I listen to Smartless because the early episodes were just three dudes fucking around. Initially found it because I loved AD, and Will Arnette and Jason Bateman are two-thirds of the hosts, so it was pretty easy to click on.

That and Tom Scott’s Lateral podcast are what I listen to when running, they help me think about things other than running.

You won’t be allowed to die. You will work and you will accrue “retirement,” which is time you get to live after you stop working. They will keep you alive for as long as you owe the company, and then you will be allowed to cash in your six months of retirement.

140 introduced me to plenty of good 172. 140 shows are inundated now, need to go to less popular EDM events to find people who are more interested in the music and less in being where the crowd is.

Electrified.

Kaladin is a G. Currently on Oathbringer. I enjoy a good fantasy series, just hate when I run out of books.

When I was in the military, the best Marines weren’t the ones who could lift the most or run the fastest (though sometimes they did), they were the ones who stayed up late writing up their junior Marines for awards, the ones who skipped their own lunch to teach their squad or platoon how to perform better, and just generally the ones who went out of their own way to improve everyone else’s well-being around them, and all the while keeping their mouth shut up how much they were doing for everyone else.

Yeah I was trying to shoehorn a joke that because I wrote it on Lemmy, it is now property of the Lemmy, but as I tend to do with most things in life, I half-assed it. Whole ass next time.

Any words you use on TripAdvisor are the property of TripAdvisor.

-Lemmy, apparently.

Because they’re dumb. Going through boot camp, you constantly heard “Don’t get married.” What do dudes do? Get married to the first girl they meet when they arrive at their duty station (after they buy a truck obviously). They then deploy, workup is three months, home for a few, then seven months in country. And meanwhile your wife is at home, you’ve known her for a cup of coffee, and she’s like “Shit, I don’t know how to be alone.”

Just like this?

Yeah, Jersey is nicely blued, but beholden to big pharma, and I think messing with healthcare hits too close to home. Governor race is next year though and so hopefully this issue stays hot.

The Dong of Rudolph.

Only thing I’ll disagree with is they’re not ripping off the rich, because it doesn’t matter to the rich. They’re killing the middle class though, but that is the way it’s been and the way it will continue to be. You will either be rich (haha, jk) or poor, and that’s the end game.

99% of the State of New York is nothing. NYC and Philadelphia belong in NJ, they each have a lot more in common with Jersey than they do their respective states.

Northeast + West Coast and Everywhere Else.

Hopefully America isn’t contagious.

And jokes aside, the sentiment here in America seems to be people have had enough of this shit. I went for my annual physical, my insurance covers it. But I was given a paper to sign that says if I mention something ailing me to my doctor that it may turn into a sick visit and be billed accordingly.

I am very fortunate, I make decent money, my wife has insurance for us, and so when my doc said “Do you want vitamin D screening in your blood work? It will cost extra.” I was able to say yes. And that’s a minor issue, but there are people barely scraping by, they think they’re okay because they have insurance, and then to be told this visit will cost you more money if you say you’re unwell? Get the fuck out of here.

I love my wife and my kids to the end of the world, but I can’t imagine my mindset if I’m some single dude, at this point. How much are they going to push people? Thoughts and prayers to the difference makers out there is all I can do unfortunately.

The they in your sentence, at one point in time, referred to me and my three buddies who worked for Commerce Bank back in the oughts. They left four kids, one of them 18 and the rest 17, in charge of a bank sometimes. I may be personally responsible for commerce bank ceasing to exist.

And if someone doesn’t pay the fee, perhaps theyre at risk of fire.

I went to tea at one point when I was just getting bad heartburn from coffee. I’ve fortunately put those days behind me and have accepted my coffee addiction as a part of my life.

And the crippling headaches. I screwed up, we ran out of coffee at home, so I didn’t get to have my cup before dropping the kids off. I go to the store, pick up a can, make it at home, but it just doesn’t do it, I have this headache all day. Come to find out I bought decaf, absolutely useless. It’s amazing the effect that caffeine has on the first half of my day.

I do limit myself to just one cup in the morning. One “cup,” that is probably more like two actual cups, but I call it one cup because it’s just one physical mug of coffee. But boy do I work good until lunch. Unfortunately, after lunch, that’s it.