8 figures. i knew / worked for someone in that category. inherited 8 figures at birth. they were a monstrous person. they didn’t say specifics, but one could piece it together.

apparently one weekend their spouse flew off to some city and dropped like $40k that weekend on like accomodations, food, and a shopping spree.

same person would dodge me at payroll time for my shitty $1200/mo and invite themselves out to drinks with their employees, order a bunch of shit, and then realize they “forgot their wallet” and never pay anyone back.

people at this level of wealth are all garbage.

i am sick of being treated as eccentric for not wanting to buy things i can’t repair, legally or due to how it was manufactured, materially.

i’m tired of adhesives, rivets, proprietary fasteners, vinyl-wrapped particle board, flimsy plastics, fast fashion’s razor thin synthetics. everything is always a piece of shit, and with prices ballooning, it no longer fits the ecologically destructive “just buy a new one” value proposition anymore.

i guess there is only so much capital can do to make something difficult to repair before they have to make it law that you can’t fix broken shit.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle is this mantra that has been around since i was very short, but without REPAIR, wtf is the point.

better to be overprepared, imo. i think your perceived race had an impact, but also i think it really matters who you got and what type of day they’re having.

that’s been my experience with CBP as an ameroid who looks like a commercial for wonderbread. some are bored and checking the boxes, some are having a shit day/life and want to smear it all over everybody.

I think they get what they get.

lmao

what can’t be circumvented with poetry?

reminds me of a self-evaluation i did at a job once i stopped caring. i had been there 10 year at this point.

the self-evals were super annoying busy work and ostensibly tied to “merit raises” which ranged from 0% - 2% based on arbitrary budget bullshit. so if you had a perfect performance review, you might get 0% or up to 2%. totally pointless, as i learned after 10 years of perfect evals with garbage raises while inflation climbed +15%.

we were supposed to rate ourselves and then paste a justifying narrative explanation of all our projects that had executed over the previous year alongside key performance indicators/ metrics we had to develop, all of this not mattering at all, because nobody read it, we never received feedback or comments. just a nice self-critical analysis project taking hours to pull data together and frame into a narrative that matches HR lingo about playing well with others and the highest ideals of blah blah blah.

of course, if the institution was actually funding us, i could see going through this theater as budget justification, but they weren’t. we were all externally funded by project partners with their own reporting requirements that we had to satisfy and supplement with other funds we had to go out and apply for, those also having their own reporting requirements. love 2 write 3 progress reports for 1 project because austerity means no single entity wants to pay for any human labor time associated with provisioning the public goods regular people insist upon, so now 33% of project labor time can be eaten by administrative overhead compiling reports to 3 different institutions on 3 different fiscal timelines with 3 different tracking/progress requirements.

so literally, this self-eval was entirely a waste of time, money and effort at a time of year we were already busy doing our jobs for the community groups that did pay us.

so this one year, I just said, “fuck it” gave myself highest level marks across every category and left all the narrative justification blank, click submit.

eventually i get this message from my doofus boss being all passive aggressive about how “its difficult to justify highest marks with no justification.”

so i responded, “i bet it is” and accepted his minor reduction of like 2 points with no rebuttal and concluded the entire performance review… because whats 2% off a maximum of a 2% raise? $20/year at most?

that was well worth the rounds of laughter i got from coworkers when i related the story and showed them the emails to prove it.

the only rational answer to the question of “how good are you?” when there’s nothing at stake is “i am literally jesus christ.”

social media, in general, seems to give its users the impression they have their fingers on the pulse. this is especially true for those engaging in these attention campaigns of bots pushing a narrative, and it seems to create a feedback loop. they’re like social power users and they are highly sensitive to all the stats that say their campaigns are reaching receptive audiences.

it’s one thing to fund propaganda and blast it out to move the needle, but what seems to have been going on for a while with social media (and accelerating) is that the people making/pushing it hardest are also listening to it and internalizing it deepest.

and because the right’s platform is so large and ubiquitous now in our culture, the feedback loop has produced this enormous bullshit maelstrom they can all pile into and have their hysterical chants echo back like hymns. it’s everywhere they go, talk radio, streams, podcasts, cable news: it’s only escapable with determination and effort.

but i also think there are diminishing returns on bots in the commentariat. more people are burned out of arguing online, there’s an understanding that it isn’t productive or constructive for exchange information or ideas. and part of that is aknowledging that the person you’re arguing with could just be some bot or a bozo with a goal of derailing conversation by being a horse’s ass.

i don’t know what’s next, but i do get the impression that the louder and more bizarre the right’s messaging gets in chasing the ultra-online weirdo right, the more it will lose traction with typical people and drive them to tune out if not reject its messages and the medium overall.

like there’s really only so many things you can call woke/gay before its so incomprehensible that even some people who habitually want to follow you aren’t sure what you’re telling them to think anymore.

“If you have one woke state, everybody has to do all woke.”

let their fears be realized
summon the One Woke State
and compel EVERYBODY to do ALL WOKE
let the woker awoken!

Jeff Epstein is yesterday’s news. today belongs to Claude “The Bod” Hamworth.

if you’re working in comms/pr and your name is Jeffrey Epstein, you would have already changed your name to Butch Jenkins or Claude Hamworth by now.

mfw im drunk at work before 8am and gotta run a meeting about some bullshit i don’t even know five dollars??? get outta here.

it’s instructive to me that these people are unlikely to think critically about how much of a paper trail exists of their crimes against humanity.

paystubs, residences, socials, etc.

in many of the pogroms and organized state terror campaigns that happened in the last 50 years, the kidnappings, disappearances, and killings lacked documentation and/or were carries out by irregular forces and contractors hidden behind corporate secrecy veils.

but federal government payrolls are pretty resiliently archived and will be at “risk” for declassifying by any administration or reconstituted government for the foreseeable future.

its a special kind of pride that never even considers the possibility that their actions today, obscured by mask and badge, could one day be exposed for all to know.

one time i saw a ghost. but it turned out to be just a crazy fart i had made that was so stinky i hallucinated through the tears in my eyes.

i will miss him. 👻

danish intelligence agency reports submaries operating “underwater”.

at least 20% have no idea what the question is referring to and thought the survey was going to be about the sleeve of oreos they just ate.

literacy is the original woke mind virus.

RETVRN TO FARTS & HOOTS

mfw i know i look good

lol that movie rocks.
“I put only one bullet in there. There was like an 8% chance?”
“Who taught you math?!”

him and kilmer had incredible chemistry. it was a Shane Black joint (i watch all of his movies) and he has a preternatural talent for protagonist duos, their dialogue and characterization.

also, the move of having a real actor play a role of a character who can’t act successfully bumbling his way into pretending to be an actor from a fluke happenstance was such a funny bit.

i gotta watch that shit again.

one would have assumed that it had some insulation from the right wing cranks, being that it has always been housed in the Commerce department as a nod to the obvious fact that some ability to forecast catastrophe protects business interests and commercial activity as well.

but now that every aspect of reality must be viewed through a lens that determines if it is “woke/rainbow” or “trad/skull” for the Everyone is 13 heuristic… it seems anything can and will happen.

being haunted by a hamburger–or any other food–you ate can be scary, but a bidet helps and saves on toilet paper.