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gas prices
Mar. 16th, 2022 07:50 amFirst off, I want to say thank you to dreamwidth for being here and being a supportive community for me, with new friends and everything. Leaving livejournal was a really tough call for me after 20 years of writing. I had a few lj friends who said they will not come over, and I will miss them. But yesterday I thought again that maybe I should cross post, and I went over to see that the main page top post on lj is a 700+ comment conspiracy theory about how COVID-19 was made in a lab at a US army base and American owes the world for releasing a bio weapon, it is definitely made up propaganda and it's being held up by some kind of google bot force and that's the kind of crap you'd only see on livejournal. I'd already complained to them last year about showing my readers russian dating ads, even though I have a paid account, and they said it was okay.
so that's it. no cross posting. I'm really glad I had somewhere else to go, because so MANY friends came here it's like a non-event from a community perspective. I really miss being able to schedule posts. but I'll tough it out.
In local, non-internet news, I am suffering from the tiny world around me in Kansas complaining about high gas prices. I am so incredibly done with listening to this. We're in wichita and gas isn't even that bad... It's $3.89 right now. I've read that if we adjust for inflation gas was definitely over $5 during the bush years. plus our cars are more efficient now. we will be fine.
I work with people who can buy huge trucks, so much that I almost wondered if I should get a truck, but then I saw how much they were and ZOMG! Like, $80K! They finance the things for seven years!
But forget the fact that we all earn enough to buy trucks... we also aren't getting bombed. I haven't had to wait in my car for days with my children for a boarder crossing because my city is being attacked.
first world problems. there IS GAS. I have working cars. I have work.
if I catch my mind drifting off for one second and I am worried about gas prices or my stock picks, I pledge to slap myself, and donate to refugee relief.
so that's it. no cross posting. I'm really glad I had somewhere else to go, because so MANY friends came here it's like a non-event from a community perspective. I really miss being able to schedule posts. but I'll tough it out.
In local, non-internet news, I am suffering from the tiny world around me in Kansas complaining about high gas prices. I am so incredibly done with listening to this. We're in wichita and gas isn't even that bad... It's $3.89 right now. I've read that if we adjust for inflation gas was definitely over $5 during the bush years. plus our cars are more efficient now. we will be fine.
I work with people who can buy huge trucks, so much that I almost wondered if I should get a truck, but then I saw how much they were and ZOMG! Like, $80K! They finance the things for seven years!
But forget the fact that we all earn enough to buy trucks... we also aren't getting bombed. I haven't had to wait in my car for days with my children for a boarder crossing because my city is being attacked.
first world problems. there IS GAS. I have working cars. I have work.
if I catch my mind drifting off for one second and I am worried about gas prices or my stock picks, I pledge to slap myself, and donate to refugee relief.