You son of a bitch, I’m in

My wife and I hung out with a couple just a few times. They were cool, but it’s hard enough to find time when my wife and I are both off and awake; lining that up with two other working adults (plus they have a kid) was impossible to do regularly.

I can get along okay with pretty much anybody, but most people I’ve met have proven to be a little too incurious or even hateful for me to want to go out of my way to spend time with. With every passing year, I value my time more and more (as I’m sure almost everybody must) so it’s hard to justify setting time aside for building friendships with people if I don’t naturally want to hang out with them. That having been said, I work rotating 12 hour shifts, so I’m not off every night and weekend like a lot of people are, and even if I am off I may be swinging my sleep schedule to prepare for not being off. A lot of people just can’t understand that yes, I may be off that day, but I didn’t get home until after 0500 and I need to sleep at some point. Or yes I’m off that day, but I need to be in bed by 2000 at the absolute latest because I need to get up at 0230 for work the next day.

I would recommend making a friend or two with neighbors if your work schedule isn’t as shitty as mine is lol. Especially if your neighbors suck less than a lot of mine have. Just don’t force a friendship where there doesn’t need to be one just so you can feel better about asking them to water your plants while you’re away for the weekend. If they’re cool, they’ll do it for you just knowing that they can ask you to return the favor down the road.

They could certainly try, but the trump appointed judges will throw that shit out. I would love to be optimistic, but how could anybody have faith in the judicial system that got us here to reverse course to achieve actual justice in any capacity? It’s hard to win against cheaters when you adhere to playing by the rules. “When they go low, we go high” will be the death of us all.

Oh good, that’s me. 9/11 in middle school, wars through high school, '08 housing crash in the middle of college which pushed me to pivot to an AA instead of bachelor’s, COVID wedding at 31, insane inflation through now. We finally bought our first house a few months ago and I turned 36 a few days ago. Things were starting to seem like they might turn out okay after all. Serves me right for having a whisper of optimism in my brain for once.

Pensions in this country are nearly non-existent. Without social security either, only the wealthy can retire. Thankfully, I’ve had retirement accounts for years, but they’ll be wiped out by the first late life medical emergency I experience. Without social security to look forward to, I think a lot of people would rather live through total societal collapse than give their everything just to prop up this system that gives nothing back. It’s a bad fucking deal.

8 year olds still have a lot of potential to grow. This piece of shit has shown a track record of about 70 years of non growth. Imagine getting rewarded for a behavior for 70 years straight. Even if he had the humility and intelligence to do it, he doesn’t have the time left it would take to rewire his brain against that kind of conditioning.

To be clear, I’m not excusing him. I’m explaining that his brain is irreversibly fucking broken. Anybody holding on to hope that he changes in any meaningful way, don’t you think that getting shot at would’ve been a humbling moment if ever there were to be one? By being a disgusting, hateful, stupid predator asshole consistently for his whole life, he’s gotten absurd wealth, a model wife, an army of cultist followers, and he got to be president. Twice. When was he supposed to have learned that he should really take the time and energy necessary to do some growing?

I for one believe that the question of whether a food service establishment has rats is very relevant to the business.

The character of the staff and clientele as well as the financial state of the staff as a direct result of how stingy their employer is can also be very relevant. Do you want to eat somewhere if the people preparing your food there will sell their morals and decency? Kinda seems likely that I could pay somebody there $100 to put their pubes into your quarter pounder.

Breaking news! Conservatives are bad at media literacy!

Guys, are you all just now realizing this? You never noticed a lot of people liking RoboCop and Starship Troopers for all the wrong reasons? Are you just now noticing how many shitty douches were fans of Rick and Morty, and it never occurred to you that they didn’t recognize the toxicity of the characters and that they legitimately thought that they were brilliant people who need not show any amount of patience or respect to others because of the invincibility awarded to them by their sheer incomprehensible genius? But really they’re just cringey, frustrated losers looking to bully a world that has always bullied them, and they want to drown their dino nuggets in their goddamn Szechuan sauce while bellowing “PICKLE RICK!” into the corners of their smelly studio apartment from the comfort of their used futon bed. Things aren’t getting better for them, and things were allegedly better before, so in a fit of frustrated desperation, they vote Republican to try to live a life like they saw in those older movies and sitcoms.

They want to be Ferris Bueller so badly, but they’re nostalgic for a time that never really existed. They completely miss the point of fiction. These stories they love were written with intention to deliver a purpose, and that purpose is rarely just surface level entertainment. The audience is supposed to learn something. It’s like reading The Fox and the Grapes and thinking “yeah, grapes suck.”