We just crave that dopamine in any available form

I like roma tomatoes for that reason. They’re a lot more flesh than blood

My cousin works for Tesla and he absolutely despises Musk and the company, but he makes way more than he could anywhere else and is able to work remotely from his home in Canada. He also just bought a house so he needs that money.

He’s got the golden handcuffs

I think working retail should be a mandatory thing like how military service is mandatory in some countries.

Everyone should have to serve their time doing retail so that they can have a bit of empathy

Didn’t realise you weren’t American, sorry for assuming. Admittedly I’m very jaded right now (and a bit drunk) with all the threats of invasion and with Americans either laughing it off or being all for it (and I recognise that’s not all Americans but it’s enough). Like, “haha, Canada will turn the USA blue!”

And fine, yeah Canada is pretty up there for LGBT rights, but when one of the main platform points (imported from the USA!) from the Conservatives right now seems to be just straight up attacking trans people, it makes me pretty worried. I have multiple family members and a few friends who are trans or non binary and the rhetoric is scary.

But TL;DR, not angry at you, just America(ns). I apologise to the good Americans, but your country is exporting a lot of bullshit right now. More than usual

This timeline? Where the US is nearly the last of any western nation to legalise gay marriage?

And isn’t your country actively trying to work back any progress you’ve had in the last decade? Trans rights, queer rights, women’s rights, minority rights.

Also isn’t it Americans who are pushing the most for anti-LGBT legislation in African countries?

Canada is falling down the same hill when it comes to trans rights, and it hurts me, but I’m not out here saying that Canada is any sort of leader in the field. I recognise the issues my country has and I’m going to fight to fix them.

Knock off the American exceptionalism for one second and deal with the problems your country has

From Americans?

Oh mailbox seems cool. I’m personally using mxroute.com to host my domain’s email but to be fully honest, I’m still stuck on the Gmail for most things.

I mostly use my person domain email for things like a contact address on my résumé.

I want to switch fully to my personal domain email but mxroute’s web app(s) kind of suck 😅

Me being too lazy and putting off switching to Proton has paid off!

I just checked and Amoxtli’s instance, thelemmy.club doesn’t defederate from lemmynsfw.com!! We have a pervert over here 😲

DRIVE-BY: Fix typo in comment (teh -> the)

Oh, yeah I’m a Linux kernel contributor now

Knowing companies, they won’t realise anything and will just make their existing employees pick up the slack

I guess the US feels threatened by Greenland’s prospering chip industry

I’m not a fan of doing the touristy areas either but your original message was that tourism in general was bad.

And how do you make friends in a place before going? Especially if you don’t speak the language

So what is experiencing another culture then?

So what are you suggesting? We never leave our immediate city? I’m a loser if I want to experience another culture?

I saw on Twitter that Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg were in the closet making babies and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me!

There was a candy machine at my local grocery store’s front lobby, and when I was around 8-9, my friend and I noticed that the top of the machine wasn’t attached properly. We removed the top and filled our pockets with candy. Unfortunately, I told my brother about it who told my parents who made me go apologise to the store owner

The joy and boredom of growing up in a small town

I would rather live in Germany than the poorest US state (or even the richest US state for that matter)

Wait, can you go into more detail? I don’t feel like reading the entire thing as it’s not really my area of expertise