The Seannitarium

idk i'll finish this later

[seannessy]

Station 4 - 11/07/2025

Yeah so apparently the last one I accidentally wrote 2026. Lol, lmao even.

Dear god I am so tired. I forgot it was First Friday.

Made some pretty decent progress on life stuff, chipped away at room cleaning, and found some neat looking new jobs that are being hired for that are looking pretty doable actually. Did some research about rents in California and yelled out loud a few times from how frankly stupid this economy has become. Fun stuff.

Then it was off to work (after the chores), where I found my boss, usually the fastest and best of all of us, 6 orders behind with the earliest one being 12 minutes behind. Poor guy was having some medical problems, it took me over an hour to convince him to take the rest of the day off and go home.

Surprisingly after that, things cleared up. We still had a good supply of customers coming in, as usual for First Fridays we broke 100 sales, but what was very NOT usual is that we actually got out without needing to take a full hour of overtime from the amount of cleaning that needed to be done. I'm not sure if that means that we were just lucky or that I'm getting better at this, but it's probably both.

Oh also, it turns out the magic cards deck I thought would be absolutely terrible and worthless was genuinely one of the strongest that my coworker had ever seen and he offered to buy some of the cards off of me on the spot. These next few days I'll need to look through my vault and see if I have any duplicates to give him. That really was truly insane, I had no idea what I was doing when I jammed that deck together, but apparently we do live in the Seann Era.

Thought a little bit about my antidepressants today. To be honest, it's crazy I never tried these before. Imagine how much better of a place I could have been in if I had started taking them in high school. If they had just started me on these instead of those BS ADHD meds way back then, I imagine I would have had the presence of mind to make a lot better decisions in my life. Though, I suppose it is some of those bad decisions that led me to become the person I am, and that led me to learn to not be a terrible one. Maybe it was for the best that I failed enough to learn to appreciate success when it comes to me. Life is a lot better this way, both appreciation-wise and also because of the antidepressants meaning that I actually have enough energy to. You know. Live. I suppose it's pretty obvious in hindsight, but I probably have been living with some minor form of depression for most of my life that's gone untreated. I recently remembered something from when I was 14, where I had been brought in for a psych eval for a depression diagnosis, and I ended up missing the diagnosis by 1 single point on the questionnaire... The thing is, I had lied about my symptoms several times on it. Admittedly, I can't exactly diagnose my entire life based on what I felt as an angsty teenager, but a lot of things make a lot more sense in my life with the context that I might have just had high functioning depression this whole time. I mean, with everything in my life, it's a little hard not to be depressed now and then, but now I have the energy to actually do something about it, so I think that's a plus.

Now, for tomorrow's tasks. Today I definitely fell into the "Good lord why did you think you could do that many things after a workday" trap yet again, so we're going to try out the Mosquito Tasks method I mentioned last station.

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Major Tasks:

🔴Go to work!

🟡Do some of the training for the Internship Licensing

🟠Room Cleaning

Mosquito Tasks:

🟢Start editing Apotheosis EP 27

🟢Finish Artwork

🔵Make one (1) comic

🟢Ask boss about being a career reference

🟢Finish job applications I started today

🔵Tweak mouth blendshapes in my vtuber model

🔵Do something on Kaggle to get started on more Data Science stuff

🔵Get back into the Godot Project and do some Shader research

🔵Mark off days from work for Thanksgiving Vacation and Cousin's Birthday party

🟢Think of a good birthday present to get for Avi

P.S. Oh also! I set up the new keyboard today! It's a lot to get used to, especially since it is incredibly quiet compared to my last one, but I'm really really liking it so far! The keys are made of a material that is a lot softer than the last one, so it's just a lot more cozy if that makes sense. I keep thinking back to that one line from Dr Who, something along the lines of "There is a noise that you live with all your life that you learn to tune out, now that you can't hear that noise your perception has gone haywire. That noise is your heartbeat." That's really how I felt typing on my PC keyboard and having no incredibly loud clickity clacks happen for the first time in over a year.

P.P.S. Oh god. I got that last loud keyboard with the intention of using it on stream because I thought it would be funny. I have put off returning to streaming for THAT LONG. Dear god I need to actually shape up with that.

P.P.P.S As I finish writing this up I have the distinct feeling that I am forgetting something major for my plans tomorrow... Ehh, probably nothing! :D

Aaaaand with that it should be a wrap! Thank you yet again for following along with my journey this station, and I hope to see you again sometime! Until then, Ciao for now! -Seann

[seannessy]

Station 3 - 11/06/2026

Alright, definitely going to be fast about this one since it is quite late. Internship went very well today! Finally figured out the details we were all looking for for how I can get a license to sell certain types of bank accounts to people for the company, and it's honestly way easier than I expected. Just about 52 hours of training, a few practice quizzes, one BIG quiz, and suddenly I am licensed.

