well, yes

grandpa has good days and bad days but mostly bad days

summing up the last week of insane social media posts, bizarre outbursts, inexplicable decisions and total confusion makes me think trump's hit a new low point in terms of his overall decline, and that white house aides and the cabinet are increasingly scrambling to cover it

that's not subtext, btw, it's text, they thought he'd oversell it

scheming viziers do not trust ailing tsar

argh, i'm wrong, he's not out of congress, he should resign from that, too, fuck him

shit, my mistake

this seems pretty definitive, i'm glad he's out of congress, time to shun him out of politics entirely

i mean, these aren't mutually exclusive, most people probably need therapy *and* something else, but therapy's probably not gonna help as much when it comes to the search for meaning or making peace with the absence of it

every so often i am reminded that, sometimes, people don't need therapy, they either need religion or existentialism

at what point does it become the individual's responsibility to adapt to the reality and make their peace with it instead of forever grinding their teeth about how the world is not what they wanted it to be

and, in general, i think this has been largely positive for culture and for politics, but i think it's been harder on the individual; it's a generation of overachievers who are realizing that overdelivering rarely matters very much

fair enough, but i think the general mindset was there before a lot of these folks even got out of college and into the workforce, friends who are maybe 5 years younger than me had a *radically* different view on, like, work, generally, than peers my age and older

without being argumentative about this (or, at least, without trying to be), who set those expectations?

everyone says this, and i don't *entirely* disagree, but i get frustrated by the idea that the great recession and fiscal crisis was uniquely hard on millennials, a lot of boomers who are still working today are doing so because their retirements went up in smoke

i can promise you that there is and always has been plenty of psychological abuse to go around in physically demanding jobs, it's only been in very recent years that this was even mildly frowned upon by organizations

a thing i've been saying for several years now is that the millennial midlife crisis crashout era is going to be fucking wild

one thing that i think causes this is that millennials, in my experience, genuinely *have* worked harder than their work peers who are older (and, increasingly, younger), but that was a choice, it's not usually a demand

i'm just a hair on the genx side of the divide, so definitely take that into account, but i feel like i see it more with millennials — genxers have a whole different set of maladaptions, but earnest type a personality anxieties aren't one of them

i know generational generalizations are always going to be frustratingly broad, but there's something about the type a personality of a large number of millennials which has curdled into permableating about it being unfair that not everyone gets to be an astronaut

this happens routinely over here, too, someone mentions some kind of antisocial behavior they've witnessed and then a jillion people with screen names like "pisscum recreation enthusiast" spend three days saying it didn't happen and lmao fuck you even if it did, it's very annoying

extremely funny that she's using depeche mode as the soundtrack

are they, like, walking there or something?

i honestly think people would be perfectly happy to accept this tradeoff, but we're going to have to drone strike the AMA first

my other even less popular galaxy brain idea is that we're taking education away from the states

it'd be weird to have a dentist work on your eyeballs, but sure, we're throwing that in, too

cuba (though that's in theory more than practice at this point)

as part of this national medical corps, dentistry is going to get treated just like any other health care is, rather than some entirely separate entity