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Cake day: March 19th, 2024

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  • Autism was always around. Someone once said that everyone had that uncle that was really REALLY into collecting trains and displaying them.

    Since I heard that back in the day… I just accepted that there’s nothing new under the sun and all these trigger points for folks today have just always been around. We just have a 24 hour news cycle now.







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    23 days ago

    When I was 16 I worked at at Taco Bell. I watched an older fellow lose his God damned mind at the kid who made his burrito. He screamed at the kid for putting onions on his bean burrito. Screamed. Once he was done screaming he threw the oniony burrito across the counter at the kid. This was on a Sunday afternoon and dude was in his Sunday best.

    From then on I vowed to never be that guy. This was in 1996 I made $4.25 an hour and I assume the kid making the burrito made close to the same.

    Something that gives me comfort about that situation now is that dude is probably dead. So fuck him and his onions.













  • Honestly… Education and social engineering. The majority of the folks here read at a 6th grade level. Their comprehension of complex social situations is nill. They can’t fathom the difference between a million and a billion. Those numbers get tossed around so easily and commonly that it just washes over them like they mean nothing.

    Our information flow is controlled. All sources of common easily found news comes from 4 or 5 oligarchs.

    The boomer generation is the “soft men” generation. They hit the sweet spot for money generation, freak sex with no consequences, drug use with out worry of dying, housing that cost a lot, but was obtainable on a single salary and an education system that was paid for by the 90% tax in the Ulta wealthy and corporations.

    The shining beacon on the hill, the USA that the WW1 and WW2 generations built was slowly destroyed by elected officials who were being paid by the wealthy and corporations.

    All of that manipulation accelerated when citizens United was passed.

    So now we have a generation of folks that have never had to fight in a war on their own soil. A belief system that we are better than everyone else and that our checks and balances will hold against a coordinated effort to dismantle the government. And a population that only cares if their teams win…

    So it’ll probably take 15 years before we get our heads out of our asses unless something drastic happens to collectively wake us all up. :/

    Hopefully all that makes sense… I’m on mobile and I don’t have my glasses. Haha