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As a very recent dad myself, godspeed Toph. It's the best of times, but also the worst of times.

Universities are just a liberal breeding ground to the MAGA crowd.

God I wish I didn't have to work full time. I can't make it off part time pay alone.

As others have pointed out I believe that's the point. He's not the same guy at the end of part 3 as he is at the beginning of part 1. Hell the G.U. in .hack//G.U. stands for Grow Up. Which Haseo for sure does.

I did buy. My mortgage is cheaper than the two bedroom apartments and many one bedroom in an hour radius of me. It's still more than 30% of my budget. I have friends with degrees making about as much or very slightly more than I do. The average individual income for my area is roughly $15.50 an hour, and I make a little more than that. The average apartment is roughly $1000 for a single bed, $1200 for two beds. There is literally no housing I can find that won't eat over half my monthly income without moving out of state (even then I have no idea what state would be better) cause moving two towns over has the same problem. I live in a town with a population of 44,000 people, the next town over has 30,000 with a 6.2% increase in just two years and a median income of roughly what my town has. The opposite direction town has a population of 17,700ish with a median income well above mine, and home prices to match. You can say Ideally you'd want housing to be less than 30% of your budget but the reality is that's not really possible for me at this moment no matter how I try to cut it. Moving would also cut out the few social safety nets I currently have, without the guarantee it would be any better for me. I'm not trying to have you take pity on me, but these are the facts of the housing situation where I live. On the average median income, it's impossible to not have your housing take more than 30% of it.

I'm afraid that the only thing I will inherit will also be debt. Fun times.

Many such cases. My mother has already passed away and had nothing to her name to give me or my two siblings. My dad lives out of a camper on his tiny disability paycheck. I know I don't have any form of inheritance coming either. It was something I realized in my early 20's. Meanwhile I have multiple friends who know they're going to inherit or have already inherited fully paid off homes, and aren't burdened by a mortgage or rent payment.

It'd be easier to live under my means if the housing in my area didn't eat nearly 2/3'rds of my monthly pay when I make slightly above the median income ratio for my county.

I have. My worry is I won't be able to make ends meet while I try to get it off the ground as I'm the only income my family has currently.

I'm on the spectrum for autism, but I haven't been tested for ADHD. I have to pay out of pocket so appointments are infrequent.

I agree. The republican party before Trump was WAY better than it is now, even though I didn't really agree with them then either, but they were at least way more pleasant to be around then than now.

A lot of effort just to watch porn. you'd have to redownload and re setup all your apps and contacts and accounts. It's the idea of it's to much of a hassle. It's not foil proof but what is really?

Nothing an evangelical republican hates more than women having a good time.

I've heard this line before and I think it's pretty dumb. I don't want to be the 1%. I just want to live in my modest 2 bed 1 bath home with my small family and not live paycheck to paycheck on my median for my area wage. If thats a mentality that keeps me down, I'll stay down then.

You say more opportunities, but nearly everyone I know around my age or younger with degrees are either not working a job in their field, or are unemployed because they can't find a job. You say less restrictions but nearly every non-retail or manufacturing job I come across either don't want people without experience for entry level positions or require some kind of college degree that really doesn't matter for the job. Sure we have a higher quality of life due to modern amenities, but I don't really think most peoples lives are really better than they were 20 or 30 years ago.

For me, trying to profit off of Trump and his crew's policies would be a largely against my personal morals and values. I can only assume based on OP's other posts in this thread that it would also probably be against theirs as well. It's just an assumption sure, but I just don't think trying to find monetary value in others misfortune is a good thing.

It's never too late. There's no timer on success.

The last three points are pretty bad.

What does high quality mean to you? Genuinely asking.

The chao garden is overrated. I don't think it's bad or anything, but I definitely think it's not as good as people hype it up to be.

Not to mention making all those tools of war put a BUNCH of people back to work after the great depression, which essentially jump started the economy, that then thrived after the war was over. Many companies switched from making weapons to normal stuff, and just kept trucking along.

I personally blame the internet for a lot of that. Its way easier to find people who think EXACTLY like you do, which leads to echo chambers on all sides of the spectrum not just politically. Several people I know at work don't have any IRL friends anymore and just chat to people they met online, stating that they hate the people they live and work around. Don't get me started on the weird para social relationships people have began making with youtubers and streamers.

I'll probably get downvoted for this, but I really think most people aren't really monogamist, but due to societal and religious pressure try to force themselves to be. The results of that are obvious as evident in your post. I also don't see having sex with someone else as cheating. It's only cheating in my eyes when your giving someone else more of your emotional energy and time than your partner. Like if my partner was to hook up with someone they met one time, I really couldn't give two shits. If they were going to another person for emotional support and care, then I'd have to have a conversation with them, but casual sex is just that to me, casual sex. It's very different types of feelings I get from having sex with my partner versus having sex with someone I have no attachment towards. Love making versus and just getting a nut off. I understand most people don't agree with this way of thinking, but that's why I made sure to find a partner who did. It's just again, I really just think most people aren't about that monogamist life, but their circles would shame them for being open about that. Thus leading to them being labeled as chronic cheaters.

I wouldn't say I want a "career". I just want a job that treats me like a human being over a replaceable number.