I don’t like the guy either but are we actually believing the National Enquirer? I don’t know why Yahoo is sourcing it but that’s a grocery store tabloid. Been thinking I want to diagram out media outlets for folks cause I see a lot of tabloid stories get posted in various places. I never really gave much credence to Enquirer or Daily Mail/Fail type places.

But even less based in reality!

Fuck it, I’ll take an autonomous AutoZone!

What a bunch of selfish twats!

Ha that was a fascinating read. I guess bears are libertarian as well!

But alas we were also assholes the whole time…

I’m not saying it would end well, in fact I know it would be a disaster lol. I stopped watching Westworld after two seasons and was trying to come up with a joke about how it doesn’t end well…it jumped the shark or some corny joke ha. Anyway did the show actually have a conclusion and is it worth watching to the end?

Yea, in the real world I guess we’re stuck with these bastards. What a bunch of bastards!

Thank you. You get it. We’re not assuming the rules of the world we live in. I’m just fantasizing a simple solution to a complex problem and pretending the problem would be solved ha. (Yes yes I know the problems continue…)

And thus why this zone is imaginary and would never work and I say it would have terrible problems. I fully accept reality and don’t want this to actually exist. This shower thought was not based in reality yet it seems I wasn’t clear about that.

Everybody is assuming I want to take part in this. I want an imaginary zone for all the assholes to go to…

Yea that place sounds nuts. My mom was for a time from Kowloon, not the walled city but I’m guessing around the same time it operated which is wild to imagine.

I think I should clarify that I have no interest in participating in this zone. The reality is we live in a world of monsters and I unrealistically wish there was somewhere else they could go and do their evil and leave us be.

To be clear, I don’t want to go to this autonomous zone. I want others to go do their weird shit there ha. But yea I’ll have to read Neuromancer, have heard it’s a good read.

Nah but I’m stuck here., womp womp. I want a place people voluntarily go into. This is not based in reality lol. As I’ve gotten older and learned more about history, I realized what a cursed nation we are though…

Thanks, I thought it would be tough and at first it was weird but it hasn’t been too bad overall. Similar with Amazon, I thought I could never give up Prime but I cancelled that as well. I still have it for a few months that I paid through but I have not really made orders through it and guess what? I’m still alive lol.

Ooh that’s something to look forward to. Yea my kid’s only 5. He can do so much more than he could a year ago. There was this podcast called One Bad Mother that ran for a long time and it just ended. But it was fun to listen to occasionally cause they would just share the bs they were dealing with or things they would F up and the host would always remind everyone we’re all doing a great job. Sometimes just solidarity helps. I used to listen to other parenting podcasts and realize it was doing more harm than good.

Yea, I often have to remind myself that it took me decades to get to where I am and I still don’t have it together ha. Someone told me in your head or even start a sentence aloud by saying your age and then their age and you realize how absurd some of your expectations are.

Yea that’s tough. Honestly what has helped with the mindset, my mom has since passed and of course I wish she was still here, but it has given me permission to let go of a lot of things. I am slowly trying to help my dad go through their house and it’s…a lot. But in the end it’s as you say what matters is your health, times with loved ones etc. Towards the end, I told her it was just stuff and don’t worry about it anymore. But now when I purge at their house…she isn’t telling me she can use this or that and I can just get on with it. My dad has a bit of it too so I just don’t even let him look at the bags of stuff I donate or trash now. Oh yea check out Freecycle, trash Nothing or buy nothing. A bit of a double edged sword cause you can use those services to get things. But I have given away a lot of things on there and it feels good.

Thanks. Yea I fall into these cycles of telling myself not to get frustrated and then I do even though there’s a voice telling me this isn’t helping, by being short with my kid etc. I know they’re resilient, but man it doesn’t feel good when you react to your buttons getting pushed and the filters come off. Sigh. yea tomorrow’s another day.