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Not interested in Balrato.

A steam deck is also out of reach for now.

Thanks for the regs, and I hadn’t check that podcast out in a while. Good reason to get back it!

I’m curious as to how much casino’s rig their shit.

MIL is a gambler, a bad one too. I don’t think numbers will help her, but my wife could use them to try to dissuade her mother. At least, deter. Damage control.

Do you have any documentation?

Yes, let me take my deadliest weapon (a pocket knife with a 3.5 inch blade, enough to penetrate vital organs)

Now, put it against the military might of the US. How ya think thats gonna work out chuckle fuck?

I voted blue every time Trump was up. There’s midterms and shit too, but god damn, you live a red state, and you get republicans. Blue voter apathy is at an all time high in red states because it doesn’t matter, and in the rare occasions the blue team wins a local election, they’re generally ousted quickly one way or another.

There isn’t shit that can be done by the common person. Intimidation tactics against voters are common, and the district lines are all bullshit. The system is rigged by the elite, but sure we’re “taking it” by trying to just fucking survive.

Sure, we could protest, right? If you want to be arrested by fascists for nothing but to be a statistic? Worse, dead because some needle dicked redneck took offense to the fact that you support treating humans like humans, regardless of how they look.

At this point, the US has been co-opted by fascists. Trump is going to die soon. If he was a typical person, his diet and drug use would have long ago lead to an early demise.

Its fucked here.

Its bad.

But sure, keep making jokes. If the MAGA cult keeps spinning after he’s dead, guess what? American Fascism will be on world tour.

Yep, got out of school right in time for a recession.

Changed paths, got certified as a pharmacy tech. You can work for a year without being certified as a pharmacy tech, so I was applying before I ever had my piece of paper. I didn’t receive my first call about any of those applications until 2012.

I never found work in that field, and left my home state for seasonal work. I later came back home and crashed into a two year depression. Like, clinical emergency intervention depression. Not sleeping, not eating, not bathing, all that shit.

This time Trump is at the helm. I have no hope. I have no faith in the country I was born in to do the right thing. I assume the military oath all service members take will be forgotten under a banner dripping the blood of “undesirables”, and chants of MAGA.

Makes me fucking sick.

Death certificate works too. Sort of a final medical certificate, lol.

No, I’m not calling for violence. He’s old, his mind is failing him (tertiary syphilis should really be considered) , and he has a steady diet of garbage topped off with diet coke, plus whatever drugs he can get his hands on.

The man is not long for the world, we’ll just see if he croaks before or after his term is up. If before, we get Vance… so not great. If after, we really may get to test the military oath to constitution if he doesn’t want to leave his position peacefully. Sadly, Vegas odds are not looking good for the average citizen.

If they spent just one business day on this, that’d be 8000 man hours, at least as I understand it.

Stretch that out to a single agent working standard work weeks (40 hours) that breaks down to 200 work weeks for a single agent.

That is almost 4 years of work for a single agent, assuming no vacations or other time off (illness, car trouble, etc)

I don’t know if that helps you quantify it, but it helped put it in perspective for me.

What do you have when a person sits down at a table with 3 nazis?

4 nazis.

What if we could do it cheaper and even more inhumane?

-Some GOP nut, probably - or not probably too many polysyllabic words.

I overdosed on nicotine by accident.

I had a bottle of liquid from my refillable vape in my pocket that came open. Yes, it will go through the skin into your system.

ODing on nicotine, at least at the level I did lead to strong anxiety, heart palpitations, tachycardia, and projectile vomiting.

Also, I had a seizure after I finished dying outside and walked into work for my minimum wage job, right in the entry way.

I am epileptic though, so I’m not entirely sure if that related - as I was undiagnosed and untreated at the time. Making minimum wage with no medical benefits, choosing healthcare is a difficult decision over food and a roof.

I haven’t gotten a raise in almost 10 years.

Different companies.

Moved to a different state.

Now I just can’t find work period.

Inflation isn’t the only problem.

No no, I get it.

I do my best not to bother with form.

I just make shit work.

If you wanna pretty up my scripts for some sort of distribution, go for it.

But I’m done with it after that. That’s the companies problem now.

I can’t. Literally can’t.

I will not fall asleep unless I spend some time unwinding first. Preferably alone.

No, not a masturbation reference, but I just need some quiet and not have to remember every little social rule that no one ever explained to any extent, at least to me, seems like others have an idea though.

Its a time to let go of social anxiety build up.

Coworkers make the anxiety worse, friends too, my wife as well. It builds up and I need a couple hours by myself to let that fade before I have a chance of sleeping, even with my meds, some of which are prescribed simply to knock my ass out.

Then again, as a teenager, I stayed up 9 days straight before a doctor snowed me and I crashed. No, it wasn’t some attempt, it was straight insomnia - it sucked tremendously. Also, no, not coke, being “snowed” on an EEG (brain waves) means the medication has caused such a response in the brain, you’re just getting the EEG equivalent to static on an untuned channel, so I have issues with sleep, and have since childhood.

10pm seems late, lol.

Then again, my social circle would get off work, usually staggered by a few hours as people got off.

Then we’d head to the nearby watering hole and join in the festivities that were ongoing from people who opened lol.

Shop doors were shut by 8pm, give the floor a quick pass to clean up any major debris left over from the day (IE: run the push broom over all floors, scoop up, and dump) and then just making sure that a few things were stocked sufficiently for the morning. Like commonly used oils for oil changes.

Now… well,

Bed time is 9pm. I’m not currently working, but want to maintain a reasonable day shift for when I find work. I prefer overnight, but that doesn’t seem to be an option where I moved.

Wife gets up, I get up, and start with applying for jobs and housework. Weekends mean she is working 7a to 7p, medical work, so standard. So we’re up by 6:30 to get some food/caffeine in us before she works - though, if neither of us are hungry, I’ll acquire any caffeine needed and cook later. I’m not cooking at 6:30am. Period. I will burn myself, one of the animals, or my wife, or the house down so… no, I need caffeine first, lol.