I mean who hasn’t?

where is Australia

better is a relative term.

what particular do you want in your email provider?

@[email protected] I guess it matters what you mean by chatting. For text communication SMS/MMS and email. For voice communication its phone calls & Jitsi.

It could be a sign of seasonal defective disorder. Either way sounds like theropy may be in your future.

Do you speak Mandarin? Doesn’t China have some kind of program for “re-immigration” of people of Chinese descent? I recall reading articles about young adult unemployment being even worse there, but that may have been focused only on college grads looking for college level work, rather than a strong young body willing to work a factory and stay in company housing.

Except they don’t accept anyone with depression, and you have to prove you’re “fine” for probably 36 months to even get a waiver.

Seeing how many soldiers commit suicide, 36 months might be too short to waiver out depressed service members. https://www.bu.edu/articles/2024/suicide-now-the-primary-cause-of-death-among-active-duty-us-soldiers/

@[email protected] and that can just be temporty, like perhaps even just weeks, while you keep looking for something better, like factory work. And if you live in a big city like Philly, especially this time a year, you might want to look at something like UPS. You don’t need a driver license to work in a shipping facility, and they are usually teamsters’ union members, though you might end up starting as a tempory contractor for the holidays and then be first in line for a union job come next year.

I remember being a kid and teachers telling us stuff like “you’ll end up as a garbage man” only years later to find out unionized garbage men make more money than public school teachers.

@[email protected] you might want to take the advice of @[email protected] here. If you are an American citizen who isn’t in school and over 18 years old, you should qualify for Medicaid, or similar state program, which makes affording a therapist a lot easier than it is even for middle-class Americans.

Why don’t you have a driver’s license? I suspect there are some bigger issues at play here.

this may be the worst idea I have ever heard. Get you out of the house, sure, but you ain’t ever coming back. If you don’t speak Russian and don’t have some out-of-this-world skills that a recent high school drop-out probably doesn’t have, you are going on the front lines to shot by Ukrainians. I don’t think you’d make 3 weeks after basic training.

Like not even a personal notebook to write journaling or poetry that is strictly your own off-limits to everyone else?

I highly doubt that’s the case. But otherwise you’re probalby right.

You could potentially join a religious community. It doesn’t take an immediate commitment as long as you are willing to consider a vocation, its several years living with the community before you’d take vows.

The Capuchins, for example, https://www.capuchin.com/vocations/beafriar

I am always surprised people claim 34,000 daily users is “a ghost town” we, well other than Earnest, made it through the great Reddit exodus

@[email protected] I hope so. The “don’t have to login” part though, while technically possible, I suspect will be less usable here, just due to nature of federation (and, while I think its a good thing IRL, discovery isn’t helped that some of the biggest instances have blocked each other).

anychance this helps the 'verse?

@[email protected] that is particularly suspicious