I had this box that carried/moved from 1996 - 2016 (when boxes weren’t cheaply made) that had every cable from scsi, power, ps, usb and more. I can count on one hand the 3 times I needed something from it. I moved with it 5x between 2 states and apartments and a house, and when I moved it the last time from my basement office to my upstairs office, I decided to turn those cables into money (copper). I never looked back because I found myself being lazy and searching Amazon for a 3$ cable.

I shall live with this tech nerd shame, but honestly I sold everything to move to Spain, so whatever. Heh.

Oh it’s worse, I’m on the tail end of Gen X, very early millennial depending on your interpretation of the defined years. And our definition of major purchase is very different.

I’m very financially sound and price shop, never impulse buy things. I’m not cheap, but I don’t rationalize something I want unless I’ve researched it.

But then there’s medicated me… I don’t take prescription painkillers unless absolutely necessary. High doses after a surgery have found me binge shopping on places like w00t for the dumbest things. I of course don’t remember ordering at 2am, 120 led candles with remotes and color changing flames. Or after a car accident I felt the need to buy 100 non-refundable boxes of emergency break ice packs (break the capsule and it gets cold for 20 min) - donated these to the local highschool sports club. And my all time favorite was ordering a go-cart, $3500 for no reason.

After some hard financial lessons, my ex just took away my phone if I was going to take high doses of painkillers.

Yes but can we fix it!?!?!? Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee…

A message many of us can also hear :(

I bought an indoor unit, used it nearly 3x a month for 4 people over 10 years. It was fun as we all made our own and then I coked them, At least until my kids grew up and moved out. I would have loved an outdoor unit, wood fired had that amazing smoked taste to it and I’ve gone to parties at a friends who had one he put together “and used twice”. Effort for 90 seconds of cooking was just not worth it, but when cooking for 15 people he loved when I’d come over and light it up. It really was the journey for him.

Now I’m in Spain and single, I’d do it for me but the effort of planning just 1 pizza never appeals to me more than just getting out and seeing people at my local pizza place.

You can blame the sugar cartels all you want, The truth is if you’re an American, you finance this shit through your taxes. Corporations suck, but what sucks more is that people don’t realize they help pay for their own slow demise in the name of profit.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation says it has been “inundated” with more than 200 calls across dozens of military installations, including 110 complaints filed between Saturday morning and Monday evening, from service members reporting their commanders have invoked similar extremist rhetoric of Christian Zionist messianism when justifying the unprovoked war on Iran.

This is the signs of the start of a civil war right here. Someone, will push back one day and kill a leader.

Yes, but you can’t resell it for a profit elsewhere easily. You want us to switch to sky energy, we need a way to make the output portable so someone can make money on it. I really hate capitalism and hope this is the fall at a global level. Though if anyone was watching, China has been making the right moves towards solar and transport. If they stop oppressing their people i’ll move all my soon to be worthless USD to YUAN.

Look, you’re not thinking about the shareholders. I NEED YOU to think about the shareholders! How will they ever make their billions? You selfish bastard!

/s just in case.

If idiocracy has taught me anything, there is a dumber person out there and they shall lead legions of idiots.

If you saw some of the unfiltered news, you would agree. I have quite a few Iranian friends that are watching their fellow citizens be murdered. but we know that’s not why the USA is doing this.

Also, change Iranian to American and I’m on board. Fuck ICE.

Impossible how?! There are easy free streaming sites out there, granted do not enter without Adblock on full. Shit, there’s a site that aggregates the free streaming sites and keeps an active list. And then the ever more concise solutions that programmatically download in the background, many of them end in ‘arr’, all from torrents and newsgroups.

Never underestimate motivated humans.

Or maybe: Systematically disassembling of our education system by reducing funding, paying teachers less and removing programs that would otherwise teach our children to think.

When the only source of education is the tv and now internet, you can choose what you want to learn.

#eattherich

look, lets just agree to recycle the billionaires. It’s probably the best thing we can do to make small amends for the damage they have done.

I did eventually lower my height on Bumble to 5’11" just to slim out the limited few who wouldn’t date short. But I got more than one asking this question, and that’s just a little weird. It’s not like they walk into date 1 with a tape measurer. I in fact learned the hard way to remove quite a few things from my profile to not give off the wrong indicators. I’m rocking a dad bod, bald up top, so weight and super model looks are not what I’m judging against. Plus it would so look so awkward if I carried a scale /s.

Doesn’t matter now, I’m in Spain and American numbers just don’t matter. So far, Women here my age want a caring partner, stability, someone who doesn’t sit at home watching TV when it’s sunny out and most of all, compassion for fellow humans.

I’m in Spain now, living among you “short people” and I feel I shall be declared king any day now. Shit, there goes on of those damn Sweds and their god like everything. /s

We’re just human, nothing extra special. This was not a humble brag, nor a jab at short people. This was me poking fun at flipping comments like Pedro Pascal is short and making comment that being American and dating in America was awful.

The guy is 5’11” which to some women, it’s short. 1.8 meters, 5’11”… unless you are taller than that, I’ll never understand why it’s short and even then, it’s taller than average.

I assure you at 6’ or 1.83m, we’re not anymore special. But if dating has taught me anything, the 666 club for men is a selling point to some single women and if it’s ever mentioned/asked that I’m part of it (not from me) I end the conversation. You just told me that the most important thing about me is my height, my paycheck and my dick - see ya.

More like passengers recognizing there’s another ship that offers more to life as long as you’re ok with lower salary and higher taxes. Life seems to be better and it is.

For some reason you just explained the probability of the big bang. Some idiot made a wish, and poof, new universe.

I want people to realize that new housing today has a clause that limits the expected useful age of new builds to around 65-75 years. I just read one a few months ago from keller Williams, before a family member signed. It stated the house had an expected lifespan of 65 years. I get it, proper care and updating will keep it going for decades but a house should not have an expected lifespan of less than the average human lifespan.

Capitalism is not good for humans or the planet.