It’s not so much about profiting from the situation but maximising your options.

You don’t want to cash in your 401k and buy gold, but if you have some investments then buying physical gold with 5% or 10% is not a terrible idea.

In a holocaust type situation an ounce of gold in the right palm at the right time could buy passage for an entire family.

We may not have the gold standard anymore but I can assure you that gold remains a stable store of wealth.

It’s also not going to be easier to buy.

Banks are much more reluctant to loan, jobs are harder to keep.

But when gen z gets old they won’t be self interested like every other generation since forever /s.

I agree that things are bleak. I also try to focus on practical, local things on which I can have a positive impact.

I’d like to think that some things will get better, and others will be less bleak.

Climate change is occurring quicker than we had hoped, but we are making progress towards mitigating the worst effects, even of that progress is slower than we had hoped.

Not trying to be an ass but American cars havent been great since forever.

Yeah ok.

In my 20’s I over-enjoyed a great many things.

Now in my 40’s I don’t drink booze, do drugs, smoke cigarettes, and also try to avoid sugar and caffeine. I also have kids now so I sold my motorbikes because that seemed irresponsible.

So yeah, I do purchase poncy imported italian sparkling mineral water because… it’s a nice indulgence.

Oh man. In-game currency and gacha stuff can get fucked.

I’m not a big gamer but I like having something on my phone to pass the time.

Happy to pay to install or for expansions or to remove advertising or whatever but paying for finite in-game stuff is just shit.

I use ungoogled-chromium in tandem with LibreWolf, the former for sites broken by the latter.

I use LibreWolf which implements pretty tough fingerprint mitigation… but I end up disabling a lot of it because it breaks a lot of sites.

It’s nice to be nice.

I’m with mxroute.

Cheap but serviceable.

I was with them for 10 years.

They are great, it’s true.

The pricing just got egregious though.

Sure “some”, but not many.

For most people I think that other attributes become more desirable than physical beauty. The biological imperative to reproduce with the most physically attractive person you can find diminishes significantly.

This.

In this thread everyone is going to be single from 40 onwards apparently.

I’ve never been able to get this to work in a stock debain 12 / gnome environment.

The objective ought to be more engagement, not more users.

It seems like everyone is here to have snarky little “I’m more right than you” arguments.

Maybe I’m misunderstanding something but here in Australia there’s no benefit to not having a contract.

With our largest telco the contract is really just repayments on the phone. 24x monthly repayments is always the same price the phone is retailing for outright. You could cancel the sim and just keep up the phone repayments if you wanted.

100% this.

I was a volunteer treasurer at a youth homeless shelter.

Sadly, it’s not possible to evaluate someone’s intentions when they knock on your door and ask for a sandwich. They might truly just want a sandwich, or they might have other intentions entirely.

I think a better question is how matrix is better than XMPP. I don’t know much about it but I think the answer is “it isnt”.