I grew up there. Honestly, you're not wrong. Napoleon Dynamite is honestly only a mild exaggeration.
I'm just starting to become aware of a lot of the abuse in my past too. Things that I used to think were normal that are not ok.
Ah yes projecting. Imagine this, but swap "transing" for Christianity and infant baptism and declaring "hey, look at our new Christian boy! We've modified his genitals to our liking". Conservatives wouldn't even bat an eye.
Cities: We expect them to get help! Just not from us. We can't lower property values like that.
TIL: Guinness Book of World Records origin story is the same as a D&D campaign: started in a tavern.
Well there's you're problem! You're disabled, so therefore unprofitable. It's criminal that you have the ability to live while someone who could make profit for our corporate overlords might not. Shame on you for being a leech on society! (In case it wasn't obvious, /S)
It's because for the longest time, eggs were the cheapest and fastest way to get protein into your body. Especially compared to the cost of meat. But now, because of inflation, everyone is trying to be more frugal which just jacks the price of those goods and makes us all suffer more.
Meanwhile, giving myself root access to my own computer is a bitch. I need to just switch to Linux
:3
Context: this happened, Israel is wack
The sad thing is that I DO want to work. I WANT to go study and become a biologist and hopefully teach it someday. But, because of this fucked up system, have to do what can afford to pay rent instead of what I have been dreaming of since I was a kid.
"Uhh... Something something about an inordinate fondness for beetles."