Nope. It’s a prosecutor’s wet dream. I’ve been inside of one, and the only folks in there are the grand jury members, the prosecutor (and any of his staff needed), and whoever they call to testify. Usually one of the grand jury members took notes for the proceedings where I was, but perhaps in a more populated area they have a court stenographer for it, seeing as this grand jury seems to have pretty detailed recordings.

Look, so do I, but there’s a clear difference in a lot of ways between how folks consume media. I see a relative doing it in a way that’s just… sad. I would put reddit’s way of it, even with all the algorithmic bulldonkey, above facebook or tiktok feeds.

I’m hoping the second one is released when the people named in the files released by the government go, “Oh no, we’re not going down in this alone,” and put out their emergency backups.

For the majority of people, yes, but not for the general mindset of the populace. Just because only 10% of folks replace their cars before 35k miles, the general feelings out there are that anything above 100k is definitely well used.

It’s made of slowly replaced parts. I got my little diesel to 280k before a bad oil day ruined it, and whenever I talked with other folks who had engines that high, no one ever seemed to consider the replaced plugs, alternators, radiator bits, water pumps, belts, and everything else that gets worked on. I think the only things original by the time I lost it were the headers, cylinders, and maybe a few hoses.

I wouldn’t doubt someone out there has gifted boots with the metal hooks for laces. Not wearing boots was one of the things emphasized for tandems at my drop zone.

(Looking at your name) Did you do CRW stuff? Swooping? I’m still new, but I love the canopy time more than free fall, and am looking for folks who I can leech knowledge off of.

The returning the gift is what normal people do when they get something that they don’t want/like, AND when the person giving the gift isn’t the spouse. You can return it, the person giving it will never know, and everyone goes away relatively happy.

OP is being reasonable from a certain perspective, in that he can’t just return the gift because it’s his spouse. She’ll know. So he explained that he wants to return it, because it would be like being gifted a new car when you’ve just finished restoring the beautiful hot rod that has passed to you after your mother passed away, and it was the same hot rod that she used to take you driving in down the old country roads when she got home from work on a friday. You don’t want to get rid of the hot rod, but you’ve only got space in the garage for one car. Should you just “receive the gift” and get rid of the hot rod? Of course not.

In the OP’s case, if he doesn’t just “receive the gift” then his spouse will be hurt, so there is a very large pressure there to accept the gift so his spouse won’t get hurt. So to him, he’s been put in a position that makes him hurt because whatever he does will hurt someone, either himself by getting rid of the sentimental 3d printer, or his spouse by not keeping the new gift.

I would trust an ‘ai’ that had been designed from the ground up to do well in the stock market, just like I would trust an ‘ai’ that’s been designed from the ground up to drive trains. Idiots who think an llm is an ai in anything but spitting out what seems like reasonable answers/responses to your inputs are, well, idiots.

Sound bite listening republicans on facebook, twitter, etc. These people exist so there is a big enough ‘ecosystem’ to capture the common person who is swayed by public opinion. That is, where public opinion is the vague sense they have of everyone agreeing with them because it’s all they see between little puppy videos or recipe videos or their weird aunt ranting about democrats being evil.

Also, republican politician’s animosity towards legal weed is well documented and they’ve all been voting against it wherever they can. The weird libertarian republicans that know they have to kowtow to the party to get elected sometimes weren’t against it, but that’s a small minority.

No redemption sans reparations.

Iowa may be one of the states that has the romeo and juliet clauses, where sex with someone ‘technically’ underage is okay, if you’re within a ‘normal’ range. I think it’s 2-3 years for most places.

Use the bang option. !bitofarambler@crazypeople.online

I’m trying to think of different places I’ve lived, because the cost of housing / food / other changes. For example, when I lived out in the sticks, rent was cheap but food, gas, and incidentals were hella expensive. I’m near a big urban area now, and it’s expensive rent, cheap gas (due to using less), moderate food, moderate incidentals.

Anyway, more relevantly, I know people who can get by with incomes of ~$18.00/hr full time jobs. Anything that is unexpected kills them though, whether it’s car trouble, medical issues, or otherwise. You won’t be in a house though, unless you’re renting a room. You won’t be in a rat-infested hole, but something like a one bedroom apartment or two bedroom with a roommate. I know of a few folks who are raising a family on that salary, with the caveat that family helped them with housing (either an inherited property or similar). This is in an area where you can find cheap housing due to natural disasters and generally ‘rural’ areas that are basically paying developers to build cheap housing (i.e., looks like it’s decent but is basically matchsticks and glue).

I helped people budget when they were making $11.00/hr full time, and that’s where you start seeing a lot of compromises made (it was also 10 years ago, so things have probably gotten worse). Kids and parents are stuffed into tiny rooms in bad apartments, a car is held together by tape and a prayer (and if anything happens it’s going to be scrapped and they’ll try to scrape by with a wreck they could get running, and then hope they never get seen by a cop for its numerous problems / lack of insurance/registration), and hopefully they’ll be able to get a few government benefits to get the kids help for medical benefits.

I’ve worked with people making the federal minimum of $7.25/hr, and they rely on the government to have any hope of a not-horrible life. They’re either in government housing, or in a trailer with 5 people living in it. The car is shared between several people; they walk to work, even if it sucks and is an hour+walk, because they’ll be fired in an instant if they don’t show up; they’re probably on food stamps, utility help,etc.; medical is basically call ems and get to an emergency room if they’re keeling over (and hope that the er can fix it, i.e., that it’s not something that just gets ‘stabilized’); bills are always piling up… it wasn’t pleasant.

So, all that being said, I’d peg it somewhere around $25.00/hr. That’s where my higher paid coworkers seem to start looking at houses, and talk about starting families. I’ll have to go look at the numbers (and we know that those are probably fucked due to the administration right now…) but I think that’s near or above median income in america. That would mean 50% of the population isn’t going to be living “just ok,” which really sucks to think about.

Okay, so definitely not right now in my life, lol. It sounds great though. One of the reasons I ‘fell out’ with MMOs was the rushed nature of their story due to wanting to throw people at the end game content. EQ2 was reasonable with it, but WoW just fucked everything for me. It was never worth the time to learn about an area, because you’re already past most of its content and getting to the next one by the time you sneezed from the book dust.

I mean, there’s no way, but hooooooooly fuuuuuuck.

So for someone who has never played, and doesn’t have a clue about the game, is it worth diving into? Do I need to do anything special to avoid spoilers, or will the game take me through the story from the original game through the expansions without deviation?

I think I got to the low hundred mark on naruto. Then someone told me everything after the

wasn’t worth watching, because the naruto shipuden basically picked up there anyway. I suppose I’ll get around to shipuden someday and find out.

I feel like someone needs to make the simpsons bus meme, with the sign reading how blaming and increasing the punishment for the individuals with systemic problems isn’t going to solve the issue.

The combination of medical student and astrology is more unnerving than your poor burning experience. You could totally write a horror script out of the affair.