Do you not believe that sometime when fighting terrorism (coming from the IDF and settlers) that it stands to reason that you have to so terrible things yourself, lest you just get wiped out.

How would we feel about the Iraqi government locking people up for flying the American or UK flag during our illegal invasion. We could have been labelled as terrorists for those actions.

I’m not saying I’m right here, but I’m incredibly frustrated and on the verge of doing something serious as I don’t know what else to do. I educate my ignorant friends, I protest, I write to my local officials etc.

Indeed. I kind of feel powerless against this slippery slope.

Weinstein? Diddy? Epstein?

I think the more apt description would be that when you’re got something that makes other people money, then you will be protected. When that ends you’re fair game.

I also agree that the more money you have the better defence you can get, but I don’t believe laws only apply to the poor. That’s hyperbole.

Good vibes is what makes life bearable so I appreciate those my friend.

Yeah I’m not really here for therapy, just needed to get that out I guess.

Clearly I do need to talk to someone, but that’s a scary thing and not cheap.

100%, but sadly many people, myself included didn’t get that and actively grew up in terrible environments.

I guess that’s what happens when you mum is 18 when you’re born. You’re being raised by a kid that didn’t make the best choices and the cycle continues. Although I don’t and won’t have children.

This is why school should be empowered to do more as that place is literally the only place you’re learning how to be a person and get ready for life.

I saw my dad beat my mum up. Been in the house when he tried to drive the car into the house but got stuck in the privits.

I’ve seen my mum attack my dad with a frying pan and witness my tea be dunked on her head. Or my dad go to prison for drunk driving.

Spent my entire pre high school childhood sat in the back of a car as my mum would berate the different men in her life, to her best friend.

Spent the following years seeing my mum psychologically bully my dad and he would be sat down stairs crying at night.

Is it little wonder that when people grow up like this and with ADHD that they might be hard to reach in school and that they are withdrawn.

I want to say that life’s hard and I don’t blame my family for the shit I grew up because they were young and not ready for life themselves as they had shit lives too. We were fed, went on holidays, and were richer than most of my council estate (I grew up there too) friends, but we didn’t get stability, love, or encouragement which is sad.

Like this is the tip of the iceberg of what shit I’ve seen growing up or some of the fucked up shit they dragged me into, being the eldest. I have two younger brothers and we are all fucked up in different ways but I’m by far the worst (as society would say) in every metric like wages, progress in life etc.

Edit: Looking introspectively I am thinking I’ve got unresolved issues for all this shit to just come out my finger tips on Lemmy 😂

Edit: Reflecting on this a little more, it’s annoying when people like dude I replied to say it’s the parents job. Like no shit dude, but what do you do when the parent fails the child, just leave it at that and say to the kid sorry mate, but it’s your mums fault but good luck in life. It’s the same kind of thing where people say the parents should feed the child so the school doesn’t have to, this just leaves hungry fucking kids.

I like to keep a positive mindset on things and although I believe I was failed by the education system, ADHD wasn’t as known back then so to them I was just an easily distracted comedian with no desire to learn, except in maths I would ask for homework as I was alright and it was relaxing and I suppose subconsciously I didn’t feel like a failure here. Again they didn’t really help me nurture that desire.

What I like to keep positive about is that the teacher is powerless to do anything and they just need to teach the most about of people as possible without letting the disruptive kids take time away from the ones who are better at school.

My issue is with the education system for the masses and cynic in me doesn’t believe that systems wants everybody to reach their potential, it’s just to get you used to routine and to allow your parents to be slaves to capitalism. If it was about potential then teachers would be paid more and we would have class sizes similar to private schools (those where you pay obscene amounts) where the teacher can individualise the education.

I was uninterested in school because nothing was ever done to make me interested, even at home.

Later in life I was diagnosed with ADHD and now I’m a software developer. Sadly school isn’t for everybody and I just thought I was stupid and lazy, it turns out I was fine I just needed the right help.

Edit: Votes don’t matter but I’d love to know the reasoning for the 5 downvotes on this. Like why don’t you put across your opposition.

As a Typescript developer, npm is a damn mess. I ain’t got a clue how to handle these dependencies.

People can be weird but spending time worrying about something so unlikely is a waste imo.

Nope. Grew up in a pretty rough town and you kinda know a lot of the undesirables. I’ve been alive for over 40 years and only once confronted in the street.

I’ll take walks home in the early hours of the morning (02:00) through very dark secluded areas.

Now if there was a pattern of people being attacked here, then I’d be taking a different route but I tend not to worry about things like this as it’s incredibly rare and the stress of worrying probably does more damage to your health than a would be attacker.

Edit: Have an example from a few days ago. Me and a couple of friends went for a smoke and a walk through a Forrest in pitch black with a flash light and I was more concerned with the bugs getting in my sliders than being murdered 😂.

Oh fuck off pal. You sound like a child.

I have no interest in looking good my friend. I’m just as flawed as the rest of us.

Clearly. As I’m not insufferable, whereas you’ve got that on lock.

Attacking the labour I see and not the system they have to get by in.

Like i kind of get it, I’m a software developer and would never work for a gambling company, but I ain’t out here shitting in those who do.

This place is constantly shilling Linux, decrying LLMs, and downvoting anything that doesn’t fit the status quo.

Don’t get me wrong I like this place on the whole, but I’ve just come to realise nobody here actually wants to engage with anybody different and just dog piles.

We are the left wing version of r/conservative.

Are you generalising 6000 people here or MS?

Apparently so 😂

Thanks so much for this.

Hey that seems super cheap for a keyboard.

Do you happen to have any of the links to the ones you bought?