On the one hand, I have about $1400 saved

On the other hand, I got fired yesterday…

So uh… Yay?

My parents have no savings at all and my mother got fired from her job 2 weeks ago, they’re both a few years from retirement age but definitely won’t be able to.

It’s been a fun year.

This hand-crafted, gold necklace with diamond, ruby sapphire, and emeralds adorning the intricately carved centerpiece?

5 gold pieces.

That moldy slice of bread you picked up accidentally from a barrel in the bottom of a 1500 year old shipwreck?

… I’ll give you 3 gold.

And the United States government, whose nuclear launch systems for decades had a default “0000000” password on systems so old they figured nobody would know how to hack them in person anymore, and they’re incompatible with the internet.

It’s disturbing to me that my high school hobby of fixing and operating old computers meant I could have launched nukes.

The misfits in question: you wanna take on “The Man” but your mom says you have to be back inside by 5:30 so you can go get a pair of JNCO jeans at the mall.

Last year most of the fields around me turned to slop as it was too wet for many weeks, and most fields couldn’t get equipment through the mud

While jailed and unable to pay bills, Lipps lost her home, her car and her dog, she said

Fuck suing, I’m going to prison for murder. I can live without the stuff, but if someone touches my dog they must not like living.

Useless knowledge: a black hole can technically exist inside a super-massive star.

The gravity of the black hole pulls in hydrogen, the force of the hydrogen fusion and Hawking radiation pressure from the black hole try to push the hydrogen/star stuff out.

For awhile at least, with enough supply of hydrogen (that likely doesn’t exist in a large concentrated enough supply), it can hold itself in balance as the biggest star you’ve never seen.

Note: take this with a grain of salt, this is my understanding of a kurzgesagt video I watched while high.

Dyshan Best, 39, was shot in the back last year as he fled from officers in Bridgeport, Connecticut. A report released Tuesday by the state’s inspector general found that the shooting was justified because Best had a gun in his hand and the officer pursuing him had reasons to fear for his own safety.

If I shoot a rich white man in the back who is running away from me and claim I “feared for my life” I’d probably get the death penalty.

Yes, it does.

So why doesn’t the other person ever bother picking theirs up first for a change?

Why do that and risk actually losing, when you can go after the small guy and send a message to the plebs?

I don’t do it on purpose, but sometimes the speed limit changes and I don’t notice until someone passes me and I look at the GPS and see I’m going too slow.

I wait for the passing cars to get ahead of me before speeding up though.

It’s an accurate snapshot of the American executive branch right now

Don’t sell us short, it’s also an accurate snapshot of the legislative and judicial branches, as well as about 30% of the general population!

Only if you’re racist, I guess.

Well, the lightweight is gonna be a problem, but I typically take breaks of at least a month when I stock up on more stuff.

Not a ginger, just weirdly tolerant to thc without having built one up.

Oh, this is after a break, of about a month and a half.

was legitimately stoned for the rest of the day. Like, could barely control myself.

Okay, seriously. Does this actually happen?

I hit a 84% thc vape from Michigan today, and after about 5 minutes felt nothing. 3 8 second drags until the vape auto-shutoff each time, and I feel it for about 30-45 minutes.

If I want to be stoned literally all day, I have to be hitting the vape at least every 30-90 minutes depending on how hard I hit it.

I usually don’t even feel edibles until I’ve had 30-50mg.

I’m genuinely curious how much it takes for other people to get high, and how they experience it. I feel like I’m missing out.

Because it’s a lot easier to discredit a religious argument when the sermon cites “4th Thessalossians 67:B” and gives the most generic sounding paragraph with the one weirdly specific phrase they instructed the bot to include and em—dash thrown in for good measure.

At least if they all use the same manual, it’s easier to pull over the ones who are on the fence.

I don’t have a perfect memory but I do have a good one, and I can confirm that the pastor at my parents church when I was growing up re-used sermons from multiple years prior.

So at least some recycle. As expected, they are still just as (ir)relevant.

“That’s disgusting! Which ones?!”