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I guess a lot of us are going through this. I have actually ditched a lot of long time friends lately. People I have known for over 20 years. I am tired of the nonsense. People I thought were smart and people that I had respect for. Trump is a character for sure but I don't get these people that seeth and become unhinged by the guy. I grew up listening to punk music in the 80s and always questioned authority. I am a very logical person and my job is to be a critical thinker and solve complicated problems aka finding root causes. The fact that everyone I think is a corrupt POS in government hates Trump makes me think that he is either the real deal and is really fighting these corrupt people or this is a massive pysops to control every mind out there with people that support him and people that hate him. I honestly don't care either way anymore. 99% of the people that I have known or in my "circle" have no idea what it even means to be an American or the ideals that we once cherished. Everything seems completely absurd now. Insane dark humor and crude crazy things I used to joke about years ago are now normal common place every day things. I would say I am a Jeffersonian liberal/Libertarian type of person. If someone isn't violating my rights then what business is it of mine, but when you have Drag queens reading story books to elementary school kids that is just f$*ked up. Social media is a mess. I never did twitter and I got rid of facebook years ago. What garbage. It is not natural. I shouldn't know what color the dump was of a girl I barely knew in 4th grade is on a daily basis. I am just glad I don't have to date and my wife is normal. I feel so bad for my kids. I miss the old internet before 2006. I miss AOL IM, GAIM, ICQ, Netscape... I used to wake up, fire up Netscape and start my newsgroups and email downloads. Then sit down and start my day reading. I had sites to go to every day. I used to love to see what SGI and Apple were coming out with next in the late 90s. Everything today is garbage. I come here and a couple of car forums. That is about it. I hate my job. I hate the cloud. I miss big iron. My job used to a sysadmin of big UNIX machines. Now I feel like I have started over in my career and it sucks. They ruined Linux. Systemd just sucks a$$. I have about 10 more years and then my wife will work and I will retire early. I have all of my SGI and car toys to play with. I won't be buying another smart phone either. I will have a flip phone to use when I drive. PagerDuty can ring my house. anyway, that is my rant... I basically don't care anymore... I am obsolete. I am just going to spend my time with the people that I really care about and do the things that make me happy.