Artificial Human No. 20

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Listen… it’s for… archival and digital preservation purposes.

I’ll keep calling it Twitter until all of the branding is gone. My login notification email is the same as it has been. Blue bird and all.

No doubt. Ten years ago, that same phrase would’ve meant I had to decide between gas and food on Wednesday.

Now it’s enough to pay the bills and tuition after we lost their income because of covid. I’m constantly teetering on overdrafts thanks to the financial obligations we have from when there was 40k more a year in the bank. Sure, it might not be for the same reasons, but it’s a similar situation. It left me with no room for savings. You can be broke and make good money, due to situations beyond your control.

I came from three generations of broke people on both sides. It’s not like I don’t get it. Just decided to prioritize the betterment of someone I care about, and not remain in crushing debt for the rest of my life. I drive a 13 year old truck. My phone is 4 years old. We shop at discount grocery stores. I’m not just blowing it.

Point being, if I lived anywhere else but Ohio or some equally inexpensive state, I would have lost everything by now.

The only reason I still live in Ohio. My salary is almost double the median income, and I’m still just barely staying out of the paycheck to paycheck life while paying my spouses way through school. I wouldn’t have been able to afford a house anywhere else with just my income and maintain what semblance of a life we do have.

The perks of living in the decaying rust belt I guess.

Totally forgot about the complete back replacements like that! I’ll take 5. . Week long battery life here I come.

Honestly, I’m all for it if it means bringing back ridiculously sized phone batteries with huge bumps that can act as a finger shelf. My note 2 with a 4200mah battery was a beast in 2013.

Decided to join Lemmy after having issues with the Reddit app and Relay not getting along. Facebook groups as of late have been flaming garbage. Twitter is now an… X. I’m not touching Reddit again unless Google sends me there. Sync seems to do the job quite well.

I’ve tried Mastodon before. It just wasn’t my cuppa. This is my new public facing social home I think.

The internet as a whole.

I’ve had material taken down after years of sitting there with thousands of downloads. On the other hand, I have material that has been there just about as long with similar download counts, and it hasn’t been touched. It all depends on if it gets flagged or not.

I’ll concur. This is one of the few games I’ve actually paid for, and it was worth every penny, even during beta. Probably going to be my go to for the winter.