Physical retail stores.

Online shopping has its perks, but man I am really getting depressed at seeing so many stores close up and not return. Entire shopping centers become ghost towns and leave one or two businesses left behind.

Christmas shopping is depressing too. I can’t believe I miss the mall crowds. I hate crowds, but I miss it. I miss everyone being so happy and dressed up in holiday attire and the mall being dressed up too.

Now it’s just a bunch of knock off stores there. Disney store is gone, Sears is gone, gamestop is no longer there, even the food court sucks.

What’s going to be worse is when more leave and we are truly dependent on online shopping. The cheap prices are going to go up with these retailers knowing you have no choice but to go with them.

Clothes shopping online is horrible. Car shopping online isn’t ideal. Even with guaranteed refunds and trials…it’s just not the same. I miss getting an item and staring at it all the way back home. You get a similar feeling waiting on a package and it feels nice in a similar way, but I want to have both.

Nobody really seems to be recognizing this trend.

If going back to your mom is your only option, you need to do it. You can’t live with someone like this. Everyone has secrets, but finding out these kind of secrets is something else and not something you want any part of. Especially with corrupt police, if they, for whatever reason, decide to raid the house and find it with you living there, your life is now in trouble as well as his. You said that was your SD card he’s using? How do you prove it wasn’t you who put it on there? Do you even want to fight this legally?

And besides that, it sounds like a dying relationship. The signs are all there and I think you realize this as you wrote this. The fact that you’re not able to feel like yourself is something that is a sign of a bad relationship, like how you feel you can only be a certain way when he’s not in the home.

Have you tried searching for an online remote job so you won’t have to travel as much? There’s a lot of that for the world of cybersecurity and tech in general, though I know it can be hard to get your foot in the door nowadays.

But you need to do something. Staying there and in this relationship is not good for you. Even before finding the card, it doesn’t sound like this has been your ideal relationship. You can and should do better for yourself, even if that means ending this and being single for a little while.

Man in the High Castle was an interesting concept and interesting for the first seasons until it started getting into multiverse stuff. I tuned out once the Nazis had plans to take over a whole other parallel universe.

I was fascinated with the way a world would look like had they won, especially having never really thought about Japan’s role and sharing the United States as a territory. I like those sort of “what if” scenarios.

But they fumbled it once it got to that point. No idea if the book followed in that or not. I was just looking for the parallel “what if” world and to see the story take place there, kind of like experiencing the Wolfenstein games.

I’ve gotten it 3 times from 2 different accounts. The first account sent it to me twice on two separate days. Ironically from an account that I had replied to months before it spammed me.

Then it sent me it again a few weeks later from a different account, same picture but different name.

I’ve blocked both accounts so far, so they may have sent more and I just didn’t see the other attempts.