but if you truly have nothing to give, then you have nothing to give without impacting your own existance.
But I say to myself, if I ever give a little, it's not gonna have much material impact on their life. i.e., I am not easing their misery for more than an hour! Also, there are many of them, how will I choose whom to give and whom not to? edit: But it's gonna take away stuff from me, I don't spend a rupee when I don't have to.
Is give when you feel like it and when you can (I think you would say yes to this) a good idea?
And spite. Never let go of the spite that makes you outlive the assholes
Please explain that a lil more.
FWIW you mold your life with a “goal” in mind, and along the way improvise when shit comes at you.
You see, I had this goal for which I was ready to sacrifice a lot, but turns out I would almost certainly fail if I pursue it and even if I achieve that goal, it ain't paying my bills! A lose-lose! After I realized that I gave up on it and along with it everything I knew about myself.
I don't know what I am doing atm, I am just wandering around thinking, if I know enough maybe I will get to know what will make me happy and then I can pursue it. i.e., No use sitting at home thinking about it and having an existential crisis.
I don't hold any answers but if you're reading this comment, I want to know how you take into consideration that if they are asking for money, that money can easily be used for drugs/opioids/other stuff which will hurt them.
i.e., Do you give them money or do you give them food, a bottle of water or stuff like that?
I understand, thanks for differentiating between the ugly stuff (drugs, wanking off...) and the stuff we need.
PS: I am talking mainly about getting rid of Phone addiction, netflix addiction and stuff like that, so these are net negatives if you overdo it and if you can't control yourself, which I can't do most times, they become really addictive.
That's pretty good!
Today I learned...
Damn! I will read them when I am really happy about something
Thank you for this comment and thanks for mentioning sources for further reading.
I guess this comment makes more sense now, you are right, it's probably not useful to read these messages. But, a counterpoint could be people who are in a really bad situation and are in that space make bad decisions.
i.e., It depends very much on how the person perceives the situation. I have heard of 16-year-olds offing themselves because of something really stupid, so maybe if we read suicide notes which are so obviously wrong in their approach, maybe that will help people realize that even though you think there is no way, there probably is one.
Also, I am not sure how often this is true. I don't want to shit on people who have offed themselves by suggesting there were all dumb or something, I am pretty sure they had legit reasons most of the times. idk!
Productivity is completely unrelated to success IMO.
I am sorry, but I feel like we're getting stuck on words here. You know what I mean by success, don't you?
At least for me it does, I have not achieved certain things I wanted because of lack of self-discipline and then lack of productivity. So it's real to me. But if one accepts the puddle they are in (not judging), maybe then productivity won't matter. i.e., You have to become a Jain or something (again, not judging, they probably will stay happier than me). edit: Your second point explains more, but productivity will make me happy, I know it. So, this discussion is rendered moot for me.
even though i might
This is embarrassing, I hate it when people don't capitalize their 'i's :')
I connected my phone to my laptop and turned on USB tethering and removed all my sims from my phone, but it was still showing upload and download values and some torrents were downloading and uploading. How is this possible if I have 0 internet? I mean, my phone wasn't connected to wifi and my laptop was still getting internet. Somewhat weird I think? What are the possible explanations here?
If there are no possible explanations, can I declare this a miracle and myself GOD!? :)
Go to Settings > Scroll Down > Tick Show Read Posts > SAVE
Solution:
Without being logged in:
PS: I also have an account on sh.itjust.works and this shit just works over there.
I get these more often then I should, so I was just wondering. They can't find me through my phone as I have turned that off. I have a killer username, but it ain't short, i.e., no one would purposefully search for it. So, the fact that someone's texting me is weird.
Day before yesterday some woman messaged me to talk about stock options, few months ago another woman texted me to talk about crypto.
And the dp seemed legit, mainly because the woman was not pretty and it didn't look like a photo a scammer would put on. I sometimes feel weird to have to block these people, they talk nice. The guy in the screenshot "needs a friend", I don't :) Should I change my username to something cryptic, something no one would think of typing? something like kdjfaid9fua98d. Also, I am an Indian, does my location have to do anything with this? We don't have any common communities too.
edit: I ain't complaining. If reddit engagement is dying and forums are taking it's place,
Forums are more private and I generally hate reddit :)
I want to know just who these people are? I mean, the success of forums have been a surprise to me. And recently, in my experience Tech reddits (linux distros and such) haven't been getting as much attention as they used to get.
If I have a question regarding MX Linux or someone has asked a question regrading it, it seems reasonable to me that I would find it on Reddit. Since there are generally more people on reddit than on forums and reddit is like a super forum with almost everything under the sun attached to it and showing up in your feed. So, I might not be passionate enough to just stay on MX forum, but I will get enough variety on reddit that I will be able to stay interested and browse it more.
I don't know enough about MX Linux to frequent the forums, not do I want to know/read every small issue someone else has. But, if I come across a post on reddit while I am just browsing through my feed, I will make sure I try to help them as much as possible, but yeah, I don't see myself going to forums to try and help people. So, I don't get why forums are so successful.
Are there really so many people to frequent forums and provide answers to people who seem to be in trouble. I love MX but it's not my passion and frankly, I am surprised that there are many people for whom it seems like it is.
Is this a known issue? If you type in 
somewhere it will be replaced by 
Don't get me started on how this messes up linux commands and scripts, Is this a me problem or a lemmy problem? I need to study, if this is a known problem, then fine, but if it isn't then it needs to be reported.
Username checks out
I would probably able to sympathize more than an average Joe to that.