“Every task before you is a challenge to succeed.” It’s from “Moment to Moment” by a band called Children 18:3. Great song.

Nah, unfortunately, he went in the other direction. He’s one of the ridiculous anti-mask kine people.

I mean, it helped teach me. It’s not that I didn’t actually understand it before, it’s that I hadn’t internalized it (and how selfish it is to go around getting other people sick). My dad is one of the “I never take a sick day!” people and when you hear that enough as a kid, the “merit” of that sticks in your bones. It took me several years as an adult to really believe that I wasn’t selfish or lazy if I took a sick day.

Lol I wish. I genuinely do. But as long as we stay stubbornly opposed to basic shit that the rest of the world is doing like providing everyone with healthcare and maternity leave and stuff, there’s no way.

Boost!

“They need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps!” Apparently, the quote originates from like a late 1800s textbook or something, and it was a logic problem: “Why cannot a man pull himself up by his own bootstraps?” It’s not possible, 'cause physics.

For Android users, recommend Boost (which just launched). It used to be a Reddit client, then the dev made it for Lemmy. I did try to get into Lemmy without a solid app, but couldn’t do it. Boost changed that for me. Now Lemmy is as smooth as Reddit was. Recommending an app that makes it as easy as Reddit might help for some people like it did me. :)