Dragonball Z introduced me to anime which became a life long enjoyment.

Clarissa explains it all exposed me (a guy) to more female lead content and I learned a bit more about other perspectives.

Captain Planet introduced me to the idea that we’ll never really stop pollution because super heros aren’t real lol

There were plenty of us that saw right through the bullshit even before the war started but unfortunately because the SCOTUS decided the election for us we were stuck with a gang of money hungry pieces of shit… I mean we still are, but we were then too…

I was young and naive so I wanted to join the military in hopes of getting some technical skills, but even as a 17 year old idiot I saw right through bushs bullshit and said fuuuuccckkkkk that. Now I work in a factory… Fuck Bush, fuck Cheney, fuck Rumsfield… War criminals the lot of them.

To get to OPs question, in America I think we have a collective shame about it so it’s pretty much never spoken about at all. The state of Iraq is only ever mentioned within the context of ISIS :(

A stable career path, a loving relationship, and permanent housing.

More concise: Stability.

It’s all I ever wanted and seemingly the only thing I can never have even since childhood. I move every 2 years on average and since adulthood that’s been from basement apartment to basement apartment and now to a garage with no end in sight… I finally got to the point where I could consider buying a house and then COVID, WFH, and the invesestment parasites all blew up at once and took that away from me… I gave up on the relationship bit years ago.

Just want to back this one up: as someone rapidly approaching 40 who never loved himself, if anything absolutely loathes himself, repeating to yourself how absolutely horrible of a failure you are and how completely and utterly undeserving of anyone’s love you are daily will cement itself in your head as absolute fact.

I can no longer actually comprehend that I can do anything well. I’m either a complete failure, or if I did it literally anyone with 2 braincells can. I actually do not believe anyone who says otherwise, it has become an objective truth in my brain backed up by decades of “evidence.”

Banksssss! Rob banks! Then use that money to buy snacks forever!

I would think that would be “too much” because all the potatoes don’t matter at that point, it’s one entity. There are no more individual potatoes, we are Borg mashed potatoes!

One of only a handful of actually accurate answers here. 10 years isn’t that long to be honest. Just look back 10 years and see how similar it all is.

It became really difficult after billionaires bought up much of the smaller/stagnant media companies and turned them into “cut research and investigation departments, copy the NYT, and push entertainment opinion articles”

My rule of thumb unfortunately has become: is it a large corporation? Then it can go fuck itself. As others have said AP is good too

I managed to “preheat” my oven for 2 1/2 hours… That’s kind of interesting.

“Ah yes the ribs should be done by now!” quickly turned into “why do I have decayed dog shit where my brain should be?”

So I guess a close second interesting thing I accomplished is surviving not having a functioning brain lol

I actually am guilty of using that when people try to tell me “there’s someone out there for everyone.” Or “don’t worry, you’ll find someone who loves you for you.”

Like no? Life isn’t fair, there’s no guarantee of anything.

To your point I agree though, discussing what we’d like to improve is important.

This is exactly what I do with my tobii eye tracker. I’m a bit paranoid about what it can see so I have it plugged into a USB hub with power buttons that I just disable when I’m not using it.

Both clinically and in reference to current events/future issues.

It has been at least 20 years that I’ve dealt with depression and simply not wanting to exist anymore. It’s probably only around 6-8 that I’ve also lost hope, developed frequent panic attacks, and have become depressed about my own future. I separate that from what I’d consider to be the “clinical” depression that is just my broken brain. The future of everyone globally is a whole nother layer of depression…

As for those around me, everyone seems “happy” as far as they can be with their lot in life. Not depressed, some are just bummed about specific things.

I do something similar except I have my own cryptic way of writing my passwords that only I understand. I will never trust an outside source with my passwords ever. EVERYTHING gets hacked at some point…

I get to be depressed while having a (shit) apartment, a job, a phone, and a car.

Globally I’m hitting a home run every day. In the US I’m a worthless schmuck who will never own a home or retire.

If you don’t have a dream, do what makes money. Fuck what you enjoy.

Hobbies aren’t careers and you don’t want to end up 40 having never “found” yourself, suck working in a factory.

Source: long island doesn’t have cliffs for me to drive off.

Giving kids the right to vote would be a start in the right direction.

I worry about that. More “Liberal” parents might care what their child believes, but hierarchy obsessed conservatives will tell their children who to vote for as they’re “supposed” to always do what their parents say no matter what and without question.

Also just noticed, and love your username lol

It’s literally never about the children. When they say it’s for the children it’s because they’re looking to lock in some crazy unpopular authoritarian bullshit and prevent any argument because who’s going to argue against protecting children?

a masterclass trash talker. And that is really what throws Trump off and throws him into obscene tantrums where his composure is lost and he comes off like a whining loser: when he’s been taken down a peg by someone else. Nothing sticks deeper in his craw.

That’s an interesting point, I was actually kind of annoyed that Biden was insulting Trump as I saw it as stooping to his level, but your comment on that does make it seem like a valid strategy.

I don’t think he could win, but for a laugh I’d love to see Hunter Biden replace Joe lol convicted felon vs convicted felon!