Got covid for the second time, first back in Oct. Fuck, dude. Had to push my vaccination back. Death to America.

Does any other country willfully and openly reject science the way the US does? Like, to be topical, the whole mask thing. I know there's a few countries in the anglosphere that follow suit to an extent but I don't think it's as rampant as it is here. Just tons of people walking around that are openly hostile towards germ theory. Half the people I know l, if they're not anti maskers, they're anti vaxxers. Shit is fucking wild.

This is asexual erasure.

Just learned my insurance decided to just change my deductible without notifying me from $0 to $5600 and my out of pocket from $0 to $900.

Everyday this country finds new ways to make me absolutely despise it more.

Wanna quit and collect unemployment but work in a right to work state and can't get unemployment unless the company literally closes

I got promoted at work. Idk how. I just do as little as possible not to get fired. More money is cool I guess but I'm pretty fucking miserable. I just... idk how long I can take this. Once again I'm asking if anyone has any leads for entry level remote work or any good paths to learn something interesting like uh web development I guess. I can feel myself accelerating into the "fuck it I'd rather be homeless again" mentality but the only thing that keeps me from giving up is my partner depends on me.

Manager was ranting to me about co workers calling in and said "I've never called in. Even when I'm sick as a dog, temperature of 104, throwing up, I come to work". And I was just like yeah

Interacting with people

Being around people

Being around people without masks

Bring around management without masks

Waking up early

Commuting

Driving in traffic

Finishing my work in 3-4 hours and having to find shit to do to look busy for the remainder 4 hours.

I want to learn to build my own home. I used to work in construction briefly and thought that'd be a good primer of where to start but everything was put together so shitty and with the cheapest of materials. It didn't teach me so much as it made me realize that literally everything in the US is just thrown together by the lowest bidder as quickly and as cheaply as possible. It gives me anxiety driving over any type of bridge or suspension or overpass knowing that at any point it could collapse due to the negligence in building it and the cost cutting measures in order to maximize profit for the companies behind it.

The state I lived in has basically no rights for tenants. Even if it was illegal I didn't have the money nor time to fight it. On the day he gave us to leave he came by with a sheriff to enforce us all to leave. I'm sure there was legal red tape all over that but none of us could afford to challenge it.

Lived in a place owned by a dude in his 80s. He used to always come by in person and collect rent on the 1st. One month he didn't come by and my first thought was "haha I bet he died" and then another month went by without him coming by. Turns out he did die. This whole time I never paid rent until one day one of his sons comes by to tell us he sold the apartments and we had a month to leave. Shit sucked having to move in such short notice but not paying rent for 2 months gave me a chance to pull myself out of a financial hole that not many people get.

Idk I just escape into books and music

Might get dunked on for this but listening to his podcasts back in like 2016 helped me on the road to radicalization. Like, he was one of the first people I heard discuss the negatives of capitalism. I was in a weird post-chud early rad-lib stage when I started listening to him so idk

Bi weekly would be dope but I appreciate the reminder. I'm gonna go back to my Japanese lessons now, thank you.

That episode where timmy wished he was a girl tho made me wish I was a girl

Absolutely fucking DYING at the sicko no way Jose

Millipedes or centipedes because anytime I see them I feel like I'm 6 years old again and just stop and watch them for like 5 minutes as they crawl with their little legs with a smile on my face like :sicko-blur:

Shout out to @blackjellybeans for no particular reason, they just always have good takes and always contribute to conversations and makes this place feel a little more like a community.

:comrade-doggo:

'Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression' by Robin D.G. Kelley

The southern US used to be ground zero for communist movements in the US during the 20s/30s primarily because of the solidarity between racial lines of the working class when everywhere else was hostile towards Black folks. The Black community took the teachings of Marx and Lenin and blended it with their own influence from their lived experiences and essentially created a huge movement. Really interesting book that I don't see mentioned very often and it's a cool piece of Black history since it is Black history month.

This was super helpful! Thank you!!