Yes. You deserved better than what you got. Unfortunately the only requirement for becoming parents is a pair of working genitals.

I hope you’ve found or are finding the healing and support that you need.

Hmmm. Sure.

Oh. Well then I stand corrected. Shows you how much I know about it…

From what I gather, it seems to mean something similar to what we civilized folk once called edging

Do people buy that kind of bread in Quebec? I thought they’d all eat good bread. You know, speaking French and all…

Yes but some financial advisors will literally tell you that money in savings is slowly decaying and that (besides an emergency fund) you should invest it.

The type of investments they’ll recommend will depend on your risk tolerance and financial goals of course, and probably isn’t likely to include NFTs.

But I could see some 19-20 year old reading a post on instagram that says you should invest instead of saving, and with a very superficial understanding of what that actually means, might easily fall for the very next post or sponsored ad that says “Hey you! Yeah, you. The dumbass who hasn’t bought [inset memecoin here] yet. Why don’t you have any [memecoin]?!? Anyone who’s smart has some already, and look how rich they’re getting! Don’t miss out by being a coward. Own your future. Grindset. Yadda yadda.”

I’m not saying that makes them intelligent, but simply telling them to be “smarter with money” isn’t going to solve the problem, and might actually exacerbate it.

The thing about people who buy NFTs is that they think they are being smart with their money.

They look at what happened with Apple, Microsoft, Google stocks way back in the day and think “huhuhu, I’m not going to be one of those idiots who misses out on an opportunity like that!”

It’s FOMO and “high risk - high reward” gambler mentality, wrapped up in the illusion of being a savvy investor.

Without going through steps 1 and 2 it’s impossible to get to steps 3, 4, and 5 without feeling gaslit and invalidated just like you always were growing up, which can rehash and reinforce the trauma, perpetuating the cycle.

That’s what society in general, and people who had healthy parents, don’t understand. They want us all to skip to the end of the process, ignoring the fact that not everyone was so fortunate to be raised by emotionally intelligent people.

A very basic understanding of developmental psychology is all it takes to see how significantly the influences of one’s formative years can impact their social and emotional development long into adulthood.

Cause it uses four slices?

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Isn’t that… redundant?

Yes, but this doesn’t come with the usual emblematic photos of flames climbing high into the night and stray pages smouldering as they float among the embers.

It’s just someone in a windowless room running sudo rm -rf / and depending on how thorough they are maybe writing zeros to the whole block device

And likely anyone who’s not on lemmy will probably never hear about it…

Doesn’t that require at least one consenting partner though?

So if someone already feels irretrievably doomed, it’s kinda like telling them “Just find someone who loves you and is willing to try kinky stuff with you that usually scares a majority of people.”

One would hope.

Also, not agents. Contractors.

What? No, I’ve known hypoglycemics without personally having it myself. Why do you ask?

Gen Z even calls Millennials boomers. The word is losing meaning…

I made a bagel. And put everything on it.

Ah, that’s strange. Sorry that happened to you. Maybe the mod missed you’re top-level comment where you explained so they thought you were spamming.

Have a nice day

Damn, they probably charged $10 for a bottle of water too

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