A Reddit comment of mine about life in your 30's. I just turned 42 and this resonates with me. People would hit 30 and they'd cut me off or ghost me because I wasn't vocationally successful. This happened for around ten years (as the first person was 30 when I was 27...
I sat through a rather boring Biden address and I couldn't be happier. Boring is good, it means things are trending back to normal. The stimulus was basically throwing money everywhere which I think was needed even if people on the right didn't think so. I also think...
One of the best summaries of conservationism I have ever read: Oh, wait, did I forget to mention that part? Yeah, whatever you try to build or create -- be it a poem, or a new skill, or a new relationship -- you will find yourself immediately surrounded by...
Imagine if you had the ability to clone adults with technology similar to the Star Trek transporter. If you cloned a desirable women there would be another desirable women. If you cloned a desirable man not so much. This is because you'd have to clone his good job...
I'm the only one I know who predicted Trump could win this thing. I think it might have been because I was his target demographic, a poor white person who lost his livelihood to outsourcing. I was ran out of the suburban area I went to college in due to...
One of the things my dad used to say is, "it's only money". Basically we have always been poor (at least for Americans) and so much of what one needs to advance in life requires significant financial outlay. For example going to school to get another degree or even...
NYTimes article on men not working: Mr. Eberstadt would also like to intensify social pressure on the cadre of men who have stopped looking for work. “Why haven’t we had the same sort of conversation about stigmatizing or shaming unworking men that we had 20 years ago...
Every week after I attend a church service I tend to have an extra measure of depression. I'm not sure if it's beamed directly from God or it's something more mundane. This time it was a Catholic church where we were ignored and they spent 12 minutes asking for...
There is a chart from a Pew Survey that asked the question, "is today a good day?". Richer countries scored lower than poorer ones, by large margins. A lot of countries that scored high had very high unemployment. I think people might be happiest where they don't...
The dizzying pace of change is making the proverb "pride cometh before fall" more true than it used to be. And not for reasons of slighting some god but for pragmatic ones. Ego was a luxury reserved for when change happened slowly. Take the four year college for...