Attacking me just like in OP’s post? Easy block. Others agreed with me, no reason to be a jerk. No one else was.

I expected to be attacked. Thanks for letting me know my read was reasonable :)

I still think you should go. And also I can’t judge if you are political online only or not but if you truly spend a lot of your time working based on your values and they belittle you, you do need to draw a line.

Them attacking you, if true, is different from you picking a fight with your brother over a minor issue.

I agree with the other commenter that you go to the wedding then make your decision. Them liking musk and you not going to their once in a life time event is a nuclear escalation.

Personally I think you’re pushing one hot button waiting for it to blow. I’m sure my father voted for trump. Should I not see him because of it? Or half of America? Wanting your brother to agree with you by punishing him just makes you look childish.

That said, I don’t know the rest of the dynamic. Others might say it’s worth it but honestly you all are just fighting over minor values. Do you expect all family to have exactly your values? Are you a liberal? Because this honestly seems like a lib more than a leftist move. Playing intellectually superior while trying to emotionally hurting the other.

Also a good idea and good point on why Amazon works.

This is a really good idea!

I prefer going in the konbini unless there isn’t one near then I’ll use the vending machine. I don’t understand questions two. I only use it to purchase drinks.

I would recommend you use an RSS reader and only curate exactly what you want. Can include news, YouTube, even lemmy.

Just you. It’s easy to feel this way with depression honestly. I think it’s also what media you’re consuming.

I haven’t heard of one. That’s a good idea! :)

Here are some brief thoughts on this :)

Thanks for defining and explaining. Based on your last paragraph you seem to have an interest in traditions/religions/or philosophies of life. I recently TA-ed for an undergraduate course which discussed what it means to have a good life. The course went through various religious and philosophical traditions pushing students to question what they value.

It seems like your interest in these values for your self as well as hope to see change in the world.

I would personally recommend you read through traditions and see what is interesting or affects your personal values :)

Some content you may enjoy include:

• scholar of religion https://m.youtube.com/@ReligionForBreakfast
• unknown credentials but interesting guy https://m.youtube.com/@LetsTalkReligion
• podcast on philosophy I enjoyed in undergrad https://www.philosophizethis.org/

If it adds anything, I personally went from culturally Christian, to radically Christian and maybe somewhat conservative, to being open to eastern religions in undergrad and becoming Buddhist.

That stage of radically challenging my Christianity really made me a better person. It made me more able to challenge my beliefs and see values as important not something to be enforced.

Finally, I want to comment on reading various traditions though as you appear to be more interested in values and the separate you may not find this important. I personally find it harmful to just randomly mix traditions. There certainly are living examples of common and uncommon traditions that frequently mix but I firmly believe the modern day hippie who randomly mixes values and cosmologies creates a weaker system for themselves then if they stuck to the one most applicable. That said, in China it was and is rare for common practitioners to see going to the Buddhist temple one day then the Dalits shrine the other an issue.

Just don’t choose a side. That’s how I view topics on China, I seek the truth but I recognize state propaganda on both sides.

Celebrating the Chinese one’s while in the west is hard. Many of them already have western equivalents so they happen twice. Plus I got to keep track of the lunar calendar. The Buddhist ones are also hard because it differs per tradition.

In high school I dressed as the Pi fairy and memorized 200 digits of Pi lol

You would ban because you don’t understand? That’s wild.

Liberal for world actually leftist for the rest

It would be a much better would if the American crazy mostly white boys chose targets that actually helped the common people rather than random children. They want to become famous? Be a crazy person but do something no one else would for good.

Thanks :)

You will really enjoy reading Max Weber’s the Protestant ethic. I think that’s the title. It’s about how Protestant values on work worked really well with the new capitalism and how the values were maintained but god was removed. Highly recommend.

There are plenty of good reads on the sacred. I personally find it odd that you as an atheist have an idea of the sacred. Could you define it?

For community I definitely feel nothing beats religious communities. But it’s not a religion to religion basis but community.

Could you explain please