I’ve been frustrated feeling like I never post anymore and not knowing why. But tonight it seems obvious why.
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Work is overwhelming over the last year.
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I have two teenage kids.
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I have a young, athletic dog.
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I have massive student loans and a complicated financial life.
Basically I don’t post for the same reason I don’t do anything else I want to do: the enshittification of American life and bad decisions made when I was younger, both of which leave me now doing nothing that I care about.
It’s 12:23 am and I’m just finally arriving in “you can go to bed if you want to” territory. I’ve been doing the thing all day again where I go “I’ve got stuff to say online, I’ll pound it in tonight,” only to get to tonight and feel like @#$*, I need to go to bed, it’s been a long day, I’ll post tomorrow.
But I don’t want to post tomorrow.
So you won’t get a lot of the stuff I was going to say because I’m *&$#(*! tired. But at least now I can claim I was here.
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Also, I have to get a new web host. I should never have switched. I switched because I got baited into one of those “lifetime hosting” packages by one of those “shopper discount” platforms. Of course the company providing the lifetime hosting was a reseller and “went out of business” after one year (what a scam) and then the wholesale platform started charging monthly for anyone remaining. And of course the tier I’m on is terrible.
Honestly this is why people are willing to vote for authoritarians. Because whoever did this clearly does this repeatedly. Create a LLC, create a “special offer” for lifetime hosting for $hundreds, close up shop before the first annual bills come due, pocket MOUNTAINS OF CASH. It’s yet another one of those things (like making porn using eager but underprivileged girls, or like selling pot and THC vapes) that will make you a ton of money fast but that most people are unwilling to do because it’s not just dishonest but in fact just plain dirty, albeit (and this is why it keeps happening) legal.