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I usually am the one offering the drugs tho

One time (more than 10 years ago) as I was walking up the street, barefoot, to buy some jam a guy stopped his car by me and asked if I had a spare phone I could give him. I said yes. He drove me to my place. I gave him an old phone. Then he drove me to his. He asked if there was anything I wanted. I said jam (and noticing that he had lots of paired socks around his place) and socks (you can never have too many pairs of socks). I guess he took pity on me since I was shoeless that day and gave me both. Then he gave me meth from a bong. But since I already took dex-amphetameme, all that did was get me to normal and make my mouth feel smoother.

He drove me back to my place, and I told everyone what happened. They were like "Pyrrhic. That guy was a drug dealer, and wanted a burner phone". I still keep one of those socks with me as a memento.

this is sad

(this is twice the price of other listings)

I'm not gonna take a picture of this stranger, but like, i think i found polu's Dutch doppelganger

How about since Dane is on his second account, we call him Douglass 3.

Choppelganger

this seems like a terrible idea

That is an insane change

since like 90-95% of people who click on a video click off within 5 seconds

set up an F5 bot

I assume it still checks for real versus fake traffic

removing that would be even more insane

Even if it's just to inflate views, I hope they still track "start playing a video and immediately click away" as a negative indicator

but the per-view sponsor deals won't have access to that information

so its just money farming

's poll How many times has a stranger offered drugs to you? has closed.

ah tragic, miserd this poll

and why is it always coke, and why are they always loud about it

Most of the drugs I have been offered isn't from strangers

been offered a whole 8ball at motel 7 in dultuh (unsurprising) presumably would have been asked to pay for that. another time a guy would not stop trying to get me to try his coke when I was standing literally one row behind the stage a music festival. got many stories

music festival guy was probably trying to murder me

i missed the poll but i have never been offered drugs by anyone, let alone a stranger

U want some?

looks like March is when the Neo 2 launches https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2026/08/15/apple-macbook-neo-2-release-date-a19-pro-specs/

Nice, I actually suspect the pricing won't be that bad on these, even though I'm sure some people are expecting them to overcharge because "RAM"

>too late to bet on the Queens death

why even bother

you can bet on trump, putin, and netanyahu

Putin is immortal easy bet

I would not extort my kid, I would question them on what girls/men the child wanted so badly that they needed a harem for

I was going to put the polu answer in of No, I don't want to have a comically large family

but then I figured I'd need to specify what the other No was in reference to

I think this is a poll that will be funny to see if anyone votes differently from consensus

Is the kid joining the harem or is it a high school snafu type where theyre leading it

Also cant u have a harem anw

Like what prevents u from having one

Some eskimo tribe allows polygamy

Yea but they can only kiss with their noses so who cares

and I think the gay marriage stuff set back polygamy irronically

because the push for legal marriage to be 1:1 religious marriage has broken the whole concept

I think alt timeline where the mormons were pushing for opening up marriage laws more to allow what they want, we would have gotten gay marriage anyways

we being the US

rest of the world would have still done gay marriage probably

I hate the 2000s era talking point, but honestly legal "marriage" makes no sense other than it being useful in divorce proceedings

the original gay marriage concession of any 2+ people being able to set up a "union" which bound them together and would provide them all joint legal right over their shared assets

is way more clear than tying it to marriage, a concept of religion for most people, and if not than at least a strong moral/social construct

It's the same thing people are doing now anyway, I feel like everyone earning above minimum wage sets up a personal LLC to manage their assets at this point, which tends to envelope their family anyway

I do not think everyone earning above minimum wage sets up a personal LLC spooky

I would suspect, in fact, that only a minority of people do that

if you have more than a $100k net worth, you should be

appak

you should, but I doubt most people are doing that

now, 100k net worth is 10% of the population

so not "most people"

Why would I set up an LLC?

I would guess its probably like, 1% of people with 100k+ new worth spooky

with the percentage skewing higher the higher your net worth is

So, I'm not arguing out of my ass here, but most financial advisors (which I feel like most people talk to once they have 100k, maybe 250k is a more reasonable cutoff idk) now open by suggesting you set up an LLC, and have that own everything in your name

it protects your privacy and potential liability, for essentially zero cost

and that's before you play any tax shielding games

I think most people who have 100k net worth are not talking to a financial advisor, 250k maybe, but I think if you changed it from net worth to "money you have, not including housing/car/etc" then the percent might become most people

most peoples net worth is going to be their house

Net worth to me is investments + car + house

which I think 100k is ~10% of the population

So me, who has a singular job directly for the government >100k salary and owns zero property, I did spend a year looking at all the tax deductions available, but I didn't even come close to passing the default deductions

you aren't wrong Pika btw

the people who have a house, and thats it

are a group too

you should (probably) still do it, for the privacy and liability protections, but you're probably not paying too much attention to finances if you're in that group

Also I think if you remove all people above 65 from the list, along with houses, the percentage becomes vanishingly small for net worth above 100k

Which you should remove boomers, because they skew every single statistic like this

maybe I'm completely wrong about it being 10%, that feels right just thinking bell curve

No, AI tells me I'm right

it's actually a little higher, depending where you cut it off