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Just wow. ~~~~~~~ You Are Not The One - Chinese Dating Dystopia [...] This is where we start: with a man who cannot be found in his own name. Wang Wei is 28. He works at the Foxconn facility in Zhengzhou assembling logic boards that will become iPhones for people in countries where his monthly salary is a dinner out. He lives in a dormitory with seven other men, four of whom are also named Wang Wei. He sends money home to his parents in Henan. He has a phone. He has a Douyin account. He has not, in three years of trying, found a girlfriend. This is not because he is ugly or unkind. It is because the price of being considered eligible in his home province requires a car (minimum 80,000 RMB), an apartment (minimum 200,000 RMB down payment), and a caili, a bride price, that in rural Henan currently averages around 188,000 RMB. His annual salary is approximately 42,000 RMB. He did the math once. Then he stopped doing the math. Instead, every night after his shift, [...] https://terminaldrift.substack.com/p/you-are-not-the-one-chinese-dating

You're welcome, and of course it's frustrating -- "so near, yet so far." Makes celebrating even sweeter. See? Doubtlessly you're next.

Chatty Thursday repartee, finally and wonder what's in the water man. ------- Thrilling Thursday report, see man: Almost zzz'd until alarm, stinking hip pain man. Breakfast/lunch was one-Many'rd of a tub of Sam's chicken salad, perhaps tastier than Costco's and certainly in a more wieldy-sized tub ingest we man. Visited Mama T-B., general maintenance man. We and senior she man each too tired to yell much, be thankful for small boons man. A siesta was moderately successful, moderately zzz we man. Mama T-B.'s CPA sent his bill for this year's efforts, efficient CPA he man man. It is lower than was last year's bill, not drastically but substantially man. Some tax data were more complex than were last year's, in addition man. This means that our organizational system beats Mama T-B.'s aysheep-obsessive system, so there man. Din-din was onecan of sliced carrots, onetin of sardines-in-oil*, and naked-&-then-salsa'd Fritos Scoops, ingest we man. *absolutely and undeniably scrumptious, see and si and so there Bro G man Miu remained zzz-ing on nearby sofa during sardine-ingestion, mirabile visu man. No party with the rubias tonight, no cavort we man. We have itineraried Many (2+2+1) ESs for Friday, itinerary we man. Two are in FMST (favorite medium-sized town), and we shall pass through FST on return, wonderful man. However, it is supposed to monsoon like an illegitimate male child most of the day, enough of this man. We shall report on whether we T-B.-mobile, build an Ark, or flush the whole thing, intrepid we man. And that was/is our thrilling Thursday, report we man.

, Bro G man. LPoP and unread, but, if we were to guess, the prices that you mentioned -- perhaps $Many.Many -- were roadside, si man.

Jackass Number Two, si and heebie-jeebie mam ma'am. You have risen even further in our estimation by your admission that you have watched one or more, si mam ma'am.

Texas killed safety inspections recently, two schools of thought about that action man. Emissions are tested in only a Manyzen or so of the largest counties, oh well man. "Dear Naps: We apologize to how rude we were to you as kids, si man."

Congratulations to her and to you. Hope you'll stick around VJ to help others, but if not, all the very best.

Nowhere near that. Keep your focus on how overjoyed you'll feel when it does happen!

That's great! Be sure to give us a full report.

Ditto!

Didn't know that CfA served mac & cheese, or that one can get a credit-card refund for it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Former Chick-fil-A Employee Arrested for Allegedly Ringing Up 800 Orders of Mac and Cheese and Refunding $80K to His Credit Cards A former Chick-fil-A employee has been arrested as police say he funneled money from the register into his personal accounts. The former Chick-fil-A employee in Grapevine, Texas, has been arrested for allegedly ringing up hundreds of orders of Mac & Cheese and refunding the money to his own accounts, according to a news release shared with PEOPLE by the Grapevine Police Department. The employee is seen on security footage "using the register where he rang up 800 orders of mac and cheese trays, then refunded them to his personal credit cards, resulting in a total of just over $80k," the release said. [...] https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/former-chick-fil-employee-arrested-220446041.html

Must defer to Dr. mam ma'am's wheelhouse, si mam ma'am.

Peace of mind, foremost.

Sounds good. ~~~~~~~~~~ Jackpot in the Mountains: The Lithium Surprise Hiding in Appalachia [...] it has been long known that there were deposits of lithium in American Appalachia, on Wednesday, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum took to his official X account to announce that these deposits are considerably larger than previously thought. [...] https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/04/29/appalachian-lithium-jackpot-328-years-of-new-us-supply-found-n2201812

THIS is the key element. I know surviving spouses who have cursed aloud upon finding that the deceased died without a Will. If the OP's marriage is strong enough, I recommend drafting all possible estate documents.