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  • This is not a normal kind of human interaction, on the girl’s part.

    It very strongly indicates she is a spoiled brat, a narcissist.

    If you think this kind of interaction is normal… well I see two possible explanations:

    You are also a narcissist and that’s why you think this is normal.

    OR

    You are surrounded by narcissists who have gaslit you into thinking this is normal, and you haven’t had too many regular interactions with non narcissists.

    Also, I don’t see anywhere near as many total upvotes for ‘she’s into you dude, frost that cupcake!’ as I do for ‘this is the biggest red flag imaginable, let me write a short essay explaining why’

    In fact, yeah, I don’t see a single comment advocating the anon dive into her… affairs, over this.


  • There is a very fitting song for this.

    Garbage - Stupid Girl

    Stupid Girl Lyrics

    [Verse 1]

    You pretend you’re high

    Pretend you’re bored

    Pretend you’re anything

    Just to be adored

    And what you need

    Is what you get

    [Pre-Chorus]

    Don’t believe in fear

    Don’t believe in faith

    Don’t believe in anything

    That you can’t break

    [Chorus]

    You stupid girl (Ah)

    You stupid girl (Ah)

    All you had, you wasted (Ah)

    All you had, you wasted (Ah)

    [Verse 2]

    What drives you on (Drives you on)

    Can drive you mad (Drive you mad)

    A million lies to sell yourself

    Is all you ever had

    [Pre-Chorus]

    Don’t believe in love

    Don’t believe in hate

    Don’t believe in anything

    That you can’t waste

    [Chorus]

    You stupid girl (Ah)

    You stupid girl (Ah)

    Can’t believe you fake it (Ah)

    Can’t believe you fake it (Ah)

    [Instrumental Break]

    [Pre-Chorus]

    Don’t believe in fear

    Don’t believe in pain

    Don’t believe in anyone

    That you can’t tame

    Basically, if this is a representative sample of this girl’s personality …

    (huge if there, this is a single 4chan post lol)

    … then she is a textbook narcissist, potentially to the point of being diagnosable with NPD if she doesn’t grow out of this attitude, get a reality check that actually sinks into the subconscious.

    A spoiled, pampered brat whose never been told no, who never gets any real, meaningful interaction or validation, and tries to fill that void with a grandiose self image, absurd overconfidence and privelege.

    Angelica from Rugrats.

    …And my take here would be the same if the genders/sexes were reversed, or some other combo.

    It is pretty not normal for anybody to have that kind of interaction with anybody else, to just boisterously state they could have ‘insert random person’, then have rando anon just flatly reply ‘sorry not interested’, … and then throw a giant hissy fit.

    I am seriously hoping this interaction occures between 12 or 14 year olds, but looking at the horror kaleidoscope that is social media these days?

    Yeah, could be anybody, any age, at this point.


  • Yep.

    It is mostly just revisiting older news from decades before that… as would be reasonable when a newcomer to politics now seems to stand a reasonable chance of becoming President, might want to do a more thorough journalistic background check on the guy.

    Leftists critical of Trump, back then, before even his first term, were … you know, kind of worried about Trump having Hitler in his nightstand table, very, very obviously seeing him as a role model and source of inspiration…

    And then they said things like … is Trump a Nazi? Is Trump a fascist? This stuff is … quite concerning, along with his bombastic rhetoric and extremely nebulous and fluid ‘policies’, that all seem to converge on a return to past greatness, hypermasculinity, racism, sexism… all very much in line with … a populist, which historically very often leads to fascism…

    And then almost every one else in the country dismissed that as hyperbolic nonsense, and ‘everything/one you don’t like is fascist’ was born.

    … And now here we are, evidently in the bizzaro clownworld timeline, where Trump is ‘the joker, baby’ all the Republicans are his brainwashed cult of goons, the Democrats almost all as well sane-washed the shit out of Trump untill way after it was too late… and, as is also predictable broadly by history, the leftists, with few exceptions, fought each other over idpol, purity tests and tone policing, effectively negating any coherent opposition.



