buttwater [they/them]
we just 4 years ago had our faces clockwork-orange bad-dogged into the streaming pile of shit that is our material condition
That’s a good way to put it. It’s hard to fathom, but everyone universally suffered loss during COVID. The luckiest only lost experiences and opportunities, but that still sucks a fucking lot. And we were all expected to move on and never deal with those feelings. I know I personally feel like we’re still just in the 54th month of March 2020
Some of them are plenty smart - they got good grades and went to good colleges and have professional jobs. They’re engineers, teachers, what have you. And they’re probably perfectly good at their jobs, and they think because they’ve made it that far and see so many people doing worse, they assume they’re just better.
As said, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
say it’s friday night, you’ve got 4 tables per hour, each table runs a bill of about $100 and tips $20. That’s $80/hr not including hourly wage. I know not every time on the clock is friday night, but i get the complaint.
i see he’s taking the same fierce leadership to correct the media as he did to correct inflation
“listen here, jack. you’re making me look bad and i want you to cut it out. this is as much effort as i’m going to put into this, so, carry on.”
“every kid in my private school looks exactly like me. please god i just want to stand out and get attention, i’ll say anything”
was it who had a guest describing how the AMA artificially keeps the number of doctors in America low (by high cost/competitive medical schools) in order to keep doctor wages extremely high? The quote that stuck with me, paraphrased, was “we could have as many doctors as we do teachers, if we wanted to”
about invading an oil-rich country
I’d rather starve than put money into maintaining or improving my source of income
this is democracy manifest