He lives under capitalism just like the rest of us. How do you think people make money?

No prob. VPNs shouldn’t affect how you can pay. Canadian banks all support e-transfers so we don’t use a lot of cash apps, I’ve never used paypal.

I was able to use prepaid cards everywhere. They should work just like a Visa or Mastercard.

Metamask is very beginner friendly and no different from setting up an e-mail.

https://metamask.io/en-GB

It’s called a “non-custodial” wallet, you control your funds so you don’t need ID. Custodial wallets are tied to exchanges that hold your funds, even though they belong to you, and all transactions are approved by the exchange. They follow KYC for legal reasons, like a stock exchange, but they’re also a bit safer to use.

Since you’ll be doing peer to peer transactions, remember there are no backsies. Once you send money, it’s gone.

You won’t be able to cash out at registered exchanges, so it’ll be tricky to get IRL money unless you have buyers you trust.

I haven’t used these guys in a while, but they don’t need ID in Canada at least: https://coincards.com/

Be safe out there. Don’t buy shit coins. Sign up for airdrops. Transfer fees go up and down throughout the day, it’s always cheaper to move larger volumes at night in North America.

Trading platforms and exchanges require IDs, you don’t need ID to have a crypto wallet for peer to peer transactions. I have like five.

Then I donno, man. Pull a Ferris Bueller or work for crypto.

It sounds like the root problem is not being able to leave the house.

Do you know anyone who can escort you? Furthermore, “leaving the house while suicidal” isn’t a crime. You’re a legal adult, so unless there are measures in place the cops can’t force you to do anything. Even if they can bring you back, you can probably set some stuff up before they find you.

I almost went the tattoo route when I was younger. I got a lot of information just by going into tattoo shops with my sketchbook and asking if anyone was looking for apprentices.

So you’re in your 20’s, in the states, and have never had a bank account?

I won’t make assumptions about how that happened. I’m Canadian so I don’t know how helpful this will be since our regulations are a bit different, but have you tried just walking into a bank with everything you have and explaining the situation? If they can’t set up an account they should at least be able to point you in the right direction.

In Canada we can get a driver’s learner permit with minimal ID. Birth certificate, SSN and proof of address should be enough. If you can get that you’ll have a government issued photo ID and you’ll be set. Alternatively, we can get a provincial ID with minimum documentation, if you can’t get a driver’s licence. There must be some equivalent in the states.

Another option is to get someone to notorize a document and photo that says you are you. Just call a notary near you and ask how.

It’s literally on her Wikipedia page.

I like to say “relationships don’t end, they change.” I’m friendly with a lot of my exes for the same reasons I was into them in the first place.

For others, the relationship changed into the kind without speaking or acknowledgement. Still pretty sure we’d be civil, if not friendly, if we got stuck in the same elevator. Probably because we all have abandonment issues and Machiavellian tendencies.

Because a group of people who furiously agree with each other never made problems for anyone.

You gotta be trolling. I’m not responding to you at this point, but posting for anyone who reads that comment without watching the video.

In the video he appologizes multiple times, condemns both wars he fought in, and says he regrets what he said and did in the past. He says his journey made him who he is today, and he’s proud of who he is today.

P.S. In the Jacobin article is a screenshot of a post where he explicity condemns mistreatment/violence against innocents and civilians by the military.

You can respond if you like. I’m disengaging and will not reply.

Edit: I’m not defending a dem. I don’t like the liberals. I don’t necessarily believe Platner is a good guy, but this comment is misinformation and purity politics at its worst.

Why did this post get deleted? It wasn’t offensive, uncivil or bigoted.

There are screenshots in the article of more recent posts he made.

Plus we got all the shit he’s said about how he feels about his past here: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/maine-democratic-senate-candidate-regrets-deleted-internet-posts/story?id=126636744

And: https://mainemorningstar.com/2025/10/17/unearthed-reddit-comments-present-first-stumble-in-platners-rise/

And: https://x.com/grahamformaine/status/1979312580490596829

And: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/iraq-afghanistan-veteran-launches-democratic-campaign-sen-susan-collin-rcna225703

Wild mushroom and grouse cream soup. Because I found a bunch of black morels, my buddy shot a grouse, and my other friend brought cream.

Also onion, garlic, herbs, and I started with a roux to thicken it.

This isn’t a woman complaining about people getting creative with her face, it’s a report on her experience with Sora.

One of the key points stated at the beginning was:

Although nudity or sexual content is banned, I discovered people making fetish content with my face.

Which opens the question about what, exactly, someone is consenting to when they allow other people to use their face, and what’s considered pornographic.

She went on to say users were making underage fetish content and potentially pornographic material anyway. This is a problem with any AI generated content and why so many stable diffusion platforms have banned words and groups of terms, if they don’t flat out ban all sexual terms. But, since the apps use real language, it’s impossible to think of every possible route to an end. The terms of service and moderation try to plug the holes, but they can’t be 100% effective.

If dead internet theory was the goal.

I agree that part of it is heuristics, as someone else mentioned here.

Another part is cultural. I was once invited to speak at a panel where we were supposed to be discussing news in our sector. Instead of getting the information ahead of time, the MC just gave us headlines from articles and told us to discuss. Unfortunately, this kind of thing is common in talk shows and panels, reinforcing the idea that people don’t need to read content to get the gist.

They were lucid, in a dream.

Someone in a lucid dream can have different levels of control and awareness.

I’ve been naturally lucid dreaming since I was six. At times I can be 100% aware, to the point where I’m actively trying to keep myself asleep (figure that out, I still don’t understand how it works,) to where I know it’s a dream but don’t entirely comprehend what that means.

I can experience changes in lucidity throughout a dream, because I’m still not conscious. I’m not controlling absolutely everything I see and feel, I’m just driving the narrative and forming memories while my brain fills in the blanks. In a lucid dream you’re not your body, you’re a projection of yourself in your mind’s randomly generated theater while physiological mechanisms are doing their best to keep you from boxing your cat/partner/wall in your sleep, so it makes sense your body would feel difficult to control in a dream, because you’re still just imagining what movement feels like.

How common they are depends on the person and the circumstances around them, because people can train themselves to lucid dream. Medication, drugs, routines, mental health etc. can all impact how someone dreams.