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And those of us with poor parents, or who are estranged from our parents, or who otherwise have some barrier between us and our parents either have to bootstrap our ways to survival or die.

I wish I had married someone rich instead of the daughter of two school teachers. But I’m lucky she had generous rich extended family that gave us enough to buy the house I now own before we divorced.

Now I’m unemployed after being laid off 3 months ago with no safety net and no strong prospects for work that will keep me in the house, even with a roommate paying rent. I have nowhere to go and no one to support me if I lose the house.

No this totally makes sense to me.

It doesn’t impact my experience of the story, but there is something to having the next page hidden behind the turn and knowing that it’s right there. When I read an ebook it’s like reading an article. The sensation is different and it loses a touch of excitement without that tactile feeling of ‘the next page’. Pages don’t matter in ebooks either. You adjust the text size and the ‘page’ count is suddenly radically different. I measure my progress in chapters or percentages now.

It makes sense to me why that wouldn’t work for some folks.

I only read fiction, so I always buy it pirate ebooks unless there’s a special edition of something that I am really excited about. I’ve bought all of Brandon Sanderson’s mystery novels in hardcover for example, and I buy the Stormlight books hardcover as well. I’d love to have the entire cosmere in hardcover, or better yet their special edition leather bound hardcovers (for the ones he’s done it with), but it’s just too expansive and expensive to justify.

In an ideal world, a physical copy includes a digital copy.

These folks are losing their insurance. But even those of us who live in safe areas with little to no history or indicators of disaster are still seeing rates skyrocket. Mine were raised 30% this year and I have no risk of flooding or wildfire, and very low risk of storm or earthquake damage. Crime in my neighborhood is the lowest in the region (kind of surprising considering it’s very working class mixed with lots of low income housing), and has no history of damage to the property at all. But still, 30% hike with no reason given. My car insurance jumped 25% too.

I’ve got the hardcover for his new mystery novel ordered. Can’t wait for it to arrive and to read it.

And Brandon Sanderson, who wrapped the series after Jordan died and is an amazing author himself.

Arachnophobia. That movie is the reason I’m scared of spiders. I loved spiders prior and had a book of spiders that I’d read while pooping (grass spiders are so fckn cool) and would even play with them, but after that movie I couldn’t anymore. I’ve gone back and watched it as an adult and it’s so campy and cheesy. If only I’d watched it when I was older I could have enjoyed it.

I’m a different person, but it’s the first time I’ve heard the term used. /shrug

Yea, they really are a throuple.

I do wonder how insurance works for them too, are they treated like two individuals or do they get the benefit of having a single body and are treated as an individual?

I think sleazy is a fair description. I just don’t see it as creeping, which I interpret to be without consent.

They all work in heated coffee stands, with a few actual shops around. Though the shops are few and far between. I’ve only ever seen 2.

It’s not creeping on the women though. They’re there for the explicit purpose of being ogled, just like strippers at a strip joint.

Omegamart in Vegas. Might not be a ‘museum’, but is a really cool interactive art facility.

Kennedy Space center is amazing.

The museum of flight in Seattle.

Natural history museum in NYC

And I really love history museums in different cities to learn about their past.

The natural history museum in nyc is amazing. I went when I was there in January and loved it.

For profit healthcare is a bane on society. Health shouldn’t be profit driven.

I now use my porn account to engage with folks on my niche subs and race threads.

Damn, you’re lucky.

My ex mother in law and her mom both can’t eat any food that’s not a certain level of bland. Too much of any spice at all and they set it aside like an autistic kid with arfid. Which… come to think of it…

I think there’s damage done by the woo (see: Steve Jobs as a high profile version of that) and we shouldn’t just ignore that. But the difference is that it boils down to those folks choosing the woo over science for themselves. The right wing anti choicers are trying to make the choice for other people.