That sounds like one of my parents. They are a narcissist.
They're doing it to save face and appear nice. They know they rules of society and push them as far as they can to gain advantage. If they know that being mean to you gets the same results as being nice, they will be mean.
Lemmy is cheaper. Some don't have health insurance or do but it's garbage tier insurance.
The "work yourself to death" is a stupid boomer concept. It's a hugely negative aspect of traditional masculinity.
When people say weird stuff like this, I always question why. Why would you have a kid and then work so hard to be away from it? Why would you work for a company that will lay you off the moment it earns them a higher stock price to do so? (no modern company deserves your loyalty.) Why would you brag about suffering instead of relaxing?
I understand that we're all wired differently but those values literally don't make sense to me.
If I stay informed then I start to spiral. I have to disconnect. It's hard but it helps. My habits are to spend time on my phone to get away from my thoughts. But being on my phone gives opportunity to have spiraling thoughts. It's very confusing.
And even at night the church bells go on and on,
Is there a noise law in your town? Night bells seem problematic.
This is an ml community. Anything that praises the USA or normalizes it (that is, reducing the awfulness) is gonna get down votes.
I wish. No one IRL treats me like this. Everyone's eyes glaze over or they freak out. There is no support.
Every vote counts. For Democracy!
This is my life story. Every day, I understand more and get closer to "old man lives alone with his dog in the woods"
Oooh this may be it. I've been told before that I do this. (the first paragraph)
The factory must grow