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Got_Bent ,

Channel change and volume control are all physical buttons on my steering wheel. All feel, no look. To me, that’s the best way it can be. The only time that isn’t useful is if I’m out of town and presets don’t work. For those situations, I’m generally streaming ahead of time.

Got_Bent ,

Ah, the ole Ronnie Reagan approach!

Got_Bent ,

I haven’t followed Korean politics since the nineties, so I can offer no opinion on that assertion. I can most certainly see somebody with those characteristics ascending to the Korean presidency though. I’ve no reason to doubt you.

Got_Bent ,

I haven’t won the lottery, and no one in my life sees or hears from me already.

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Ken paxton? Lulz, he’d probably come after me for saying anything.

Got_Bent ,

It’s been sixteen years since I’ve done shrooms.

In present day, I don’t feel like I’ve got a safe environment to do them.

I’ve only ever had great experiences with them, but I would not attest that any of them in any way had an effect on how my brain functions at it relates to things like anxiety and depression. It’s always just been…fun.

I mean, who doesn’t love it when you’re naked in a hotel room with your wife and suddenly you’re underwater and she’s turned into a delicious, sensuous sea anemone? But therapeutic? Yeah, never felt anything like that.

I’ve heard of the microdosing thing the kids are doing these days, but it’s too foreign of a concept for me to experiment with.

Got_Bent ,

And here I am this morning sipping on coffee watching Tubi. I’ve been done paying more for less for a while now.

Don’t need to pirate. If this gradual enshittification has done anything to me, it’s been to make me lose any and all interest in keeping up with the latest shows. It’s turned my TV into mere background noise while I do other things.

Maybe Tubi and Pluto and Freevee will eventually go away. Maybe then I’ll just stop staring at a screen altogether.

I read a six hundred page physical paper book last weekend, cover to cover. I’d completely forgotten how pleasurable that is, and I can buy paperbacks by the pallet for next to nothing these days or attempt to borrow from the library before they become completely illegal.

I also remembered that it’s entirely ok to read a book that isn’t some centuries old work of ethereal literature. Run of the mill pulp fiction can be mighty entertaining even if you don’t get to brag that you read the unabridged version of Beowulf in the original language at your next craft cocktail party

tl;dr fuck these streaming companies

Got_Bent ,

General rule - I’ll give you money or I’ll watch ads. I won’t do both. And as I’ve implied, I find myself actively watching shows less and less. So the giving money part becomes less attractive. I’m also entirely underwhelmed with Netflix offerings in present day. It’s like they gave up after the success of Making a Murderer and decided that everything would just be cheap to produce true crime dramas. The actual shows categorically get cancelled when it comes time to pay the actors for their success so we never get closure. Looking at you, Santa Clarita Diet.

Got_Bent ,

Today I learned that Plex exists, so thank you!

Got_Bent ,

Isn’t Jellyfin something that I have to run through a computer, phone, or tablet? My living room TV is just a Walmart special with a Roku box. I’m too lazy to get more technical than that.

Edit: I stand corrected. I see it on Roku. I’ll see what it does. Thanks

Got_Bent ,

Yeah I learned that when I tried to open it.

The Plex thing has straight up streaming material like Tubi, so that was neat.

Highly unlikely I’m going to go the lengths of learning to sail, storing my booty, and transfering it to a server I don’t understand.

Got_Bent ,

If caffeine is considered a serious drug in my lifetime, I hope I’ve got a good cellmate because I’m going away forever.

Got_Bent ,

I compare my daily commute to the chariot races in Ben Hur. It absolutely wasn’t this way pre COVID.

Got_Bent ,

I read your post and can’t help but notice that you haven’t tried a steady diet of calamari.

But seriously, I’ve never read or heard about anything like that, and it sounds like utter hell. I hope you’re able to find relief soon.

Got_Bent ,

Paxton has been on a shameless, vindictive speed run of vengeful terror since he survived impeachment.

I’m afraid this is but a microcosmic sampling of what’s to come if Trump gets back in the white house.

Got_Bent ,

The comments on that video. Yikes.

Got_Bent ,

We really have become a society that thrives on the suffering of others almost to the point of sexual pleasure. It’s truly repugnant.

Got_Bent ,

It only makes sense.

When you’re poor and not powerful, you get shit on daily and you grow a certain impervious callous to the constant assaults.

When you’re rich and powerful, nobody ever tells you no, so the slightest of criticism is entirely strange and foreign and therefore unacceptable.

Got_Bent ,

I use a little splash of vinegar. Keeps it nice and clean without the whole chlorine gas part.

(I don’t know if bleach produces chlorine gas. Talking out my ass on that part)

Got_Bent ,

A grilled cheese sandwich too cheesy?

That’s like saying it’s too orgasmic when my wife blows me or my paychecks are too big when my job pays me.

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I mean, they do get a cultish gold ring that they fish out of a pitcher of beer with which they get to play wonder twins for the rest of their lives, so there’s that.

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Shit. I forgot to rake the state. Sorry everybody.

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COVID forced me to stay in my house for an extended period of time. I never ventured back out. Businesses are certainly not incentivizing me to do so.

As a result, I’ve watched my bank account grow at a rate it never has. In a nearly identical upward trend on the graph so have grown my depression and loneliness.

The outside world has become hostile in addition to expensive.

I’m glad I’m old and this is not my whole life ahead of me stage.

Got_Bent , (edited )

I assume the interest is compounding so the amount should increase each day.

I stand corrected. It’s simple interest. I’m genuinely surprised by this.

