I’m in Dallas Texas. No state income tax, but property tax is about 2% of home value, so even if it’s paid off your looking at ~$500/mo on a $300k house, which is about the minimum in the city here right now. If you’re over a certain age that’s reduced a bit. If you had decent insulation here on a smaller house and you’re cautious with your AC use, you could probably get away with electricity of $100/mo most of the year and $200 in the summer. I think my water/sewer/trash is about $60 a month and my gas is about $60 a month. Our home and auto insurance is high in Texas. I’m cheap, so we use 5g internet for $30/mo. Gas is $2.70/gal here today. I threw a few things in an online grocery cart and screenshotted so you can see our food prices.

We have shifted from using MR (mentally retarded) to using ID (intellectual disability). Even before that change, we tended to say MR instead of retarded, i guess because of the way it gets thrown around negatively and feels uncomfortable to say. Similarly, people are using autistic negatively to describe someone who’s quirky or introverted, narrowing what’s seen as ‘normal’. If you have to ask if it’s ok to say something, other people will probably have a gut reaction to you if you say it. Whether that matters is up to you.

Putting the time and money towards promoting cleaner energy instead of banning older, dirtier energy. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

What type of heating fuel do you guys use? Where i am its usually natural gas from lines or propane in tanks.

We could hang out together. Then i might not be the loud one for once.

Change ‘listen to’ to ‘watch’ and I’ll rewatch Eternal Sunshine for the first time.

No nightmares… $100/yr and it mostly goes to landscaping at the entrance and repairing the wall when cars drive into it.

Poop knife

We torrented so many movies, so so many movies. It quit being a question of what we wanted to watch and just became a game of how much can I get today. Then I just wandered away from it one day. I never received any letters. I do have a friend who got a letter from Lucas.

I just got one like that. A cheapo on Amazon for $60. So far i love it.

What part of the world? I need to have a gas line run outside.

I don’t see how the whole world Internet could rely on cable under the ocean when my phone cable might last barely a year and it just sits in my car, not under water. It’s like computers that control airplanes or NASA, but i constantly have to restart in order to get an email attachment.

I think it might be kind of nice to be Tom Hanks and have the name WilsonsOnlyFriend@lemmy.world and just chat and chill.

How can i upvote this more than once?

Oh no, she’s full on.

Can you send an order to my house, please?

“And that’s why I call it witchcraft, because it has the effect of planting and reinforcing thoughts in the mind of the listener that defiles perspective. This makes it easier to manipulate people.”

Huh …

“Best debate ever”

Trump has him killed, replaces him with a more obedient dog who’s also named Vance, and tells his people that’s who he chose all along.

And it pisses me off that people will vote for the dipshit because he’s an R, but i would vote for a half-dead horny toad on the other side.