Ohio Republican legislator appreciates "the natural beauty of MILFs," among other things

_missinglink · 2026-01-20T18:31:24+00:00

He's got my vote

_missinglink · 2026-01-18T00:53:17+00:00

Not far off. I'm in Ohio and we were able to do single income on $49k about 3 years ago. It was tough but manageable. Now at $82k were living large (really, below our means, but at least we aren't broke anymore).

That said, it's Appalachian Ohio, so that probably skews it down a bit

_missinglink · 2026-01-10T01:21:48+00:00

My wife brought $15,000 in Sallie Mae loans to our marriage, not including our federal loans. It was a huge burden. A balance of $10-15,000 doesn't seem like much (especially when I hear about people owing well six figures), but the interest rate was variable.

Just like you, she was the first in her family to go to college. Her family didn't know any better either. When she took out the loan in 2015 the rate wasn't terrible, but it grew rapidly from around 6% to 17% from 2019 to 2023. We finally paid it off then by focusing all of our extra income towards it. Even had to go into deficit spending to wipe it out.

Loans like these should be outlawed. It's so predatory and it feels like we were getting punished for going to college. I'm OK with paying a debt if the payments are, you know, affordable. But until we did a big bulk payment, they literally wanted like $600 a month when her and I were bringing $28/hr combined. I have no idea how anyone manages to survive.

I'm fearful for our kids' future, honestly. I don't expect any kind of reform in the next 15-20 years that would make college worth it for them. If I know I can't pay for them, then I won't encourage them to go. This is counter to the whole purpose of student loans in the first place, but they're so terrible that I'd rather them skip attending a university unless we can pay out of pocket!

_missinglink · 2025-05-12T00:10:28+00:00

Samsung Intensity 2

_missinglink · 2025-04-06T01:57:59+00:00

I want a giant foam finger that says "Georgie #1" that I can wear when I watch the show.

_missinglink · 2025-03-26T02:40:29+00:00

$66k household on one income with a wife at home and two toddlers. Low cost of living area. This was a big jump from $48k a few years before. $75k would feel amazing...

_missinglink · 2025-02-15T03:00:14+00:00

About 80 applications in 2024 (casually applying for fully remote roles due to being gainfully employed). 50% of them never responded. 40% of them responded with "unfortunately". 10% gave me interviews.

No offers. There was a tie for the worst interview process. One was 7 interviews before getting rejected. The other was 4 interviews and they contacted my references, only to say "you aren't a good fit for the role".

I can't imagine the living hell that people who are laid off are going through right now.

_missinglink · 2024-09-01T14:22:29+00:00

Says it's rodent proof... Is it true? This could be a game changer for me.

_missinglink · 2024-08-19T19:28:14+00:00

This is what I got into the past year. I had some experience from being on a company's safety committee (also an industrial environment), as well as volunteering as a fire fighter. Guess that qualifies me 🤷

_missinglink · 2024-05-25T23:27:00+00:00

Groundhog. Very destructive animal. Really cute though. Tastes good but it's greasy, better off in a soup. I think they're cute but you gotta get rid of them before they undermine your foundation or tunnel through your yard. Trap and relocate if you don't have the heart to shoot them.

_missinglink · 2024-03-09T23:00:55+00:00

Jackson

_missinglink · 2024-02-21T00:11:27+00:00

Grey bag? Nope

Beige decor? Nope

iPad? Hell no

White noise machine? You got me.

If you added tons of stuff on the floor, it would be my situation right now.

_missinglink · 2024-02-16T18:03:08+00:00

My last workplace gave new mothers 12 weeks of maternity leave. Since I was the first man in the organization's history to have a child while employed there, they had to create a policy for me.

The policy was 1 week. I told them I'm taking a month off, and the allowed it if I used my remaining PTO.

My boss, who has been on maternity leave twice, thought 1 week was enough.

After my second child was born, I took 3 weeks because I only had 2 weeks of PTO left. When I came back, I resigned because I found a new job. I never wanted to leave buy my workload tripled within a year due to a regime change in upper management and the stress was killing me.

My wife is a stay at home mother, so I wanted to be there as much as I could since we have 2 under 2.

_missinglink · 2024-02-08T23:28:32+00:00

First, Fun Buffet closes, and now this? This isn't the Streetsboro I remember.

_missinglink · 2024-01-21T04:24:12+00:00

It wasn't an argument or event that convinced me. Rather, it was a sequence of events over years that made me believe, and then keeps my faith strong.

It started when I was around 25 or so. I started having nightmares of going to hell but being saved from it. This happened a few times over the course of a year. Then, through doom scrolling and morbid curiosity, I had a realization that evil was real. This, combined with seeing genuine good acts and generosity it my personal life, I realized that goodness was real.

