Got_Bent @ Got_Bent @lemmy.world

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Wasn't Vance duly elected at the Republican convention? Could trump unilaterally kick him out?

270 pages? Did each page have a single capital letter and a colorful picture of trump?

Oh yeah. Not many secrets been us

How are the clarinet lessons going these days?

I spent several months last year actively looking for a therapist. I'm not talking a single casual Google search and done. I'm talking months of calling, emailing, physically driving to. The only therapists I could find who were taking on new patients and would accept my insurance were magic Jesus Crystal types whose "therapy" was little more than thinly veiled proselytizing.

Given how it seems people need to go through several therapists to find the right one, I gave up after failing to secure the first.

I almost fell for that whole better help scam but fortunately it was exposed for the personal data mining nonsense that it is before I signed up.

I learned of my father's death weeks after the fact. My involuntary reaction was an emotionless, "huh." I think I was forty eight years old at the time.

I hadn't spoken to him for over thirty years, and had suffered decades of nightmares that he'd found me.

After learning he had passed, the nightmares finally ended, but the lifelong fight or flight tendency to keep to myself and never rock any boat remains.

My sister has said that she's jealous of my daughter because we have a pretty close father/daughter bond - something my sister never knew and never will.

In my fifties now, I generally avoid human interaction as much as is physically possible. While I could cite other reasons as to why I'm this way, I can confidently point a rigididly extended index finger at dear old dad as the foundation of it all.

My parenting duties complete, I mostly just exist waiting for the sweet sweet embrace of death when I'll no longer have to go make money for the man or pretend that I enjoy the saccharin sweet small talk of co-workers who don't give two shits about me or anybody else, but professional decorum for the win, right?

I don't even look forward to weekends because those are just two day stints of solitude doing chores so I'm ready to go make more money for the man on Monday.

It's ok though because Anne Frank's diary has been banned in several states so there is no conflict.

Can't really get a solid grasp of the place via search. Can you explain?

So almost enough to afford a studio apartment? Neat!

Not gonna bother with archiving this so I can read the article, but based solely on the title, if ever there were concrete evidence that God is dead, it's ministers claiming that Trump is the chosen one.

There was a gay bar not to far from me that used to do drag queen bingo brunch, so this doesn't seem too far off a stretch, though I'd suspect our delightful Texas State government would find reason to criminalize it were somebody to try doing it here.

I never got around to going to the drag queen bingo brunch, so I don't know if it was for cash. Knowing how Texas works, it was probably for low value prizes.

Edit: Those crazy Canadians were playing erotic bingo fourteen years ago.

Funny you mention that. Under present rules, very scant few tips would surpass annual gift exclusion levels, so couldn't just about every service employee ever claim their tips were merely gifts?

Under the same premise, servers could set up a GoFundMe and have customers contribute to it via tablet that the server carries as those are also currently deemed nontaxable gifts. This would provide an extra level of separation from the restaurant books for better defense against the IRS.

I got my safety razor in 2011. I'm not sure if I've spent twenty dollars in blades since. Best investment ever.

I was able to buy a meager seven hundred square foot two bedroom house in a not great neighborhood eighteen months ago with an interest rate of 6.375%. The regular monthly payment is $1,870. Fortunately, I'm able to pay an extra $250 per week on principal so I'll have it paid off after ten years.

It ain't much, but I'm looking at housing security in retirement, and that feels like three quarters of the battle.

I'll probably never be able to sell it because the buying market around here demands three thousand square feet, several hundred bedrooms, and dozens of baths.

Fuck it. My Gen z daughter can deal with it when she inherits it, fully paid off.

She makes six figures already with no student debt and feels like it's hopeless to buy a house, so she can at least have this little hovel o' mine.

Edit: Should I meet an untimely exit from this iteration of mortal coil before the house is paid off, I've got life insurance that will more than cover the remaining principal. She can then choose to take the cash or the house, which at present would still net her sixty thousand after payoff.

I have never received a dime of support from family, so I'm hell bent on getting her every advantage possible.

My only disappointment here is that a website called LGBTQ Nation is so aggressively cancerous with the pop-up ads. Wasn't able to get through the entire article.

(Yes, I could paste into a different browser with better defenses, but sometimes it just isn't worth the effort)

I give you Stephen Miller

No. No it does not.

We don't do that.

My kid is twenty three years old. I raised her alone. Crazy, I know, but she and I are pretty close.

To this day, I get dozens of adulating text messages on mother's Day for "playing both roles."

On Father's Day, total utter crickets except from my daughter herself.

Fathers are here to donate sperm and fund other lives. That's it.

I was both of those dads.

"Go get me a beer and let's figure out the answer to your question!"