It would be nice if the less-than-needed jobs could be cut and the needed jobs split more evenly among everyone able to do so. I’d love a 5 day weekend, or to be able to imagine retirement as a possibility.

I got a metal pipe from a chain link fence I was tearing down and used some scrap lumber for a frame. It isn’t perfect, but I’m not that handy or picky.

Places that pre-fab houses/ trailers/ pallets often have a free bin where you can get shorter pieces of lumber. Maybe some equivalent for metal bars or pipes (welding shops? fencing companies? Plumbing or gas fitting? Places where site / building demo is happening).

Where I live it is illegal to take things from the landfill and they are quite well monitored.

What a poor broken person. I support helping individuals like this by helping rid them of their unhealthy obsessions, removing them from the psychologically damaging effects of the public spotlight, and giving them tasks and goals in a controlled safe space so that they can achieve happiness without harming themselves or others.

Are we supposed to be some sort of gestalt entity composed of all the individuals that work there or the inanimate legal entity?

This existed well before Friday. My doctor recommended I pay to get a quicker scan last year. I’m not sure of the exact details since I didn’t do it.

I won’t say I’m not tight with cash, which factored into the decision, but I also really hate this fall into private health care and don’t want to support that. I was told it would be about $400 for a private MRI.

Yes, good - your new allies aren’t good enough for you. Cast them out and go it alone. Alone you will do it. Only you.

I do love being on hold for an hour only to speak part of a sentence to someone who immediately transfers me to another 1 hour hold queue and/or hang up on me.

And if you write in a complaint they email you a phone number to call with, you guessed it, a 1+ hr hold queue. And nobody has last names, phone numbers, email addresses, or accountability of any kind.

If you have any other option I suggest you use it.

Countries and politicians commit to a lot of things that they later back out of due to various reasons. Agreements without penalties are optional.

In this case, Turnup being an unpredictable self-centered loser in charge of a large and dangerous military is considered a sufficient reason to bend the knee for now. If he fails his coup we will may stop spending. If he succeeds, then I think we will continue spending.