well, yeah… me being anal: song was Hotel California - an awesome song and my 10 yo brain had a completely different story to that then the band did :)

also from the same time period… roach motel - roaches check in, but don’t check out!

Fun fact here, the term “sleep tight” refers to when beds were bundles of hay that were wrapped by rope.

Welcome to our world. You might find, like me, that once you get here, you never leave.

so three empty ATMs can land me in jail. good to know.

corporate owners need to put a spin on anything that makes their servants look bad. they need them in power to keep the money coming.

ehile men still outnumber women in participation rate, men are leaving the job market in larger numbers due to layoffs, and probably other reasons.

labor force ttus of women and men, September 2026

it’s a woman’s economy now

as for educational support, this has been a commonly known fact for years now.

more women get aid, though the awards are a bit lower than men.

Gender Differences in Financial Aid Awards

pell grants are more lopsided.

Pell’s $6 Billion Dollar Gender Gap

all true, but you cannot hold a job with that approach. you will be fired.

this works well for people who have agency and can do this stuff for fun or have time before they lose their home to find a revenue stream.

that is gender agnostic. as s man i can tell you I’ve been excluded from most opportunities because i am not socially skilled.

on the flip, I’ve neen told by appartment owners that i can’t live there because he felt the other renters (women, all) eould be uncomfortable with a man as a neighbor.

i did not go to the equal opportunity organization to complain. besides, as a man i’d be laughed at and dismissed anyway.

Women currently dominate the job market and educational institutions both as students and teachers. women get the vast majority of grants and discounts for college.

it’s really men who are being discriminated against because “patriarchy”. i am an ex-feminist, btw.

< sips coffee, nods slightly >

so they didn’t do something Trump wanted, and they are paying the price. bonus: message to other banks.

so you are saying you never saw or experienced any of those assertions to have any validity? it is not stupid to purposefully cause other people harm when it harms yourself, too? stupidity does not cause harm to potentially large groups of people? you know no stupid people who are also successful or charismatic?

I thought they repealed those years ago during Trump reign of terror #1.

the same is said about barbeque - especially smoking. I’m not quitting anytime soon.

We live in a society that fears it’s own shadow so much, we excise all joy from life, then wonder why we’re depressed.

surreal times.

Rhere is a multitude of reasons we’re drinking more. none of them are pleasant.

Anybody else want to ditch society and go out in the wilderness and create a combine?

The billionaires are turning us into powerless mindless serfs.

I heard there’s a resolution in Britain going through the system that would make people liable to pay their partner alimony, etc., even though they’re not married.

we all know which gender will be required to pay out.

keep telling yourselves that your business is waning because of the economy rather than the fact people are getting married less because people figured out the system is designed to destroy one side to benefit the other.

you wield that brush of blame much too wildly. it’s still a minority who support that shit. his “victory” was engineered by a well organized group of neo-nazis spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation and aided by vote rigging.

sounds about right. many of them are able ro camouflage as upstanding, intellectual businessmen, too.