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freaking and burn are bad words now?

Something I think we don't talk about too much that has additionally fallen to the throes of Late Stage Capitalism is the dissolution of nuclear and extended families, as well as the normalcy of shared households.

Before, the everyday tasks of any one domicile could be reasonably expected to be split up amongst its cohorts. Kids do their chores, dad mows the lawn, mom does the wash, nana does the cooking, auntie takes the kids to school/shopping, or your housemates help out, etc etc.

But most of this generation is living in isolated pods, single-serving everything. You are solely responsible for the cooking, cleaning, washing, shopping, studying, working, running to the bank, filing taxes, trip planning, car maintenance, home repairs, and your godddamn mental health. Of course it's too much work for just one person, but it's become so normalized by now that people hardly even notice there's a problem, much less any viable solution to it. Instead, we all resign ourselves to being "tired all the time", physically and emotionally, and not knowing why.

Get a significant other, share the pain.

It's on my to-do list.

In the universe of Chaos, stability doesnt exist. Its an illusion

Our lives wouldn't be so complicated if we had financial freedom via a UBI and didn't have that metaphorical gun put to our heads to make us keep working forever.

Most animals do very little every day, humans are one of the only animals to have no resource scarcity but still work ourselves into an early grave from stress.

why did they self censor "burn"?

WHO IS CENSORING THE WORD "BURN" ???

Smashmouth tried to warn us. The years keep coming and they do not stop coming.

So glad they censored fre*king. I almost had to read a minced oath.

Why the fuck is burn censored?

One must imagine Sisyphus happy

What the fuck, here there are no algorithms to please, there's no fucking need to censor "freaking" or "burn".

They literally teach you this in highschool science. They teach you that the universe is a dynamic system driven by entropy. They teach you that equilibrium, i.e. a state of stability in a dynamic system, is achieved when the rate of structural formation equals the rate of destruction, e.g. bonds forming/breaking, population birth/death, organizing/disorganizing one's room... Managing while not burning out is stability.

The classic question of "when would any of this be applicable in the real world" is intended to be a critique of how school curriculums can be dated or out of touch with chages in how the world works. It also highlights the often understated goal of a good education--shaping students into people who have the fundamental tools and the mindset to actively answer that crucial question for themselves.

My kid got in a fall and I had to leave work to go to Urgent Care. Three hours for a doctor to give my kid a pain med and a bandaid, and costing us $2k.

Ive been helping my unemployed ex-teammates find work and stay motivated.

My wife's side of the family messed up on their paperwork and because they're also dark skinned, I'm worried about ICE.

I took my other kid to the park last week and was called a sexual predator by another mom. Ive been pretending to be okay as the women in my family all blame me for "looking how I look".

My cousins have called me twice in the past month concerned about bills, and I'm sending them food money.

Oh and the Europeans on Lemmy is yelling at me for being an American because I'm not doing enough to stop Trump.

Fuckity cunt, lickety clit screw this god damn censorship shit.

The one thing I realize about these ToDO lists, is that they are written by others for you. Designed perfectly to exploit and trap the average person, until their life passes.

It's hard to pivot, if you are already in a wage-slave job, it is a trap. However, if you can eliminate your dependencies, say no to people who drain you, and create just enough room to find another job, you can finally start living.

Compare your life to that of a caveman: constantly watching out for predators, fire risks, intrusive insects, maintaining an insufficient shelter, tanning and hiding your clothing out of necessity, sleeping fretfully, and of course spending a good portion of your day scrounging for food whilst keeping the kids alive.

Our ADHD brains were in overdrive much of our history to cope with the dangers and stress of living.

Nowadays we have systematic soceital dangers to focus on, but we forget that our minds are far less distracted by real threats, and so we seek arbitrary topics to hyperfixate upon

Just breathe, write lists, you got this.

fuck that censoring