TheDoctorDonna

A cat in a wealthy, loving home. I’m not social enough to be a dog, and the way my cats laze about like they don’t have to worry about rent really induces a special kind of envy. I don’t care if I’m stupid or ugly or even a little deformed as long as it’s not painful. I just want to be a lazy kitty who gets random cuddles but is never expected to engage. And then when I do engage everyone swoons.

What a life.

*Edited spelling

When capitalism ends and we all finally revolt, we will be truly free.

LMFAO I was supposed to have my shit figured out before I had kids?

As much as I enjoy the fact that my active parenting years are over, I have many regrets about being a young and stupid parent. Not sure we were ever ready for that shit.

My oldest was born in 2007. I was born in 1985.

You are lucky tbh. So many “local” newspapers are owned by giant corporations. Here in Canada we even have a boatload that are owned by those same American corporations. I helps push narratives among people who are more likely to be isolated or disenfranchised and it works really well.

I’m not sure if it worked or not but I read that storing them in a paper bag will help them ripen a bit faster, but not “I need it for this supper recipe tonight” fast. I figure if it didn’t work it was a pretty harmless hack and I still had avocado, I just waited until it was ready to do the recipe I wanted.

Boo.

I was so glad when that one got left behind.

I have always been a little bit jealous of people who can be sold on religion. It must be nice to have the comfort that comes with it, especially if you’re the type to ignore all the rules and think that you’re going to the good place just because you had faith.

I am not scared of dying exactly, I’m afraid that something might come after when I just want to sleep. What if a religion got it right? Good place or bad, I’m not down with that. I want finality in my end.

Depends on there she’s laying. If she gets up on a table and does this she will absolutely bite, if she does this at my feet of laying next to me she wants very slow, gentle belly rubs starting from her chest and only going about 2/3 of the way down her belly. I lost track of how many tries it took to get it right.

Drivers who don’t stop for pedestrians - especially the ones who pretend to not see you as if it means they don’t have to stop at the stop sign.

And people who don’t clean up after their dogs. It’s worse in the winter time when it’s already difficult enough to navigate the city.

I’m the kind of person who is very particular about the music I listen to, the wrong music is over stimulating - so I love streaming in that I can curate my playlist and have new music recommended to me based on what I like. I honestly don’t know how I would find new artists if it wasn’t for streaming - not like there’s an indie folk radio station I can just listen to…

I feel bad that the artists don’t get paid much though and I was considering switching to buying albums again, but I think that might make it so I support a few artists more but a lot of artists I like would consequently be supported less.

She, Canadian, and not from TV. Most of my growing up we didn’t have TV. I just didn’t want to make other people the way people made me feel.

By knowing how shitty it felt to be treated badly and not wanting to make others feel that way, unfortunately.

My goodness do we ever need this in BC

I’m pretty sure I’m a decent person and I’ve never had a support network. Kind of had the opposite, really but at very least I try to be a good person and I feel remorse when I fail.

That’s why I’m a communist, but most people are afraid of that term. I would settle for really good socialism in my lifetime though.

I hate being stuck as a wage slave creating wealth for the people standing on my shoulders, but I like to work and I like my job, it’s a strange place to exist.

I don’t want to work in order to survive but I want to be productive and keep my mind and body sharp while also contributing to the community. I like my job and while it seems mundane, it keeps me busy, gives me routine, gives my brain problems to solve, and is sometimes the most socializing I get. I just hate that I have to be afraid to lose my job or end up hungry or homeless because of it.

Oh yeah, no I just backed up and waited for him to go, sometimes I’ll dramatically bow at people who don’t stop for me but this guy was particularly infuriating because I was already walking on the sidewalk and he just went anyways. Too many drivers act like the fact that they can kill me gives them the right of way and a lot of the comments here are behaving the same way, it’s actually concerning. Like, sure wearing brighter colours can help, but it literally does not matter what you wear because the driver is going to make excuses anyways - “they dressed too dark”, “they came out of nowhere”, “I didn’t see them” - all of them amount to “I wasn’t paying enough attention to safely manage my murder machine but I can’t accept accountability because me!” And I’ve proven that fact by wearing bright colours, carrying lights, and being patient and giving up my right of way and they still almost hit me every day.

As if it actually matters what colour a pedestrian is wearing. My winter coat is white and I carry two lights - one on my coat and one either on my head or in my hand if it’s too irritating to wear. The other evening I was walking home from the grocery store and this guy kept pulling out of parking lot that crossed my sidewalk, even though I was waving my light right at him but he didn’t even look in my direction until he was already pulling into traffic. He was never looking for pedestrians, only vehicles.

The American Dream was an illusion. It was all propaganda to convince people to feed themselves to the capitalist machine for a chance at living the dream life, but even people who aren’t trapped under years of medical debt or homeless or visible minorities don’t have it easy, they’ve just been convinced that’s as good as it gets.

Edited cause my grammar was weird.