To continue the thought I started yesterday, depression doesn’t just happen. It’s a destination, and it takes a while to reach it. There are signs along the way, saying “Exit 29B, Depressionville, 26 miles”. If you notice the signs, you can correct course and go someplace else.

Of course, nobody tells us how to read the signs because if we do, we can’t be milked for cash. We can’t be put on meds and then more meds to correct the previous meds, and then some meds for the other 3 meds, and so on.

There are signs, and they are age-specific.

I was talking to a colleague in STEM who runs a lab. We agreed that when you give people opportunities, in about 85-90% of cases, they don’t take them. The remaining 10% take the opportunities and run with them, often in amazing ways. But that’s always a small minority.

I’ve wasted some major chances myself and I know how it feels to have no life energy to grab what’s dangling right in your face.

Heading into emergency abdominal surgery.
Wish me luck!
If anything happens tell Kamala and Tim I loved them. pic.twitter.com/7rOMHuGzfI

— Beth (@MrsStinkFingers) August 27, 2024

I was banned on Telegram two years ago. I never posted anything and had zero followers. All I ever did on Telegram – and I mean it literally – was participate in a translation group that did free translations for a charitable program that helped Ukrainian children suffering from war trauma. That is absolutely 100% of what I did there. And I got a permanent ban for that activity less than 2 months in.

People who use Telegram and “freedom of speech” in the same sentence are as gullible as any fan of Rachel Maddow.

One more thing I forgot to say about Miranda July’s All Fours is this: if you are 45 and you aren’t excited about your day-to-day, you are doing it wrong and will drive yourself into a depression. The daily routine – and not the trips, the holidays, the celebrations and the special events – should be exhaustively fascinating. Anybody can enjoy a beach vacation but only people who are very right in the head can enjoy a regular Tuesday morning routine.

Perceiving the daily routine as onerous, jail-like, grating, intolerable, etc is the first sign that something is going wrong. The final destination of that journey is not good.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s family members have denounced his decision to endorse Donald Trump after he dropped out of the presidential race, calling it a “betrayal” of their family’s values.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/shows/top-stories/blog/rcna168068

It’s now clear why RFK is such a weirdo. He comes from a family of total weirdos who have absolutely no understanding of what a family is and how it’s appropriate to behave in public.

What a bunch of unlikeable, kooky individuals. There should be no political dynasties because this embarrassment is the only result.

I’m going to Matt Walsh’s new movie Am I Racist? on opening night. Are you going? Let’s all go and then discuss it here.

I saw a clip from the movie where Walsh is disguised as a waiter at a racial education dinner for white women. A race hustler says that white women have this deeply annoying habit of gushing to each other how fat or stupid they are. And look, this race hustler is not wrong. She’s wrong in that she says it’s “white women” when the reality is that it’s white American women under the age of 50. All of my friends here in town are either way older than 50 or not white American precisely because of this. One can’t take it because it’s like a ritual. They get together and go at it for any length of time. I’ve never met a European woman who’d do this. Never. Or a US woman in her seventies.

I think Matt Walsh uncovered something he didn’t even expect.

Like anyone would want to be 18, with no money, no authority, no certainty, no belongings except anxiety, and no knowledge how life would turn out.

If your 18 was better than this, then never mind.

The Biden-Harris administration seeks to obscure its policy of shielding Russia from defeat, which is precisely why Kyiv is exposing what amounts to the administration's tacit collusion with Russia, even if it risks further straining already fragile relations. https://t.co/OkULN0Koql

— Ukraine Reporter (@StateOfUkraine) August 26, 2024

The Biden-Harris administration has been terrible for Ukraine. And it’s beyond annoying that the media managed to sell to most of the country the lie that it’s a pro-Ukraine administration.

The collusion with Russia wasn’t real during Trump but it is now. And it can only get worse with Harris.