Health issues. Which makes me worry about job loss and bills. So yeah
this post was submitted on 02 Jun 2026
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Reality in general. Turns out bad guys win all the time, and there is no such thing as justice if noone in power gives a damn.
Living in iran.
Mic drop
You should have chosen a different starting location during character creation.
People keep supporting politicians that haven't actually done anything for them.
You mean actively worked against their best interests?
Sadly, a lot of people get tripped up because they are confused about one simple thing. We are not the government.
This really short book covers it well. https://cdn.mises.org/anatomy-of-the-state.pdf
In fact the first chapter argues that really pretty convincingly. So it only takes about 5 minutes to properly understand that we are not the government. Backing a politician's grab for power really doesn't benefit you, because, really, you are just giving social support to more power going to the uniparty, which doesn't work for you.
It's one of the shortest books written. It's basically Machievilli if you freeze dried it into a two hour read. And the critical parts are up front.
And the corollary: People don't support local / grassroots candidates who have a desire to change that.
Finances.
I don't want to be rich. I don't care about money all that much.
My definition of success has always been that if I can let a payday come and go without having to look at my bank accounts and shifting money around to make sure everything is taken care of, that's all I want. I want to make enough that I don't have to check my bank account before every bill comes out. I can be assured that the money that is needed will be there.
Had that for a while. No longer do. And it really really sucks.
Well, at the top of the hierarchy is probably capitalism. That's largely why the climate is changing, why I don't have a good job, why I need a good job to live a decent life, and so on.
More immediately, my water glass is empty but my cat is sleeping on my chest. I'm thirsty but Mr Meows is so content.
People in socialist countries are even worse off.
I write software but I radicalized myself with Solarpunk. Now I need to find a way I can put my talents towards a tech positive future while Big Tech is turning fascist and hate against LLMs becomes nondifferentiating.
The great thing about living in non-centrally-planned economies is that if something is pissing you off, you can usually find other pissed off people, and then make some money by solving the problem that is pissing them off.
True that. The problem is probably my social and professional bubble that I need to get out of.
Finding the will to keep doing my job for a corporate overlord.
There's so much I want to do and build and create. But I have people who rely on me and we've tied our survival onto capital and I don't have any generational wealth to have capital to risk on any things I want to learn and create. Which, the things I want to make I don't want to "make money" off of them in the first place. I just want to give back and help people, I always have. But the only way to survive in this world that I didn't agree to is with a profit motive.
Very first world problem, I know, I've been somewhat privileged and lucky up to this point. The only reason I was able to afford college is because my mother chose to become a professor so her children could get tuition remission. Which they've tried to remove from professors several times over the decades.
It's just like...why can't we be human to each other?
Life is an endless grind of pointless suffering with no end.
My wife’s mental state. She has a job that has a pay and compensation package that cannot be ignored or left. The work could be really amazing and really could be magical for her except..
SHE WORKS FOR A FUCKING ASSHOLE WHO LOVES TO MAKE THINGS MISERABLE!!
We have all worked for that guy. It is not about the work problems or the real effort of work. The guy makes her life hell and I see what it is doing to her.
I do everything I can to take every bit of weight off of her, but that only accomplishes so much.
You can shovel shit in a muggy swamp and be happy if you have a boss you gel with. If you have a terrible boss it just doesn’t matter what the work is.
Thing is she gets that pay.
I just got laid off
Really sorry to hear that.
Social circle too small. Keeps shrinking instead of growing.
The fucking ultra-wealthy not paying their taxes and their wealth not being taxed. It's the root of every single one of my problems.
benign prostatic hyperplaia. aside from having to get up to tinkle a few tablespoons every half hour or every time I stand up, without the meds I can't go at all then bladder backs up and causes terrible kidney pain and does damage. on the meds I can empty the bladder but then it's hard to hold it in plus it ruins orgasms, dry firing is just weird feeling and not satisfying. I'm only 50 and want to go until at least my 80s but decades to go looks intimidating. i can get the turp surgery but will never ejaculate again which makes me sad. i suppose peeing is more important.
The man-sized hamster wheel known as debt.
I haven't taken a shit for days, so it's more of a number two problem.
There are medicines for that, start mild.
I feel like I'm watching the world burn down around me. So I guess I'd say pessimism.
Capitalism
Poverty.
I don’t know what I want for lunch!
I'm having a Ruben if it helps.
having some tooth sensitivity and dull pain since late FEB, but dont have dental insurance, because i had to voluntarily go off it from state subsidized healthcare because i just make just enough not to be covered. had to buy ACA healthcare, dental insurance is non-existent and individual plans dont cover much if anything, complicated by the fact that some dentist will not accept certain dental plans because of low reimbursements, or very long waits to get reimbursed. i had to see a emergency dentists, luckily in my area but it was several hundred for a limited exam and x ray and they want do a full exam and cleaning for more than twice that. currently looking for options(debating on going back to the old dentist i was with state healthcare who was so-so, and not great). cant really see an endontist until properly diagnosed needing a RC by a dentist.
Shit's too expensive. Don't have time to make everything from scratch to save a few bucks.
I'm trying to write a song I'm happy with.
the constant struggle to live in the present. we will all be dead and forgotten soon, so why bother living in a constant pissed off state of mind when none of it matters anyway
Having a great sense of humor helps a lot when everything is absurd.
Multi decade pay increases never matching inflation
Physically: tummy :(
Mentally: gestures vaguely at the state of things
Emotionally: Loneliness
Temporally: Work is not over yet
Spiritually: Life feels meaningless without having somene to spend it with
Socially: I feel out of place where i live due to being surrounded by MAGA losers
Relationally: My friends secretly hate me
Financially: I cannae afford my hobbies
Intellectually: I can feel my cognition slowly fading
Creatively: The stresses of life leave little room for creative expression
Me
Canadian Immigration medical job recruiters are proving to be very unreliable, and dare I say lazy. If they’re going to offer a fast track, they need to hire people who make it fast. It’s literally the last checkbox on the list. I could be in Canada by the end of the month! Ffs!
Split between either housing or bureaucracy
Housing is... not actually about affordability, but rather the plain difficulty of even getting a rental. I'm living in supposedly a part of Europe with a good housing market, but even here every decent rental on the market would instantaneously get 20+ applicants, so it's quite competitive... not as bad as NL, but still pretty rough
Bureaucracy because of expat/immigrant/etc shenanigans
FAT
Ferociously Anti-Totalitarianism?
Hell yeah 👌
Median productivity goes up yet median quality of life goes down.
My own brain. My depression is getting bad again, but I'll be restarting esketamine soon and I hope that'll help like it did last time.
Life generally.
Currently - need to find an apartment in another state. I will be visiting it next weekend, but none of the complexes in our price range will answer their phone or return Voicemail to set up an appointment.
The second law of thermodynamics.
I want to code, but I don't know what to make that I would actually use.