Aaaand I also may have discovered a somewhat embarrassing (but thankfully very low stakes) error that I made in one of the critical data graphs I created for my boss. Not my finest moment.

Right after that was The Big Day for my TTRPG campaign--the day when the reveal I've been building to for an entire real life year finally came to pass. All of my players both absolutely hated me and also loved it so, so much. Next session is going to be a treat. Sadly one of our number couldn't make it for the full thing since she was currently on a bit of a vacation and pretty high ping.

I had planned on cooking a big meal for myself after the session, but it seems my mom beat me to it with some very nice fish! To be honest between that fish and the sushi, I've been eating a hell of a lot of seafood today.

After that it's pretty much just been resting and ironing out some details on a character sheet I've been working on for a while, listening to some more Critical Role. Honestly besides the very stressful TTRPG session, a rather calm and uneventful day, which leads us to tomorrow!:

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What needs to get done:

🔴Go to work!

🔴Do some of the training for the Internship Licensing

🔴Clean room a good bit more, try to sort some magic cards and bring them incase the dude trying to set up a magic group is at work today

🟠Start using Google Calendar again. I've been using these ones as a crutch for my Todo Lists for the last few days and it has NOT been working, so we're going back to basics.

🟠Check through Gmail backlog

🟡Do some TTRPG character work with The Wife

🔴Oh god that's right there's the Friday Chores

What I'd like to get done:

🔵Begin work on TTRPG editing

🔵More blender blendshape tweaking

🟢Finish the sketches

🔵Open up my Godot game again and try to make more progress on the shaders.

🟢SOMETHING related to the job hunt.

Remembered today about an organization method I used to do called Mosquito Tasks or something. Basically you write out all the very small little things you need to get to but just have been putting off for too long, and then dedicate some time to exclusively doing those tasks one by one. Maybe I should start sorting activities into Major/Mosquito tasks instead of Needs/Wants. I'll try it out next Station I think.

And with that--that's a wrap! Thank you as always for dropping in this station, and hope you have an enjoyable journey of your own! Ciao for now! - Seann

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[seannessy]

Station 2 - 11/05/2025

Today was pretty chilled out! I didn't quite get to everything I wanted to, but I made much more progress than I was expecting. Not sure how I expected myself to do very much exercise on a workday, but I'll just need to double up tomorrow.

The dental surgeon's office went quite a lot faster than I expected! Currently they've sent their request for authorization, the insurance will send back what they cover, and then this will go back and forth and back and forth in a profound waste of minutes of everyone involved's lives, making me yet again lament the fact that I have not yet moved to Europe where mankind has begun to develop civilization.

Work was very slow, I spent most of it just kind of aimlessly standing there looking for stuff to clean, I think this is actually a new record for least customers served in a single shift, and sure as hell not for lack of trying. My buddy came in a little later and thankfully I finally had someone to chat with. He told me about some food prep stuff he's been doing which has inspired me to try to take some of it up myself! It also reminded me of an old trick my dad used to do to blend tofu in with the Mac and Cheese. I always thought the Cheese-Tofu ratio was absolutely terrible, but now that I realized I have free will, I've picked up some tofu to do some culinary experiments on my own time--I'll keep you posted. We actually ended up closing a little early, after only managing to take 5 orders in 4 hours, with 2 of those hours being entirely barren and one of them being a DoorDash. Wednesday nights with rain will do that to a restaurant. Pro Tip for anyone who doesn't like waiting for your food, you can pretty much always go on Wednesdays or Tuesdays and there will usually be no one else there, so you'll be the only one for them to focus on. Highly recommend it.

Had a brief scare today with my scooter actually, I forgot to charge it last night so it was only at half battery. I actually saw some of the restaurant's regulars as I was scooting in on 10% battery and gave them a wave, they actually came in later to chat for a little while. Always a lovely time to see those two. They're both Muslim with some very Muslim names, and we had a nice discussion about the differences in pronunciation and language between english, arabic, and hebrew, and for a little while my childhood interest in conlangs was reignited again. Talking to people really is pretty cool, you should go out and try it sometime.

By the time I got back home from the bus it was pretty much just time to go horizontal. I very quickly slumped down in the same heavenly recliner that I write this from and chipped away at what little I was able to manage through my weary body, though I still have quite a lot of prep for tomorrow's session to be done. Still, thankfully not an impossible amount now!

