Yes, people meed to litter constantly to provide jobs for people employed to collect it.

Most emplpyment is provoded by small business, they are not billionaires but their business can be destroyed by them.

Some of what you mentiond is just bread 'n circuses to keep you deliberately distracted from what’s important

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses

Juvenal originally used it to decry the “selfishness” of common people and their neglect of wider concerns. The phrase implies a population’s erosion or ignorance of civic duty as a priority

and much of the rest is just infantilization

https://theconversation.com/the-infantilization-of-western-culture-99556

Living with purpose and helping others provides meaning.

Be mindful that it’s a tool, use it to benefit youself

I jave been onlone from the dialup and BBS days of the 1980’s when it was the reserve of nerds, it’s accelerated the enshitifcation process in the last 20 years and commercialisation via advertising is why, it’s the only reason Googke, Facebook etal exist

Why would you follow a user ? Isn’t that more Mastodons forte?

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Not workin and not having kids to force them into wage servitude, now into the climate hellhole we’re creating.

Loathe corpratised social media.

$200k and live frugllay, that should also allow you to grow your capital a little each year.

$400k and live frugally is easily doable, in 20 years you shoukd be well ahead a d have had your own time.

Couple caveats, no kids, live in SE Asia minimally explorng the world.

I quit work at 40 and am now 60.

I’m content with my life but can never be happy.

I’m wary if “happy” people, theyre either deliberately ignorant of the world around them, or dont care. In either case, their sociopaths and/or utter cowards and I’d rather not have anything to do with them.

https://cleverhood.com/pages/thewaroncars

Ignore him and keep doing your thing.

When he says drivers should be thanked you reply “only the decent ones”

“The dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had” Mad World, Tears for Fears.

Stuck with me from when I listenerd originally.

Boost and Jerboa (on Amdroid, the latter from F Droid)

No, banks are closing braches in Australia all over the plave and moving online and digital. In the nearet big town to me, 2 gas stations have closed but a thrid one was refurbished. Australia is rolling out elecrric cars slowly and they don’t have partisan political support.

Definetly not, wayyyy to closed.

Suower popular in Australia, lots of we Aussies are disappointingly Nazi adjacent :(

Also very popular in Norway, Turkey etc etc

Retired at age 40, am now 60. Wish i had done it at 35.

Age, diet (to a lesser extent), repetition (habit) and proper sleep to recover. If perhaps you have sleep aponea you won’t recover properly and will feel tired, hell, you’ll probably feel tired before you start.

A age, at 60 I struggle to lift, or do long mountain bike rides (my two go to exercise activities) these days and not be a bit shattered after…but then I retired at age 40 so that’s sweet as well. As I sit on my sofa typoibg this feeling a bit shattered from deadlifts and squats today.

I have flailed around forever trying to find something that suits on Linux, mostly I use Internet Radio these days, (have a small Yamaha Amp and decent bookshelf soeakers and sub) and just use ther app seems to be 10000 specific channels, like best songs of 1973, or best of AC/DC or whatever. I use Radiodroid on Android as well

I used to just stuff a 1TB SD card full of MP3s and use that on my Android phone but alas those days have mostly past.