I appreciate the detailed response! Definitely food for thought.

I tried my hand at HVAC but I absolutely cannot stand not having a schedule, nothing worse than getting home and getting a call that I have to go back out for… that and I live in an overpopulated area so driving in traffic every day was just adding to the stress. I was never more miserable than when working that job. :/

Probably not exactly what you meant, but not going to college with my group of friends that did. They went for computer science because they were interested in it and are now doing very well for themselves. I was never that interested in it and am more “hands on” with physical stuff so I didn’t feel like I should “waste” the money on that degree and figured I would spend time trying to figure out what I could do.

I never “found myself” and am currently living in someone’s garage making not much money working in a factory that’s going to be over 90°F today with 75+% humidity… So in my case the financial mistake was not taking out a loan. :/

The “problem” they’re trying to “correct” by the use of the word coordinate, is that in order for the unlimited money super pacs to be legal, they must not coordinate with the campaigns of those they support.

Now they want to have full control over the unlimited money instead of jumping through hoops to hide their control.

Billionaires are just straight up buying the country.

It’s absolutely time for another tea party, we don’t have representation, the ownership class has representation. They don’t pay taxes, but we do.

Yup…

“For your protection we’ve decided to arrest everyone who is not a registered Republican”

At the moment it’s Zani

She’s tired and overworked, but she cares about doing something and doing it right. Plus she has a super hot “Italian-ish” accent lol

Makes sense, it’s actually the perfect hire for the Department of Injustice.

I honestly kind of hate that I grew up in the 90s… Born mid 80s and was old enough in the 90s to have my childhood engrained with this idea that the future was all progress from there on out. Then the 2000s come along with a big ol’ middle finger and it’s just been fascists all the way down and economic decline from there. :/

Ah yes the song of our times: concerning leadership changes.

Trump administration: “We are having the DOJ investigate all Democrats involved in removing flints Great Lead Pipes! This was a wonderful Roman tradition that the Democrats DESTROYED because they’re Marxists. We’re removing all lead regulations and returning the lead to the people!! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!”

Unfortunately we got this future Biff:

“Daddy daddy, what do you think the future will be like?”

“Oh I think it will be wonderful: flying cars, more understanding of our neighbors, space travel, cures for diseases, people will live more comfortable easy lives!”

The future: fascists, racist robots, billionaires, more fascists, bombing civilians, cutting science funding, the earth is on fire, more fascists, cutting HIV study funding, more racist robots, gutting artistic employment, more billionaires, fried donuts.

I guess it’s not all terrible, just mostly.

We’re going to look at everything. Ideally, he’s going to turn out to be much less than a communist. But right now he’s a communist. That’s not a socialist.

Ah yes, the cherished American standard of “guilty until proven innocent.”

This is what absolutely kills me about the people around me in this country…

The owner of a company has an idea of your total value, your “compensation.” They factor in the cost of healthcare in that calculation, so we’re still paying for the insurance and yet so many people see it as “their company pays for it, if we had universal healthcare then I would have to pay a tax!” … mother fucker you already pay the “tax” for a much worse, more expensive system where people still aren’t covered…

There’s a flat 5€ fee for prescription meds and 10€ per day in a clinic

Jesus… As an American, we already pay $1,200 a month for the privilege of paying $50+ just to walk into the doctors office. Forget prescriptions or testing…

It’s sort of like “if I keep quiet, they won’t know how stupid I am!”

I can be the quiet “mysterious” (idiot)!

Or just a creepy weirdo. Whatever works Lol

Two of their biggest mistakes were: one, essentially hiding the fact that the single player game Squadron 42 has taken the lions share of the development focus for the last 6+ years. This makes it appear like they just don’t know what they’re doing at all with star citizen and that’s why they’re slow (they still don’t 100% know what they’re doing).

Second, they made their sound design guy who was just interested in being a pilot and eventually learned how, to be their lead ship performance/gameplay director/developer (not sure exactly on the title name.) that has lead to the ships just not flying how people want or expect them to. That and Chris Roberts wants “WWII, star wars, type dogfights” when people want Newtonian physics, excess speed, fighting.

A special third I suppose: they need money to continue, I get that, but there is a special place in hell for their marketing team.

Knowledge is knowing how to make french fries.

Wisdom is to know when to stop eating them.

I’m not very wise.

Stop putting yourself down. Seriously, it’s not fucking helping you. AT ALL.

I’m almost 40 and this has been literally the hardest thing in the universe to do for my entire life. It doesn’t help to do it, but to deny it feels like I’m lying to myself anyway.

I have the absolute worst double standard with this. You drop a pencil and “it’s ok friend, it happens, no one is perfect.” I drop a pencil and it’s “wtf butterfingers jackass, you can’t even hold a pencil properly no wonder you’re still single.” Lol