The career field is actually progressing, since one of my references has given me some tips about etiquette in asking people to be career references and the letters you should draft up for it. I think I've made some decent progress on that front, though it's only an outline. I am yet again faced with the haunting realization that government employers actually have standards for who they hire, and that like many things in life, I will need to put in a great amount of effort for an uncertain result. This displeases me greatly. However, the alternative is not having a cool government job with good pay and lots of benefits, so I think I will, as it is said "thug that shit out" in this case. I should probably learn to do that more in general to be honest, though I suppose one of the many challenges of life is finding the right balance of how much effort you want to put into things versus how risk averse you want to be in your life. I've always been quite risk averse, and that's certainly held me back from making the mistakes I need to grow, so by now I should probably try to be a bit more of a bull in a china shop. Just like that one funny Ferdinand movie where John Cena voices the funny bull when he is in the funny china shop. I have not seen that movie and I don't know if it's called Ferdinand or if the voice actor actually was John Cena or not.

Blender stuff has gone way better than expected! I think I may have slightly overdid it on the smile blendshapes though, seen here:

Definitely very goofy, but it should be pretty easy to solve. I'm actually very surprised at how smooth the tracking was in Warudo for most of the blendshapes! I tend to talk pretty fast, so it doesn't pick up everything, and the eyebrow movements could use a little more work, though I'll probably need to talk to Lux to see if that's something that can be solved without just getting a better camera for many many billions of dollars.

Art is also pretty fun. Sadly it is a little too late to finish, but the banner for these funny little station announcements is looking pretty good as a WIP:

It's been way too long since I treated myself to a good sketch. I think my problem is that it's always so hard for me to start new things, but once I actually have started them, I cut through pretty quickly. Gotta be better at just jumping into things more, even if it is a little stressful.

I think the ADHD meds are certainly helping. I took a full pill today instead of just half, and it hasn't actually kept me up as long as I was afraid it would. Sure enough even though I took it a little late in the day, I'm still getting tired around when I had originally planned to go to sleep before I decided to spend 30 minutes on a quick 5 minute sketch. I can only hope that my body is finally deciding to build up a tolerance to the downsides of it and actually let me have a not terrible sleep schedule. I think they're also making me a bit more sociable too? Talking to people in public is usually something that makes me a bit nervous, but for some reason it just kind of flowed out fine today, even when I was admittedly flubbing a little bit. Pretty neat upside to be honest.

Oh! I also watched some Vox Machina with Licore. Very nice series. I don't want to discuss it in any spoilery way, but I am at the area with the... very wet tomb, and even though the pacing can feel a little disjointed sometimes, I'm always enjoying this show's ability to surprise me with new plot developments. I mean, if you've played enough TTRPGs, it's always pretty easy to guess what's going to happen next, but the way that it happens and the consequences of it are always a total treat.

Oh also apparently Dick Cheney died a few days back? You really think I would know this kind of thing as a political science major and the manager of a very political discord server, but somehow it slipped through all of my nets. I think my dad actually met him before in real life when he lived in DC (it was either him or Kissinger, though i am about 75% sure it was Cheney), which was quite awkward as a veteran who was discharged for refusing to go to Iraq on moral grounds.

Anyway, well, it's gotten quite late indeed. As for tomorrow...

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What needs to get done:

🔴Finish the TTRPG prep!!!!!!! Before the session!!!!!!!

🔴Actually DO the session

🟠Do more of my data science internship, and also draft up a small report to show to my boss about the HSA/FSA stuff

What I'd like to get done:

🔵Do some more room cleaning

🟢Finish up my doodle and do some more sketching for fun

🔵Look through my old Magic Card box and see what I've got

🟢Make some very yummy delicious dinner foods

🟢Do some exercise but for real this time

🔵Fuck it, it's been too long, I need to work on a PF1E character sheet. I need to. It's like my methamphetamines. I can't stop making pathfinder character sheets. I need to give in to temptation more.

🟢Do a little more laundry.

🔵Begin work on the house chores so I don't need to do all of them on Friday.

And with that, the tired is really getting to me, and the kitchen is still unclean. I'm going to do a few pushups out of sheer spite for the fact that my weary body does not want to do them, and I am then going to mess up the kitchen even more with snacking.

Thank you for stopping in at today's station, lovely to see you, and Ciao for now! -Seann

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[seannessy]

Station 1 - 11/04/2025

Alrighty, so I'm actually trying to do this, choo choo for the Seann Train. So yes, in my last post about announcing this I was definitely a little optimistic about my time management, but to be honest I think it was more doable than even I expected. I think the main takeaway from today is that I need to remember to take the right amounts of my ADHD meds.

