sp3ctr4l

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Hahaha...ha.

Hah.

...

Short answer: South Dakota.

Long answer:

Following a uh, calvacade of compounding catastrophes, several years ago now, I ended up homeless, roughed it for a good long while, got the shit kicked out of me in one way or another on roughly a biweekly basis, got held hostage by a fentanyl addict for a week once, barely escaped that alive, almost froze to death, almost died of heat stroke...

... eventually got SSDI to kick in, after continuously struggling to stop having all my ids and paperwork stolen from me...

...and I correctly deduced that Trump would win, and the big west coast city I used to live in would soon be cracking down hard on the homeless, as well as Oops! no more funding for homeless shelters that are already at max capacity...

So, when the SSDI kicked in, I got on a bus and headed as far as my those bus wheels and my broken body could carry me, which ended up being South Dakota.

Pretty fucking low CoL, and I am still just full time doing PT to recover from all my injuries, so... not like I'm missing much by not living somewhere else.

Immensely ironically, this shit ass roach motel, that was literally a roach motel and now just... does 6 month, year, month to month leases?

Only place I have ever lived in my entire life that just came with an AC unit.

My 'long term' plan is somewhere in Minnesota... by every study and composite map I can see, its basically the best combo of a decently blue state, with decent CoL, and lots of fresh water, and a pretty low expected increase in climate disasters.

In summary: God Bless America.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Huh, that seems like a fairly rare occurence that you'd have to get it at age 16, but I do know that absolutely does happen.

... and/or me being from the US and your registered instance being... a Denmark instance?

Ya'll probably have actual healthcare over there, lol, and maybe such procedures are somewhat more common?

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Gusts can be absurd, but avg windspeed at the summit is 50 mph / 80 kph.

I've sparked up in that level of wind before, multiple times, with an old school zippo, a good decade or so of being a chronic smoker'll teach you how to do that.

Granted... your footing is probably just a teensy bit more of a thing you're gonna have to be aware of, hahaha!

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, Sherpa is doing a flex, pretty decent chsnce the other climbers would actually asphyxiate themselves if they tried.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 3 weeks ago

Ok, I think this is actually the funniest webcomic I've seen in a decade.

Thats a fucking good joke, damn.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I am in roughly the same boat.

$600 for rent + utils, cheapest, roach tier studio I could find, but I somehow lucked out and got a management team that, though they're not exactly flush with cash, they do genuinely give a damn about the stuff they can actually afford to handle, throw out the dipshit trouble maker types pretty quick.

So, slightly higher rent, but I manage to get my food costs down to roughly $250 a month, so its about the same total monthly spend.

But, yeah, holy fuck, if the min wage had kept up with housing costs, so an FT min wagie could afford a studio, 1/3 rent to income rule?

It'd be between $30 and $35 an hour.

That's how fucked this all is, the US median wage is roughly what the minimum wage should be, if you want a ... basically functioning society where 2/3rds (thats about the paycheck to paycheck % now) of people are not one disaster away from becoming homeless.

So, of course, instead, its now literally illegal to be homeless, and Trump wants to build concentration camps.

People are either gonna let this happen, or they're gonna ... perform an executive override on the situation.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 weeks ago

Haha not me!

I'm old-money poor, grew up broke.

This is just a reversion to the mean.

All these fools thought they weren't poor this whole time, blew out the backs of their credit card balances with endless hot loads of usless garbage purchases... tch tch tch, not how you do it, doesn't end well.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

lol, what is this 'Xbox Exclusive Game' you speak of, in 2025?

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Some of us Millenials do unironically appreciate the greats of Boomer era music, hehe.

I threw 'Whole Lotta Rosie' into another comment about ... I think one of the inciting comments included the phrase 'massive milkers' at some point, hahaha.

I honestly wonder what would happen if you played a Gen Z or A 'the Lemon Song' for the first time rofl.

But yeah I hadn't realized ZZ had remastered Legs in 08 apparently, it does sound more detailed than what I remember from a cd version in the 90s.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

Because I'm still young enough that somebody I'd be likely to date probably would have about that much time before such back problems would crop up... well, assuming they try to do at least a bit of physical activity every other day or so.

I guess if that last part was not the case, then the back problems due to uber booba would occur roughly presently, so, semi-touche on that.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 weeks ago

I mean, it would, so long as the forks are the spokes of the wheel.

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