Nemo

Paid extra in a movie. Worst $80 I've ever earned.

In descending order:

1. House in the city

2. Apartment in the city

3. Cabin in the mountains

4. Homeless in the city

5. Homeless in the mountains

6. Japanese-style coffin capsule

♾️. Anything in suburbia

not just slavery, modern practices like redlining also kept people physically separate until very recently and some form of it still are practiced today

before taxes

the secret is simple: no car. It's a huge expense and in a city like Chicago, completely unnecessary. I never would've been able to buy a home with that millstone around my financial neck

I'm a waitress, I make about 60K USD give or take 5K. It varies significantly throughout the year, though. In Chicago, that's enough to support a family of five.

bottlecaps from local breweries

That's why you make a stack of them. Generate hundreds up-front and you don't need to generate new every time.

Then I'm outdoors, and I just snotrocket into the grass.

It depends on the needs of the community. Some need a "curation" style, some need a "cultivation" style, and some need a laissez-faire style. I've been a moderator in all three kinds, and I moderated with a different ethos in each.

I use a handkerchief for my face, I use cotton barmops in the kitchen, I use cloth napkins at the table. I blow my nose over a running sink and wash my hands after.

It seems that way because we are, on the whole, actually arrogant.

And, like now, those acts would mostly be handled by taking out the shooter after the fact.

Hopefully without a centralized for-profit news apparatus making the perpetrator infamous and inspiring copycats, though honestly we could achieve that under the current system of government.