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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • I’m always annoyed when people say “You should just get therapy”, because of how completely inaccessible it is to those of us not wealthy enough to be in the upper middle class, which is most of us these days.

    They’re basically saying “Your problems are fixable but only if you’ve got thousands of pounds to throw away on a therapist, if you’re a normal working class person you’re fecked”.

    You might as well be saying “Homeless? Just buy a house duuh”.

    I know you yourself mean well (and you do use the “practical” caveat which is appreciated), I don’t mean to sound overly harsh, it’s just this comes up a lot and as someone suffering greatly from mental illness destroying my life that I can’t afford to get treatment for it’s very depressing :-(



  • I’m sorry, but at 15 you’re old enough to know that stabbing a stranger to death is wrong.

    Yes? What do you think they’re implying, that we should try to rehabilitate criminals… but only if they’re still young?

    I think (and forgive me if I’m wrong) they’re essentially saying that without a rehabilitory justice system, we’re just locking people up for life and creating a net drain on society. Financially, culturally… it’s a morale drain on our nation, even.

    Not to mention that as a society we’re abandoning a person who, through a justice system built on rehabilitation and not some ye oldie Catholic concept of creating a punishing Hell on Earth, could actually flourish one day, adding to our society instead of taking from it.

    A prison system designed to simply incarcerate, punish and torture those it touches will never offer anywhere near the same benefits to us as one that is designed to attempt to rehabilitate.

    Not everybody can be rehabilitated, of course, but that’s like saying we shouldn’t try to treat cancer, because not everybody can be cured.


  • Obinice@lemmy.worldtoFuck Cars@lemmy.mlCars are a waste of space.
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    17 days ago

    Man, what a shitty dig to make about a tragedy of death that just happened.

    …Maybe Ho could wait until they’re done clearing the bodies and rubble before using the incident as a platform for his opinions?

    I don’t care if he and I share some agreement on cars and their overuse within our cities, that is in incredibly poor taste.




  • Obinice@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlHo Ho Horseshit
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    27 days ago

    What is it with people trying to make the entirety of October into Halloween?

    It’s one single night, it’s not a season. Is this the Americans trying to push it on us to increase our capitalist consumption or something? I see it a LOT these past few years.

    What’s next, turning Easter into a month long extravaganza?






  • Thing is, that’s exactly how you do it as a capitalist.

    Compartmentalise your businesses and ensure they’re registered so as to never come after your personal assets should they go bust.

    Then, if the business fails and goes bust, shut it down, sack everyone, and a week later reopen in the same place with a slightly different name and rehire most of the same staff under the new company.

    The new company is not in any way legally connected to the old one, and the one one’s debts are to be handled whatever administration firm took all that over, etc.

    I’ve seen it happen first hand here in the UK, good example of why capitalists are scumbags that are above our laws.


  • I’ve been binge watching the fever dreams (⊙ᴗ⊙)

    I’m mostly worried about my mother, I caught it from my father (somehow, after seeing him like once last week in passing) and even though he isolated from her once he knew he had it, she tested positive yesterday too, …and she’s due to go on her first big trip abroad in her ENTIRE LIFE in like 4 days to Paris (we’re a bit lower class haha), supposed to be a big special once in a lifetime treat from her daughter, planned it for a year now :-(

    First time any of us have caught it too, my father is in the high risk category (twice over) so we’ve generally been careful this whole time, and we’ve been getting the boosters (ironically this year’s booster became available TODAY) but ya know it was going to happen eventually…

    But enough of my story of extremely bad timing, glad to hear you recovered without and lasting negative effects :-)