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why is all economic growth based on a pyramid scheme? why have we never thought through the possibility that we did it?

well, i think it really has to do primarily with how we have structured our entire society around an idea of money being necessarily scarce because population is ever-growing, meaning that all resources are necessarily growing more scarce to feed the fucking monkey, man. what if we thought about society as a means to elevate all of us, instead of a few? what if we based our entire economic model around achieving sustainability and abundance so we can all fucking relax and live the good life? oh, right because we are broken humans. all of us. broken.

this is it, in a nutshell. we are in a weird inflection point where we still feel like we need 40 hours out of an intellectual economy as though we are putting rear views in cars on the line. i actually think that until we have real reform in the work week, we simply will continue to see this decline. i could conceivably do my job in 20 hours a week. i would probably be more productive with 4 hours of work a day rather than (the pretense of) 8. i tell you what i cannot do: raise another child. 2 was almost impossible. they are now 15 and 14 and impossible in different ways, but covid really highlighted how fucked everything is regarding our priorities. it's also part of the reason you are seeing real reform in the workplace, and some of the european benchmarks that americans used to despise are starting to become more normal. don't get me wrong, american work culture is still toxic as fuck, and i'm a big result of that, as a 44 year old dude. came into the workforce during a major recession following college, found an unrewarding career with what looked like a dead end future (boy was i right about that), moved to japan, which has perhaps the most toxic work culture in the world. anyways, i see things now like 3 months of paternal leave, and i'm amazed. i'm jealous, but i'm not mad for kids today - they deserve it like we did. i'm just glad they can grow up with that. i had two preemies. for the first i think i took three days of parental leave, because any more than that and i would be digging into vacation. he was in the nicu for 3 weeks. i got three days. for my second, i had to take fmla during another recession. my wife ended up having to take a job at their daycare and interrupt her career in order to for us to make ends meet before they reached school age. just thousands and thousands of dollars going out the door, and we were fortunate to have help. all because i had to be at work 40 hours a week for a fucking escrow job. lol. i would've probably had more kids if 1) my wife was medically safe to have them, and 2) i made about double what i do now, 15 years after my first. no wonder people don't want babies.

it underlined what a racket the west 6th dui money pit is. but it also highlighted that the common man never gets a fair shake. ward was on the radio the next day and charges were dropped by drive time. most of the rest of us are fired as we show up at work the next day straight from downtown. please note i do not fault him for using any connections he could to get out from under the state's ridiculous dui revenue machine.

still, that's some bullshit. you don't have to like someone for a fight to be reasonably fair, even if the guy deserves it. that door guy has a lot to answer for in my opinion. you have a psycho wielding a stick outside your bar. you're on 6th. the only reason you throw that guy out there is so he can fight an unfair fight. cops should be there any second, just wait out the stick guy. then, when the unarmed guy starts getting the upper hand with the stick, the door guy fucking grabs it. what the hell dude. once, i almost got arrested in leidseplein during a near riot during a street fight. short version: dude is ejected from club, resists, loses the fight, and is on his hands and knees in the street. out of the club, defeated, got what he deserved, i reckon. then one of the bouncers takes a running start and just free kicks the guy's head. near everyone went around went from slightly interested bystander to a very vocal enemy of the club right then in that moment. as the police were arresting the guy on the stretcher, i was trying to tell them it wasn't a fair fight and the guy had given up when the guy took a free run kick at him. that's when the dutch police said to me "you don't tell me what happened. i tell you what happened." me and my boss tried again and the ams cop basically implied i could join the unconscious guy if i wanted to keep talking about it. police be police no matter where you are. never talk to them ever.