Today I did do some cool stuff. I woke up pretty late, and cleaned my room for a little while before going to my volunteer data science internship. Things are looking pretty up and up there! My job is basically to audit everyone else's work, and ever since I drafted a new invoice logging sheet and started tracking everything, there's been hardly any mistakes whatsoever for me to even follow up on, so I've been looking for other ways to expand into the field. My boss there is interested in having me learn about HSAs and FSAs. Health Savings Accounts and Flexible Spending Accounts--two banking accounts which can be used on medical expenses with drastically reduced taxes. I do data science work at a medical clinic, so my boss is interested to have someone trained in HSAs and FSAs that he could use to have me set up appointments with his clients to make good recommendations for them, though licensing is the main hurdle. We're currently looking into exactly how I could get licensed, and supposedly there's rumors of a very easy way that only takes a few hours? Jury's still out on that one though.

After I got home, I finished up the Critical Role watching I had started while cleaning my room a good bit, enjoying some nice asparagus my mom had made--turns out she had the same idea of some healthy food tonight before I could even cook the squash I got from the market. We had some real gnarly fog and mist coming home, nothing beats that slow creeping anxiety about whether or not it's going to rain when your only way back home is an electric scooter and you're wearing a button down.

Finally managed to finish the TTRPG session video editing like planned, and even got to do some fun play by post stuff with some of my players like I had planned, which took up quite a lot more time than I had expected, as usual.

As for job applications... there well and truly is not very much here at all even to apply for today. The main issue is getting some high quality references for the good jobs, and the bad jobs are a step down from what I have right now. Still, if I had budgeted time better I probably could have found something. I've been doing some research with my parents about local job training courses to expand my abilities, possibly going into the medical field. You never really think about it with doctors, but there are quite a lot of doctors who do admin work and data science behind the scenes without needing to see any patients very often, which honestly sounds like it could be a pretty decent gig for me based on what I've seen. It's definitely something I need to weigh around in my mind a lot more, but hopefully some more research will help out.

Sadly, I didn't actually get to do any session prep for the game on Thursday. Had a good few thoughts about it, but nothing actually material, so I'll need to focus heavily on that tomorrow. Thankfully there isn't an enormous amount of stuff to do, so it shouldn't kill me or anything.

Had a pretty cool talk with my boss today about some of the books we've been reading. He's told me about some self motivation lectures he's been listening too, and I told him about Angela Duckworth's book Grit, which is really applicable to a lot of the self motivation stuff he was talking about.

Honestly, I had quite a lot more time than I expected, but when coming down from the ADHD meds it was quite difficult to motivate myself to do anything beyond intermediate difficulty, which will be a problem with the whole "life" thing. Tomorrow I think I'll try to go back to taking full pills instead of half in the morning and see if it helps.

Also, oh my god, I think I will need to get a new keyboard, because I am about to break this one. This god forsaken M key either works with even more accuracy or requires me to nearly break my desk with force in hitting it to type a single key, and I am reaching my limit. Oh jesus fuck now it is typing multiple Ms per keystroke. I need this keyboard obliterated.

Also also, sadly, it does infact seem that I have failed my unlisted subgoal of getting to sleep at a reasonable hour, so that whole time management thing really is important.

Now, as for tomorrow's goals~

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What needs to get done:

🔴Finish that TTRPG prep stuff, I've got an entire new token map to make, even if it is a simple one

🔴Finish the laundry for the towels and the darks preferably before I head to work

🔴Go to work and actually earn money

🟠Finally call the dental surgeon to try and get my exam scheduled to fix that issue with my mouth

🟡Seriously, look for a new keyboard online. This is getting ridiculous.

🟠oh hell i also told my boss i would get him a report about my findings on FSA/HSA stuff by thursday. guess i've gotta do that as well

🟠work a little more on reference hunting

What I'd like to get done:

🟢Watch some more Vox Machina with my friend Licore. I meant to today, but I woke up far too late to make it work, sadly. Which does not bode well for my schedule tonight

🔵Do some more fucking around with my vtuber 3d model in that one 3d vtuber app that for the life of me i can never remember the name of and isnt vseeface. test out the new blendshapes i worked on a few weeks back and see if i fixed the issues.

