• neidu2@feddit.nl
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    …with pirated photoshop, because you can’t afford it

    Having said that, the only graphics program where I’m reasonably proficient is pbrush.exe. No, not mspaint. Its predecessor.

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      You don’t pay for Photoshop because you can’t afford it

      I don’t pay for Photoshop because fuck Adobe

      We are not the same

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        Met a guy that uses Arch Linux and was like “yooo fellow brother”. Saw him open up google and google drive and thought to myself “nvm, we’re not the same”

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          Because he has a job where they use those things? And you have no job?

          Maybe he was using the unlimited google drive that was available for like 10 bucks a month, I had 48 TB of pirated movies and shows on there

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        Gosh GIMP can really be obtuse and awkward at points, especially in past versions, but GIMP is like an old childhood blanket for me at this point. GIMP has always been there, a handful of keystrokes and clicks away from being installed on any computer I have ever used. Over the years growing up I would use it off and on, and now I just have this weird relationship with it that can’t be summed up easily, like the irrationally sentimental feelings one might have for a bit of tattered cloth.

        Everybody tech savvy I know would always just steal photoshop but for me, idk, the fact that GIMP is just freely given out to the world magically transmutes its jank into a beauty that I cannot help but love. It just feels right to make a shitty meme in GIMP.

        Also fuck Adobe and subscription models, I don’t even want to steal their shit because it still contributes to the idea that their raster image editing software is the only professional shit in town and everything else is a joke.

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      Why the fuck would you buy photoshop even if you could afford it? Just use GIMP

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    Born too early to explore the stars

    I think you misspelled “Born too early to slave your life away in an extractive space colony shithole owned by a space fief, thank fuck”.

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      Space was always a place of wonder, curiosity, beauty, and new beginnings. Though I suppose it was fruitless to hope humanity would leave their crap on Earth.

      Space late stage capitalism and war, anyone? Hopefully not…

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        Of course it is.

        As my zen teacher once said “You can leave your car here when you go, but you can’t leave your karma”.

        This was when we were having lunch together and I was telling him about my plans to move to another city. Without my saying it, he picked up on what my secret hope was: that all the problems plaguing me here wouldn’t follow me.

        Yes, it is very naive to think going elsewhere will change our nature.

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    I’m literally right now looking at job prospects way out in the boonies in random states because the only “reasonably” priced houses are 2526251847352 miles from civilization and even then some of these I’ve seen are absolute fucking jokes: “tear down house, amazing potential! $150,000 please!” 70 miles from any job prospects… Go fuck yourself.

    As for the Big Brains suggesting “just be a couple then.” Some of us aren’t exactly desirable and I refuse to marry someone for purely financial reasons, I want to, you know, actually love the person I marry…

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      Some of us aren’t exactly desirable and I refuse to marry someone for purely financial reasons, I want to, you know, actually love the person I marry…

      Sadly, some are:

      https://www.stylist.co.uk/relationships/when-one-person-owns-a-home-and-the-other-rents-in-a-new-relationship/455971

      So it came as no surprise when a new study by CIA Landlord recently revealed that Tinder users who specify that they own a property in their profile receive 57% more matches than those who don’t.

      🎶She likes me for me🎶

      🎶Not because I own property🎶

      🎶Or because I’m such a hottie🎶

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      Accepting backup offers.

      Handyman’s dream! Built on an easement in the 1930s on this wonderful 0.01 acre lot. Orignal lead paint included. Must wave inspection and sold as-is. Only $200,000 and it’s yours!

      HOA rate: $650/month.

      5 sqft.

      Picture is a cardboard box in the walmart parking lot

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      you can thank State Street, Blackrock and Vanguard for buying up the American dream to rent it to you forever. Democrats are trying to limit this by stopping hedge funds from buying homes, which are for families.

      When do we start to see corporate assassinations? At what point do we see people start to fight back? We are slowly slipping into full on ‘subscription’ based lives. They are stealing our children’s future away, one home at a time. Essentially turning our economy into slavery 2.0

      Because of the extreme prices and demand for homes, my apartment rent went up 24% in October. They are literally taking half my income now. Half my life belongs to this one multi-billion dollar corporation now. The other half goes to my other living expenses. I make double the average American and I am basically a slave already

      It’s 2030, you own nothing and you are happy

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    I’m 30 years old and still don’t have my own apartment. Being rendered homeless in your teenage years fucking sucks, and things onæy seem to get progressively more inaccessible.

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    Wish there was more time and willingness to break this down and embark on individual solutions.

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    If home ownership is too expensive in 2024, what makes anyone think that space exploration would be cheap in 2100?

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      Hopefully sometimes in the next 75 years, we can reverse this trend of trying to centrally control the economy.

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    No, odds are your parents didn’t buy a house in their 20s. Certainly it wasn’t common. And once they did, it was likely a small house. And it’s starting to piss me off that young adults think it was common.

    • We (GenX) were 30 in a MCOL area, but with very good paying careers.
    • My (boomer) parents were 35 when they finally got to buy a house in a LCOL area - and it was a real fixer upper that hadn’t been lived in for 2 years.
    • Their (Silent/Greatest) parents didn’t buy a house until they were in their mid-30s in a M/HCOL area. On my mom’s side it was a 800ish sqft duplex with 1 bathroom where they raised 3 kids. Father’s side hadbit more room (maybe 1300ish) but still 1 bathroom and 3 kids.

    And up to the point where we did buy a house, I always lived with roommates. There was only a couple month period where I ever lived by myself in an apartment, and it was a stretch, and I was glad (financially anyway) when I got a roommate again.

    Neither of my parents ever lived alone l. They lived at home until they got married and rented together. Same for all my grandparents.

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    Try being a couple then. Your parents couldn’t afford a house on their own either.

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      Single-income households aren’t some long lost relic of the ages. Plenty of people have living parents that prospered during that time.

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        I bought in 2005-ish. Even though I had a decent job, I wouldn’t have been offered a mortgage big enough to afford anything describable as a house on my own.

        I can’t imagine much has changed since then, and it wasn’t a new thing. Women weren’t seen as stay at home housewives in 2000.

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      Huh? Very common in my parent’s band to have been single income.

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      My father was the only one who worked, in a trade. My mother just stayed home, she had no income. I do the same trade as he did, my money does not go as far. I’m almost 40 and can’t afford a house. My father bought one with the same job as me when he was 28. Oh and I took your shit advice anyway and have a SO and it’s still out of reach.