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Cake day: July 14th, 2023

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  • Weirdly, I agree with this statement. “Work gives you purpose.” is something that my friends dad once said, that I only recently gotten to understand the meaning of. I have severe treatment resistant clinical depression and the only time I get a sliver of relief is when I’m at work and my brain is firing on all cylinders. It’s only when I’m alone, on my own time is when all the feeling of inadequacy and self hate creep back. So yeah, if the whole purpose of the healthcare system is to keep me health enough to be a cog in the machine, then so be it.

    Because, seriously, what’s the alternative? Is your endgame to slouch on the couch all day? Is your end goal in life to be a sloth? You got to contribute, otherwise this whole thing doesn’t work. And to make it work, you gotta work.













  • The best way to live in the US is to work at an European company and be send out long term to the US branch, you get European paychecks with the European taxing system and have European health insurance. You can receive your pay to a bank that allows global withdrawal with a miniscule currency transfer fee, for everything else you can use a Visa or MasterCard. Sure, this only works for a couple of months to a couple of years max, but you don’t have to deal with so much US bullshit and when shit is about to hit the fan, the company is going to pull you out anyway.




  • I have a question. Why is it when a politician says positive things like their going to “lower the taxes” and “improve quality if life”, etc. when elected everybody knows they’re talking out of their ass and none of that is going to happen. But if a politician spews negative shit everybody acts like it’s all already set in stone and almost guaranteed to happen. In my experience politics is very slow, big changes happen slow and often don’t stick past a legislative period. Most politicians are all talk no bite, this has been proven again and again and again.





  • Something I’ve noticed more and more is how prevalent killing, murder and death is in Hollywood produced media. The vast majority of popular movies and series either start, involve or end with somebody being killed. And its almost laughable how high the disregard of human life is portrayed to the masses. Look at any other motion picture productions, say Korean, Indian, French, British, etc., even a single person dying in a story is seen as a very huge deal. Same thing goes for violence in general. Even if the character decides to take the high ground and not kill their nemesis, they still die in the end by other means.

    I think this image of death has led a lot of Americans to adapt the attitude of “It’s fine, as long it doesn’t happen to ME.”, which in return can be capitalized on by telling them “It’s fine we’re not talking about YOU but about a THEM.”. They’ve seen people die on a screen so many times that if it happens for real and is shown on the news, it is regarded as entertainment rather than a horrific tragedy.

    Seriously, in classical storytelling often times the whole story revolves around a single death. But in Hollywood the scenes often involve something along the lines of [good guy takes out a bunch of bad guys]. This could also be why US gun culture has gone absolutely insane over the last 30 years. They all want to be the cool action hero taking out the bad guys, but forget that their hero is a sociopathic murderer by all standards.