🟢More room cleaning, making some pretty decent progress actually

🟢Get to bed at a more reasonable hour

🔵Do some exercise :D

🔴Seriously get to bed at a better time i had another thing to write here but i have forgotten it like 5 times now

🟢oh yeah it was bring some magic cards to work. a coworker is setting up a mtg group and it seems like a fun social thing i could join. even if i dont have the time to make my own deck i can at least bring some cool looking ones hopefully

🟢also finish that idea i had for a drawn banner for these posts. that sounds cool and fun. i really should do more drawing.

And with that, hopefully tomorrow will be better organized, although I know I'll certainly be very tired out from work. Regardless, thanks for stopping by and feel free to join or disembark at any station of your choice. Ciao for now! -Seann

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[seannessy]

CHOO CHOO SEANN TRAIN STATION STOP NUMBER 1!!!!!🚂🚂🚂

what the hell did she mean by this?

Hello everyone, my name is Seannessy. In this uncharacteristic bit of lucidity from my normal bits and unserious gags to talk about life stuff, and a new project I'll be starting to hopefully post here a bit more.

To put it frankly, I haven't been very satisfied with my life for the last few months. I've definitely had my moments, and things are improving, but things aren't improving nearly fast enough to keep up with the world and where I feel like I should be. It's hard to exactly verbalize what it is that's wrong in specifics, since it's mostly just a massive tangle of small things that I've let fester for far too long that has grown into a barbed wire tangle slowing my whole life down.

That brings us to this new project. Yes everyone, that's just what we need, one more Seann project! For real though, this should help. Project Seann Train Station. My creative name for an open journal because I want to be quirky and unique. Feel free to join me on this journey for a few or a plenty stops, getting on or off as you so please. Regardless, the train of life will just keep going, so I might as well get the rails in a good shape.

From now on, I am going to try to write each night about everything I did the previous day, as both a log and a chance to reminisce and introspect about everywhere my life is and where it could be going better. I used to pride myself on how much I introspected and self improved, but in recent years I've loaded myself up with so many projects that I haven't had the time, and it's really slowed my roll down to a crawl. Hopefully having a scheduled routine time for it each night will help out, and maybe some of you all will help keep me accountable, whoever might be taking the time to read this.

I suppose I should start with a few things that need to get done today, and I'll see you all later tonight at tonight's station to see what progress I've made.

What needs to get done:

🔴Doing the Statistics Work for my Data Science internship

🟠Picking up some vegetables for a healthy meal tonight (ive been slacking on meal prep way too much)

🔴Finishing the edit of my TTRPG game recording that should have been up yesterday, getting it ready for posting tomorrow

🟠Doing some prep for the next session of that TTRPG game for next Thursday

🟡Applying for another job or two (like a real application, not just an Indeed Easy Apply thing)

🟠Meeting with my parents and talking about career goals and stuff like we had scheduled

What I'd like to get done:

🟢Cleaning my room a good bit more

🔵Reading more of one of the countless books I've gotten partially into and then got distracted by another book from

🟢Writing up some of that TTRPG game lore I promised I would for one of my players

🟢Cleaning the kitchen a little bit for my mom so we dont have a bunch of boxes blocking the path of the electrician tomorrow

🔵Doing a little more Digital Art. It's been a while, I should get back into it. (i should draw a banner for this project to decorate it a little bit. that'd be nice)

🟢Listening to some more of the new Critical Role campaign

There's probably plenty more that needs to get done in the next few days. Lord knows I've been slacking on a lot of my projects because frankly, deadlines are stressful! I'd like to think that this kind of project could help make them less stressful, to help me take things one step at a time, and to help me take accountability when things go wrong.

Of course, I am also notoriously quite terrible with time estimation and time management. Truly who knows how long any of this will take or if I will be able to accomplish all of it (i am under no allusions that i can accomplish everything in the blue and green list tonight, certainly not), but maybe as I keep doing this I will start to get better at managing my time and activities. That'd be a plus.

Well, with all that, thank you for reading this far to whomever may have made it, and I hope I may have inspired you to do some positive life choices as well. As always, feel free to stop in or depart at any station of your choice. Ciao for now! -Seann

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(p.s., i may have autism, but i actually don't know all that much about trains and how they work. maybe i should get on that too...)

[seannessy]

this is my mech pilot his name is Shinji please wish him luck

[seannessy]

Hey Indeed.

What?

