Yeah - the goal is to have extra strategies for self sufficiency. I’m in a financially precarious situation, and my career field has been become increasingly hostile to LGBT folks. I get that sometimes I’d hook nothing, but having that kind of access to protein in a pinch seems like a good idea.

I have similarly been trying to get into foraging, but I still get wigged out and don’t always trust myself.

I have a dehydrator, so I think I could also preserve stuff when I have those better days perhaps.

Fairly common where I live, but not interested in tangling with water moccasins.

Wendy William’s bank has her in a conservatorship.

How does anyone see what he did to his house and think, that man is able to take care of himself?

I’ve heard that some of it is probably NO2 abuse under the care of one of his doctors. I think he started going off the rails after his mother died.

Nah, the ending pissed them off. That series dropped like a rock.

Geo Group also ran a youth facility which was investigated by the DOJ for being kid diddler central.

My electric bill goes through a payment processor which charges 3% for an ACH transaction. I have tried on at least three occasions to set up direct debit; each time the next day for some reason all of my information mysteriously disappears (and you have to wait five days to pay that way?)

My ex husband got the cops to kick me out of my house. We’d lived in the same home for more than 7 years, my name was on many of the bills - hell, his family told me my name was on the house.

He wanted to move in a new partner, he did some things, and then called the police. I don’t know what he told them - it’s been two years and both the police and the sheriffs department have denied responding; I can’t get a report. They showed up, told me I could either be institutionalized or go to jail. I managed to have some family come and get me, but I don’t understand how it happened. I don’t understand how the police could refuse to provide a report, I don’t understand how you can kick someone out, refuse to file for divorce and drain their bank account. I don’t understand how if you wait to file until after you cut off the insurance, you don’t have to pay it anymore.

I don’t understand why my couples counselor watched him say “I don’t want someone who prioritizes their career over our relationship” to guilt me into quitting my job, so they I would be completely helpless when he wanted to move his prostitute in.

Haven’t confirmed anything, but saw this too.

I’m from the NE part of india. There are more ST people in here, most of my ST friends are richer than me. They usually have Jordans and 2-3 iPhones (iPhones are expensive in india) but they enjoy the perks of freebies and affirmative actions while earning more than the average indian

It’s kinda amazing how you sound like my boomer American grandparents complaining about affirmative action because my students had AirPods.

Reactionary lazy hatred is truly a universal language.

Nah, I know it’s not all rural “marrying little girls to frogs for rain” stuff. But I also know it is still an issue in the cities, and like white folks in America, you get extremely upset and insecure at the idea that other people maybe deserve a fair share of the pie.

Do you think the fact that you were unaware of your caste might be an indicator of privilege? Do you think your Dalit neighbors (if you have any) grew up ignorant of their caste?

The last one was Argentinian?

Of the top candidates Tagle is Filipino and Turkson is Ghanaian.

I feel like the real questions are going to be how they feel about LGBT issues, environmentalism, and Muslims. But for most red blooded ‘Muricans, it’s irrelevant. Even most American Catholics don’t really care what the Pope thinks.

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Also South American Catholics are a bit more hardcore about the poverty and activism stuff. I don’t think Francis was necessarily full on “liberation theology,” but I can’t imagine probably knowing priests who got “free helicopter rides” for standing up for poor and indigenous people probably does impact how you think.

I’m really struggling, but I’m hoping tonight I can have a California sober day. I didn’t stop and get beer on the way home from work, I’ve stopped myself from putting in a delivery order twice. The craving is unbearable.

What caste are you friendo?

Rupees to rotis that you aren’t Dalit.

You have roughly the same amount of downvotes as OP, based on context folks were probably reflexively downvoting because it’s an AI discussion.

Landlords/management companies sometimes will try to make you go through a payment portal with a fee if you try to do direct debit.

There’s a shrine to gay male love in Fujian.

The British took Hong Kong after the First Opium War, and didn’t give it back until 1997