All the other answers are correct.

Republicans / conservatives in the US are a poison. Delusional, evil. Either opportunist pieces of shit or certifiably the dumbest people in the world.

Their existence is a net negative, period, full stop. Their non-existence…well, take that as you will.

I own 5 guns now and their total cost (not counting accessories…) was less than my last desktop build.

I wanted to exit tech and thought bars might work.

They didn’t. Even loving what I did in bar-land, it ultimately led to substantial debt that I’ll be paying on for years.

I was happier in general, but the financial viability was impossible.

edit: Beer margins are crazy, but not during COVID and not now.

Let’s see…

don’t sell bitcoin

don’t sell doge

don’t buy restaurant

don’t date XYZ

don’t date ABC

don’t buy restaurant

don’t quit place

Super early on I mined probably 500+ bitcoin.

And later in life sold them all at various points for maybe a total sum of $8k.

So, yeah.

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The only time this breaks down for me though is that I still struggle to pay $0.99 for a mobile app I use often sometimes. Really not sure what it is.

Luckily she’s hardly that way. She’s actually got really bad guilt about it and has wanted to abandon things just to work a paying job so she can tell people that’s what she does.

That’d be awesome.

Oh, yes, she does a lot, but for opsec reasons I’m not really providing details.

She just doesn’t get paid to do it, call it hobbies mostly.

People feel weird about it, but it’s perfectly fine.

My wife doesn’t work a paying job, we don’t have kids, but in almost every conversation when I’m meeting someone when they ask what my wife does and I tell them, they always follow it up with like, “Oh does she work from home?” or “Oh, does she sell stuff online?”

It often breaks their brain that she doesn’t work a paid job.

Funny because I don’t think we’re making it to 2070+

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

Prepare for a continued (fraudulent) red wave. Arm yourselves.

Far too many people think the midterms are a panacea, they aren’t. Please please take steps to organize and protect yourselves and your community.

I don’t really but have always been bad at that. My wife on the other hand has countless memories I think from as early as 3-4. I mostly forget everything before grade 5 or 6.

Unfortunately I can’t do much with just that.

Keep a gun close, add some cameras, but otherwise this person is probably just a POS troll.

If you can DM me their name and any other identifying info you have (general city, photos, phone number, email address, social links, etc.) I can maybe provide quite a bit of info on them. I will not say how.

But I would also ask what the end game is here?

OMG NEW ECCO GAME

For me now it’s that Anthropic services are down :/

Yes, mine is my passport because I don’t want to have to unlock my phone to show it.

I mean those as two separate statements, my bad.

I just meant I’m not a youngin (per se).

And separately, there are many other reasons I’m unsafe (not white, vocal publicly, attend protests, operate questionable anti-govt domains etc.)

I’m already on plenty of lists.