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  • Actually a Black Male who has never received one dime as a government hand out. Parents taught me not to be jealous of others and just get educated. I did. Since my college degrees were in fields that employers valued I didn't find it hard to get a job. I was hired for my skills not the tint of my skin. I've found that people who like to be victims believe what politicians actually can turn them from losers into winners. People can cry all they want about how awful life is but each individual can achieve a productive successful life if realize all they have to do is tune out all the bullshit and apply themselves. I realize that most people don't want to hear stuff like this because getting educated is hard work. Being a victim is easy. And interestingly no change of government at either the federal or state level has ever had a significant plus or minus effect on my life. But those who are victims always seem sure that a change in political control is going to be a horror show.

  • Yes to some extent. But I have found reddit to be all about the hive mind. You read some of the stuff over there that you know for sure is bullshit. But if you dare call it out, then the hive comes to attack you for daring to point out their bullshit

  • Depending on how you die the process can be horrible. I guess dying instantly from some kind of trauma is the easiest way to go. I have to believe the "unknown" is irrelevant because our consciousness no longer exists. Whatever atoms made us a human are simply reabsorbed into the universe. Neil deGrasse Tyson the astrophysicist has some great insights into this. If you check him out on youtube you find his speculation about god and human death

  • reddit will rot your brain

  • Still smoking while drinking but now only drink 2 days a week and then completely dry the other 5 days

  • Love the death analogy. Don't we all have periods of just wanting to sleep to escape reality, but we fear non existence through death

  • sounds like good exercise

  • Over the years having supported one party or the other I can tell you that it's all about people wanting power over others and then ensuring that they keep it. Their reality is totally different than the reality we, the 99%, live in that they can no longer even relate to us. There is no chance that they would actually understand the issues that affect regular people and then offer solutions that would actually solve those issues. Best advice is to simply try to enjoy life. Have you ever been a big fan of a sports team? They lose and you get depressed? Politics is no different. The players of the team that you admire couldn't care less about you and neither do politicians of either party. They only tell you what they think that you want to hear so you will vote for them and keep them in power

  • I browse all and usually find groups that I had no idea even existed

  • Agreed. Dying from something when you know how long you've got is different from not having any idea when you are going to die.

  • I had a good friend who spent way too much time bitching about how he was getting fucked and life just wasn't fair. He never took the time to live in the moment and just enjoy his life. He never understood that in reality life isn't fair, has never been fair, and never will be fair. Even though he was a young guy he got cancer. He died within a year. But during that year he finally grasped the concept of living each day and no longer worrying about the future and how life was fucking him.

  • YouTube TV - works great no bullshit regarding billing. Regular YouTube but Premium. Hundreds of free movies. Zero stopages for Ads. And you get YouTube Music included. Any song ....in any version....all free

  • A bike. Transportation or just plain exercise

  • Seems logical if there was a law that the average worker had to be paid a percentage of what the top people get paid. I thought that Japan had something like this.

  • "hey maybe it's just me but you smell bad. When did you last take a shower? What kind of soap did you use?"

  • LOL

  • Before the internet made learning about sex easier.... grammar school boys thought that when a girl spread her legs her vagina opened up. Grammar school girls were taught to FEAR the penis. It could ruin your life

  • My father taught me how to drive on a stick shift car. Several years later when I was able to afford it I bought a used Pontiac GTO stick shift. Best car I ever had. I haven't driven a manual in decades, but I know if I had to today it would come right back to me

  • using that suction on your nose would really irritate your lining of your nose