using a style of demand for “proof” which is very common amongst trolls, astroturfers and sockpuppets

Nah. It’s trolls, astroturfers, and sock puppets who come in, make extraordinary claims, and say it’s too hard to find so you should go find it yourself.

pretty clearly insinuating

Idk. I just think that’s funny.

I like Shastas knock off, but it’s still not the same.

No. These are literally older than every lemmy user and none of us remember these weird analogue doodads. They’re far superior to absolutely everything that exists today because the good old days and this darn AI transcription nonsense. I’d rather pay a lady to answer my phone when I can’t just to get these.

You’re 17 days old, how could you have been alive in 1995?

Don’t worry guys, you kept downvoting each other so I upvoted both of you.

I’ll have sex with you.

Dunno if I’m ‘young’ but I did get snipped 3 years ago. No kids for me.

ADHD, major depressive disorder, and bipolar 2.

Yea. Tired. All the time.

Additionally, if you can get your down payment/trade-in to get your car off the lot with equity then you’ll get a lower interest rate. When my ex and I bought her new car a few years ago we incidentally did that (total value between the down payment and trade in was something like 10k on a 23k purchase) and we were pleasantly surprised to see a full percentage point lower on the loan.

And they make less money on that than the dealer financing options. No surprise they were being pushy about it.

No worries!

Contextually, saying ‘was’ is inclusive of the past and present. But to your credit, saying ‘I am’ would have been more precise.

My quote is a line from a famous comedian, Mitch Hedberg, who was doing a bit about drugs when he said ‘he used to do drugs’, paused, and then said ‘I still do but I used to too’. It’s a play to subvert expectations because when someone says they ‘used to do something’ they usually mean that they don’t anymore.

Some things are too small to be seen from anywhere.

Like ur dick

lol gottem

Well, our trip was in March so that’s perfect!

Ah that all makes sense.

Cancellations in particular suck, and are one reason I don’t fly budget airlines when possible. It nearly ruined the trip for my friends when they couldn’t get a flight out that night and put a damper on my birthday weekend for sure. I might mention to them the policy you pasted and see if they want to do anything about the extra few hundred they spent.

Thanks for the informative and high effort reply too! Really appreciate it.

She was a lot better before. She ended up with a ruptured disc in her lumbar in like 91 or something and the only treatment back then was a discoctomy, which is a brutal surgery that usually leads to a cascade of disc herniation and rupturing. She ended up having 11 surgery’s over the next 25 years and during that time became very addicted to her pain killers. Then, in 09 she got breast cancer which has been pretty hard on her body, and has left her with literal brain damage today. She always had toxic traits, but her sickness has made it so much worse over the last 15 years in particular.

To boot, we were fundie Christians and I had no idea I was queer, I only knew I never fit in and couldn’t figure out why. I was so isolated i never had anyone that could model what it might be like to be queer or to understand myself. Add in some mild bipolar, ADHD, and a touch of autism and it’s a recipe for failure to self identify. It wasn’t until my 30’s that I started putting the pieces together that maybe I’m not a boy and oh I actually like boys too.

Most of my misery and trauma growing up was more religious than anything.

I used to be queer. I still am but I used to be too.

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This is in the US? I had a few friends get fucked with last moment cancellations for my birthday trip to Vegas and the airlines didn’t do shit. One, Frontier, had to be strong armed to get them on another flight and still charged them the premium for the new flight.

I never would have chosen it, that’s for sure. I may not miss her but I do experience grief over the situation often.

part of me will always be dying to know how deep into the cult she sank.

It’s the reason I still stalk her Facebook lol

I broke contact with my mom 2 years ago on my birthday when she (middle school dropout) decided to tell me I (a college grad who learned how to research validity and reliability of various claims and sources) am a gullible fool for taking the Covid vaccine and that I needed to get on YouTube to do my research. It was the final straw of disrespect piled on a thousand other small things.

I don’t miss her.