MentalEdge

What communities are you frequenting?

The ones I sub and post to have been nice.

We sure did, others have already commented.

Why would you not condone it? A 17-year-old, is a “kid” to anyone about a decade older than that, but they also don’t just magically stop being “a kid” on their 18th birthday.

Most people enjoy sex, and most teenagers have an intense drive to explore it. What’s wrong with that?

Tell em how to be safe, maybe throw in some guidelines on place and time, and how to not disturb others with it, and let em.

But why would you not condone it, unless one of or both of the people involved are abusive or being taken advantage of?

That the adults related to the teenagers, feel it’s icky, has nothing to do with anything.

Most of my irl friends know my lemmy handle.

In Finland, if you ask “miten menee” (how is it going) you’ll either get to hear someone’s life story, or a single word reply “menee” (it’s going) which amounts to “I don’t want to talk about it”. But the assumption is that the person asking is up to exchange a few genuine sentences.

Or, if someone is having a genuinely good day, you might get a few sentences explaining why things are looking up.

Hence, most people will go with literally neutral statements. An example, my go-to farewell is “päivänjatkoa” which is literally just “may the day continue”.

Most modern exchange services are semi-scams.

Most banks will let you use your card in other currencies, directly, and just do the exchange on their end.

And it’s usually really favorable too. If you’ve used your card abroad “like normal” for stuff like a restaurant meal, then you’ve used your banks currency exchange service.

It’ll still add up if you make a ton of small purchases, and it would be good to check what your particular bank actually charges for exchanges.

But, lots of places will pretend to offer to do the exchange for you, at sky-high rates, when really you can just charge your card directly, and get a much better rate via your bank.

Once saved a friend like 50 bucks when she bought a leather jacket on the expensive side during a cruise. The shop offered to do the exchange for her, as if that was necessary. I saw the rate and immediately told her to refuse, knowing our bank charges almost nothing for foreign currency charges. She would have fallen for it.

The guy you’re replying to, is saying the opposite.

Using an ATM usually gets you your banks exchanging rate, which depending on your bank, can be damn near free. (If the ATM tries to do the exchange for you, refuse, let your bank do it).

Same goes online. Paying with paypal, I never ever use their exchange service. Charging my card directly with the foreign currency is ALWAYS a better deal due to how good the exchange rate provided by my bank is.

New video games.

Quick tip for anyone in this situation.

Start by using search to clear everything in your inbox from a particular sender you know wont have sent anything important.

Don’t catch up by going one mail at a time, catch up going one sender at a time. You’ll be done within a day.

I WENT OUTSIDE TODAY AND THERE WERE ALL THESE PEOPLE WEARING JEANS