I agree with many people here that it’s up to her. It’s her life and she’s going to live it how she wants. How you feel about it doesn’t matter. I think what she’s doing is morally objectionable because it turns a relationship that should be about caring and mutual affection and all those flowery concepts and turns it into a financial transaction. He gets companionship and sex and she gets money and not having to work (I assume). But once again, this is her decision.

How do you manage this? You either accept that or you don’t. You get to determine if you want to be part of her life or not. Perhaps this is too much for you. Perhaps not. But your only options are to accept the arrangement or not.

I do not. Not as long as Jimmy Wales is involved with it. I strongly disagree with his objectivist philosophy.

There are certainty worse places to send your money, though.

I say “Jesus, Mary, and Joseph” as an exclamation to this day.

I haven’t done it myself, but I plan to watch a bunch of pre-Hays Code movies from the late 20s and early 30s. Many of these movies are in the public domain and more are entering it for the next few years.

Yes. Me included.

You got to touch a girl’s boobies.

Jesus Christ, dude.

We’ll see if I go back to the mental hospital but I don’t foresee it happening unless work gets really bad again.

I’ve already internalized that this country is populated by shitty, hateful people. Trump winning again just confirms what I already knew.

Was gonna say everyone with impostor syndrome thinks their life is this.

My sister put liquid dish soap in the dishwasher.

Leaving your current area to find new friends is also a strategy if you have the means to do it.

I’m sure that will be blamed on someone else. Probably trans people.

I think the Democrats are too far right, but that’s not what lost them the election. What lost them the election is that voters think the President controls the price of groceries, and if cheaper groceries means killing a lot of brown people, that’s a small price to pay.

Fuck off, fascist.

Could ask if she and her son wants to get dinner sometime with you and your son. As long as it’s a pretty inoffensive family restaurant, that shouldn’t be too forward. From there you can get a better understanding of her situation.

If not fluent, yes you’ll have a hard time. I’ve been there and outside of the tourist areas, people either can’t or won’t speak English.

I do recommend the USVI if the language barrier is a problem.

I live in Columbus. I am from broadly northern Ohio. I’ve lived in:

Kent Stow New Franklin Willard Fairborn Dayton Sandusky

I had a disc-based MP3 player. The looks on my friends faces when I had 150 songs on my discman and they had 12.

Exactly. You said it better than I did.

The way I feel about it is that I don’t want Lemmy to grow for growth’s sake. I want people to understand how important it is to use open protocols and free software to communicate with others and that is what will lead to Lemmy and other Fediverse applications to grow.