[seannessy]

⚠️POLITICS⚠️ - so, what the hell just happened

yep your favorite catboy political scientist is back. regarding that last political science post about all the reasons why i thought Kamala would win im not going to beat around the bush here, i was not just wrong, but i was mega wrong. a lot of us were. so? what happened?

the long and short of it is that we are currently in the Death of Liberalism as an ideology. i have data to back this up, but i think we can all sort of feel it in the vibes too, right? the Trump campaign won because they were Populists, and the Kamala campaign lost because they couldn't get rid of the weight around their neck that was their association with the Liberalism status quo in the eyes of the voters.

look across the board, states that went strong red also had massive turnout for very progressive policies. Florida had a 57% support for a state constitutional amendment to make Abortion a civil right (of course, it still lost, because in Florida in order to win with civil rights issues like this you actually need 60% of the vote, because the same people who made the Florida election system also went to Florida schools). and keep in mind, this was when left leaning voters were largely staying home, its the republican voters who are supporting these kinds of things, because they're populist.

if you want even more proof, look at the demographics that trump gained massive support bases in this election cycle. largely, they are exactly the same ones that were energized by the Bernie campaign.

the biggest takeaway from this, and the only one i can really remember after for 2 hours trying to get this post finished through 2 factory resets of firefox to get it to actually do something, is that Populism Sells, and Institutionalism just doesn't anymore.

we're in a new world, politically, there really arent any historical parallels that i can point to to compare. if you want some advice for what to do now, then just make sure you're prepared in the case of an emergency, make sure you're keeping in touch with all of your friends, and build relationships in your community and neighbors. at this point, building up our local and interpersonal infrastructure is all we can do right now.

[seannessy]

⚠️POLITICS⚠️

haha bet you forgot through the shitposts that i have a bachelor's degree in political science

here's a bunch of reasons why Kamala Harris is going to win the presidency because i can never find the effort to edit this into a video:👇

1. The current polls are VERY biased towards republicans. Most large polls just take the averages of other smaller polls, and right now the GOP has been dumping LOTS OF MONEY into publishing a lot of fluff polls in swing states to make themselves look better and to get more donations. Democrats don't usually publish their polls publicly. Odds are it's another red mirage.

2. The majority of people who Trump is catering to just don't vote. A lot of the latest pushes in the Aiden Ross Gamerbro communities are not reliable voters, even as loud as they are online. You cannot convince me that the twitter edgelord crowd has ever even seen a ballot in their lives.

3. In elections canvassing matters by about 300% more than advertising (my own ballpark estimate, not a specific datapoint, but still very true having worked in both canvassing and campaign marketing). The only people signing up to canvass for Trump are just stealing Elon's money, meanwhile people are flying out from all 50 states to swing states to canvass for Kamala.

4. "This is Hillary Clinton all over again." No it isn't. Hundreds of papers have been published that all agree that the reason Hillary lost (besides the Michigan debacle) was that largely a lot of people already assumed she was going to win, and so they didn't go out to vote. Sean Westwood did a really good paper on this in 2018, the more likely you are expected to win, the less of your supporters turn out. The entire narrative is that Kamala is either tied or behind, so anyone who supports her will NOT be sitting this one out.

5. Kamala just did a MASSIVE rally event in Texas. Texas. In this part of the campaign, any sane strategist would tell you to do ALL campaigning in the swing states, so this makes no sense... unless internal democrat polls are saying that Texas is now winnable for democrats. I will remind you that Texas is not NEARLY as red as the stereotype says, and Greg Abbot has himself previously said that Texas would have gone blue if not for all of the voter suppression he did. I'm not joking. This is real. The only reason Texas is still Lean Red instead of Moderate Blue is because of insane levels of voter suppression by Texas GOP.

6. When turnout is low, republicans win. When turnout is high, democrats win. Turnout is already STUPIDLY high in the early voting metrics. Even higher than 2020 (which i will remind you, we won) in some cases.

7. Voter demographics just aren't on Trump's side here. Lots of republicans have bled out of Trumpism, and in a close enough race as this one looks to be even a few thousand republicans deciding to stay home could make or break it in a lot of states. Additionally, while Trump has made a lot of progress in minority voters (daily reminder that the median voter is stupid enough for "median voter" to be used as a slur in political science communities), Kamala has the white woman vote locked down. And oh no! Look at that! Which voter demographic is orders of magnitudes both larger and more active voters than all of the minority demographics that Trump has been gaining in? Yep! Kamala's lead in the white woman demographic has entirely erased Trump's gains in other communities. Abortion was the final nail in the coffin of republican chances, they took the mask off too early. The dog caught the car and didn't know what to do with it.

8. Voter demographics are STILL not on Trump's side even ignoring all that other stuff, because keep in mind, Trump voters have largely been older people, and the waves of people who elected him previously have... well they've kind of died. Covid really didn't help with that. I mean obviously not everyone, but like, this is a close race, and a very large chunk of those voters have been reincarnated as plants or whatever now.

