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Cake day: March 3rd, 2024

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  • My doctor diagnosed me with a b-12 deficiency. Something easily fixed with a shot she prescribed.

    The pharmacist looked at me like I was a drug addict when I asked where the needle for the injection was when I picked up the scrip. “Just have the doctor do it”.

    Fee for randomly showing up to my doctor to get the shot? $0

    Fee for getting the shot done when I was actively at a scheduled check up? $130

    I take an oral supplement instead now that’s not quite as effective.





  • It’s not real currency, it’s a token.

    I can’t use it to pay my taxes to the US federal government and it must be traded in for actual currency to do so.

    Just like a token at an arcade.

    They are also vehicles of wild speculation… And unlike stocks (where I gain partial ownership of a company) and bonds (where I gain a claim on their monetary inflows and primacy if the venture crumbles), crypto gives me… What exactly?

    I don’t get to be an owner or a creditor. I become… Holder of a mining incentive?

    I’m sorry it’s not what a lot of people seem to think it is.






  • The pandemic showed that a huge percentage of our work is literately bullshit used to keep us grinding away and not actually living life. And to keep us from dealing with the huge and glaring problems in our society.

    The Puritan idea that we must slave away in order to be worthy is a lie.

    One of the greatest economists, Keynes, expected us to be working 15-20 hours a week at this point because of productivity increases.

    But instead of sharing in the blessing of productivity, we were forced to do an increasing amount of meaningless work and spend less time actually living, all while being shackled with debt rather than even increasing our pay.

    A pretty garbage system if you ask me.