When I was a kid, my best friend’s dad liked to cite those verses when we made comments about his receding hairline.

You’re not wrong. Male CEOs do not get asked how they balance work with fatherhood.

Well, we’re not buying the product, so maybe they can extort us into paying to solve a problem instead.

Man, I don’t know your approach, but I have all of the upgrades, I’ve paid off all loans, and I have 18 million bells in the bank.

Starting out in debt kind of sucks, but it’s usually possible to pay off your first mortgage in a week. I wish the real world were even remotely like that.

Yeah, but it’s only a couple of years, starting with nothing but a dilapidated farm, until that farmer becomes a millionaire. I’d take it.

That’s a wise exclusion. I can’t think of anyone in that world who is actually happy.

What this shows me is that the fascist playbook has been the same for literally thousands of years. Descriptions of ancient despots apply equally to the modern-day ones.

That, and numerology is completely bankrupt. You can manipulate almost anything to fit a specific numeric scheme if you want to.

Probably price increases to offset corporate losses.

That used to be a problem on Reddit, too. Maybe the current drama will drive more traffic to the Fediverse.

Same here. Lemmy at this stage feels a lot like Reddit did when I joined back in the early 2000s.

I’m glad I made the switch, because things are just generally nicer in a smaller community.