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freaking and burn are bad words now?

So glad they censored fre*king. I almost had to read a minced oath.

WHO IS CENSORING THE WORD "BURN" ???

Our lives wouldn't be so complicated if we had financial freedom via a UBI and didn't have that metaphorical gun put to our heads to make us keep working forever.

Most animals do very little every day, humans are one of the only animals to have no resource scarcity but still work ourselves into an early grave from stress.

Something I think we don't talk about too much that has additionally fallen to the throes of Late Stage Capitalism is the dissolution of nuclear and extended families, as well as the normalcy of shared households.

Before, the everyday tasks of any one domicile could be reasonably expected to be split up amongst its cohorts. Kids do their chores, dad mows the lawn, mom does the wash, nana does the cooking, auntie takes the kids to school/shopping, or your housemates help out, etc etc.

But most of this generation is living in isolated pods, single-serving everything. You are solely responsible for the cooking, cleaning, washing, shopping, studying, working, running to the bank, filing taxes, trip planning, car maintenance, home repairs, and your godddamn mental health. Of course it's too much work for just one person, but it's become so normalized by now that people hardly even notice there's a problem, much less any viable solution to it. Instead, we all resign ourselves to being "tired all the time", physically and emotionally, and not knowing why.

My kid got in a fall and I had to leave work to go to Urgent Care. Three hours for a doctor to give my kid a pain med and a bandaid, and costing us $2k.

Ive been helping my unemployed ex-teammates find work and stay motivated.

My wife's side of the family messed up on their paperwork and because they're also dark skinned, I'm worried about ICE.

I took my other kid to the park last week and was called a sexual predator by another mom. Ive been pretending to be okay as the women in my family all blame me for "looking how I look".

My cousins have called me twice in the past month concerned about bills, and I'm sending them food money.

Oh and the Europeans on Lemmy is yelling at me for being an American because I'm not doing enough to stop Trump.

What the fuck, here there are no algorithms to please, there's no fucking need to censor "freaking" or "burn".

Why the fuck is burn censored?

why did they self censor "burn"?

fuck that censoring

Have we really reached a point where censoring "Burn out" is necessary?

Smashmouth tried to warn us. The years keep coming and they do not stop coming.

Fuckity cunt, lickety clit screw this god damn censorship shit.

One must imagine Sisyphus happy

Get a significant other, share the pain.

It's on my to-do list.

While this is an issue everywhere, America dials it up to 11 by making you deal with all sorts of overcomplicated nonsense.

Healthcare in the US:

• Annual Prep: Open enrollment
  • Figure out what HMO, PPO and HDCP means, and what it means to you (which one is better depends on both your needs, your job, and also your spouse's job, so good luck coasting on knowledge from last year)
  • Figure out what to do with HSA and/or the various FSAs, requires mapping out what you're expecting to happen with your health, childcare and elderly care that year
• If your chest hurts and you're worried:
  • Go to the ER (not urgent care, they'll forward you to the ER even if you seem fine)
  • Get lots of unnecessary care (like three EKGs, a chest X-ray and some blood work) before they conclude you're just stressed from living in America
  • Receive five different bills several weeks later
  • Keep those in mind for another week or two until your health insurance sends their version of events
  • Receive the explanation of benefits, which does not match the bills
  • Call both the provider and your insurance a few times to figure out what's going on, because of course you have to mediate between them (they don't talk to each other)
  • After thinking about these bills every day for about three months, you can finally pay them and be done with it

Healthcare in Norway:

• Annual Prep: None
• If your chest hurts and you're worried:
  • Get a same-day emergency appointment at your doctor or call an ambulance, depending on how worried you are
  • They listen to you with a stethoscope and maybe do an EKG, conclude you're fine
  • You pay your copay on the way out, and never think about it again

They literally teach you this in highschool science. They teach you that the universe is a dynamic system driven by entropy. They teach you that equilibrium, i.e. a state of stability in a dynamic system, is achieved when the rate of structural formation equals the rate of destruction, e.g. bonds forming/breaking, population birth/death, organizing/disorganizing one's room... Managing while not burning out is stability.

The classic question of "when would any of this be applicable in the real world" is intended to be a critique of how school curriculums can be dated or out of touch with chages in how the world works. It also highlights the often understated goal of a good education--shaping students into people who have the fundamental tools and the mindset to actively answer that crucial question for themselves.

The one thing I realize about these ToDO lists, is that they are written by others for you. Designed perfectly to exploit and trap the average person, until their life passes.

It's hard to pivot, if you are already in a wage-slave job, it is a trap. However, if you can eliminate your dependencies, say no to people who drain you, and create just enough room to find another job, you can finally start living.

Censorship=downvote