Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if you look at it right

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Cake day: July 30th, 2023

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  • Stuck between a rock and a hard place. It sucks.

    I’m tired of the 2 party system. I don’t think I really have a party or political ideology that aligns with Democrats or Republicans and third party candidates are all over the place. I want to start voting on issues and not just politicians.

    I don’t care what my politician’s feelings are. They represent a constituency and the only things they should be speaking about and for are exactly what they’re being asked for. Instead we have this political machine that takes every issues and gives it a red spin and a blue spin and then it’s force fed to the people.

    Congress should not be creating our ideologies they should create the laws that structure the things the citizens want.

    The Supreme Courr overturned Roe v Wade, put it on the ballet and let the people decide.

    Gun control, put it on the ballet

    Universal health care, put it on the ballet

    Abandoning fossil fuels, put it on the ballet

    Stop forcing your political and personal ideologies on us and start listing to the people. If we vote “Yes” on universal health care, the politicians must then go and figure out how to make it happen.

    Let it truly be a government of the people, by the people, for the people.


  • I just recently started playing and as a diehard Elder Scrolls/Fallout fan the game is the worst Copy+Paste I’ve seen!

    Obsidian made the same game in 2019 and called it The Outer Worlds. Bethesda took their game added some more to it and released it as Starfield. Neon City is literally the same place as Groundbreaker.

    The space mechanics are an absolute joke considering what No Man’s Sky gave us in recent years.

    I guess the point of my bitchy little comment is that I expected so much more and was thoroughly underwhelmed.

    The bar for the next Elder Scrolls/Fallout is so low for me at this point, that I have zero expectation of even playing them









  • So the way he explained it to me was that essentially when the company was purchased all your accruals were reset and the pension was tied to years of service, which he hadn’t reached yet, then with the merger you were essentially a new employee. There was also a lot tied to retirement plans linked to corporate stocks that were basically useless after they merged. Either way, beyond working for the same company forever, his eggs were (mostly) in one basket.


  • My uncle spent years preaching to me about the need to be loyal to a company. I never drank the Kool-Aid. He spent 21 years working for an investment banking company in their IT department. 4 years before he was set to retire with a full pension, etc. his company was acquired by a larger bank. He lost everything except his 401k. He then spent the next 12 years working to get his time back so he’d be able to retire. He died 2 years ago and the company sent a bouquet of flowers.

    THE COMPANY DOESN’T CARE ABOUT YOU!!