My significant other is at work. How am I suppose to find other people that play instruments? I'd have to do it online. Books, I use a Kindle; there are no bookstores near me anymore, they all closed down. So the only way I can get books is by looking at a screen - even when I get physical books, I get them from Amazon. I do go to the library sometimes, but that's mostly to take my kids to the kids' activities there, which I have to find out about by, again, staring at a screen.
Except we were talking about going outside, and youtube is kind of the opposite of getting off the computer and going outside (not that it's a bad thing, I've learned quite bit from youtube and think it is a great way to learn! Just that there isn't much fun for adults OUTSIDE.).
My city does offer things, but they aren't free and those were included in the activities I talked about; I just end up talking about them and keeping up with them online. I do want to join the YMCA, but it's pricey (I have to wait for my tax return), and none of the activities they have are outside anyway (In fact the appeal for me is that they have an indoor pool, so I can swim for more than 2 months a year, but that's a fitness thing, not a fun thing).
With riding a bike I'd either have to also buy bikes for each of my kids, or hire a babysitter (by the time my husband comes home from work at this time of year, it is dark and freezing). It ends up being quite expensive, and I personally don't find it all that fun anymore (did when I was a kid, but I think that was more the freedom of being away from my prents and being able to go anywhere I want more quickly than walking - as an adult I have freedom and can go places even faster in a car, so...).
To hike I'd need hiking shoes, and end up looking online to see if the weather is right, which hiking places are open, etc. and often pay a fee to get in the area. There aren't many places left around here to just hike for free, that are accessible when the weather gets a little hard (for example there is a nature preserve near here, but due to the fact that they built all the streets and buildings surrounding it higher than the preserve, whenever it rains all the water flows to the nature preserve, and it floods. Go down a street near it after a hard rain and you can see deer literally swimming.)
Running is not fun for adults. Well maybe that is just me. It feels good to get exercise but it is not fun like a video game is fun.
With the price of one or two new games, you're assuming that I'm buying $50 - $60 games, right? Indie games are much cheaper; I can get 10 - 20 indie games for $100, and I don't have to hire a babysitter nor buy one for each of my kids. Even with the games that are normally $50 - $60 I have mostly been waiting for them to go on sale on Steam for the past few years.
I have 4 kids and it isn't that hard to wash cloth bags. They don't take up much space in the machine; really they can usually fit in with what is considered a full load.
A lot of other things that need to be washed have the same or similar bacteria on them too; cloths used in the kitchen and bathroom, anything that a child threw up on or a baby had a diaper blow out on, your kids pants after they wipe their ass and pull the pants up, etc. 1/2 a cup of vinegar in the wash will kill the bacteria. Throw in some baking soda as well and you won't even have to use laundry detergent, resulting in cheaper loads of laundry and less toxic, less bacteria-covered clothes and towels for your kids.
You know what, you've convinced me; instead of clothes, my family will now wear plastic bags. No more enslaving myself and destroying the environment by washing clothes!
Yeah I put mine in the washing machine too, but I looked at a few care tags before that post and noticed some do say handwash only. Though on second thought, that might just be to prevent the pictures/logos from wearing off.
On this world, I have quite a few clothes that must be handwashed. I wash the more fragile bags too when I do.
Well maybe your stores use higher quality plastic bags than mine do, but around here all the plastic bags have become incredibly think in the past few years, and tear, leak, etc.
I used cloth diapers. Even with disposable diapers you aren't suppose to put the poop in the trash - it's a public health risk, and just gross imo (would YOU poop in the trash? Would you have your 7 year old poop in the trash?). Anyway, as I said the plastic bags are now too thin to reuse much anymore... I certainly wouldn't want a soiled diaper falling out because the bag tore.
That's something interesting that I never thought about... When I lived in Kentucky, most of the hardcore gamers I knew were also drug addicts. Elsewhere, most hardcore gamers I know are legally addicted (on an addictive prescription that they can't do without; usually some anti-depression medication) to something or other.
I'd already noticed and thought about the tendency for hardcore gamers to have the addict personality/gene (and I know for sure that I myself have it) but never thought about/noticed the tendency for this to manifest itself in illegal drugs in Kentucky especially...
KIDS went outside and had fun before video games, TV and movies, but adults just went out and worked all day. My kids do go outside and have fun, but there isn't much fun for adults outside.
