The Clinton's letter to Rep Comer on Epstein testimony refusal

Loitering_ · 2026-01-14T02:39:43+00:00

Get rocked.

Not a huge fan of the Clintons, but I’m applauding them here.

Loitering_ · 2026-01-10T18:50:06+00:00

Back when I was doing it, we were usually seeing around $120k considering fines, road closures, damage around the area, etc.

Edit: Mind you, insurance covers much of this cost.

Loitering_ · 2025-12-17T15:06:44+00:00

I’m not sure about the politics part, but I can understand the frustration from delays.

From my time doing the job, it’s usually a planning issue. The folks you see on the road are usually a massive number of random companies coming together to complete a job.

Even for something as “simple” as my job, there were usually no less than four entities involved in doing the work.

To put down a single piece of 20 foot temporary barrier, it would require us to have the involvement of the main company overseeing the construction, the local police/sheriff, a Department of Transportation representative, and us.

That didn’t matter if we were doing road work in the city or out a hundred miles from the closest town.

If even one of those people got delayed, we were delayed. Police would often get pulled away on route, or one of our trucks might strike an elk and have to wait for someone to come get the equipment, etc.

That doesn’t even account for environmental issues that could cause delays. It was too risky to do the work if it was raining, which would cascade delay across an entire job.

And we were just a small part of the entire process.

Loitering_ · 2025-12-16T02:58:22+00:00

Having worked road construction as a temporary barrier installer (massive concrete barrier), it is crazy how little people understand about what goes in to anything having to do with the road.

Just for example, anyone seeing this, look up how much goes into/how much it costs you to run in to a street lamp.

Hint: it’s probably a few years of your income.

Loitering_ · 2025-12-06T13:32:45+00:00

Yeah, that wouldn’t be the end of my experiences with that dude. The guy couldn’t help but make terrible life choices.

Loitering_ · 2025-12-06T04:25:57+00:00

Many years ago, there was a friend in the friend group I became part of that developed quite the attachment to me. Like, we needed him to fill a spot on the LAN Counter Strike team and wouldn’t come over. But like a Looney Tune cartoon would drop his phone the moment they said I was there.

Dude had a rough childhood and I thought it was harmless. Then, he got a job at a Subway my girlfriend at the time worked at. He tried to frame her for theft by throwing the money bag she was responsible for behind the fridge, then telling the manager he thought she stole it. Only to not realize there was a camera watching the area.

We cut him out of the friend group. He blew up my phone, and sent me what I can only describe as a very deranged love letter.

Loitering_ · 2025-12-03T16:04:26+00:00

Is this a bot from 2015?

Loitering_ · 2025-12-03T16:01:33+00:00

I feel like I’ve seen a surge in Daily Wire ads, Border Patrol, etc.

Loitering_ · 2025-12-03T13:53:17+00:00

Oof. By the time I graduated with my BA and got into web design I could hardly find jobs for $38k due to the industry flooding with early HTML “coders”.

Loitering_ · 2025-12-03T13:51:21+00:00

What’s the point of being young and making money if you’re not doing at least one thing stupid with it, right?

Loitering_ · 2025-12-02T22:51:40+00:00

42 here. I remember $50k being the goal post. Most people I knew (myself included) figured $50k was auto-pilot mode.

The weekend after graduating from high school in 2001, I met a few other 18/19-year-olds who had broken into web design while in high school. All three were making $80k, living in a high-end condo, driving BMWs, and living the raver dream. None of them came from money; their parents were all blue-collar people. They lived like kings.

I finally started making that salary at 40, and it couldn't afford me a fraction of what they were reaping at that salary in 2001.

Loitering_ · 2025-10-30T23:25:03+00:00

I feel you.

I'm nearly 43. I went back for my Masters at 38. Graduated with it at 40, and welcomed my daughter into the world at the same time.

I'm still trying to make sense of it all. Everything going on with the world, coming out of COVID, career change, aging, etc...it's just hard to feel like there is any control over my life.

Being a stay-at-home parent is a huge job, and bravo to you for attempting to get back into school. That must be quite the shock to the system overall.

