peregrin5

Eat the rich.

Your statement basically proves the ratio is even more important in FPTP.

If anything, it matters more.

That's really tough man. This is where I think these small communities might really help though. They are mostly people living in tiny homes and vans or something with almost no housing costs. So they can afford to focus on their art.

I think our background is similar and I feel you. One thing I think I learned recently is that there are artist communes out there in the middle of nowhere in probably every US state disconnected from everything except a small likely poor communities which are self-sufficient and focused on art. They range in size from a couple people to larger communities.

A bunch of people just get together to buy some cheap land or something and do this. The idea appealed to me a bit. Leaving the rat race and just subsisting and disconnecting.

Hard times like this will come and go. You can fight if you want and more power to you or you can isolate with a group of like-minded people and stay safe that way until things get better. Or you can think about it as saving your energy both mental and physical for when you have an opportunity to take action that actually makes a difference.

Mental health is health and you need to take care of it. Just like it's bad for your body to eat tons of junk food, never exercise, take addictive drugs, etc. It's bad for your mind to constantly ingest bad news when there isn't anything you can do about it for now.

Stop reading social media and the news and turn inwards to focus on things that bring you joy. If you have art or creative endeavors turn to those. Try to avoid hobbies that take too much money and find things you can do cheaply so you don't do things like blow your tax return (financial health is another thing and you should be creating an emergency fund with any extra money you find right about now).

Here are some examples on the cheaper side I enjoy: watercolor, bookbinding, knitting, sketching, etc.

Shit I live near this incident and heard nothing about it.

Seems kind of different though. This is a state run non-profit for workers comp?

I am American. I'm fully aware there are idiots in most countries. However the ratio of idiots to non-idiots is what really matters.

The fact that this works just shows that most Americans are idiots and probably deserve what they voted for: policies that will put them further in poverty and loss of their rights.

Well it would be nice if we could verbally insult people by drone.

What if your doctor is a woman?

Life hack to shorten doctors visits.