Hey would ya 11 ? <| sep |> ayye I added you ! mines in my flair . <| sep |> His assets are sold off and then the money is invested into things he does not know about generally into diversified stocks . That is how a blind trust operates , it ' s what previous presidents have done . <| sep |> Family . If you don ' t have that , you ' ll need friends that will stick by you . If you can ' t manage that , the state will have accommodations for you , plus new friends that will prepare salads for you . <| sep |> The game and and extra faceplates balance out the cost too I guess . Even though I don ' t really care for the 3 D mario plates . <| sep |> One thing I ' ll add Sometimes there are real deep reasons people want friends of a certain demographic . Sometimes people really do only get a long with people who fit certain criteria . Myself for example I really really do have a hard time clicking with people I don ' t have a lot in common with . I play a ton of video games so if people aren ' t huge gamers it can be tough to form a connection with them . Same with music I ' m a musician , I play 20 instruments and listen to every genre under the sun . If you ' re not passionate about music it can be hard to connect unless they ' re very into one of my other hobbies , e . g . the aforementioned gaming . In a perfect world there ' d be a Well you can teach them about your hobbies and bond over that ! scenario but it doesn ' t always work that way . That in mind I think that ' s one perfectly valid way to be picky over who you want to connect with . I already talked about gender , as for age . I think this one ' s pretty easy . Young people don ' t always feel comfortable talking to older people and vice versa . I know if I were 14 or something I ' d feel odd connecting with a 30 year old man . I do agree with you that people should be more open to meeting different kinds of people . That would be wonderful . However , as someone who ' s been posting here for years , unfortunately it really doesn ' t work that way . Sometimes you just don ' t click with people unless they fit a certain standard . Edit Not to say there aren ' t people out there they would get along with that don ' t fit their criteria . I ' m sure there are people out there who don ' t like musicgamingetc . that I could really connect with . It can just be really really difficult to find those people so I understand why people wouldn ' t want to try . I know I definitely wouldn ' t want to talk to a whole bunch of people just to see if we connect only to have to tell them I don ' t think this is working out . In the end that just wastes both our time and lets them down . Edit 2 Time zones are another big one . It can be really hard to cultivate a friendship with someone who ' s asleep while you ' re awake and vice versa . I mean , it can work , but I totally don ' t fault people for not wanting to try .