@fuyaishdfasjdh@HerndonforIdaho How is an unrealized gains tax the least destructive? Some appraiserfag arbitrarily determines the amount you owe regardless of when and for how much you bought the home
@0xCyberbeggar I've had a German woman fall head over heels for me, saying she loved the absolute joy/enthisuasm I always speak with. Similar experiences in Switzerland. I think "American charm" does work in many places, it just has to be authentic and tasteful
@Seekerof1Truth@GarbageHuman24 But it sounds like she cared more about saying she was a phd than whatever intellectual work that yielded. Plus, lets be honest, if you can't find work as a woman with a post-grad degree in the US, you must really not be good at whatever you're looking to do
Israel, by population, is about one-thirty-fourth the size of the United States.
Hezbollah just killed 4 Israeli soldiers.
Adjusted for population, that’s the equivalent of 136 American soldiers killed.
How would WE react?
@adityamtweets Is this not how Hollywood used to mint new actors and directors? You take a shit pay for a low budget film and hope you catch your big break by becoming noticed? It's not like the director is some corporate fat cat at Sony. He's a YouTuber who was fortunate to make a blockbuster
@AstrusDastan@emi_305@loganclarkhall But that's just incongruent with the history of the continent...Florida was discovered by Spain 100 years before the English ever arrived. Cowboy culture started in Mexico. I recognize anglo America for what it is today but it's just absurd to conveniently deny the other half
@johnwoodyharr Because they always imagine a job with arbitrary responsibilities/hours so hubby can just take her on unlimited vacations while he does big business man things from the phone on a yacht
@epigeneticforce@vortmax79@plzbepatient Teaching at an at-risk high school doesn't sound like "doing everything right" if the goal is to end up with savings and owning a home. She could've used that masters for something that pays
@gaitanalyst Save for those who have some deeply embedded trauma, I don't think there truly exist "women who are extremely uncomfortable with sex." I think most men who end up in this situation just experience women who are extremely uncomfortable with sex (with you)
A brother of mine has entire passport books full of stamps. I, less so, but I've done my fair share of exploring. We've both come to the conclusion that, the more we're exposed to the world, the more grateful we are to be American. I love seeing home through these visitors' eyes
USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.
Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.
I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."
"They just come with the table, man."
They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.
This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.
I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.
"Did we…?"
"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."
Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.
My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."
Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.
I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.
Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.
I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.
Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.