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Cake day: 2023年7月4日

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  • Right, and that is commendable. Just please keep comments like “You guys seem like a fun bunch to hang out with” to yourself, it’s not really adding to the discussion and we don’t need snide remarks about the fear and uncertainty we feel in regards to the collapse of the global environment. Keep that chin up, don’t let people harsh your vibe, but please don’t push down when people are rightfully worried about the future. Things are going to be getting very hard for a lot of people a lot sooner than we were hoping for, it’s only natural that people are going to feel negatively about it.



  • I don’t understand how anybody can discuss the state of our climate collapse in any positive light.

    “I mean hey, the oceans are acidifying faster than we expected, and the AMOC is slowing down, and the ice sheets are melting rapidly, and the ocean is swallowing our coastlines, and global temperatures have jumped significantly in the last several years, and the overall climate has been becoming more extreme and dangerous over the years, and we’re pumping shit into the atmosphere at record paces, and more parts of the earth are becoming uninhabitable, and we’re also dealing with stronger more intense storms and hurricanes, and there’s plastic poisoning everything and everyone everywhere, and we keep dumping heavy metals into the groundwater, and animal populations are declining, but hey, keep that chin up! Don’t listen to those negative nancies, they’ll harshen your vibe.”





  • When I broke and dislocated my arm a few years ago, four months’ worth of hospital visits drained my bank account, over $2,000 gone. It was also draining hundreds from my brother’s account, and then the week before Christmas I got hit with a bill for over three thousand dollars to cover the rest of the services rendered, due Christmas eve.

    The services that were rendered included having my arm eyeballed by a doctor a few times, two xrays, and that’s it. Nothing for the pain (“Just mix ibuprofen and Tylenol”), nothing to rehabilitate the strength I lost in that arm, just some dick in a coat poking my arm and charging me hundreds for the opportunity.

    Had I not gone to the hospital, I wouldn’t have been left penniless. Combine that with my severe anxiety disorder and now I feel fight-or-flight fear responses any time I have to spend more than $100 on something.

    Oh yeah, then a few months after that a friend of mine elsewhere in the country fell ill. He didn’t think it was major enough to warrant hospital fees, especially since he was uninsured and made little money. About a week later his condition suddenly went critical, and the next evening his sister informed me that he was dead in the hospital. Leukemia. I’d still be talking to him if it weren’t for the American wealthcare system.