Well, I’m in a third would country and wood furniture is cheaper than ikea for sure. Even custom made stuff is not that expensive sometimes.

I live in a third world country, but I am not from here and because of that I earn a pretty good wage compared to the local population.

The other night, I was walking home with my wife and it felt really cyberpunk at night.

On the street there were a bunch of little stalls and shops selling second hand clothes, or cheap quality phone cases and chargers.

In the distance there were these huge condo buildings and behind us were the skyscrapers of the business district.

The streets were filled with people walking to and from their destination as they don’t have cars, or can’t book a ride on their phone. The trails have huge lines and are packed. Packed so dense that I was once worried my wife couldn’t breath.

Sadly this is super accurate.

I read these books in the past few years and if you haven’t or haven’t for a while, you should and think about how current society mirrors these dystopian societies.

Maybe he only wanted to watch Barbie. Oppenheimer may not be the kind of movie he is into.

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What is even going on in the Simpson. I never really got into that show. As a kid I think I liked it because kids are supposed to like cartoons. But it was never my go to show.

I never became interested in it as I got older.

You ever play a video game where you turn on infinite items and health and it suddenly is super boring?

That can happen with life. I bet that’s why so many billionaires are crazy.

This is the funniest meme I have seen. I am so close to tears 😂

How is it pronounced?

What would you teach foreigners today?

Try to buy things of people on the plane? But they latest iPad and laptop for like $10k each.

Being a baby. What do they even know?

I think I could legit buy my condo in an hour with that kind of money. But only if the agent is in this part of the city and not in her other home outside the city.

My wife could write up a basic contract that could work as she went to law school and used to do some work for a law firm.

But if that still does not count, then I’d probably order a bunch of computer stuff. Like a new laptop, all the parts for the latest pc stuff, a steam deck. Maybe a bunch of hard drives and some server level stuff.

I guess I’d have tons of money still leftover so I’d buy my wife some stuff that she would like.

I’d totally buy a steam deck. I want one so badly.

I can’t really think of things that I’d like to buy. That are not a car or house.

I stopped drinking a few years ago.

I never had an alcohol abuse problem and didn’t drink frequently, but I hated how my brain got super cloudy when I drank even one beer.

Even divining one beer made me sleep terribly and wake up super early, so the next day was terrible.

I eventually had an unrelated medical problem that I dealt with for years alcohol seemed to make the symptoms worse. So I slowly stopped drinking over time.

It was hard to stop 100% as I worked occasionally have a craving for it and have a beer or two. But at this point I have not had any alcohol at all for at least two years. But I stopped drinking for the most part like 4 years ago.

I honestly do not miss it at all.

I’ve always wanted to learn piano. I still Hope to do it at some point.

I think I have just been wasting less time. I usually check lemmy throughout the day. But just in bursts. I’ve for sure been more productive and happy with the new normal.

In the country where I live, it is basically the internet. Want to find a business? Look for their Facebook page. They rarely have a website.

Yeah, totally. It’s a place to vent and others will come here and see all the crap Reddit is doing.

Mastodon was on about Twitter for like a month before people stopped caring about it.

Plus, I need to get my drama dose from somewhere.

When they offered to sell the house, at first I was excited, but then then the selling price was like 3x more than I expected. I didn’t even respond to the realtor. There are also a bunch of vacant units for run and for sale.

I think the price is so high because rich people were tricked into buying an investment property which they could not rent and now they are stuck with a huge loan.

And I don’t mean rich like they can afford to lose 200k. I mean like upper middle class who really need to sell for the amount of their loan.