Some people have had to skip one meal a day and not eat, also try applying for a second job or see if can work more hours at current job. Try to re-use things that might normally be thrown away. Eliminate all social spending and leisure spending, mean don’t spend money on anything that is not groceries for home, electricity, water, and transportation. Cut back to a single house phone or online service, cancel all cell services.

How serious are you and how much sacrifice are you willing to make to limit spending? It can be done only if you are willing to change how you’re living, and view more things as luxeries, not mandatory for living life.

Adjust lifestyle to cut out expenses like never eat out, get rid of cell service and change to online phone service, downsize things at home, try to take on extra work, learn a new skill you monetize or make life better, see about changing living arrangements or if there is anywhere cheaper to move, even if it means smaller. Get rid of paid streaming services.

Thank you for those links, I sent you a message on Masta

Considering how clear the local message is that in order to fully respect somone you keep a physical distance from them, no affection of any kind, it’s made the people of this city for cold and have no soul.

I’m more comfortable with immigrants than Canadians.

It sounds like you can apprecuate the conundrum.

To clarify, I’m talking about men who spend a lot of personal time with each other, I’m not talking about first time meeting. What level of physical affection is comfortable for male friendships?

I am referancing what I noticed about people’s spending and shopping habits 3 years, 8 years ago.

For example the only reason why there are $1500 phones is because they continue selling. I dont use any cell service because it’s not worth the money every month. And yes that means I don’t data service when I’m outside because the internet is not that important, whatever happens online can wait until I’m conneced to wi-fi somewhere again.

My whole life I’ve always been against million dollar homes, the ones 10 years ago, 20 years ago, that cost a million, that is pure indulgance. I find those houses have no soul, no character, they are showroom houses. Buy a cheaper house that has more of a family feel to it.

In one small portion I don’t feel bad for some people’s financial stuggles, some I do, but some I don’t.

I’ve always believed that people use credit cards too frequently for general shopping, bying material stuff. The crass consumerism problem. It seems lots of people are not wlling to limit how much they spend for where they live, like get a mortgage and then rent out a room to help pay, no, find a cheaper place that might not look as nice.

Limit spending for outings and entertainment, buy a cheaper phone or keep it longer. Don’t buy a new car if not sending money at mechanic on a consistant basis. Don’t rely on restaurants and Starbucks so much. Bring food from home to work everyday, if that looks too poor that says everything about the people with that pretentious attitude.

There’s freedom in restricting spending to only what I person has the cash to spend on without ever using credit cards at stores.

If all bills and expenses are always paid every month plus still have $100 in the bank and don’t need to buy anything, other people’s opinions are worthless.

Me, or the climate change activists lighting all of the forest fires?

Due to the arsonists who lit the fires who have already been arrested.

It is true that the covid vaccine is exclusively for the stupid and gutless people to get poison poke.

I look for one that allows or protects offensive and insulting statement.

There is a very large difference between what is offensive and what is criminal.

Hate speech does not exist, people use that to silence different views, that is why there is no universally recognize definition of the term that all sides agree on.

Mastodon can be heavy on censorship by banning IP addresses rather than individual accounts. Not banning an account, but IP. So when one instance bans an IP, that means that IP is blocked from all users on that instance.

Twitter has never banned IP addresses, only accounts. Twitter does not keep a list of naughty words that result in immediate ban after posting, and suspended users can still reaxh Twitter to discuss the issue.

It seems that federated platforms are more ban happy than the corporate platforms. If Lemmy and Mastodon really want to challenge the bigger companies, protect offensive posts, protect mockery and insults, people challenging or correct someone’s statement, and distinguish them from actual attacks and degrading words.