I’m in Dallas Texas. No state income tax, but property tax is about 2% of home value, so even if it’s paid off your looking at ~$500/mo on a $300k house, which is about the minimum in the city here right now. If you’re over a certain age that’s reduced a bit. If you had decent insulation here on a smaller house and you’re cautious with your AC use, you could probably get away with electricity of $100/mo most of the year and $200 in the summer. I think my water/sewer/trash is about $60 a month and my gas is about $60 a month. Our home and auto insurance is high in Texas. I’m cheap, so we use 5g internet for $30/mo. Gas is $2.70/gal here today. I threw a few things in an online grocery cart and screenshotted so you can see our food prices.

We have shifted from using MR (mentally retarded) to using ID (intellectual disability). Even before that change, we tended to say MR instead of retarded, i guess because of the way it gets thrown around negatively and feels uncomfortable to say. Similarly, people are using autistic negatively to describe someone who’s quirky or introverted, narrowing what’s seen as ‘normal’. If you have to ask if it’s ok to say something, other people will probably have a gut reaction to you if you say it. Whether that matters is up to you.

What type of heating fuel do you guys use? Where i am its usually natural gas from lines or propane in tanks.

We could hang out together. Then i might not be the loud one for once.

I’ve somehow managed to completely miss all of that. I rarely see any right wing content anywhere. I almost never watch videos filmed in portrait rather than landscape. Maybe that has saved me?

What part of the world? I need to have a gas line run outside.

I think it might be kind of nice to be Tom Hanks and have the name [email protected] and just chat and chill.

How can i upvote this more than once?

Free quality healthcare worldwide. If i take two people with me, can i also have a cure for Alzheimer’s/dementia and affordable food that meets minimum daily requirements.

Just make it 1, then the math is even easier.

Good rules!

Bottom right = standing or lying? Tag should be on flat also and must tell the bed size.

I think my butters are opposite colors.

Congrats on being adopted! We’ve done new kitty in a room for a couple of days, then old kitty in the room for a couple of days while new kitty learns the house. Then, when they start pawing under the door at each other we open it. We did not do this with the last kitty and now we have cat fights several nights per week.

There’s a guy named Bill Bass that you might enjoy reading about. He has some books about the ‘body farm’ in Tennessee, where they study body decomposition in different situations.

I don’t work in tech and I’m not a video game player. Am i a normie? I stay on Facebook because of the things you mentioned - i want to know how my old aunt is doing, get the link to my cousin’s music performances, see what play or concert is showing this weekend, and post to my neighborhood when my dogs escape. I only used Twitter to follow local bars, restaurants, and music venues for happy hours and event info. That kinda died with covid so i closed my Twitter account. I don’t really understand influencers. I’d love to see more local content here but I’m not sure we have the people to support it. I guess the way to start is to share the local info i get from Facebook to the Texas and dfw communities here, but that doesn’t draw more people. Among my friends, r/ is sort of made fun of as something their husbands follow for jokes, memes, and boobs.

Well, my husband held his phone up so i said it to him loudly enough for the guys in front of me to hear.

We were at a concert recently and i loudly said, “hold your phone in front of your face so you’re only messing with your own view.” The guy in front of me and his buddy did stop holding it up over their heads for a bit.

I’m sorry. Squeeze is such a fun show! Sometimes shit happens - this was my view at Weezer in 2010.

Throw it overboard…

Thank you!

Thanks!