doomer

Every grocery store has two or three security guards, but only one cashier.

I go to the 7/11 near our house for late night snacks, but the prices have astronomically increased as of late. Sure, it was always more expensive then a grocery store, but now they sell a pint of Ben and Jerry's for $10.

Everything is enshittified. Cracker jack just has a sticker for the prize. They are putting potato chips inside Reese's big cups to save a few cents on peanut butter.

And its all set to get exponentially worse. Everyone knows it, but somehow are deluded that a new president will fix it? Or are just accepting that life is going to suck forever.

But at least trump is going to sell weapons to Ukraine

I’ve started calling it Time Compression. It feels like it did in 2020 just after the pandemic kicked into high gear. Every day feels like a week and a week feels like a day. It feels like you’re unstuck from reality and everything takes this absurdist tint and everyone is holding their breath including you. Like just existing is causing mild dissociation. The streets are empty and cold even though they’re filled with people and the summer heat is strangling you. Past memories of how things “should” have been or could have been merge and overlap with the here and now. Hauntology in waking life.

I’m not necessarily a believer in any kind of literal collective unconscious, but it feels like it did exist and someone unplugged it again.

Anyways, I felt it start to settle in at the beginning of the year and it hasn’t let up much yet.

In reality though I’m probably just getting old, read too much news, and don’t have enough friends.

I had to ask a 7/11 clerk to unlock the Monster fridge. They were the sole worker for a medium traffic location.

Capitalism has won and is doing victory laps again and again and again, destroying all the beauty and live and love that once existed on this planet. If you've got a soul you've got no chance to survive in this world

The vibes are fucked for sure.

All I do is kinda read vibes. I'm less educated than a lot of comrades here. What I do have is 2 solid decades of experience in the working world, and the life experiences one accumulates in that time. So while I might not be able to articulate it perfectly I do think I've gotten pretty good at reading the vibes.

And right now the vibes are very off. Like we're all in a boat that just scraped a rocky bottom and we're all frozen in place, waiting for the first sign of the ship sinking before we react, losing time we might not get back.

There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

It ain't just you the vibes are fucked.

seriously.. last few weeks i'm just tired of everything.. all around.. just.. tired and don't care anymore

It depends where you live I feel like, I live in Florida and people with extreme social anxiety probably have a hard time living here. Everyone wants to yap your ear off here including myself sometimes

And part of me understands that this is just the natural progression of technology or whatever the fuck, but there are days where I go without talking to someone in real life. The same shit is happening at pharmacies, grocery stores, even Godamn doctors offices.

Yeah, I was just thinking about this the other day, probably makes sound like a ”phone bad” boomer, but I really hate how everything is tied to smartphones and/or the internet now. Some things are more convenient for sure, but on the flip side even my gym changed to a system where you have to scan a QR code with a phone to get in.

I really do think things were better when you could only get online whenever you were at a computer, things really went downhill when you could do it at any time. I guess if you really like social media you're happy about being able to access it at any time, but I hate social media and have essentially no presence there. I really don't want to give those bloodsucking corporations any more of my info, especially knowing that most of them are US based and I don't want to give the US government anything if I can help it.