S_Bear

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by S_Bear 4y ago
Hear hear. It's such an ego stroke for the parents, but I have to live out my life in chronic pain. I make the best of my existence, but never having to go through all this would have been superior. Got snipped in my early 20s so I co
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by S_Bear 5y ago
Miniature painting. Get a Vallejo starter set, a few decent brushes, and a couple minis. Get them hooked early.
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by S_Bear 6y ago
I keep my Nintendo Switch positioned near my camera. Makes it look like I'm really into the meeting.
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by S_Bear 7y ago
My mother always told me that having kids was a sucker bet. My ancestors sacrificed for millions of years to have offspring and the first one to figure that out and cash out their chips is the winner. Note: I was my mother's only child
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by S_Bear 7y ago
I'm about at the 25 cups point (2-3 pots of coffee a day), and I too have no issues, drinking sunup to sundown (and have done so for close to 20 years).
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by S_Bear 8y ago
Purchased in 2005, paid off in 07, and still driving it for at least 2 more years.
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by S_Bear 8y ago
I have a 12 year reddit account and finally hit 700 post karma this week.
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by S_Bear 8y ago
I was awkward and weird when I started out, but took some steps to get better. Here's what worked for me, YMMV: 1) Work retail: If you can, get a 2-4 hr a week PT retail gig, working register. Nothing forces you to get better at micro-
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by S_Bear 8y ago
> These jobs do exist. Data entry, library clerk, trucker, for three. These are basically asocial. I've been a librarian for 20 years. It's basically a combo of non-profit retail and fundraising. Unless you're an academic
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by S_Bear 8y ago
I used to work in a small midwestern city with a large immigrant population. One day, one of my Sudanese customers came in somewhat distraught. I asked him what was wrong, and all he said was "In my old country, children were a blessin
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by S_Bear 8y ago
I help people without cell phones set up email accounts (public library). As a result, my cell phone and work phone are blacklisted by Google and unable to receive verification codes. Had to set up my wife's phone as my primary email r
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by S_Bear 8y ago
Baby Boomers are going to die at a much faster clip than their parents (due to sedentary lifestyles/fast food/general excess), and that will cause a lot of unplanned destabilization. I'm willing to put $20 on both my parents
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by S_Bear 8y ago
Alcohol: 2 drinks/wk Coffee: 20-ish cups a day.
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by S_Bear 8y ago
I've been arguing for years that cooking should be taught as science courses in school.It's far and away the most practical application of STEM. And even the most scientifically disinclined could still take something away from the
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by S_Bear 8y ago
In the Distance by Hernan Diaz Swedish peasant teen finds himself seperated from his brother and on a boat to California in the 1840s. Reads like an odd mix of Louis L'Amour and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I usually don't read fiction
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by S_Bear 8y ago
No. I'm a librarian that teaches computer skills to the elderly, so I'm actually in pretty high demand in rural areas. My wife works in an office doing invoicing. Childfree, so that helps quite a bit.
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by S_Bear 8y ago
I moved to a small town in Middle-of-Nowhere, MN last year. It's great. My wife and I bought a small house for $40k. Our house will be paid for in no time, then it doesn't matter what we do. We do miss some things about living in