Dent corn specifically - mmm yummy tasty corn genetically modified for optimized biofuel production

Type of guy to run out of the casino with his arms full of chips- I’m rich!!!

So much mixed emotions around not being diagnosed with any mental health conditions in the 90s - sure I didn’t get treatment and developed coping mechanisms that have taken a decade to undo, but at least I only got bullied for being fat (until I learned the value of punching your way out certain situations)

Still from the new Mars Attacks! prequel looks great

Yeah definitely geared to purge whatever vestiges of “central planning” even occur in the US anymore- this is IMO an area they believe can be 1-to-1 replaced by AI - and with how “planning” currently occurs in the government (with enough guardrails to prevent too much introspection of root causes)- they’re not wrong, it will just be the death of any sort of novel thought (or whatever offends the bourgeoisie) applied to planning.

Also it’s so fucking annoying that all of the people pearl clutching in fear of shudders drug users in urban areas! shudders - areas that they’ve often never been to.

My family were so surprised to hear how much I loved visiting Portland and San Francisco - and I didn’t even tell them about my favorite part of tourism, carrying around smokes and meeting scary drug users!, who it turns out, are the same as me - but where I had fortunate breaks (either through blind luck (I grew up poor) or privilege (I grew up whitey)), someone decided it was better for society to cast them aside (or treat them with such little compassion that it’s the preferred option). Idk it pisses me off so much.

The best conversation I’ve had in a long time (and this is about talking to a person with a mental disorder, not to imply that he also is a drug user by proxy) was with a guy I’ll call “Lonnie” who was also watching the sun rise over Lake Michigan - he told me all about having schizotypal disorders and how he comes to watch the sun rise every day to try and stay grounded and connected to his grandma - his only living relative who had recently passed - and how it helps with preventing substance abuse.

Anyway my point is, treating people with kindness goes much further than criminalization.

And people wonder why we are so disgusted by the bourgeoisie.

One of my more proud uncle moments was teaching my niece (before she could read) to crumple up the newspaper and say “this is garbage- Local paper has gone downhill” and it got such a big laugh that she did it often for a while. Glad there’s still articles like this to keep her going now that she can read.

Hey now - don’t forget ableism!!

This message brought to you by Ableism - ‘You thought things were bad now? It’s actually the best it’s ever been!’ Ableism! Shut up and work!™️ -*disclaimer - sentence may be applied to most other types of bigotry (in the US)- but the message is the same, ‘get back to work you, ******* ********** *******’

Cheers on the same from clinical depression squad

Booooooooooooo. I didn’t know “Pureflix” existed but now I do. Boooooooooooo

Yeah I hear that. I have no idea what I’m gonna do- I’m almost a “career” employee in the agency I’m at so I may as well stick it out and see if the outlook improves in that time, or see if they fire me - tbh maybe that would be the fun “change of pace” I’ve been craving haha. Good you’ve got something lined up though - the civil engineering world has been wild since 2020, kinda the opposite of the late 2000s- there’s just so much work to do - hope it’s doing something you like and can learn from in the mean time! And most importantly take some time to recover from getting jerked around

Thanks for trying to work for the NRCS - they do good work (imo) but are way underfunded and have a habit of grinding down good engineers. Maybe you’ll get to do their work on contract! I’ve designed a handful of ACEP sites as a consultant - NRCS has produced so many good resources for rural engineering and ecosystem restoration - it’s too bad they’ve gotten fucked up so much by austerity (and the the capitalist desire for converting ag land to development).

By ANY means necessary

Twinks are cute at all ages and should be protected as such

Tenant of

They were moved from my very special adhd nook I had them tucked away in. Following up with the responsible party (we have a cute audhd dynamic).

This made me think “wait Ed Harris is still alive?”, and then realized I was thinking of ed asner, whos been a skeleton for a few years lol :(

One doesn’t graduate from Juilliard and just leave without a flourish

Also therapy. Getting it out in one way or another helps too - ugly crying and a heavy bag has been a welcome addition, but I like journaling too. Thought I could outpace it with endurance running or endurance drinking, but neither my knees nor my stomach could keep up lol. So everything in moderation unfortunately. Also weed lol.

Yeah it’s been worse lately for sure, menty b’s used to be an annual/biannual thing but now are much more regular- for the same reasons others have mentioned- grief for a world in pain, grief for powerlessness, grief for seeing capital warp some and crush others. What’s helped? Idk. Been getting into philosophy/theology a bit and my takeaway has been, “existence is suffering, our purpose is to lessen that suffering for those around us in whatever way we can”. At its minimum that’s carrying a lighter or cash so I can share with someone who asks, and that’s led to lots of interesting conversations with people…and often hearing fun new ways how they’re being fed headlong into the woodchipper :/ BUT it’s reinforced my connection and commitment to exactly who we’re hoping to shape a better world for.

TLDR: life is an endless cycle of suffering, but as you have the capacity, you can be a port in the storm for others and thereby find solace in their camaraderie. It doesn’t fix the suffering, but it gives a small ember of hope.