Sounds like the NXIVM cult initiation, too.

That's debatable, I'd say. I've seen influenza take out otherwise healthy young adults.

Viruses don't care how much sewage you swim in.

Someone once used my card to buy $20 worth of crawdads in Louisiana.

My biggest question was who on earth spends that kind of money on crawdads when you can go pick them up out of the creek for free.

Whoopsie poopsies.

Garmin : Runners :: The Computer : Courage the Cowardly Dog

...or fix a bicycle, or let a friend-of-a-friend crash at your place for a couple nights and not ask questions.

Frankly, it comes down to mutual aid and community relations. 🤷🏻‍♀️

In France, much of the Résistance hinged on normal people doing whatever small acts they could. Maybe you couldn't realistically get to London and join the Free French Forces, but you could mail a letter, or drop off a set of keys for someone...

I still buy my music on iTunes like it's 2006. And download it. To my computer. Which is in my house.

This is for outgoing and incoming calls lol

Samesies (albeit half-Catholic). Somehow I internalised all the stuff about like, social justice and helping others and doing good work.

Which I'm not mad about. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Product of a mixed household here, so I get the Protestant Self-Denial *and* the Catholic Guilt.

Job security for my therapist, if nothing else.

And/or it'll force people to take out private loans, which is...*shudders* risky.

The other side of that coin: I got carded buying alcohol a few weeks ago.

In Ireland.

Like, I know I look like baby but JESUS CHRIST😂