a easy and stress free retirement

as evidenced by thurmond and kissinger, it feels like if you commit a lot of evil and the powers that be still like you, the longer you live; maybe we wants to live longer too.

i’m middle aged and i bet biden will outlive me.

Like he really doesn’t give a fuck that he’s alienated the upper Midwest and literally any one under 30 over this issue.

and his campaign keeps insisting that this is the most important election of our lives and we must compromise to join together; while simultaneously refusing to compromise to join together on this and multiple other issues.

I heard Biden is serious this time. He’s going to send Bibi a very strongly written letter …

aka the liberal ultimate weapon. lol

SUPER supportive undies work too if you don’t want to go down that drag-queen-esque route.

men usually wore whitey tighties & jockstraps back in the day when booty shorts were normal for men and those are great at keeping all the bits where you want them to stay put.

it’s still strange to hear (read) a californian say it since it always felt like a uniquely texan obsession comparing themselves to california and i felt it was lofty at best (and collective short-guy syndrome at worst) since california has around 33% to 50% more of everything than texas except land area.

because of that:

california + texas can steamroll the rest of the nation

california + new york can steamroll the rest of the nation

california + florida can steamroll the rest of the nation

no combination of the others can do the same, except maybe all three; meaning that california is an outlier so comparisons to it are mostly self defeating and comparisons to new york or florida seemed non-existent when i lived in texas.

It was 105 today. That trend might come back out of necessity.

i believe that the cultural shift away from ordinary men letting it hang out publicly happened at a time when air conditioning became less of a luxury item that only the wealthy enough could afford; when awareness that straight men can also be sexualized became common; as well as when this country started to become more conservative politically (ie going from cultural, feminist & sexual liberation movements from late the 60’s going into the 70’s to the reagan & aids-scare of the 80’s leading into big anti-lgbtq & “family values” policies from the federal government in the mid 90’s).

considering that both presidential candidates are right of center in our current overton window (at least much more so compared to the 70’s); air conditioning increasingly being required by law in many places; straight men generally still being terrified of being perceived as gay; and the gen-z tendency towards merely tolerating sex positivity instead of embracing it like in the 70’s it leads me to believe that it won’t come back for a long time, if ever.

I gotta say as a Californian, as much as we bag on Texas …

that interests me greatly.

when i moved from san francisco to austin i was surprised by how many “don’t california my texas” bumper stickers and flags shown everywhere. at first i attributed it to having to switch to driving for my commute and i thought it was odd that i had never sensed a such a reciprocated sentiment expressed while lived in all of california; much less be so ubiquitous every you go.

yours is the first i’ve ever heard.

If AOC ran, I would not be even a little reluctant to vote for her. She reminds me of Bernie.

same here

i’m struggling to get myself to vote for biden; i vacillate on it every day and i wish my history and future of enduring biden et al.'s policies wasn’t clouding my decision.

what’s the r word?

It’s just hard to get them to go out and vote.

it would be a lot easier if the dnc didn’t suppress popular candidates in favor of candidates with decades long histories of conservative bona fides.

I don’t know if Civil War is meant to have a clear real-world corollary for the conflict. In the movie Texas and California are aligned against the president and Florida and most of the NW states (including Idaho and Ohio) are breakaway factions that seem aligned against the federal forces as well (the implication that Idaho and Ohio are in the communist state alliance is pretty fucking laughable)

i almost didn’t watch the movie because all the reviews i read were stuck on this one point but …

… i’m pretty sure the producers intentionally avoided real-life groups to keep the movie focused on the topic of journalism and to avoid it being used in exactly this type of political fearmongering.

it was clear to me that this was true during the paramilitary soldier hostage scene; that was the closest the film ever got to contemporary political alignment and even then it was vague enough not to point fingers.

i’m so glad the movie i intended to see was sold out and i ended up watching civil war instead because it’s one of those movies that sticks with you and i’ve haven’t felt that way about a movie in a long time.

kirsten dunst was the reason why i went with this movie over the other options i had at that moment and i suspected that the movie would be at least decent from the start since i’ve liked every movie she’s ever been in; i would have seen this movie on opening day were it not for all the reviews i mentioned earlier.

american cultural social norms looks down upon talking about politics in public; which creates an entire country of people who lack practice in engaging in meaningful political discourse.

you combine that with american oligarchs using their influence to steer national discourse away from topics that threaten their interests while simultaneously manufacturing consent and you’re left with recipe for red and blue magas.

some of us are screaming into the void; the rest are supporting a president who gives token gestures to the environment on one hand while simultaneously blocking affordable green energy products and ramping up oil production in the name of maintaining the status quo on the other.

when i was very young, men would wear booty shorts and belly shirts like some women do now; publicly shirtless men was also more common; and, as an adult, i wish i could have appreciated it more than i did at the time.

i hate that prudery has become so en vogue these days with the young.

How else can workers fight discrimination like this without going to the lengths that this man did?

and these lengths aren’t enough; i’ve been doing the same thing that this guy has done for nearly 20 years now and i’ve spoken with 3 lawyers who advertised working on contingent and the common thread is that one instance is not sufficient enough proof in court; you would have to submit at least dozens to hundred over a period of years to prove anything.

the best anyone can do is compile a list of companies to avoid or not spent much bother when it comes to applying and, given my experience, i hope that this guy isn’t paying for it upfront like the lawyers i’ve spoken with wanted from me.

starmer strikes me as a uk version of biden; people assume he’s progressive because of the party he leads, but he’s held his cards close to his chest instead of relying of surrogates to paint him as progressive despite a past history of THOROUGHLY conservative bona fides like biden.

i bet starmer wiill either cave or already believes in isreal’s freedom to genocide no matter what.

i did IT for a long time and the ability to program becomes a necessary evil once you reach a certain point. that coupled with the covid shortages led me to becoming a software developer.

it looks like the employment landscape is undergoing a dramatic shift again. i’m being forced to find a new job thanks to biden and developer jobs in my area dramatically fewer and insanely fiercely competitive; nothing at all like it was like during covid.

i don’t think there’s anything to expand upon: i submit my resume; then they reject me; then i resubmit the same resume but with different formatting along with a WASP sounding name on the same day i received the rejection; and then they request an interview from me.

these, among others, are the reasons why i didn’t take the same action when i resubmitted my resume under a very WASPy sounding name and the desire gets re-ignited every time i get an interview request after re-submitting my resume the same day my original resume was rejected.