So I spent a big chunk of my life living next door to Louisiana (Houston) and now I live next door to Quebec (Toronto) and it just this moment occurred to me to check if Quebec has beignets. Like, I'd simply assumed if I ever went liking for beignets I'd find them. So I asked a Quebecoise friend, and
@mcc@dragfyre Yeah, my opinion was that beaver tails were like elephant ears with more/different topping options. I liked the one I had but it sure isn't a fluffy beignet 😅
(Side note, we went to a street fair the other day and kept trying to get an elephant ear but they were all "sold out" and only had funnel cakes 😭)
(Side side note, on the other hand, the local Creole place does beignets stuffed with mango preserves and they're divine 🤩)
I understand the idea of a loan: borrow money, pay it back over time plus a fee for the favor of having more money sooner.
I understand having a company and taking out a loan: borrow money to do something to help the company make more money and pay it off... but it's OK you made enough that it was a good idea.
But HOW can someone borrow money to BUY a company then say the cost of the loan should go on the companies books?
@futurebird (depending on relevant state laws etc):
A forms business entity B, which takes out a business loan to buy company C. After the purchase, company C ceases to be separate and gets folded into business entity B after the purchase so the books for biz entity B and company C are the same, which will reflect the loan amount still outstanding for biz entity B from the purchase of company C. If A decided that the now-combined entity will use company C's name, the loan will, too.
I truly never thought that I'd get to the point where visiting Germany would give me the "relief of home" vibes, but Switzerland is very hard, and there are people I love in DE.
@Faintdreams same! I keep hearing how good it is, but it's one of those things I'd rather watch with someone who does know the lore (who isn't a judgmental pedant like that other guy in your mentions) so that I can ask questions and generally watch them be gleeful (and then explain why lol).
side note, it's hilarious* to me that someone thinks saying "you don't have to read 30 years of comics but you SHOULD've watched 76 eps of a show made 27 years ago, duh" is at all helpful.
Seeing another wave of "people in red states should just move" from US folks and yet another round of "well akshully there was never anything good on twitter, why is anyone still there" at the same time really shows how these are fundamentally the same mindset. They think because they can afford (in more ways than financial but also very much financially) to be in places that are comfortable for them, that anyone who can't can just burn, while completely ignoring how everything is connected.
In addition to being casually cruel, "ppl in red states should just move" betrays a fundamental level of ignorance about democracy. If you believe in democracy, understand that other states materially affect national outcomes.
Meanwhile @Tinu , who is struggling to afford her chemo meds to stay alive or her mortgage for her family's home, is still on Twitter because she gets more funding there than anywhere else and still in a red state because she can't afford to leave. https://ko-fi.com/tinuwrites
I just…y'all are out here demanding that people tag mutual aid requests in the most dehumanizing demeaning ways possible, or for people to stop posting mutual aid at all. Then you turn around and say you "don't see any good" in social media platforms where people are actually able to raise that money (not from nazis but from other people who can't afford to leave) and you "don't understand why everyone doesn't just come here".
Again, that place sucks, but you're not making this one any better.
Sorry if I'm running at the mouth today, it's just... there's been a lot of gaslighting and it's hard to know when I'm doing the right thing and when I am getting in the way. I just don't have it in me to fight anymore.
@grrrr_shark Don't apologize, this stuff is hard and lonely enough as it is and you are in a place which prioritizes productivity over people. It's so hard and feels so bad to talk about bc they act like we're supposed to have all the answers but we ultimately can't fix anything if they can't/won't help themselves. Sometimes it improves on its own and sometimes not. I wish I had ideas for you, or at least that we lived closer so I could give you a hug or take you out to vent occasionally 🫂
@grrrr_shark actually, I know the time difference is an issue, but do you have friends you can just talk to out loud about it? Or is the worry that N might overhear and it would make things worse?
And in a final act of self-defeat for the evening, I wipe my phone so I can put it in a bag for tomorrow and go to sleep so I can get up early and catch my flight and… oh… oh wait… I just disabled my phone… which is also my alarm clock.
Filling out that stupid form knocked my off of my stride, because I uncovered (looking for stupid information), looking through old mails, some nastygrams from my ex accusing me of using the pandemic to keep N from him, when in point of fact, she simply refused to go see him.
He can't understand that she only wanted to see him under circumstances SHE could control, and that there was nothing I could physically do to make her go.
You know, I know running from your old life isn't the answer, but being forced to dive back into it for eternity because the country you live in can't understand "this person now has no hold over me and I was never their property" sucks ass, and it makes me hate living here a lot more.
Why, why must the English-speaking world all be so super-fashy? Because I'm never gonna fit in HERE, and now I can't really go back anywhere :(