That bar for communism is too tall, nazis aren’t people 😏

[REDACTED] is much more effective than wealth taxes…

Sorry about your foot, that looks excruciating. Glad to hear that you are taking the right lesson from your experience and that they didn’t charge you with anything in the end. Best of luck on your sobriety journey!

Graphene is still Android, which is only tangentially Linux at this point. PostmarketOS is more a proper Linux phone (there are a few others but that one seems to be the most along version to date). It does boot on certain models but even the best ones are a bit finicky still.

This is comradeship, not badposting, easy enough mistake to make.

Honestly? Even if they were going to spend it on drugs or booze, I wouldn’t judge them. If you’re tossed out by society and forced to sleep rough, a mental escape via drugs or booze might just be the salve needed to make it through the next night. I get drunk sometimes for the escape of it and I’m housed, I can’t imagine the horrors of living on the streets and being constantly judged by those who are allegedly the pro humanitarian types. (that said, I don’t usually have cash but if I see someone outside a store I’ll offer a drink or some food if I can afford it that day)

No, not insane, perfectly sane rambling. The USA is so insanely full of extreme dialectics that it makes one’s head spin constantly. This country has figured out how to make people feel like boot licking is freedom and that everyone must assault each other for the “best deals of the year” (which is a lie itself but unrelated to the point of the rant so we’ll move on) literally hours after supposedly being thankful for the people, life, and things we already have.

Cycling. I was too heavy and out of shape to jump straight to the deep end so I went with a pedal assist ebike, it allows me to move at a rapid pace while still keeping in the cardio range. I live close enough to work to cycle to and from, gives me an extra 30 minutes of high intensity cardio per day. That and cooking at home using fresh ingredients as much as possible. Also, less garbage carbs, more complex carbs (also learned I have celiac disease so I also had to go gluten free, though you might not have that particular issue)

What if China invades Taiwan? What if the USA invades Alaska?! It’s always so fun to see the absolute bewilderment of other Americans when pointed out that historically, the government has acknowledged the one China policy (and that one China policy is correct).

That’s Crowder, not Kirk. Sadly, Crowder still walks the earth.

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They said WRONG answers only…you’re not supposed to post what actually happened.

Thanks for the tip. I’m too broke for that right now but when finances hopefully improve in the nearish future, maybe I’ll try the expensive stuff.

I fairly recently learned I have Celiac disease…I miss a proper sandwich (I’ve yet to find a gluten free bread that doesn’t suck, though I haven’t gotten into trying the really boujee ones that are the cost of a whole loaf for a few slices of bread). When I was able to eat sandwiches though, I totally did this.

If I could, I would, but I don’t have any skills that a local couldn’t already do just as well, if not better.

A quick search turned up this blog post from Decolonial Atlas. Not sure if it was what you were looking for but it might fit the bill anyway.

This, so much this! My wife fought for like 10 years to get her gallbladder removed because nobody believed her. I went with her a couple of times and they’d ask symptoms and she would regularly forget to list important things and I’d remind her. I eventually got her to keep track, it finally got through the fog for a provider that referred her to the right specialist. She’s quite a bit better now.

Second example: I have Celiac disease, I just found out last week. (I was so used to how I felt when eating gluten that I didn’t realize it was happening unless I overate or drank beer). I had always had random little things that would pop up (dermatitis, high liver enzymes, etc). Because I kept track, when I recently had my vertigo attack, I saw some other signs that made me ask for a test.

Long story short, journal EVERYTHING because any little symptom might not make sense in the moment but might be the key to finding the problem and actually fixing it.

Holy shit. I thought getting SSDI in the USA was difficult. My dad had to fight via lawyers for years, as did my mom when she got sick, even though they’d been hard workers for decades. That just sounds like outright, mask off, class warfare. The people making the decisions that lead to these denials should be [REDACTED]

You know, I could see that, though for some reason it feels like Gabe would be more wholesome and much less completely unhinged when he rants.

I can only hope he has made some form of training program to have someone like him in place to follow behind him. I do worry about it as well, though. It’s been such a fun ride along the way.