kestrel_ [comrade/them]

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Cake day: November 24th, 2020

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  • "The American highway is now like television, violent and tawdry. The landscape it runs through is littered with cartoon buildings and commercial messages. We whiz by them at 55 miles per hour and forget them, because one convenience store looks like the next. They do not celebrate anything beyond their mechanistic ability to sell merchandise. We don't want to remember them. We did not savor the approach and we were not rewarded upon reaching the destination, and it will be the same next time, and every time. There is little sense of having arrived anywhere, because every place looks like no place in particular."

    • James Kunstler, The Geography of Nowhere

  • My employer rewards laziness via seniority and total lack of disciplinary action, but it's a job I'm passionate about that's supposed to help people so it's not a good thing. Yesterday marked the one year anniversary since a big assignment was due for this old lady on my team who will never get fired. The only reason she still "works" is to have health insurance for her terminally ill husband. Meanwhile I get fussed at for being a week late on something trivial. I hate everything.