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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • All the adults in my life told me (an 18yo kid) if I wanted to have a decent future I would have to sign that contract for an unknown amount of debt (it’s just student loans you’re not borrowing a specific amount until you’re actually done with school). I was told the job I would get would be able to pay for that loan (which was not true), and the loan started accruing interest before I even got that mythical job to pay for it. How is any of that my fault?












  • People have already correctly answered that in this community there are no stupid questions, you’re supposed to be able to ask anything without ridicule. But if you want to permit the general existence of stupid questions, here’s the definition I’ve always used.

    A stupid question is one you can easily answer yourself.

    As in, any question due to real lack of knowledge is not stupid, but if you can answer your own question just by thinking about it for a second, then it wasn’t necessary to ask and therefore "stupid”.




  • The world is actually burning though, and there are fewer birds, and people are tired and stressed all the time, and money is tight, and this is all in the real world, no internet required to experience any of that. The internet may expose you to others struggles that don’t affect your real world, but it still affects theirs. The ability to commiserate is what helps a lot of people cope with their real world, and might even invite insight on how to end some of those struggles.