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ysabetwordsmith silver_chipmunkmashfanficchick's.mashfanficchick had some stuff to do before we left, but eventually we headed out to Manhattan. We took the E train and then the M3 bus.
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glowingfish posting in addmeI made a post in this community at the beginning of 2025, and now, we are getting close to the middle of 2026, so maybe I should post again.
I don't see a specific reason to use the template, as this will be quick...
46, Male, United States, I post once or twice a week on average. I don't have any contentious beliefs or opinions, and my journal is mostly personal notes, with a few thoughts maybe about the world and culture. I am not heavily into any of the "fandoms", but might make a comment or two on related things.
I don't really have any specific "types" I am looking to follow on here, although journals that are too contentious and difficult might not be what I am looking for. Adult content is okay, as long as it is not totally pornographic, and also behind a cut. I am looking to build up a community in general.
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neonvincent_feedIf you've ever done a personality test or read a horoscope and thought, it seemed scary accurate, you may have fallen for something called a Barnum Profile. There's a psychological trick that makes us all vulnerable to personality tests, so let's get into the real science behind personality testing.When I search this blog's back catalog for personality, I found that I discussed personality types using the Big Five or OCEAN — Openness to experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism — or personality disorders. Here's what I wrote about my personality type results in We reveal ourselves on Facebook.
My results showed that I was liberal (duh), well organized, reserved, trusting, and calm. About the only one of those findings that surprised me was the reserved one. I generally test out as mildly extraverted on Myers-Briggs, so being labeled as the equivalent of introverted was inconsistent with that. Then I looked at the list of most reliable liked pages for each trait and discovered why. The pages for reserved included RPGs, Anime, Manga, Role Playing Games, and Video Games. I may not like all the pages with those exact names (although I like the suggestions for those pages), but I do like pages about all those topics, so I can see why my results came out that way. Seriously, what these pages tell me is that I am a geek, but not all geeks are reserved.More than a decade later, I stand by both the personality assessment and my mild criticism of it.
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Apparently us folk here in the USof A are on the hook for 39 trillion barneybucks. There are right around 348 million folks here. That pencils out to around 110,000 barneybucks per man/woman/child here in the good old USA.
Now, what I find odd is the idea that some folks have concerning this little piece of trivia that most ignore is the supposition that it is somehow going to be paid back.
I remember back in the day when my dad sat at the kitchen table, smoking his camel stud with a used envelope in front of him doing the household accounting. You didn’t talk much during those times and retreating to your room just seemed like a good idea. You kept an ear open to gauge the amount of muttering (volume variable) and the degree of profanity (intensity variable) to come to an idea of just how far on your tiptoes you had to be for the next couple of weeks.
I feel the same way in general right now. I remember the old lines from long ago that seem to have been forgotten “when your outgo exceeds your income your upkeep will be your downfall”. We are running up the credit cards now. For some folks, the rationale for this is that it will give us time to get our house in order to stop increasing our debt and begin to pay things off. Now, I do realize that this does occur sometimes. Not a majority of the time, but I am guessing around 30% of time it does work.
But most of the time, these kinds of occurrences are why the bankruptcy laws were made so onerous years ago, a lot of the time this debt becomes a long-term indentured servitude for purchases and pleasures long ago discarded. But you have to remember that the government doesn’t play by your rules.
One of the rules that no one mentions is that there are differing levels of power and leverage. The federal government has control of a majority of these rules. What is going to happen is that the debt is going to disappear. Someone is going to suffer. The choices made will have a direct impact on your life and the decisions that you have available. I sincerely doubt if anyone in a position that decides these things gives a damn about your opinion.
The best that you can do is to weather the storm.
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jo posting in tv_talkandrewduckersilver_chipmunkmashfanficchick invited someone we know from the Starsky and Hutch fandom to spend the night with zer when she was in town tonight from Ireland. So ze asked me to come over and help get things ready.mashfanficchick was in Ohio. We got through two of them, and then our friend called and said she was almost to the subway stop so we turned off the third episode and went down to meet her.mashfanficchick's place. and made the air bed up, and they got ready for bed and I took an Uber home. sunnymodffa posting in fail_fandomanonfail_fandomanon Rules and Information (and Ban Requests): https://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/1076.html. The short version: no embeds, don't out people's real names, don't be that much of an asshole, body fluids are off topic, Mods reserve the right to freeze, screen, and delete the fuck out of stuff. FFA discussion covers a wide variety of topics and has a very flexible view of 'fandom' that includes politics, current events, and cooking techniques. FFA is a Choose NOT to Warn experience. Meme away.ffawiki_backup)| HTML-5 (recommended) | |
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