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  • 8 years ago
    Achievement HappyApple

    Busy Bee

    Maintained a 7 day login streak 2/2 times! Congratulations HappyApple on this achievement!

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  • 8 years ago
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    Level 6

    HappyApple is now level 6 with 16,330 XP.

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  • 8 years ago
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    Hat Trick

    Maintained a 3 day login streak 5/5 times! Congratulations HappyApple on this achievement!

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  • 8 years ago
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    Chatter Box

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  • 8 years ago
    Comment HappyApple

    I don't think I could pick one, but I really like Eddie Izzard, John Oliver, Robin Williams, Steve Martin, Dave Chapelle, and Mitch Hedberg. I'd probably pick Mitch if I had to pick one right now, but in a month I'd probably pick someone else. John Oliver is probably my favorite who is currently active.

  • 8 years ago
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  • 8 years ago
    Comment HappyApple

    No surprise, considering Florida had the same results a few years back. States keep pushing for this shit and ignoring all of the evidence. The sad thing is if you read the comments of any article about testing welfare recipients on local news in conservative states, people are all about it. The average voter doesn't look into things like this, so the politicians just push for it because they know their conservative base wants it. Although I'm pretty sure Scott Walker (Rick Scott, not Scott Walker) did it because he had a chance to make some money from it.

  • 8 years ago
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  • 8 years ago
    Comment HappyApple

    To be fair, my dad was the "FBI is watching me all the time" kind of guy. He was genuinely right about it sometimes because he was actually doing some really illegal shit; locals and feds definitely sent people undercover to him and even me. So his paranoia was this weird mix of reality and fantasy. He was doing a lot of coke in his "prime" and, towards the end, meth. Both are known for inducing paranoia, so it was like taking a normally skeptical guy with a problem with authority and amplifying it ten-fold, but then actually having some of the delusions become reality or be reality all along. I don't think most of it was based on evidence or anything, he just kind of got lucky.

    Hell, before he got busted he was so out of his fucking mind that he fired FOUR lawyers in a row because he thought they were working with the feds. The reason he thought this is because one of them very well might have been.

    I had originally typed a lot more than this, but I'm not exactly sober right now and no one wants to read my ramblings about this shit. I am actually thinking about writing a book about my dad and growing up around him, though. He went from the projects to the suburbs and being incredibly wealthy (especially considering he had 5 kids), but then wasted it all on drugs and women and went to prison for the first time in his life at 66. He's this weird version of rags-to-riches-to-rags.

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  • 8 years ago
    Current Event HappyApple

    Gary Johnson: One Debate Rule is Preventing Real Choice in POTUS Elections

    In an exclusive interview for IVN, former N.M. Governor Gary Johnson says he sees a path to victory in the debate lawsuit, but his group needs more support.

  • 8 years ago
    Comment HappyApple

    I remember when this movie first came out, I was just getting into the internet. I was about 11 at the time and I'd had a PC for a year or so, but no internet connection. My dad was really, really paranoid about the government (and he was kind of right, which is funny now that I think about it). Anyway, he did some illegal stuff out of our house and didn't want anything to do with the internet, but I begged him and begged him and finally he got a dedicated line for it and everything. So like a few months later, I'm deep into the original Diablo. It had just come out and around that same time this fucking movie was on VHS or whatever and we watched it.

    Fuck me, man, it took weeks to convince him that the internet wasn't like that at all and the movie was basically sci-fi. All I can remember is Diablo withdrawals.

    Edit: Now I'm wondering if he was right about anything else during his drug fueled paranoid rants...

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  • 8 years ago
    Comment HappyApple

    Yeah, but they got bought years ago and the majority shareholder is Conde Nast or whatever that company is. He doesn't have to be making decisions anymore if they didn't want him to be, right?

  • 8 years ago
    Comment HappyApple

    I'm going to put a french drain in my backyard. After that I'm going to put up a second fence for my dogs because right now I can't use my carport without opening the gate and I can't open the gate without dealing with the dogs. I considered an invisible fence, but both dogs like to chew on the other dog's collar, so that seems like a good way to waste some money. Plus I'm not entirely comfortable shocking them.

  • 8 years ago
    Comment HappyApple

    The funny thing is that they're still letting Alexis Ohanian (kn0thing) make decisions about things and he's the reason they went through a lot of this mess to begin with.

  • 8 years ago
    Achievement HappyApple

    Hat Trick

    Maintained a 3 day login streak 2/2 times! Congratulations HappyApple on this achievement!

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