Got_Bent ,

How much of a price increase comes with this apology?

Got_Bent ,

In all fairness, we panic and reach for our guns at the mention of just about anything. Right this very moment, I’m pooping on company time, scared out of my wits, a nine millimeter at the ready atop my presently ankle adorning boxers.

Got_Bent ,

It wasn’t just leaded gasoline. I was busy getting hot boxed with cigarettes in my grandparent’s leaded gasoline car before burning some asbestos, plastic cutlery, and batteries in the living room fireplace.

Forget no seatbelts or bicycle helmets. Our chemical exposure would probably send a younger person without a built up tolerance into instant seizure.

I also remember crimping down lead shot sinkers on my fishing line with my teeth. Good times. Good times indeed.

Got_Bent ,

It really feels like all corporations do this.

Then the failed CEO gets another CEO gig because they’ve got “experience”.

Florida gets closer to banning social media for kids under 16 (abcnews.go.com)

Florida is on the verge of passing one of the nation’s most restrictive bans on minors’ use of social media after the state Senate passed a bill Thursday that would keep children under the age of 16 off popular platforms regardless of parental approval....

Got_Bent ,

I think they underestimate how capable kids are of making their own damn platforms. With blackjack and hookers.

Got_Bent ,

If you’re baffled by the petty vindictive vile school officials, you clearly don’t have kids, especially in Texas.

I raised my daughter here. It was interesting.

She lives far far away in a civilized state now. I told her not to ever move back here. It’s not safe being a young woman in Texas.

Got_Bent ,

I would say that all the women in Kill Bill are bad ass. Some just align differently than others.

Got_Bent ,

Yeah. I was thinking of all the vipers and go-go.

Sofie shouldn’t count in my statement.

'A lot of money': Trump owes $87K in interest per day until he pays the fine in his civil fraud case (abcnews.go.com)

Former President Donald Trump owes an additional $87,502 in post-judgment interest every day until he pays the $354 million fine ordered by Judge Arthur Engoron in his civil fraud case, according to ABC News’ calculations based on the judge’s lengthy ruling in the case....

Got_Bent ,

He’s about to get a huge paper wealth injection with his truth social thing about to go public. Usually you’ve got to prove certain arduous financial metrics to do that, but the SEC is all, “lulz, you’re fine. Go ahead and offer your worthless stock!”

I’ll be curious to see who the biggest “investors” are in that stock. This is set up to be one helluva laundry.

Got_Bent ,

As to the gorilla killing you quickly:

Not that it’s a direct comparison, but have you ever seen the video of the baboon ripping a gazelle to pieces from the back end up without a care in the world that the thing is still entirely alive and aware?

(Do not look that up if you’re at all squeamish)

Got_Bent ,

Back in the seventies/early eighties, I remember my grandmother getting financial privilege by showing the check numbers in her checkbook, which were in the high thousands.

If you ran around bouncing checks, you would get cut off long before that and have to start over at the dreaded check number 101.

Such simpler times.

Got_Bent ,

Their recruiting offices were set up directly across the street from my daughter’s high school right next to the Burger King where all the seniors went to lunch.

Shady as fuck

Got_Bent ,

They’re the new hovercraft

Got_Bent ,

I thought I would miss reddit.

I was wrong.

Got_Bent ,

Facebook definitely came with withdrawals. That one was tough. But five years later, I can’t imagine ever going back.

Got_Bent ,

Admit it. The reason for the “to be determined” was the lunar flying squid they found in his luggage.

Got_Bent ,

What happens to the money? Does it get dumped back in to the pool?

Got_Bent ,

I did not wake up this morning planning on watching a thirty seven minute video, but I watched all of it.

Perhaps with some irony or coincidence or whatever, I lived in South Korea for a few years in the nineties and dreamt that I was back there before I woke up this morning.

Got_Bent ,

This is our version of ancient Romans using lead based makeup

Got_Bent ,

I grew up with our friend leaded gasoline. Please pardon my ever increasing dementia.

Got_Bent ,

If fifty an hour became minimum wage, I’d get the hell out of my soul crushing accounting gig and go become a parking lot attendant faster than you can say, “cash or credit?”

It’s three o’clock in the morning and I’m just leaving for work. I got home after eight last night. This won’t stop until late October. I spend those hours getting yelled at by rich people. I’d LOVE to downgrade my profession.

Got_Bent , (edited )

This thirty something an hour assertion has been going around for years. I’ve long since stopped bothering with the inflation calculators.

I was born in the early seventies, and witnessed that financial struggle existed even back then.

Yes, getting a house was more realistic (double digit mortgage interest rates notwithstanding). If you could snag a good job. The biggest difference I can remember is that a whole lot of blue collar jobs were good jobs.

Just about all of us in my age group remember food stamps and watered down frozen orange juice to stretch the food dollar and only getting five dollars of gas because filling the tank was way too ambitious.

The rose colored glasses of past financial wellness are heavily focused on the post war white new middle class that lasted what, twenty years?

I should note that I spent the seventies sharing a bedroom with my sister in a two bedroom rented duplex unit. Sharing a bedroom was quite common at the time. Even middle class houses were generally in the 1,100 square foot range, not the 3,000 square foot behemoths we’ve come to view as normal today.

Got_Bent ,

That’s my point. The whole thing sets off massive currency devaluation

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I was watching Wendover’s billionaire social calendar last night. They have ships whose sole purpose is to transport their yachts from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean so they don’t have to deal with actual transoceanic sailing. Like they literally load the yacht onto the ship like a big cargo rig.

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