Everyone is a lawyer on the internet. 🤔

Pretty sure AI has killed transcription. It was on its way out a decade ago :(

I’d suggest looking for foodservice work. Kinda kills two birds with one stone. Keep after finding any job you can. Some income is vastly better than none.

Thats not a sandwich then…

This is absolutely in my top 5. Hard to pick amongst that rarified air, but it’s so well done in EVERY category. Costuming, acting, casting, direction, writing, pacing, editing, directing. It’s an absolute masterpiece of a film and hilarious to boot.

I think on this stuff pretty often. I hate to say it, but you’re likely to die along with the rest of us.

Reality is that your best bet is to become a billionaire so you can build a bunker with a decade or two’s resources.

The thought that you (or anyone) would be able to just wander off into the wilderness and set up a new life is pretty much an impossibility. There are about 7 million people in my metro.

Water resources are going to become the biggest, first killer in my area. If you couldn’t turn on your tap, what would you do, right now, what would you do? The water table in my area is often over 500ft and I’d never be able to drill that deep.

On your own, you’re going to be fighting for what meager surface water localles are available, not wandering off to the middle of nowhere. Crops need lots of water here. People need to drink water too.

The “prepper” community leans pretty hard into guns. Partly because they do realize that it’s a hard truth that shits gonna get VIOLENT. Depending on who survives whatever wave 1 looks like people WILL be fighting over what meager scraps of resources remain. Even if you have good water, and good soil, and have sees stock, and don’t need to defend it all… food still takes time to grow.

I’ve reframed my prep around survival for a set period of time. I’m fairly set for a few weeks of food, water and can defend what I have. I have emergency communications with HAM radio and Mesh networks.

Most importantly I have a network of friends and neighbors who are my friends. Banding together is going to help me to survive.

Or, the kangaroo court will find yet another bullshit reason to carve out an exception.

Amazingly I’ll sit on my couch, or at my desk for 3+ hours without anyone bringing me a drink or stale pretzels and I somehow survive. It’s a miracle every time.

Yeah, sorry for having an opinion on the internet that is adjacent to the topic. I’m assuming the downvotes are because people think gay people should be unwelcome at “non-gay” establishments.

I’m a straight dude. IMO, I should be just as welcome at a “gay” bar as “gay” folks are at any other place. I’ve been chatted up respectfully by dudes in gay bars and had a “twink” try to shove his hands down my pants (and a few experiences between). The former is how people of all genders should be treated at all bars. Sure, it’s more likely that you’ll get chatted by a dude at a gay bar, but believe it or not, the last guy that asked me out was at a decidedly NOT gay bar.

Whereas I’ve never had food poisoning in the 10ish times I’ve eaten at Chipotle, Cici’s pizza is 3 for 3 for violence out both ends for me. The third time I was practically fooled into it, but I’d rather just starve next time (there won’t be one).

Whereas I don’t love making coffee every day, it’s a fair sight cheaper and quite a bit faster than even just pulling off into the drive through at my local coffee shop, let alone a Starbucks. It’s boiling water that’s been steeped through ground, roasted beans folks.

What’s for dinner? Why do I have to eat this? Why do I have to go to bed? Why do I have to get up? Why do I have to go to school?

The flip side of having kids is when they start asking really fun questions about science and nature and you get to share the wonder of the universe with them, but holy hell kid… I’ve answered your question 5 times already and the answer isn’t changing at all.

I’m in an age gap relationship. When we got together I was in my mid-to-late 40s and she was in her late 20s. It took us quite a few dates to actually have the discussion about our ages, but by that time we were already spiraling toward each other. Been married 5+ years and to be honest, it’s been great. When we started out, we were outside of the 1/2+7 rule, but are now in bounds of that.

I have a friend who worked for, and alongside MJ (they’re credited on at least one album). They became a personal friend and have a ton of amazing stories and insane memorabilia. On the day Michael died, his phone rang and rang with a LOT of people wishing him condolences.

They tell me that MJ never really got a childhood, and in some ways lived his childhood through other children. My friend spent a couple nights at his Neverland ranch with his own kids and tells me that he trusted MJ and doesnt believe for a minute that he was actually guilty of anything untoward, and that things like “sleepovers” really did happen but were really from a place of innocence and MJ just wanting to have that childlike experience that he didn’t get.

That sounds awesome. Come do my area lol. Maps are great.

I’ve got a bunch of instruments that I have no idea how to play, but that its fun to own. I have a guitar tuned to open E so my toddlers can bang on it. It’ll get destroyed someday but playable but crap sounding guitars are about $50 last time I looked (and a far sight better than literal toys).

Most things in this world are 90% prep, 10% execution.

Currently it’s buying stupid but vaguely useful things.

I spent $50 on a SDR radio that can listen to a very wide spectrum of stuff. Also got a cheap pair of GMRS radios and got hooked onto the local repeater tower for about a 50 mile radius of communication.

A friend had a gas coming from their oven on occasion so I got a sensor for about $70 to try to fix it (and did so successfully)

I have more flashlights than any one man needs, but they do come in useful.

I just got a lock pick set and a practice lock. Probably never use any vague skill I’d develop, but if it saves me calling one locksmith, one time, it’ll have paid for itself.

A good pair of binoculars is just nice to have.

Tools of any sort.

Non-stupid prepper stuff should some crazy shit go down. Water purification, solar systems, weapons.

I’d like to try one of the mesh networks, but have more pressing hobby-crap to pursue.

Clearly they’re waiting on Captain America. Schumer wouldn’t have to kill all of them, just enough to get a supermajority.

I wonder how many protests they have attended. I talked to a rep at a candidate who was trying to organize grassroots. AOC hasnt stopped. Bernie is old but stumping all the time. The PEOPLE need to follow and get involved.

Live below your means, but not too far.