Every few months I decide I'm tired of staring at screens all day, and that I want to find something fun to do that doesn't involve that. So I search and search (offline at first, but then I realize I can't find anything that way and look online), and eventually find an activity that costs a bunch of money; for equipment, for clothes & shoes appropriate for the activity, or to get into an area to do the activity. I put down the money and then after awhile find that everyone is going online to talk about the activity, and/or I have to go online to keep up with the activity (when places are open or available, when the weather will be appropriate, when other people will be doing the activity) . And it eventually becomes just staring at the screen at things related to the activity much more than I can actually do the activity (either due to cost, or weather, or scheduling conflicts, etc.) .
Can you find me an activity in the real world that isn't like that, which is actually fun for adults? Just running around and pretending to shoot each other with sticks, climbing trees, etc. is not fun for adults.
Dishwasher?! They're cloth; you either put them in a washing machine, or handwash them as you would any fragile cloth (which method is appropriate for each particular bag is listed on the tag). Are there seriously people that don't know this?
The paper bags are reusable at home though; plastic bags are really good for little else than trash bags, and the store bags have become so thin that they tear by the time I get my groceries put away. Paper bags, on the other hand, can be reused for countless things; I make them into books, cards, writing paper, etc. etc. Also you can throw paper bags into a home compost pile.
Wait, what's useless about the bag carousels? All of the reusable bags Walmart sells fit on there as well, and they make bagging way more quick and efficient.
I'm not implying anything, what I mean is exactly what I said. I did not call them rich, I said "see HOW rich they really are." I am not skeptical there are people that call themselves poor - why would I say it if I did not think it to be true? - I am skeptical that there are people that are actually poor, when compared to what the rest of the world considers poor. I never said nor implied that it was good or bad, better or worse.
I don't think it is reasonable to imply other things instead of just listening to/reading what I said. But I do know it is the way most people think. I guess it's because most people always talk in code, never just saying what they actually mean?
Except that's not what I said. I'm saying "the bar for Y is here in the rest of the world, but in the US it is X, so X and Y aren't really the same thing."
I've found that druggies are generally a loyal bunch, unless/until you stand between them and their drugs.
You don't give them an opportunity to snort the money up their noses, because you've taken them to an area where people don't know them, and therefore they either don't know who to buy drugs from, or the seller is too paranoid to sell to them. But you're waiting close by in that borrowed van, to give them their drugs and a ride back to an area they're familiar with. Then they are unlikely to be picked up, because you've used people that are off the radar for the most part (so the cops know their name, don't really know where they are once they leave the bank). And if they ARE caught? Well, you never told them YOUR name nor any traceable information. They may be able to describe you, but unless you're unique looking enough for it to be an issue (Personally, if I remove my piercings and cover my tattoos, all they've got to describe me is "asian woman in a van, black hair, brown eyes"), and/or unless you show your own face doing something similar, odds you will get caught are pretty low.
Really your greatest risk is that you put too many of the druggies in the van at once, one of them decides to beat you up, others join in and they overpower you, and take all the drugs and money.
3. The attacker trades/buys passwords from several hacked sites of the same genre, or several sites of the same genre have had their passwords compromised and posted on thepiratebay, given out willy-nilly through irc, etc., and you use the same screen name on those sites.
Though okay, I don't know how typical this is with other sites, but it's typical with video game related sites and services.
This could be simple if you just get a few druggies to help you out.
Have the checks put in the name of 5 - 10 druggies, using their real names. Make it seem like you have a bunch of freelancers renovating a house or something. Mail it to a neighborhood where the neighbors don't give a fuck.
Have the druggies cash the checks, at places away from their homes/areas they hang out in (i.e. where the bank tellers don't know them). They won't care if their ID and picture is seen in the bank, because they're getting drugs out of the deal.
Cost = a couple hundred dollars on drugs and maybe using a van, profit = $8000+?
Something similar actually happened to my parents - just with 1 person and less money - with the only thing stopping the person from cashing the check being that the bank teller knew my parents. The crook was dumb enough to go to their local bank (though he was smart enough to not use his own name - he used the name & ID of his cousin who looked similar enough for him to pass), and had made things out like my parents were paying him for roof repairs, but the teller knew my parents get their roof repairs done my my cousin, and that they had just gotten it totally replaced a couple of years before that and would not need such a pricey repair that soon. If not for that coincidence (if he had, for example, gotten a different teller) it could have worked out; my parents' neighbors don't give a fuck about strangers poking around. My parents don't use email and etc. (so no notifications that a check was cashed, no online balance etc.); if the teller hadn't known them and therefore refused to cash the checks, he could have been long gone before my parents noticed their account was empty.
