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2/8/2026
I have shingles. Fuck my life.2/17/2026 Lets go! Shingles gone. Life is good.
2/5/2026
So, this semester I’m taking a U.S. History course that covers from reconstruction to the present. And, like, we’re in the gilded age currently and I’m reading the primary sources they give us, and it’s like, hard to tell if the primary sources are talking about the late 1800s, or if somehow the writers had a glimpse into the future. More realistically it just showcases the fact that corporate hunger is just as unending as the complete contempt that corporations have for the very workers they rely upon.
More parallels can be drawn. Many of the primary sources I’ve read have talked about how new technologies have put them out of work, and how all they wanted was a stable job with stable hours, and how nowhere would hire them, and wait a sec isn’t this sounding like today? And that's just it, people have been people throughout all of history, corporations never change their behavior. I like to believe that most people are inherently good, and that we usually have a drive to help others, and I know that’s a little naive of me, but you do have to wonder what the hell is wrong with all the CEOs and managers and whatnot. How do they sleep at night?
I want to reiterate that I know we do have it better than the gilded age, at least in america (at the moment, with the current administration everything is subject to change): We have OSHA (thats pretty cool) we have a minimum wage (which isn’t really keeping up anymore, but at least we have it?) We have stable work weeks. Some of us might even get some nice benefits depending on where they work like: Insurance (wow!), help with retirement (amazing!), or even a pension (Swoon!). But corporations are still doing the same things they were back then.
Corporations still let their employees scrape by on low wages, unhealthy conditions, and with no job security here in the U.S, but they’ve shipped a lot of their other crimes overseas. I mean, who has their first thought when they’re told—by the government— that they need to stop abusing their workers be: “Wow, I wonder where I can abuse workers overseas?”. All of this greed is sickening. And yet so many people are against doing any tax, law, or act that could level the playing field against these billionaires on the offhand (Less than .00000000001%!) chance that one day, they could become a billionaire themselves.
I am by no means an economist, I don’t know the full scope of what few benefits that billionaires and large businesses provide, or how new laws and taxes could affect the tangled web we all find ourselves in. All I know is that I am angry. I—a person who lives a life of privilege and contentment—am angry. Hence why I am venting. However, if you are also angry as well, and, like me, are not eloquent enough to express said anger properly I shall direct you to the primary sources that were a spark to me in class and made me feel secure in my anger. They’re by no means some sort of hidden text- after all, they’re well known enough to be read in my class-but if you haven’t read them, you should, and if you have read them, it doesn’t hurt to read them again.
The Texts are as Follows:
Henry George “The Crime Of Poverty” For those who, in the quiet moments between the hustle and bustle, ponder society only to realize how insane it truly is, this will speak to you.
Samuel Gompers Letter to Judge Peter Grosscup This man basically covers it all. I cannot say anything about this text better than what you can find within it. So I’m not even going to try. Just read it. (2/10/2026 Edit: forgot to put this here but I just want to state I agree with everything you find in this letter, and generally most of gompers pro-labor views, but I do not agree with or condone any of the racial arguments he made. It's hard to have working class solidarity when you don't support everyone in the working class. Not cool, Gompers. Not cool.)
Mother Jones letter to Mrs. Potter Palmer. I feel like this is a good reminder of what businesses would do (and have done) without regulation and still probably do where regulations are less strict.
10/29/2024
God, I'm so sick of AI being in literally everything for no reason, I don't need AI to tell me to eat a small rock a day at the top of my Google screen. I don't want to see the uncanny valley CGI-looking AI art when I literally googled the word "cat". Nobody wants this, and yet it still happens, and like has the energy consumption of a small nation. And yet tech bros cream their pants for no reason, and wave around these hideous monstrosities they call "art" as a gotcha to actual artists, They think they're making the art world less exclusive? dont make me laugh. Art as a concept is not exclusive, anyone can pick up a pencil doodle anything (yes, even a stick figure, for those of you who use that as an example of why they can't make art), and make art. Art is meant to convey something, art is meant for humans to share. When someone makes art it should be an example of their creativity, to be able to make something that has never been seen before, to put in the time and the energy to share your interests, your ideas, to bring attention to something important. Art isn't meant to be typing words into a box and having a disgusting chimera of qualities stolen from other artists presented to you and you saying it's yours. So why the hell do I keep seeing those stupid drawings that all have the same airbrushed art style and background that you can never focus on because there is nothing in there to focus on? Why spend so much money, bandwidth, and resources to try and recreate something that a human could make, and make exactly how you wanted it? Sorry, this was all over the place, I just hate the fact that we have AI, something that could do so many cool things, like work on all the busy work and paperwork, maybe we could get it to do your taxes, and here we are using it to make anime women with as much personality as a cardboard pizza box.
10/10/2024
My god do I want a suit of armor. Is that too much to ask for? Well, I'm not exactly asking for it, im working towrds it. The suit of armor I'm looking at is actually going to be bought as a bunch of seperate parts, but they'll come together in a beautiful set or German gothic armor. I honestly prefer german styles to italian because all the ridgest and whatnot look metal as fuck! I love the sallet helmet with the bevor, it looks more real than an armet helmet if you get my jist. What I'm trying to say is that the armet looks more regal and noble, which is a cool traditional knight look, but the sallet helmet looks more imposing for war. I'm planning on getting the individual armor parts from Irongate Armory and I've heard some good reviews for them, so I'm hopeful that they're legit. Overall with everything I've been looking at it costs around 1900 dollars, and I'm concerned because that sounds too cheap to be good. I'll do more deep diving soon into the buisness. Since it is 1900 dollars, I crunched the numbers and figured out I need to save 3 dollars a day, or 18 dollars a week to be able to buy it all in 2 years, and I currenly have 23 dollars in the fund. Baby steps. But once I have the armor I'd probably also try to get a sword to go with it, a nice cloak, and then head out to live the rest of my life at a renaissance fair somewhere, its the good life. I'll do more posts once I reach certain money milestones, so wish me luck
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