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That must have been a terrifying thing to see

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I lived in extremely rural Oklahoma as a kid and saw many tornados. Had friends that had lost their houses to tornados in school.

They were pretty easy to see, the rain isn't that thick. We would sit on the porch and watch the storm every time the sky turned green and it was always eerily calm as it touched down. The rain would let up before it happened. When it touched down we would head to the basement to wait it out.

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Credit score is a poorly implemented modern invention.

I realised it's all fake anyways when my back went out and I was unable to walk for 3 years while I was on the wait list for surgery (I'm ok now).

I went from high credit with a decent paying but physical job to unemployed and no longer able up work in my industry. My partner had a few months of unemployment at the same time and I wasn't able to pay my $11k credit card debt and he couldn't pay his $20k debt. We borrowed money from my younger brother to pay rent for a few months.

Spoke to a free financial councillor, she talked to the banks for us and they happily just waived both debts. She told us to ignore both of our zip and afterpay debts, and not to reply to their debt collectors. And just like that we were debt free after owing 40k between us.

Came out the other side better off financially even though our credit score has tanked. And even though I don't earn an income now or have any debt/credit, my credit score keeps rising?

Shits made up and the numbers don't matter.

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egg🤨irl (more in body)

I'm not trans, just scrolling past. But when I came out as gay to my mother she sobbed, then in an attempt to explain it away and convince me I'm not she said "everyone looks at people of the same gender, that's normal. I do that all the time!". Then later mentioned hating sex with my dad.

In the moment I was like "wtf" but looking back.... Girl.

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Side by side makes it pretty obvious

There was no ambiguity. Just a little nazi pussy chickening out after the adrenaline of being on stage wore off (or the ketamine/cocaine cocktail), trying to claim it wasn't what it was.

Even if it wasn't intentional, the shit he tweets and the politics he fucks with makes it clear he's a Nazi piece of shit.

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Big difference

This is rage bait for sure. My dogs will happily snore cuddled in bed all day. My cat is demanding food at all hours even though he gets fed at exactly 8am and 5pm every day. We call the noise he makes machine gun meows because they are fast, loud, and relentless. The spray bottle lives on my bedside so I can get some sleep.

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Credit score is a poorly implemented modern invention.

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The debt collectors were for zip and afterpay.

My partner's credit card debt was forgiven, I think the financial councillor was able to prove that he'd paid more over the lifetime of the debt in interest and repayments than the debt was worth, then proved our inability to make more repayments. She told me mine would have a bigger impact on our credit scores because it was written off by the bank rather than forgiven, but we don't plan on taking out any more debt, that doesn't really matter.

The "happily" was a little facetious, the bank I was with was actually quite rude and difficult to work with lol. I'd had issues with them being unprofessional and straight up lying to me in the past and closed all other accounts. The credit card was still open though because it was taking time to pay off.

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It hurts but I’ve got to stand on business

I used to watch How to Cook That, I enjoyed watching a food scientist debunk stupid "cooking hacks". Then after years of normal content she started preaching Bible verses at the end of cooking videos and selling Bibles. Looking into it I find out her husband, who is in the videos a lot, preaches at a church known to be vocally homophobic.

First time I saw that shit was the last time I watched her videos.

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AI Generated 3D Models Flood Market, But Almost No One Is Buying Them

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I used to make fine silver chains by hand and sell them on Etsy, and did quite well with it. Then it got flooded with drop shippers despite that being against terms of service. But you could see the biggest and most successful jewellery sellers all had identical products and if you search their product titles on Ali express or Temu it was the first result. I went from 5-10 sales which was a couple grand a month to zero the instant they stopped policing it.

I can only imagine how bad it is now with ai. I tried to browse Etsy for something recently and there was literally pages of ai slop. I don't think I saw a single real product.

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I was in hospitality for 15 years until I injured my back and had to leave the industry. I never sat at people's tables when taking orders, but do you have any idea what it's like to stand 10 hours a day, most days with no break at all? The amount of foot pain? And you get told off if you sit down even when there's no customers. Sometimes customers would rock up and get upset that I was sitting on a stool when it had been like 3 hours since the last customers had been through and I was doing stock take at the till. Like what the fuck. I'm not your servant, you're not paying nearly enough for that. Get off your high horse and get over yourself.

I now have life long back pain and nerve damage after spinal surgery at 30 because of the stress hospitality put my body through and people like you were part of the reason. Don't go out if you don't want to talk to people.

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We are just better

Imo clinging to the remainder of your hair is never a good look. I've had thinning hair since 25, and shaving it off looks infinitely better than the friar tuck I have going on at 30