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ChexMax

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  • How many of you young adults here still live with parents/relatives?

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  • For me it comes down to who is paying rent. If you're working/ taking out loans, you're on your own. If mom and dad are footing the bill for room and board, you're kind of living at home with extra steps

  • How many of you young adults here still live with parents/relatives?

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  • In western cultures people certainly judge for this, especially in the US. absolutely not saying they should! Just saying this does fit the framework for judgements here. I think it's only older generations and upper middle class people who judge anymore though. The rich have always relied on family (though they usually have plenty of space and multiple homes) and the poor often cohabitate, with younger generations helping out with rent and housework, the middle Gen making the bulk of the income and the older Gen being taken care of and maybe helping with childcare.

  • Who is an artist or public figure you still enjoy despite them being cancelled for bad behaviour?

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  • Sure, but you displaying it also communicates to your guests that you're not disgusted enough by his actions to remove it, and also that you're not embarrassed that you financially supported someone evil.

  • What wisdom from someone else has stuck with you?

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  • If you've got something illegal in your car, make sure you don't have a broken tail light.

    If your license is expired, don't speed.

    Don't Jay walk while high.

    Basically the cops catch you on the less bad thing, and that's how they are able to catch you on the second thing. They need a reasonable suspicion to stop you.

  • What was a time when you drank the kool aid?

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  • I mean, not really. You just said it wouldn't have made a difference if I voted for Stein vs Hillary. I got several lifelong Republicans to change their voter registration to Democrat to vote for Bernie. I do not endorse voting 3rd party anymore. I used to think you should vote your conscience no matter what. I believed in a free and fair democracy. Now I think you should strategize even if the democrats suck too.

    I do take responsibility for being a dumb young 20s person falling for what I now think was Russian propaganda, but Trump winning a second time had nothing to do with me. That's on people who didn't vote at all in 2024.

  • Why isn’t "Democrats would never get away with this" seen as a problem for the left?”

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  • Most people are not cheaters. They're saying most or all politicians on the national level are cheaters. Seems like everyone but Bernie and AOC. idk how cheater-y Romney was.

    I think carter was actually honest. That's why the right hates him so much.

  • So apparently full stops in texts are 'passive agressive' now. What other unwritten rules for texting have changed over the last couple of decades?

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  • Idk, but this definitely isn't new. I'm 31 and have been removing periods from texts for a decade to help convey tone. It's like how women use (over use?) exclamation points in emails, because periods come across as aggressive and curt. The same is true in text, but instead of exclamation points, I'm able to just leave a sentence without punctuation so it doesn't come across as angry, annoyed, or frank.

    This has been well documented for a long time, but true media literacy dictates you try to ignore these rules in texts from Gen X and Boomers, otherwise they're going to come across as very rude over text with their periods and ellipses.

  • What was a time when you drank the kool aid?

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  • I fell for this, too. I felt like I needed to "punish" the democrats for corruption that blocked Bernie from what should have been rightfully his. It felt like the democrats were doing election fraud. I thought Trump wouldn't possibly win in my state anyway. Oh how naive I was.

  • At least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein

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  • Crazier still when you consider that the whole thing is a Democrat hoax

  • Texas unveils "tip line" to report & send pictures of suspected trans women using the restroom

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  • “was passed to ensure that women and girls in Texas are protected from mentally ill men wanting to violate their basic right to privacy.”

    So make it legal to take pictures of women in a private place and send them to mentally ill men?

  • "Flushable wipes"; "dishwasher-safe"; "odourless" - What are some other blatant lies that companies get away with?

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  • Same with cream vs creme

  • Windows 3.1 included a red and yellow 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme so garish it was long assumed to be a joke, so I tracked down Microsoft's original UI designer to get the true story

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  • What is CMY?

  • I'm so OCD

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  • English is a living language. If enough people take narcissistic to mean self-absorbed that's what it means, and the general population is not queerphobic for using it that way.

  • why the heck do cockroaches fly

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  • My science teacher in high school told me all the kinds can fly, it's just a matter of age. So maybe that's why it's only the big ones? Idk i don't see the little ones flying either but apparently the little ones are the absolute worst to have around

  • A question for those who have a partner, how did you manage to do it and how long did it take?

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  • I feel like this is the impossible key: don't expect anything from the relationship. No pressure. If it's any good, you can't help but be together.

    Met my mate the month before moving away to work at Disney World funnily enough. That month long fling with no possibility for a future was enough. We fell head over heels and now we're married and expecting our second child.

  • Ladies and cobblers, what's the point of high ankle straps anyway?

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  • The red ones are sexier. That's the short answer. The white are more functional, you are correct.

  • Is $140,000 the New Poverty Line for Americans?

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  • Which is nuts, because a two bedroom (hope your kids are the same gender) place is gonna be 24k of that. So 8k left over for insurance (car, life, home, and medical) food, childcare, all other bills, taxes, Christmas, school supplies, children's clothes and shoes. It's way below the number that would cover half of that.

  • What's your drink of choice?

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  • Same, but after 1-2 cups I switch to decaf for the rest of the day. Two best drinks.

  • Suffering is not rule

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  • This happens to me at the dentist. They use those big ol lidocaine needles, and last time they had to do it like 4 or 6 times before I actually went numb.