You’ve already done great work avoiding the medical supply scam. You deserve to know what the burnt plastic smell is for sure.

The cycle that the medical industrial complex has us on is insane! Don’t pay them.

https://vger.to/lemmy.world/c/slopornot

Did it: https://lemmy.world/c/slopornot

Libraries and physical archives!

Also: could some interesting Lemme create /c/slopornot ?

If you are holding the book in your hand and it was published before 2015, then that content is almost certainly the product of human action.

OP does not seem to get that it is precisely BECAUSE of all these criminals and incompetents that Black People and DEI are in jeapoardy. This was the literal strategy.

What do you mean nothing happened. Meryl Streep made a movie about it. And THEN nothing happened.

Winter Soldier is a favorite.

Okay, I’ll bite. What the reference to?

Came here to say this

“Crashes” riiiigght

I think those two kitties are putting them evil thoughts into the pious obese man’s head.

Thanks for this reply. Being GenX isn’t the bed of roses some folks believe it is. I find myself reading more physical books these days than I ever before. Kind of just to take it all in at less than a blur. It’s all whipping by at breakneck speed.

Well… depending on how long ago you separated from that partner who tried to pressure you into marriage, you could discover how her decision to return to someone who mistreated her turned out.

And I am glad you did not marry anyone that you think might have led to an unsatisfying partnership.

Marriage is a wild ride. I was an LA punk rocker in my teens and have felt unconventional my whole life… despite that in many ways, my path doesn’t look much like the road less travelled. For me, showing up to parent teacher conferences was richly unconventional. I’ll be honest… I ended up being much more generous of myself than I would have ever pictured me. Marriage does not come without its sacrifices.

I was not great at this game but I was a good sport.

Did you find “the one”? Like are you married presently?

I couldn’t agree more!

I am replying to your reply to this post so that I don’t earn the ire of absolutely everyone. And perhaps I will not even earn yours. Perhaps… you will find some sense in what follows.

There was an unspoken rule for Gen-X — it was in many ways as you have described here. If you got rejected by a girl… that door was closed. And there wasn’t really room for friendship. If you got burned by a girl, you moved on and didn’t even pretend to like them. Done.

You could have friends that were girls if they had boyfriends you liked. If they had boyfriends you didn’t like, you could be friends with a girl you were attracted to, but only so that she might discover you.

Where I believe I run afoul of Millenials and Gen-Z is where I remind folks we just didn’t have a lot of girls who were just friends… we considered this a fantasy or just waiting.