On one hand, consumption of pirate IPTV services in Sweden has dropped two points, from 16% of all households in 2024 to 14% in 2025. On the other, 30% of over 15-year-olds consume content illegally every month, a figure that rises to over 50% among men under 35.
I hate when they just throw statistics at you like this.
30% of all Swedish people over 15.
50% of all Swedish men under 35.
14% of all Swedish households.
… I think? Does IPTV = all pirated content?
Edit: formatting
Without knowing more about you, it’s hard to say anything for sure. I can make a bunch of guesses.
One possibility: you didn’t cultivate your relationships as well as you thought. A lot of guys sink all of their “intimate relationship energy” into their partner, instead of spreading some out to friends and family members.
Maybe your ex ran a successful long-term hit campaign on you. That would fit with the cheating and the emotional abuse.
Maybe it’s due to the period of life that your friends are in. If everyone’s in their early 30s, they’re probably dealing with climate change, economic stress, children, etc. Doesn’t leave a lot of emotional bandwidth for someone you don’t already have deep ties with.
Maybe it’s a broader cultural thing. Guys tend to get the short end of the stick in general with breakups. We still don’t teach boys and men to explicitly emotionally support each other. We still don’t, as a society, emotionally support boys and men in general. Single dads get custody far less often, etc etc.
I’m not blaming you or exonerating you. Your situation sucks and knowing all the possible whys and wherefores probably won’t help you as much as figuring out what to do next.
Your question kinda implies that we all must have family deployed in a war zone though
I didn’t mean to come off that way.
All of the Jewish people I’ve met had some kind of on-purpose connection to Israel, like family members who lived there, or a community-sponsored coming-of-age trip, etc.
My having family deployed is the closest thing I have to that kind of personal connection to a place in the middle of a war, but I expected your experience to be different from mine.
Yes, but that would only work if her group chat friends also use Signal.
Which likely isn’t going to happen unless all of their friends also use Signal.
Funerals are for the living, not for the dead.
If enough people had gotten to know the toddler that the ritual of a funeral would be comforting and connecting for them, I would have a funeral.
If the toddler only really made a mark on one or both of the parents, I would have a small, more intimate ceremony instead.
If the toddler hasn’t yet made its mark on anyone yet, then the funeral serves no one.
Okay, but how does that lead to defying gravity?
For the people like me who forgot what sealioning means.
If they had fax machines in Star Wars, it would still be period accurate.
I still don’t understand how fax hasn’t died yet.
This picture was either taken yesterday or forty years ago.
Except there are a lot of people who believe that the homelessness and suffering is natural, correct, and deserved.
I was going to say something snarky and stupid, like “all traps are vagina-shaped,” but then I thought about venus fly traps and bear traps and now I’m worried I’ve stumbled onto something I’m not supposed to know.
I upvote you making stuff.
I said “why not make a newsletter,” not “why not make a side hustle”.
Lemmy (and the threadiverse in general) is a link aggregation platform.
A newsletter seems like a better format for long text posts like this one.
Well there’s your other problem.
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Next, you’re going tell me a billionaire’s involved somehow!
Well there’s your problem.
I don’t think cake is saying that at all. They’re asking if using both has issues besides more tax paperwork.
Edit: reading comprehension.
If you’re going to keep doing these, why not make a newsletter?
Sometimes what you’re feeling needs so many words to express that a thousand just isn’t enough.
*ahem*
I mean…