I am in the same boat, however I dont go on X at all. I deleted my account last year for good and dont miss it. BlueSky for me is a mix of people who are trying their hardest in my city to make improvements but also creating a very insular community and people who are perpetually upset (maybe rightfully so) at just about everything. I have a mastodon account but never go on it. I basically read books, play call of duty (or something else low stakes and easy to put down), and watch youtube videos of DIY stuff I need to learn so I can fix things around the house.
I deleted Reddit, Instagram, and Bluesky off my phone last weekend (coming up on day 9 I think) and its been nice trying to readjust myself to being bored and not grabbing my phone.
those rockets use a lot of those same fossil fuels. And he can't even complete a project in Las Vegas, so lets not think he knows how to build on the moon. I live in Nashville, the site of his next little Tesla tunnel. I promise you none of us are holding our breath on that one.
> If you ever looked at the actions of the Trump White House and wondered, ‘Are they on drugs?’ — the answer was, in some cases, yes. Absolutely, yes.
> In January, the Defense Department’s inspector general released a report detailing how the White House Medical Unit during the Trump administration distributed controlled substances with scant oversight and even sloppier record keeping. Investigators repeatedly noted that the unit had ordered thousands and thousands of doses of the stimulant modafinil, which has been used by military pilots for decades to stay alert during long missions.
I have no hindsight about the US president, but i know about what happened in France, and let me tell you, alcohol was never the issue.
While it seems our president use less coke that he did in 2018-2019 (to be clear, the only instance where i have heard a direct testimony is during the filming of the presidential new year vows of 2019, but a lot of people speculated about his coke habits until 2021), he do use a lot of more legal stimulants, at least during international trips. Age does not mesh well with this kind of stimulants, that can accelerate mental fatigue.
One of my pet theory is that Biden's "decline" was actually caused by drug overuse, and my guess is that he should be a bit more "here" now that he was a year ago.
The fact that Trump don't seems to work a lot and goes rest/golf often is actually a good thing in my opinion, because it will limit his needs for stimulants.
as someone with a pre-existing condition (that I didn't ask for), Obamacare was such a huge relief. Before I got into tech I was teaching guitar lessons and really enjoying things. My condition requires more than a once a year physical and my specialist got on me about not having health insurance because we weren't able to get the full panel of bloodwork done. I was routinely denied healthcare because of the condition. I had to pivot into tech as it was one of the few paths available that gave me health insurance. As you said its not perfect but its so much better than what we had prior to Obamacare becoming law.
Same here, but without a known pre-existing condition. Before Obamacare, health insurance companies would not even write me a policy, and they would not tell me why. Just "nope, go away". So every day, I was rolling the dice, hoping to not get seriously injured or sick. The problem with Obamacare is it didn't go far enough, the insurance companies stuck around like barnacles, leeching off the medical industry, with the government mandating we do business with them and they do business with us. I say scrap the whole lot of them.
The cost of living has significantly outpaced salary growth. And given how quick companies are to do layoffs, even when things are going well; makes people a little less confident in a job switch. And that doesn't even account for the current state of the market which is brutal. I saw a thing the other day that said people can't even really budget for groceries because the costs are changing drastically week to week. You arent going to get a new job and feel the effects of (hopefully) the larger paycheck as quick as prices can and will change currently.
