I feel like people are looking for a quick pill to take that will make them all better. So when they don’t get it, they become jerks.

I’m very interested in understanding. But I don’t want to always be the smartest person in the room. I’m already the smartest in most situations I’m in IRL. If it was always like that, I’d definitely go crazy.

My guess would be that with the huge amount of American males (it is a big country after all) people just assume. And women are known to care about animals more, whether that is true or not.

I’ve been called a guy before and my name doesn’t exactly strike people as male. I am female. I’ve been on the internet long enough not to care.

I would say no. Lots of the super smart people become eccentric. I suspect any smarter and they’d just end up flat crazy. Dealing with being the only one in the room who understands what you’re saying can be lonely.

I’m working with a group of people, some 10 years younger than me, who don’t really understand technology. It feels weird.

Back when I had this issue, it was because I had a stressful job, and all I want to do is go home but you get people on these winding ass country roads who don’t know them so they go 20 under!!

Now I just get mad if someone is stupid and almost hits me.

This makes me sad. I was excited to find a decent browser too.

My biggest one is $30 total. That’s also my only patreon currently. I will do more of those soon. I have a list. The youtube memberships probably add up to somewhere around that amount in total. Yes it’s probably way more than premium. I really loved the pay what you want phase of music, but at that time I was broke.

I am a big believer of supporting talent whenever I can. I am grateful that I have the chance to do so now. My current budget for that stuff is low right now because we are working on moving.

Thanks to the state of the US, we would have been considered middle class before, but now it’s back to lower. Your dollars don’t stretch very far. I’m lucky to have a husband who feels the same way I do. We will never be rich in money, but we help as much as we can wherever we go. We also make donations to non-profit organizations we know don’t use that money to line their own pockets. So those are the smaller places that always get overlooked. I foster kittens, and we sponsor each one. That means we pay the fees associated with adopting said kitten.

Apologies for the info dump, but it’s a subject I love. I’ve been dreaming of the day I could do these things since I was in single digits.

Brave did?

I used it at reddit and is the main reason I left. I was unimaginably happy when it popped up for lemmy!

Or you could just become a member of their channel. I look at it this way though. If a youtuber I’m watching has lots of subscribers, one more member in that community probably isn’t going to make a difference. If a youtuber I’m watching doesn’t have the subscriber numbers they deserve, I will become a member. I always choose the highest tiers for them too. And join their patreon and do the same there. If I do that, I will actually listen/watch on patreon then put both YouTube versions in my watch list for when I need background noise and just upvote both videos.

That way they get all the things I can possibly do for them without giving youtube as much as I give the creators. This is my understanding of how that works though. With premium, if they actually give any of that money to the creators (my heart says no, corporations suck), it would be way less than the channel membership would give them. I don’t actually know how much premium costs though.

Please do correct me if I’m wrong. At the moment I don’t have very many people on my memberships. And I know most people these days probably can’t afford to do that, but even a $1 or $2 membership to one or a couple of them can make a difference to the ones you really support and who probably need it more than they’d get from premium.

Use Brave instead of chrome or Firefox or whatever. As of last night it was still good.

And halfway through my search on my subscribed they change back to desktop format so everything is super tiny. I’m not that old but the tiny unreadable print and Itty bitty links infuriate me. Some days the audio isn’t synced properly with any of the videos which is super weird.

And digital games being the same price as the physical copy. I remember when they were trying to say the uptick in price was due to the box and stuff inside, then digital came along and it was the same price, proving they lied and are simply greedy. Even if it was only $10 less I could justify the ridiculous price. Games should cost more. A lot of work went into them. But not $70. That’s over a days worth of work for those poor folk who make minimum wage.

Well said!

How is lemmy confusing? Unless they mean how it works, it looks to me like a standard interface. Sounds like they don’t really know what it is.

For a country that has such a mix of people, seems pretty stupid regardless the reason.

No. In God we trust is on all our money for some stupid reason.

A few years ago, I had the worst string of bad luck. My car was about to go down in flames so I bought a new one. These are just the car related mishaps. I bought a brand new car in October. In December someone ran a red light and hit me. Low speeds so just vehicle damage. A week after I got it back, a tire popped due to something on the road. THE NEXT DAY, a second tire popped for the same reason. Two weeks later, a third tire popped. This time they didn’t have any in, so I had to wait without a car till it came in.

The guy came out to tell me, having been there through everything that happened, and the look on his face when I just started laughing was priceless. Remember this isn’t all that happened during that time. It actually broke me that day, but in a good way. I don’t really get angry or upset much anymore. But it actually scares me when my response to something bad is to laugh because of all that.

We had another string of bad things happening that ended last month. So much stuff broke at once. Second time I started laughing in reaction to bad news. Good times.

The US! Oppressing everything else in the world since…the beginning!

That is a fair assessment. I can agree with that.