Seems to be unpopular to admit in this post, but I use food delivery apps. Yes, the fees are ridiculous, but I can afford it. I don’t do it every day, but I do at least once a week.

I hate cooking and I hate dishes. It’s never pleasant. No, I can’t personally make something at home “better than most takeouts”. If you can, good for you. It’s not for me and I’m lucky that I am able to get takeout.

Honestly, I don’t know how in the world one human is able to keep up with working 40 hours a week, cook, dishes, laundry, clean, etc. It’s all too much for me. Hell, the state of my laundry has been insane the last several weeks.

Do you get to see a lot more stars out at night there?

Seems kind of silly…but the downtown started this tradition years back in coating the entire facade of the buildings in Christmas lights…not in a gaudy, cheesy way, but one single color per building. One shop would be blue and the shop next door would be red, etc. It started to become “known” in the area that this town would have the most lights ever in the downtown. They basically made a festival every year about it and more and more visitors seemed to come from out of town. And as time went on, more and more business neighboring the downtown started taking part. It looks amazing at night…every single building entirely lit up in a different color. I haven’t seen it in years…I guess it’ll be almost 10 at this point.

Agreed, @sprigatito_bread@lemmy.world. Get a job. Any job. Ideally one that could pay a bit more than minimum wage and/or one tangentially related to the field you want to go into. But you can’t afford to be too picky. That’s step one.

Step two, move out. I know you said you don’t have friends. You don’t need them. But you need to find a roommate because you’re unlikely to be able to afford to live on your own.

https://www.reddit.com/r/roommates/comments/1fipamp/best_roommate_finding_apps/

This reddit link has some ideas/websites to try for step two. It’s not an exhaustive list on how to find a roommate, but it’s a start.

Check out the mental health community that MonsterTrick posted. It’s fairly active!

Wow are you me??? Do you identify as asexual? How have you navigated things this way? It’s for me…humans are social animals, right? So I have a very deep need for connection and intimacy…just not of the sexual or romantic kind. So it’s a struggle to be in such a fringe group of seemingly contrasting needs that aren’t compatible with 99% of the world.

Damn both of y’all getting really hardcore in the comments over some milk.

On Samsung phones, you can turn off your phone via the notification bar drop down.

That being said, I still prefer to have my power button bound to…well…power options lol.

Well luckily you can change this on Samsung phones. I’m assuming phones with the default bound to Google Assistant will be similar. Annoying and stupid, for sure, but at least you’re not locked in. I’m sure a lot of the general population won’t have the basic know-how to change it though, unfortunately.

Have you ever succeeded in the chemistry part?

Wow. You are very lucky. My current job would be the best ever except my supervisor makes my life a living hell. :(

I have been here so long that it is hard to leave my friend.

So I have a tendency to get multiple hair roots that coalesce into a single bulb. Probably around 3-4 follicles combined into one I think.

Just by realizing this and making this comment honestly says a lot about you. A lot of good, that is. I’m rooting for you, OP, and I hope you eventually find a healthy relationship. :)

Idk…they were still doing this shit plenty pre-pandemic. Disney is notorious for it and it has bothered me to no end. I refuse to watch any of their continual releases of abominations of older great films.

That doesn’t sound normal if you are looking for comparisons tbh

When Lemmy apps first started gaining traction, I tried a bunch out. The other one I used the most was Jerboa…I think it was the first one. It worked fine initially but then got buggy as fuck and almost unusable at one point in time. Hopped around several apps and a lot of them were also buggy (but slightly less so than Jerboa), missing features, or visually far too busy or unappealing.

Been using Voyager (originally wefwef) since and I’ve love it. Simple, aesthetic viewing combined with fantastic functionality and essentially zero bugs. I’m sticking with it.

My older brother lives with 2 other people. One is his boyfriend and then there is another adult. All 3 have full time jobs. My brother has a very good job and the others don’t make nearly as much but have stable employment. They have pets, but no children.

Somehow they are literally always in massive debt and never have any money. I just don’t understand what in the world they spend money on to get to that point.

My younger brother has a job that is better than my older brother, but he’s still not making anywhere near a doctor’s salary or anything. My younger brother supports a stay at home wife and two children. And they manage to NOT be in crazy debt like that.

My older brother’s financial situation has just always baffled me.

Lmao so I worked at a Dollar Tree for a few months before. Shit was wild. You were expected to check out customers, stock shelves, and put away “go backs” (items that customers didn’t want) on the shelves all concurrently. Because there was never anyone working in the store bahaha

I honestly did not realize Walmart ever had greeters. They’ve always had someone at the entrance/exit. But they just check my receipt to make sure I didn’t shoplift. I didn’t realize anyone acted as greeters there. Is it the same people checking your receipt for shoplifting or no?

Also, in case OP wants to know…most stores do NOT have receipt-checkers at the exit, either. It’s just that Walmart does because it’s a store that is prone to shoplifting.

It’s unwise to jump headfirst into a body of water unless you know what lies below. Start slow.

You talk about influencer stuff. I get that being an influencer doesn’t seem to be your sole desire, but I’ll use it as an example anyway. All of the YouTubers I follow didn’t start big. They did YouTube as a part time thing while still holding their main job. It was only to the point where they started really succeeding at YouTube that they dropped their original career.

I say go for it, but start small. Don’t quit your job for this until you start doing really well in it.