I wish more mainstream news would post stuff like this. People need to know!

As opposed to say, everybody. It’s so freakin’ hard to actually stay private these days. Annoying as fuck.

Yep, I see your reply now. Didn’t see it before. Good on ya for noticing it. Thanks!

And close or not, Trump did win the popular vote, and we just have to accept it and move on. (and no, I didn’t vote for him.)

Dude, you rock. Don’t even bow down to the negs that you are getting. You legit stood up for me even though you don’t agree with me. That’s an admirable, and increasingly rare, trait.

I’m American, and apparently very annoying to some, so I get my fair shair of hate. But at least when it’s thrown my way, I get that some people think I’m a dick.

But you have always been a straight up, no bullshit kind of guy. Honestly we need more admins like you.

You’re one of the reason that this instance is the best instance on Lemmy.

I look at a lot of your measured responses and always tell myself that I should respond to people that way. But I never do, cuz I also devolve and always end up saying shit like, “You keep crying. I’ll keep posting. Please block me if you don’t like me.” lmao

Stay strong, brother!

Oh, way better word. Thank you, I’ll use colleagues from now on,

Not really. I mean I volunteer at the school where I worked, so I still count them as my coworkers… But since I don’t get paid, I guess technically they aren’t. But what would you call them?

You’re on your way brother. The children being grown when you get to the decade that you retire is the big game changer I think. I love my kids, and I actually thought about having more a few years ago, but financially just wasn’t something I could wing.

Plus I worked in an elementary school for my last few days of work, so they sorta all became my kids. And I still volunteer there, so it’s worked out for me.

Now, if my kids would have kids so I could at least have grandbabies, then hey! All the better! lol

Agreed. I basically took early retirement–I’m 55.

My pension is small since I bailed early, but I have zero debt, and very few bills, so I get by just fine. My kids are grown. My house and cars are paid off. Property taxes here are very low.

Sure, I won’t be traveling the world, but the park next to my house is beautiful, and I can see the mountains from my front porch. All is good.

Good luck to ya, mate!

Yep! Wait until you have kids that are older than your co-workers.

Source: My kids are older than many of my co-workers. It sucks.

The only way to fight it is to stay fit as fuck. Oh and retire early like I did. Takes some of the pain out of getting older!