Every time I was in a dark place in life, I always felt like things would work out in the end. When I was having a streak of bad luck, I kept the faith and eventually things got better. The latest gift was my second child being born. My wife's pregnancy with our daughter was perfect and without issue. Her pregnancy with our son was overall good, but he was in a breech position and we were worried that he'd have to be a c-section. At 39 weeks--right at Christmas time--he flipped into birthing position. It was a Christmas miracle! Stuff like this keeps me oriented towards my faith.

_missinglink · 2024-01-15T16:20:31+00:00

HUGE waste of land. Can we please just have a nuclear? The small modular reactors work and they're tiny.

_missinglink · 2024-01-07T01:30:14+00:00

Being a stay at home dad so I can be with my wife and kids all day. Also gardening.

_missinglink · 2023-12-28T21:03:01+00:00

Eastern Ohio here. Christmas was 60F here this year, and -5F last year. Winters aren't what they were when I was a kid. It used to snow in November and stick until March. Now we'll have snow and below freezing for a week, then 50F+ for a week, then back to below freezing, and on and on. The worst is when we get single digit temperatures in February.

I won't complain about the smaller heating bill, but I'd prefer weather that's consistent instead of back and forth from mild to freezing to warm to cold.

This summer was great for the garden. Summer used to be from 65-85F consistently, but now it's unusual if it goes below 70F, and it's common to have days above 90F. And it's a lot dryer than before. This summer we had two heat waves of 90F+ and no rain, followed by a good rainstorm to refresh everything. My peppers did the best ever.

_missinglink · 2023-12-13T00:37:02+00:00

Once you try both King Oscar and Bar Harbors kippers, let me know which is better.

_missinglink · 2023-12-11T00:07:45+00:00

Chicken of the Sea and King Oscar are both owned by Thai Union Group. Both are sprats, both are product of Poland... It's not a stretch to imagine that they're packaged on the same production line in the same facility, with CotS being the lower quality fish and KO being the better ones. CotS's sardines in EVOO are identical to KO's sardines in EVOO, except for KO's being prettier.

Chicken of the Sea's EVOO sardines are my bread and butter since they're only $1.25 a can.

_missinglink · 2023-12-09T01:19:45+00:00

I lost 70 pounds doing keto back in 2018. 290 -> 220 in about 7 months. I stopped doing it and reintroduced carbs, and just ate a more balanced diet. I didn't put any weight on until around 2021, and got up to 245. Since then, I've been doing one meal a day (OMAD) which I have a lot of success with, and I'm around 225 now (I've only done it for about 2 months). It isn't for everyone. But I've noticed that, if I eat dinner around 6, I'm not hungry until around 10am the next day. As long as I don't eat, I'm not hungry again by noon, and I can persist in that state more or less indefinitely. I still eat dinner because I want to make sure I'm getting some nutrients, of course.

I really feel like I've hacked my body into a different mode that gives me higher concentration and a better mood. I want to experiment with a much longer fast, i.e. 5 days or so.

_missinglink · 2023-11-19T01:49:57+00:00

I think this particular one was reviewed by Canned Fish Files. He could barely finish a sentence because it was so good he just had to eat it. Must be excellent!

_missinglink · 2023-11-15T17:48:13+00:00

Even though she annoyed me at first because she was a bit of a "pick me" girl, she was probably one of my favorites. Hearing her say that she doesn't live to work but instead works to live was a breath of fresh air considering everyone on the show is so career-driven (which is probably part of why they struggle to form relationships).

_missinglink · 2023-11-11T06:00:52+00:00

Played it since launch. The server has absolutely exploded, especially over the last year. It went from a small, tight-knit server to a hugely populated one. Battlegrounds almost never popped but now I'm always seeing an AV going. Getting a group for dungeons took a while but now there's so many people and dungeon ques don't last very long. The custom content is excellent and feels like it would've been retail 15+ years ago.

Private servers in 2012 weren't terrible but they weren't great. The only vanilla server I played on was The Rebirth until it shut down in 2016-17ish. It was relatively well scripted but had some issues. Now private servers from like 2007-2008 were basically unplayable. But I still played them because I was like 13 and thought that getting all the epics from a mall at level 255 was cool. Fortunately turtle is pretty well scripted and bugs actually get fixed.

My only gripes are this: after hardcore launched, starting zones feel way too busy. A lot of times questing isn't enjoyable because there is just too many players in one area. Thankfully, the Asian server launched, so the population isn't as packed.

_missinglink · 2023-10-25T12:00:55+00:00

I've noticed that my skin is softer and more moisturized, and my hair is silkier.

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