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Needle has barely started to move honestly, each upcoming year will be successively worse until we see a generation of dead kids from preventable illnesses, and even then…

I think a lot about the Sagan quote about how we’ll drift off, our faculties in decline, into an age of crystal-gazing. It’s already happened so bad. I can’t watch reality TV, even like the Rehearsal, because by episode 2 there’s a numerologist who believes in Satanic murders. Too stupid to live, but happily voting. America.

Every time my brain tries to drift to McDonalds, I’m like “I could go get a Digorno which would be 1/3-1/5 the price” and then just sit at my house eating canned soup or something because I am fairly lazy.

The Angel’s Kiss I think it was known as

Air America lasted about 5 years in the 2000s, and it was exactly this. The Republicans would never let their stations die like Air America did.

I do miss my mom, but then I remember her doubling down on being a conservative despite her gay son having nearly been killed in 1999 for coming out in HS. You can’t argue with stupid, and you can’t indulge it either.

CounterpointL people getting their news from social media and memes is 99% of the reason we’re in this hellhole

I had a friend tell me - you don’t get to pick your place in history, but there’s always something worthwhile to observe. Most people don’t live through the end of an empire, social decay, and ultimately… well, we know this won’t end well. But there’s something deeply romantic about being part of the resistance - I mean hell look at how much art is made about that.

Now obviously you have to ignore some things like how you can’t afford groceries and your life expectancy is going down (you’re already unable to afford rich people medical care, which is now diverging from the rest of us). But it’s really nothing compared to any historical turbulence like this. We aren’t in famine. Our life expectancy is way UP since then.

I can’t change any of this (beyond the serious community organizing I’m doing anyway) so looking at different perspectives is the only way to stay sane.

Do you know how credit cards work by chance

Article references his manager

Like you can afford that after you borrow money for groceries and pills

You weren’t paying attention to the alt media igniting and fanning the flames as the pandemic unfolded, it was like Covid itself started broadcasting and posting on forums. Unbelievable shit. Felt like one of those “wacky wednesday” books but with, you know, more people choking to death on their own blood.

Guys should take note, being yourself and even moderately goblinish can be hotter than being conventionally handsome, if you’re confident, and everyone thinks you’re well hung.

One of them - I forget which, Grande? Admitted to pushing that rumor to make it harder for Pete in the future, as women would have such high expectations. And yes as someone on the bigger side, I will say, tell people it’s average and let them be happy surprised, rather than claiming it’s huge and being a letdown.

I’ve abandoned families for less

We don’t have to put it in charge of nuclear weapons, it just has to find a way into those systems, many of which are fairly old, like it’s broken into websites without anyone telling it to.

So much simpler. Make banks illegal. Cash smelling dogs. Everyone is on their own. Let’s see who makes it.

Yeah the Waltons aren’t super liked outside of that little town, and there are plenty inside it who aren’t fond of them anymore as the city bends to their whims. Sometimes you benefit from what they do, sometimes it fucks up something you liked already. A little of their guilt money is in my nonprofit’s bank account. I am happy to be using it for things they’d probably hate.

Well this cooter has teeth (and is a grinder we have learned) so one imagines it has a connection into the digestive system, but then if he knew that, he’d probably have known to avoid the teeth.

The living own the earth… the living fascists who purport to be the only ones capable of divining the founders’ intent and insist it be done in the vacuum of our contemporary understanding of the founders unless it agrees with their wishes and then it’s the only thing that matters

Billionaires aren’t people in the same sense that we are, Cook has turned his back on the queer community, so he can say whatever he wants about himself, but he’s not gay in the same sense that the rest of us are.

I spent the summer tearing apart an exterior wall of my 1902 Queen Anne house, doing electrical and Ethernet and fixing plumbing and insulation. Real work in the 100-105* sun. It’s fucking glorious. The problem is, every time I come home, or face a challenge of any kind, I just go “well fuck it, time to go work on the house.” So I am super behind in all of my projects, including a business to get me out of tech, heh. I want to trade screens for sun…