9. "The X Factor" is 100% on Kamala's side. By that I mean just the force of raw charisma, the Kamala campaign is just more appealing and less unnerving to the general population. I really hate to keep hammering this but oh my god dude have you SEEN JD Vance????? Even after the debate where he performed as best as he possibly could and Walz performed as bad as he possibly could, samples STILL said they supported Walz over Vance by a factor of 85 PERCENT.

10. "The Shy Trump Effect." There's a myth a lot of people believe that Trump underperforms in polls and overperforms in elections because voters are shy to admit they're fans of him. A few things. #1: This was disproved so many times, including in Sean Westwood's previously mentioned paper. #2: Even after it's disproved, many polls already factor it into their calculations, which is actually INFLATING his odds in the polls. #3: Anyone who would have been a Shy Trump Supporter either just isn't going to vote this election cycle or is going to follow the Cheney's lead and vote for Kamala instead. This is probably the one election in our entire lives where Democrats have appealed to the right and it actually fucking worked.

11. Polymarket. A lot of people point to the new Polymarket as evidence that Trump has a lot of support among the average joe crowd. These people have no idea how the Polymarket works. American citizens legally can't bet in it, and the only way to get around that is by using Crypto. How many tech illiterate boomers do you think are going to know how to use both Crypto and a VPN? All of Trump's support there is coming from techbro whales or people in other countries. Infact, I think the number was that about a whopping 30% of all bets made on the side of Trump were sourced back to this one French Billionaire.

That being said, it's not a predetermined victory. Currently I'd put the odds at anywhere between 60-40 and 70-30 in favor of Kamala, but that still leaves Trump plenty of room.

The moral of the story is that things aren't hopeless! We have a very good shot at winning--as long as we all keep pushing like hell!

Oh also, if they try another Jan 6th, reminder that Biden is now the one in control of the military and national guard at the capital. Lol, Lmao, even.

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do you ever encounter the kind of person who is just

wow holy fuck this was compressed to shit

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warrior.

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you know its been 8 years of people telling me that the complex world of adulting will make more sense as i grow up and i still dont understand why we as a society have accepted the ludicrous concept of a Credit Score

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muhhhhhhh bone editing

weight painting is easy mako is just a coward

BONE EDITING is the tedious part

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"Hey Laos can I marry your sister?"

"Only a spoonful."

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HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE THAT THE :P SHAPE KEY IS FINISHED!!!

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*sigh* oh to live in a world where american car manufacturers remembered that you could put more than 1 color on things...

oh to live in a world where american car manufacturers remembered that eggshell white looks good actually...

oh to live in a world where american car manufacturers are not going senile and forgetting all of the reasons why cars looked cool to begin with...

the post was originally going to end here but i just took my ADHD meds and i need you all to know that i live in a city where we have a yearly event to celebrate old cars that actually looked really good and everyone in this city fucking LOVES cool old cars and every now and again you can just see someone driving around the beachside roads on a vehicle straight out of a Guardians of the Galaxy flashback. cars used to look GOOD. this isn't a generational style thing, look at these.

even if this kind of car isn't your style i get that, but you can surely see that there is at least a vision here, there was a passion in the people who made them back then, cars weren't just churned out willy nilly to make the line go up.

well okay yeah they definitely were but there was still some art there. now i need to ask you. look at modern cars for a second and just let the mundane-ness of it all sit in for a while

ohhhh yeah can you feel it? have you soaked it in yet? all of those sanded down soulless smooth edges? all of those monocolor coats of paint? the fact that the only thing you can really tell is substantially different is the kind of wheel each car has if even that?

now i need to ask you, in 80 years do you think there are going to be any events to commemorate these kinds of cars? do you think anyone is going to take time out of their retirement to appreciate these wonders of modern technology enough to create a whole ass city-wide convention to show appreciation for any component of these cars except maybe some of the internal mechanics and engines???

now admittedly selection bias is a thing here, its not like these cars being celebrated in my city are the average car, those are Woodies, which are a very specific artistic style of car. so maybe we need to look at the average car from back then. lets see, the Woody style was started around the 30s, so what does the average car look like around the 30s?

well a quick little research says that the biggest automotive manufacturer around then was General Motors (or at least a very big one), and a quick little Wikipedia stroll shows their platforms from back then. Behold! i show you cars from back when people cared about design!

