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Cake day: January 24th, 2024

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  • It can take a while to get over a layoff when it’s unexpected, it isn’t so different than a relationship ending. We spend a lot of time at work and often put a lot of ourselves into our jobs.

    This could be depression or just delayed grief as needing to find a job on short notice tends to block out a lot of emotion and it can take a bit after getting a job for that block to loosen.

    What helps you get out of the funk and what helps someone else get out probably varies. For me a decent walk around the neighborhood/park and decreased phone time are/were very helpful. Even mild alcohol use was a very temporary thing that created a long-term detriment. Society sucks at teaching healthy coping mechanisms.







  • I mean crimes of passion would be the simplest example.

    Some heirarchy is inherent in society. It can be as simple as a farmer making better cheese than their neighbor. Now they keep more and people who know it is better and like cheese are more willing to give more for it. Now the better cheese maker has more than his neighbor. That inequality is a base for hierarchy. There’s no human nature involved in generating that hierarchy besides better cheese and cheese lovers.

    You keep talking about police as they are-that is a strawman I ain’t arguing for. In any society however, there remains a need for enforcement of those societal laws. Unjust laws/enforcement are not an argument against laws or enforcement entirely just that laws and enforcement should be made just.


  • Id actually argue the majority of people are inherently good but something needs to constrain the minority of the inherently “bad”.

    I’m arguing for massive reform so don’t @me about what is when we’re arguing about what should be. I’ve had enough lived experience as a melanated individual. I’ve also seen what mob justice does-while a last resort when justice is otherwise obstructed it should not be the first line when it gets things wrong so often (see lynchings).

    Policing’s past as slave catchers and continued existence whereby they protect property over people is not what law enforcement should be. However, no matter what society you make there are individuals who will break laws in both minor and major ways. A lot of criminality is a result of socioeconomics but not all and there needs to be a way to enforce punishment on those exceptions in an equitable way.







  • I was always ambivalent about kids leaning more to not. Met my wife and thought yeah, if I’d raise a kid with anyone it’d be her. Getting my first father’s day this weekend. No regrets, very happy, kids awesome even though she can’t speak yet she still communicates a lot. Yeah the screamy cries suck but the smiles, the giggles, the confusion and curiosity about anything new, goddamn.