Yeah, I truly cannot understand how people really get into things. I don’t play poker with my friends because after an hour I’d rather do something else. I have never finished a video game. My interest in things always just seems to fizzle out. I do a bunch of stuff well enough, but I’m not even sure I want to do them.

I too am a master of none.

Only thing I’ll disagree with is they’re not ripping off the rich, because it doesn’t matter to the rich. They’re killing the middle class though, but that is the way it’s been and the way it will continue to be. You will either be rich (haha, jk) or poor, and that’s the end game.

99% of the State of New York is nothing. NYC and Philadelphia belong in NJ, they each have a lot more in common with Jersey than they do their respective states.

Northeast + West Coast and Everywhere Else.

Hopefully America isn’t contagious.

And jokes aside, the sentiment here in America seems to be people have had enough of this shit. I went for my annual physical, my insurance covers it. But I was given a paper to sign that says if I mention something ailing me to my doctor that it may turn into a sick visit and be billed accordingly.

I am very fortunate, I make decent money, my wife has insurance for us, and so when my doc said “Do you want vitamin D screening in your blood work? It will cost extra.” I was able to say yes. And that’s a minor issue, but there are people barely scraping by, they think they’re okay because they have insurance, and then to be told this visit will cost you more money if you say you’re unwell? Get the fuck out of here.

I love my wife and my kids to the end of the world, but I can’t imagine my mindset if I’m some single dude, at this point. How much are they going to push people? Thoughts and prayers to the difference makers out there is all I can do unfortunately.

The they in your sentence, at one point in time, referred to me and my three buddies who worked for Commerce Bank back in the oughts. They left four kids, one of them 18 and the rest 17, in charge of a bank sometimes. I may be personally responsible for commerce bank ceasing to exist.

The Encyclopedia Brittanica, they advertised that shit constantly on nickelodeon. That and Encarta, a good old disc of knowledge. I suppose OP is unfamiliar, and that’s fine, but I’m not sure I can stretch it to thinking that there were just absolutely no resources available.

And it also comes down to you weren’t aware you could get that knowledge instantly, and so you didn’t miss it, per se. I did research papers on whomever in grade school and I went to the library and pulled out a couple books, mainly for the sake of padding the bibliography.

I was in eighth grade when wiki showed up, and by high school it became “no wikipedia” as a policy, but at that point, savvy enough individuals were using wiki for it’s bibliography.

And so, in short, the change wasn’t super pronounced. If I had a desire to learn something, I’d figure out some way to go learn it. The convenience is obviously there, though, I certainly don’t want to take anything away from wiki and what it’s done.

I get a lot of checks and I’ve had issues with mobile deposits here and there, and they’re a huge headache. Having a bank that I can toss checks into the ATM and say “your problem now” solves the issue. I also get things notarized once or twice a year, but that’s just extra. But yeah, twice a week, I drop the kids and hit the bank on the way to the grocery store in the morning, ezpz. It is strictly convenience and nothing more.

Convenience. I have accounts with BofA because they’re three blocks from my house. It’s them or Wells Fargo, who are a little further, and then the nearest credit union is a 10m drive. So convenience. I also have USAA, but having zero branches in my state is kind of a pain.

I hate BofA, but I opened my first credit card with them 19 years ago and I value my stupid credit score for some reason, and so I have to keep it forever.

Just my own, every day.

I dunno, I’m the CEO of my own single-member LLC.

Yeah, I’m all for Australia style banning to kids, however that gets implemented, but this is slippery slope and all that. But hey, maybe not, maybe it’s the only time they do it.

It’s the beginning of the Streisand effect. I don’t know who the CEO of Horizon is, but I bet I’m gonna find out here or on Reddit soon enough, when it’s memefied.

Our parents couldn’t use computers properly, and now our kids can’t use them properly either.

That being said, I learned the hard way back in the golden age many, many times.

And if someone doesn’t pay the fee, perhaps theyre at risk of fire.

Biden specifically said he wouldn’t and then he did, that simple. And everyone knew it was a lie then, so it’s all just coming to fruition.

They’re trying to motivate people to crash EV stocks to save their oil portfolios.

I went to tea at one point when I was just getting bad heartburn from coffee. I’ve fortunately put those days behind me and have accepted my coffee addiction as a part of my life.

That is funny, and sounds like it’d be pretty expensive. I actually didn’t encounter this fortunately, because I was already costing my parents a fortune because I just couldn’t stay under 300 texts a month.