How long does it take you to die?

I’m in a similar situation. Have tried to get where you’re at, but have been quoted in the $30,000 price range. There is no insurance that covers any of that cost, and they all want payment up front.

Any suggestions?

I once said that children who steal can be rehabilitated or taught to be productive members of society.

Downvoted to oblivion while everyone else celebrated the death of 3 kids because “all thieves deserve to die”.

I worked for a low income apartment complex that started doing AirBnB. It’s already a 2-3 year waiting list to get a rent controlled low income apartment but they were taking units off the market because they could make more money renting them by the night.

Imagine being unemployed and looking for work.

I have to answer every call.

Every call is spam. The number of calls I get has increased tenfold.

I’m certain that some of these jobs and recruitment sites aren’t actually hiring for anything. They are just collecting and selling my data.

At one point the VA assured me that a veteran’s medical debt is to the government and is not released simply because the veteran passed away.

Even things like the cable bill took months to resolve because we didn’t want to pay for services that weren’t needed after death. (It’s hard to find and cancel every account for someone who died and didn’t keep track of things.)

Your family isn’t poor if you can afford to take time off work just because your whole family died.

Tried buying some organic Oreos once.

They were quickly referred to as “punishment cookies”.

That one box lasted almost 3 months rather than the 3day lifespan of a normal Oreo.

License with Star Trek to make it in the shape of the communicator badge and l’ll buy it.

Had a good doctor who told me you can’t “try to quit”. You can’t “cut back”. You can’t quit for other people or before you are ready. But once you are… he said every successful quitter he helped, quit cold turkey. You have to stop 100% or you won’t stop. He offered meds to help with the emotional and physical side effects. I declined.

I was a smoker for 20+ years, many of those I was well over a pack a day and I worked in a smoking bar for over a decade. It’s probably too late for me is what I thought, BUT I DID IT.

Quit 2 and a half years ago. It hasn’t gotten any easier yet. I still want to smoke daily. But I haven’t had a single puff. I still hang out with friends that smoke but I did change my normal environment. (Quit while I was moving to make breaking associated habits easier.)

The things I found most helpful when the craving kicks in… Exercise was the best. HARD physical labor. Also sleeping and eating. Luckily I was in decent shape already so eating a bit more often wasn’t a huge deal. The tons of extra exercise just burned it off or helped build up some muscle mass I didn’t know was possible.

I commute via boat. My standard is instant oatmeal w/ dried fruit in a mason jar with lid and a coozie.

I buy the oatmeal and dried fruit in bulk and prep a weeks worth at a time. The whole process takes less than 5 mins. While I’m getting ready for work I boil water and then pour it in just before leaving. By the time I load up on the boat it’s cool enough to eat.

I’m just now on session 2 of Enterprise for the first time.

Can’t decide if I dislike the song more than I do Archer.

I would install drag strip start light aka Christmas Tree on the bridge.

It would use the sounds from Atari 2600 Pole Position.

The countdown starts when I say

‘Computer, assume the position.’

This is how you know they didn’t have friends. Select & Start was the end combo for two player cheat.

It just has quinoa in it. There are lots of other ingredients as well.

I would bet money that most people who hate the idea of a “quinoa” patty don’t eat quinoa and likely don’t even know how to pronounce it.

I tell meat eaters and vegetarians the same thing about this.

“Do not compare this to the best meat hamburger you ever had. Instead pretend its a completely new food that you’ve never tried.”

Treat it like a protein option and stop trying to force it to be just like something else. It is very similar to meat in many ways, but it isn’t meat. I don’t consume much advertising so I don’t know if the companies are selling it and saying that it’s indistinguishable.

It’s not “fake”, it just isn’t “meat”.

Oh yes it does have enough salt to stand on its own. I never add salt to either Beyond or Impossible brands. I might add other seasoning if I’m trying to hit a flavor profile (liquid smoke, cajun spices, curry, etc).

You can just plop it out as-is and it’ll cook up nicely. Just don’t squish all the liquid out of it. I’ve had some nasty versions because people get away with poor cooking skills with reql meat and these don’t tolerate the same abuses.

Even if you don’t mind, the longer you give up meat the less interesting it is as a flavor.

I think there’s a curve to this.

When I first became vegetarian there were no fake meat options. If you got something that looked or tasted like meat it was because there was meat in it. Gross and nobody wanted that.

But after 20+ years being vegetarian, it’s REALLY nice to have some other options. I still enjoy a garden burger or black bean burger if it’s the only non-meat option but I can’t remember the last time I bought it in the store. The rise in popularity of vegetarian foods and all the fad diets have made it so there’s tons of options now.

My meat eating friends all love both Beyond and Impossible. A few actually prefer it to a standard burger.

Now if we can just teach restaurants how to cook them properly…

They are called ducks because they duck.

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