Cooper Icculus

05/01/2024

Excited to try my first work from home job, even if it is essentially customer service and not actual tax prep

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Killed it

05/01/2024

05/01/2024

05/01/2024

AP changes headline after backlash and scrutiny

05/01/2024

Doughnuts, so I can be healthy

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Easy af

03/01/2024

“Conservatives push out 1st black female president”

Notice how the leftist media rallies to support the fraud

03/01/2024

“Duplicative language” is what they call it when stealing ideas, “reparations” is what they call it when these people steal other things

02/01/2024

Enjoying one of my last late evening strolls down the main strip in Waikiki

01/01/2024

New York Times

- Thomas Friedman

01/01/2024

There are pros and cons to being poor in the city instead of the country

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Ragged and filthy, their feet bare, they wear grave, careworn expressions. For these children, life was nothing but hard work, empty bellies and the constant struggle for survival. The pictures, taken by photographer Horace Warner 100 years ago in Spitalfields in London’s East End, were later used by social campaigners to illustrate the plight of the poorest children in London. On these streets and alleys, hordes of urchins eked out a hand-to-mouth existence, fending for themselves while their parents worked 14-hour days in the factories and docks. It was a time when Britain prospered, thanks to the Empire, which brought immense wealth to factory owners and traders. Yet a stone’s throw from the docks, through which this trade and riches passed, children were dying of starvation and disease. In the East End, nearly 20 per cent of children died before their first birthday. Poor families lived ten to a room with no clean water for washing and drinking. Dead animals littered the streets. Excrement and rubbish often blocked the drains. Diseases such as diphtheria, cholera and measles flourished. A third of households were without a male breadwinner and women were forced to go out to work, leaving children as young as six to look after their younger siblings. Older children ran errands, swept the streets, cleaned windows or helped to make matchboxes and paintbrushes. It was poorly paid, exhausting work, especially for malnourished children, but their contribution - small as it was - could help buy a little stale bread.

Photo by Horace Warner

01/01/2024

I can’t imagine purposely going to NYC for new years just to watch a ball

31/12/2023

https://x.com/dchomos/status/1741315021286646015?s=42&t=VeRd5rrPIYNImGOGku5jWQ

28/12/2023

This meme has been around for years, but seriously, why does Claudine Gay, a black female who majored in plagiarism, get to be the President of Harvard?

Thankfully, affirmative action was struck down by the Supreme Court, but universities still will try to work around it, and corporations and the government are still using DEI and ESG to make woke decisions, resulting in society today

28/12/2023

I bought these on Christmas Eve to try on Christmas and I had one bite of each thing and decided I am not into these things and so today I gave the rest away

28/12/2023

25/12/2023

📸 Look at this post on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/share/p/LexjTz2yKbKfdfoW/?mibextid=WC7FNe

You’re welcome

24/12/2023

I gave away the other half of my $25 pastrami and corned beef sandwich to this homeless guy on the bus with his two little dogs

24/12/2023

Not feeling too great these last couple of days…

Didn’t think I could get sick in Hawaii,

But I guess I do ride public transit daily and the bus shelters and buses are filled with homeless.

So I went to get the only matzo ball soup in the state with a pastrami corned beef sandwich (there might only be one decent place with matzo ball soup in Indiana as well, I suppose).

Like most of the reviews I read online, the soup here is great 5/5, even if the noodles are spaghetti (kinda weird), but the sandwich is only 3/5 (I’d probably only give it 2/5 on the mainland).

24/12/2023

Sick.
Ill.

Not the 1990s cool way, but like the original meaning

22/12/2023

I was curious how I would do on a military entrance exam, ever since they raised the age from 39 to 41 to join. I would’ve done much better on this right after high school or while studying science at Purdue, but 60+ on the OAR is still in the top 10% and the recruiter was fairly impressed. I am not impressed with myself since it has been a couple decades since I’ve multiplied matrices together, solved logarithmic equations by hand, or had to memorize physics equations. Still, I can take basically any of the jobs offered to me at my age, which are intelligence, maintenance / mechanical technician, and supply chain / logistics.

20/12/2023

They want to wipe Israel off the map with the help of the American left

20/12/2023

Stolen meme

19/12/2023

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." - Søren Kierkegaard

18/12/2023

White privilege

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“Nowhere in the streets of London may one escape the sight of abject poverty, while five minutes’ walk from almost any point will bring one to a slum; but the region my hansom was now penetrating was one unending slum. The streets were filled with a new and different race of people, short of stature, and of wretched or beer-sodden appearance. We rolled along through miles of bricks and squalor, and from each cross street and alley flashed long vistas of bricks and misery. Here and there lurched a drunken man or woman, and the air was obscene with sounds of jangling and squabbling. At a market, tottery old men and women were searching in the garbage thrown in the mud for rotten potatoes, beans, and vegetables, while little children clustered like flies around a festering mass of fruit, thrusting their arms to the shoulders into the liquid corruption, and drawing forth morsels but partially decayed, which they devoured on the spot.”

“The People of the Abyss” Jack London - 1903