@ScottSoCal I came for the beach and to be near my sister, but it was quite the culture shock coming from Massachusetts. I did not expect bibles in every doctorโs office. I did not expect my county tax receipt to say โGOD BLESS AMERICAโ at the bottom. I did not expectโฆand this is trueโฆ I did not expect drive thru prayer sessions.
Letโs just say the dating pool is small considering my dealbreakers, MAGAt being right there at the top.
If I tell you that Mexican drug cartels are criminal organizations that illegally sell drugs and cause tens of thousands of deaths, you agree.
But if I tell you that the Sacklers criminally sold enough opioids that their actions killed *more US citizens than Mexican cartel wars killed Mexican citizens* you will have to run and fact check that, even though you know someone that dealt with opioid addiction.
Enough people overdosed that the *life expectancy of US citizens dropped*. No jail time!๐คท๐ฟโโ๏ธ
@ScottSoCal In this case Iโm just quoting but yes I always refer to them as MAGAts. They are disgusting and slimy.
Iโm a blue dot in South Carolina and Iโm probably going to be banned from NextDoor. These people are fucking idiots. This whole Chinese ballon thing got them so hysterical. In the fall, I got put in timeout until after the election. MAGAt mods.
When I was about ten, my mom asked me to vacuum, but I absolutely hated that chore so I lied and told her I vacuumed only for her to call me out on it because there weren't any โvacuum tracksโ on the carpeting.
From that day forward, I got sneaky and I would drag the vacuum around the carpet while it was turned off just to get it to generate the tracks so my mom would think I had vacuumed.
It wasnโt until an embarrassing amount of years later when I realized I could have just turned on the vacuum and ACTUALLY vacuumed because I was doing the same amount of work (if not more) with absolutely ZERO cleaning benefit because I was seriously the dumbest child imaginable.
โHalf the country.โ MAGAts think they are half the country.
And for the life of me, I donโt understand why they object to being called MAGA Republicans. They are Republicans and they are MAGA. Why are we discussing bending to their wails and gnashing of teeth? They proudly identify as such. This is weird and I canโt believe itโs a thing.
I found this on NewsBreak: Russia Loses 25 Tanks in Two Days As Video Shows Deadly Strike: Ukraine https://share.newsbreak.com/302k0nca
@ScottSoCal yep! And yet, look at it flourish in Summer. I need to take some inspiration from the bendy tree :)
In 2021, my house used an average of 23.4KWh of electricity per day. Last October I installed a 10KW solar setup on my house, and I'm planning to switch out natural gas water heater and furnace to heat pumps that use electricity. The days are still short, and I'm not producing as much as I will in the summer, but yesterday - WOOHOO!
#AltText a meme. At the top is text โmy work here is doneโ
In the picture a light red cat is stretched out over a concrete sidewalk, next to them is a collection of cat paw prints indented into the concrete.
Talking to friends in Austin who are enduring yet another large-scale catastrophic infrastructure failure, and Iโm wondering if any of the shitbird VCs who were encouraging everyone to move to Texas have yet noted that the policy regime theyโre so fond of is harming so many people, so consistently.
This is one for those of you who are trauma-centered like me.
My wife just came home really angry at something from work. Like REALLY angry. Straight to yelling at me and the kids. Yelling about how the house is messy and makes her sick. etc.
Normally I internalize this as my fault. My mom was bipolar and borderline and everything was my fault and I was responsible for my little sister's safety. So usually when this happens, I get really hot and make the kids clean and do all the things to try to make her happy, and I end up getting stressed at the kids because they're not cleaning fast enough, and it's all badness.
But not today!
I said "Okay, you need to go out of the house and do something. Go eat, go to the gym, whatever. You need to go take care of yourself. I will make dinner and clean with the kids but this went straight to darkness and we don't need that."
And she looked at me like I was crazy.
And then went to the gym.
I'm extremely proud of myself right now. I have never done that before.
Iโm working on my cover letter and need some advice.
So far Iโve got:
I have over ten years of experience in auditing, analytics, and reporting and Iโm perpetually crippled by a ridiculously strong work ethic and extremely obnoxious attention to detail, so I will work my ass off and I will not fuck shit up.
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So, my question is, I know ten should be spelled out, but I feel like 10 looks better from a visual and impactful perspective, so would that still be appropriate in this case?
So... me. Work in aerospace, more space, not as much aero. Can fix my own car, choose not to. Can fix the random appliance of your choice. Hardcore introvert in person, which is why I love online. Lifelong science fiction fan. Read constantly. Scalzi is my favorite author, because he mixes exactly the right amount of snark into his writing. Together with a guy 30+ years, married since it was legal. Own a home in CA and don't plan to leave unless I immigrate to another country.