It’s a small and tarnished silver lining in a monstrously-dark fucking cloud, but I’ll take it. No one is ever going to shame me for bad debt and credit again, either, because apparently that’s what it takes to become a business tycoon-cum-dear-leader.

My long term plans have basically involved fleeing the country, hiding any assets, and daring the creditors to try to squeeze blood from my turnip. Plans have increased impetus given the current political situation.

Thanks. I’ve definitely made some bad decisions, but I can’t help being a little bitter that I’m chained to my past this way for the rest of my life, when all I did was fuck myself over with elite schooling and physically-harmful relationships (medical debt!); And people who only fuck other people over can scramble…

At least you can go BK on credit card debt, though! Student loans - apparently there’s no such thing as mistakes and bad investments on those; they follow you forever (or at least since 2000's, thanks again, Bushie). And many are above 12% interest, so no chance of ever getting my head above water again.

I’m envious of her for only having 85k in debt. Presumably that was secured, etc, so she could declare bankruptcy if she had to, and be done with it. She’d lose her house, but at least could start clean. I’m staring up over 300k of debt, mostly student loans, which I will likely still have when I die, and no way of…

Yea, that is a pretty legitimate point about causing painful and unnecessary harm to animals. Of course, it’s their culture, but obviously there are many cultural relics whose present-day harmfulness can and should be mitigated.

Heh, I always used to do that as a kid - I was more interested in just main-lining all of the crust-carbs possible.

I think bacon smells delicious- it just does, in that primal campfire-cooking-our-kill way, but I’ve never really liked actually eating it. Same with all meats, really - the BBQ smell triggers some primal hunger, but i’ve never really enjoyed eating any of them much. Made it not too difficult to be (mostly) vegetarian…

Thanks! Almost back to SD :) I went north for the holidays too, and saw all the literal goddamn billboards on the 5 and 99 saying “Thank You Trump!”. And I’ve had enough people here, even in SoCal, start random conversations with me, apparently assuming I’m their fellow supporter, that it sickens and saddens me.…

I’m typing this on a coffee break while driving the Avocado Hwy right now. Went for a hike in 80 degree weather yesterday, although we’re getting another go at the atmospheric river storm today - which is of course much-needed rain! Water conservation has improved a lot at least, although changing agricultural…

Yes, ageeed. It’s spooky how there’s this false narrative of events from only 15 years ago that is so willingly accepted by people who were there! Shit, I was a perma-high delinquent teen and I could could see the truth about what was happening then, and I sure as hell still remember it now. I continue to be shocked…

Same. Even the neo-cons who made a coherent (although tragically incorrect and immoral) argument for the invasion at the time never exactly made that argument. Only the same simpletons, unable to perceive strategy and nuance, who are being conned by the neo-fascists now, bought that bullshit hook, line, and sinker.

Yup. Just use common sense and connect the dots - no technical expertise needed.

The scariest thing to me is just seeing how many people do not, or will not, remember events that occurred during their politically-conscious lives- the recent past.

Yes. Ignorant conspiratorial types are always the most adamant that you’re the tool (I’m sick of even using “sheeple” sarcasrically).

My great-uncle, who died years before I was born, was a bachelor Quaker, spending time in jail way back for refusing to serve in WWI.

Every stripper in LA, grinding around my casket in a consecutive spiral to “Closer”, before they pushed me off in a flaming boat towards the Pacific sunset, in a Viking funeral to carry me towards Valhalla.

Fair enough ;)

Fuck, it’s the worst - when people who can agree on 90% of things rip each other apart for not sounding pure enough on the other 10%.

This is hardly the type of news that should induce exploding head syndrome... Sure, there’s not a limited supply of outrage, but keep some perspective. It probably would have been better all around if the poor guy had been euthanized years ago - he was basically psychotic (in orca-terms), lonely, and had no chance of…