i find it kind of creepy that this meme makes a joke of strangulation.

i can’t tell if you’re serious.

this was me, first two years of uni. damn, that was an unpleasant awakening! you can get better at this. 🙂

i realize this is /s, but i kinda wish people would not continue to conflate autism with nazism, even as a joke.

apple IIc

edit - that was the first computer in my home as a kid. i think the first computer i used was a commodore at school.

til chitin isn’t just a bug thing, and i am disturbed. somehow eating mushrooms is now akin to eating bugs at this moment. 😩

this is my impression as well regarding nicotine. however, i have noticed people are not interested in examining that and continue to conflate nicotine with cigarettes (high risk) and vaping (misconstrued risk).

i also believe many view a nicotine addiction through a sort of moral lens they don’t apply so readily to caffeine.

some agencies have tried to fight back.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/united-states-african-development-foudation-doge-lawsuit/

nobody is asking you, personally, to fix it. but your wholehearted embracing of the suffering of others (i mean, at least you will be fine!) to “educate” is a bitter pill for people who are already struggling, and for people who rightly fear they won’t survive as readily as you will.

there is no inherent meaning to life.

i choose to continue living each day because a) i am still enjoying myself enough to stick around, b) i’m a chicken and nothing has motivated me to voluntarily face quicker death just yet, c) i am committed to not fucking up my kids in that particular way if i can continue to avoid it, and d) i do work that matters and eases the suffering of others to create meaning for myself.

anyway

so you voted for him twice?

be me, sneaking outside at work to vape while my coworker brings a literal gallon of coffee everyday.

nicotine certainly has been demonized in the last few decades.

you haven’t the faintest clue what i believe, but i see you habitually encouraging americans to fight each other instead of fight for change.

this shit sounds fake, your whole southern and midwestern narrative. i’m not even convinced you lived here, and i am sorry to run across you again.

omg, the dementia is so so apparent

so take direct action then. just know there are many ways to resist.

you’re either terribly uninformed or willfully ignorant. lack of transportation, accommodation, childcare, time off work, current identification all contribute. gerrymandering minimizes the effects of successfully voting as well.

also, you’re not helping anything.

i would add that housing-first approaches increase the likelihood that mental health and substance use treatment even work long term.

hard to wanna get sober when you’re being harassed by police or other people. hard to stay sane when you’re barely surviving and putting drugs on top to cope.

right now, many people experiencing homelessness and severe mental illness/addiction are hospitalized for a few days or a week and then they go back to the street. which doesn’t do much except get an individual out of immediate crisis. many will repeat this pattern over and over until incarceration or death.