I would assume it would be something like your physical characteristics, like if you had long hair, or were a very tall person, or very short, or the color of your skin or something, but not as a pejorative, but instead simply as a way of identifying someone based on a known characteristic.
I am almost entirely hairless from my neck down and have a full head of hair and the last time my testosterone was tested it was at 1332 when the scale typically tops out at 1100.
I’m in my mid 30s.
You might have androgen insensitivity syndrome, I do not think that I do, as I have recently started growing facial hair. It’s just been a very long and slow process for me.
I would say that any amount that does not interfere with your daily activities is a normal amount. If you’re skipping opportunities to hang out with friends or to go to events in order to stay home and masturbate, then you’re doing it excessively and you need to address it.
Or if you have an actual sex life and your sex life is suffering because you masturbate so much that you don’t want to have sex, then I could see that being a problem.
But, just like drinking, if everything is going well, and if you’re keeping it under control and you’re not damaging your interpersonal relationships with it, and you’re keeping your wits about you to a certain degree, then you’re perfectly fine to do it as much as feels reasonable to you and your own body’s drives.
I’m all for abolishing ICE.
But we don’t need to get rid of police departments. We need to have them completely and totally fundamentally reformed.
The police can perform a valuable public service.
Prosecuting crimes, catching criminals, helping to maintain traffic laws, things like that are all very good and valuable services that society needs.
But, given that the data suggests that America has never been more peaceful and has never had lower crime than it has had in the last ten years or so, I feel like we should take guns away from police officers, or, at the very least, in addition to body cams, perhaps they should have gunlocks and dispatch or whoever would have to authorize them to draw their pistols before they would be able to draw their pistols.
Maybe not every police officer needs a gun in the first place.
Maybe if only one in four or one in eight police officers had access to murder weapons, the police on civilian murder rate would decline sufficiently enough to restore the idea that police are good and useful public servants.
We don’t need militaries roaming the streets to respond to traffic accidents and petty crimes.
My stepbrother was caught in a house fire as a teenager and he has third degree burn scars over like 60% of his body. Stop, drop and roll probably saved his life.
So it does happen, but it’s always like there’s this person who knows this guy that it happened to and not like it happened to everyone.
Oh, slight correction. Add the original taxes to the numbers I generated because the federal taxes are separate from the city, state, and local taxes.
So in the first example, $85,000 plus $25,000 equals $110,000 a year to own five $1 million properties at $5,000 a year property taxes.
And in the second example, $130,000 plus $30,000 equals $160,000 a year to own the sixth one.
If it were me, I would have just passed a federal tax on property where whatever the local city, state, and county taxes are, there’s also a federal levy of property taxes of the exact same amount multiplied by the number of properties each taxpaying owner owns - 1.
So if you own one home, you pay no additional taxes.
If you and your spouse own two homes, you pay no additional taxes.
But if you own five 1 million dollar properties as a single person and the property taxes on each of those properties is $5,000, then instead of paying a total of $25,000 in property taxes as a single homeowner, you would pay
$5,000 * 4 * 4 + $5,000, or $85,000/yr.
That $60,000 a year difference for being a multiple homeowner would go into a fund specifically to provide grants and assistance for low-income renters and first-time homebuyers.
This would make it so that owning multiple homes becomes a sign of affluence.
And it would put a steep price curve on going over the limit of even moderately reasonable amounts of homes to own as a person.
Adding one additional $1 million home with a $5,000 property tax annual on it would actually add another $45,000/yr to the taxes that you would pay compared to someone who only owns that single home, and doing it this way, make sure that the scale of increasing taxes that you would pay on home ownership would become exponentially prohibitive.
It would also ensure that at a very reasonable point, no matter how much you charged for rent, for any property you own, once you own more than four, it becomes impossible to actually profit off of multiple home ownership, because very quickly, no renter in the universe would pay what you need to earn in order to cover the taxes off of owning that property.
This is part of my pitch to become president in 2032 when I become eligible.
Always wanted to be on an episode of Red Dwarf.
I mean, I was literally forced into existence by a family of racist people. I’ve had so many opportunities taken from me and held back against me because of the color of my skin. I’ve had so many of the people that are supposed to be my family who are supposed to be there to support me work actively against my future happiness rather than not doing that because of the color of my skin.
And now that I’m an adult, I got away from them. I make more money than any other person in my family. I’ve bought my own house as a single adult man. And I have money to burn.
I have proven that I have worth and value to people in the world who do not choose to actively be against me.
There is a part of me that honestly believes that no amount of self-worth that you assign to yourself is worth the same caliber as the worth other people assign to you and other people have assigned to me worth enough to be one of the wealthiest people I know.
I think this is the term.
I mean, there’s obviously subgenres, and it’s not like it’s Dean Martin and the Rat Pack crooning anymore.
But there’s a lot of great crooning bands that are still going strong today.
Especially for the generation of people that rarely moved more than 10 miles away from the city they were born in.
It’s a lot easier to organize a high school reunion when everybody’s living down the street from where they lived in high school.
I moved 5,000 miles away from my hometown and rarely if ever go back, and I have no social media presence, so they couldn’t find me if they wanted to.
I cannot physically escape my high school reunion in this lifetime.
I went to a fairly small school and I was the only one who graduated that year.
So every moment of every day for the rest of my life is my high school reunion.
On the upside though, I was the valedictorian, a fact which has actually helped me get jobs.
Southern style savory cornbread
Black-eyed peas
Turnip Greens
It sounds like a really basic meal, and by most definitions it is, but it is so delicious.
I like oat milk, I’m not lactose intolerant but it last a long time and is fairly cheap, and tastes just as good as milk to me.
And muesli is a superior version of overnight oats, and you should give it a try because it adds fruit and a lot of different nuts.
Toss in some Greek yogurt, maybe some honey or maple syrup for flavor and sweetness, and it is freakin’ delicious.
And if you’re interested, it’ll make you regular as all hell.
If I remember correctly, bomb pops had bubble gum in the center, so you got 2 treats for the price of 1
Bomb pop, 100%.
The floor can because of gravity.
What’s gravity?
It is what causes everything to fall down.
Why does it do that?
Because everything weighs something, and the more something weighs, the more it causes other things to be drawn towards it.
Why does that happen?
It’s the way the universe is made. If it weren’t for that, the world wouldn’t exist.
Why wouldn’t the world exist without gravity?
Because without gravity, nothing would stick together.
What is nothing?
Nothing is what you see when you close your eyes, but you’re not there to look at it.
Side note, i’m honestly looking forward to having kids. I cannot wait to have an inquisitive child asking me questions that I could have never thought of myself.
We could gender swap it and go with, like, a Karen who snaps because her coupon doesn’t get accepted because it’s one day expired.
And she just snaps and starts running people over in her SUV, pulling a gun on her kid’s teacher because the teacher gave her son a D when the Karen believes her kid should have gotten an A.
I know that sounds pretty idiotic, but like, Michael Douglas snapped because he wasn’t able to get a McDonald’s breakfast at 9:31.
I think it depends on your skill level in dual wielding.
One thing that I can say that it is useful for is finding music that you will never find on streaming sites.
I love going to the thrift store and finding an album with interesting artwork or something that looks kooky or weird and then bringing it home and playing it.
Like, did you know that the original Dumbledore, Richard Harris, was also a musician and released a couple of albums? Now, I bought the album, not knowing who he was, realizing that his face looked familiar, looking him up and going, oh shit, this is Dumbledore music!
And after listening to it, it was pretty terrible, which explains why he went into acting, but it was still an event that never would have happened had I only relied on streaming services.