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So yeah.. even in 1981, MAD magazine got it right.. but we never listened.. ☝️😑
If I was still driving for Lyft and I if I owned this vehicle, I’d push to get it certified for use.. 🤔..
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OR: I Played Doom as a Kid and Thirty Years Later They're Actually Building It
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I’m seeing more and m-.. (or is it me?) ..more religious crap coming across all platforms it seems.. videos on Jesus mainly, in addition I see more vids on the stories on the “Bible”..
Probably because of more religious groups getting more and more brave about what they want “us” to see.. and they’re getting less and less subtle about it.. practically sticking it in your face and daring you to tell them to mind their own business. The algorithms seem to throw this crap into my Facebook or YouTube feeds.. haven’t seen it in Tumblr, BlueSky or whatever..
Very annoying.. all this Christo-Facsist bullshit.. 🖕😑🖕
YA.. NO SHIT..!! 🤨
How Cancer Reshaped My Relationship with Money
Cancer didn't change everything overnight. It was quieter than that.
In movies, a cancer diagnosis always comes with some big moment of clarity. The patient stares out the window, soft music plays, and suddenly they understand what really matters in life. They book a trip to Italy. They quit their job. They cry and laugh and donate all their savings to charity.
That was not my experience.
When you are in active treatment, you are often too tired and too sick to reflect on the meaning of anything. Some days were so hard that my brain had zero capacity left for existential thinking. I was just trying to get through the week. The deep thoughts came later, slowly, in the quieter moments between appointments.
One of those thoughts was about money.
Before I go further: I'm not writing this from a place of financial comfort. I'm a normal person with a normal salary living in an expensive city. I budget carefully because I have to. I have a mortgage and it's a real weight. I'm not rich, I'm not even particularly comfortable. But I stopped obsessing over paying down debt as fast as possible, because I realized I was sacrificing the present for a future I wasn't even sure would look the way I imagined. This post is just my personal reflection, not advice.
The assumption buried in all financial advice
Most standard financial advice is built on one quiet assumption: that you will be healthy and functional long enough to enjoy the future you're saving for.
Invest now, enjoy later. Delay the nice holiday, wait for retirement. Suffer a little today for the bigger reward tomorrow.
I used to find that reasonable. Now I find it a bit naive.
Not because saving is wrong. Saving is fine. But the version of "save everything, enjoy nothing until later" stopped making sense to me once I understood, in a very personal way, that later is not guaranteed. And even if later comes, the version of you that arrives there might not be able to enjoy it the same way.
My grandmother is living proof of this. She spent her whole life being careful with money, saving, not spending on herself, putting things off for later. She is now in her nineties. She has the money. But she doesn't even remember anymore. Cognitive decline took that from her before she ever got the chance to enjoy what she saved. The window didn't just close. It disappeared entirely.
I think about her a lot when I make financial decisions now.
What actually changed for me
My shift wasn't dramatic. I didn't suddenly become reckless with money. I still save. I still think before I spend. I'm not interested in buying things I don't need or going into debt for the sake of "living in the moment."
But some things changed quietly.
I travel more now. Within my actual budget, not borrowed money, but I stopped treating travel as a reward I had to earn first. If I want to go somewhere and I can afford it, I go. Life is short. My body is not guaranteed to be this functional forever. I know that now in a way I didn't before.
I spend more on experiences I used to think were too expensive. Concerts. Musicals. A nice dinner. Before, I would look at the ticket price and think "that's a lot for one evening." Now I think "that's one evening I will actually remember." The calculus changed.
I spend more on good food. This sounds small but it isn't. Eating well, cooking things I enjoy, not just the cheapest option every single time. My body went through a lot. Feeding it well feels like the least I can do.
And I'm more generous with my family. More willing to pay for things, to treat people I love, to not overthink the cost when it comes to the people who matter.
It's not about spending more. It's about spending intentionally.
I think the version of financial wisdom I'm describing gets misread sometimes as "just spend everything, you might die anyway." That's not it.
It's more like: I now have a clearer sense of what money is actually for. It's not a score to maximize. It's not something to hoard until some hypothetical perfect future. It's a tool, and like any tool, it's only useful if you actually use it.
I still have savings. I still think about the future. I just stopped treating enjoyment as the thing I have to earn after all the responsible boxes are checked. Sometimes the concert is the responsible choice. Sometimes the trip is exactly the right use of money. Because experiences have an expiration date too, and it's tied to your health, your energy, and the people you'd share them with.
The suffering-now-for-later approach only makes sense if you're confident about what later looks like. I'm not. And I'm not sure anyone really is.
