All well and good until mom’s retirement accounts tank and you can no longer live in her basement.

He quit lying to himself, and accepted what he is

that is, if it wasn’t fake.

Yes, commissar

From what I am to understand it will be finally requiring the Real ID be implemented everywhere, and everyone needs to carry that, or a passport.

a pack of penis flavored crayons

Like, I am pretty sure this is what is happening. I don’t have good proof, and my sample size is small, but the coincidence is stretched enough to be suspect. They claim that places like hospital, and other professional networks, get these because when they buy groups of phone numbers for their PBX systems, sometimes they were owned, or used by, scammers.

all of my calls that have HIPAA protected information require I type in a pin number before the call can continue, and in a couple places that send my phone on file a text with a password/number. So I am not that worried about that one. Still crazy though, and makes sense why they implemented this.

I have way too many things I need to answer that I don’t know the number of, and/or get mislabeled by the phone company, to do that, or trust “scam likely”.

My primary care physician’s office is scam likely My neurosurgeon’s office is scam likely My neurologist’s office is scam likely

I have a feeling the phone company, or whoever they get those labels from, might just be putting any number for a business name, linked to an Indian name, as “scam likely”. They don’t get my Orthopedic surgeon’s office wrong, or my nephrologist’s, or my endocrinologist’s, or my podiatrist’s and those are ones with European names. Everyone else, scam likely, even ones I didn’t list here, everyone else are doctors from India/Indian decent.

I also get a lot of calls from government phones, and other private businesses, that just show “unknown”, or a number I don’t recognize, but are important for me to answer. I don’t know these numbers ahead of time, because they don’t know who is going to call me back when these contacts are arraigned.

Let’s ask Gen. Brown Jr. how many times he has leaked war plans through messengers. I am sure he could go on for hours.

Yeah, they would need to be able to turn you back into your kid self, experiences and all. A lot of that magic is from you being a child.

This is called the euphemism treadmill

Yeah, wearing something nice to the local pub is not, in its self, self aggrandization. Wearing the things you like, is just that, wearing things you like. Now, if you make it a point show-off that you are wearing designer brands, talk about not wanting to look poor, making remarks, like these poppy cutters, to people for having a more budget conscious wardrobe, etc. then you are self aggrandizing.

If you are simply wearing nice clothes to day-to-day stuff, and otherwise acting normally, you are just wearing things that make you happy. The people who are “cutting the tall poppies” are just doing to you, what fashion snobs would do to them. They even have similarly lame excuses “What? I am just pointing out what people could be doing to look better, which makes people treat you better, and makes you happier” vs “What? I am just pointing out that this person is being a pompous ass, which makes people think worse of them, and that they could fit in better, which will make people treat them better”.

Oh, I am SO minding you now

Day after tomorrow? Demoted back to nobody.

Yes with this, I was talking about weapons that theoretically could exist, but we don’t know if what we think could work will, because just researching it isn’t practical. However, if that weren’t the case, we absolutely would be researching things like neutronium bombs, and such.

I mean, there are people who want to pursue theoretical weapons, that would completely sterilize earth, if the theoretically possible concept could be proven to actually work. Only reason we really aren’t is the impracticality of the research. So, if it were more practical an idea to research, we’d be on it.

Yes, half an eight ball

Lonely, social security, grandmas gettin in dat protein

Just looked up some serving sizes, etc, at some of the most famous cheesesteak places in philly. This will be around 2500-3000kcal. Honestly not as high as I thought. I was thnking a 12" philly would be around 2000-2500kcal, and turns out they are like 1000-1250kcal less.

I mean, we are talking about a crowd where steroid abuse is super common. Taking some nicotine to get a pump isn’t really anywhere near being outside the realm of an unreasonable health risk, to a large portion of this demographic.