This is an appallingly cliche boomer thing to say but life has ups and downs. When you’re young the ups and downs happen on the scale of moments or days or perhaps weeks. As you age you can get large chunks of a year of ups or downs. Even older these can stretch to multiple years. For me I’m at around periods of 8 months or so of downs interspersed with ups. If this is your first time hitting a long down it can really seem terminal, this is how it will always be, etc. This is rarely the case as long as you have your health. So I can’t say anything other than yes it sucks, I feel it completely, life isn’t a monotonic upward progression toward anything. But after a few of these cycles you start not to care about each one too much. It still sucks when you’re in the trough though.

fuck every single self help book

it’s staffers & committed volunteers planted in the crowd leading the reactions to paper over any weirdness. same people who start the “four more years” chants to drown out any protests against the genocide in gaza. it sounds cynical but it’s super basic in-person politics, and how you avoid stuff like Jeb’s “please clap” incident.

Was this guy’s public entry into politics talking about trump’s “talent stack” back in 2016? I remember that phrase randomly entering like every news article I read.

absolutely #2. the usage of screeching is accurate

I no longer believe any sort of “you’ll love what’s going on behind closed doors” bullshit. It has always just been a way to placate people. 90% of the time there is absolutely no reason not to have these things said in the open.

ohhhhhhh the slice is in the shape of israel/palestine

I futzed around in the fancy BIOS a couple times and tried using their recommended CPU overclocking profile and upon boot my computer crashed so hard that it refused to boot again for like ten minutes

I’m still running that exact processor lol 10 years old and still chugging along

I feel as though I’m pretty online and this is totally indecipherable to me