

So sorry, but glad you got to hold him through the end.

Average 0.16 USD per kwh if I divide the whole bill by the KWH.

Our bill is pretty high but literally everything runs on electricity in the house, the cooking, water heating, A/C, we have clothes washer & dryer, there is no gas line.

I would be happier if plastic surgery, instead of always being aimed at making people closer to all the same, was used to make us look different. Elf ears, horns, tails, big noses, different shaped faces, neanderthal brow lines, creative changes. That is the style I’d like to see happen.

Also, since I’m in Florida, fancy parasols.

Dunno, I think a fake radio show inside a podcast is media inside a different media. But yes it’s the whole thing, and a favorite.

Yes, with a fictional Public Radio host, his show is the podcast.

I have a stepdaughter with schizophrenia, she trusts me more than her mom or dad since I wasn’t part of her upbringing, so I’ve been able to do things like bring her to the emergency room when she thought everyone else was out to get her. But at some points help is not helpful - if your help is only hurting you and not doing much for him, you cannot fix that by trying to help. Wrecking your own life is irresponsible to yourself and to your wife.

I do know it’s hard. Especially here where there is not much mental health funding and they end up in jail (though stepdaughter was calmer in jail for some reason, that is not a good answer). If he is stuck on violence, and crazy so he can’t see his own responsibility in it, just keeps blaming everyone else, you can’t fix that.

Welcome to Nightvale.

Have you learned nothing from science fiction stories? I would not change anything.

It’s gambling, so the house always wins, except it’s worse with insurance because you could only win by losing.

Health insurance would make sense if it was cheap. My parents used to have “major medical” plan, indemnity vs very high bills, not healthcare just literal insurance. But it was cheap.

Now I have the High Deductible with HSA plan, same thing except it comes with some free preventative care. But it’s expensive! What the fuck!

Wait, you are saying we can have comprehensive environmental restoration and an honest fight vs. climate change if one of the other two is given up?

Gun control for sure for me. Enforce the laws we have, though.

Hello, world!

This might fit better in no stupid questions.

Gender roles no, it’s not important to assign certain behavioral expectations based on biological sex.

Gender perception? That’s a different question. Are you a man? What do you do to let people know you are a man, and do you care if they mistake you for a woman?

The stretchy blue ones they make now are awesome. Unfortunately awesome, I buy them sometimes now after years of avoiding them and just reusing whatever bags. The ones that cheese slices come in do seem to have ziplock that is too strong/tight for the bag, I agree. Whether it’s a function of the zipper changing or bags using less plastic, I don’t know.

I bring a picture of myself with the haircut I want.

Husband says tight fade, zero to very short on top and that gets him what he wants, he goes to the same barber lady all the time, she doesn’t speak English and he doesn’t speak Spanish but they still manage to communicate the haircut information.

Obligatory FUCK TICKETMASTER!

As people have already noted, the $20-$25 shows were different than a modern arena show, I saw Soundgarden with Voivod for $25ish at a local outdoor small venue in the 1990s, and have seen other acts there recently for between $50-$75 (the Alabama Shakes, Cimafunk), that seems like normal inflation.

Arena shows I honestly don’t remember what we paid for tickets to see big bands, but I sure remember general admission, running to get to the front, not being able to move once there, and the random groping that always happened. I don’t go much to big shows now (or even back then) and have never been to a stadium show.

I don’t think it’s unreasonable for artists to make money on performance, rather than on sales of recorded music. Not sure what the value of a show like that is, but probably more than it was back when tours were done to promote album sales.

I left when he tried to choke me in bed (woke me up, not sex play), then realized what he was doing and stopped and freaked out.

When we first left my older kids said they wouldn’t even go to his funeral if he died. They have since reconciled but certainly are not close - they and I appreciate that he’s trying now, but I have to say that when I left and my life got so much better while his got so much worse I did feel a sort of happiness about it. A breakup is never one sided, I did also do and say things I regret, but time kinda proved he was the problem.

I guess everyone has a crazy ex but I honestly did not see that coming, we had over 15 good years before he lost it. And I absolutely blame the right wing fascist conversion machine.