Especially since early Christianity saw Hell as a freezing cold place, not a fiery inferno. That imagery didn’t come along until much later when Dante’s Inferno was written.

Having $100k stashed away is great! Check out the book “A Simple Path to Wealth” by JL Colllins for investment advice.

I’d recommend you stop comparing yourself to others and focus on what you want in life. You say you don’t know if you should use your savings as a down payment for a house or not, but do you even want to own a house? Homeownership is very much a lifestyle choice. With rent, that is the maximum you will have to pay. Your mortgage is just the bare minimum. If I was single, I would not want to live in a house. I would either rent or potentially buy a condo.

You say your an individualist but are scared of being alone. What are you doing to build relationships (romantic or not) and community?

Was he ever a cop? I thought he was a software engineer…

A certain subset of the media had extreme double standards for Obama, over previous presidents. Because Obama was generally pretty scandal free, the media had to latch on to any minor “misdeed.” So we saw news stories where they discussed how horrible he was to wear a tan suit or ask for the fancy mustard instead of regular.

Usually, when people bring it up in the present day, it’s to point out the hypocrisy of those media sources. Could you imagine Fox news spending weeks discussing how unprofessional Trump looks wearing (insert perfectly innocuous outfit here)?

Note: Obama was certainly not perfect, and he did have his issues, but generally not the sort that could fill a 24hr news channel for 8 years straight. Especially when his actual scandals weren’t actually things that particular organization was against (NSA spying on Americans, extrajudicial killing of citizens abroad, etc).

…He’s certainly not wrong on this.

Don’t have to do anything to send him packing. He’s term limited and done after this year.

Me reading this while rubbing my chronically sore knees from sports training…

I vote in every election. I will always vote for the candidate most aligned with my values. I do not vote by party lines (though frankly with the direction of the one major party has moved it sure looks like I do).

Always vote. Especially in your local elections. They matter and very few people participate.

Yes, assuming they are completely isolated from the surface population. It’s called genetic drift.

There’s a pretty interesting group of people who were pretty isolated in Kentucky who turned blue, which would be an example of this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Fugates

YMMV, especially since I live in an arid climate so don’t have to worry about things like mold. We just use bins to store things like rice. We keep pasta in the packaging it comes in. Haven’t had any issues with food going bad over the years.

Dried beans. Rice. An established fruit/vegetable garden.

The best thing about Jeff Bezos is Mackenzie Scott.

Seems like a good way to get your car stolen, with your dog inside.

…are you leaving the car running while you aren’t there? Because if so, I don’t think your biggest concern should be getting your window smashed.

Can confirm. I was murdered by that smol criminal

Lol I was paying perfect attention. Only reason the kid was ok was that I was far enough back to slam on my breaks (and was going the speed limit). I doubt he even realized how risky the move he pulled was.

In all fairness, I’ve also nearly been hit by asshole pickup trucks blowing the same stop sign. Guess it might just be that intersection that makes people think it’s optional.

Yes independence is a good thing. If they were riding normal bikes, I’d have few issues with them. However, the way things currently are, I see a decent number of dead or disabled children in the future.

I’ve learned to ignore pretty much any article that is about what someone is saying. Report about things being done. Talking heads are not a headline.

The number of children I see zooming around the neighborhood without helmets and not even stopping at stop signs (I legit almost hit one kid one time who blew through a stop sign in front of me), is pretty horrifying. Their parents have basically given them all small motorcycles and let them go free with no supervision. It just seems so unsafe.

I had to Google it, and if you want to be pedantic, it was technically 13 years and 5 months ago. Definitely horrific it’s been so long either way.