I failed my first drivers test because my car had stickers for democrat candidates on it.

It’s kinda amazing how much leeway they have.

Metaphorically, the whore in that passage is Israel. You could switch out the Assyrians and Babylonians for the various nation states that arm Israel today…

So Moses went back to the Lord and said, “Oh, what a great sin these people have committed! They have made themselves gods of gold. But now, please forgive their sin—but if not, then blot me out of the book you have written.”

The Lord replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me I will blot out of my book. Now go, lead the people to the place I spoke of, and my angel will go before you. However, when the time comes for me to punish, I will punish them for their sin.”

And the Lord struck the people with a plague because of what they did with the calf Aaron had made.

Their god is a vindictive evil fucker. A god of hate, and they mirror themselves in his image.

The observation from the words that I would now insist upon is this. – “There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.” – By the mere pleasure of God, I mean his sovereign pleasure, his arbitrary will, restrained by no obligation, hindered by no manner of difficulty, any more than if nothing else but God’s mere will had in the least degree, or in any respect whatsoever, any hand in the preservation of wicked men one moment.

Johnathan Edwards

Almost as if they aren’t actually “pro life” and it’s always been a tool to control women…

Wonder how research on black maternal mortality is being treated.

Considering how many of the women that have died due to Dobbs have been women of color… if one was “pro life” the fact that black women being 3.5 times more likely to die in childbirth should be concerning.

It is, but it took Venmo and I don’t think Walmart does. I needed groceries and that seemed to be the best option with my only money being the $50 in the Venmo account. I thought about asking someone if I could send them the money and get cash instead, but didn’t have anyone I could do that with.

Yeah, I prefer not using venmo, but I had negative money in my bank and some Venmo money my boss had sent me. I wanted groceries and that was the only money I had “access” to.

Already use a credit union 🙃

Not trying to lay blame, but doesn’t Venmo ask where you want the money to come from every time you send money?

No, unless that shows up if you are transferring in the app. It did not ask me where the money would come from. I was using a grocery delivery service and selected Venmo as my payment option. I assumed that selecting Venmo over my bank would take it from my Venmo.

I already got my credit union to forgive a charge on an accidental 1.99 purchase. I don’t think they’ll do it again.

I have even less hours this month. I’ll probably just end up driving off a bridge. There’s no way I’m ever going to be financially solvent again.

A lot of the better creators are on Nebula. I don’t think they’d take Pewds though.

Lol I have $100 in my bank account until Friday, and my car is 300 miles past an oil change at this point. (Yay for my abusive ex husband getting the divorce decree to leave me in permanent hell debt I’ll never escape!) I’m probably going to have to sell off my 3DS and most of the games I own to get through the week. A steam deck is a pipe dream.

Yeah, I was stupid to expect anything resembling quality from HP.

I don’t buy paper towels as my own means of decreasing paper waste. I end up putting these things in aluminum foil, which I think is more expensive for me (I don’t have a microwave or toaster oven.)

Pearson has an effective monopoly on teacher certification tests. I don’t understand why private companies get to make up so many of the rules.

I’m not even getting the 500 I’m paying for already!

Yep! I actually closed my account pretty much immediately afterwards, and went with a local credit union which has been consistently great! They gave me a really good rate when I needed a car loan, have floated me if I was a little short before my direct deposit came in…

Wells Fargo made a lot of money on ‘Sort Order Optimization’

Say you have $100 in your bank account. You buy a candy bar for $2 from a vending machine, a coke for another $2, fill up $20 worth of gas, and then spend $100 on groceries. You’d think one overdraft charge, for the groceries, right?

Nope. The groceries will be taken out first, then the gas, then the candy bar and coke. Three overdraft charges.

It’s expensive being poor - and they knew that:

“Given our dependence on a small set of OD consumers (4% generate 40% of total OD/NSF revenue),” Zimmerman wrote, “a small change in behavior within this group can cause a large change in revenue.”

As does the end of our conversation.

Fuck Cox.

When I was doing Amazon Turk - had like $10 to my name, I accidentally clicked on “withdraw funds” instead of “deposit funds” for the $15 I’d spent ten hours earning.

Bank of America charged me $35 for the “overdraft.”