• 0 Posts
  • 42 Comments
Joined 3 years ago
cake
Cake day: July 5th, 2023

help-circle
  • This random addition stood out to me

    Phil Plummer — who was then Montgomery County Sheriff — to enter politics.

    “My jail was 40% drug addicts, 50% mental health patients, 10% criminals,” said Plummer, who has been a Republican state representative since 2019. “We got it upside down — that’s what drove me to the state house.”

    Plummer, the Montgomery County Republican chairman, is now on the ballot for the Ohio state Senate and stressed that Trump has been what keeps the GOP’s coalition of businesses and working-class families together.

    How can you look at a jail, full of untreated mental illness (addiction is a mental illness), and think "we just need even more regressive policies! Wouldn’t wanna vote for universal healthcare and more mental counseling! Nope! Gimme those draconian puritanical laws that trap vulnerable abused people in a cycle of poverty and crime! Yee-Haw!



  • I think my depression is getting worse. I suffered a humiliating rejection recently. Took time off work, paid a bunch of money to travel across the country to meet a woman whom I thought was going to be my next wife. We had talked for months, some really deep stuff, we seemed like a perfect match. I get there, and she reveals that actually, she has 4 kids, two different dead-beat baby-daddies, and chlamydia.

    I took PTO. Week off work. over a thousand dollars on air travel, lodging, and a rental car.

    It’s been a few weeks and I still feel awful. The other day in my sacred space, the gym, I thought about killing myself when I should have been at the height of an exercise-induced dopamine rush.

    This is my favorite time of the year, fall, Halloween, candy. But I can’t enjoy any of it. The only feeling I have is dread. For another holiday season, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, all spent alone. If I make it to next year it’ll be a miracle. I think I need to find a good in-person AA meeting or something.













  • I stand with the Israeli people and their right to live in peace and safety. At the same time, I don’t agree with all of the Israeli government’s choices on how they are conducting the war. I want the violence to end, and the innocent Palestinian people affected by the humanitarian crisis that has resulted to receive the lifesaving aid they need. And I know that many in Israel share this sentiment.

    He wrote an essay for Time Magazine. It’s a short read but… Yeah even calling it a war is troubling, because Palestine doesn’t have a military? He says he feels for the innocent Palestinian people, but spends far more ink on bemoaning rising anti-semitism, and never really touches on the massive difference in body counts between the hamas terrorist attack and the genocide that isreal is currently engaged in. He also, of course, doesn’t call it a genocide.

    It’s like his heart is almost in the right place, but he just can’t gather to courage to call a spade a spade. He calls the war in Ukraine a russian invasion, he calls the conflict in Lebanon a pogrom. Why can’t he bring himself to call what’s happening in Gaza the same? It’s literally an isreali invasion and a pogrom. He can’t just call for a two-state solution, say he feels for the innocent Palestinians, and wash his hands of the rest.

    The r/jewish reddit thread on his essay is similarly obtuse. it’s from 2 years ago, but even then, it was clear as day to any outside observer what was happening. They’re so worried about the ghost of anti-semitism that they miss the fact they’ve become their own genocidal nightmare.



  • Dominos thin crust. large with pepperoni and veggies is only 1600 calories. They got a deal (on their website, gotta go to the menu and click it after adding pizza to cart) makes it 9.99. They also let you round up your order to donate to St. Judes Hospital.

    I was strict about dieting for a long time, no pizza for years, because I wanted that six pack. I got that six pack. Immediately afterwards, I ate a whole pizza. The flood gates opened. I ended up eating like 6000 calories everyday for 2 weeks. Got sad at my bloated body without a six pack. Got back to my 1200 calorie workout everyday diet. Three days of that, weighed myself, the whole adventure only gained me 5 lbs. Would do again.