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How do I quit smoking?
  • Just stop doing it. You won't quit until you really want to stop, and then it's actually kind of easy. You hear this from a lot of people who quit, that all the circumstances and programs and nicotine substitutes are kind of secondary to the mental aspect of it.

  • How dare you!
  • This is widely misunderstood. Liberalism doesn't start with axiomatic capitalism as a first principle, but rather acknowledges that it's hard to have individual liberty without the concept of individual material ownership. Even most contemporary forms of anti-capitalism have sort of come to terms with the idea that some form of capitalist structure is a near inevitability in the context of material and labor scarcity, and that beyond that you are really just debating different forms of harm reduction. And that's really the important thing - to understand that we are all just talking harm reduction here. The idea of eliminating capitalism entirely is a bit like curing cancer. It's a long term goal which requires technology and conditions which simply do not exist at this time, but there is not like some weird faction in the medical community which is ideologically opposed chemotherapy because it doesn't go far enough, like there is in (outdated) leftist philosophy.

  • Lemmy Developer removes comment in [email protected] for asking Russians if they are being oppressed by their government and if they support the ukraine war.
  • It honestly makes me concerned about the broader security risks of using lemmy. There's a lot of opportunity for them to target users they don't like by serving them malicious content via lemmy.ml, and they have shown nothing to indicate that they are above this kind of thing imo.

  • It was my birthday a few days ago and all I can think about is how I'm still a virgin
  • Bro straight up ask your friend to get you laid. Lower your standards and just follow his lead to check that box. Don't over think it - the goal is to get into a 1 on 1 situation after some drinking (not too much) then just go for it. Don't worry about it being embarrassing because your goal is not to see the lerson again, its to fuck. Everything will come much easier after that, trust me.

    I cannot emphasize the lowered standards thing enough. The sexual context itself is surprisingly stimulating. Even if it goes terribly it will throw a switch in you which just demystifies the process

  • Houses in my area increases 82% in just 4 years
  • Right but you then control the appreciation on a much larger asset. In terms of pure net worth and net present value, trading up is a huge gain even if it doesn't generate more short term liquidity.

    You can also rent out the smaller place and get both cash flow and NPV upgrade.

  • Houses in my area increases 82% in just 4 years
  • Not that this is "ok" but it's why "buy whatever you can as soon as you can" is good advice. If you'd put whatever you had into a shitty condo four years ago, and kept saving at the same rate, you'd likely be in good position to trade up soon.

    I see a lot of people I know end up in the same position because they've been waiting for either the exact right circumstances or for prices to "crash." All the people i know who started with anything they could afford now have a huge amount of equity in nice homes. The difference is real and primarily about timing more than income or location.