Save at least $30,000 for retirement within ten years of your first adult job.

If you can, put 15% of your check into your retirement every single check, at minimum.

That will set you up for retirement, especially if you’re entering the work force in your late teens or early twenties.

Same.

When I get lonely, Tinder’s a thing. We both go into it knowing it’s short-term, and it’s cool.

Nope.

It’s just another day. I take myself out to do things all the time, and that’s party enough.

I have about five friends I trust implicitly.

I have hundreds of acquaintances I’m around for various reasons, and I like them, but I keep them all at arms length.

I have everything I need.

I’ve had the cops lie about me too. Luckily my case wasn’t so severe. I’m really, really sorry to hear that happened.

An important distinction these days. I’m curious, how will that dictate the way you vote in the next election? (None of my damn business, but I’m curious.) Feel free to message me about it if you don’t want to post here.

My last (and final) relationship.

I was deeply in love, but the other person broke up with me for valid reasons, and then pretended to take me back so they could mentally fuck with me, and it worked.

I’m now a depressive and a semi-hermit. Luckily for me I always liked being alone, or I’d be miserable, but the experience completely changed my personality and I don’t get close to people anymore.

I hope you find a routine that helps you deal with this. It’s tough stuff, but once you figure out what works for you, coping’s way easier.

Hello’s right.

Mastodon, Lemmy, and the Fediverse in general are what you make of it. I want there to be more content, so most days I post an article or two.

If you want more discussion, do the same, engage with people.

As a depressive myself, I concur. Sounds like OP is one of us.

The key is finding coping strategies. I exercise every day and lift weights five days a week. That helps me tremendously. As far as exercise goes, you basically try everything until you figure out what you like and a routine that works for you. If your energy peaks at a particular time of day, that’s when you should plan to exercise. (For me it’s in the morning.)

I also read a lot of books.

Thing is, I don’t engage with people much, and that actually helps a lot with my mental health. I have one in-office day a week and that’s enough to fill up my social gauge.

I graduated high school before school shootings became a cultural norm.

It’s simpler than you think. Watch a few YT tutorials on it and see if it’s a good fit.

This is the way to go if you’re a gamer. It just didn’t work in my specific case.

Don’t get me wrong, I loved Linux.

I just hated having to troubleshoot almost every time I booted up my PC. It was abundantly clear there were hardware incompatibilities in my case.

If you don’t want weird political shit, avoid the largest ones, like .social.

I am on mastodon.art which has most of the fascist distros blocked and I use Tusky. I love it.

Mastodon also has great filtering tools and temp muting so you can curate your experience pretty tightly too.

The Shining

I must have seen it at a very early age, maybe 2 or 3, because I had recurring nightmares about the chase scene that I couldn’t contextualize until I saw it again in my teens.

I had a dual boot for six weeks this summer with Linux Mint. Approximately 2/3 of my games worked fine on Linux.

I had to troubleshoot it almost every time I booted up, though, which is why I reverted to Windows setup. I plan to go back when I get a new PC and I can run linux only on a machine, but I think it’s fair to say that there are some hardware incompatibilities sometimes. I’ve also read that there are distros other than Mint that play nice with NVidia chips, so I’ll probably go with one of those when I switch back to Linux.

Still, you can blunt most of the negative aspects of Windows by running O&O ShutUp.

I always tell people: You can look at the last 44 years and know definitively that, at least in an economic sense, no one you’re voting for cares about your welfare.

So instead of donating your money to political candidates, who have billionaires backing them and don’t need your money, save or invest that money instead.

At least your investments will have some measure of representation.

Money really do work like that. People won’t get better until they got sufficient economic security to get of base level subsitance thinking.

This is very true. I’ve been a heavy saver my whole adult life and I have a number I want to hit. If things stay mostly the same for me, I should hit it within the next 10-15 years, and then I’m putting in my two weeks.

I don’t need to be like one of these people who keeps making money until I die. I just want to hit a number that gives me independence and security and I’m out.

The other thing is that we’re going to have many more elderly people who outlive their savings in the coming generation.

The only good thing in all this was that watching their struggles impressed upon me at an early age the importance of savings, so even at my most destitute I’ve never chosen not to.