It's parents of minors or anyone with a DEPENDENT minor. And it's 60 months per person, not per family. So what a lot of people do is just have another kid every 60 months. By the time the mom is too old to have kids, she's got grandkids she claims, and/or she has a disabled kid or two due to advanced maternal age. What a lot of single males do is pretend to be disabled.
They are not given low quality food. WIC gives healthy food, most of which can just be eaten raw, and foodstamps allows them to purchase whatever they want; it's just that many of them CHOOSE to buy unhealthy food. But a family of my size would be handed more than twice the amount we pay for food if they didn't work at all (though yes, the amount someone gets in foodstamps goes down the more they earn, encouraging people to avoid working and proving what I said; when people don't have things the US hands it to them).
Medicaid gives dental coverage in my state, but maybe that part varies by state. (I never paid much attention to dental care.)
Oh I'm not saying the people wanting to live this life are sane (So okay, MAYBE they are actually mentally disabled), but there ARE may people wanting to live this life.
I can't imagine anyone that has actually seen poor in a non-first-world country would consider the life you're describing to be poor. The fact that you are too disabled to hold a job yet are still alive, didn't starve to death or weren't drowned by your mother so she wouldn't have to watch you starve to death, just proves my point.
If you're wondering, I'm not just some upper class person that has never seen American poorness talking out of my ass, I grew up in a city full of "poor" people (everyone on foodstamps & etc., lowest employment rate in the state yet highest living expenses); and I was homeless for a few years and during that time traveled all over the US and to parts of Asia, seeing the different homeless and "poor" cultures of different areas.
Using a sentence that is important to you and modfy it per service.
E.g. "may the face be with you" for Facebook or "may the search be with you" for Google.
But then someone only has to get maybe 2 passwords to figure out your system. Then they have access to EVERYTHING.
He'll likely yell at you for interrupting his sleep. And then you'll continue on your way to work, where chunks of your hard earned money will be taken from you and given to the guy that gets to sleep until noon (by way of the foodstamp card in his pocket, that you never see him lending to the guy in the apartment down the street in exchange for drugs and cigarettes).
I've actually lived all around the US on less than that a year. Yes, it was cold (at times) and homeless, but there was always an abundance of free food, clothes, etc. to be had.
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My significant other is at work. How am I suppose to find other people that play instruments? I'd have to do it online. Books, I use a Kindle; there are no bookstores near me anymore, they all closed down. So the only way I can get books is by looking at a screen - even when I get physical books, I get them from Amazon. I do go to the library sometimes, but that's mostly to take my kids to the kids' activities there, which I have to find out about by, again, staring at a screen.
Except we were talking about going outside, and youtube is kind of the opposite of getting off the computer and going outside (not that it's a bad thing, I've learned quite bit from youtube and think it is a great way to learn! Just that there isn't much fun for adults OUTSIDE.).
My city does offer things, but they aren't free and those were included in the activities I talked about; I just end up talking about them and keeping up with them online. I do want to join the YMCA, but it's pricey (I have to wait for my tax return), and none of the activities they have are outside anyway (In fact the appeal for me is that they have an indoor pool, so I can swim for more than 2 months a year, but that's a fitness thing, not a fun thing).
With riding a bike I'd either have to also buy bikes for each of my kids, or hire a babysitter (by the time my husband comes home from work at this time of year, it is dark and freezing). It ends up being quite expensive, and I personally don't find it all that fun anymore (did when I was a kid, but I think that was more the freedom of being away from my prents and being able to go anywhere I want more quickly than walking - as an adult I have freedom and can go places even faster in a car, so...).
To hike I'd need hiking shoes, and end up looking online to see if the weather is right, which hiking places are open, etc. and often pay a fee to get in the area. There aren't many places left around here to just hike for free, that are accessible when the weather gets a little hard (for example there is a nature preserve near here, but due to the fact that they built all the streets and buildings surrounding it higher than the preserve, whenever it rains all the water flows to the nature preserve, and it floods. Go down a street near it after a hard rain and you can see deer literally swimming.)
Running is not fun for adults. Well maybe that is just me. It feels good to get exercise but it is not fun like a video game is fun.
With the price of one or two new games, you're assuming that I'm buying $50 - $60 games, right? Indie games are much cheaper; I can get 10 - 20 indie games for $100, and I don't have to hire a babysitter nor buy one for each of my kids. Even with the games that are normally $50 - $60 I have mostly been waiting for them to go on sale on Steam for the past few years.
I have 4 kids and it isn't that hard to wash cloth bags. They don't take up much space in the machine; really they can usually fit in with what is considered a full load.
