Dyskolos

Dude, I’m retired for 3 decades and still would need more time and had to prioritise hobbies. I work voluntarily with abused people, but not because I’m bored but because someone needs to. Besides that i love gaming, coding, traveling, cars, boats, going on daily tours with wifey, reading, music, watching star trek…

But I’ve seen people retire and getting bored to death a week later. I always found that sooo tragically sad, like they were born to be worker-ants and without work there’s nothing left worth living in their lifes.

But yes, the best job is one you actually want to do and are not forced to do.

I already did somewhere in my 20s like 3 decades ago.

But today, with maybe “just” one good academic salary, the minimum rent, no car and saving nost of everything? Difficult. Especially if you maybe wanna live while waiting for retirement. Maybe even have a car or travel.

And if you want a great retirement, you need Hobbies and hobbies cost money. Considering that mayve the government-paid retirement is probably gone or reeeeaaally bad in another 30yrs…you gotta save a looooot AND invest it furiously but safely. Which is work too.

World is fucked.

No we won’t (enlightenment). We’re in a global idiocracy that just goes downhill, the US showing us all our future. Sooner or later.

Said that 30yrs before, decided for no kids due to that, and just hoped i was wrong. But here we are, worse than i ever imagined. We as a species, i mean.

It’s a magnapinna. Maybe because of the legs, we don’t judge 😁

We’re all the same apes, we just speak different languages ☺️ To answer your initial question (in proxy, am no Russian) btw: The russian friends i have do not feel more xenophobia than before. In Russia that is. I’d say here they totally would, considering how hating Russia became the new normal (and also considering how many Ukrainians fled to here)

Idiots do that. Resenting a whole people for the acts of one asswipe. Not every Russian want this war. Not every person loves war. Stupid propaganda shit from both sides.

Haha, so true. I really really miss the “old” interwebz. Imagine the content of back-then with the hardware of today. The dream of yesteryear would come true. A blazingly fast net. Just html with a bit of JS (when really needed). Not 10 frameworks (each used for one function), dozens of mb of graphics, a gazillion of cookies and tracker-scripts and… Jeez.

Today i need so much stuff to fight the other stuff, it’s stuffmageddon.

Oh and if you’re also European you can also fight (for free!) the silly cookie-war.