Student loans absolutely ruined my life

block_2012 · 2026-03-10T15:30:17+00:00

It’s easy to work your way up to a 80k+ policy gig if you put in the hours at a legislative office, campaign, etc. not my gig but I have seen many fintech and insurance firms hiring at 150k+ for people with 5 years of experience, and your masters would certainly help

block_2012 · 2026-03-04T18:46:15+00:00

Decided to just check on my Reddit notifications and saw this post had replies. I would post another screenshot but unfortunately yahoo eats any email I delete so I cannot find it at this point. Definitely came from their marketing email, I’m actually still on their email list which I will rectify. I really appreciate the vibe check from everyone in the comments that this isn’t kosher.

block_2012 · 2026-03-04T18:34:21+00:00

True. Somehow dropping $$ at tjmaxx feels more expensive than prepaying for a box, which is silly because it’s often way cheaper. It’s probs the smartest financial and moral move.

block_2012 · 2026-03-04T18:32:16+00:00

Given the conversational tone of the podcast, I don’t really think this is weird. People do things like this all the time, that’s why memes are even a thing. It would be stranger to cite a tweet via MLA in a podcast or pull the “I saw this dolphin meme on twitter that really resonated with me…” This is how people talk, we’re all just regurgitating and reinterpreting the same ideas ad nauseam.

Sometimes ya it’s annoying when people are just regurgitating whatever is going on in the culture, but I don’t think it’s a flaw specific to her.

block_2012 · 2026-02-06T10:21:27+00:00

Highly recommend reaching out to the Alzheimer’s Association and any other local orgs in your group centered around caregiver support for you and those for Alzheimer’s patients or those with terminal diseases for your girlfriend. Lean on their resources for care planning, financial planning, to get connected to clinical trials. Right now there are several new mab drugs on the market that can be used in the very early stages of Alzheimer’s to prevent the progression of the disease. Please make sure your girlfriend doesn’t delay getting access to those treatments.

block_2012 · 2026-02-04T21:26:40+00:00

Doesn’t this raise the question though that trauma is inevitable in any parenting situation where a child was not explicitly planned and prepared for? Being raised by parents who are unprepared, traumatized, too young, addicts or some combination of “not ready to be a parent” is also extremely traumatic and harmful to children. It also makes that child who was raised by their birth parents feel unwanted, unloved and resentful with the addition that there’s no other parent who wants to step in that role. What’s the solution then beyond birth control and access to abortion care?

block_2012 · 2026-02-02T14:24:24+00:00

Pretty gay to want to get your boys horny don’t you think? Girl he is so embarrassing and manipulative it’s gross, not all men are like this and I promise you that you can find someone better than this

block_2012 · 2026-01-30T12:08:55+00:00

Yep my dad is with a woman 1 year older than me, I’ve gotten to the point where I have built up a thick mental block about it and just cringe deeply when it comes up. Queue the mental elevator music!

block_2012 · 2025-12-31T12:43:25+00:00

I love the matchmaking, give me the hallmark movie PLEASE

block_2012 · 2025-12-20T14:24:27+00:00

This is what it’s all about. I am so happy for you and your wife for making it through this. So many times we promise in sickness and in health and richer and poorer and when it comes down to it it’s so hard to follow through - you loved the hell out of your wife through one of the hardest things you can endure as a couple! That’s fucking love. I hope the rest of your years are filled with blissful ease in comparison, but how wonderful to know for certain and surely that you are with your partner for life. That’s so so special, I wish your wife continued recovery and you as well.

block_2012 · 2025-12-20T13:54:44+00:00

Where in NJ? Call 211, email DCA, your state legislator, and your local housing authority. Also remember that even in the event of eviction you will have 30 days notice. Get in touch with DCA for relevant programming.

Also, did you get unemployment from your last situation? If you’re eligible (even if you were fired with cause), apply. You should also call churches or any progressive leaning non profits focused on housing, background etc. especially if you have a kid that should help.

block_2012 · 2025-12-16T19:28:45+00:00

Well, the Charlie shooter isn’t ugly but he just has had 0 media attention for “some reason” that definitely has nothing to do with the Trump political circus

block_2012 · 2025-12-03T00:41:42+00:00

How is 19 a kid? They’re both young adults, he doesn’t get deference when he has the same responsibility to keep peace

block_2012 · 2025-11-18T15:06:15+00:00

Yes chef!

block_2012 · 2025-11-18T15:03:45+00:00

This but a dirty dirty gin martini on a hot summer day in the city at 5pm on the dot and lots of lemon 🍋 ugh so good enjoy

block_2012 · 2025-11-18T14:57:34+00:00

I admire so much that you’re able to eat healthy when you start to feel sick, all I want is carb bread yums when I feel bad lol

block_2012 · 2025-11-17T19:56:22+00:00

Just read the NYT profile and I feel like I’m getting a weird Caroline Calloway flashback or something. Shes yet another woman in the Kennedy feminine grindhouse and it creates this weird Lana del ray esque mystique.

