bizarroland

The dude has been doing cocaine for like the last 55 years.

He probably hasn't had a sober day in longer than most of us have been alive, And eventually, whatever dark magics it is that sustains him will fade. And we will never think of or hear about this guy ever again.

Call JG Wentworth! 877-CASH NOW!

I mean, if you read the story, once he found out what he did, even though he was innocent of any wrongdoing, he gouged out his own eyes and slew his children, abdicated the throne and became a wandering homeless bum until the day he died.

And the entire thing could have been prevented if his father hadn't been scared of the oracle and tried to twist fate and just allowed things to play out normally.

Hey! That is adamantly not true!

He also understands jobs where black people are not paid for their services!

Get it right.

And what kind of fucking universe are we living in where declarations of actual human war are sent over Twitter?

Facebook: makes a system where the only way to get engagement is to hatepost.

People on facebook: hateposts

People: "How could this happen?"

I have a friend who went through something pretty similar, ended up spending ten years alone except for when people would come over to see him.

Eventually he pulled out of it and is married now, And if everything can work out for him, then it can work out for you too.

And also, like, don't worry about your opinion of yourself and thinking that you're gross, because it really doesn't matter. Like, the things that you're concerned about are never the things that other people are concerned about.

If you are clean and somewhat presentable, everything else can take care of itself. No matter what you look like or what you think you look like, there is going to be somebody out there who sees you as the most attractive, beautiful, desirable being on the planet if you give them the opportunity.

Don't let the downvotes get to you.

A lot of people are really angry and scared, and they'll take that anger out on anyone that gives them a convenient lightning rod.

I also read the article. I know you're telling the truth. They treated the man fairly. It was just... It's something for news to yell and scream about to rile everyone up and make people more and more afraid.

Keep telling the truth and sharing the truth when you see it.

It will help some of the tension de-escalate.

Man, fuck you.

I'll step up. I was raised in the south by... well, okay by the kind of racist white people that say they are not racist even though they don't like people of other colors inside of their field of vision.

I am not white myself, and so I got preferential treatment. I was "one of the good ones".

Plus, as a Native American, I kind of had like this weird, beneficent racism thing where they were like, oh, he can talk to horses, and he can hear it in the trees, and see it in the wind, all of that stupid shit.

Anyway, I didn't really mind people of color, black people, I would talk to them and be friendly with them because I didn't have any reason not to be, right?

But sometime around when I was 18 years old, I suddenly realized that I would change my way of speaking when I was around black people. I would say things like, "yo, dog, what's up?" Instead of, "hey man, how's it going?"

And I realized now that that is ingratiating behavior. I wanted the other people I was around to feel more comfortable with me, and so I was imitating what I assumed was their speech pattern.

But I also realized that I was pigeonholing them into acting a particular way. I was maintaining the concept that "Black people talk like black people" instead of "people just talk".

Once I realized I was doing that, I dropped the act and started continuing to be myself when I was around people of different races.

And you know, I made better friends that way. People liked me more and they responded more favorably to me, which to me feels like justification that I made the right decision.

My ex often got frustrated with me because I spend so much time in the planning phase, like learning about things, researching the various options, and making sure that everything is fully prepped and laid out before I start on a project.

Despite all of that, I have yet to have a project go to plan, Except for the one that I came up with off the top of my head.

I was redoing my flooring, and I have like a half third story that's open, and there's a lot of exposed transition space between the straight drop-off and the end of the flooring.

It was gonna look really bad to just put L-shaped brackets down to cover over the transition, So, spur of the moment, I realized that I could put a longer flat piece that had a beveled edge on it, and then the L bracket on top of that, and it is probably one of the nicest features in my house.

It is rather banal to be anal about pronunciation like that.