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Is This How the Big Boys Feel? (opens the original)
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Crushing competitors, meeting someone else’s brag about being on-trend with an “already conquered that”, knowing you’ve done more of something in a month than many people do in a year: Is this what domination feels like?? August was my most prolific reading month, well, ever, and I’m here to toot about it after finishing 19 books in 31 days. I managed to stop time last month, or at least it seemed like that, because I also hosted folks at the new apartment, saw 5 movies in the theater, went to S
Lil' Nuggets (opens the original)
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Late-Stage Capitalism is a raggedy monster lurking in every crevice these days. The United States looks like switching from watching a show on your laptop to watching it on a high definition television. You can’t unsee how bad the make-up is applied. For me, this includes fighting every month through the one week window that my health insurance gives me to refill prescriptions (that I will need by the end of the week, I love being treated like a child who can’t be trusted with the whole bag of O
Am I Entertained? (opens the original)
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A thing I don’t understand in life is competition over anything that isn’t specifically designed for competition (like sports or a board game, I guess1). There are no measurables for say…having the best take on The Odyssey or getting the most comments on Instagram, so babe, why are you yelling like a trophy is within your grasp? Historically, I have so little ambition that even in things that can be measured, I often feel like I can’t be bothered to get worked up. I (more or less) didn’t
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