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If someone has a large enough number of followers they make their money off instagram and the shoots are, I would presume, "loss leaders" for that and any other business they may engage in.

I would simply guess that he was saying what he did to make as clear as possible the limitations of his HE without actually saying anything "incriminating."

I personally know at least one escort with an Ivy League degree. Some of these guys come out of school with crippling levels of debt and not everyone from these schools winds up making great money in their day job.

Speaking of warts, everyone should know they upped the age range for the HPV vaccine to through age 45 to get it covered by insurance. I just missed the cutoff when they did it, but I paid put of pocket.

Can I ask a dumb question? Are there extra fields you get to see in the info block if you are a paid member? I don't see any field for top/bottom or safe/bb when I look at profiles on rentmen. Some people include it in their text or in hashtags but most don't seem to.

The problem isn't just Amazon - it's the entire economy that is grinding down wages for the people in the bottom half of the economy in the name of squeezing out a few extra percent ROI. You can't get blood from a stone, and we would do well to remember that we have an interest in minimuzing the fraction of the population that has nothing to lose.

Most companies offering PPOs still have a "usual and customary" cap on the out of network reimbursement so you can find yourself on the hook for more of the charges than the percentage they tell you. Though many (maybe most?) providers will simply accept the insurer's limit, you do need to be aware that there's the possibility they don't.

It's possible he's actually quite wealthy on paper if he's had a job and contributed to his 401(k) but chose to live simply to facilitate his travel. I had an elderly coworker years ago who was sort of like this. He always just rented a room, didn't even have his own telephone, no kids but he did have a sibling and a nephew or two. Never went out to eat, always made himself a sandwich for lunch, only ever spent money on travel as far as we knew. He walked several miles to work rather than pay subway fare. He was with the company for over 45 years. He finally went to retire when he hit the age for mandatory withdrawals from the 401(k). In addition, we had an employee stock plan where everyone was given a certain number of shares in proportion to salary, and that had also done fantastically well. Apparently, his balance was so high that the plan administrator called in a TEAM of advosors for him. He was never even a manager and he wound up with close to 8 figures.

Let me clarify - I have no problem being the breadwinner assuming the other party is generally fiscally responsible. But the traveling lifestyle never really worrying about a career thing is too high-risk for me. Supporting someone is a lot easier if they aren't actively dragging you down. For me this is partly a function of being raised in barely-clinging-to-lower middle class status and the attendant fear of my parents losing the house and being thrown into poverty. If you are middle-aged and living in a rented room in the U.S., fine if you're happy with that, but odds are you are one accident or illness away from disaster.

photos please. Slide into my DMs.

Google "Pomodoro technique" - I find it useful for cranking out mundane/unpleasant stuff I've been procrastinating on. Basically set a timer for 25 minutes and focust on the task. When the 25 minutes is up, take a 5 minute break. Do 3 more times, then take a longer break. Repeat as needed. Sometimes just two hours of focus is all it takes to knock out some stuff you were putting off for a long time.

20 years ago mileage status was something to go on runs for because you could shop fare sales and then still get free upgrades. Today? Not so much. First class ain't what it used to be.

Are you sure it wasn't his general fiscal outlook that made you think this is not a suitable long-term partner? I like nice things on occasion, but I like financial security more, and I think when I was younger I would have looked at someone like that and thought he wasn't a good long-term match because we'd always be spending every penny we made. I could see that not leaving an impression on you if it didn't last long and wasn't that serious and he didn't do something horrible to end it.

I think most people have "tells" that you can pick up on. The most obvious one is who do they check out. Guys looking at women aren't really all that subtle about it so they're fairly easy to pick out. The guys checking out guys are more discreet about it, but their eyes will still move when an attractive guy walks into the room. But given there are so many more straight guys than gay guys, even a % correct that sounds fairly high will have a large number of mishits. If you are 90% accurate and make guesses on 1000 guys, 100 of whom are gay, you are going to pick out 90 of the 100 gay guys, mislabel 10 of them as straight, and then ALSO mislabel 90 straight guys as gay. So the accuracy in terms of who you called gay is only 50%! This phenomenon is the reason why lie detector have little practical application. When most people are innocent, calling someone guilty is still a coin flip.

Eggs are usually good for a couple of weeks past the date on the carton.

I check the carton and look at the tops/sides but don't pick up all the eggs. At my supermarket when there's one or more cracked eggs it's usually obvious. I think only once have I gotten them home and one was cracked on the bottom only without leakage that was visible from my usual inspection.

If you're both old enough to use phrasing like " electronic message" it wouldn't surprise me if your memory is spotty...

There were shit tons on hippies in the 70s who bummed around in hostels and didn't get a real job until they were 30 and they were still okay finanically. There's nothing uniquely decadent about this generation except they are recording it on TikTok and the outliers' stories get perceived as the norm. The entry level workers my employer was getting in the 2010s were WAY better than the ones we were getting in the mid 90s. And getting paid less in real dollars,while they had significantly higher student loan debt.

Except for providers who are disclosing their stage name I would assume an avatar is not a picture of the poster. Given the subject matter of the forum it's simply not prudent.

What I told a sibling when she got divorced was, "I can't tell you how to be rich, I can tell you how not to be poor." Really, becoming rich for most people is a matter of luck, because things like a chronic illness or an accident can throw all but the most well-heeled off course. And I think the people in this country for whom things worked out aren't sufficiently aware of that, which is why our social safety net is such a clusterfuck.

I didn't look for it.

I looked at the older one's instagram and scrolled through his feed and he put up a couple of throwback pics that make it clear he's not the same guy. That said, I've known a couple of people who went through a shockingly fast "Twink" to "dad" transition. 12 years would be pushing it, but if the video release was, say 3 years old at the time(many studios would have a bunch in the can and just spool them out over time), and the guy was shaving a few years off his age, it wouldn't be inconceivable. meaning 12 years was really more like 15 and this guy was going from 30 to 45. Lots of people go gray young and bodybuilding seems to be rough on the skin. You don't see too many white 45+ bodybuilders with young faces. I don't think porn names are copyrighted so they get recycled periodically.

I will say with Suprep I was done with all the shitting a lot faster than other people seemed to be with the other methods. They were talking about being up all night and I think i was dine by like 10:30/11pm and was able to get decent sleep

The prep drink I had was called Suprep. It was two 16 oz drinks a couple of hours apart, and I think I was supposed to drink another 32 oz of water as well. It definitely did not taste good but I found the best way to take it was just one long continuous sip so it would be done sooner and spend less time on my tongue. I think if I had done it in multiple sips the back and forth would have had me gagging. The other key to these things is refrigerate the drink, it dulls the taste a little.

I seem to recall 1.4 million being touted as the cutoff globally for "high net worth individual." That said, there are places in the US where that and that alone is an amount you can be set for life in, and areas where you would probably run through that before you died. (I'm talking without Social Security).