Oldsmobile Series 60

1930 GM Marquette

1940 Pontiac 'Deluxe' 6

I know that last one says Deluxe, but keep in mind that beauty only went for ~17k in 2023 dollars! So much cheaper than the Ford F-150! And you get more seats too! Sure the paint is probably leaded and so is the gas and so are the lights and so is the steering wheel probably and to be honest I wouldn't be surprised if somehow the rubber was too, but god dammit it just looks good doesn't it? Don't they all? 2 of these 3 random samples I just learned about still have the monocolor stuff that I was complaining about but don't they just look better? It's not like this is a lost art, we can still build this today if we wanted, we could just put the modern engines and batteries and non-lead metals in it! That's what the people who drive restored versions of these cars do! Imagine how much easier it would be if you just built them that way and didn't need to take all of the lead and old broken down engines out in the first place!

"Ohhhhh but the aerodynamics!! What about the aerodynamics!! Modern cars are so much faster now because of their ugly shapes!!"

yeah dumbass and that's why you keep mulching kids whenever you tap the accelerator. my city has plenty of people who drive modern cars, you all could do with a lower speed capacity. it would be good for you in the same way that confiscating an addict's tobacco would be good for them. fucking chill.

besides if you're really worried about speed trust me, modern engines are wonders of science and engineering, i promise you that cars can still go zoom if we made the aerodynamics slightly worse in order to make them look better because the magic piston box that you pretend to know how it works while being carried by your 4-wheel drive will cover the cost. trust me.

"But cars in general are bad! We should be getting rid of all of them! Even cool looking cars can mulch kids too!"

yeah yeah sure, still ban them from city centers and stuff. i just got back from a 2 week long trip around all the best parts of europe and also paris so i agree with you there, but as much as it would warm my autistic heart we realistically cant have trains to take us everywhere and the genie is already out of the bottle. besides i dont care what you think cars are just cool. i can turn a wheel and push on a pedal with my foot and make a 2 ton hunk of steel and gadgets move at a speed to carry force surpassing that of a bullet, and if i turn really fast i can make tire doodles on public infrastructure to keep the rent low. plus road trips with friends are fun. look all im saying is that cars definitely aren't going anywhere, so we could at least have them look cool while they're here. to be honest i definitely agree that we should be phasing out cars as much as we can for long distance travel (TRAIN SWEEP WOOOOO CHOO CHOO) and everything but come on dude i dont want to look at my ugly ass streets and see them swarming with ugly ass cars. i want pretty ass cars. please? pretty please? my birthday is coming up soon wont you do it for me?

"Lower aerodynamics means that the fuel economy will be worse! People will need to use more fuel for the same distances! That's bad for my wallet and also the environment!"

putting aside the fact that aerodynamics really only become a major factor when you are going really really fast like on the freeway--a place where ideally you would rarely ever need to go on in favor of public transport taking you everywhere you'd want to go to at a price cheaper than your gas in the first place, i want to ask you something a little emotional here:

do you think that you would be better off if you saved maybe 1 or 2 dollars every trip to the gas station, or if when you were stuck driving all those long drives you were in a car that you could actually smile when thinking about, that you could watch other people look over and see children excitedly getting their parent's attention to show off the cool car driving past them, that you could have a car that looks good enough to actually wow people when you pull in for your 9-5 that is a 2 hour drive away from you for some reason, that after a long shift and a long drive you could come home, get out of your car, and have the first thing you see when you close the door be something that actually looks pretty instead of the same personalityless blob that everyone else drives? look, i get it, maybe your finances are super unstable and every penny counts, maybe this specific example isn't for you, but im willing to bet that once you get to a better off position you'd be pretty fine with the idea of sacrificing a few bucks for a whole load of warm and fuzzy feelings of pride and satisfaction. i sure as hell would. why the hell do we do this whole capitalism thing in the first place if we can't spend the money eventually to feel nice??

oh yeah also for the environment bit most of the impact against the environment isn't cars at all, it's energy production and other stuff, also most cars are switching to environmentally friendly alternatives now anyway sorryyyyyyyyy

look all i want is for when my time comes to get mulched against a bumper like nearly 1.2 thousand american children each year i dont want it to look like the edmunds.com best rated cars by price section

oh, yeah, also, if you willingly take off the sound muffler from your car or motorcycle your car should be confiscated by the government and you should be put in the jail for disturbing the peace. not because you did anything wrong, but purely for your own protection because i prefer small government solutions and neither me personally nor my local community do not have the infrastructure to solve the problems that you create in a way that would be favorable to you.

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uh oh!!!!

bad news chat!!!

this cat needs to go to the vet!!!!!!!

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OH SHIT SUMMER SALE IS HERE???? NEVERMIND COVID WWE'RE GONNA GHAME SO HARD AND NO DISEASE WILL GONAN STOP ME!!!!!!!!!!!