Well you know, sometimes you meet people and there’s a chemistry, and you’re maybe not sure what kind it is.

Before I can advance my interest, I discover they’re off the market anyway. More friendzoning than formal rejection. Not that I mind having friends.

Ahahaha me (Shy Girl) saving up years’ worth of confidence to overcome anxiety, but waste it ALL on someone who mentions their s/o 30 seconds into the conversation. Every. Single. Time x.X

Rural America is mostly a wasteland. It’s either where people of means deliberately choose to live away from society, or it’s people who are too ignorant, poor and/or drug-addled to have much choice. Neither group is going to be left-leaning… and that’s why when you look at electoral maps, you see all that red.

Pick a highway, any will do, travel along it and tell me what you see. I already know. One little failed town after another. They might have a dive bar or ancient gas station, but most commercial buildings will be long abandoned. If you need anything, you’ll have to find a decent city with a generic walmart, dollar general, mcdonalds, etc. Long gone are the mom-and-pop grocers, general stores, etc.

The irony is these are solid red Republican districts. Cities have major problems too, but they are full of action; plans, projects, hopes of a better future. There is no future for the average rural American.

They are frustrated and angry, as well they should be. Too bad they can’t see the forest through the trees.

But isn’t being forced to pay taxes a form of extermination?!

Basically yes. Enby here, anyone who finds me attractive is instantly, irrevocably, and fabulously gay.

Internet in 2024 (for me):

1. Service unavailable in your country (VPN)
2. Confirm you’re a human (VPN)
3. Blank page (noscript)
4. Obscure error (fingerprint / cookie blocking)
5. Page not found (https required)

The percentage of websites that “just work” with privacy measures in place is depressingly small.

Believe it or not working at McDonalds in your “spare” time when you’re already school full time and an athlete, isnt a whole lotta fun xD

And when there was something going in, they would ask if we needed a ride, bc plenty of us didn’t have cars. Our idea of fun was like DnD or Risk on the weekends…

What I do wish is that I had found some kind of summer internship or something that could build my skills, because I was quite into coding as a hobby.

This what I never understood.

Where I lived, in high school (age 15-16) everyone was expected to get a license and car ASAP. I was like, why? To get to your job. For what? To earn money to pay for the car, gas, insurance, etc.

So you want me to work a job I don’t need to pay for the gas for a car I don’t want, so I can be miserable in school?!

And if you looked at the driving records of my peers who had cars… Not pretty. A lot of totalled sports cars.