I understand and am very burned out about it all myself. But I will never have the audacity to complain out loud that anyone is ruining my escapism as long as people out there are suffering with no chance of escape. We’re bombing the fuck out of 80 million people right now.

I’m on great terms with my wife and make my own fucking breakfast. These things may in fact be related.

I’ll be in my bunk.

No! Only my! one! thing! /s

Demonstrably not.

That can be the theme of the next No Kings protest. I bet we crack 10 million people for that.

My wife is overly careful, like this. It goes to weird extremes at times. She will say things like “is there the possibility that you would be physically capable of leaving work early to pick up a package for me?” She’s trying very very hard to be clear that she’s interrogating what’s possible, not making a direct request or demand. This is where the “physically capable” thing comes in.

My reaction is always the same: “Dear, you can ask me to do stuff - just ask.”

Isn’t it almost universal that as long as resources are plentiful, organisms drift toward larger sizes?

Sanctions against the U.S. will, of course, not happen.

It would be more productive for the rest of the world to reduce its dependence on the US. This dependence takes a variety of forms and degrees but it’s this very dependence which makes sanctions impractical. It’s this very dependence which emboldens jackasses like Trump.

So just divest. Disentangle. If we could get there then there might actually be something we could do about a problem like Trump.

As things stand, it takes forever and a day to gather the will to merely speak out.

The big question is what, if anything, can or will they do about it.

Who would know better than you? I hope they start listening.

You’re starting to get it. Politics is not just a very boring television channel. It’s power transactions at the highest levels and it affects basically every thing. To even be able to whine about having to pay attention to politics is a great privilege.

Idaho about that, actually.

Yeah I was about to say damn what a shame she was so young.

That’s fair - I’d agree. I guess I just don’t see the happy at all.

Right? We’d celebrate death anniversaries, not birthdays.

Let’s say this life is all you get: wouldn’t you also do a million things to stay healthy and live longer, which most people do not do?

We invented the afterlife because it’s hard to deal with the fact that life is sometimes nasty, brutish, and short. Death is pretty hard to face too. So we lie to ourselves and each other about it. Simple as that.

Things explainable with doctrine are explained with doctrine. Things that defy doctrinal explanation are biological or “just because.”

Don’t worry, Chief, I don’t even expect logic from religion, so don’t try.

Frankly I think there’s already a gap on this with religious belief. If SO many people truly believe in god and an afterlife, there should be more suicides. Okay, it’s a sin. Fine. But then why aren’t people happier when a relative passes? It’s almost like no one actually really believes this shit at the end of the day.

…where we all come from and where we’re all going!