Travel the back country highways of Alabama and you’ll see it is like that. Alabama has improved drastically in the last 10-years, but the wealth gap is right there in plain view.
Trailer, trailer, trailer, beautiful home, trailer, 2 beautiful homes, trailer, trailer, on and on.
Before Trump went off on Obama and immigrants he was the East Coast Liberal™ these people loathed. I could maybe see younger folks being fooled, but FFS, did no one know what Trump was like in the 80s and 90s?! He was America’s laughing stock. The man released Trump, The Board Game and the entire country laughed our ass off.
Bloom Country, easily the finest snapshot of 80s America, ended in 1989 with Trump buying out the comic strip and firing all the characters, so unseriousness and ludicrous all we could do was laugh.
Anyway, if anyone wants to know what America was really like in the 80s, Bloom Country is readily available online. And here we are with the air traffic controllers, AGAIN!
Lived in some truly shitty houses. One was condemned the minute I moved out and we had had to cut glass and put windows in when we got there. But it was more or less in one piece.
Lived in a trailer for 5 years before getting this Habitat home. God. Damn. Hated it. It was in fair condition to begin with, but everything just fell apart. Damn near burned down one night when the HVAC electrical started burning through the insulation. All that and yet we had a great landlord!
Nothing is standard vs. a regular house, everything is harder to repair, and ironically costs more to repair. I’d do it again if I lost this house though. Wouldn’t take an apartment, no way.
I’d live in a shack in the woods before an apartment. What an awful way to spend one’s only chance at life.
*dog door
I could not have dropped a worse word to make that story nonsensical. :(
Keep it simple! Andrew Carnegie wrote the only book you need, How to Win Friends and Influence People. Terrible title in today’s context, that’s not really what it’s about.
Carnegie set out to find a solid book on human communication. Traveled all over the US, meeting and writing university professors, was astonished that such a thing didn’t exist, so he wrote it.
Interestingly, you can pick it up and read any chapter. Nothing need be in order, it’s not a study course, very easy to digest. Most of it is simply Carnegie telling stories.
There was one that’s always stuck with me: He goes to dinner at a man’s house and the guy won’t shut the fuck up, talks on and on and on. Carnegie shut up, listened, made it clear he was listening, hardly spoke a word. On the way out the man was congratulating Carnegie on what a fine conversationalist he is!
Public domain, totally free, give it a spin. I need to brush up on it myself.
Weirdly cold for NW Florida, froze 2 nights in a row. Back to normal, 50F nights, 70F days.
If I helped one person, more than worth the tiny effort!
None of what you’ve said rings false or against my experience.
*reciprocal friendly noises
You really don’t understand this hooman communication thing, do you?
So let me try to parse this; Your interactions with others is on a purely transactional basis?
About 1/3 of comms on here fail when I try to post. This space didn’t used to work, does now.
I post, the screen refreshes taking me back to a blank entry page. 🤷🏻 Someone looked into a few that I complained about and I’m not blocked. No idea.
The complaint is about guys who want to text forever and not move forward. Heard that a lot when I was dating hot and heavy. Seems lots of guys are either just lonely and wanting to talk on dating apps or who aren’t bold enough to ask for the date in a timely manner.
You have to establish, quickly, that there aren’t any screaming red flags, then ask for the first date. If dating isn’t what you’re there for, go find something else to do.
It’s also a filter for wishy-washy men. Sorry guys, women like men who are decisive. Which a lot of men take to mean “be a controlling jerk”. Not the same, not even close.
Goth Pennywise! Yes please!
You are reading way too much into my comment. I just thought it would be a more interesting experiment if the guy had put a tiny bit of effort into making it look at least plausibly real.
Maybe he made it awful on purpose? 🤷🏻
Missed that line! Thanks!
I deploy it through PowerShell.
It’s a whopping 6 pages and mostly double-spaced and more white space. And lemmy upvotes these cynical comments without a shred of investigation.
I’m reading it as making data centers harder to block, now I’m not so sure. Your take?
They are, uh, agreeing with you.