flatbield

You have to be channel selective. There are popular channels I stopped following because of the propaganda issue for example. There are whole lemmy nodes that my node does not federate with for various reasons. The fediverse is a diverse shit show as a whole but one can choose to not follow crap or federate with nodes that allow crap. People can publish what they want but I do not have to listen to it. Nodes can moderate but if people do not like it, they can move to a node that better suits them. This diversity of content plus ability to filter the crap is a the huge power of Lemmy.

Learn about mutual funds and ETFs. I think the EU has these. Learn about 3 fund portfolios and the Bogehead approach. Adapt it to the EU. Avoid individual securities except bonds are sometimes useful.

Life has the meaning you choose to give it.

Why do you think someone 80 should dress any differenty? 80 is not even that old. My mom is like 95 and dresses the same pretty much she did decades ago.

As far as makeup and nails, that often looks foolish at any age.

The crime angle on immigration was always made up. Crime rates where lower than average among this group. So if you deport that group crime rates would go up.

Checkout this podcast which has an interesting take on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o069oHLvDkg

Basically, they conclude that we all know who is implicated already and this is just a lot of meaningless distraction. They go on the point out that people from both parties are involved, and that even know we know by in large there has been no consequences and there is unlikely to be any.