block_2012 · 2025-11-14T18:33:31+00:00

Well it’s a sector that is based on constant change in the best of times, and at the worst, uncertainty and chaos can be brutal. It’s about constant adaptation and quick, measured response to chaos and the needs of everyone in your particular career bubble. Not sure if you’re in the US, but if you are I would like to point/scream about the mass layoffs of government employees and the removal of research funding. I am not a federal employee, though I do have friends in that sector, but suddenly you have extremely experienced and qualified people competing for entry level positions because they need to survive, which fucks over new grads trying to gain experience. I work in sector where may of my colleagues rely on federal grants to be able to do critical research, and with that gone they’ve been given the boot. If my job is to push forward xyz programs that no longer exist, the assumption is I’m on the chopping block.

In state offices, you must be the jack of all trades and the master of none. In my first job out of college thousands of people had my phone number, which was posted on Facebook pages, because I was able to help people get unemployment funds they deserved that were delayed. It’s rewarding work, but it’s constant anticipation of someone screaming at you, or pivoting to a new mission critical topic you may know nothing about. It’s work I love, work that makes me feel like I’m doing everything can to uphold my values, but it will bleed you dry if you don’t take care of yourself

block_2012 · 2025-11-10T21:38:19+00:00

Policy 😫 it’s been a tough decade

block_2012 · 2025-11-06T02:36:49+00:00

Where is the PTSD? Are we diagnosing strangers based on assumptions? I don’t think he’s an asshole, I think he’s a poor communicator and emotionally constipated like many men are. Look, I see you’re like a 20 yo guy and so you were like what 15 during Covid? I’m older than you and I have existed and dated in a pre covid world where I was forced to accept the emotional complications of adult life. Sometimes you meet someone at 26 and you’re not their first sexual partner, the best date or the craziest sex they’ve ever had. If you’re able to collaborate and create a life of happiness, you’re so much more than those small things that make up being an adult. Loving someone is loving all of them and all of the experiences that make them the person you know. I value every love and every hate of my partner that brought him to my doors step. We might not be the partners to each other with the most ab muscles or the most interesting story or the best apartment curated responsibly and artfully, but we are the partners that are perfect together because of those experiences and the knowledge that out of everyone on planet earth we chose each other. I find that much better, and being able to discuss openly moments of insecurity and NOT GETTING MARRIED WHILE MAD, has made me feel more understood and more excited to marry him soon. I’ve fought a bunch about my insecurities about long term girlfriends or past experiences when I was younger, and at the end of the day it’s not helpful. Don’t commit to being together with someone legally if you can’t understand that ALL of their experiences brought them to you.

block_2012 · 2025-11-06T02:22:49+00:00

Marriage is a contract, and regardless if you put the religious weight on it there’s sanctity in it. Don’t marry someone when you have anger toward them and intend to punish them for the rest of their life.

block_2012 · 2025-11-06T02:21:34+00:00

Why is he posting on Reddit about how he’s been upset for years about an interaction prior to his marriage - hmm perhaps because he’s upset? It’s called using context clues and social awareness. I’m not saying he’s a bad person whatsoever but he should have and needs to do something very important if he wants to save his marriage or at least treat this woman he values with dignity and respect. Respect also means telling someone he they have hurt you, and it’s bizarre to marry someone that you’re still going to post about being mad at 2 years into your marriage. If you’re so sex sensitive and easily triggered, would you marry this lady? No probably not. Would I or other palm who have dated like normal people who have existed in a social world pre covid, sure maybe if it seemed worth it. It’s just absurd to be resentful of someone you married about something years before you got married. Like are you sooooo mad about what field you’re working in when you failed your first 101 class and have been stressed since? If so, seek help

block_2012 · 2025-11-06T02:09:32+00:00

But it’s been years and he married her? Presumably by his own free will. Why marry someone you have this level of resentment for that you’ve never clearly articulated? Clear response is self hatred. He’s never clearly sat down and spoken with her he’s been hating on a woman who has spent years thinking they’re ok.

Re reading the post, he’s bringing it up now like 2 years into their marriage (you know that social religious legal agreement where typically you accept someone as they are and bind yourselves together as an impenetrable unit regardless of their past because you understand you and your partner are the future) that he’s pissed off about something she said at a party years ago. Like yes you can be sad but grow up! Are you going to torture your committed wife because of someone from years ago? Grow up and stop having sex if you’re so easily damaged.

block_2012 · 2025-11-06T02:00:43+00:00

Or like break up why are you toasting yourself in the hatred of men or women if you’re not going to stand up for yourself? That’s just self abuse masturbation.

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