A lot of other things that need to be washed have the same or similar bacteria on them too; cloths used in the kitchen and bathroom, anything that a child threw up on or a baby had a diaper blow out on, your kids pants after they wipe their ass and pull the pants up, etc. 1/2 a cup of vinegar in the wash will kill the bacteria. Throw in some baking soda as well and you won't even have to use laundry detergent, resulting in cheaper loads of laundry and less toxic, less bacteria-covered clothes and towels for your kids.
You know what, you've convinced me; instead of clothes, my family will now wear plastic bags. No more enslaving myself and destroying the environment by washing clothes!
Yeah I put mine in the washing machine too, but I looked at a few care tags before that post and noticed some do say handwash only. Though on second thought, that might just be to prevent the pictures/logos from wearing off.
On this world, I have quite a few clothes that must be handwashed. I wash the more fragile bags too when I do.
Well maybe your stores use higher quality plastic bags than mine do, but around here all the plastic bags have become incredibly think in the past few years, and tear, leak, etc.
I used cloth diapers. Even with disposable diapers you aren't suppose to put the poop in the trash - it's a public health risk, and just gross imo (would YOU poop in the trash? Would you have your 7 year old poop in the trash?). Anyway, as I said the plastic bags are now too thin to reuse much anymore... I certainly wouldn't want a soiled diaper falling out because the bag tore.
That's something interesting that I never thought about... When I lived in Kentucky, most of the hardcore gamers I knew were also drug addicts. Elsewhere, most hardcore gamers I know are legally addicted (on an addictive prescription that they can't do without; usually some anti-depression medication) to something or other.
I'd already noticed and thought about the tendency for hardcore gamers to have the addict personality/gene (and I know for sure that I myself have it) but never thought about/noticed the tendency for this to manifest itself in illegal drugs in Kentucky especially...
KIDS went outside and had fun before video games, TV and movies, but adults just went out and worked all day. My kids do go outside and have fun, but there isn't much fun for adults outside.
Every few months I decide I'm tired of staring at screens all day, and that I want to find something fun to do that doesn't involve that. So I search and search (offline at first, but then I realize I can't find anything that way and look online), and eventually find an activity that costs a bunch of money; for equipment, for clothes & shoes appropriate for the activity, or to get into an area to do the activity. I put down the money and then after awhile find that everyone is going online to talk about the activity, and/or I have to go online to keep up with the activity (when places are open or available, when the weather will be appropriate, when other people will be doing the activity) . And it eventually becomes just staring at the screen at things related to the activity much more than I can actually do the activity (either due to cost, or weather, or scheduling conflicts, etc.) .
Can you find me an activity in the real world that isn't like that, which is actually fun for adults? Just running around and pretending to shoot each other with sticks, climbing trees, etc. is not fun for adults.
Dishwasher?! They're cloth; you either put them in a washing machine, or handwash them as you would any fragile cloth (which method is appropriate for each particular bag is listed on the tag). Are there seriously people that don't know this?
The paper bags are reusable at home though; plastic bags are really good for little else than trash bags, and the store bags have become so thin that they tear by the time I get my groceries put away. Paper bags, on the other hand, can be reused for countless things; I make them into books, cards, writing paper, etc. etc. Also you can throw paper bags into a home compost pile.
Wait, what's useless about the bag carousels? All of the reusable bags Walmart sells fit on there as well, and they make bagging way more quick and efficient.
I'm not implying anything, what I mean is exactly what I said. I did not call them rich, I said "see HOW rich they really are." I am not skeptical there are people that call themselves poor - why would I say it if I did not think it to be true? - I am skeptical that there are people that are actually poor, when compared to what the rest of the world considers poor. I never said nor implied that it was good or bad, better or worse.
I don't think it is reasonable to imply other things instead of just listening to/reading what I said. But I do know it is the way most people think. I guess it's because most people always talk in code, never just saying what they actually mean?
Except that's not what I said. I'm saying "the bar for Y is here in the rest of the world, but in the US it is X, so X and Y aren't really the same thing."
I've found that druggies are generally a loyal bunch, unless/until you stand between them and their drugs.
You don't give them an opportunity to snort the money up their noses, because you've taken them to an area where people don't know them, and therefore they either don't know who to buy drugs from, or the seller is too paranoid to sell to them. But you're waiting close by in that borrowed van, to give them their drugs and a ride back to an area they're familiar with. Then they are unlikely to be picked up, because you've used people that are off the radar for the most part (so the cops know their name, don't really know where they are once they leave the bank). And if they ARE caught? Well, you never told them YOUR name nor any traceable information. They may be able to describe you, but unless you're unique looking enough for it to be an issue (Personally, if I remove my piercings and cover my tattoos, all they've got to describe me is "asian woman in a van, black hair, brown eyes"), and/or unless you show your own face doing something similar, odds you will get caught are pretty low.
