Damon Richards

Middle Class American trying to be more informed.

[beauty🤍 @beautyskillz]

Call of Duty needs a ‘I'm 30+ and have a fucking job’ game mode.

[𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗 @shagbark_hick]

I've always gotten the unshakeable sense that in the end, it all evens out.

The guy with a six-figure salary in a nice neighborhood must deal with the boss -- but he gets a comfy life.

The broke guy in an isolated village may be poor -- but his pace of life is relaxing, he fishes a lot, is never in a rush, etc.

Basically add up any configuration of lifestyle stresses and benefits, total it up, and examine its inverse -- and the net amount of benefit and stress will wind up being the same in the end.

There's not really any "getting ahead" so much as there is "choosing whatever schema of problems and enjoyments you'd most enjoy."

Ever since this dawned on me it's really made life seem a little more playful. It's opened up the playing field mentally. Every choice I could make is just another, new configuration of stress and rewards, ultimately not better or worse than my own -- just different.

[Sam @samhtfc1907]

someone at snapchat needs to fuck off with all the random notifications

[mid rights activist @freakysonicluvr]

They should invent a gym but for your projects. So this place would have all the expensive equipment you would need for certain hobbies like woodworking or glass cutting or a kiln to fire pottery etc so u can do things just for funsies without having to invest lakhs

[Nostalgia @NostalgiaFolder]

I miss how Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network only aired commercials aimed at kids. I wish there was an option for that on Hulu and Youtube like please no more insurance or antidepressants please only show me the latest in super soaker technology

[JT @jiratickets]

this might be the best tweet ever written

[Damon Richards @Ramon_Dichards]

@LostMyHats wow

[🍓🍓🍓 @iruletheworldmo]

it is genuinely psychotic that we dug up literal primordial dirt, scrubbed it down to an impossible 99.9999999999% molecular perfection that violates the very laws of physics, handed it over to techno-wizard necromancers to stretch into flawless geometric god-cylinders, blasted it with invisible uv death-rays to carve ten quadrillion microscopic cyber-sigils into its flesh, trapped actual lightning inside of it, and somehow birthed an omniscent eldritch deity capable of simulating the universe and thinking faster than a billion human civilizations combined.

and our grand, supreme purpose for this enslaved lightning-god?

sending "per my last email, please see attached" to a guy named gary.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Honestly, i don't understand this economy when nursing homes are so expensive they bankrupt our grandparents but nursing home aides need to use food banks.

daycare is so expensive it eats up one parent's entire paycheck and yet daycare providers only make $10/hr and need second jobs.

college costs hundreds of thousands of dollars and puts students into debt for life and yet we have thousands of professors living in their cars.

everything we need is astronomically expensive and yet almost none of the money we pay is going towards the people actually doing the work and providing the services.

[Kate Cornell @KateCornell]

Can I just buy a copy of Word? I shouldn't have to pay for it every year. The subscription model has ruined everything.

[The Driven Man @Thedrivenman]

When GOD wants to turn a boy into a man.

He doesn't comfort HIM.

He crushes him with failure, betrayal, loneliness, heartbreak, and rejection.

That's not a punishment.
It's a FORGE.

[RedWave Press @RedWavePress]

NAILED IT: Jeff Bezos: “A nurse in Queens who makes $75K a year pays more than $12K a year in taxes. Does that really make sense?”

“So people talk about making the tax system more progressive. How about we start by having the nurse in Queens NOT pay taxes? At all!”

“Why is a nurse in Queens who makes $75K a year paying more than $1K a month in taxes?”

“That’s $1K a month that could help with rent or groceries or anything.”

“And by the way, do you know what that all adds up to? The bottom half of income earners in this country pay only 3% of the taxes. It’s only 3%.”

“We can find 3%. So we don’t have... it’s a small amount of money for the government. You know that. And the more I thought about it, to me, it’s kind of absurd that we’re doing this.”

“We shouldn’t be asking this nurse in Queens to send money to Washington — they should be sending her an apology. It really makes no sense.”

Exactly!

[The Fat Electrician @Fat_Electrician]

My kids are never going to believe me when I tell them that back in my day you could just put the video game in the console and fucking play it without needing to wait 45 minutes for an update.

[𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞 🇺🇸 @creation247]

This rationale brought me to Christ:

[History With Jacob @HistoryWJacob]

The concept of "teenager" is a modern invention.

For most of human history, a boy of 13 was already a man, apprenticed in a trade or fighting in a war.

George Washington was a professional surveyor at 16.

Alexander Hamilton managed a trading company at 14.

In medieval Europe, noble boys could be pages at 7 and squires by 14.

In Rome, a boy put on the "toga of manhood" at 14.

The idea that an 18 year-old is "still figuring things out" would have been incomprehensible to our ancestors.

I believe this is why we think teenagers are so troubled. They are men and women stuck in a society that treats them as children. Of course they are going to "rebel".

We should give them more responsibility and expect much more of them.

[Simon Viklund @SimonViklund]

Can we PLEASE for the LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY just STOP IT with the password complexity criteria already? We all know the highest risk is that the service itself leaks the password in a security breach, and then what use is the complexity?

[Peter Holderith @_baldtires]

i don't want TO CREATE A FUCKING MICROSOFT ACCOUNT TO SETUP WINDOWS!!!!!!!!

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

Buy shit from your friends businesses and try and get free shit from strangers.

Not the other way around.

[M.A. Franklin @FoundationDads]

I'm going to need more of you to homeschool so my kids have some normal people to marry.

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

Dana White on his employees' work schedule: "I don’t care if you f*cking do your work at 9 o’clock this morning or 9 o’clock tonight. If your kid has a school function, practice, or a game, I hope you’re gonna go. That sh*t is very important to me."