I was born in the 80s. Mom was a teacher, Dad worked in IT.

Both conversations were not especially made out to be a… ok listen carefully we’re going to talk about this now. They were not made out to be a big deal, just happened naturally.

It was part of everyday life, if the subject arised it was not ignored, we were kept up to date on news and when we hadl questions about any subject, we always had an answer, we were encouraged to think critically about subjects being politics, sex or drugs, didn’t matter.

At the time my country was going through a very serious drug crisis, so it was impossible to ignore.

Fortunately the decriminalisation of all drugs lowered the drug problem significantly, but I was in college at that point.

Liminal space vibes.

One of the many reasons I wish my phone camera was a time machine.

It seems absolutely exhausting to live inside your head.

If you’re in your teens, I get it, you’re still developing, you’ll get over it… But if you’re an adult… Oh boy… Please talk to a therapist about all this, you need to vent.

This seems like something you all should be discussing in family therapy.

I’m an atheist but saying things like oh my god or calling for Christ or his mother is so ingrained in my mother language that it’s just a meaningless jerk reflex sound… Like saying ow, or sneezing…

“Why buy anything else” is a bad title, comes off as a condescending ad.

I always use the store app to scan as I shop and just pay at the machines at the exit here in Portugal. Hate shopping any other way.

Oops forgot to translate it lol.

It’s RGPD laws.

To be fair most people’s faces are not the shape of the first letter of their name either.

This reads like one of those articles made to scare old people.

Oh I agree, I like the way they do it here.

I already use keep as my shopping list on a note I share with my husband. Didn’t even know there was a separate Google shopping list, seems unnecessary.

I guess it depends on where you live. In my town its just assumed the cars are going to stop anyways and so pedestrians are dangerously dismissive of the existence of cars on crossways, sometimes people don’t even look before crossing.

Drivers have learned this and are always super careful near crossways and new arrived pedestrians get used to it quickly and keep the pattern going.

I’m in Europe and haven’t seen it yet either, so I guess it’s just random and we’ve been lucky.

Oh you’d love our “warning: road in poor condition” signs then. Those always tick me off.

In my country there’s sometimes signs that say something like “caution: accident prone area”. I never thought it distracting when driving.

I’m so with you on that. All these little steps towards that outcome make me so giddy and hopeful.

I really don’t know why, but it’s just such an amazing thought knowing that life thrives or thrived somewhere else.

That life requires a community working together, they can but they need to join a community like that. We’re social creatures we need each other.