Reddit was bad for my mental health. Especially from 2016 onward. If it wasn't toxic or aggressive people, it was an endless onslaught of all the shitty things happening in the world politically. I don't even live in the States anymore, and I was still angry every single day. I still see some of it on Lemmy and it's good to be informed, but Reddit's algorithm was tailored specifically for my anger. The platform is all ego.
Stalinwolf
joined 1 year ago
I'm either much nicer here, or people are far less confrontational. I've said it a hundred times, but every time I receive a notification on Lemmy I brace myself for another senseless asshole. But it's almost always positive on here.
My wife and I spent $350 altogether for the paperwork and an officiant. We eloped beneath a tree in a park with her family present, and afterward I returned my dress shirt to Walmart for a refund. I will never regret how low-class that was.
We've been married now for ten years.
Dollar store seasonal garland. By the time it's up in your home, it looks about 2/3 as real and costs 1/10 the price.
As I also saw mentioned, medicine. Buy it purely on price by volume and disregard the brand entirely. The only medicine I buy name-brand is Flonaise, because most generic brands of fluticasone spray have the most low-functioning applicators I've ever seen.
I've slowly worked on my wife and now she properly identifies species of local birds unprompted. I'm so proud of her.
My wife (bless her sweet heart) for years thought the song said "outdoor cookin' starts today".
Excellent deduction.
I came here from Michigan back in 2017.
They come in two power settings: high, and low. And both of them will rip your dick off.
As long as politics aren't being discussed, it's easy to forget you even live in a conservative province. For the most part everyone is just normal people going about their lives like anywhere else. I get real fucking tired of the Trudeau circle-jerk, though. I get the impression most people don't even know enough about politics to explain why they hate him so much. A lot of them still think he controls the price of fuel.
It's a good way to guage someone's character, though. The moment a person you're unfamiliar with starts talking about/blaming Trudeau, you usually know they're not worth talking to.
I kind of hate that I wound up in Alberta of all places, as I don't support the UCP or agree with oil hicks and seperatists on much of anything, but I'll be damned if I haven't put down roots, started a family, and made a beautiful life here. I guess someone has to stick around to offer resistance and try to keep these idiots from privatizing healthcare. Red Deer nearly flipped orange last election. Never imagined I'd see that happen.
Frig off, Berb!