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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Here's how you go to jail for debt:

Rack up a ton of credit card debt.

Don't pay it off, goes to collections.

If it's high enough, and you don't move to another state...

Collections sues you, you get a court summons in the mail.

You throw away the court summons along with all your overdue bill notices.

Congratulations, you now have an active arrest warrant, police will be at your location in... a few days to a few weeks, you go to jail, then likely prison for contempt of court, and when you get out, the debt collector won their judgement against you by default, any wages you try to get will be garnished, your credit score is absymal so you can't get an apartment basically anywhere.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

... incredible.

Beans for you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Not one who's seen their own kid(s) or brothers or sisters suffer through bad marriages and divorces.

It is... a bit odd, imo, that she'd just jump to that, not even knowing anon... but at the same time, a good number of older people just don't give a fuck / literally do not have much time to waste, so they just get straight to the point.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

Oh I did find such jobs, but then I managed to get asssulted in a mugging, lost my ids and cards and phone, ended up hospitalized, lost my job, got evicted, ended up homeless for about two years.

On the bright side of that, managed to get SSDI payments and recently set myself up with actual doctors after having to wait for the medicare application window thing, as well as... at least a 6 month lease at a roach motel.

Now I get to do PT for ... 6 months to a year? And maybe I can walk without a cane again, and use my wrist for more than 20 minutes at a time without it excruciatingly seizing up.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 days ago

... Or the motel knows how prostitution works, and wants their cut, and has worked this arrangement out before hand.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

No, you're wrong.

Everyone that studies crimes for a living, you know, people with PhDs, who publish peer reviewed studids on mass shootings?

Precise definitions vary somewhat, but basically, a mass shooting is any instance where 4+ people are injured or killed by gunfire, in a single, temporaly and geographically constrained event.

Gas station robbery gone wrong? 3 people injured, one dead, by gunfire?

That's a mass shooting.

Because a mass of people... got shot.

A mass shooting related to gang activity... is a gang related mass shooting.

It is a subset of the category 'mass shooting', not a completely different thing.

You csn take that definition and apply it backward 40 , 60 years, and you will still see a massive, massive rise in the number of mass shootings in the last 20 years, number of people injured or killed by gunfire in mass shootings.

Zoomers are about 3x more likely to personally know someone who was present at the scene of, injured or killed in a mass shooting than Boomers.

For Millenials, its about 2x.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (6 children)

My experience after graduating from high school in 07 and college in 11 is that uh... no, the vast majority of odd jobs, part time jobs I worked till getting a 'real' job...

No, no, the vast majority of basically low wage workers are still mentally in high school, still acting just as immature, still being childish, rude and bullying people, still constantly seeking to create situations of petty drama, still pressuring people into hazing rituals.

Does not matter how old they are.

I've seen 45 year old men literally 'flex' on younger coworkers to assert dominance, like literally puff themselves up and flex to appear larger, while arguing with or belittling them.

Your advice is generally good advice, but it is far from guaranteed to ensure you will not be surrounded by immature buffoons, and ostracized when you do not partake in their foolishness.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Something vaguely similar but kinda inverted, happened when I was in middle school.

An office assistant, like a TA, but for the main office, was dispatched to deliver a packet of course work papers to the class I was in.

The main office had the main, commercial grade printer in it, and this would have been like... 2004 ish? Computers were basically only in the computer lab, more primitive tech setup.

So anyway, the OA shows up and delivers the coursework to the teacher... and is confused by the complete silence in the room, the lack of anyone doing anything.

He remarked '... Did somebody die or something? Jeez' and was now met with many intense, silent stares... he quickly exited.

Completely unbeknownst to the OA... about 15 minutes prior, our teacher had just recieved an email, took aside one student, talked to him for a few minutes. That student then quickly talked with his friends for about a minute, eyes tearing up, getting several hugs, and then presumably left to the school counselor office.

His one or two grade older sister had just suffered a complete cardiac arrest in PE, out on the track, about 30-45 minutes prior to the email... and died.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Fuck, that sounds awesome!

I used to have a set up like that, though it was wired, not wireless. I'd just haul the rig out to the living room lol, had a fairly small and light pc, so it wasn't too much work, did cable management to make the transitioning easier.

Also somewhat related... I was just talking with another person who was unable to get that level of quality, resolution and frame rate via streaming their PC to their living room TV... also they mentioned input latency with very fast paced and fine tuned racing games.

You mind if I ask how you're actually doing the streaming?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

I meant it jokingly, meta referencing the toxicity of the entire 'real gamer' elitist nonsense.

You are still a real gamer to me lol.

Though I genuinely would suggest you play Ocarina of Time, if you can.

You say you're a PC gamer? Yesterday I was in a Nintendo Switch 2 / Steam Deck discussion, and I just set up an emulator and am running the 3ds OoT remaster at 60 fps!

(Somebody just asked 'hey can you run 3ds games on a Deck? So I just... did it, and reported back lol)

If I can do that on a Deck, you can do it on a PC =D

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Above post has good info, and also, apologies for broken alpha layer, I'm literally using a... now 3 year old phone I bought at a gas station.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Yeeeeuuup.

This is certainly going to improve the prospects of assembled in US cars getting exported...

Oh well, fuck it all I guess, burn it all down.

I'm sure Elon will try suing the EU to force them to buy his cars next.

That is how the free market works: When people don't wanna buy what you are selling, threaten to sue them for not volunarily agreeing to purchase your service or product.

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