Stuff like this is going to make people mostly pay in cash and buy gift cards as needed. I already started buying most of my things in person anyway just to avoid paying for shipping. I'm seriously considering only buying steam games with gift cards I buy at the store and avoiding using my card as much as possible.

I'm fucking tired of this fucking dumbass and everyone who enables him by saying he's just joking. Sometimes, people are not joking. It's not just a fucking prank, bro. And even if it was? What kind of professional politician just pulls pranks nonstop?

If there was a way to withhold my tax dollars to the federal government and only pay state taxes without getting trouble with the IRS, I would do it in a heartbeat. I'm already fucking disgusted that my tax dollars likely helped fund worse things like "Alligator Alcatraz."

I have a friend from the Philippines who is in school to be a nurse. When this started, she was scared this was going to affect students which did end up being true later.

Real men don't wipe their ass. That's touching your butt, which is always gay unless you have to scratch it.

At this point, blue areas of the country just need to stop paying federal taxes entirely and use the taxes to just better themselves and themselves only. Starve the federal government. MAGA has no idea how much funding is actually from blue states and blue cities within red states, and it's best they find the fuck out.

It's also ridiculously difficult if not impossible to process a legal name change on your account, unlike a real bank. This means that married women, people who changed their name to avoid unsafe family members, and trans people are basically just not able to have accounts under their new legal names unless they're willing to just make a new account if they can't get anywhere with support. Supposedly, all you need is your legal documents, but I've heard a lot of horror stories about how convoluted they make it in practice.

I think the hard part is if you're the type to crave nicotine when you're extremely stressed out. I go through cycles where I'll quit nicotine for a year or so, and then something really difficult would happen in my life and I'll start back up again.

My family came over recently enough that some of these old fucks would have grown up knowing them as an immigrant family, but still long enough ago that we've been Americans for generations. (I'm mostly white so I'm talking about my Sicilian and Latvian sides of the family)

I used to date my Dungeon Master (Dungeons and Dragons, not anything weird) and one of her friends she grew up with. The relationship was pretty brief, but she was really good at emphasizing communication between all of us. The breakup didn't even really feel like a breakup.

A couple years ago, she died in a car wreck with one of the players in my group and even though we weren't dating at the time, it made it harder for me to get back into the dating scene after the relationship I had around that time ended shortly after. I briefly got back with the other person I dated, but it wasn't the same and they weren't poly anymore.

If I was in a relationship right now and got over it better, I'd definitely be poly. It felt really normal.

This is why I'm finding more and more that it's easier to find local events the "old fashioned way" (word-of-mouth, flyers, local newspapers and zines, etc) rather than through social media. It used to be easier to see events local to me, but now the algorithm pushes events that I may like but aren't local at all. Sometimes I do actually see something local, but it's too late.

So this is a lot more dire than people think because a lot of medications are manufactured in India.

Might as well start using cash almost exclusively except for buying Steam gift cards.

I only order from Doordash if I'm sick and don't feel comfortable being out in public. (Especially if I'm not sure if it's Covid) I usually order the same things because if I'm sick, I want food I don't have to make for myself that wouldn't disappoint me if I couldn't taste it well enough.

I goofed around with it but realized I didn't actually want to do it in one sitting. I'm going to use a notepad and make notes as if I'm actually investigating this guy's computer. The fact it doesn't save progress does make it seem more like an investigation.

A lot of people are saying that, but those are people willing to do anything for him and Elon. It's not an accurate description of what the average American citizen thinks. I think the average American just wants a stable economy and freedom to live how we want to and he's not giving us that. I'd also argue that the average American would want to own a house that they could afford to pass down and be able to afford raising a family, and don't want to be pushed into a rental market for the rest of their lives. You know, the American dream.

So if they can lower minimum wages for teenagers, does this mean they could lower the minimum wage for everyone?

When I was a teenager, I suffered from paranoia of being watched because my parents watched everything I did on the internet. As an adult, now it's the government. Fantastic.

I hang out with a lot of poly people despite not dating anyone at the moment, and I know of a relationship where one partner is either doing that intentionally or on accident. They're the only monogamous person (and admitted to me they don't want to date someone who is poly but don't want to break up), and dating someone who has multiple serious partners that they've been with longer. I really can't see it going well if this person doesn't say something, even if it probably would lead to a breakup just due to being incompatible. I feel like it's not my place to warn their partner about it, so I'm just burdened by this information that I don't really want to know about.

Bro I'm so straight I don't have a soul either. I'm just the lingering smell of a man that once existed.