Test_Tickles

So we should all live alone in the woods in shacks we built for ourselves, wearing the pelts of random animals we caught and ate?
Just because I have the skills to live like a savage doesn't mean I want to. Hell, even the idea of glamping sounds awful to me.
No thanks, I will use modern technology to ease my life just as much as I can.

It's because CF could see that moving to another provider would not be too difficult for them. If they went month to month then they would be gone after one month. So CF decided to go with extortion instead. Either pay for $120k, or CF will set fire to your business.

Jesus... You should worn a man before you try to trigger his PTSD.

The book had half ass answers. Their examples rarely had anything to do with reality.

This is all amazing advice, and I would like to add one thing to it, don't lie to her. People casually lie to their kids all the time, "I don't have any change", "we are all out of cookies", "don't worry, grandma is fine and will be back to normal in no time.". Kids aren't stupid, and they remember way more than you think. They see you pull out the change you "didn't have" at the next stop. They see/hear/smell the cookies that you are sneakily eating. They can tell something is wrong with grandma. Have some backbone and be honest, "no, we aren't wasting money on trash toys", "no, sugar this late will keep you awake and make you insane", "grandma is not feeling well, but we are doing everything we can for her, and we are going to let her know we miss her and love her".

As someone who has trouble with his emotions, I can tell you that for me it has nothing to do with being macho or manly, it is about depression. My depression stems from childhood trauma and abuse, but it doesn't really matter the source of the depression if it is crushing the ability to feel out of you.

Ass well

I've always said that teleporters are just suicide machines that sometimes spit a clone out somewhere else.

The scrappy competitor had the superior OS, but they never delivered. They insisted on running their OS on their proprietary hardware. They couldn't stop stepping on their own dicks right up until they needed Microsoft to bail them out. Windows was not the OS we needed, but was the OS we deserved.

The young upstart Microsoft fatally wounded the International Business Machines behemoth and brought us an OS for the common man. Something simplified that could provide a GUI and run on just about any hardware a normal person could afford. And thus everyone lived happily ever after.
The scrappy competitor stepped in with better design and a great deal of care about the customer experience to knock the dominant OS bully off... Whoops, the scrappy competitor stepped on his own dick... And again, and again... And then the scrappy competitor had to be bailed out by the OS bully. And thus everyone lived not un-happily ever after.
Until, the people's hero entered the ring with their open phone OS, a replacement for the Netscape browser but this time with real money backing it, and a moto of righteousness, "Don't be evil". Once in the ring they began kicking all the Goliaths in their dicks... Cellular teleco, oppressive OS makers, even home Internet providers. There was no monopoly whose reproductive organs were safe from the swift boots of our savior Google. And thus everyone lived happily ever after.
You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

I did, and they were all square or triangles because "that's good enough for most people".

I have a 15 year old Subaru with the same problem. And even when we bought the car new it was a well known issue with Subaru. Welcome to being a Subaru owner.