subway footlongs are indeed $20 on the high end in major metro areas.

not a great idea. ICE doesn’t bring people back when they’re done with you. you’re just shoved out the door: no bag, no phone, no idea what state you’re in.

I was pretty upset, because I didn’t take a picture of my locker number. So I was walking around the giant locker room just trying locks, feeling awkward as fuck. Then because that took forever, and I JUST missed the bus, I didn’t get home until after 7.

But then dinner was pretty good, so my night was definitely better than yours. Plus I continue to be surprised at how good going to the gym makes me feel after, AND I just found out my favorite popcorn is back in production!

Try to understand where they are coming from or why someone might be writing something. Usually when people write disturbing things online, it’s because they did not have a normal, healthy childhood. They weren’t taught to have proper relationships with other people. They may have been abused and excluded from society.

the day my work friend got so mad at me that he cut me off. to keep it short. there was a traumatic few weeks after that where he was taking out his anger on me.

I lost about 60 lbs and went vegan at 24. Had a really chill schedule.

President Taft riding a water buffalo. Always gives me a chuckle.

I barely forced myself out of bed but I did it!

they’ll figure it out eventually.

I have a lot of Republican family members who are personally affected and still Republican. They don’t see any alternative. You need to remember why we got here: our party has done nothing for the past 20 years but fail. Fail to prevent the collapse of the middle class, fail to create a comprehensive re-training scheme, fail to address the consequential homelessness and drug addiction epidemic, fail to lift the south out of poverty, fail to create a rational healthcare system, fail to stop the environment from getting worse, fail to govern effectively and bring the national debt into line, bowed down to trillionaire oligarchs instead of stopping them. I could keep going. I say this with full acknowledgement that Joe Biden had the most positive direct impact on my life and family of any president in my lifetime. I say this with full acknowledgement that the republicans also failed. But when all people hear is that we can’t help them, people will turn to ANYONE saying they can help.

I would assume it went the other way, that the tech companies gave the school money to try to hook young consumers. You will see that with other companies on your campus as well, such as door dash, uber eats, drink companies handing out samples, etc.

It’s not possible for it to not happen. Even if every republican area was complicit, so that they only had to attack democratic cities, they simply cannot attack every place in the country all at once. Also, most authoritarian governments still have elections. They just engage in election fraud, which again, he can’t do in every single place.

They need to recognize there is a problem and want to change it.

Well, red voters need to stop voting red this election. That’s the only way we have to hold our elected officials accountable.

Check out The Conquest of Bread by Kropotkin. It’s an easy read, I had no trouble with it in high school. It doesn’t need to be violent at all. Very much a “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need” kind of book. People focus a lot on “Why should that person have what I have, when I worked so hard?” when the real question is “Why should that person go without what all of us have, when it’s completely unnecessary?”

That sounds more like a local myth. The klan wasn’t really a top-down organization like the church. It had a lot of chapters all over the country. Each chapter was run by its own members according to local norms and preferences. It may very well be that is something that your local chapter did as well as the racism stuff.

It’s completely normal for 30 year olds to interact on social media. That wasn’t a thing 20 years ago when we were your age, but we grew up with social media in our teens. Your dad sounds like a normal 30 year old.

yeah, they want to know whether you suck. the expectation is that most people will be kind and support you, and you will likewise pay it back when you have people under you.

Those are some brave cats.

I don’t think so. it’s like, explanatory. why am I freaking out? oh, I am as mentally fragile as a butterfly and can’t handle literally anything. that’s why.