Imma be honest, the only reason I learned anything in school was because of homework

I do think teachers often give too much of it though, with little thought given to how much homework kids are getting from other classes

I once pledged allegiance to my neighbor’s flag on a saturday when I was in kindergarten

Happy Tree Friends. I first want to say I never enjoyed this shit, but in college I went to this dude’s apartment with my roommate to smoke weed, and we’re just sitting there sort of fucked up, and he goes “wanna watch Happy Tree Friends?” Neither me nor my roommate had heard of it, so he puts it on, and goddamn why the fuck anyone would want to watch that shit, much less watch that shit stoned, is beyond me. Immediate vibe killer.

Of course my roommate and our friend were literally laughing out loud, and I’m sitting there stoned reevaluating my friendship with these people (probably a good thing in hindsight). And these were dudes in college, I think we were sophomores and he was a senior. The humor is like kindergarten-tier, like those are the “kill Barney” jokes an obnoxious 5 year old boy makes. I never thought those jokes were funny then, but it’s one thing for an immature child to make an edgy joke like that, it’s another thing for a graduating senior to consider the same edgy non-joke that only exists for shock value and nothing else, made over and over ad infinitum across numerous videos, is the height of humor. “Oh you guys are gonna like this one, he dies in a crazy way in a second. Oh! Did you see that?” Dude was rewatching videos he had already seen.

Needless to say I stopped hanging out with these people.

the season in either 2016 or 2017 I remember a lot of people, including leftists, were trying to tell me was super progressive and a biting critique of society. It’s the only season of South Park I ever watched, because my roommate at the time wanted to (who of course loved it since he later evolved into a right-wing shithead) and yeah, there was like one pretty good story line about gentrification, there rest was just shitty South Park shenanigans

damn and I was thinking of rewatching this one

Robot Chicken is literally just a “kill Barney” joke stretched out to 15 minutes and told by adults instead of obnoxious kindergartners. Never liked that show. Happy Tree Friends-tier humor, just absolute bottom of the barrel.

I have real and visceral anger towards South Park and also Family Guy and Call of Duty, which was the unholy trinity of what middle school boys were into when I was in middle school. There’s a lot I fault my mom for in my upbringing, but one thing I am very glad she did in hindsight was not allow me to watch those shows, cause lord knows I wanted to. Those shows were so ubiquitous in those years though that I can’t help but feel I picked up some bad messaging from them just through osmosis because most of my friends were into them. The first I ever learned of climate change was through my friends telling me it wasn’t real because that’s what they heard on South Park and then showing me the Al Gore manbearpig clip. I don’t think society has yet had a reckoning with how damaging those shows were.

just saw someone saying the Rolling Stones are better than Nina Simone, this should be an offense punishable by death im literally shaking rn

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no. I’ve met people with tons of money that are better people than some, and who I could tolerate being around or maybe even hanging out with for a bit, but never anyone that I would consider a “good” person in an absolute sense.

edit: damn people in here know people with tons of money. For me “tons of money” is making more than 100k a year.

My read on it has been even the people that care don’t care that much. No one’s political predictions went anywhere. Trump won in 2016 and everything continued to get worse, then Biden won in 2020 and everything continued to get worse. It gets harder and harder for both sides to cope so I think they just don’t care.

Back in 2020 my vote blue no matter who friend would always send me long texts like “look, I understand where you’re coming from, but Biden is the most progressive presidential candidate in history if you look at his platform. Also, look at the alternative!” I haven’t heard a peep from him or any of my friends. Not even the Trump people seem to really be talking about the election ime

I’m dreading 2024.

But honestly, this years campaign season seems so subdued compared to previous years. Idk, maybe that’s just because I myself am tired it just seems like everyone else is. Or maybe I’ve just successfully ignored it this year. But in 2015 and 2019 it was unavoidable, this year it’s felt very quiet.

Idk I’m usually okay with a lot of beans and stuff. But oatmeal is tough

I can’t eat a lot of them and they make me feel very heavy afterwards, no matter how much I eat. They also don’t seem to agree with my stomach too much, nothing horrible, there’s just a good deal of rumbling going on afterwards

my life would be so much easier if I could subsist on ass

I can’t stop laughing at the pledge of allegiance was going HARD. Perfect characterization. Was the person yelling it or something? I’m imagining like a bass boosted pledge of allegiance, or someone throwing in adlibs.

yeah as I say this is something I did when I liked the owners. Seems like you’ve had a tough relationship with the owners. Thought it might be something to try since you felt guilty, but if you don’t want to, then honestly do not feel guilty about leaving. A job is a job, you don’t owe these people anything, especially if they’ve ignored their business themselves. Part of running a business is dealing with turnover, if they can’t deal with you leaving then that’s on them.

I didn’t go through that document, but there’s also the question of what it means to be vaccinated. Like if you got vaccinated in 2021 that’s probably not doing a whole lot for you now. The graph at the top is comparing unvaccinated to at least one booster shot. I got my first booster at the end of 2021, and I know some people got it earlier in the fall. That’s probably not doing a whole lot now. Less and less people have getting boosters afaik.

I once had to quit a job where I really liked the owners. At the end of the day it’s your life, and this is just a job. I liked them though, and it was a very small operation. I was also quitting with no plans for what I’d do next, so I told them I’d stay on until they found someone to replace me. Took them like a month or two to find someone and get them ready to start. Maybe you’re able to do something like this. Although I had other reasons that I had to quit at the time that weren’t just I hate the job or I found a better job so idk.

idk I’m not disabled myself so I’d feel a bit odd doing this. Unless it was some sort of advocacy group I guess, although I’m not really looking to get involved, just how to meet people.