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KREBS cycle and curiosity

that’s the prices where medical tourism is worth it. I know people that have flown to mexico for teeth and india for hips and both say it’s really great if you do your research you’ll save a fortune.

mr body massage

based comes from freebasing crack cocaine, lil b the Based God really popularized it’s usage. It’s 80’s hip hop slang.

mom can we get diesel chicken

Meanwhile… at the Hall of Justice…

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nothing to stop you from buying an aquarium and becoming a hobbyist cuttlefish jizzmopper!

so good to eat all of those

same i like the crunch! I’ll eat the whole shell!

wealthier people in other countries buy the products, is what happens now.

no she drives a small commuter vehicle and i’m in a van. So if she needs the van she’ll take it but she has heard me warn her enough times that a bear will hike 30,000 miles to tear the door off my van for a taco bell wrapper that she doesn’t eat in it. She mostly just uses her car.

my partner likes to eat in her car.

I like to camp in bear country.

we share but there are definitely assigned vehicles. Also cutely I bought hers for her and she bought mine for me and we both love that.

Sure, the sales guy sits down and shows you this:

and you see that monthly payment and go 🥴 and then your new ‘friend’ helps you get that payment down to something you can afford.

They then go through a bunch of antics designed to confuse you, the monthly payment drops a ton but overall you’re getting reamed on the deal (often longer payments at worse terms for instance) then they get you to initial it and will then hold that over your head as if it’s legally binding.

It’s a huge pain in the ass, and you won’t win, they are experts at it. Negotiate the price of the car and the price of your trade in separately. Ideally you will have sold your ‘trade in’ on the private market and pre secured your loan through a credit union but that isn’t always possible.

For a better more comprehensive explanation see the article i just stole that image from: https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/buying-a-car/beat-four-square-and-other-car-dealership-sales-tactics-a7590220303/?srsltid=AfmBOopFCHIp5zbHgU1xngvt_LLdWvkEu_3zG6cCGcAFp9JWpwYtGL5_

I know folks who do it every year since the amount you have to read on any given day is so small!

that’s what “some thought” means my guy

I never really paid for any of it; most of it was on my parents dime when I was a child and they were trying to ‘fix’ me. There’s a 25 year gap where I had great insurance and thought i didn’t need help (just alcohol, drugs, women) so didn’t see anyone. Then i got incredibly depressed, couldn’t get out of bed, lost my job and got on medicaid. Medicaid has been covering my therapy across 3 states for the last 7 years. After getting fired as a patient by a first year counselor his boss suggested i try to get into the trauma center and after an 8 month wait i got the first actual help in my life.

Almost all the other therapists would get utterly hung up on suicidal ideation and intrusive thoughts even when i explained to them that they were managed. they just couldn’t hear me and because that was all they would focus on nothing ever progressed. I tried lying but it’s hard to build a connection and trust that way.

My trauma therapist, like, treats it like no deal. Which to me it isn’t, the thoughts have been there for decades and i’m not going to act on them. When I mention them she doesn’t focus on them at all and subsequently I was able to get better.

When we first started doing sessions years ago it would literally be me pretty much ugly crying for most of the hour. Couple years before I made it through a session without crying.

At our last session I was laughing, joking, happy, thriving, and crying but they were joyful tears.

It took me over 40 years to get the help I needed and many black nights and many empty fifths but i’m still here baby and I’m living my best life now! Don’t give up!