How do you define young?
I'm definitely too old but I loved Tarkov before cheaters ruined it.
I know some early-20's folks who grew up on DayZ.
Both games very hard to not suck at.
Ugh I don't know which is worse. Next timeline, portal gun.
Tool cabinets are a marvelous thing. I have a little thing squirreled away in a drawer of other tools, just the top of a box that a screen protector came in, that is just full of tiny specialized precision tools that I very seldom need.
Not every day I don't. My kids also don't need me to have life insurance, and I don't need a homeowners policy with protection against fires because my house is built to code.
Being armed is an insurance policy against things you maybe have read about but cannot imagine. 30 days of no electricity and no running water after a solar event for example would break any social contacts all your assumptions about society are founded on. And in case of political extremism making it to public policy, No you will not survive a battle against a standing army, but when they're stacking up to drag you out to execute you for being an intellectual or the dozens of things governments executed people en masse for just in the last few generations, nobody wants to be the first one shot for a thing they don't really truly believe in, and getting enough people to commit genocide is essentially impossible until you've disarmed everyone who is not part of the government.
Now convince me these things did not all happen in the last 100 years and would never happen here.
Well she's strongly supports total civilian disarmament, so support for genocide tracks.
stop collective punishment
"I would love to live here"photo looks like a typical suburb - with a population density that is at a level where everyone still needs to own a car. I'm thinking European cities like Bern. Most people don't need one to get to work but basically every household still needs one for non-work use.
Car-free population density should be more like minor Japanese cities (like Kanazawa, etc), or old towns in Europe (downtown Bordeaux).
100%. Alphabet's YouTube business needs to be next.
Never take tech advice from someone who hasn't removed the device manufacturers advertisement from their email signature
More likely it would make things awkward with friends and neighbors. That was a whole thing in Floridian retirement communities people would straight up rock Trump stickers but voted Biden so they wouldn't be ostracized.
They could have just voted Republican if they were just going to oppose the same policies they voted for...
AuDHD, always took the hard road on life and ended up tangential to sales. A lot to learn from sales people, every day all day is rejection and their #1 talent is being upbeat and optimistic in the face of rejection. Knowing, really internalizing, that it doesn't actually matter because there are a million other opportunities.
Personally I find the best mitigation is having multiple attempts at whatever I'm highly likely to get rejected by in parallel. Multiple dates, multiple job interviews, multiple work projects, multiple sales pitches, etc. When there's hope it feels different.
Over a hundred job interviews made for good exposure therapy, if I'm rejected at something important that I'm emotionally bought into I'll still be devastated, but the key is to have something to hope for that's independent of the rejection.
At least that's what helps me. YMMV.