Since there was no flood warning system… WTF would they allow a camp for children to continue business on a fucking flood plain???

I just listened to a news/information show regarding studies done on millennial and GenZ that found 4/10 of this cohort also worked a side gig in order to hedge against layoffs. Often, many of these side gigs are not glam type… like influencers etc. Many of these jobs are like working in service – nannys, retail, food service – stuff that can’t be replaced by AI or a remote offshored employee. So this report was on NPR today…

Truth is that everyone is an individual and side effects will happen with any drug. He unfortunately, experienced a debilitating one but there are millions who do not experience that. So, it is true, he is unlucky but I have seen so many patients who decide to go ahead because they just don’t believe they will be that small percentage to experience the bad ones.

Or injecting that fentanyl laced heroin…

My grandfather only lived to be a father because of the polio vaccine. Even my stepmother had polio in the fucking womb… it ate her kneecaps… she became a dancer to build leg muscle strength. My family has a valid, empirical respect for vaccines. I am a nurse and when I was young, I passed on the flu shots… until I got the flu… and found out what that hell was, I wasn’t sure if I would survive it. After that, I will get every flu shot offered, I take every Covid Booster, I go the shingles vax and next year, I will be eligible for the RSV shot. I am getting them all, like Pokeman.

You know, I thought that at first. Then I was talking to this coworker who lives in the country on a small farm/homestead (that is a lifestyle choice, not an actual career). And she had absolutely not one iota of compassion or empathy for those people sent to an El Salvador Prison without due process. Her view was that it just was less expensive than detaining them here. Even though I said… but, they won’t ever get out of there, there is not court or deportation back to their country" and she shrugs and says “not our problem anymore.” Heartless Snaggletooth Cunt.

Even worse, they will go ahead and deny themselves and their family in order to qualify for benefits in order to starve the (government) beast and then removed about the legit poor who actually need the temporary help from the government.

Well, I don’t know what to say to them when they actually experience the consequences of their firm belief system other than to shrug my shoulders and say well, sorry you are struggling, isn’t there some other job you can work that can pay for xyz that you voted to fuck the rest of us over for? I mean there are unintended consequences and I am sure they didn’t expect to be the people that were hurt, just those other people like you and me.

Deluded and brainwashed at this point.

OMG that made me think of that episode in King of the Hill where Luann had to retreat into taking care of the pool when she was in an untenable roommate situation…

But the ocean wants to kill you… (can’t blame oceans for wanting to kill humans but it is not your fault…). Therapy can be obtained in many different ways. I think maybe going to a therapist is for people who need motivation to care for themselves, need help starting to be healthy, compassionate and forgiving to themselves and get some coaching to find good ways to get there. We sometimes are in a place too low to help ourselves and need some help, a hand… guidance, encouragement and reinforcement that we are worth the trouble and energy.

It is sad when you start considering going to rehab just to get 28-30 days away from work to de-stress, get sleep, meditate, do some inner work and work on healthy habits. Because if you are single and not reproducing, you don’t get maternity leave and if you are young or middle aged and relatively healthy, you aren’t getting any orthopedic surgeries that render you temporarily disabled… and if you already lost your parents, there is no family leave… I mean, I can adopt or pretend to adopt I have some kind of addictive habit but would prefer not to-- Can’t I just take a mental health leave of absence and then return to my job? One week here or there every 6 months (if I am lucky) is just not going to do it.

Ok, but in my experience, it is manflu they are whining about and having to do house chores while having it. Shit I deal with every fucking day.

The active duty military is already in 3 border states with arrest/search powers in what is called a militarized zone. They claim it is border states but… the actual places they are stationed are not just at the Southern border.

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/06/g-s1-63778/military-border-zone-posse-comitatus-explained

https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4166835/at-southern-border-defense-secretary-visits-newly-created-national-defense-area/

Hey, I am an old Xer and have come to the realization that the reason we lost last election (other than the cheating but decentralized voting almost always wins over cheating)… is because we listened to those “Never Trump Republicans” and embraced the Cheneys and others. That was exactly the wrong tack. We should have embraced instead the Bernie/AOC and Elizabeth faction. That would have communicated to the people that we actually cared about their life circumstances in this post-Covid, war infected supply chain challenged economy. Let the New Economics/Distributist peeps inform us with some resilient strategies. We are Fucking Tired of the Old Ideas.

So… what you are saying is that it is time to separate the wheat from the chaff. Those old fuckers need to retire and try to still appear wise… they are fucking failures and should know it.

He will die first. He is old, unhealthy, demented and shitting himself on the regular and is literally incoherent.

You know what??? NY will survive. We survived prior to the Revolution. We survived after the Revolution and before the Constitution. We will continue this… and honestly, the FEDS do fucking nothing for us and why do they deserve to be paid??? They are fucking loafing political lying fucks. Fuck them and fire them.

You ignore the ways that the state can get around this. There are other legal constructions that can recategorize taxable income and any state that decides that new federal mandates are unconstitutional both nationwide and statewide can dedicate a good number of attorneys and judges to their cause. Additionally, those who live in the state can be recruited to change some of their buying habits, their earning paths… so that ultimately, there is much less that can be up for federal taxation as an individual (sharing economies, wellbeing metrics etc.).

Honestly, states can change their rules… and enshrine and encourage/incentivise communal ownerships… like Co-ops, B-Corps, etc. in which there is not actual US currency involved but state sponsored services provided with credits (like HC, Agriculture) – people could exchanged things and labor for those credits. Those who are disabled would fall under a social safety net and do some things that they are able to do to acquire credits but on a different level and our collective labor should cover our vulnerable and disabled of every age.