[-] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 6 points 2 months ago

Starting every sentence with "So". "So" being the way to indicate the beginning of a sentence.

[-] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

[UK] I carry phone and keys. I pay for everything with my phone. Twerking on street corners as a Gen X for cash isn't profitable anymore.

If I know I need ID, eg. Costco, I have my old fashioned wallet in my jacket pocket. I keep meaning to set up the Costco ID on my phone. Doesn't happen.

The number of times I open or reach for my wallet is maybe twice a month. Frigging barber still wants to be paid in cash, and all the 20th century banks and their ATMs are closing .. [so now they have 20th century tech and no way to interact efficiently with the public. Haha!].

I'm very increasingly anarchist as I get into my sixth decade - UK 2020s feels like 1970s again so screw the useless thieving politicians - so I should be actively pro-cash but I'm actually more pro-crypto pro-barter (especially pro barter) in the real world. Long ago l learned that if I have physical cash, I piss it up the wall, but I'm careful with credit card cash. No idea why. I never have more than £30 in notes on me; that's enough money to buy a Costa coffee for you yanks.

Sadly, that means I can't give cash to the odd homeless. Not too many homeless with contactless readers. Maybe that'll be rabbit-in-headlights Kier's big thing: contactless readers for the destitute veterans that the armed services and government abandoned (I came of age around Falkland conflict).

[-] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 7 points 8 months ago

Mostly in times of economic growth and very positive sentiment. It's the antidote to the catch-22 that you can't get a particular job without the experience but can't get the experience without the job.

Simply put 'fake it until' applies when you can put experience you don't (quite) have on a CV; get the job and acquire the experience before it is ever tested in any meaningful way. That only really happens in a period of rapid economic expansion (whether that be in your (their) business, sector, or country wide). In such cases no-one really knows what they're doing.

I don't have much experience of celeb or influencer culture FITYMI - finding someones parked Lamborghini or private plane and dancing in front of it for a TikTok pretending that is yours.

[-] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 7 points 8 months ago

Thank-you. Question answered.

Sorry to have bothered everyone!

[-] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 7 points 10 months ago

That when we see a fish on the back of their car, we know we're going to be following a really considerate driver.

[-] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm in my sixth decade. It's not bad. Finally not giving any fucks at all. It's a sliding scale.

Being Gen X is pretty good.

Enjoy.

[-] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think it was ITV. (UK)

[-] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 7 points 1 year ago

Until most of the subs become communities I'm forced to flit between the two.

Some Reddit subs' posts (but not the comments) are copied to Lemmy eg. Ubiquiti but you still have to logon to Reddit to interact.

[-] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 6 points 1 year ago

That you eventually delete the Windows partition.

[-] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 7 points 2 years ago

Politics (provided you reach high office).

[-] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 7 points 2 years ago

Until I find most of the equivalent Reddit subs on Lemmy, with their emigrated leading lights, you kind of have to. Like you said, only Reddit has the answers. Startpage: "42? site:reddit.com"

I'm too old to enjoy drama.

[-] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 7 points 2 years ago

That's why I only ever bought one Samsung phone (a galaxy 6 I think) . They do have a tendency to install shit on phones that you will never use but can't delete.

There were a few ways of deleting those apps from Samsung on the web but I focus on buying clean phones with no shite loading (like OnePlus and Pixel). Although my first Pixel send to be bullying me to put my everything on their cloud servers - where all your datas are belong to them 🤣😂 via EULA.

I love my Pixel with Niagara launcher for the love translation. Wtf Google with that locked-down home screen. I'll live with the removed call record even though it's legal in the free world.

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