So protests need to find some other goal and some other message.

Let’s-a go!

See, I’m going to sound like an old man yelling at a cloud but I feel like having a phone to make school more tolerable isn’t the answer. If a kid is having social problems, letting them escape via their phone isn’t going to help develop those or avoid bullying. Letting that be the escape is a copout for adults who need to raise and teach the kids how to human.

If they do have friends and social skills, lunch, long lines, etc. are good times to practice just being present with the people around them, or quietly in their own head. The constant drip line of available distractions is changing our brains, and I don’t think it’s for the better.

Honestly, even if they’re not leaving permanently, who knows how much longer the Smithsonian will last if things keep going the way they are.

Debt utilization is a big part of a credit score. And just getting that down having multiple high limit cards is a strategy.

I have a really good credit utilization rate, in part because of this. I don’t spend money I don’t have, because I make enough money to cover my needs, set aside savings for emergencies, and treat myself sometimes. And I’m privileged to have people in my life who educated me about credit, what it actually means, and how it works.

Because of these privileges, using credit cards has saved me money by earning rewards and not paying interest. But many Americans don’t have these privileges, which is why I think it’s downright irresponsible and predatory that my combined credit limit is higher than my annual salary. Not home or car loans or whatever, just regular credit cards for regular consumer purchases. That’s a life-ruining amount of credit to have available if you haven’t been taught how to game the system.

Yeah, I don’t necessarily agree with the game, but since we’re in it, I play it. All of my purchases go on credit cards. But I never spend money I don’t have, and I pay the statement balance in full every month so I’m never charged interest. The only time I don’t pay the full statement balance is when I buy a new phone since I have the store card with 0% financing. But anything else, never ever ever carry a balance.

It sucks because it’s basically a benefit for people who have good executive functioning and financial literacy, paid for by those who don’t. It’s a benefit I only get because big banks prey on poor people.

Yeah and average age of credit is a positive factor too. Basically reset that with every one they cancelled.

To build credit 🙃

Talk to your current academic advisor and teachers

And Jordan Catalano

I use Autokey to automate many, many small things. I have abbreviations I type for words, and phrases and it replaces them for me.

Yes, stuff like this saves me so much time in the long run. I have shortcut abbreviations I type for my zoom link, bookings link, phone number, email. Generic ticket closing response. Hex codes for colors in my work palette. Even kind of long bits of code when I find myself reusing them frequently.

This is not true for plenty of people. Antidepressants saved my life, and I still feel things.

This is a way to spend money for a looooong time before it is to make money

Life is pretty good, people are nice, food is great. This is not true for many, many people.

I live in the US and honestly, I don’t think anything will remain inexpensive. Even stuff that is produced domestically will go up in price because a) the value of the dollar will contine to decrease and b) if companies can get away with increasing prices while pointing to some external excuse, they will.

It’s not really that diverse though. Overwhelmingly, the language of diplomacy and business currently is English.

Because at the end of the day, they’re all on Reddit. So when reddit says “you’ll get banned for upvoting content that promotes violence [against the oligarchs],” you can’t just make another subreddit because they’ll shut that one down too.

If the admin of lemmy.world says “you’ll get banned for upvoting content that promotes violence [against the oligarchs],” then you can say okay and make luigimangione@otherlemmyinstance.com. People on Lemmy.world can still access the new site, or even leave Lemmy.world entirely if they decide they’re not down with the admin. But they can still access all of the other federated communities they were subscribed to rather than having to quit Lemmy overall.