Food banks. Look at your local church, synagogue, or mosque. A lot of them do community outreach and have some kind of food bank.
If you’re skipping meals or you have $5 'til next Friday, the food bank is for you. Don’t feel like you’re taking something away from someone “more needy.” It’s you. You’re needy. Take the help. That was a hard lesson to learn in my 20s.
The trope is your typical suburban, middle class white family are soft parents who let their kids get away with murder. You’ve seen the type - parents whose kids are on an absolute rampage and their response is to squat down and say, “Now Kayydenn, we don’t do that here.” The implication being that if the non-white kid did that their parents would beat the hell outta them.
NB: I’m whiter than Wonder bread and 35 and I still wouldn’t dare call my mother by her first name.
I had a roommate that loved pour over coffee in the morning. That in itself isn’t the issue; she taught me how to use her V60 and it actually makes pretty good coffee.
No, the issue was she ground her beans fresh. Every morning, at 6AM. Know what the loudest sound in the universe is? An electric coffee grinder at 6AM.
Nope. I worked retail for years at the same yellow-and-blue themed electronics store and they’re spot-on. The absolute worst are the ones carrying tacky designer bags. Think the giant LV logo ones. They were almost universally nightmares to deal with that had $1000 deposit requirements for cell phones.
It was true at one point, but has since changed. The systems are totally air-gapped and worked 100% of the time, so there was never a reason to change them.
Also true: Boeing still uses floppies to update their 747s.
Just went down the aliexpress rabbit hole again. Theres really everythinf for some of really niche things that i wouldnt ever buy, but some things really do look appealing. I wonder what do you guys use daily thats worth lets say under $20
It’s just more fedora-tipping condescension that keeps “normal” people from embracing things like Lemmy and Mastodon (or Kbin or Pixelfed or…). If we could all stop huffing the farts out of each others’ FOSS-holes and be a little kinder to people dipping a toe into these alternate networks, maybe we’d have more than 5 comments on a post.
The subreddit r/steam, about the digital game storefront, received as many other subreddits a notice to open the community again, or else the mods would be replaced by those who abide....
If you know, you know. (i.imgur.com)
… and if you don’t know I’m not going to explain it.
So, who or what ruined Christmas this year?
Little shit (startrek.website)
But I eat when I'm sad (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
What are your "poor person" money life hacks?
Let’s get a list going. Like with a Target debit card you can get $40 cash back and it takes 1 to 2 days to be withdraw from your checking.
"Get out of my room, Helen!" (lemmy.zip)
Night vs Morning people (startrek.website)
Time changes us all (lemmy.world)
In Germany we say "Arbeitnehmerrechte" and I think that's beautiful (swg-empire.de)
Make everyone hate you with this one neat trick (lemmy.zip)
Floppy disks were high-tech weapons once (files.mastodon.social)
Wait (lemmy.world)
Destigmatize Bankruptcy. (lemmy.ml)
Games Now vs Back Then (imgur.com)
those ppl... (feddit.de)
The buzz around town (slrpnk.net)
What cheap tool/gadget do you use that greatly improves your daily life?
Just went down the aliexpress rabbit hole again. Theres really everythinf for some of really niche things that i wouldnt ever buy, but some things really do look appealing. I wonder what do you guys use daily thats worth lets say under $20
"The "fediverse" is the future of social media" (lemmy.ca)
Saw a news story people about people getting arrested for at Wal-Mart for forgeting to scan one item (midwest.social)
youtu.be/tmoQxq2P7Y4?feature=shared
Neighbors call police on boy asking to mow lawns to save for a PS5, officers pitch in to buy him the console (katu.com)
Shorts not allowed as part of the school uniform? No problem!
Not my own story, but my original retelling of a public one....
r/steam (maliciously) complies with the call to open again (lemmy.world)
The subreddit r/steam, about the digital game storefront, received as many other subreddits a notice to open the community again, or else the mods would be replaced by those who abide....