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[Faith]

I can't quote my way out of a paper bag. I always go too low. Mi too lo. Sum ting wong. Ho lee fuk.

[Faith]

This animal loves me. It knows I'm not going to harm it. These animals love my backyard, all of them. They know me. Their grandparents knew me.

[MarkJ]

[Faith]

It's too much; way too crazy, in a ridiculous cartoon-like way.

[MarkJ]

[Faith]

[Faith]

"On Wednesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the surge in energy prices had wiped out a year and a half of wage gains for the average American worker. On Friday, the public-markets debut of SpaceX made Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire."

They're going to have to make some changes. It's become too far out. taxes or something.

[Dahlia]

I seem to be moving in quite the opposite direction. I recently smashed my iphone (SE) on the floor and resolved to never have a phone again...until I remember those verification texts you get for every GD account you have. I'm going off grid. Technology is needlessly complicating our lives and sucking the creative fluids right out through our eyeballs.

If I could give you advice as someone that pretends to be a psychologist on the internet quite frequently, I would advise you to smoke weed or eat gummies. It's so much more rewarding. It uncomplicates life and relieves you of mental oppression.

...and then like draw, write and play the piano, your're good at all that.

Weed causes me unpleasant side effects.

[Dahlia]

I’m glad I got my own little AI. Pretty soon they’ll make it impossible for normal people to use AI unless they sell their arm or leg for it.

[Faith]

Weed causes me unpleasant side effects.

You need to smoke more and you'll get past that.

[Faith]

I thought I saw a mountain lion  through my telescope yesterday.

[MarkJ]

[Faith]

July 6, 1936, Route 66, New Mexico. This is Martha Evans, 32. She had been walking for three days. Her husband died of tuberculosis in Oklahoma in May. The farm was foreclosed. She took the six kids and a Radio Flyer wagon and started west for California. The twins in the wagon were 11 months old. The boys walking were 6, 5, 4, and 3. Her dress was torn on barbed wire. Her leg was cut and infected. She wrapped it with a feed sack. She had $1.60 in her pocket. A photographer from the Resettlement Administration saw them and pulled over. He offered her a ride. She said no. She said if she took a ride now, the kids would expect one every time they were tired. She gave him her name and kept walking. The photo ran in newspapers across the country. Donations came to a PO box in Barstow. She got $200 and a bus ticket. She made it to Bakersfield and picked grapes. All six kids lived. Three went to college. Martha died in 1978. The wagon is in the Smithsonian.



$200 in 1936 is like $90,000 now.

[Faith]

[MarkJ]