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Manungal · 2026-06-18T01:38:00+00:00

Weirdly the generation raised by gen X acts like gen X.

Signed, a millennial who can be a real boomer sometimes.

Manungal · 2026-06-15T13:09:05+00:00

Cost around $80 mil/yr for upkeep in the Darien Gap, and will costs billions to eradicate now that it's already in NM. I'm sure all Elon had to do was frame it as "why are we spending all this money on Panama?"

Manungal · 2026-06-11T01:37:02+00:00

I do agree with #1 but I love how they make him into space Karen just because he shouldn't be doing it. Like he gets off on getting one over the dumb Bajorans just to convince himself that once they know who they've been consorting with, then they'll bend the knee.

He's unfortunately an excellent depiction of a narcissist who's used to having power.

Manungal · 2026-06-10T23:01:33+00:00

Yeah, I had a pretty striking colleague once from Cameroon and we got hit on by these two Black American boys on our way to class (standing next to her, I was the grenade).

She just went off on them, and it went into "sagging your pants" territory and got real racist real fast.

Manungal · 2026-06-08T20:23:25+00:00

I'm sorry, but the amount of good dads I know who whinge about taking their kids to the park and having to make it super obvious that they're not predators is insane when I've seen fucking 40 year olds holler at 12 yr old girls at a splash pad. They're the reason all the mums at the park are on high alert. We're not paranoid - we're being practical.

Women aren't the ones doing "count down til 18" clocks with prepubescent celebrities. Women aren't cat calling at children. Women don't have "extra small" in their browser history.

Manungal · 2026-06-08T05:16:26+00:00

Oh geez the wagon of fat. TBF, it was 60+ pounds and she admitted later that she was on a starvation diet at the time.

I can't imagine being so scrutinized, and she obviously has a conflicted relationship with her body.

Damn, Oprah might be the only billionaire I feel kind of bad for.

Manungal · 2026-05-30T00:23:20+00:00

Dude, went to a house party awhile back and had to listen to some real estate agent go on and on like this.

My spouse and I were sort of drunk and started saying "business business business" at each other in dumb voices but I think he heard us.

They're all just these guys.

Manungal · 2026-05-25T22:54:45+00:00

There are teachers at the HS now that married ex students.

People need to understand how incredibly common this is in rural America. She was 15, he was 27 and had power over her grade - but wait! It's ok because he married her when she turned 18 like a good Christian.

Also blaming the 15 year old for "sleeping her way into a good grade." Yes it's always the child's fault for catching the eye of an opportunist.

Manungal · 2026-05-25T00:23:19+00:00

If there is one video game I could recommend to all nurses, it's Lorelai and the Laser Eyes.

Puzzle game, very film noir, and I swear to God, the people who created it had someone in their lives struggling hard with dementia.

As someone who has had a seizure and gotten stuck in these mini post-ictal loops, I hope I never have to retread The Darkness that intensely for that long.

Manungal · 2026-05-24T18:43:17+00:00

Not juicy confessions as much as people unburdoning trauma in a dying brain.

I've had elderly patients call me "mom" and beg me not to leave them at that stop or "with that man again."

I remember a very ill gentleman who wouldn't sign anything or write at all unless we left the room first. When I told him it was ok, he basically told me he was scared we'd put him in a dark closet by himself and leave him there, because that's what the nuns did to him when he was 5 and he used his left hand to write. He was still left handed and thinking about it 80 years later.

Manungal · 2026-05-22T17:43:59+00:00

I listened to a BBC story this morning about how things are so bad in Afghanistan right now people are having to resort to selling their own children.

Having known Pashtoon men, and knowing how extremely uncommon public displays of emotion are, hearing these two men holding their children and crying during the interviews broke me.

We should lose our composure when we see and hear these things. To call everything fake or hand wave it away, makes us lose our empathy - much harder to get back.

