My bizarre, curated list of random YouTube channels — hidden gems, great wisdom, creative inspiration, and some strange stuff you’ll have to see to believe — that’ll get you hooked too! — I spent the pandemic lockdown doing mostly two things; watching YouTube videos and building a camper van out of a cargo van. How I Spent My Pandemic Downtime Building a Campervan in 2020 When Covid-19 forced me to shelter-in-place I took advantage of the downtime, paid in cupcakes and beer for help, and…medium.com

We’re already stretched too thin and living on the edge of disaster in a broken society that’s ready to collapse — we simply can’t cut back any more. — The adage of the Middle Class turns out to be nearly impossible to achieve for most people after the 80s. And the American Dream has been a fairytale told to unsuspecting kids to keep them working hard for other people all their lives. But we’re WAY BEYOND that now. Middle…

Vanlife, geoarbitrage, digital nomading, narrowboating, sailing, buying the farm, Couchsurfing, McCandlessing It! — Now that the SHIT has hit the fan, WTF are we going to do to survive? Wait, what? Yes, the proverbial shite has hit the fan all over the world. The media just isn’t admitting it. The governments of the world are doing their best to limit how much we know about it. It’s now a reality that housing is completely unaffordable for the majority of…

Corporatocracy, Orwellian, and Kafkaesque are words that accurately describe the practices, systems and features of postmodern United States — Some may read this and experience a lethal dose of reality. These words are nothing more than witness testimony; the gospel according to the great unwashed. However, it’s purpose is two fold. First, this is a proudly displayed middle finger to the Corporatocracy! …

If you’re reading this it’s probably too late to stop what’s coming. If you were looking for a sign, this is it! — “Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. …

Just like consumers should not be forced to bail out businesses annually. It’s the system that’s broken, not the people. — What started as a simple sharing of this tweet ended up being a lesson in how we’re divided by a broken system.

Hot dogs, apple pie, baseball, mass shootings, drug addiction, alcoholism, poverty, wealth inequality, injustice, political division, misinformation, mass shooting, and historically low voter approval ratings for all branches of government. — President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is credited as the first known user of the term “dire straits” in a 1933 radio address about unemployment during The Great Depression.

Fraudulently claiming voters must vote for one of two unacceptable candidates presented to voters by the artificial Two-Party System is coercion and voter intimidation — Democracy is when you Vote for the Greater Goods, not the Lesser Evil. Every national election we go through the same divisive, two-party browbeating, fear mongering, vote shaming, and bullying in the media, on social networks like Twitter and Facebook. …