You just have to look at the EU. CC rewards aren't really much of a thing here. Because as I understand it, those companies are capped on how much they can charge vendors. In return, customers get cheaper products upfront rather than in some roundabout dodgy way.

About 25% of the population voted to leave.

Vote, people. Because if you don't, a minority might choose your future for you. You can avoid politics, but politics won't avoid you.

Awww they're just too shy to list the "we need bottomless profits for our investors" fee.

He is very similar to how I was in my 20s. The exception is my style of drinking was pretty different, but at the end of the day we were both alcoholics (a word you appear to be avoiding). All the love in my life didn't prompt me to change.

What really did was to finally come to terms with my mortality and understanding that I was ruining my body.

At this point, it sounds like he will either die slowly with you or rapidly without you.

I personally think once the seed is planted, it just is. If he considered replacing you (note how I didn't say leaving), I think he will likely do it again, even if he conquers his demons. I do believe there's a chance you two could be happy together. That chance is probably very, very small. Is your life worth that gamble?

After all, it's not illegal to be an asshole.

I can imagine the level of interaction.

Hufman: do this illegal thing for me

Lawyers: no

Huffmen: you're fired

It makes sense. Reddit will be spending a lot on legal fees. It makes no sense to be working for them in a salaried position.

That's such an out of touch with reality thing to say. This is how authoritarianism works. You're either subservient or a criminal with no human rights. Do you think they get a choice other than being locked or hanging themselves?

This is why I'm usually careful about addressing the Russian government rather than its people. There are loads of good people in Russia and I hope eventually they're no longer forced by evil leadership to be the world's antagonists.

Isn't this how baby lambergines are made?

If making friends in our teens and 20s was so easy then we wouldn't need to make more friends in our 30s.

Making friends isn't the hard part. Maintaining the friendship is. It's a lot of effort and often involves doing more work than the other party, especially if they have a busier life. But it also involves a lot of failures, as plenty of them just aren't meant to be. I look more at the effort others put back into the relationship than how much I like them, as the former is a much better indicator of the potentials.

I wouldn't call it hard per se. I would call most current dating practices a waste of time. It's a lot like playing the lottery, but instead of money, I pay with my time. And even statistically speaking, the odds are quite bad, for both sides. When you have so many choices every choice seems less worth it. When you have too few choices, competition is fierce. I envy neither men nor women in today's scene, and I'd expect it to be much more difficult for the LGBT+ community.

I would say two things to you, not necessarily connected.

One, we think the grass is always greener on the other side. When I look back at my partnered life compared to my single life now, I would say my life now is better. After spending time with myself I was finally able to solve loads of internal issues. Relationships can become a very comfortable state and I definitely let myself go too often. I haven't forgotten that loneliness also occurred while I wasn't single.

Two, you can make no mistakes and still lose. As Picard said it best, that's just life. If life isn't working now, I wouldn't expect a partner to fix it. After the honeymoon phase, we tend to fall back to our old selves. Use this time to get that self in order and perhaps while you do it you find yourself happier regardless of the outcome of life.

It's the way we tend to think of things as black and white. Someone decided to set some disaster increase threshold for the climate crisis events and called it a day. When it has always been about an increase in frequency and intensity of natural disasters and more, both of which we are already seeing.

It was very polarised. I found it hard to get along with the left subs, impossible with the right subs. People are increasingly less interested in making compromises and more so in having their way or the highway. Though I doubt this is a Reddit issue alone. The world stage has been moving, fast. No doubt sped up by the numerous global crises we just had or are currently having.