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I am very dubious about the websites that supposedly report individual's wealth, since they seem to just pull these numbers out of the air. It could well be that he wasn't that well off. Look at his career, it was mostly bit parts and small films. I doubt residuals from Dawson's Creek were that significant. That said, I wouldn't personally give. Like you, I figure they've got other options. The charities I give to like Doctors without Borders are for people who don't.

If I wanted to hire a truck driver, a bar isn't my first choice of places to look.

My browser will translate languages if I ask it to. Sounds horrific. I, however, don't trust the Senegalese since they are very active in hunting gay men and then announcing lurid stories about their activities. Search for senegal and gay in news and you'll see plenty of articles on the arrests.

Well, if you deal drugs in the gay community, I'd think you'd want to know you might get arrested before boarding your gay cruise. And even if you're just carrying for your own use, wouldn't you want to know that it might get you arrested? Seems the story is a useful warning to me. I doubt the police just showed up on their own. I imagine somebody tipped them off. Could have well been the cruise line or the like who noted drug problems on prior cruises. As one of the articles noted, they've had multiple deaths during these events (though they state they weren't drug related). Nobody wants that kind of publicity. That said, the naming and shaming is bullshit.

This is called "Thread Necromancy" in other forums. A poster finds a very old post or thread and posts to it. This 'resurrects' the thread from the dead (where it should have remained) It is generally considered poor form. Better to start a brand new thread asking about the topic. Though in fairness, when perusing forums someone may not notice how old the thread actually is. Forums like this one that have been around for a very long time can have some very old threads lying around.

Pretty sure they aren't going to risk getting fired and expelled from the country to have sex with you unless you are offering an awful lot. If you can afford to go, you can afford to bring your pleasure with you. With all the cool places to visit in the world, the Maldives is pretty far down my list. Plenty of places with nice beaches and snorkeling that have a lot of other things going on too.

Bezos has become a trump suck ass. I canceled my subscription to the Washington Post over the shit he pulled on it sucking up to Trump.

I used to think differently and enjoy social media, but its steady creep and increasingly toxic nature changed my mind. I was on the internet back when it was the arpanet. I loved it. When the internet started to take off, I imagined a bright, bright future. I was wrong.

I don't do Facebook anymore, and won't do instragram. I miss out on some stuff, but I think it worth it to not have my life online sold to whoever will pay Meta for the data.

Brave is a browser that focuses on privacy. Duckduckgo is the same. I prefer brave, but either is far better than the others that help marketing companies track your use across the internet (If you care about being spied on. With this government, it just seems prudent to me.)

I don't object to most drugs in theory, but I wouldn't buy any anymore. I do pot only from licensed dispensaries. There are too many that have been adulterated with Fentanyl with potentially fatal consequences.

Use the brave browser. Use a VPN. Don't accept cookies. Use Ad Blocker Advanced: Get a subscription to Incogni which removes you from internet marketing data bases. I do not wish to be spied on either, and these things, while not perfect, do a very good job of fighting back.

10 inches?!?! I'm not cutting off that much for anybody.

Well, I believe him, because it would be just like him to be desperate for money, never pay his rent, and still be too fucking proud and macho to take a free $100K. It apparently persuaded gofundme, because the request is locked while they investigate. I don't really care, though. He isn't worth wasting much thought on.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/mickey-rourke-launches-gofundme-avoid-144740082.html Rourke says he has no involvement in this whatsoever and condemns it though it was apparently set up by this agent's assistant, supposedly without his knowledge. His financial troubles are apparently real though, and clearly of his own making.

On another note, TomCal hasn't posted in a long time. Does anybody know what happened to him? Always enjoyed his brazil reports.

He needs to sober up and straighten his mind out. Some serious jail time seems a good place for that to happen.

They may be hardworking, but they aren't at all decent.

I didn't die. That's enough of a win for this year.

Never. I am not sure if it is I who has changed or Christmas, but the orgy of consumerism masked as peace on earth doesn't appeal. We don't celebrate. Hearing our house cleaner, a friend, talk about what she buys and the economic woes it brings just makes me shake my head. I am sure her experience is common. We are fortunately well off enough that if we need it, or truly want it, we buy it. As I've gotten older, I find there are fewer and fewer things that I want.

I'm baffled. we keep our extras in a storage place outside of the kitchen. You'd have to walk there, grab a bottle of something and come back to the kitchen. It never happens. That said, some friends had to leave town suddenly for a funeral, and their kitchen was a mess, and their fridge had spoiled food so we cleaned it all up for them. They didn't need to come home to that. I was shocked at how many double bottles of stuff there were in their fridge. Who does that? Why? Don't you have a place where you put these things so when you look for the open one you find it? It probably helps that I have some ADHD, so if I'm not anal about where I put things, I lose track of them quickly. A lesson I reteach myself regularly.

I'm not sure why anybody bothers to engage with Moses. He's a Russian Bot, not a thinking human being. I think he'd only be useful if I had a garden. Push his Russia button, and a lot of shit comes out. He's been on my ignore list for quite a while now because reading his posts makes me dumber. I'd encourage others to do the same.

Wealth is, of course, somewhat relative, but I concur with Unicorn. My experience of 'designer clothing' wearers is that they are insecure and believe that wearing these things makes them look sophisticated rather than being a neon sign that they are insecure and are trying to perform sophistication. It isn't really about a rich/poor divide, it's more about how comfortable you are with yourself and what money you have. If you're comfortable with your money and sophistication (whatever it may be), you don't need to perform or buy expensive status symbols that just signal insecurity to many of us who are comfortably wealthy in our goodwill clothes. (Yes, I buy some clothes at goodwill. I like good cheap jeans. I don't care what other people think.) I think designer things are mostly a racket intended to suck money out of people that want to act or appear wealthy. I think it just makes people look desperate for acceptance. It makes me want to shake my head sadly. When I wear logos, it is for charities and things I support and I don't mind being a walking billboard for.

I have a natural negative reaction to people who wear designer logos that prominently. It reads to me like a kind of pathetic attempt to show off their 'class' which they don't have so they try to buy it. So I share Maurice's read of the boy as a prissy prima donna who probably is also insecure. I might have phrased the request more as a question as suggested above, but this is hardly rude. He clearly didn't know how to handle the request graciously, so went for his default prima donna snootiness. He is cute, but I wouldn't let him dress himself.

All true, except for the fact that he was a train wreck last time and they voted for him again anyway. I think the problem is that too many Americans are idiots with no memory. Probably racist misogynists too. When they're staring at the disaster, they see it, but the moment it is out of sight they begin to forget. That whole doomed to repeat thing.