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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 days ago (7 children)

My parents just stopped watching the news about anything and just sit thinking everything will be okay. Its starting to get difficult to have a relationship with them because they are so out of touch with reality. They even go to protests but for them its just a thing to go do because they're not doing anything else. They have zero understanding of any of the reasons they're happening other than trump bad.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 days ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

am 40. still feel this way.

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[–] [email protected] 103 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I landed a job a job at a company that’s circling the drain, I feel like a parasite feeding off a host until it’s gone and I move to a new one

[–] [email protected] 87 points 2 days ago (8 children)

I'm a public librarian. Just dreading the day we are defunded. They’ve already attacked our national orgs.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Maybe this varies geographically, but our town's libraries are directly funded by the town. We recently improved a millage for renovations. I hope they would be pretty insulated from... sillyness.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago

Absolutely know the feeling

When I quit a few years ago are my last employer, I was thinking, I'm the rat leaving the sinking ship

Fucking card house still hasn't collapsed somehow and old employer is now my main customer.
So...not much changed, besides that I don't have much security anymore

But hey! Illusion of freedom, when being self employed! ;⁠-⁠)

[–] [email protected] 114 points 2 days ago

I remember agreeing with that back in 2021 when it was posted, and now, well...

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