Welcome to the world of Positive Feedback Loops... which can be very negative.

My Vote:  “Space Heroes” and “Space Heroes: The Next Generation” from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

I think you mis-read that (or I did). 28% for housing. 36% for other debt. 64% total.

Comedian Kyle Kinane has a great bit about owning vs renting: “Oh? You can’t afford to go out us this weekend because your shitter clogged and overflowed and you had to pay a plumber and a cleaner and for new bathroom mats, etc... Well, I gotta guy for that. He’s called my ‘superintendent’ and he deals with all that…

For android users, there is an app called YouMail that I’ve been using for 5+years. You install it and give it permissions and it becomes your voicemail. I have mine set with the following rules:

And if you find wood damage in your home—especially piles of sawdust or wood pellets—and suspect insects, there’s a good chance that you’re dealing with termites. Ants typically don’t cause wood damage.

Things I learned since I started running at the start of the pandemic:

Follow-up question: How do I get babies (and children in general... and cats) to not like me and leave me the eff alone?

Unfortunately, I’m 6'4", so my only options for pronouns are FeeFie/FoeFum.

Did you consolidate your loans at some point? That’s what did me in. I’ve been informed that when I consolidated, what functionally happened is that I took out a new loan for the total value of my old loans and used the funds from that new loan to completely pay off the old loans.  The original loans qualify for the…

<tries butter on the peanut butter sandwhich>

Ellis Island did nothing of the sort. That’s an urban (and/or family) myth. Ellis Island didn’t register immigrants. It just verified shipping manifests and passenger lists. They never wrote down the names or filed any immigration papers.

Whenever my linux kernel updates.  Roughly every 3-4 months.

Because the cursed bloodline ends with me.

Nope.  That’s my signal to close the page.  Once the pop-up appears, I close the page, regardless how far along I am into reading the article.

Would Coke Zero be an acceptable substitute?

Because the cursed bloodline ends with me.

uBlock Origin is your friend

because most of them aren’t calling, they’re using VOIP/Internet calling and aren’t in the country.  Hard to go after people several continents away.

you’re mostly right... for calls originating from a phone account. VOIP calls are not subject to most of the things you are talking about. I was getting spam called and texted to the point that I no longer have a phone number. I use Google Chat to make phone calls. NOT Google Voice, Google chat. I pull up my gmail, go…