Jeez you made me think about how much fucked up shit I’ve been through.
Publicized school shootings on TV 90s
Watching the second plane crash on live TV on 9/11
Medical trauma 1: had testicular torsion ,went in 12 hours after it started, they tried to untwist it by hand while I was conscious, morphine ain’t shit
Medical trauma 2: spontaneous pneumothorax, the ketamine they dosed me with didn’t work so that chest tube insertion fucked me up
PMTSD related anxiety and depression
2 more pneumothorax
2008 financial crisis
college went well, but first job out of college after I got my computer engineering degree payed a fucking grand total of $51k.
2016 election
Hit 250lbs
2019 my highschool sweetheart wife cheated on me
COVID-19
Hit 280 lbs
Jan 6 insurrection
Stagflation
Lost 70lbs because of cutting back on food spending and weightloss medication
discovered my wife sexting the guy she cheated on me with after being in marriage therapy for 4 years
hit 250lbs again
Jesus christ, is this resilience, or are we all so burnt out that we just accept everything getting worse always.
Like I get the joke in Russia is “and then it got worse.” But Jesus christ, it can’t get worse if it’s always bad can it?
They can bail them out, but it won’t work. The 2008 financial crisis is directly related to this one.
The difference? People might have jobs, but inflation (real inflation, not Fed reported inflation) is outpacing wage growth so much it’s creating homeless employed people.
In my city, new development on the outer skirts of town is building around the new schools - 350k homes, 300k town homes, $1600/month 2 room apartment rental complexes. No stores in walking distance, so you need a car.
it’s stupid. it’s unsustainable. at some point it will be so bad that people will just sit where they live because they know there will be too many other people unable to pay mortgage or rent.
Just fuck me up fam (sh.itjust.works)