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So, this is more a "what are you like" discussion.

How do you stim? do you stim? do you not stim? anything like that.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Good luck to you! I am impressed with your resilience. Hang in there.

[โ€“] vexikron 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks!

My data plan finally refreshed, and the thunder client times out and wont let you use it without a high speed connection.

So, its been two weeks, and I managed to talk to the manager here and basically by my blind luck or good fortune, this place lets tenants receive mail, and also my state of origin updated their procedures for replacing a drivers license such that it is at least actually possible for them to mail me a replacement, after a long stupid snail mail process.

Cant do it online. Because... ???

So yeah. If I had not found this place, I would have frozen to death in the -30 F winter. Shelters around here are night only, and warming centers are day only, and I am very likely to have been assaulted or had my phone or wallet stolen from me again, which would also basically have resulted in my death, or at the very least much, much more painful and hopeless wandering, unable to actually live anywhere.

Also if my state of origin hadnt updated its policies, or if this random place i found by wandering the streets hadnt also been affordable and most importantly, let me recieve mail here, I would basically also never be able to live anywhere, as i cant afford to bus back to where im from and get the id in person without, you guessed it, becoming homeless again.

Basically America hates the homeless, and the worst part is most of the solutions to a great many of these problems are known and relatively cheap and easy fixes. But no one votes for or much less advocates for them because either they dont know, care, or more usually, despise any effort being put toward something that doesnt have an immediate visible benefit.

Oh well. I tried. I was a data analyst for a non profit helping the homeless and well crime happened to me and they didnt give a fuck about me.

Anyway... I will probably be at this place another month or two while I wait to get my ids, and then so far I have figured out two possible affordable apartments i can live at for cheaper than this motel, once my ids come in.

At least ive been able to basically take baths and massage my ungodly sore and taut muscles and tendons for 2 weeks now. I can actually walk without immense pain now, for a short while. Still got some healing left to do.

My budget just barely works out to be able to afford Feb, but it looks a lot better there on out.

Long term I hope to get out of this hell hole of a country.

Not sure where Id go, but hopefully somewhere relatively peaceful.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Thanks for the update. I hope you manage to get out of the U.S. eventually. I feel this place is going down fast.