What OP is talking about has been a thing since the 90s and even 80s and earlier with ex-military.

Move to a cheap country where your pension/disability/passive income/whatever makes you wealthy.

Originally places liked it because it was an influx in cash. But then it became too popular and they were gentrifying places to the point locals couldn’t afford to live and these leeches never worked.

It became big again with the internet when people became able to work and American job while overseas remotely. But by now most American companies just won’t pay American wages. If they wanted someone overseas they’d pay them the low wage they always do.

With those younger people they added the “temporary” because they say they’ll move back someday.

What you’re talking about (if the job is in that country) would be a migrant worker.

But they also don’t like that label, they think they’re better than it.

I’d love to see countries mark “expat” as an option on forms…

Just as a trap to filter them all out.

but some folks I put tags on just to see where they pop up.

So years ago on /buyitforlife, someone posted those super cheap work gloves that you’d legit got thru a pair before and after lunch. That’s why they never sold single pairs and you had to buy like a 10 pack.

Dude gets roasted in the comments, but I RES tagged him “ole softhands” and for years after I’d just randomly see the account somewhere and genuinely laugh out loud.

I don’t know why people want to have the same arguments with the same people, over and over again knowing it’ll never be productive.

For them social media is just a pvp arguing arena.

I don’t have the energy for that, if someone just doesn’t get something after 3-5 replies I stop replying, if it keeps happening elsewhere or they act like a dick, I just block them.

Why waste your time on something that you know is only going to fail and likely cause yourself aggravation?

Make posts to them…

Lots of people browse by /all and /new because of lack of content.

Which means it’s relatively easy to get a sub to catch on

But you need to actually make posts so people see them. Try to space it out tho, 15 posts in 15 minutes will just get people to block it due to spam. A couple spaced out thru a day tho will start getting more interaction, go for quality not quantity and hope eventually other users start submitting stuff for the quantity part.

In space, no one can hear a comma

The scariest part of the last 3 elections is moderates still expect trump to follow the rules…

I’ll never understand why trolls make a new account referencing the banned one, makes it easy to block at least

Why do they need a patent for this?

Because if they did it without one, anyone could do it.

If they get the patent, even if they don’t do it, anyone who does have to pay them.

How would this not conflict with just tv remotes?

Video games and TVs are different enough devices

She ran the worst campaign you could run with the billion dollars and initial support she was gifted.

Biden’s was worse

It’s still Kamala’s fault she lost, but she wasn’t as bad as it could have been.

Requiem for a Dream

Trainspotting

It’s basically negligible tho.

Like I recently busted out Logitech mouse/keyboard combo with a dongle. They say for maybe five years and I’ve been using them for months now and the batteries are still what was in them.

I think that if people are randomly sending that shit to people they don’t know, all it means is they have mental health issues…

I’m not sure what else people would think about it, it’s obviously schizophrenic ramblings

ρ.Sh.a.T.

I can’t help out think P Shat was intentional…

On December 1, the situation, somehow, worsened when Kanye appeared on The Alex Jones Show. Over the course of the broadcast, he repeatedly praised Hitler and the Nazi party, insisting that he “loves” Nazis and “likes” Hitler, and at one point blatantly declaring, “The Jewish media has made us feel like the Nazis and Hitler have never offered anything of value to the world.” His remarks placed Jones in the rare position of attempting to help Kanye walk back his extremism by reminding him that Nazis “did a lot of very bad things.”

“But they did good things, too,” Ye responded. “We’ve got to stop dissing the Nazis all of the time.”

That was in the morning. By evening, Ye had been indefinitely suspended from Twitter for posting an image of a Nazi swastika inside of a Star of David.

https://www.vox.com/culture/23400851/kanye-west-antisemitism-hitler-praise

What’s weird is it’s always the accounts with no activity making these complaints…

Including this thread, OP has made 4 posts and 20 some comments over the last year.

So they blocked new accounts from Israel and Palestine, and the headline just mentions Israel?

Sounds about normal…

She asked me twice whether I thought her stories sounded crazy, so she was clearly somewhat aware of her condition.

Not necessarily.

It’s very likely everyone in her life were telling her it’s all in her head, she gets mad and says she’s not crazy…

Then calls random repair people, tells them the story. And asks “am I crazy” because most businesses would never say that to a client. She was looking for validation, the same way people go fishing for compliments saying stuff like “I’m so bad at my job, I don’t know how you all put up with me”. Even if it’s true and they’re dead weight, most people will be polite and reassure them.

I just didn’t know how to deal with someone like that

Tell them that they should relay their concerns to a medical professional if they’re concerned.

If they’re seriously doubting their delusions, they’ll go get help and thank you for the advice.

More likely they’ll realize you’re not giving them what they want, get mad, and often blame you for being involved in the conspiracy.

But there’s a chance they actually get help.

Any kind of acceptance of their beliefs, no matter how tentative, reinforces it and drives them further into the delusion. Depending on how involved her family is, she might have called them immediately, and after cussing them out said even the plumber agrees she’s not crazy.

They probably thought you meant something different than what you actually meant.

…

You think they do an annual review of threads?

It was over a year ago I made the comment, they banned me for it five days ago.

I don’t know man, it’s weird you’re not getting that, but it doesn’t really matter.

I’m sorry if I’m explaining it poorly.

I did remember it wasn’t I blocked a mod, I explained why I might not respond. And apparently they didn’t like that I had blocked their instance

Weird, maybe because I looked at world’s modlog and not theirs like you seem to have done.

I clicked on the link, it was a comment from literally a year ago lol.

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/3159844

I blocked the mod of that sub about a week ago, so they likely went and saw my last comment there and banned me for it.

Like I said tho, I’m perfectly fine with it. I blocked their whole instance a long time ago, I think it might have actually been that thread that clued me in it wasn’t worth ever going there again.

Thanks for finding that tho! I’ll remember to check an instance’s own modlog in the future for more details.

Quick edit:

(which your agreement to could be seen as agreement with trans-segrigation in sports).

Nah, I was explaining how the only way to get better at chess is to play better people, and there’s no reason for any classes based around gender. And the explanation for difference in skill, is simply that the best men refused to play women, so they never improved. The first female grand master was only that good because her dad was crazy good and made her and her sister play him constantly.

You need the experience of high level play to be able to play at a high level, and any gender divide in division just prolongs that. So I was arguing against any segregation at all.

That’s why they let it stay up a year until I blocked the mod of that community.

And suddenly it was transphobic.