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Cake day: January 13th, 2025

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  • I mean, I live like I’m impoverished. Rarely ever go out to eat, most of my meals are cooked by myself and extremely cheap. I wear clothes with holes in them because I can’t typically afford to buy more, and when I do have enough to shop I go thrifting. My days are spent working, and my nights are spent pirating media because I can’t afford subscriptions, or playing free to play games. I’m absolutely miserable, and still, still am nowhere close to ever saving enough money to afford a downpayment on a house.

    It’s never an issue of us “living within our means.” The issue is the billionaires at the top hoarding money like dragons.




  • I’d like to push back on the idea that a mental health treatment facility would just be prison by another name. The goal would be rehabilitation and release. While I agree with your assessment that mental illness and genetic issues are just part of the human condition and will always produce problematic individuals, I don’t think that makes these individuals permanently dangers to society. I believe that treatment is always possible. Prison is a punitive place created to punish those that society believes has transgressed against them; these facilities would be a place of healing to improve the lives of the people who go to them. The goals and motivations of the facilities would be entirely different.