Their refrain is always “if I could do it, anyone could”, as if to suggest that they just chose to be rich and it happened. Therefore, people who haven’t are “just lazy”.

I make pretty good money (not like THAT though) and I will say, you grow into your salary. Meaning, If I can buy the more expensive/quality version of something, I sometimes will. “Fuck it, I can afford it.” Then I’m shocked when people get by making much less. I understand that I’m relatively lucky. I wasn’t born into money but I know people who were and most of them are insufferable.

I hate to say it, but I’m with you :/

Euros (like Germans) use a comma as we use a decimal point. It’s why you see prices on ads as “€19,99”

You seem to expect that those around him understand the situation any better. This term, he purged anybody who knows shit about anything. Hell, he put a fucking Fox News host in charge of the military.

This “Trump” fellow may not be the genius he purports to be

I’m with you, homey.

It doesn’t, it just looks like I’m shoving my junk back into my pants. Basically push up right behind the balls.

Yea and how many Billions did they burn during that time?

Ha, now I just have to find out who put that tumor in there! Holding my cell phone against my head? Die, Motorola! My unventilated natural gas stove? Kiss your ass goodbye, GE!

Push up on your taint and the last bit will squirt out. Helps with the weakened prostate.

This time in 2016 I was laughing at this clown who was a joke candidate for president, saying it was hilarious that he was just being a master-level troll. Then he actually became president for some reason and it’s all been shit since.

It just… doesn’t work as well. Hard to describe, but it was all but useless before I went to lots of occupational therapy. I basically had to re-learn how to use my left arm. It’s about 75% now. I can do normal stuff but I have to be really careful with it. For example, if I’m holding a drink I have to be sure to focus on holding it upright, otherwise it spills. That’s a long way from being unable to type. I had to use a speech-to-text app on my computer for a while there.

It’s in my motor cortex, so if they cut it out I’d probably die. It doesn’t hurt, it affects my ability to use my left arm. Fortunately it’s a very treatable rare type; I went through chemo and radiation and it’s stopped the progression. It needs periodic monitoring (through head MRI) and oncologist visits. Will probably shorten my lifespan though.

I have inoperable brain cancer, so there’s that. Sometimes pretty inconvenient.

That I get paid what I do for the job I do. It brings no real benefit to society but it’s a living.

Well then I’m sorry for being GenX, I guess I’m not an ally like I thought I was.

Like the parent said, you’re only seeing the bad cases. The ones where they say “you’re trans? Get out of my house!” So of course they’re homeless and you work with them. I’m an ally for trans folks as much as I am anyone else. I can tell you there are countless other Gen X’ers who are the same. You’re seeing one angle on it and having seen so much of that, you’re convinced it’s the entirety. People are shitty to their kids a lot, but there are lots of people who aren’t and accept their kids as they are.

PE-owned company whose sole purpose is to extract as much money as possible. No wonder it’s shit to work for.

ooo, downvotes from folk whose favorite game growing up was smear the queer

I’m not downvoting you, but you have to understand: yes, I vividly remember playing the game. I didn’t even know why it was called that, or what it meant. We were kids and we played a playground game (which was pretty fun). Looking back on the name, yeah, yuck. We also played a game called “Barf It”; the game had a name and the words didn’t mean much.

There are lots of Gen X allies out there and things that were a product of the time don’t define us all today.

$20 firm, I know what I got