Good choice!

Now that you mention it, I need this skill as well!

Good one. I'm studying Esperanto right now, because I watched a TedTalks vid where they said learning Esperanto (because it's fairly easy to learn) teaches your brain to be bilingual. And that in turn, makes it much easier to start learning other languages.

Dankon, amiko!

Fair point. And I guess it's not THAT much of an issue to me, cuz I haven't changed at all and not really working to. lol Thank you!

Good choice!

For me: Planetary science. We are making space discoveries every day. It'd be so cool to be in that room when that information comes across the computers and everyone discusses what the new discovery means.

My own robot. But hey, that day may be coming!

I grew up in the 80's. Was 17 in 1987. So I was at all the right times. But I'm, a mid-90-early 2000's music fan. Tho there was a lot of good punk in the 80's.

Interesting viewpoints. Thanks. Actually I'm not anti-social. I have a full social life. I lean toward duplicity because I still can't get on board with the hypocrisy term since it's such a loaded word.

And as for the cars, no I def do not need two cars. And my house is paid for, and I have lived here for a long time. I'm hoping global warming starts making warmer winters here!

But to your points, yes, I can sell those and my house. But that was the point fo my post. I choose not to do those things then get annoyed about it. I was wonder if anyone else was the same way. Um, looks like I may be in rare company tho! lol

Thank you for your input. Super interesting!

I don’t think I’m trolling.

Thanks for saying that. I get a LOT of people who follow me on Lemmy and call me a troll. As in, there was a thread started last week to try to ban me from the entire fediverse (which of course didn't work).

But I'm not a troll, I just have lots of different varying and seemingly opposing viewpoints. It's not done "to spite others," it's done "in spite of others."

That's why I think you and I are different than trolls and/or hypocrites.

So maybe contrarian isn't the right word, but I don't know what else I would call it. But I don't have seemingly opposing views to piss people off. It's just how I am.

My hate-fanclub peeps worked on this just last week. Notice the 318 upvotes to get rid of me:

Right? I'd LOVE to have a transport system where we all just took trains or e-bikes and the infrastructure supported that. I see people in anti-car communities who make a concentrated effort to go carless. I want to be like that. Buuuut I know I wouldn't be that dedicated! lol

But like most things of this nature, it won't even make a dent in sales. I'm all for doing something like this for personal satisfaction, but it's too fringe to expect everyone to join in.