I think it’s because half the users are practically geriatric, sometimes I open Lemmy just to question if I somehow redownloaded Facebook, and it’s honestly got me questioning my choices.

Queer as in strange, or queer as in gay? As I am both. Either way, to deny outside input is to deny original thoughts, and that often denotes lack of literacy. I don’t demand people text like me, I do however criticize people intentionally writing in an obtuse way, knowing that it would be more difficult for the average person to understand it. It’s pretentious, and frankly feels more like you obnoxiously demanding people to learn to read your specific way of writing, instead of the other way around.

Just text like a normal person, the whole point of language is to be understood not be obnoxiously avant-garde.

Looking into it, substitute teachers in my area make from 40-50k on average, so really not far off. Considering many jobs in my area already don’t provide health insurance, it’s really not the worst option for people specifically in my area. I’m sure this is by far the exception of course, just thought it was interesting.

Still not awful for my area, with a median income of 47k. But to be fair my area is poor as shit.

I was going to say lol, that’s double the average wage in my city

I don’t really have time to read all of the screenshots, so were they actually defending tankies? Or was it just defending communism? Because I’m generally fine with many communist ideals, but supporting the actions of authoritarian regimes is a nono in my book.

what parents say after completely forgetting they had children for the 50th time and leaving their literal toddler alone for 4 hours

Imagine supporting the deaths of thousands. If you really think anyone out here is blindly supporting specifically Ukraines government, you’re fucking stupid, this is about the thousands of innocent civilians getting their lives demolished because of putins raging boner for death. He doesn’t actually give a fuck about the tiny amount of Nazis in Ukraine, of which there are unfortunately Nazis everywhere in the world Including russia, he just wants power over the region and this was the best excuse he could think of.