Pemberton Township, New Jersey, USA (for anyone wondering)

Springfield, Missouri, USA ↑

(Sometimes because there are so many articles about atrocities/indignities being committed across the country I feel the need to localize for readers who just glance in)

Mitch McConnell’s welcome home party?

Sorry for YT link but it’s here https://youtu.be/TbwlC2B-BIg 😅

You’re not silly — you’re totally, totally relatable!

The thing I relate to least is the IPL hair removal (basically stopped shaving body hair when I was 23). But other than that.

At some point every not-so-simpleton wishes for meaning in work/life/existence. Not everyone has these wishes at the same time, so it may feel like you’re alone, but I guarantee you’re not- it’s only natural. Plus our boring dystopia / capitalism keeps us overworked and extra unfulfilled.

As I’ve gotten older my sense of ‘time’ has radically shifted. I know for sure I don’t have enough time to achieve all the great things I wish I could’ve strived for earlier. But I can keep busy with smaller goals, or unexpected moments, or meeting new people, or trying things out for a lark (rather than trying something Big and Meaningful right at the start and punishing myself for failing).

Don’t underestimate depression, certainly seek treatment and relief for that, but know that this is a lull or a low and at some point you will find something fascinating again. 🫂 Emotional existential growing pains? You might need the morphine more later, might as well save it for Later-You.

Travel would be great 🙂 Though I’m also reminded of the SNL parody commercial (TV comedy sketch) with Adam Sandler as a travel agent — “We can take you for a hike; we canNOT turn you into a person who likes hiking…”

What is the point of your comment and ~ signoff ~ here? The original post is highlighting the hypocrisy of certain people looking down upon XYZ while proudly advertising their status as ABC. XYZ involves consensually selling illusions of one’s body in the form of digital images, video, chats, whereas ABC involves using one’s body to serve, ultimately, the large-scale destruction of other people’s bodies, property, lives.

Before you signed up for the military, had you never heard of a war before? Are you from a country where there had been no war or mention of war or there had never collateral damage from other countries’ wars/invasions?

Your comment comes across as this weird knee jerk defensive reaction like, well with ABC I got all these amazing bennies and I bet with XYZ you don’t get all those, huh?! And I’m Happy, too! I got Mine, soooooo take that XYZ ppl!!!!!!

Meanwhile people on XYZ are trying to survive in this political/economic hellscape. (And it’s possible that ABC people are on XYZ too, they’re not mutually exclusive- that’s only what the hypocritical person in the original post would think)

Are the people whose lives were destroyed by your military’s mission… Happy?

Do you not realize this is how you came off?

You’re really revealing how militaries do not encourage critical thinking and empathy. Or how they actively recruit people who lack critical thinking.

Throwing a tepid “o yea young me just wanted bennies but now old me thinks war is bad and no one should do it” in a comment after others (rightfully, pointedly) respond to you does not cancel your original thought out.

Some of the people in my life I respect the most voluntarily joined military or police forces and then quit, because they realized how deeply fucked up it was. Or if they served their military time, afterward they devoted time and energy to antiwar activism and efforts to actually change laws, persecute their own country’s war criminals, and change things for the better.

Based on your comment, you are not that. (Yet)

Deeply reflect on your contributions to the world and try to remember you’re not the only person in it.

Omg I have never seen a Silver Jews lyric bumper sticker 😍 Also have a Subaru Outback this exact color but only distinguishing flair are huge gaping cracks and dents

It’s pretty much just “ready, set,” and then instead of ‘go’ it’s an “ey!” type of sound effect

Librarians are the best 😊

Word. I teared up out of happiness after a dental hygienist (who I currently see) offered me numbing gel for my gums during a cleaning (even let me choose the flavor) in a totally non-judgmental way. I was in my late thirties and I didn’t know any dentists would be willing to offer that sort of stuff to adults.

Think this belongs in Peaceful Sanctuaries Club