I have enough in my emergency fund that if I lost my job I’d be ok for about a year.

I’m nearly to my goal, after that I’m going to change my focus to expanding my portfolio.

Still no way I can buy a house though. Need to make about 3x more money for that to happen.

I credit it to having a property owner that’s kept rent cheap and having low overhead, and being frugal borderline cheap.

The alcohol thing is really just an east coast thing, and Utah.

Nah, the bullets would’ve just given up halfway through flight

Ok

Your Song - Elton John (Cameron Bedell cover)

Mainly because I’m gonna play it at a wedding while a friend walks down the aisle they requested me to do. So, it’s on repeat to learn the chord progression, and the little runs he does vocally. By the end of this I will loath the song.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvh2wtnwyqs

Rabbit isn’t all that bad though…

How many times I have to repeat the same thing to the same people on a daily basis.

Just because it’s a new unit/ work order doesn’t mean the process changed on how we do it Rhonda. I still need the same things sent to me/ filled out. Just like last time.

Well they are just different. It’s like saying a despotism is a monarchy. Technically a despotism is a monarchy, but having a monarchy doesn’t necessarily mean it’ll be a despotism.

This is the only time I “use” Reddit now myself.

And it was never designed to be. It was always meant to be a republic.

We first were a confederation. Were your idea of a true democracy was more or less in place. The revolutionary war was won in 1783. The constitution wasn’t ratified till 1789, and the bill of rights written until 1793. Before that the US had almost no central government, and each state was independent from one another. Had their own currency, banking system, laws, and military.

States still have a lot of that same autonomy today, but there was no central government tying them together. If the US went to war and a state didn’t want to go, they wouldn’t. A little more complex than that, but generally that’s what it amounted to.

Having this type of system created a bunch of problems and came to a head when Shay’s Rebellion happened. I won’t go into depth about it, but mainly confederated Massachusetts couldn’t fight off the rebels attempting to take over the state. Since the US was a confederation there was no central government the state couldnt call on for help, and all the other states more or less said ‘meh sucks for you’.

This incident lead to the Constitutional Convention that wrote the document we still uphold today, and bringing in more of a centralized Federal Republic, and not a decentralized confederated one.

My ranty point is, we tried the whole true democracy thing and it failed. So we went to a Federal Republic, still very much democratic, but moved away from a true democracy.