8000 a year? That would be a huge help. Like it would alleviate almost all of my burdens.

Scrip is kinda low key a thing again. My SO works for wawa and there is definitely some scrip vibe. They have a company store, a points reward system, they will put you through school if you take classes that benefit the Corp, and the only way to move up is to basically bootlick management at weird company festivals.

It all has this very dystopian vibe of “everything within the corporation eco system” and my SO is a very principled women who is shy and kind and she refuses to take a step to elevate herself within the Corp, but getting a union going is pretty hard where we’re at, everyone is very much of the boot tasting, welfare queen bad variety.

Not having children is my retirement. I will probably work till I’m old and gray so I just tuck what I can away, buy things that hold value, and live my life.

Just come to terms, probobly through traumatic events, that all life is is rejection. Then there is no rejection. There all done!

What were we talking about?

One dog in my current line of work is too much already usually. However I always love it and makes me happy to give my attention to a pup. But I’d say in general no. Too many cooks.

Subtle

Hey you sound just like me. If your going to move, perhaps somewhere like PA? It’s got the benefit of being a battleground state, and there’s more than enough rural areas, even relatively close to the cities, where you can continue your hermitage. I’m doing something similar (:

Active addiction and the hopelessness of hunger, legal trouble, and flexing my principles in order to function.

It’d be Jesus for me. I love a highly principled man telling me what to do.

Look it’s a commie! Get that dirty hippy!

China is the high-water mark of human governance!!

Don’t forget to collect your college credits on the way out!

The wheels fell off this one for sure

We’ve got two blind cats. They’re indoor, but we take them in the yard and let them do their thing under supervision. Trying to catch bugs will usually just end up in a bee sting, and catching small game is largely out of the question. Tho they have chased deer away.

The coyotes around me are massive. I thought I was seeing things one night as a big ass German Shepard sized dog walked cross my yard.

That is pretty funny to think about. Dangerous, but amusing.

I know when my cat bites my partner for food or attention she just let’s him do it. Then she’ll freak out all flustered, I’m like ya your literally letting him do it. Throw him out of the bathroom ffs!

I have to be more strict with myself cause I’m prone to extremely unhealthy coping mechanisms for dealing with people. I can deal with most bs nowadays and find it amusing at least, but once you get into “I genuinely enjoy drama” territory then you gotta go from my life. So that’s kind of a bunch of people off the bat lol.

Hand tools. Wool socks. Fire extinguisher.

Yea that’s fair, and tbh, the way I live my day to day, I probably won’t end up ever seeing it. Lol

Oh that sounds more of a nuanced theme than I was expecting. Cool.