this post was submitted on 31 May 2024
65 points (85.7% liked)

No Stupid Questions

35716 readers
2175 users here now

No such thing. Ask away!

!nostupidquestions is a community dedicated to being helpful and answering each others' questions on various topics.

The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:

Rules (interactive)


Rule 1- All posts must be legitimate questions. All post titles must include a question.

All posts must be legitimate questions, and all post titles must include a question. Questions that are joke or trolling questions, memes, song lyrics as title, etc. are not allowed here. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.



Rule 2- Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material.

Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.



Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.

Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.



Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.

That's it.



Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.

Questions which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.



Rule 6- Regarding META posts and joke questions.

Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-question posts using the [META] tag on your post title.

On fridays, you are allowed to post meme and troll questions, on the condition that it's in text format only, and conforms with our other rules. These posts MUST include the [NSQ Friday] tag in their title.

If you post a serious question on friday and are looking only for legitimate answers, then please include the [Serious] tag on your post. Irrelevant replies will then be removed by moderators.



Rule 7- You can't intentionally annoy, mock, or harass other members.

If you intentionally annoy, mock, harass, or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.

Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.



Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.



Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.

Let everyone have their own content.



Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here.



Credits

Our breathtaking icon was bestowed upon us by @Cevilia!

The greatest banner of all time: by @TheOneWithTheHair!

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

I figured a close stereotype for men, would be that they should all be farmers. The thing is, there are under two million farmers in the US as of 2023. So statistically, an equivalent occupation/role should have a larger number.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 59 points 5 months ago (2 children)

"Women should be barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen" transcribes to "Men should be shirtless and mentally ill in the garage."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Does being mentally ill in my own room count too?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

So long as you are alone, your realized value has the ability to provide for a hypothetical family, and your liver can tank a half a bottle of brown liquor a night without the spins.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (6 children)

As a millennial, if I could afford a house, I PROMISE you I wouldn't also be able to afford mental health treatments, or a shirt.

So this tracks.......if I could get a house.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

You might just have to move out of the city, things get way cheaper when you go rural, plus it opens you up for usda loans.

They’re for rural areas and they will put down 100% of your down payment, but your credit score has to be right and you have to find a nice house, like really nice.

The one I am about to buy was approved for a usda loan, until they found out that 1 corner of the crawlspace was technically in a 1 in a 100 year flood zone.

If that doesn’t work you can try fha, their guidelines are a little more lax, but you have to put 3.5% down.

That’s what I am using and I know that my rent for the next 30 years is fixed until my mortgage insurance falls off.

That is with no adjustment for inflation either.

So if shit spikes again, at least my rent effectively got cheaper.🤣😂😞😢

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, us millenials not having houses is probably a huge win for climate change... if I had the space to setup up a forge and learn metalworking I don't think I'd be able to resist. "But I can do it in minecraft..."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh my god. We're going to have a story soon where a bunch of 35 year olds buy a vacant plot of land, and then dig downwards. Then they'll disrupt some plumbing, or cables run underground, or gas pipes. SOMETHING bad will be cut, and when they get questioned, they'll say they were strip mining for diamonds.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So... wanna go in on a vacant plot of land?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Realistically, you only need a garage

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Clearly you just need to be a man and work harder and more hours, at the expense of your mental health, to be a better provider because that is your only value to your family. The more emotionally shut-off and weekday war-torn you are, the better the space in which you can escape work and home stress by self-isolating and self-medicating with alcohol. Your chosen man-cave is totally not a place to hide your emotional breakdowns where you silently sob as you suffer the masculine burdens of building stress and feelings of inadequacy alone. Just remember, communicating your feelings is what women do; men dig their grave faster and deeper because that takes manly strength.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

................with the exception of having a family vs living alone, you just described what my life would be life without medical issues. I mean,it's still mostly what you said. You just left out the part about not affording to be able to pay medical bills too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You made the classic weak feminine male mistake of going to the doctor. A real man never goes to the doctor because you are fine and you just need to be strong and it will go away because it is just a benign affliction. You can't burden your family with worry or medical debt if you don't go to the doctor, that's just science. Weak men are worried about their health before it is too late, strong men fight treatable or curable undiagnosed illnesses until it kills them like a man. Just remember, a real man gets diagnosed before retirement by a coroner.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Retirement??? No. My generation doesn't get that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

That's the neat part, death is the retirement.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Who said it needs to be your garage?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

A "garage" means any space a man can claim as his own to self-isolate and cry quietly in. Be it a garage, basement, shed, or man-cave. As long as he can suffer silently and nobody knows, he is a strong man and every strong man needs his "garage".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

@Death_Equity did.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm a Millenial with a house, but no garage. So, I'm shirtless and mentally ill under the carport.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Honestly, if you're a millenial in this economy something is wrong with you if you aren't at least a little crazy.

The stress is fucking unreal.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

You are going to be the best uncle that nobody trusts their kid with after what happened last time they had you watch their house. You have an important role in the community, selling illegal fireworks to bored teens.