What I'd say to someone newly diagnosed
I wouldn't give financial advice. That's not my place and I'm genuinely not qualified.
But I would say: give yourself permission to spend on things that make your life feel worth living right now. Not recklessly. Not stupidly. But without the guilt that comes from the idea that you should always be sacrificing today for tomorrow.
Today is also your life. It counts too.
Has a big life moment ever changed how you think about money? I'm curious whether this resonates, or whether you see it completely differently.
Source: How Cancer Reshaped My Relationship with Money
Well’p.. Sora will be calling it quits on April 26, 2026. Not surprised actually. They’re saying it wasn’t sustainable and took a lot of space on their servers. Besides, Disney was going to buy them, but decided not to. 🤷🏻♂️
They had a good run..🤔
Me in 2008:
“We’ll never be the Evil Empire..”
Me today.. April 7, 2026.. at this moment:
A NICE RANT COMING ON..
(Reminder.. it’s just a TV show.. it means nothing..)
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Paramount can officially suck my ——
=squealing brakes=
..Let me take a step back before I officially tell Paramount to suck my cock..
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Here’s what they’re trying to push in hopes people won’t cancel their Paramount+ subscriptions:
https://parade.com/news/star-trek-starfleet-academy-canceled-after-2-seasons-following-fan-backlash-but-theres-a-catch
(If this link doesn’t work, try copy and paste.. if that doesn’t work, just Google it.. it’s all over the fucking place by now..)
So.. Did you read it?
That’s it in a nutshell. They want to say that they’re proud of this show and it’s people who were involved. No really, that’s what they want to say, basically..
“We’re gonna chop you off at the kneecaps, let you show your last season, but that’s it.. finito..”
They cowered to the dissenters. They pussied out over a bunch of anti-woke bullshit. CBS is much to blame for this too. They’re not slinking off on this one as well. Cowards..
But let me go back a bit..
I remember a time when these same mother fuckers (Paramount and NBC.. cuz they’re scum too) did this with the original series after just two seasons. Star Trek was dead even before it got its IDIC past its fly.. and out in the open.
But there was hope. There’s always hope..
A writer of the time, Bjo Trimble and her husband had the wherewithal to start a letter writing campaign.. IN 1968 MIND YOU.. to convince Paramount et al, back then to give it a third season.. and with a third season, the show could be syndicated. I think those were the rules for TV shows back then.. what do I know..?
But.. A FUCKING LETTER WRITING CAMPAIGN .. mind you.. in 1968..!! Star Trek could have been long buried, just one of those TV shows that you vaguely remember back in the late 60s. But it endured.
2026..
Starfleet Academy probably won’t see that kind of response or respect. Even if Bjo Trimble could do something, the money talks EVEN louder nowadays.
This isn’t 1968, and there’s so much streaming out there, that anything she could do would only vanish into the mists like a rooster crowing into the Abyss’ splayed open asshole..
Again, did you read this article? Did you read other articles about the same thing? Shit.. even Facebook barfed it all over their site like an unawoke sycophant looking for an HOA violation to exploit.
Oh Paramount is “So proud” of their new show.. so much so that they’ll let them stream their second season then they’ll drop the axe and .. that’s .. it ..
No more episodes.. no more new ideas.. just the same old rehashed bullshit. Kirk doing this, Spock doing that.. Yeoman Rand kneeling down at her captain’s dias in anticipation of fellating the ol’ boy before going into battle against a fleet of mostly drunk Klingons.. (which I’d probably watch as well.. because I’m weak..)
**Sob**
Fuck you Paramount.. I hope your stockholders develop an incurable disease that only Dr. McCoy or Dr. Crusher, or The Doctor (see what I did there?) can cure.. and that their dicks fall off or something. I said “dicks” because I’m assuming that only those with a “Y” chromosome can sit on the stockholders board..just an assumption mind you..
At this moment.. I have nothing but total contempt for Paramount and any of its holdings from here on out.. fuck them, fuck them, fuck.. them.. 🖕😑
*sigh*
And to those un-woke mother fuckers who are to blame for this bullshit: You win. Take your victory and run a lap around the White House while yanking off your boy. You know, the one with the ungodly orange tan? The one with one foot in the grave and the other on a Big Arch burger? I know you guys would gladly do it too. And while you’re at it, let him fuck you in ass as well. You’ll enjoy that too..
End of rant.
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So.. (sheepishly) ..Umm.. Disney, want to buy a slightly used franchise..? Only 60 years put on it.. new paint.. new tires, slightly scratched.. so what’dya say?
There’s always hope.. right Princess..?
Yep..
My next office chair.. but with two of these arm rests.. 🤔😬