And it's never to save some exec's bonus... it's always tied to life-safety.

Other new, "fun" things about my current job... doesn't matter what plans you have for the day, they can be de-railed at a moment's notice if a technical issue comes up. And the plans portion can always be re-negotiated. Just because there's a schedule doesn't mean it's set in stone.

I love lots of food from the pacific rim. Sushi, Pho, curries... but there's one terrible commonality between most of the restaurants that serve such food...

Shitty auto-tune "chill EDM"
covers of pop music from the last 40 years. Same 15 tracks, over and over.

Please, make it stop!

I've had a wonderful first full year at my new job. I finally don't hate waking up, don't cringe at another spreadsheet, don't feel like wanting to just wander off into
the woods and vanish. I now get to support those who save lives, and that's better than enriching some exec somewhere.

It was far easier to just block them.

Part of me wants to send an email to them explaining, just once, why I’ve cut them off. Why we can’t be friends now. Why this is pretty much irreversible.

I miss the person my friend used to be. But I’ve accepted they’re lost, probably forever.

It’s really shitty that someone I once considered a close friend and confidant has been this easily led. I thought this person was intelligent, well-read and full of enough life experience to know better.

Even after 1.5yrs of no contact, they tried again this winter to get my attention.

I grew up in a smaller town outside of the immediate bay area. 40 years ago I learned about white supremacy and became aware of the pathetic recycled bullshit claims and supposed “truths” these cretins like to spew. You’d think after decades they’d come up with something new. But no.

That’s what it was like. I’ve never been someone to believe in anything metaphysical, mystical or into any interests in the “woo” realm. But this… I fucking felt it. It was disturbing.

It wasn’t until later in the evening that they began to try and indoctrinate me. Obviously a failure.

I have a former “friend” who came out to me as a “white christian nationalist” summer of 2022. I haven’t spoken to this person since then. They had invited me and my wife up to their new house in the sierra foothills.

Have you ever rolled into a town and just *felt* evil everywhere around you?

The weather appears sunnier on here than just about anywhere else on the internet.