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Any foods you prefer or can't stand depending on whether they are raw, fresh, pickled, cooked etc?
  • Main one is cucumbers, after my generous neighbors in my childhood gave us 2 large paper grocery bags of cucumbers and my mother used them in everything for the next month I was done for life, can’t stand them raw, but I will eat pickles all day.

    The other would be raw tomatoes, the seed slime is not good for my autistic mouth

  • And then the fire nation attacked
  • My provider that tested both of my kids stopped taking insurance for tests, so they wanted me to pay 13000 dollars for spectrum testing, I found a different provider and I still have to get lined up with a test but they’ve already started my adhd symptoms right away. It has been so nice after 34ish years of just coping

  • What's the point in getting married?
  • Kind of a niche answer, honestly me and my wife of 20+ years might still be “living in sin” if it wasn’t for her decision to join the military, in order for me to move with her to her home base, we had to be married. It allowed me to visit Alaska which was a great adventure, though I am glad that she is out and we are living normal lives since.

  • Endeavor Goes Private in $25B Deal: Implications for WWE and TKO
  • There's a reason they get called vulture capitalists, I've been in a company that went private in this way, promises of no day to day changes, then waves of layoffs and selling off of "underperforming" components of the business. Now the original business name no longer exists, they rebranded as one of the brands they saw the most value coming in from to try to give the company a face-lift. And Everytime I've been in a buyout either from a equity firm or a public company they always promise no day to day changes, they're buying us because they like the business, and then either months to a year later, the changes descend. Really not a fan of the corporate flippers that are private equity

  • Are you better off than your parents at your age?
  • I am thanks to a combination of my learning how credit should actually be used and careful budgeting as well as an excellent choice to get into information technology. I can actually support my adult son as well as take care of his brother and my disabled wife and living what would’ve largely been considered middle class by their standard. At this point they were getting mortgage calls for juggling payments and spending wrecklessly while living in a double wide mobile home in the rural appalachias.

  • [Light Roast] It's not that exciting
  • According to my high schooler this would be inaccurate, as in his school people would be on their phones, creating tiktoks, screaming across the room at each other and barely getting anything done. This does resemble my high school experience like 20 years ago lol

  • What’s the dumbest thing you ever got in trouble at school for?
  • Similar happened to me as well, got sucker punched by my bully at the lockers in jr high, they tried to give me out of school suspension, which lasted for a day, my mom got me back in chewing out the principal

  • "Meritocracy"
  • I resonate quite a bit with this, I just had to take a demotion because of a long term medical condition renders me unable to return to office 3 days a week. I was doing a great job as a Solutions Architect, but since they feel that the role is only good in person and not over technology I had to step down to a senior developer role. Hopefully I overcome this condition but it is lifelong but can be managed, but this feels like the first gate I've been hit with since starting to ascend as an IT Professional. RTO is dumb, especially with potential pandemics on the horizon. My wife is complete and total disabled and barely makes it out of our room, so I'm on the hook to bring home the money to keep everything running. It is frightening times in this shit show.

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