That’s really tough man. This is where I think these small communities might really help though. They are mostly people living in tiny homes and vans or something with almost no housing costs. So they can afford to focus on their art.

I think our background is similar and I feel you. One thing I think I learned recently is that there are artist communes out there in the middle of nowhere in probably every US state disconnected from everything except a small likely poor communities which are self-sufficient and focused on art. They range in size from a couple people to larger communities.

A bunch of people just get together to buy some cheap land or something and do this. The idea appealed to me a bit. Leaving the rat race and just subsisting and disconnecting.

Hard times like this will come and go. You can fight if you want and more power to you or you can isolate with a group of like-minded people and stay safe that way until things get better. Or you can think about it as saving your energy both mental and physical for when you have an opportunity to take action that actually makes a difference.

Mental health is health and you need to take care of it. Just like it’s bad for your body to eat tons of junk food, never exercise, take addictive drugs, etc. It’s bad for your mind to constantly ingest bad news when there isn’t anything you can do about it for now.

Stop reading social media and the news and turn inwards to focus on things that bring you joy. If you have art or creative endeavors turn to those. Try to avoid hobbies that take too much money and find things you can do cheaply so you don’t do things like blow your tax return (financial health is another thing and you should be creating an emergency fund with any extra money you find right about now).

Here are some examples on the cheaper side I enjoy: watercolor, bookbinding, knitting, sketching, etc.

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“Self-host” is just a euphemism for “pirate” right? …Right?

Is this the new cursed AI future we live in?

I understand that the climate today is vastly different than what it was when I was growing up. These days being gay or lesbian doesn’t necessitate a struggle and that’s fine. I am coming to terms with the fact that it’s more important to be okay for people to self-identify these days, despite what I or others may think, since being queer is simply far more widely accepted (in the US). This is true for being the LGB portion of being LGBT to a large degree, but we haven’t gotten there for the trans portion.

I’m just explaining the perspective people who have issues with OP might have and thus why they might have a problem which is what they asked about. Especially as someone who grew up in some of the hard days (i.e. being disowned for being gay, having to fight for my rights to marry my husband, etc.). And also experiencing people in my own journey that claimed they could speak on my behalf or for LGBTQ people as a whole despite having almost no understanding of the struggles we had to go through in the past. The struggles the gay community has faced in the past are being experienced right now though by trans folk perhaps even to a larger degree. Which is why it is more likely to be found problematic to pretend to be trans when you are not.

I think it kind of smacks as someone who wants to appropriate a struggle that is not their own.

I think most people have known a girl who claimed she was bisexual because she found some actress attractive and she wanted the attention from her friend group but found the idea of sex with women as disgusting and so never ever had a relationship with any women.

It wasn’t too long ago that being gay or lesbian meant you had to hide who you were or who you loved and a lot of older people had to live through that. Some people still do to avoid losing their family. A lot of younger people don’t understand that. So seeing someone who enjoys the privilege of being straight and being able to openly love who they want pretending to be marginalized just feels kind of gross. Kind of feels like Rachel Dolezal. You can look her up.

I’m probably going to be downvoted for this opinion but we were asked to explain why those around OP thought their deception was bad. This is likely why.

But that would mean creating new IP! Not to mention you’re dropping something without fully squeezing every last cent from the nostalgia crowd!

By the last season, Hank’s conservative views became less of a joke and more of “the conservative voice is sane and the woke liberals are bad”. Plus Mike Judge was friends with Alex Jones and endorsed him. I always sensed a whiff of him being a closet Republican.

Most tankies are accelerationists. They likely voted Trump not because they like him but because they believe he will accelerate the collapse of the US and they can have their communist revolution faster.

To that end it works in their favor to attack liberals whose goal is to prevent collapse of the current system because they know it will put marginalized communities at the most risk if that does happen.

Tankies are class reductionists and don’t care about marginalized communities except when they can use them as a cudgel against liberals. After they achieve their goal they drop their cause entirely. See how silent they are about Gaza now that Democrats were successfully kept out of power despite the fact Palestinians are at far more risk now.

Comparing the cost of a Snapmaker with an Ender isn’t really fair as one is a 3-in-1 with laser and CNC and 3D printing all in one and the engineering costs it took to accomplish that in a reasonable form factor. The increased cost isn’t from having a higher quality printer.

I prefer my Nazis to be hiding in fear. Not making public pronouncements of support for the Nazi party. I will continue to drop services that endorse a political affiliation that doesn’t regard me as human.

Who knows. Could be 300%. In which case maybe it’s worth it. Lol.

That and my parents will likely be alive longer than me anyway.

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