But why?

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Hey folks, my cat had a sudden change of health a couple week ago, and is now being taken care of in a 24/7 care facility. His kidney had started to fail and they cant find the exact reason why. It had leveled out after a night of fluids but went back to how it was a couple weeks after. Hes the little brother of my cats, and my son's favorite cat. With a 1 year old human baby as well our finances are already being stretched thin.

Please share if you can. I would greatly appreciate it.

I have really bad news. We thought he was recovering but hes been decaying really fast this past month. We think his liver is failing again even after surgery. We might have to put him down so he doesnt suffer and starve to death.

Nothing quite demonstrates the generation divide like how both me and my dad are/were MMORPG players, both of us play lizardfolk monks, but in his case in Everquest the Iksar were legit humanoid lizards whereas mine is an Au Ra kawaii uguu anime girl with a few patches of scales and horns

To add to this, back in his day you had to join a guild to do content and his was a bunch of well-paid engineers and lawyers, who he knew and worked with IRL, whereas I just queue up the roulette and do stuff with randoms and never talk to anybody

Got the old login credentials so I could make the comparison

"If stuff was just handed to me I'd have no motivation to do anything! That's human nature!" No, babe, that's depression. Psychologically healthy people are still motivated to do things even when their survival isn't being actively threatened.

[Image description: tweet by Roxi Horror @roxiqt on March 30, 2022 at 11:13 AM: “’Oh, so you think everyone should just be handed enough money to live?’ lol. lmao. yeah.”]

okay so like, we all know that housekeeping in a hotel is a Shit Job, right?

I worked with a woman who was independently wealthy. But she liked working housekeeping. So she did. And if the manager got bitchy with her, she’d just shrug and be like “Okay, I can quit.”

Like the manager treated her like a human being because she knew she had to because otherwise she’d lose one of her best workers.

Yes, everyone should be just handed the money to live.

I worked with a lady who’s husband made more than enough to support them both.  She just did the retail to have something to do with herself part-time.

There’s a lot of people who’d happily do the same sort of thing.  Honestly?  A lot of the jobs we consider “shitty” jobs?  Are shitty because the employees are treated like garbage.

If employees weren’t being screwed over by people higher up the chain constantly or being forced to kiss the asses of customers currently shitting all over them, those jobs would by and large be a whole lot more bearable, and appealing to more people!!

Plus rich people are just handed a lot of money, whether they earn it or not, and no one questions that. Only poor people getting money gets interrogated over and over and over again.

I’d like to add a footnote to this thread that the US gives more money (by way of the income tax reduction) to homeowners than it does to poor people who need subsidized housing.

martin: my entire resume is bullshit *sweating bullets bc he thinks he's about to get fired*

jon: OH GREAT *audibly grinning like a crazy person because he's so happy martin isn't actively attempting to murder him*

they are really living in different genres in this moment

the first time i posted this essay link, tumblr removed it for being sexual content jesus fucking christ. read the piece, please. our ability to communicate and find one another online is rapidly eroding and this is no light matter

hey gu🐇ys wait what was that.

many helpful reports from our teams in the field

People on this website will come up to you and demand to know if you're "pro-apple" or "pro-berries" and if you ask why those are the only two options they tell you to kill yourself

YOU WANT A CHICKEN SANDWICH

this joke has been stuck in my head for far too long

Another fun game you get made to play EVERY SINGLE DAY

*steps on a pressure plate and the ceiling starts lowering*

dog rotation

@dogjpeg ‘s

oh btw during the splatfest i was able to run into the BEST squad modifier due to running four splatlings but not four of the same one thanks to two randoms and my splatling-main friend

gives me mobster vibes i love it sm

Behold.

Rat-tat-tat Mob

guy whos email is mario19 cuz he is 19 years old and when hes 20 he deletes the old mail and resigns up to every service with mario20 and when he gets to mario25 and its in use already he solidifies into a stone statue and stays in stasis for a year

I think the moment that convinced me the operating logic of our society is truly fucked in a way that cannot merely be reformed was after that eclipse in 2017 when the articles started coming out about how much money had been lost by productivity dropping from people stopping momentarily to watch it happen. To measure the world by the metric of the dollar to such a devotion that any cult leader would be jealous of that you would look at one of the most sublime experiences in nature which we, our ancestors, and even a not insignificant number of non-human species, have been observing in awestruck wonder for millennia, and decide that such a moment of profundity is something to be fought and preferably expunged from the human experience because it briefly impacts quarterly revenue.

It's a feeling that has been coming up repeatedly, but with increasing frequency in the last few years. That being: what is all of this for? Where are we going? Nobody who defends the status quo can seem to answer it. What's the point of an uninterrupted quarterly revenue stream if we can't even look at an eclipse every few years? What's the point of hustling and grinding 50, 60, 70 hour weeks if you never have time to have dinner with your friends, talk to your family on the phone, but on a bigger spectrum, what's the point of all of that if you still don't have any way of retiring in the future? With the way that our lives are being increasingly monetized and squeezed every second, what is there to look forward to?

We are going straight to hell, right on schedule.

Update to clarify: there is a confluence of many things that work to convince us our only value is as a servant to someone of higher rank. The general American death cult that both seeks to bring on a fabled apocalypse, and also seeks suffering to purify everyone’s souls. The protestant work ethic, the Victorian era idea of the ‘deserving poor,’ the Prosperity Gospel indicating that wealthier people are wealthy because they are immoral, the Calvinist (Westboro Baptist church) idea that most people are bound for hell, the related Evangelical anxiety over whether one is being obedient enough to go to heaven.

We’re all supposed to hate ourselves, and to only feel marginally better if we are following all the rules and working ourselves to death. Poverty is a sign of sin (except for the mythical deserving few) so naturally if you question things and stop grinding yourself down, you will go to hell.

I think the past two decades we’ve been seeing the limits of how long people can work themselves to death, and have been reaping a bitter harvest of what’s been sewn for centuries.