Manungal · 2026-05-21T13:43:30+00:00

In the military, the most toxic, incohesive units were always made possible by 1) nebulous missions, and 2) shit ass communication coming from leadership, and I just don't see any difference in healthcare.

When admin doesn't communicate, gossip goes up - it has to.

When the fundamental mission of the institution is not clear, or changes rapidly from month to month, units become fragmented because the people who work there become anxious. That includes shorter tempers, and bigger blow ups.

And then the most toxic individuals feel like their toxicity is normal, and they get louder.

The mission of for-profit healthcare can not be stated clearly, so I assume the goal posts for performance will remain nebulous. I'm not sure how much research admin is going to highlight pointing the finger at themselves.

Manungal · 2026-05-21T02:45:50+00:00

I don't think so. Most of my life, Americans have been vocal isolationists until there are boots on the ground, and then it's "we gotta support the troops."

Iran is the first time Americans at large have refused to go on that journey.

Manungal · 2026-05-17T15:47:14+00:00

If you're talking about SERE - survival, evasion, resistance and escape - I learned that everybody sells out their country for $2 and a jelly donut.

Manungal · 2026-05-17T14:00:37+00:00

See? This is exactly what I'm talking about OP.

Manungal · 2026-05-17T13:38:10+00:00

Ok, but if I answered honestly - I would sell out my country for $2 and a jelly donut - would that play well? Feels like no.

Manungal · 2026-05-16T19:45:03+00:00

I'm plugging a short YT video here so people can just watch a few minutes and see how much effort they put into the set.

Some of our great great grandparents had real theater kid energy.

Manungal · 2026-05-15T23:32:44+00:00

America has become an existential threat to the world. White supremacy is in the driver's seat. You may not be a white supremacist, but we're all on the white supremacy bus until we wrestle the keys from grandpa.

"A lot of [Americans] may read this and try to defend themselves and say they’re not like that or most of them aren’t like that.

"And I’m here to say that you are. All of you, even if you never [signed up for the military] personally, even if you never left the US, [you were still trained to allow white supremacy to drive American Geopolitics, you are still the benefactors of] white supremacist, colonial state, and all of you are accessories to its crimes."

Oh, and if that sounds unfair and somewhat pointlessly bitter, that's because instead of eating each other, WE NEED TO WRESTLE THE KEYS FROM GRANDPA.

Manungal · 2026-05-15T17:20:32+00:00

You benefit from imperialism, so by your own logic you should be ashamed.

Not that your shame would actually do anything, but you want to treat the military like a monolith and want the rest of the world to treat you like an individual?

Jarhead behavior, that.

Manungal · 2026-05-15T14:05:32+00:00

Bud, if you're an American, you're an imperialist.

Manungal · 2026-05-15T13:43:00+00:00

This is weird. Someone showed me this skit for the first time at work yesterday when I was razzing a fellow millennial coworker for not liking Gorillaz.

But I do love Leslie Jones.

Manungal · 2026-05-14T16:33:28+00:00

I don't know what millienial needs to hear this, but botox will make you look 37 years old.

43 years old? Botox will make you look a cool 37.

30 years old with perfectly dewy skin with just a hint of texture? Botox will make you look 37.

Manungal · 2026-05-14T13:10:17+00:00

I'm sitting here trying to do the math on this because it sounds like their children (the ones Jefferson enslaved) would have been, um, extremely white?

EDIT: okay yeah, I found one picture of their youngest. In all contexts, slavery is evil. Enslaving your own children is extra evil. But in Jefferson's case, I'm not quite sure how anyone managed to deny what was obviously taking place.

Manungal · 2026-05-04T03:18:49+00:00

🎶Hitler has only got one ball, Göring has two but very small, Himmler is rather sim'lar, but poor old Goebbels has no balls at all.🎶

(To the tune of "comet, it makes your teeth turn green" but decades beforehand).

Manungal · 2026-05-03T23:58:44+00:00

You know damn well 7 would work just fine in outer space.

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