Sounds awful. Your situation is extreme (ah rural America!) but I won’t deny there’s something freeing about cars. These days I hate cars with a passion, and I’ve always lived in big European cities where they’re completely unnecessary, but even I had a car when I was 20, and I loved it. But then a couple of years later I got rid of it, and I that also felt like freedom and I loved that too… Anyway, just an anecdote. As for your situation, good luck, you’ll find a way out of there.

PS off-topic: I’ve always found “good luck” to be a bit lacking for these contexts, in French there’s the much better “bon courage”, sadly untranslatable but much more appropriate in your case.

For pace, it’s basically directly correlated with the movie’s age.

I have no idea how today’s young screen-addled audiences would even begin to approach the idea of watching basically any movie from the 1970s, let alone the 40s.

The only possible way to get to a shop is “a car”… Poor Americans!

This convention that summer “begins” at the solstice is so weird and disconnected from the commonly understood definition of summer. Flowers bloomed months ago, it’s baking hot, days are about to start getting shorter. It’s already summer.

Well done for being ethically coherent. Estimates vary, but to be sustainable on a planet of 9 billion, the number of flights per person per year has to be really low indeed, functionally zero. So I’m with you more or less - almost no more flying.

Bubble-dwelling can indeed be a kind of sickness.

It this was subtle parody then hat’s off, nicely done.

Reported for flagrantly breaking community rule #6. Not that you need worry, the mods are fast asleep.

For typical middle-class people (like the ones probably reading this), usually the single worst thing they do is flying. It’s the only way to blow your personal carbon budget for the whole year in just a few hours.

That’s at the individual level.

This is going to trigger people who just forked out for “insanely expensive” gym memberships, but it’s obviously true.

I can think of two caveats:

• body-weight exercises are clearly healthier than pumping iron, but they will only get you toned, not jacked (personally I think being jacked is ugly as hell, but whatever)
• presumably many gym-goers are there for the same reason that sociable people do all kinds of things in groups - because otherwise they would not find the motivation

Firefox until there is consensus about which is the correct replacement. In FOSS, dispersion is dangerous.

Spend a few weeks camping or hostelling. Then you’ll see how many of your possessions you really need.

Exact opposite here. Missed almost none of it and wondered why I had wasted so much money buying it.

Apt, never noticed that parallel

It sounds like such hard work to be a member of Gen Z.

This radical dualism is partly an American thing. Here on the other side of the pond, most people believe (IMO) that one can be simultaneously a “piece of shit posing as a human being” and a great actor.

Leonardo DiCaprio. I get huge, cringy ‘imposter syndrome’ vibes from him

Exact opposite feelings here, and I generally have a hard time suspending disbelief. I remember seeing The Basketball Diaries (this was before Titanic) and being blown away by his acting. I’d say this is a rare example of an actor being held back by good looks. A lot of folks have just not wanted to admit that this particular heartthrob has genuine talent. To contrast with, for example, Keanu, or Clooney.

This discussion breaks community rules, not server rules. The breakage is so flagrant that I don’t know why you’re bothering to argue. Just say you don’t want rules.

I want Lemmy to succeed, do ye not?

Breaks community rule #6 about as flagrantly as is possible.