Really your greatest risk is that you put too many of the druggies in the van at once, one of them decides to beat you up, others join in and they overpower you, and take all the drugs and money.
Except there's another typical case
3. The attacker trades/buys passwords from several hacked sites of the same genre, or several sites of the same genre have had their passwords compromised and posted on thepiratebay, given out willy-nilly through irc, etc., and you use the same screen name on those sites.
Though okay, I don't know how typical this is with other sites, but it's typical with video game related sites and services.
This could be simple if you just get a few druggies to help you out.
Have the checks put in the name of 5 - 10 druggies, using their real names. Make it seem like you have a bunch of freelancers renovating a house or something. Mail it to a neighborhood where the neighbors don't give a fuck.
Have the druggies cash the checks, at places away from their homes/areas they hang out in (i.e. where the bank tellers don't know them). They won't care if their ID and picture is seen in the bank, because they're getting drugs out of the deal.
Cost = a couple hundred dollars on drugs and maybe using a van, profit = $8000+?
Something similar actually happened to my parents - just with 1 person and less money - with the only thing stopping the person from cashing the check being that the bank teller knew my parents. The crook was dumb enough to go to their local bank (though he was smart enough to not use his own name - he used the name & ID of his cousin who looked similar enough for him to pass), and had made things out like my parents were paying him for roof repairs, but the teller knew my parents get their roof repairs done my my cousin, and that they had just gotten it totally replaced a couple of years before that and would not need such a pricey repair that soon. If not for that coincidence (if he had, for example, gotten a different teller) it could have worked out; my parents' neighbors don't give a fuck about strangers poking around. My parents don't use email and etc. (so no notifications that a check was cashed, no online balance etc.); if the teller hadn't known them and therefore refused to cash the checks, he could have been long gone before my parents noticed their account was empty.
It's parents of minors or anyone with a DEPENDENT minor. And it's 60 months per person, not per family. So what a lot of people do is just have another kid every 60 months. By the time the mom is too old to have kids, she's got grandkids she claims, and/or she has a disabled kid or two due to advanced maternal age. What a lot of single males do is pretend to be disabled.
They are not given low quality food. WIC gives healthy food, most of which can just be eaten raw, and foodstamps allows them to purchase whatever they want; it's just that many of them CHOOSE to buy unhealthy food. But a family of my size would be handed more than twice the amount we pay for food if they didn't work at all (though yes, the amount someone gets in foodstamps goes down the more they earn, encouraging people to avoid working and proving what I said; when people don't have things the US hands it to them).
Medicaid gives dental coverage in my state, but maybe that part varies by state. (I never paid much attention to dental care.)
Oh I'm not saying the people wanting to live this life are sane (So okay, MAYBE they are actually mentally disabled), but there ARE may people wanting to live this life.
I can't imagine anyone that has actually seen poor in a non-first-world country would consider the life you're describing to be poor. The fact that you are too disabled to hold a job yet are still alive, didn't starve to death or weren't drowned by your mother so she wouldn't have to watch you starve to death, just proves my point.
If you're wondering, I'm not just some upper class person that has never seen American poorness talking out of my ass, I grew up in a city full of "poor" people (everyone on foodstamps & etc., lowest employment rate in the state yet highest living expenses); and I was homeless for a few years and during that time traveled all over the US and to parts of Asia, seeing the different homeless and "poor" cultures of different areas.
If someone looking to steal from her has access to her top drawer, she's already screwed.
Using a sentence that is important to you and modfy it per service. E.g. "may the face be with you" for Facebook or "may the search be with you" for Google.
But then someone only has to get maybe 2 passwords to figure out your system. Then they have access to EVERYTHING.
Or you could just use online bill pay to transfer money to a prepaid credit card.
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He'll likely yell at you for interrupting his sleep. And then you'll continue on your way to work, where chunks of your hard earned money will be taken from you and given to the guy that gets to sleep until noon (by way of the foodstamp card in his pocket, that you never see him lending to the guy in the apartment down the street in exchange for drugs and cigarettes).
I've actually lived all around the US on less than that a year. Yes, it was cold (at times) and homeless, but there was always an abundance of free food, clothes, etc. to be had.