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  • squiblet@kbin.socialtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•At what age do you think is too old to be living with parents?
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    8 months ago

    There’s a point for some people where you live with your parents because they can’t really take care of themselves, you don’t have kids and are free to move… uh, speaking from personal experience. My dad is losing it and my mom is close to that, and I just ended a relationship recently so it makes sense I’d live with them and help them in the interim. It’s not exactly a new relationship magnet though.

    As far as your situation, you’ll know when the time is right to move out imo. The standards of “move out and have your own house at 18” is outdated due to realistic modern economics. It would be when you meet someone and want to move in with them and taking them to your parents would seems absurd. You’re educated, you have a job, you’re expressive, you’re doing fine.

  • squiblet@kbin.socialtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Has my mom gone mad?
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    8 months ago

    Sometimes they get tens of thousands, like if they convince the person to invest in a fraudulent investment scheme. Also, it’s not fulltime work with one person… maybe an hour or a few a day per victim, and they do several at once. Reply to one person, reply to another one while waiting to hear back, reply to another… and sometimes the people doing the ‘work’ are merely employees working for a wage or percentage! If they’re in a country with a different scale of currency like China, Brazil or Moldova, 10,000 USD would go a lot farther than in the US.

    Anyway, it’s not theoretical. Check out this Wired article for instance, or one on ProPublica. They’re basically the same as the “I’m a lonely doctor in the military in Africa” romance scams that have been going around social media for years, somewhat descendants of the famous Nigerian Prince scams.

  • squiblet@kbin.socialtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Has my mom gone mad?
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    8 months ago

    It definitely sounds like a ‘pig butchering’ scam. They find someone lonely, give them a sob story, proclaim a special bond, talk to them for months, then start asking for money or pumping an investment scheme. Most likely, he would never come to your country, but rather will start saying “i need <thousands of dollars> to travel there…”

  • squiblet@kbin.socialtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Tipping culture in U.S.
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    9 months ago

    I generally want people to be happy and I tip decently. As far as making under minimum, it’s set so low federally that someone would have to have no tables or be really bad to not make at least $8 an hour. I suppose it would be more likely in cities that have their own higher minimum like Denver ($18).

  • squiblet@kbin.socialtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Lemmy users, are your parents bad at cooking
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    9 months ago

    My mother cooks a wide range of stuff that is generally good. I don’t agree with some of the ingredients but the methods and results are solid.

    My father used to cook a limited range of decent dishes but seems to have forgotten about that, and has become incredibly lazy about food… if it’s not something frozen he can microwave in 3 minutes, he considers that way too long and too much effort. Their microwave stopped working and had to be replaced, and in the meantime, he was simply flabbergasted and thought he was going to starve to death. He apparently didn’t realize you could heat canned soup on the stovetop.

  • squiblet@kbin.socialtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•How to cope with existing right now?
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    10 months ago

    I have historically spent a lot of time online reading articles and comments (formerly reddit, now Lemmy/kbin of course). There have been a couple of times I just stopped keeping up with politics and current events and I found I did feel less stressed as that stuff doesn’t have a direct impact on my life compared to things happening with people I actually know - news is stressful often and I can’t do anything about those events. However when I’d start following it again I’d find that I missed a fair amount of things that would have been good to know about - neutral or positive things like scientific telescope launches, positive political events, and so on.