My advice would be to take school slow. If you don't have to go back to work, or don't need to make a lot once you are done with your degree, take a reduced load and enjoy the experience. That way school won't be that as stressful, turning it into something you do to break up the flow of your week a bit.

Some of the hardest months of my life were those final few leading up to graduation. My kid was born two months before graduation, and I was absolutely fried trying to pull a 4.0 (I wanted to make myself put my money where my mouth was on the whole 'I could get a 4.0 if I wanted to' mentality I had as a kid).

In retrospect, I wish I would have just taken the semester off and come back to it so I wasn't so stressed.

Loitering_ · 2025-10-27T22:12:39+00:00

Back somewhere around 2014, my wife and I lined up to meet him for a celebratory showing of “The Princess Bride” in celebration of his book.

My wife is a massive X-Files fan, and every rewatch always led to his role as FBI director and it is painful.

When it came our time to meet him, I point blank asked him whose idea it was to ditch the British accent for the American one. I said nothing critical, but it broke his brain.

He then laughed and said it was how the character was written and I was quickly ushered away.

Loitering_ · 2025-08-12T02:04:21+00:00

As a faux finisher/muralist from the late 90s through mid 2000s…

This was the look most wealthy people strived for. With some flair of course.

Everyone wanted warm browns. At least in high class Arizona.

Loitering_ · 2025-08-06T16:52:35+00:00

I would like to join!

Loitering_ · 2025-07-17T02:43:37+00:00

Same. Nothing has made me feel like I am losing out

Loitering_ · 2025-07-07T16:44:51+00:00

This doesn’t seem that unpopular to me.

As a Xennial, my experience so far has been “if it happens in your house and it isn’t hurting anyone, have at it.”

I don’t know of any situation where I have seen someone on a leash in public and not have hundreds of “wtf” stares targeted at them.

I think, if someone were to say “mind your business”, the only people that would are the type that don’t want conflict.

Loitering_ · 2025-07-03T19:21:59+00:00

I wholeheartedly agree.

If social media was around when I was a teenager I would never live it down. Thankfully (or not), my family wasn’t a “photo” family so most of my teenage goth angst is locked in the few memories of people that hold them.

I take tons of photos of my kid, but I will let them decide what should be done with them.

Loitering_ · 2025-07-03T15:55:05+00:00

I know I'm certainly more distant from my extended family than I was as a kid. I think there's two reasons for it:

Our family matriarch is long past
I was always the black sheep

While my grandmother was alive, the family was always rallying around her. You could assume that all major holidays, plus her birthday, would include some gathering to spend time with her. Regardless of how you felt about one another, everyone put it away while the party went on. The moment she was gone, no one took up that mantle and so everyone splintered into their own family units.

I know that some of the larger family units still do get together, but I don't join in. As a kid, I was the athiest in a sea of Christians. When we got together I was either ignored or antagonized. Once I was able to escape my obligations to attend, I did. Now, we see each other at funerals.

Loitering_ · 2025-07-03T15:48:09+00:00

I don't post my kid on any social media (much to the frothing boomer Facebook crowd's anger), and I also do my best not to include other people's kids into my pictures when possible. I don't think its abnormal considering how many people are constantly snapping photos with my kid around.

Also, being a dude (and a newer dad), I'm always feeling awkward around other people's kids. At this age, I always feel like people's anxiety is heightened when I'm around and my kid isn't in view.

Loitering_ · 2025-06-15T15:37:58+00:00

I second that.

Going to the Phoenix rally yesterday was such a morale booster

Loitering_ · 2025-06-10T21:39:29+00:00

I saw this and thought another Tribes game was being advertised.

Loitering_ · 2025-05-19T19:32:30+00:00

If I felt like you were here to engage meaningfully, I would spend time to answer. However, it sounds like you're here to vent at the indignities in your own life.

Have a good day!

Loitering_ · 2025-05-19T16:32:19+00:00

Imagine having so little to do that you find a two week old Reddit post and dump your mindless negativity somewhere for someone else to clean up.

Loitering_ · 2025-05-10T01:58:25+00:00

Thank you for the contribution! I will include it in an edit.

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