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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • Thank you, I think it was a mix of anxiety/depression and life circumstances. The stress causes me not to eat enough in the first half of the day and I would feel very low energy.

    Since then I’ve started a new job, moved across the country, got back into the gym, and that reset has helped a lot.













  • The day before the first day of work from home I got fired from my engineering job at an oil company. Soon after I smoked weed occasionally for the first time in years after having received random drug tests. Unemployment extensions were nice too!

    I bought a big laser cutter and started making art. Spent more time helping out at the local artist collective sprucing things up.

    Eventually I got hooked up with a cool LED art installation company helping them install their projects as a freelancer. Now I’m full time with them!

    It’s lower pay than the oil company but it is so much more rewarding, interesting, cooler people, better work/life balance. Overall the pandemic was fun times for me personally.



  • I think this viewpoint assumes that everyone lives independently. A lot of families function as units and they all live and work together. If you inherit post-tax income from a family member, then the money has been fairly taxed regardless of your viewpoint.

    Why should you have to pay the government to inherit your late-parent’s car or business? What happens if you can’t afford to pay the tax?

    For the low income families this can make or break a person’s way of life, for the 1% it is a way of hoarding the world’s wealth and maintain power.