Seconding Michael Franti & Idles.

Michael Franti said he used to make political music to try to improve the world but decided music that made people happy made the world happier more directly.

Idles are like your asshole friend who refuse to let you beat up on yourself. They are so good.

One year on my birthday, years ago, my mom gave me a gift in a jewelry box. I was inwardly groaning, but when I opened it, it was memory for my computer. Which was a thoughtful gift, and a funny way to package it.

Way ahead of her time I guess.

Shivering does nothing, rubbing my hands together just makes my arms tired. When it’s not cold just cool, I can exercise (like go run up and down the stairs) and build internal heat. But not when it’s really cold.

When I was pregnant I couldn’t get cold, it was nice, I think that must be how a lot of people feel - I had a heater inside me. I wasn’t really too hot in the summer even pregnant, could still be still and cool, but not too cold in the winter at all.

I can cool right down by being still, when it’s hot.

Can’t do the inverse though, when it’s cold I’m just cold.

I went to a zoo, it sucked and had only one exhibit.

It was a shitzu

And

Why didn’t the skeleton go to the party?

He had no body to go with!

This was my experience as well, everyone had calmed down and just staying in shape put me in the better looking bucket. Duck to swan thing, I didn’t get to feel that when I was young so it was kinda nice.

Oh I had a friend who was a cheerleader, she stayed with her high school boyfriend, he had a bad health crisis, recovered but she then rethought her life and became an artist, sort of dropped out of participation in anything that didn’t really make her happy. Has done fine, too, not starving or anything, they are still together, or were last I saw her.

I dunno, I can sit by my husband and not get bitten, they don’t like me much so unless there is no other choice they leave me alone. I think they like people who are warmer and emit more carbon. It doesn’t seem like blood type is a strong factor.

Me personally? I could probably make it years on beans, rice, and greens if I had to. Collard greens, rice and beans, oil and spices to season them, and onions.

So glad I don’t have to, but if I had to choose that would be it.

I thought I’d hate working from home, it wasn’t too bad. Then they made us hybrid, I thought oh no, worst of both worlds, it wasn’t that bad either. I went back to the office full time because I don’t have a home office and wanted to reclaim that space.

It’s pretty much the same job but teams meetings suck even more than in person meetings, and training new people too, worse.

What I do not like is a commute. I live about one mile from work so don’t even have to drive most days, if it was farther the calculation would be different.

My family loved me working from home because I did more of the cooking and housework, it kind of intensifies that inequality I think.

So I think personally I didn’t get much benefit from working from home but it was not nearly as bad as I thought it might be, if I had to I would.

I really do not like homework for little kids, they are in school 8 hours, that’s time for a study hall and recess, they aren’t going to forget how to read overnight, and don’t have enough free time as it stands now. So much of what little kids need is time to develop, not just academic instruction.

From 12 yo or so, sure, but school should be fewer hours then, like college, classes for lecture and questions, and work done outside class. 2 of mine had high schools that worked like that, with a long study hall period because school district mandates on campus time, and those two were the most successful in college, and so far also in career.

Hayes Carll sings, in his American Dream song - “Nothing changes, even when it wants to” and that struck me pretty hard.

Older-

Emmylou Harris the whole Red Dirt Girl song, my goodness but particularly “she loved her brother, I remember back when he was fixin up a '49 Indian. He told her “little sister gonna ride the wind, up around the moon and back again.” Well he never got farther than Vietnam, I was standing there with her when the telegram come.”

@FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world my kids absolutely LOVE that Vincent song. It’s so good, straight through.

Anchovies. I wouldn’t say judged but I’m alone in my love for them. Everyone in my house likes kimchi. It is loud smelling, I can sort of understand your family.

Make them a kimchi grilled cheese, or the kimchi/butter noodles - sometimes having it cooked lets it “click” for people, that was the gateway kimchi for everyone else in my house.

At work it’s licorice, though the old lady directly across from me does like it. I can imagine not liking it, but yum it’s my second favorite candy.

Oh yes, with the leek!

Hobby? I’m on the wrong coast for it but would love to learn to surf. Pretty sure I don’t have time to get good at it. Music, I’d love to learn to play guitar or even to sing well. Not to perform. To be able to do it.

Lifestyle? Not sure, I think what I would change is stuff I can’t change without money or time I don’t have.

Give away 900 million dollars.

I agree with your premise though - too rich is just hoarding. There is no real lifestyle benefit.

I say this as a person with plenty of years. When the president is so ancient he is shitting himself at meetings, and congresspeople are dying in office - of old age- this has become a gerontocracy of the worst sort. One would hope that as people get older they have more experience, more perspective.

At this point I would very strongly prefer that people younger than me be in office and I’m not even 60 yet. We need people with more stake in the future. 40-60 then out, retire for the sake of the country. Write a book or something.

Yeah it’s crazy, when I was a teenager we had the lowest cost grocery markets in the US, corn was often 5 cents an ear on sale, maybe 20 cents regular price, watermelon you could buy on the roadside for $1, those are about 1.50 and 7.00 now and that’s pretty representative of the overall increase.

I’m counting everything that is consumed here, by humans (so including entertaining but not pets). Our total housing cost with electricity & insurance and taxes is really high here too (and is another thing that used to be cheap) , but again that housing is holding 5 people right now.

5 person household, all adults now, mostly physically active. Probably 4k a month all-in.

That includes some booze, not much eating out and is paid by all of us so average 800 / month per person, but not evenly spread, kids are more frugal and do meal prep for lunches and husband and I spend more, and feed all of us once a day at least. Not much junk food, buy ingredients not premade things and I do have a garden.

I agree. It doesn’t help me that people who work in my town can’t live in my town. It doesn’t help me when taxes go up on my house. I have the same house if prices crash lower than we bought. I have the same house if prices go up.

In fact - if prices bottom out and we can keep our jobs, maybe I have a better house because maybe we can afford to do some reno that is too expensive right now because housing is so expensive.

“Didn’t work so hard” WTF? Did Trump work hard? There seems almost no correlation between who works hard and who has money. Some who work hard have money, some don’t. Some who never worked at all have money, some don’t.