my weekly work lunch is a soda and a sandwich with a bag of chips. It’s $20. 5 years ago it was $12.

I don’t. But I’m a rich american who can afford to be picky and eat different stuff for every meal and eat 1-2 meals a day from restaurants regularly.

a lot of people eat the same food several days in a row, or several meals in a row.

you only feel that way because you see food as pleasure to be enjoyed. not as a necessity for living. lots of people eat to live.

They do. They taste like shit.

they also make shakes that do this. also taste like shit.

nobody is going to make a top end phone without a good camera. that’s not how product design works.

there are tons of $50 smart phones out there these days.

expensive coffee. i spend like $60/mo on coffee beans.

a lot of software dev people are incredibly naive when it comes to how human beings interact and behave.

their biggest mistake is often they assume other people are chill nerds like they are…

i already have had multiple weirdos harass me on lemmy for not being leftist enough. i’ve blocked dozens now, and really kills the experience to have some crazy people go around and brigading your comments because you disagree with their political viewpoint slightly.

way too many people take the internet comments/points WAY too seriously…

you can’t build a successful relationship without dating and getting to know if you’re a good fit.

yeah, been there too. i could never understand someone who refuses treatment/therapy/medication and then blames someone else for their struggles.

nah it’s multiple dates. it’s also a common attitude that men need to ‘impress’ dates by spending a lot at restaurants otherwise they ‘devalue’ a woman. asking someone out on a cheap date to get to know them isn’t the point… the point is to win them over by spending money on them.

basically a lot of people see dating as prostitution with extra steps. and wonder why they are single.

correct. i don’t tolerate delusional people who think they have some special super secret knowledge and are superior to other people based upon it.

that isn’t change, that’s failure to take responsibility for yourself. which makes for a shitty person, and a shitty partner.

hence why most radicalized people are shitty human beings. de-radicalizing requires people to realize they are responsible for their choices, and that the world is not some external force oppressing them.

ok, so no leftists exist. got it. thanks for clarifying.

no. clear empties quality when it comes to water. clear as in transparent.

clear water is good, opaque water is dirty and unsafe.

you are thinking of clear in the sense of space, not water. clear space is empty.

yeah you are. it’s really easy to understand.

the pool was clear before people got married. it clears up again after the first wave of divorces. clear meaning ‘there are desirable people to date’

are you ESL?

sorry, is there a test i can perform on people to know if they are ‘true leftist’?

if not, you should create a ‘leftist testing kit’ like they have for covid so i can bring it on dates and swab them and know in 15 minutes if they are a leftist or not!

I’m not assuming anything. I’m reporting how people behave. If I meet someone who is a middle class job and they are telling me I’m a ‘POS loser’ for not driving car that is worth more than their annual salary, the issue isn’t me. I think my Subaru is pretty dope.

Just go on any dating tiktok or dating advice community. You will find tons and tons of people with these attitudes.

A good chunk of the people I’m talking about identify as leftists.

Your political ideals also have nothing to do with your personal expectations and habits in relationships. Plenty of ‘leftist’ women I have met 100% expect traditional gender roles and aspire to be SAHM. And a lot of leftists I knew in my 20s are now hardcore right wingers now.

Hell half my liberal/leftie graduate school cohort is now support Trump/Republicans.