UniversalMonk

That's awesome, it seems really far away, but trust me, it goes by quick. I'm 55 and I retire in a few months. And I remember thinking it seemed so far away. And fuck, now I'm here. Crazy.

Yep! I retire in 5 months. 55 years old. With full pension.

My house is paid off and I have no debt. Since I have no bills, my pension will cover my needs just fine. It's not a huge pension or anything, but I've worked for my state for most of my adult life, and whittled down my bills to almost nothing. So I'll get by just fine.

I plan to just spend my time in retirement doing exactly what I want. I've recently started a local branch of my favorite socialist party, so I'll devote more time to that.

Plus, I'll do a lot of writing, a lot of Lemmy posting, garden more so I can grow most of my meals, and doing DIY solar projects so that I can cut back on my bills even farther. Because fuck the capitalist power infrastructure in my state. My state's BS laws won't let me go completely off-grid while here in the city, but I plan on reducing how much I have to pay as far down as I can go

Fair point! I def hear it about Tesla more because of the hype.

They chose not to, and instead made a death-trap on purpose

I don't think it's a death-trap "on purpose," but it's def a death-trap by negligence. Which is still bad. Very very bad.

I actually like Musk, and when the Tesla came out, I def wanted one. But man, stories like this make me sooo happy I was way to poor ever to afford one!

I love Lemmy and the concept of the Fediverse because it allows us to decentralize and avoid relying on the influence of a single instance. If one instance tries to silence dissenting voices, we can always move to another.

Multiple usernames, multiple instances—this ensures our voices aren't silenced.

That's why I'm contributing content: to help make the Fediverse stronger and more sustainable.

And you're here reading my posts, is this all you have going on in your life? lol

She definitely didn't receive enough to change the election!

Democrats spent so much money to stop her and make her seem like the big bad evil one, and even if every single person who voted for Jill Stein would have voted for Harris, Harris *still" would have lost! lmao

This should be fun to watch. I notice that Democrats are already blaming everyone but themselves right now. lmao

I love Lemmy and the concept of the Fediverse because it allows us to decentralize and avoid relying on the influence of a single instance. If one instance tries to silence dissenting voices, we can always move to another.

Multiple usernames, multiple instances—this ensures our voices aren't silenced.

That's why I'm contributing content: to help make the Fediverse stronger and more sustainable.

And you're here reading my posts, is this all you have going on in your life? lol

Yes, thank you! Finally someone called him out! Check his comments. That last 20 or so are him saying the same thing to me over and over. Of course, I just reply with the same thing too. lol

The guy legit follows me around to different instances and communities to downvote me. All because he's mad that I support the concept of third parties.

Guess he still hasn't realized that the Democrats betrayed him. They even lost the popular vote! LMAO

Yeah, I think it's pretty telling that he wouldn't tell anyone who he would vote for. Which is his right of course, but most former politicians are pretty proud to say they are voting with their traditional political lines.

Exactly this. Great post!