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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