One of them Carpenter nerd types.

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Cake day: June 7th, 2023

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  • Things should work in the ways you describe. Sadly they often don’t due to untold decades of lowering funding and general neglect have made the systems we have in place for our most vulnerable slow and bad enough to be worse than useless. They’re actively harmful.

    People who are disabled from birth or before working age are religated to a minimum assistance payment that does in no way meet the basic requirements to live in most places in the United States. Filing for that is a lengthy process that’s often arbitrarily refused and requires even more time and effort put into it for (in many cases) a total payment less than the federal minimum wage monthly.

    This is why you’re seeing a lot of comments about OP getting moved in with family.


  • I’m tied down by one financial anchor and have opted to add two more smaller ones on top of that for giggles. I live very comfortably paycheck to paycheck, if I need to save for anything I can fairly easily put away around 3k a month. I can afford a random 1k expense without issue, currently anything above 2k would be a bit tougher, but still manageable.


  • I mean… you know how your bits work, it’s easy to figure that your partner knows how their bits work… It just takes some communication to do something that feels nice for both sets of bits.

    It’s not unusual for the first several times to be a bit awkward as you learn about the others preferences, but it gets better as you become more comfortable with the quirks of your partner.











  • 2071: the third oddesy.

    I had heard good things about the first one and happened to just see this one in my high-school library. I had a book report due soon so I binged it.

    This is the single most boring Sci fi novel I’ve ever read. It goes on and on and on about the various technologies of the various vehicles of the future. The most exciting part is a flashback to a previous book in which a character kicks a plant, second most is a relatively relaxed flight through a comet.

    Normally I can plow through the couple hundred pages in a night, this one took me a bit longer because of how dry it was. There was a entire section on some kind of spinning windshield design used on boats to make sure visibility was always crystal clear.



  • Dogs. They’re the one animal I can actively get close to daily which depending on upbringing can either be very loving and sweet, or absolutely territorial monsters.

    When I was in high school there was one of those dogs, he’d bark lightly, or his front paws on the picket fence and wag his tail extra hard, which are normally signs of wanting to be pet, except if you got within petting range he’d go for a bite.

    Cat’s at least get away from you if they don’t want attention. I’ve learned more about dog body laungauge since high school, but I’ve also been bitten since then on just a random walk by (not going for a pet) just as the owner was saying it didn’t bite. It did.

    Though I suppose terrified it’s a bit much. Wary is more like it.