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Thankfully I’m in rural Alabama - we’re safe from that, for now..

Just had a baby in April - I plan to use all these “child tax credits” to eventually pay for tuition at the private Christian school close by. Not homeschooling, but still much better than the alternative!

I’m due in two months.. working from home was very productive for us!

Stayed at this particular Hyatt last year for work (right before COVID closing everything was a thing) and it was AWESOME. It’s a great hotel for what it is, it’s geared towards business conferences and they couldn’t care less if a couple people are boycotting them.

I wish our governor in AL acted a little more like him regarding COVID. She is beyond useless.

LOL you have a point.. but right now, I will take too much togetherness over another deployment, that’s for sure!

It’s been almost a year now that I’ve been working from home - my company has said that they found it to be more productive and the employees love it. So why not? A lot of our business can’t be WFH, though.

Plus I’m 30 weeks pregnant and the flexibility this allows me is tremendous, and I’ll be working from home indefinitely.. between my husband and I we won’t have to fork over all that $$$ for daycare.

They made a new domain - it is now patriots.win .. partial rebranding, partial rogue mod that owned the domain. It sucks but I kind of like the new direction (same as before, just more focused on the “movement” vs just Trump the man)

Can always find it using communities.win also.

Down in AL there is (well, was) Trump signs at almost every house near me. I am in an area that is very.. white and middle/upper middle class, lots of military as well so it is unsurprising. We did have an incident in the past couple weeks where almost everyone’s signs were stolen from their yards and only flags on poles remained. I’ve replenished mine but not everyone has been able to..

Availability is finally starting to catch up - on the buying side the prices are starting to plateau a little but it’ll probably be a couple months (After Jan 1) before It trickles down and gets to something resembling normal. It’s record high prices right now and we have to work through all our “expensive” stuff that’s jacked up our average costs before it trickles down if that makes sense. If you enjoy information overloads I get a good market report, just send me your email in a msg!

I feel your pain, OSB and YP are killing me at work. Makes me sick looking at what I paid in April vs today. In a couple weeks hopefully we’ll see the light at the end of the tunnel!

A good rule of thumb I learned in traffic school years ago (I was a dumb kid) was when you stop, you should be able to see the tires of the car in front of you. I think of that often in traffic..

What a terrible article, didn’t say the actual results even once.

He agreed that a 29yo should be at home making babies instead of going to flight school. Do you really think he cares about a wife’s opinion? :)

Voat.co/v/TheDonald

My bulldog’s “canine aquatic center” is a $9 kiddie pool from Walmart.. if I tried to put him in anything else he’d sink right to the bottom, and I have enough common sense to know that without paying thirty bucks to find out by watching him die.

I agree it is stupid to put dogs in deep water against their will!!

I’m 28 and in the middle of nowhere (thanks Army) - but I recently got a job making $17.50/hr and I cried. Because I was so happy. (Then I realized I still have a technical degree and working on another, and how pathetic the economy is, and then I got mad.)

I’ll never forget 2008, I was a junior in college when Obama was elected the first time. I was watching the results come in and I was thinking, “well, I guess I didn’t need a job..” and then 2012, same thing. I am so darn hopeful for a Trump presidency, because I don’t want to see the teenagers of today grow up to be like me (wasting their 20’s trying to stay afloat in a crappy job market).

The only people I know that are really doing well (around my age) work for the federal government. And that is sad.

Yes! I started in Aug 2015 and I haven’t touched a cigarette since. I use Halo Menthol Ice (it gives me that.. sensation in my throat that mimics the menthols I so loved).

I started after my mom was diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer. She wishes we had something similar when she was younger, even though she quit 10 years after she started. She passed away in October 2015 and even if I didn’t have vaping I probably wouldn’t touch another one, anyways.. but it really helps.

I’m half-paying attention (stream going with headphones, doing homework at the same time!) ... and even I noticed that. I really “enjoyed” her opening statement about “more infrastructure jobs” ... can she be more vague? I’m really finding it fun how she’s saying “well that’s your opinion” “no” etc. She’s getting tripped up and I like it.

It is a Methodist-affiliated university, but it is not a seminary-type college. (I’ve seen those, and you’re not wrong about it being worthless..) But there’s a difference, the university this lady went to has more than just biblical studies degrees.

Even the college I went to was “Presbyterian” but you’d never know it. They were also extremely liberal (women’s college) but if you got pregnant I’m pretty sure you also had to move out the dorm - it has nothing to do with discrimination. I mean, you’d have to move out anyways after you had your baby? There were a number of women that got removed from the dorm for health-related issues - one of them being Bulimia - so it makes you wonder, could they sue too?