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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I don’t think that there is a tactical thought to people wanting to vandalize Teslas. I think that there is a true sense of helplessness on not being able to do anything to stop these fuckers. So in in the place of something more substantial the anger and frustration is being taken out on something associated with musk

    Is it right? Probably not. Is it understandable, yes





  • It’s a great thought experiment to get us to think about what is truly important -

    No one is going to answer “work more” or “continue to conform to other’s expectations of me.” or any other thing that we are taught to believe are important.

    Sure having some savings is important, your health is important (except maybe not so much in this instance), but really life is about experiencing life not creating shareholder value or working hard to blend into the crowd just to make other people less uncomfortable.

    I know I went off on a tangent, I do that often. But I’ve been thinking more about how in the west we are taught aggressively from a young age what is deemed important (work, money, prestige, name brand things, etc) and what is frivolous (hobbies, family, friends, etc) and then people wonder why life sucks. It doesn’t suck, it’s that you are trying to conform to something that goes against your true nature.

    To answer the question: travel, spend time with people I love, play video games, eat more cheeseburgers, drink more beer.





  • I’m still pissed we as citizenry didn’t stand up and demand what we deserve

    This will only happen if there is someone that the progressive democrats can get behind. Someone like Bernie but younger and more angry. Someone that will call out the bullshit and do it in a way that will get the attention of the big media corporations. I hate to say it but a progressive trump, but smarter (which shouldn’t be difficult) and genuinely out to better the lives of the American citizens. And I genuinely hope that this unicorn exists.



  • The John Wick series

    Watched them all over the course of a weekend - its the same fucking moving over and over and over and over again. The amount of disbelief I needed to suspend got exponentially larger so by the time I got to the last movie I just couldn’t take it anymore. There is no real plot or any development of characters, it’s just implausible fight scene after implausible fight scene.

    I think if I put a few months between each movie I wouldn’t have this opinion - on their own the movies can be mindlessly entertaining but all together was too much for me.





  • The rich throughout history have always been afraid of the working class it just usually just shows up in less obvious ways.

    The way the wealthy talk about the working class

    The way the wealthy always look to divide the working class into camps to fight amongst themselves

    The way the wealthy demonize labor unions

    The way the wealthy keep education limited and expensive

    The way the wealthy use religion and media to drive their idea of goodness and justice

    The way the wealthy try to make the working class envious of their wealth so the working class spends their money and time trying to replicate it.

    Are all examples of an underlying fear of the significantly larger working class population getting control.

    And it is such a winning strategy that it works on them in reverse. The wealthy will do whatever they can to keep their wealth and always try to pile more on because of the fear of being one of them (the working class) that they have demonized for generations.

    EDIT: added more examples



  • so we learned

    It sounds like you were like most people in the western world - uneducated on nutrition, cooking and basic life skills. This isn’t a jab at you this is just the world that we live in. Most people don’t have a good understanding of these things so the go with what is easy, fast and feels inexpensive. This drives obesity.

    It’s great that you took the initiative to learn home economics and it sounds like it has helped you and your family. Many others have not gotten to the “so we learned” stage yet for whatever reason.