  • I tried to type out ‘megalomaniac’ and unintentionally misspelled it as ‘magalomaniac’ in a comment i made somewhere yesterday.

    Went back to my comment, noticed this, and then realized… no, wait, this is a good misspelling, and wrote an addendum.

    I entirely support ‘magalomaniac’ and ‘magalomania’ as terms, lets get them in the DSM 6.

    Aside for Psychologists

    (And before a psych major or phd says ‘DSM V is the last DSM edition!’… no, its not, otherwise the TR version of V wouldn’t … be a thing… arguably it is the DSM 6…)


  • I get that.

    What… would actually make much more sense would be to index the minimum wage to some other, per state metric.

    A fraction of median income, some formula that actually does a good job of estimating a minimum standard of living…

    But, that will never happen, because … well basically half of voters and half state legislatures fundamentally either do not understand how to, or believe in laying a foundational safety net layer for society.

    The income and CoL disparities within the US are… basically as wild as the differences between EU member states, but our governance systems are… well, pretty much fundamentally broken at this point.



  • More than that would create private business deserts in poor areas, forcing the locals to exclusively patronize corporations. More of the population would need social program assistance to help pay for the increased cost of our domestic food supply.

    … If we’re talking about Arkansas… all of that has already happened.

    You know Walmart is… from, and based in Arkansas, right?

    20 ish % of the population is already below the poverty line… and the poverty line is basically ‘lets assume you have no rent and are homeless and just want to be able to buy food’.

    That means 20% of the state is already getting SSI, SNAP, TANF, etc.

    The US Federal poverty line is about $35 dollars a day. about $13k a year.

    If you converted that to a full time wage, thats about $6.75 an hour.

    The US Federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour.

    50 cents of difference.

    Hasn’t changed since 2009.

    From 2009 to 2025, if you go by CPI, a single 2009 dollar is worth about $1.50 2025 dollars, that is to say, prices have risen by 50% in 16 years.

    Arkansas is literally an economic disaster zone.

    41% of the state struggles with getting their basic needs met, multiple independent observers and international aid agencies have compared the level of poverty, lack of education, access to healthcare… to areas of the world recently devastated by wars.

    You say the cost of living is 36-37k.

    That must be for a single person.

    As of Nov 24, the median individual income in Arkansas is $29,740.

    That makes the median wage about $15.50 an hour.

    The median individual income in Arkansas cannot afford the average cost of living for a single person.

    Arkansas is already the state equivalent of a mentally unsound person being deemed incompitent to make their own decisions and be declared a ward of the state.

    Bumping up the min wage would be more like doubling the care and support staff for the assisted living facility that is Arkansas, already massively dependent on Federal subsidies to the poor… and the laughably tiny tax rates on giant megacorps that allow said megacorps to dominate its economy.

    If you want to see what unchecked hypercapitalism looks like, you’re looking at Arkansas.


  • Median one bed apartment rent, across the entire US, is $1550 as of Feb 2025.

    Lets knock 20% of that off, to approximate a median studio apartment instead, give some leeway to poorer parts of the country.

    (there are not as good or reliable general stats counted for studio apartments, but a studio being 20% less than a one bed is… hopefully a reasonable, napkin math aporoximation)

    Ok, that’s $1240.

    Alright, now we use the ‘rent should be 30% of your income’ rule.

    Thats $4135 a month, rounded up very slightly to the nearest 5.

    Ok, 40 hours a week, roughly 4 weeks a month = 160 hours.

    4135 / 160 = $25.85, again rounded up to the closet 5 cents for simplicity, so thats your actual minimum ‘living wage’.

    If you wanna say a studio should be 30% off a one bedroom?

    Math works out to roughly $22.60

    If you wanna say an actual one bedroom should be the standard, works out to about $32.60

    Any way you look at this, $17 an hour is too low, that’s still… you can’t even afford a studio (as in, you cannot pass the rent to income threshold without a cosigner or double deposit or somethingnon your lease) you need roommates, you’re still living with your parents.





  • 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.



  • 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.


  • 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.