My dad used an education savings account to funnel my bar mitzvah money and birthday money in “for college”. Kept telling me I’m so lucky because my college will be paid off. Cheats on my mom, buys a Lincoln MKX, and flees to Russia instead.

I found that pretty deceptive ngl.

I was cleaning my roof gutters, grabbed a handfull of leaves, turned out to be a frog.

I was raised Mormon. Finally left in my 40s.

HostGator. They raised their prices by quite a bit last time I renewed. So I contacted them and complained. After a while they came back with a “special” offer to renew at the old price but I had to accept it right then. I felt like I wasn’t gonna get a better deal and it wasn’t my money anyway, so I accepted.

Got the price they offered but they renewed it two months ahead of when it was due, so it ended up costing the same anyway, because now it will be up for renewal sooner. I will be moving away from them before the next renewal.

TL;DR: HostGator can fuck right off

I cleared out an old desk at work and found 3k in cash in an envelope. Turned in all the papers I found to accounting but that one. Nothing ever came back to bite me and I gave it all to my brother, he paid rent with it for two months.

When I was young there was this dude constantly hitting on my (now fiance) girlfriend. He hopped in my truck one night cause he was friends with my buddy. They all went into McDonalds and I stayed in my truck and smoked. He was a dealer. I went in his backpack and took his weed stash, hid it in the new speakers I just bought. Dropped them off when we got home and he didnt know until a day later.

Wait did we have to be the deceivers?

Banks reordering transactions to maximize fees. That is closely contending with the nondeterministic fees that US contract cellular companies charged in the past (and may still). I got on prepaid in 2007 and never looked back. I view both industries as extortionist criminals.

My ex wife.

There was this mommy blogger in the early aughts who decided to have an “unassisted birth”, which is a thing where you just don’t have any medical care at all. She pontificated often about Big Obstetrics and how they always pushed you for C section because they got paid more, she called midwives “medwives”, and all sorts of other crunchy shit like that. She clearly was not terribly confident but was terribly obnoxious and holier than thou. Fine. I think she had NPD or BPD because of her behaviour personally. Just the nastiest person. She did all her own pregnancy care, which apparently was just writing weight down and taking vitamins and that’s about it.

Well at 33 weeks she went ripping into early labour, phoned her old midwife and while telling her quite rudely that she wanted an unassisted birth also asked her what to do. The midwife told her to go to ER and that she couldn’t help her because it was out of her scope. So she went screaming to ER, could feel baby sitting right at the perineum. The OB takes a look and tells her they have to do a section because baby is breech and obstructed. She began screeching at him that she only wanted to have a vaginal birth and told him he was “birth raping” her, and acted like a hysterical hyena. He managed to convince her how bad things were and that she needed to be delivered RIGHT NOW, and she finally consented and they took her up, and put her under general anesthesia.

She later wrote this vague blog birth story, baby had died because of congenital defects before she woke up, and she wrote a very long set of blog posts about All The Ways The Hospital Was Wrong without really going into why her baby died, and everyone fell all over themselves pitying her and telling her that she was so right about everything. She blogged about how the nurses were so terrible for trying to connect her with social work or grief groups, and when they offered her medication to dry up her breast milk she screeched that they were not supportive of her breastfeeding her 3 year old.

But later on the story came out that baby had a rare condition called sirenomelia, or mermaid syndrome it’s sometimes called. It’s a birth defect where the legs are fused together into the appearance of a mermaid tail. They have a lot of other defects, including no kidneys, no genitals, heart defects, etc. Sirenomelia is caused by untreated gestational diabetes. So not having prenatal care probably killed her child. That was damn deceptive, making everyone pity her when it was just her own obnoxious ignorance.

My parents

Financing offers through the car dealership.

the last Presidential election that Elon hacked for the wealthy fucks that need their asses handed to them 50+yo here

financing at a car dealership, for sure.

don’t believe me, go try it, you walk in ready to buy a car, and 4 hours and a ton of signing paperwork later, you start to wonder if it was all worth it lmao

Many “government” entities in the US are private for-profit companies: Postal Service, vehicle licensing, electric companies, water companies, which control the very infrastructure of everyday life.

Capitalism.

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