Days when the weight of the world is extra heavy and it feels like all hope is lost

Well put

Couldn’t agree more. After moving states and deciding to switch careers, I had a 15 month under-employed lull and got desperate enough to attend a job fair held in the delapidated basement room is a hotel. Not just one of the most depressing experiences of my life, but a total waste of everyone’s time. Bank teller, security guard, or food service were the only options.

I ended up getting a job the old fashioned way* (had my dad who owns a dealership call in a favor).

My advice - have your dad who owns a dealership call in a favor. If that doesn’t work (maybe your dad doesn’t own a dealership), then I recommend looking for work in public or private infrastructure - utility and telecom companies tend to pay well and union benefits are great

Could be monitoring fledglings on the ground?

Been watching an episode of Monk a day for a few months now. It’s a delight

That’s in the Bible

Trump watching Satanyahu and realizing, “oh, you can just do it. Be evil openly and kill innocents by the thousands. When you’re a president, the let you do it. You can do anything.”

Gaza is the model.

Cop City is the homework.

It’s coming.

I read through his wiki entry and didn’t notice anything of import except he made a bunch of flop movies and then he married a personal trainer 40 years younger than him

My smarter-than-average libs were sharing that article last week and were all fully convinced by it

Just found out that “the world’s poorest president”, Jose Mujica from Uruguay, was an avowed Marxist guerrilla who was tortured and imprisoned for 14 years during the military dictatorship years. I first heard about him when Reddit fawned over him donating his presidential salary and driving his '87 vw beetle from his farm to work every day. Somehow they didn’t mention how his ideological beliefs made him such a down to earth guy. He died a few months ago. Rip to a real one

Besides passive glance at headlines, I haven’t followed the story closely at all. Here’s the Rolling Stone exposé for anyone who has some catching to to do (published 05/2024)

Has the future always seemed so grim? Is anyone looking forward to it? Aren’t we supposed to?

I don’t like to say people are worthless, but,

Reusable zip tie

UK soil has the chance to do something extremely funny

Those who make peaceful change impossible make violent change inevitable. May the Egyptian government get what it deserves. Thank you for posting this, Mahmoud.

I have never downloaded and shared a video so fast

As a resident of [city in 2020 headlines] haha

Nice to see his weight loss journey is going well

I love your work stories. You’re such a fuckin chad