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Cake day: March 1st, 2024

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  • No.

    Existence had grown exponentially more expensive in my lifetime, well outpacing what a 401k or pension will realistically ever be able to achieve. At best, it might buy me 5-10 years after I am physically unable to work; if I mentally decline too soon due to age (quite likely in my family), I will die in poverty.

    That isn’t even touching on the possibility of a habitable climate or war, and assumes the survival of the current economic system.



  • People seriously do not understand the degree of nationalistic propaganda anyone on a military installation is subjected to.

    Every poster, every event, every song, every sale ad for the commissary or other on-base stores, daily national anthem blasted over Giant Voice systems.

    It’s not just the military members themselves exposed to it; it’s their spouses and children; people are raised from birth in this environment. It’s every retiree who got a job back on the same base they retired from active duty on.