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its the end of the rule as we know it (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My method is hoping that I'm just old and western enough that I'll be dead before the real bad shit hits me. I'm 35 though, so... let's say there's a smidge of optimism in there.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just a smidge?

I’m 27. Could you perhaps spare a drop or two of that optimism? You apparently have truckloads of it lol.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I spent my 20s basically in poverty. Whatever income I earned got sucked away by renting a home with insane heating costs, like $300 / month to keep the house at 55 in winter.

At 35 I applied for a government job in civil service. Fucking changed my life forever.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I can't smoke cigarettes fast enough to keep up