One even mocked me for thinking any man would look for anything other than quick sex on tinder.

It’s a hookup app tho…

Well you should know, there’s a lot of bullshit on reddit and you shouldn’t believe everything you read there or anywhere else on the internet.

I can’t afford candy. A candy bar at the Walmart is $1.25. I have to make my own confections. They fuckin suck.

Try this: prepare 2 boxes of great value brownie mix in massive 9x13 roasting pans. Put 1 bottle of great value off branded vanilla flavored corn syrup and 5 cups of sugar to a pan and heat it to 320F. Add 2 sticks of great value butter and 1 pint of great value whipping cream. Stir until smooth. Dump in 1 jar of great value honey roasted peanuts and stir then dump it all onto the brownies, half and half. Wait a couple of minutes for it to skin over the top and dump on 2 bags of great value milk chocolate chips, one on each pan,then cover both pans for a while until the chocolate melts and very lightly run a spatula across the top to smooth it out without messing up the caramel layer. Put in the refrigerator until the chocolate sets up hard. Cut each pan into 16 bars.

It will remind you of a time a long time ago back when you could afford candy.

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Holy shit

I work with many writers who have ADHD. Editing is central to the writing process.

Depending on where they are and how much they want to pay, they can get it.

(Also US banks are about 15 years behind the rest of the world. I was in Korea 20 years ago and the farm stands in the countryside took electronic payments and I could spend dollars.)

You just have to do it. People talk about writer’s block and it’s a real thing. Sometimes you have to force yourself to produce. Will it be good? Maybe, maybe not. But your objective isn’t to write good, that’s what editing is for. No matter how good you think it is, your writing isn’t good until you edit it. And nobody talks about editor’s block.

Gotta drink something

Nah

You should have said that. If I can’t access banks, it’s a way different picture.

Compounding that is the notion of privilege, which exists. I’m a cisgendered white male with a university degree and I speak English natively, I don’t have a persistent mental illness or a chronic disease, and I don’t have a physical handicap. The deck is stacked in my favor no matter where I am in the world. Taking away enforced regulations on housing, employment, and banking makes things easier for me, not harder. It’s way, way, way different if you belong to a group with less social power.

The phrase has been corrupted from its cold war origins to mean (putting it politely) the “developing world”. Whereas I’ve moved countries seven times, I’ve seen a lot of places, and I can say from experience that outside of specific prejudicial circumstances (being a woman in Iran, Uyghur Muslim in China, being anyone in North Korea, for example) there are paths to success everywhere.

It’s cute that you assume I wouldn’t. OP never said anything about that.

Denmark was supposed to have revoked her citizenship due to an administrative error surrounding whether her father was a citizen when she was born and that decision was reversed. She wasn’t the only one, and it had nothing to do with her comments on Facebook. The notion that she had lost her citizenship due to Facebook posts came from a reddit thread. That part was never true.

Spend my dollars on an apartment and a house cleaner, start networking with other folks, get a job. It’s not hard.

piss in boots

Good film imo, but terrible sequels.

The constant bombastic music is absolutely terrible. Jingle jingle jingle jazzy jazzy BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS DING DANG DONG And remember, if you complain, it means you don’t want any presents this year!!

Also it’s MERRY CHRISTMAS not HAPPY HOLIDAYS even though there’s advent, christmastide, St John’s Day, St. Nicholas Day, all those funny South American holidays, all Christian holidays celebrated at this time that are not Christmas. But JESUS is the reason for the season.

Buh-bye.

Promise this time?

You still think being a professional writer is a flex. It really isn’t. You’re probably lying about your experience. There’s a lot of us out here. Lemmy isn’t a secret club for CS majors.

Making a living as a professional writer isn’t as impressive as you’re trying to make it sound, but good for you if it makes you feel accomplished.