MiddleWeigh

I'd just be glad to finally return to monke

I feel like I definitely read that in middle/high school

Wtf is a doctor?

I'm good at counting pennies

8000 a year? That would be a huge help. Like it would alleviate almost all of my burdens.

Scrip is kinda low key a thing again. My SO works for wawa and there is definitely some scrip vibe. They have a company store, a points reward system, they will put you through school if you take classes that benefit the Corp, and the only way to move up is to basically bootlick management at weird company festivals.

It all has this very dystopian vibe of "everything within the corporation eco system" and my SO is a very principled women who is shy and kind and she refuses to take a step to elevate herself within the Corp, but getting a union going is pretty hard where we're at, everyone is very much of the boot tasting, welfare queen bad variety.

I can confidently say I'm cringe af

That is crazy.

Like a damn laundromat. So is LG gonna supply water and power too? Wtf are the charging for? The right to buy their product? Lmao. Fuck off.

Go analog. Real analog. Sticks and stones baby.

Links to Twitter. Never had an acct, the site is horrid, and I will not go.

Realistically, everything we dislike on reddit is pretty much unavoidable once there is a certain number of people, outside of being ran by some capitalist shills, hopefully

I hard agree.

In fact, I'm finding that NOT focusing on these small interests, is largely more enjoyable of an experience.

Yes. The whole experience has been really eye opening.

And the crazy thing is, if they wanna put you away, they will. If you don't have money, forget it. Your sitting in jail while your court ordered attorney has lunch with the judge and ignores you calls.

I've seen people sit on 500 bail. All you need is 10% to get out. Until the time has passed where they get either bail reduction or non monetary bail where its lowered to 1$ after like 6 months I think.

I saw people sit on total bs charges and they just sit in there trying to clear their name, with a lawyer who doesn't work for them, the court just kicking cam down the road 1 month at a time.

So you sign the plea because who wants to sit I'm jail?

As far as the police interaction...even if I didn't do anything, they can write up whatever report they want. Policing is super subjective.

"OH well he was acting funny so I searched the car"

What does that even mean? Then you get a whole written report of shit that never happened, all corroborated by fellow officers and the judge...and they all get money for each bed they fill in the jail.

I live in a complied consent state. They can take you in to draw blood at any point. If you deny, license suspension. If you comply, well chances are for many, that you smoked some tree within in 30 days, in which case your getting a DUI.

Everytime I drive by a cop car, with license plate scanner, I'm shaking. If it catches my plate a red flag pops on their screen with all my charges. Depending where your at, your getting followed and intimidated at least.

And I'm a cis white male.. I couldn't even begin to imagine being considered an "other". It's beginning to be more of a rich v poor thing though for sure. It's just very surreal the depths of the depravity that are buried in people. Myself included.

Great question.

I think I was sort of selfish and removed. I still am, as humans are want to do but,

I think I have gained more compassion for the plight of man.

We are in an endless battle with our very own nature every step of the way.

I can find redeemable qualities in everyone. If not redeemable, at least an understanding of how a person became what they are.

We are imperfect beings. Our biology is simultaneously a feat of wonder while being super janky, and that is becoming more apparent to me the more I experience the modern world, and our ineptitude at dealing with our current situations as a species.

I find myself far more politically inclined these days. I always knew the justice system was messed up. But first hand experience of it has really driven home just how inhumane it is. It is systematic purge, with windows dressing. It is, at its foundation, human sacrifice, for lack of a better term.

I watched share holders inspect a jail from a cell. Surreal. I've watched genuinely mentally ill people stew in their own filth, literally and figuratively, losing any hope at ever being whole again. Lives are lost. Human experience squandered. I've watched the strong prey on the weak over and over again, to where I now understand that people have suffered a long time, and will be suffering long after I'm dead.

All I can do is try, in my day to day, and maybe one day in the future, we will break through to the other side, evolutionarily speaking, to a world where we care for one another, and, most importantly, where we feel we, ourselves, are deserving of our OWN love.

I guess I've gained new perspective. I'm not a detail oriented person. I do best in broad strokes. And this is the best answer I can come up with for now. Hopefully one day I will know a lot more and answer this better.