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Cake day: July 11th, 2023

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  • $89K + 10% yearly bonus (in theory). I’m at the high end of median household income for the southern portion of my state. This is the most I’ve ever made in my life. 5 years ago I would have thought I was rich. I just bought a house (my first) in the northern county, where the median household income is 57% of mine. The poverty here is appalling. Tomorrow or Tuesday I am knocking out half of the 30K in credit card debt that has been dragging me down. I will finally have enough to be comfortable, not have to penny pinch, buy some appliances, maybe some splurges, and maybe even save a bit. The thought of ever losing my job paralyzes me with terror.

    I went grocery shopping a few weeks ago and went a little nuts because I hadn’t gone in a while (penny pinching). The cashier asked me if I was having a party. I said, “No, I just haven’t been shopping in a while, and I eat too many chips.”











  • Men with morals and standards; however flawed some of them were. They didn’t conceive that an honourable elected official would act egregiously outside the norms of decorum, respect, dignity; basically, “gentleman’s rules.” Respect for your fellow countrymen; at least those of equal or better status to your own; was baked into society, so it wasn’t even a consideration. In that regard at least, it was maybe a better time (JUST in that regard; limited though it was).

    Now no one gives two shits about anything. If some deranged, narcissistic, prevaricating dimwit tells people it’s okay to hate the other people they already want to hate; and that hate gives them even a moment’s relief from their shitty lives (lives largely ruined by similar prevaricating dimwits) then that man can, and shall, be their king.