I did, but I don’t care anymore.

…I’ll see myself out. :P

In all seriousness I just don’t know if I have it in me to keep paying attention to a trainwreck that I have no control over. I can only help my local community in some limited manner, anything outside of that all I can do is vote and yell at a “representative” that is bribed to not listen.

I appreciate the kind words! Empathy is proving to be increasingly more rare in society so I appreciate you wanting to express that.

That in pretty much every single sense of the word I’m an absolutely pathetic loser.

I didn’t think I’d ever be anything special, but I also didn’t think I’d be 38 and single for going on a decade, living in someone else’s garage, working in a factory in a dead end position with no degree and not an ounce of self worth to even presume to choose a direction.

10 year old me couldn’t wait to be an adult, but after seeing me I think 10 year old me would never want to grow up knowing what I’d eventually become lol

Oh God yeah… I only recently learned that apparently I’m a white Steve Urkel…

Ugly and with a voice like that. It was when I realized that, I realized God is real and he’s an absolute son of a bitch lol

It’s why I have next to no pictures of myself. I could never take selfies because I hate seeing myself lol

“The Demonrats voted for Nazi Kamala so they don’t deserve food! We’re taking federal tax income from NY communist state and Calicommufornia and subsiding Fantastic Florida Patriots food! Oh, and they’re the party of hate not us! Fuck Democrats, hope they all die! Merry Christmas to all!”

Trump Forever. We will know nothing but Trump.

Jokes aside he did mention years ago that he was due a third term because the Democrats were unfair to him so baby wants a do-over

Lol lunch breaks. I wonder how soon it takes for that to be on the chopping block too. :(

That’s easy! Repeal child labor laws and massively increase prison populations for slave labor!

…they did say private prisons were among the groups very happy to see a Trump victory. Wonder why…

I will make sure to suicide by cop before I end up a literal corporate slave, I will force the guards to kill me.

I’m more of a bone apple tea myself, but I hear liber tea keeps the bugs away!

I wonder how many good people are out there that just won’t get into politics because they’re “children of the Internet.”

I’m not saying I’m worth a shit, but my Internet footprint over my life would have me destroyed if I got into politics. I try to leave as little as I can truly public of myself, but back in the Myspace days and early Facebook I was very very ignorant.

“We have the perfect candidate lined up for 2028! We’ve recruited Dr.Frankenstein and in a world first we’ve resurrected both Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, stitched them together, and they will be the new face of the Democratic party! Vote for us or you’re racist and just want Donald Trump to win!”

I’ve been considering the opposite. Life has only been getting worse and with this there future is guaranteed to be much worse.

I have my cat to worry about though, so I’m stuck here until she goes.

“To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.”

Just kidding. I have no idea. Some would say love, I’ve been fortunate enough to have a caring family, but I’ve never known “true love” of another not from my family.

Last Week Forever: “Surprise twist this week: Trump good? Here’s why Trump is God and we should always worship him!”

who sued the Trump administration almost 100 times while he was attorney general.

Well I now worry for them since the DOJ will now be the arm of Trump to go after “political opponents” who “unfairly persecuted” him. :(

I’m curious to see how many of them are like me and chose to register as independent as I didn’t want to be registered on an “enemies list” for Trump to persecute when he won. I’d have otherwise registered as a Democrat so I could participate in primaries.

We need to think about using technology to help people work less. Not just fatten profits.

It’s such a hard topic to deal with because you have to tackle the concept of ownership.

As it currently stands in capitalist economies the owner, as the title implies, owns the means to increase productivity that would enable people to work less, but since they are the owners they see it is morally repugnant to have other people who did “nothing extra” get “more” money as the math is essentially: less work, same pay = greater value, except you didn’t provide any greater value to them, the machine/technology that they own did.

It’s a shitty situation for sure :(

The downside to that is it is much harder to continue working as you age depending on the trade. Usually the “best” route there is to start early, learn what you can, and go independent eventually hiring other people to do the hard stuff you no longer can do.

Also need to be careful specializing… I went super specific and well… Yeah… Ice cream refrigeration machines aren’t exactly ubiquitous. I should have stuck with residential HVAC but I hated crawling under houses and being on call all night :/

I currently work in a factory (yeah I’m just chock full of bad decisions) and I can say from what I’ve gathered from my coworkers being a “machinist” isn’t so much of a viable trade anymore. Everyone pays like shit now.

Favorite Wikipedia article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosophy

Almost links eventually lead to philosophy!