When you stop having a realistic view of porn. If you are using it as a simple pleasure and exploring sexual expression, there’s no issue.

If you see you are using it too much, and is causing you problems, you may need to be aware that you are developing an addiction like any other.

If you start purposefully avoiding it even at the cost of your own comfort and stress relief, saying things like “porn wrecks your mind and sexuality”, you are entering the current conservative, frustrating young people to manipulate them territory.

Learn a new language and get the fuck out. Visit family during elections.

In this context, it’s an employment specialization that allows you to earn a greater than average income. I was amazed that as a software tester I used to get paid more than a nurse, an arguably more stressful and more important employment path.

I’m on the left. It’s a hard thing that happens in life that I am pointing out, not agreeing with.

No job, no clue. At the start the perspective of some others and me were that it felt like I just fell out of the sky and tried to integrate into society.

I figured I’d either do immersion learning for spanish, or succeed and set up my life here.

The job came fairly easily, one of the companies from my first wave of applications accepted me.

step 1 : have a career

step 2 : don’t spend that much money, building up savings

step 3 : time is money, therefore, money is time.

step 4 : be very, very frugal during your time with no work. I ate a lot of protein powder, eggs and pasta

Uruguay, still there.

Hey, I actually did this! It was the best time of my life.

My aim was to migrate to south america, specialize in my career and get in/stay in shape.

I spent my days going to the gym, learning spanish, doing impromptu streams on twitch (I found a little community in my preperations to quit my job) , and I did travel to the country I wanted to migrate to and to NY to see a band that rarely plays live, visit my family in a different country and to visit my bud that lived in scandinavia.

I spent a month with my family preparing a portfolio.

I saved money during my career, about $16k over several years,and figured, if time is money, money is time.

I’m happy to answer any questions.

treat someone the way you would want to be treated; if that person is a rabid idiot that spews things like “death penalty now” , then make an exception since they don’t deserve good treatement; they deserve what they would do to other people, it’s ok to make an exception for these people.

Do to others as you would have done to you

Do to others as they would do to others

Nothing should be forbidden if it harms no one

depends, but I usually don’t reference more of the occasional things I listen to , less of the electronic/breakcore or experimental/obviously avant garde (less Secret chiefs 3, more crossfire duo )

EDIT : my wife doesn’t mind the tech death/grindcore, she does mind the free jazz/avant garde classical

Cuba : runs out of electricty and has a total grid shutdown

@TheOubliette@lemmy.ml : Visit sunny Cuba!

Also a phenomenal instrumental progressive/fusion metal band

https://pryapisme.bandcamp.com/album/diabolicus-felinae-pandemonium

a good portion will fall into the bin of “meh, who cares”.

Some atari games are already there, and I literally had a module called “history of video games” at university. Those games came out in 1977 ish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvPkAYT6B1Q

i’m back your side fuck that airport

I only stopped there for transit on a flight to Mexico. Just before boarding my flight I was told that I need a visa for the US, which is extremely weird because normally airports have transit zones where you don’t need any visa. But apparently the US is special, so you actually have to enter the country before going right back into the airport. This nonsense made me miss my flight.

Not like that, they didn’t let me board my flight from Europe to Texas. Even though I had a connecting flight to Mexico few hours later.

I am no longer on your side. if your journey is :

European country X -> Somewhere in the US -> Texas -> Mexico

Then of course you’re going through security controls, etc etc. You’re going from the international processing and flights part of the airport to the domestic flights part of the airport, which is the zone where any asshole in that country can travel in, so you’re properly entering the US. Of course you need proper clearance and visas and all that.

I initially assumed your journey was

Non US country-> Somewhere in the US -> Mexico

which you’d be completely right

many of her friends and friends family’s have been either political prisoners, or had ongoing court cases, etc.

wow. I’m assuming the people asking you “wanna move to Turkey?” aren’t aware of this.

Best of luck to your gf’s family , gurbet recognise gurbet.

Just before boarding my flight I was told that I need a visa for the US […] This nonsense made me miss my flight.

I WOULD HAVE FUCKING LEFT IF YOU’D LET ME ASSHOLE

those fuckers have some nerve asking you that shit, when we have so much brain drain that most high streets are basically completely catering to elderly people with hearing aid and similar stores on each one, because all the working age people leave to live abroad.

No shit rich foreigners don’t want to move to turkey.

source : part of the brain drain for both turkey and the UK. fuck them countries.

based on knowledge of the US : many things that other places take for granted or fight to preserve, you guys struggle to obtain.

based on my trip : fucking nothing, I visited new york and stayed at a run down, pre paid hotel. I ate food from stores or carry out. I can’t exactly critique the healthcare system, tipping culture, driving culture when I had access to a fairly modern public transport system, didn’t need medical assistance and didn’t need to tip 50 people just to eat one thing.

EDIT: it’s like asking tourists in antalya at the beach what they think of turkey, they’re fucking tourists, they aren’t affected by the dictator and his bullshit

this is the kind of comment I am looking for.