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If they go forward with this, for the entire movie all of Gambit's dialogue should be subtitled and none of it audibly intelligible. All characters interacting with Gambit should understand him clearly except for one secondary character that can't NEVER understand Gambit is saying and this character doesn't understand how everyone else can understand Gambit so clearly all the time.

I can go to a cafe where I’m waited on and served decent food for $20.

How much do you tip on you cafe meal on top of that $20?

If feminists can’t figure out how to coexist with others, without turning everything into a battle, then they’re ultimately going to prove to the world that they have no business at all being anywhere near power.

If thats your logic, when are men going to apologize for WWI and WWII? How about an apology for the Holomodor? Are these the evidence you're using to show that men deserve to be in power?

Frankly, women have been given a great deal of autonomy in western civilization recently, and have set themselves to the task of burning everything down.

Oh? Which part of men's bodies are women given legal power to control?

BTW, I'm a dude, I'm just not deluded enough to think that my genitals make me smarter that people with other genitals.

Gen-X men got him elected.

Like all things Gen-X, there aren't enough of us for negative or positive change. In 2022 only 23% were Gen-X (down 3% from 2012), and assuming equal split on gender, that would be about 11.5% men, and I know for sure 100% of Gen-X men DID NOT vote for trump. For the sake of your argument lets say 70% of those men did thats only 8% of the vote. source

I don't think its a supportable statement to say that this specific 8% are the reason trump was elected without ignoring the other 45% of the electorate.

Donald Trump's promises are a solid as the water they're written on.

What specific traits or habits do people close to you recognize that would reveal an impostor trying to mimic you?

They ask me what specific things would reveal themselves when they mimic me. Thats probably a red flag.

Headline from the future:

"Displacing heart disease, the primary cause of death in the USA is now 'easily preventable disease'"

Thanks for doing the math but, Iowa? I’ve been to Iowa many times growing up and not a place I’d wanna live. But valid point that it is affordable there if you enjoy trump fascists

I was picking a lower priced state to show home ownership is possible for a single person in the USA. Luxuries or preferences wasn't in the equation.

This is where there isn't great translation when looking at macro numbers (like the chart that lists median house prices) and trying to apply that info to the micro numbers, like one specific person.

Even the median home listed here in Iowa at $204k doesn't mean thats the cheapest house. There are houses cheaper (and those that are more expensive), but the median represents a closer number when looking at large numbers of houses.

I’m “uneducated” and rapidly approaching 40 so my employment prospects are severely limited.

Its never too late to bolt on additional education. It can be a college degree, but it doesn't have to be. It can also be trade school or industry specific certification. I highly recommend looking at your options. I too was a non-traditional student and complete get my Associates degree until was in my early 30s and Bachelors just before 40. Having those let me leapfrog several income levels in a short time. Its not the degrees alone, but the other skills I (and probably you) have that wouldn't be considered without that degree. I now have trade school, college degrees, industrial certifications, and decades of experience. All of these together made employment very manageable.

I'd be happy to share my experience as a full time working adult and part time college student in their 30s if you want that. The short version is, being an undergrad college student as an adult is easy mode compared to doing it when you're right out of high school.

You're going to be 45 years old in the years ahead irrespective of what you do. Wouldn't you prefer to still have that "uneducated" status then or would you like that to be different?

Yeah literally nowhere is affordable for a single guy…

So taking Iowa as an example:

So total monthly payment (with insurance and taxes ) is $1770 or $21,240/year. The downpayment is needed, of course.

Rule of thumb says your housing shouldn't be more than 28% of your income.

So that would mean $75,857/year income to live comfortably. That would be $36/hour working full time.

That seems doable by a single guy. This is even with a very comfortable percent of only 28% going to housing. If you go to the uncomfortable 50% of income for housing that would bring down the required annual income to $42,480/year or about $20.50/hour.

It was good news. Everything after this wasn't.

Nobody’s demanding they wear a mask

Which country are we talking about. In the USA there were absolutely mask mandates.

“They’re wearing a mask ~~to stop the spread of disease,~~ because they are sheep and I feel a need to react to this person’s wearing of a mask to prove to everyone else within eyesight I am not sheep lest they question my superiority."

FTFY, they don't see the mask as preventing disease that needs to be prevented. They see COVID as a mild inconvenience. An inconvenience that isn't worth doing anything to prevent it, and they get upset when anyone tells them they should care about it (even if its just for other people's sake).