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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Preach. Welcome to 40. Where life becomes beautiful because you realised you were letting it be controlled by other’s opinions of you and they have a long way to go to find peace and happiness.

    There is nothing more to do now but start enjoying the world, that tree over there, and the characters you meet along the way. Everything is beautiful when you finally start looking through your own eyes, not the lenses of others.

    I wish I could transfer this mindset to younger people, but it only comes through time. Accept your insignificance, realise what you can do, and make every step forward being about joy for yourself and for others along the way. It all gets better when that clicks, but it feels like you have to be broken by it all first.







  • saltesc@lemmy.worldtoPeople Twitter@sh.itjust.worksGo Local
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    3 days ago

    Nah, it’s the way it’s delivered, not the content.

    It’s got the same structure and style as those ones where some person is proud of their 10 month year old for looking at the TV and saying, “Go Trump!”

    A fragment of truth, with 99% of “I wish it went like this” spun in. The sardine becomes a tuna.

    Unless it’s true that someone will wash your car and go up against car thieves for $15 and say something like that. I guess it’s technically not…impossible. “Thank ya Miss Kenzie. Have a good day Miss Kenzie. God bless Miss Kenzie.”


  • I get dreams with horror and darkness all the time and actually enjoy them. Often thinking they’d make a hell of a book or movie.

    But every now and then I wake up fucking freaking because I was about to get evicted because the direct debit I set up for rent stopped working and I was never notified, but the law didn’t care.




  • They’re not all Russian bots.

    The internet is full of these obscure micro-cultures. The themes are different, but everything else is the same, comprised of the same type of person/mind.

    Insecurities are easy pickings, just make them feel belonging and they’ll be washed in no time. But make sure you empower them to identify that it’s not them who are weak, it’s “everyone else.” That way when they’re challenged, they lash out and are rewarded with more sense of belonging; get to a self-sustaining level.


  • saltesc@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldModern Stoic Philosophy
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    Modern takes on old isms always tend to directly oppose the whole point of the original idea. Cherry pickers do that with everything over time. Stoicism has a lot to say about the weakness of being a cause of harm to others and to nature. But I’m sure they glossed over those parts, only attracted to the “Me, me, me.” and never thinking why.


  • Step 3… Be given shit for being male and white by people much better off than you.

    Step 4… Get no reprieve from racism and sexism because someone before your existence looked like you and was these things so it’s okay to happen to you as revenge.

    Step 5… Do the one thing white males way better at than anyone else; suicide.

    And hope for re-roll