I built a gaming PC back in January for this purpose, unfortunately GPUs are impossible to get so I'm stuck in a 2080 TI (which is showing its age). Tempted to pay ebay scalper prices ($300+ above MSRP for a 9070 XT), beats paying tariffs and prevents that extra money going to fund whatever new atrocities my government intends to commit.
The specialty of the US military has always been logistics AFAIK. They'll traditionally endlessly throw bodies and money at maintaining supply lines to uphold their own morale and wait for their enemy to surrender. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_cream_barge
Not sure how well that'll work in the face of modern warfare, drones and sabotage seem more effective.
They're fine now, as people, but I don't hold a lot of trust in them and I don't tell them much about my interests.
To modify the Miranda rights quote, "anything you say, do, or express interest in can and will be used against you". Anything i talked about or enjoyed in my childhood was poked fun at by my dad to the point i stopped enjoying it and stopped talking to them about my likes/dislikes, and my mom can't/couldn't keep a secret for shit.
Dad also had zero understanding of personal space or privacy, and would just barge in my bedroom at any time (through a locked door, one of those doorknobs that can be unlocked with a flathead or a coin).
Stopped invading my personal space after i got big enough and held him in an elbow lock in a public space once; he kept putting his hand in my face and i eventually slapped it away, he got pissed and tried to get us to leave and grabbed my arm.
We get along mostly fine as adults after i moved out, he recognizes he fucked up a lot, but i don't consider it a close relationship.
The price of basic human needs should not be tied to the rise and fall of the stock market, nor should ones retirement depend on the hyper inflated values of houses. 500K+ for a small house is absolute price gouging bullshit, regardless of location.
Worse, grocery store deli / hot food counter. Frequent switching between ready to eat food and raw ingredients, and shitty gloves that constantly ripped open.
My hands look awful, but any scars are literally from my crappy skin cracking horribly from 3 years of food service hand washing. Frequent handwashing is brutal if you have bad skin...
Lock down permissions to what is actually necessary to function, then expand permissions as i feel they need them.