Zompist Bboard Again

Maybe so, but it still sucks that I won't live to see the world get any better. When I die, whether from old age or starving in a recession, the US will be considerably worse off than when I was born. And considering that was the 80s, that's saying something. I honestly have no idea why I bother living anymore, knowing that nothing but catastrophe lies ahead for the foreseeable future.

malloc wrote: ↑Fri Jun 17, 2022 9:46 am I honestly have no idea why I bother living anymore, knowing that nothing but catastrophe lies ahead for the foreseeable future.

Because we have no way whatsoever of knowing that. Sure, the immediate future looks decidedly worrying — but beyond the immediate future? We just have no way to know. Our current situation could just as easily prove to be temporary, and everything may well get a lot better once we weather this crisis. As they say: ‘predictions are hard, especially about the future’.

While I agree with large parts of malloc's initial post, I sense that this is turning into a typical malloc debate.

malloc wrote: ↑Fri Jun 17, 2022 9:46 am I honestly have no idea why I bother living anymore, knowing that nothing but catastrophe lies ahead for the foreseeable future.

Go get counseling.

It somewhat annoys me when I see otherwise progressive people approvingly quote H. L. Mencken. Come on, people, the man was an ultrareactionary, unapologetically elitist, robber baron worshipping, hypercapitalist asshole! When he made jokes about how stupid people supposedly are, he meant everyone who's not rich, not everyone who would vote for people like Trump.

I had another date today from the matchmaking service. Stood me up. Waited 45 minutes, no call, nothing. I’m thinking I’m going to cancel my membership and just bow out of the dating game. I’m sick of this. Some people just don’t have companions in life, and I think I’m one of them.

It's probably just because of the matchmaking service, not you. And, even if were to do with you, 1° you should not stand people up and so they're not showing their best side 2° everything and everybody can change so, if there was something about you that people are not liking, you can improve on that.

Welp, Roe v. Wade gone, Griswold v. Connecticut, Lawrence v. Texas, and Obergefell v. Hodges on the chopping block. What a time to be alive.

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Fri Jun 24, 2022 1:51 pm Welp, Roe v. Wade gone, Griswold v. Connecticut, Lawrence v. Texas, and Obergefell v. Hodges on the chopping block. What a time to be alive.

I'm at an absolute loss as what to do or say or how to be. I'm terrified and angry and sad.

Worse yet, Salmoneus isn't here so we can't tell him "I told you so."

(For those who got here late— during one of the confirmation hearings for one of the judges who just overturned Roe, Sal opined that obviously the judges would never overturn Roe; they knew perfectly well it was a terrible idea and anyway they were really interesting thinkers.)

Biden: Pack the court. Now. This is the only way to save America (and the world) from these scumbags.

zompist wrote: ↑Fri Jun 24, 2022 3:07 pm Worse yet, Salmoneus isn't here so we can't tell him "I told you so."

Speaking of "I told you so"s, Collins and Manchin are predictably whining about having been "lied to" by Gorsuch and Cavanaugh.

Manchin I suspect is being his usual duplicitous self, but I think Collins is honestly feeling betrayed and I just have to ask myself again how someone that fucking naïve can even exist in USAmerican politics.

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Fri Jun 24, 2022 3:43 pm

zompist wrote: ↑Fri Jun 24, 2022 3:07 pm Worse yet, Salmoneus isn't here so we can't tell him "I told you so."

Speaking of "I told you so"s, Collins and Manchin are predictably whining about having been "lied to" by Gorsuch and Cavanaugh.

Manchin I suspect is being his usual duplicitous self, but I think Collins is honestly feeling betrayed and I just have to ask myself again how someone that fucking naïve can even exist in USAmerican politics.

Conservatives are either enemies or fools, every last one of them.

Commiserations to my US friends.

Travis: Impossible without Manchin's support, and, of course, Manchin won't support it.

Linguoboy: I dunno, perhaps by appealing to fucking naive voters?

(As for Sal, I've often been flabbergasted by how someone as knowledgeable and widely read as him could so often, on so many different subjects, talk such nonsense.)

One of the slats in my bed base has broken.

One of my uncles, who is in nursing care, had a choking incident yesterday, and even though he nominally survived that, is in the hospital and not looking good...

Travis B. wrote: ↑Sun Jun 26, 2022 3:37 pm One of my uncles, who is in nursing care, had a choking incident yesterday, and even though he nominally survived that, is in the hospital and not looking good...

That's really bad. Best wishes.

So sorry to hear that.

Best wishes.

Sorry to hear that. I hope things get better for your uncle.