NABDad

You don't understand! Epstein told them no one would find out that they were raping children. He lied to them, so they're victims too!

There's a sex offender who likes to barge into underage girls' changing rooms when they're naked. Perhaps we should all report him.

It's working fine making money for people who already have enough. What do you think it should be doing?

He's rotting from the soul out.

If it's not easy being green, I can't imagine how difficult orange is.

My parents would do that routinely, but we didn't mind because it was usually asking the lines of, "Hey, we were in the area, and we realized it's been awhile since we took you out for an expensive meal you could never afford on your own. Do you have time to go out for dinner?"

I can't think of a time when it bothered us.

However, I have a "GO AWAY!" doormat at the front door for everyone else.

You used to hear people in other countries say they have nothing against the American people, they just hate the American government.

The reality is, the American government is the American people. The enormous effort that goes into gerrymandering and screwing with voter registration just goes to show that it is still a democracy, and the pieces of shit running things are the pieces of shit we picked.

Even with all the gerrymandering and rigging that goes on, they still needed a metric shit ton of fuckwits to vote for them. If Americans weren't astoundingly stupid, we wouldn't be in the situation we're in.

However, don't everyone go patting yourselves on the back just yet. Stupid isn't limited to America.

Ironically, that's the only way his death would get a modicum of sympathy from most of the country.

I don't think there's really any chance, but I've reached the point where I want things to get so bad that we actually elect enough progressive politicians to actually fix what's wrong.

I truly believe in democracy, even though it has been fucking up lately. I think having a bloodless revolution every 2-4 years via elections is infinitely superior to having to actually build guillotines. At the same time I also think there's a point where interfering with the process for bloodless revolutions makes bloody revolutions inevitable.

The current administration is both homicidally incompetent, and completely out of touch, so there's a chance that the pressure will keep increasing until a fault forms and the ensuing catastrophe shakes the electorate out of their current stupidity enough to elect progressive people who will actually run the country for the people.

The alternative is the slow sleepwalk into slavery that we've been doing for decades.

The effort to gerrymander the shit out of everything is actually a positive sign: it shows that even the sociopaths running things understand that elections still matter. If elections still matter, the people are still in control.

Unfortunately, most of the people are mouth-breathing morons.

I was a computer nerd from way back. Took summer school classes in programming when I was in middle school. I was the one nerd in the class who did not go expecting to be playing computer games.

I'm college I got a degree in computer science and graduated shortly after the term, "McJob", was popularized. I sent out a hundred resumes, got two interviews, and one offer.

The offer I got was for a job as a DB admin for a university medical research center. Obviously, I accepted.

The university was a perfect place for me to start. When I asked when I should show up, the business admin of the center was obviously confused by the question. She ended up telling me that most people started around 9am, but it was clear it was up to me.

I continued working there for about five years. I found out from my boss that mine was one of hundreds of resumes they received, but I stood out because I had included a cover letter explaining why I was a good fit for the job. He thought that I wrote the cover letter just for that job, but it was just a quick and dirty mail-merge document that I generated for the hundred resumes I sent out, which actually kind of did show I was the right choice.

After about five years there, it was time to move on, but I stayed at the university. I ended up applying for a system administrator job in a research lab (robotics and computer vision systems) at the graduate computer science department. One day I decided to walk over and drop off a resume for that job. I figured there would be a receptionist desk where I could just leave the resume, so I just walked over in jeans and a T-shirt. However there was no receptionist desk, and the person I ended up handing my resume to had me sit down and he interviewed me right then.

After a couple years there, I changed jobs again. That time I technically left the university, taking a job in the university's health system. I've been here now for more than a quarter century.

For the vast majority of my career, I've been free to work how I'd like, implementing solutions with very little interference from my management.

I happened to start at the health system when they still offered a defined-benefit pension, so I've got that to look forward to when I retire. There's also no better health insurance than what I have from my employer. In the US, my wife and I had three kids, all born at the university hospital, with no fees charged beyond my employee contribution to the premiums.

When the pandemic hit, while other employers were desperate to get their employees back in the office, our CEO was asking why they should pay for expensive office space if the employees working there could do the same work from home. Consequently, I now work full time from home and only go in 2-3 times a month.

Also, when I joined the health system, they had just experienced an absolutely massive financial loss two years in a row. The university was considering selling the health system. However, they recovered, and the leadership has operated since with the same frugal care that you'd see in a grandparent who lived through the Great Depression. It's like the entire organization has PTSD. They never wanted to have to have layoffs again. When the pandemic hit and other hospitals in the area stumbled or failed, ours was able to continue to grow, even paying out bonuses to the employees.

I wish more countries' leaders would do this.

It's the lack of a soul.

President Pedophile's threat seems like the perfect reason to defy him.

What is a COVID vote?

I don't spend a lot of time dealing with churches. I certainly don't believe in any of what they say anymore. However, I have gone to some weddings.

When my youngest cousin was getting married, we arrived at church and were greeting family that we hadn't seen in years.

The priest yelled at us because we weren't behaving in a way he felt was respectful (hugging, laughing, experiencing joy). I don't know what he learned about Christ, but the Jesus I was taught about would have laughed in his face.

When my wife's brother was getting married, the priest lectured the entire wedding party at the rehearsal about his belief that children shouldn't be at weddings. As the parents of the ring bearer, my wife and I felt a bit attacked. However, I just assume he didn't want to be too close to temptation.

I have sufferef from bad insomnia my whole life. On a good night, I would lay in bed for a couple hours with my eyes closed trying to fall asleep. On a bad night, I'd lay like that until my alarm went off in the morning, and then I'd get up, shower, and go to work. That (not sleeping at all) would happen at least once a week for years.

I tried a lot of things. I tried prescription meds. They didn't work. I tried booze. No luck.

On Reddit about 10 years ago I came across a post about a podcast. The Sleep With Me Poscast.

It doesn't work for everyone, but it was like a miracle for me. The guy running the podcast is so incredibly boring and the episodes are so unbelievably meaningless that I could actually feel myself falling asleep while trying to follow his meandering stories.

When I first started listening, I'd play one episode, but then when the episode ended, I'd wake up. Then I started setting it to play all episodes without stopping, but then I'd sleep through my alarm. I finally had to set a sleep timer to stop the podcast a minute or two before my alarm.

If it was any other country but the US, we'd already be facing sanctions at least.

Everyone else is already complicit.

They shouldn't, but they can.

It's a really bad idea for them to do so.

It seems so strange to me that you're focused on straps and ignoring the heels. There's nothing about either of those shoes that make any sense.

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