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Got_Bent

@ Got_Bent @lemmy.world

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  • Poorly socialized rule

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  • Am man.

    I enjoy living alone.

    I enjoy owning my house and keeping it clean and maintained.

    I enjoy cooking at a pretty high level.

    I don't particularly enjoy doing my laundry, but it doesn't hinder me.

    I do not enjoy yardwork, so I outsource it to a landscaper.

    I enjoyed being a single dad.

    I enjoy watching my daughter making her way in the world.

    I enjoy it when my daughter calls me to regale me with tales of her life. I enjoy it even more when she calls me for advice.

    I enjoy stability.

    I enjoy the silence.

    I enjoy the autonomy.

    I'm pretty boring.

    Age has definitely begun to take its toll on my youthful looks, especially as all my remaining teeth seem to be rebelling all at once.

    I do not adapt well to changes in my daily routine or my domestic environment.

    I save money. I don't much spend it.

    But I enjoy traveling whenever I feel like it to wherever I feel like to see whichever friends I please.

    I do not own a bidet or an electric kettle, just a dystopian stovetop kettle.

    Life has repeatedly, loudly, aggressively taught me that all of this is woefully insufficient.

    I am not a desirable adult.

    Please, take the bear and leave me be.

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    Could an American please prove me wrong?

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  • I believe that's the European Union free trade zone for bidets and electric kettles. Metric cash only, please.

  • I hate people like this

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  • I don't know. Some people who experience abuse and escape it become far worse abusers when they're in position to do so.

  • explaining the civil war to americans: "imagine if slaves had no burger"

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  • I've never heard of this so did a little digging. I'm not sure this fits the bill of state sanctioned since the "owners" were pretty much immediately prosecuted via joint efforts of the local sheriff and the FBI then convicted of violating federal law.

    While looking through this, I learned of peonage where Mae Louise Miller was released escaped from slavery in 1961. I don't see any legal repercussions for her "owners".

    I wouldn't say state sanctioned in her case either. Maybe state turning a blind eye.

    Nonetheless, whether or not state sanctioned applies in either situation, it doesn't diminish the horrible reality that people were being kept as chattel well into the twentieth century.

    Thanks for informing me of this. I really had no idea it existed.

  • The Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 had a massive impact on my taste in music.

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  • What I found via the experiences I relayed is that most jukeboxes will allow you to download just about anything. Too niche for an old school unit that has a fixed number of CDs in it, but not too niche for the Internet.

  • Bidet anyone?

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  • Go choke on a two ounce kinder egg

  • Moderation conflict involving c/vegan

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  • What if they're American vegans who use the imperial system of measurement, don't own a bidet, and microwave their water for tea? Should I break out the cross and hammer?

  • Andrew Greenberg, co-creator of the classic RPG Wizardry, has passed away

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  • Wizardry was great. I'll never understand how I lived in one of those ultra religious eighties homes that wouldn't let me play D&D but wizardry, Ultima, and bards tale were just fine.

  • Bidet anyone?

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  • I mean to tell you that I'm that regular. Once in the morning and I'm done until tomorrow.

    And yes, I wash my body every single day. Are you telling me the paragon of asshole cleanliness that is Europeans doesn't?

    God Europeans are so eager so shit on all of us. Is it the orange monkey we elected? Is that what did it?

  • Bidet anyone?

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  • I know Europe loves to shit all over the US on this topic.

    Unless I'm sick, well over 95% of my poops take place immediately before I shower. I don't really see how this is any different.

  • Texas judge decides Texas is a perfectly good venue for X to sue Media Matters

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  • Also in Texas because twenty years ago, my beloved wife HAD to have a house and there was no way in hell that was happening in California.

    Today the wife is gone, the house is gone, the dogs are dead, and the daughter is grown and living in a far away civilized state that respects her right to exist.

    And I'm still here. I pretty much don't leave the house anymore except to go to work and get groceries. So very, very tired of everything here, but no viable way out in the foreseeable future.

  • The Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 had a massive impact on my taste in music.

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  • Jesus Christ. I met my ex-girlfriend through mutual music tastes. We both followed bands that are well under the national radar.

    I couldn't take her to bars because she would load up the jukebox with hours worth of the music we listened to.

    I'm the first to admit that it's an acquired taste, not necessarily something you want to blast throughout a bar full of drunks who don't know it and more likely than not won't like it.

    This happened over and over. Got thrown out of a couple places because she would get in fights over it.

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    Reminder: It's Possible Harris and Trump Tie 269-269 in the Electoral College.

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  • To the laughy emoji, I think a Harris/Vance administration would be a lot funnier except that the assassination attempts to get Vance in there would probably occur daily.

  • Texas megachurch faces exodus of worshippers after a sex abuse scandal set off a summer of turmoil

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  • I used to work at a place where several partners were members of this church. The open disdain directed toward me for not being a churchgoer and the ostracization the occurred were a significant factor of my decision to leave.

    After I left, one of the partners harassed me for several years via phone calls, text messages, and hand written letters mailed to my home trying to get me to turn my heathen ways around.

    One of those letters said something asking the lines that while I had chosen eternal damnation for myself, I owed an opportunity of salvation to my daughter, so I needed to bring her to this church.

    I don't remember how many years this continued, but it finally stopped.

    The hell is the matter with these people?

  • US Army speaks out against Trump

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  • I cast my first vote in 1990. It was the first and last time I ever voted for a Republican. Please forgive me. I was eighteen and raised under Reagan. I didn't yet know better.

    Anywho, I concur with your assessment. We've fallen so very far.

  • Trump Threatens Mark Zuckerberg With Prison For ‘The Rest of His Life’ If He Uses Facebook to ‘Cheat’ in 2024: ‘We Are Watching Him Closely’

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  • Well earned hatred for Zuck aside, Trump really seems like he wants to imprison the entirety of the seventy percent of Americans who don't bend the knee to him. Depending on what level of military support he garners if he manages to weasel his way back to the White House, we could realistically be looking at a Cambodia Khmer Rouge situation.

    I'm not a gun guy, but I've seriously been thinking about getting one - not for self defense against a militarized police force or unimaginably powerful military, but as a quick out should things turn to round up the Dems bad.

  • Why does the USA have so few legal protections for ordinary people, and how can we change that?

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  • I'd wager that his lease has a mandatory arbitration clause that requires him to pay up front then try to get it back via arbiters chosen by the landlord.

  • Chatbots offer cops the “ultimate out” to spin police reports, expert says

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  • Hell they already submit plenty of pseudoscience as evidence that juries lap up like a pack of dehydrated wolves in the desert. Why not add some worthless text that shows the officer in a sublime light as well?

  • County Poverty Rate for the United States: 2013-2017

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  • Jesus

    Unemployment on the reservation hovers between 80% and 85%, and 49% of the population live below the federal poverty level. Many of the families have no electricity, telephone, running water, or sewage systems; and many use wood stoves to heat their homes, depleting limited wood resources.

    Then again, why don't they just pull themselves up by the moccasin straps? Look at them. I bet some of them even have refrigerators! /s