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Ch 12 at 86 hours 😳

For real, though: when I think back at the last 14 years of my life, I've done WAY more than before. I think it hit me when I realized I worked in my career longer than I did in retail, my first job. But despite all the things that have happened in my career, and all the countries/states I never stepped foot in that I finally did in the 2010s/2020s, there's something big about having a job through high school and college and university and up until my first career job, never mind all the different stores I worked in during that 9-year time frame. And so those nine years feel so much longer. Having the same job through different stores from 10th grade through university plus one year seems like forever compared to 9, 10, 11, 12 years as an adult with a career.

The minute @stepee sees this post…

Yup, I've brought that up here before, which boggles my mind. I think the reason it doesn't feel longer, or at least doesn't feel significantly longer, than IGN is just because of how much happened when I was on IGN, personally speaking. I was graduating high school, then going to a local college, then a university, changing majors, all that jazz. Whereas I've been an adult in a career for much of my BC/D1P time.

Late 2010.

Betcha you won’t pay a penny more due to this while others live better lives.

congrats @TUFKAK

Biden to forgive $7.4 billion more in student loan debt for 277,000 borrowers | CNN Politics WWW.CNN.COM The Biden administration said Friday that is using existing student loan forgiveness programs to cancel another round of student debt, totaling $7.4 billion for 277,000 borrowers.

Needs to be updated to Fiancée now.

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I remember a dude who made comics about the Vesti. Like he made this comic where somebody sees a crash and rushes home to post about it on the Vesti, that sort of stuff. He also made a comic about @Karld316 saying if 50 mods post in his thread, he'd stop posting on the Vesti, and the number 50 mod was some guy saying, "I did mj's mom last night," and mj was one of the mods. He complained that it wasn't fair, that some people were made temp mods to articifically bump up the numbers and people kept it bumped so mods could see, and then one of the mods said to stop complaining and that they were close to making him a mod so he could be the 50th mod to post and get himself banned from the Vesti. He was banned from the vesti.

Hawaii-born Akebono Taro, Japan's first foreign-born sumo wrestling grand champion, dead at 54 WWW.CBSNEWS.COM Hawaii-born Akebono, the first foreign-born sumo wrestler to reach the level of "yokozuna," or grand champion, in Japan, has died, his family said. He was 54.

You could have an avatar and access certain boards if you paid for an IGN Insider thing, which was $20 for a year. People begged to be "adopted" by an insider, but like... shit, $20 even then for an entire year wasn't that much. The CEB and DVD General Board were behind the paywall, and I enjoyed those two boards the most, even if the Vesti had some really fun and memorably weird moments.

Bro, don't remind me! C&H did that to me once and I haven't forgiven them.

And as much as many of you irritate me with the status-quo doom and gloom, basically mimicking Mouse from the Poorly Drawn Lines comic strip: It's one of my favorite places to talk current events because we're all so used to each other and not questioning motives. Hope y'all are doing well in life.

If it works, sure. Clue was lovely.

Arizona abortion ruling, which Democrats decry, splits Republicans and abortion opponents - ABC News ABCNEWS.GO.COM The Arizona Supreme Court's decision Tuesday to uphold a 160-year old ban has drawn differing reactions from state Republicans as Democrats vow to fight it

News outlets are doing a good job talking about it. After Arizona Supreme Court ruling, Kari Lake denounces near-total abortion ban she once supported KJZZ.ORG Republican Kari Lake on Tuesday denounced an Arizona Supreme Court ruling reviving a near-total ban on abortion in the state — a law she previously praised as a gubernatorial candidate less than two GOP Senate candidate Kari Lake bashes Arizona's new abortion ban. She praised it less than 2 years ago. WWW.BUSINESSINSIDER.COM In 2022, Lake said the 1864 law was "great" and could pave the way for other states. Now, she says it's "out of step." Kari Lake Claims She Opposes Arizona Abortion Ban She Once Called ‘Great’ WWW.ROLLINGSTONE.COM Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake said she opposes the implementation of an Arizona abortion law she previously called “great.” Kari Lake Blasts Abortion Ban She Once Was ‘Thrilled’ About WWW.THEDAILYBEAST.COM The state’s highest court reinstated a law from 1864.

oh my fuck

I don't think there's a way to do that. But cancelling the program so others don't get help? Definitely.

Cleaning up a few things in Gongaga/Corel that I missed and then I'm heading toward Nibelheim.

The plan, not the debt.*