despondence vs depressed

 "when I fall in love"

it will be, forever.

Or I'll never fall

in love....

... And the moment I can feel that you feel that way too

Is when I fall in love with you"

As if a person could be so choosy about who they fall in love with.

I know about the falling in love part.

It's the part about "feeling that way too"

Trains of thought don't wait, they leave the station when they feel like it, and I don't know where this was going.

Except, that song is running through my head, and in my racy game, Player and his friend will have sex very soon.

Is she in love with him?

Is He with her?

The bottom line of most of these games is the same, and I'm learning that the window dressing is copied over too. 

I've got a damn keyboard coming from (originally) Hong Kong with a layover in Florida.

Florida?!
It was supposed to be here hours ago but air-traffic-controllers, the weather, customs/tariffs, contraband checking, (*sigh*) it might not get here till Saturday.

Today??!! Nononononono.
A nice person, in Florida, rates.
You don't count.

I was *this* close to cancelling it. Even the amazon website says it will arrive Sunday 16.

Very odd.

And how rude for pulling the rug out of my date...but.... is this week some holiday that ends around the 20th??

The sepulchre or blind-as-bat black. not really a choice.

My new keyboard will at least TRY to look good.

You can't trust reddit reviewers, "I replaced half the keys and Now I love it."

A paste-white ("bright whitewash/sepulchre) keyboard, nothing to do with mine, ALSO has a late date.

Maybe there was a death in the family. But that would mean that my keyboard and the sepulchre are sold by the same store. 

But more likely Amazon oversold and needs to replenish stock (no, because their website lists an earlier date)
But wait, that's the ONLY one they had, it's in Florida, and no one thought to maybe start shipping it two days ago?

I totally lost the trains of thought. 

People can be nice, smile, be all friendly, occasionally have sex,

They're just not in love.

Too bad for you, have a nice day.

Not sure why the internet thinks that every disease or malady you can google should be represented by women and/or children, men seem immune.

I don't have the skills to re-retouch this retouched representation of depression (despondence?)

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"influencer" is a vaunted word, and if you parrot the exactly correct talking points, and join the right forums, and say just the right things, 

You too could be put on watchlists.

Later on (very soon) it won't be "What do women want" but "What does AI want?"

But this is a train of thought, not some sales seminar. Here:

"Come up and Analyze me sometime"

a vague (possibly misleading) headline started all this.

Who died and made THIS guy the expert on employment trends??

Let's judge the book by its cover, and assume the guy means, you'll be rich or unemployed.

https://fortune.com/2025/11/13/palantir-ceo-alex-karp-prestigious-college-graduates-doomed-people-expert-knowledge-make-more-money/

Unfortunately they're trying to paywall/assimilate me, so I have not really read it yet.

Capitalism is dead, Oligarchy FTW, something, I'll guess.

Not quite... it's more of a recruitment blurb about how great his company is, and why you should work there, as a high-school grad (because once you hit college, you cost too much)

And if he's real lucky you're an ace programmer (hacker) or you're super good with chemicals....

I added that last part, don't sue.

But it's true (isn't it?)

*I* think.....Sons and daughters of politicians and moguls will always be welcome at Ivy-League schools, regardless of what this guy thinks.

They don't need the money, but the company needs them.

hordes of underpaid data-entry workers (acquire (read) summarize and enter data)

Be a heroic "Grainger"-type guy fixing toilets and replacing fans

(Keeping the smarter-than-you machines happy)

Know in your heart that the next boatload of H-1B workers will replace you soon, uhm,

learn the song about having no meaning in the universe (I'll go look it up for the people smarter than me)

Be tall.

Live life as a blond(e)

social skills are paramount (I don't know if anyone ever said that, but it should be an eleventh commandment)

Command+conquer