i accidentally happened on the first episode, where he kind of explains himself sort of about what happened near the end of his time at klbj. sadly, it wasn't too introspective, and he's got a lot of mental health work to do, but hopefully he eases into it and gets comfortable. always felt he had so much more to offer if he could just get out of his own way. starting off with fucking art acevedo as a guest is not the best way to win over a common man fan though, i will tell you that much. it's good to have friends in high places (ask jeff ward) but i think dale's impression of that relationship is extremely naive. but whatever, ain't my business. jeff ward hasn't changed too terribly much and i think that's a good thing? i haven't decided, because i can only really catch podcasts these days, and his is weird and janky and edited all strange.

that's weird, because beaujolais is already a cheap merlot with a beaujolais label.

he's got ted's looks too. just a trifecta. so the republicans will probably elect him because he's fucking terrible and insistent on tearing shit down. which i guess is a platform. or a bonfire. whichever.

nevertheless, it was a rhetoric masterclass put on by a "confused old man"

no shit, and biden was fucking masterful at playing them into showing out their division. for such a befuddled old man, he sure seems pretty clever.

ending? lol. i'm starting to suspect that taylor sheridan is good at beginnings. yellowstone went off the rails in the second season, but it could just be that i'm tired of the lone wolf anti-hero protagonist archetype that is everywhere right now. "only i have a plan, but i'm not sharing it with anyone, even the audience" gets annoying after awhile. no wonder everyone hates you, protagonist. that goes for peaky blinders and gangs of london too. it's getting played out. the godfather came out 50 fucking years ago.

for real. yall remember when al franken was an immature asshole that one time forever ago and posed to a picture where he was pretending to molest someone? yall remember how all the democrats rallied around him because they really needed his vote for this or that? oh, right. they didn't toss him out on his ear, because he was wise enough to look around, see the mood, understand that this meant he had to resign, and he gtfo, and nobody really talks that much about it any longer. neither santos nor most republicans seem to be able to understand that. good on mitt. good old boy that he is, goddamn if he doesn't look like someone i don't want to hate as a republican these days.

this guy? fucking hell

um, look, i'm just a common dumbass, but, uh, holing up in a vegas hotel room with a bunch of drugs, alex jones, and conspiracy video shit sounds like my idea of a party.

goddammit, i snorted at "betty crocker's goon squad" that's funny shit.

ever since i quit drinking, weed is the way i get through my days. it's so much better and so much different. but mostly, it's helped me in any number of ways. i won't get all new wavy on yalls asses, but it's had a massive positive effect on my anxiety, which can, at times, be fucking debilitating, if i'm honest. i'm a much more responsible and productive human being using weed instead of booze. which is kind of fucking irritating, but that's neither here nor there. it's a fucking joke that it's not legal. by itself, it would fund so much shit in this state, and the lege could actually find a way to cut our taxes oh wait lol

me too. but he worked on this shit he said he was going to work on. it's not his job to be liked by me (well, ain't none of them got that job any more - i'm outside the city limits now), his job is to advocate on behalf of his constituents. he did a great job at that.

lol this seems very important to you

you know, as bad as i wanted that fat cunt ashley out, this situation with the saudis blows. as such, i'm sort of without a club. i'm kinda rooting fro brentford because that's a colleague's home club. but i don't really know where to turn. reflexively still watched the nufc match, and should feel pretty good about the place in the table and the cup final but it's all kind of meh.

of course games are rigged. in some cases perhaps by competing interests even. what kind of weird pollyanna world do yall live in?

yeesh. is anyone else masturbating? keep going yall i'm almost there

it's pretty much in the term normal. people are generally dismissive or deride things that make them uncomfortable. so they revert to their version of normal. it's not about the patient feeling normal or better.

so what? public servants always get to double dip. why not teachers who have put in the time?

yall want austin politics go ahead and start an austin politics thread on cr. please and thanks.

it's always better to not insult your audience's intelligence. it's the same fucking meal. you don't need a neon sign saying "hey, look, it's the same fucking meal!!!!" nor do you even need frank saying something like "just like our first meal." in case you haven't noticed non-verbal communication is a key element to this show, and was in the game, which is part of what made it so revolutionary.