Great SpongeBob in a pineapple under the sea that’s gonna be hard to keep those words out of common dialogue.

Yeah I tried. I actually couldn’t get a real support agent and eventually the refund period auto triggered cause the seller couldn’t figure out how for me to return it.

eBay doesn’t care. They just want their little piece.

You have any tricks for glow filament? I tried to print with it again and just like always it immediately clogged my hotend to a stage where I have to print way slower and I hate to think I have to sacrifice one to this stuff every time.

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Wait how is my yard dry and dusty and also full of weeds?

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But then the mulch won’t stop the weeds unless I do it deep enough to hurt my plants. I don’t understand why you are so adamant that works for you with a completely different setup is so important for me to do.

Yeah my outdoor pepper plants, tomatoes have given new flowers and fruits.

And garlic sprouts that refused to sprout during the summer heat are all popping out.

I don’t have raised beds

Not true for tight small city yards.

I would need a layer of mulch deeper than any of my in ground plants could handle.

I bought from eBay recently and I got a package from Amazon. I don’t buy from either anymore.

And they gameified it by making it if you got someone else to sign up you both got insane coupons to make stuff that they were selling as loss leaders even cheaper and get enough and you could get it for free.

It made it a race to get the most people to sign up for the app as the very rare person got a switch for free for being better than any advertisement.

They must have been bleeding money for the name recognition. I still think their name equals trash.

Yeah, everyone is “a business owner” by selling temu crap all over the place now.

Even farmers markets with wealthy looking white people selling garbage mugs and tchotchkes that are all clearly from China.

Someone else did all the work and they think they are special for pushing it on others. Heck so many ads these days are for sites selling the shovels in this gold rush for making your own drop shipping site on tiktok. What else is Shopify?

Yes!

This is the way. Why pay double for eBay or Amazon to ship me stuff from AliExpress anyways for like 5 day faster shipping at best.

But only for the same garbage that they will sell anyways. Shoes are leather and can be fixed and have been at a cobbler for like $40 to new. Clothing should be bought once and last at least a year if not much much longer. So I buy from better brands in person if possible.

I don’t get why I should pay Amazon to be a shitty middle man that is trying to destroy the world more for my crap.

So, as someone that was homeless 3 times already and went from that to doing ok for myself enough to at least have some vacation and self autonomy.

Find something that only you, can do.

That was the advice that worked for me. Don’t try for the specific jobs that make money or even make you happy doing it but something that you knew if people thought about it, they think of your name to get it done.

It’s stressful and a shitty life sometimes but I know people rely on me. And it’s ok to take time to figure it out and make bold decisions to get there. Stuff you wouldn’t expect to do can be a great starting place.

I couldn’t afford my existence in America ( got bullied out of my STEM field because it made other stressed people feel better) so I looked for jobs that would pay for it for me. That’s how I discovered the circus and cruise lines. Food and lodging and people trying to get by. From there I found something they needed fixed and learned how to do it.

You need to be willing to change. And probably willing to go your own path in a way that will mean a life different than you ever knew. Nothing that worked for anyone else will absolutely work for you, we are all too individual and different.

But that’s why you can do something. Maybe you can work with leather and make aprons that no one else can. Maybe you can operate a remote station alone better than others cause you like the quiet. Maybe you can land planes in Boise Idaho cause you don’t mind living there and like planes. Maybe you can run a cult of personality where people think you are their mother God…

I dunno it’s worked for others but it’s up to find what you can do and how far from the norm you are willing to go.

Normal is a myth of America anyways. Go do you.

Yeah when people are back to eating grass and dying of malnutrition usually they eat there way through the roots of civilization.

What a non answer in an answer.

No personal emotion or feelings of empathy or understanding.

Cold and sterile, with sweeping statements for all self blame and action.

Like a voice that never has been tested or had to put the effort in.

This feels like a completely different conversation to me just wanting fries deep fried in beef tallow again. And that you can’t find these kind of things easily out there anymore as everyone argues about being healthy.