Waste of Taxes
Mar. 9th, 2026 10:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
disappointed_lesbianI feel unsettled. Too much caffeine, maybe, but I was still drowsy after my first serving, so I had another.
I was on the state dept.'s website looking at travel information and noticed that there was a Careers web page. So I ended up on usajobs looking for government jobs in Taiwan, which I should not be going to, but I'm having a hard time letting it go. There were no such jobs, however, there were quite a few in Japan and South Korea, and not just specialist jobs that almost nobody qualifies for, but entry-level jobs like barista and grocery store stocker.
I was surprised to see so many jobs in s. korea, so went searching for the number of u.s. military bases in the country. There are at least five;
https://installations.militaryonesource.mil/view-all
this website doesn't list all the bases. Plus, some of them are joint efforts with the Korean government, so it's not clear how much the u.s. is contributing financially to maintain these bases.
Japan has even more than that, which seems insane for such a small country.
The United states does not need so many bases around the world. They're useful for citizens who want to see the world (I remember near the end of tech school a fellow airman being SO happy when he found out he'd be station in England), but there's no way it's necessary for protection of our country, and it's probably overkill for protection of other countries. It's kind of wild that we have millions of usians living in poverty while all this money is being spent on foreign military installations. This country is loony toons.
So after I'd spent a long time considering whether I should or not, I bought the protein powder. I had my first serving a couple of hours ago, for my midday snack. The snack didn't go so well, probably because I didn't get enough absorbable carbs. My head was still hurting, so I had a hash brown for the grease, but I don't absorb carbs well when they are paired with oil, so I still sort of feel hungry. Dinner is in one hour, so I'll be ok, but I won't do this again. I need non-oily carbs to make this work.
I'm going for less than two hundred calories at snack time. Half a serving of protein powder is sixty calories and 12 grams of protein. A banana and a pat of peanut butter, or some berries and applesauce, shouldn't add up to much more.
For lunch I had a delicious tofu sandwich. I remember thinking as a kid that mcdonald's burgers tasted so good. As an adult, I wanted to re-create that flavor without the greasy bit of animal corpse, but I didn't know what made them taste so good. Then one day it hit me: the combination of ketchup and mustard. So simple. So that's what I had on my tofu sandwich. I don't normally like ketchup on any kind of sandwich-like food (to me it is a condiment for fries), but what makes it good is being mixed with an equal amount of mustard, so that the whole doesn't taste too ketchupy.
My counselor says that dor doesn't cover the cost of a DL unless it's the consumer's first DL ever and it's for a job. Kinda doesn't make sense because only young people will be going for their first dl ever. Maybe I will try rephrasing the question; I don't think she understands that I have no valid ID. I get so tired of having to explain basic shit to people in bureacracy.
Next to nothing is getting done this evening because I'm miserable again. Triggers everywhere.
I was on the state dept.'s website looking at travel information and noticed that there was a Careers web page. So I ended up on usajobs looking for government jobs in Taiwan, which I should not be going to, but I'm having a hard time letting it go. There were no such jobs, however, there were quite a few in Japan and South Korea, and not just specialist jobs that almost nobody qualifies for, but entry-level jobs like barista and grocery store stocker.
I was surprised to see so many jobs in s. korea, so went searching for the number of u.s. military bases in the country. There are at least five;
https://installations.militaryonesource.mil/view-all
this website doesn't list all the bases. Plus, some of them are joint efforts with the Korean government, so it's not clear how much the u.s. is contributing financially to maintain these bases.
Japan has even more than that, which seems insane for such a small country.
The United states does not need so many bases around the world. They're useful for citizens who want to see the world (I remember near the end of tech school a fellow airman being SO happy when he found out he'd be station in England), but there's no way it's necessary for protection of our country, and it's probably overkill for protection of other countries. It's kind of wild that we have millions of usians living in poverty while all this money is being spent on foreign military installations. This country is loony toons.
So after I'd spent a long time considering whether I should or not, I bought the protein powder. I had my first serving a couple of hours ago, for my midday snack. The snack didn't go so well, probably because I didn't get enough absorbable carbs. My head was still hurting, so I had a hash brown for the grease, but I don't absorb carbs well when they are paired with oil, so I still sort of feel hungry. Dinner is in one hour, so I'll be ok, but I won't do this again. I need non-oily carbs to make this work.
I'm going for less than two hundred calories at snack time. Half a serving of protein powder is sixty calories and 12 grams of protein. A banana and a pat of peanut butter, or some berries and applesauce, shouldn't add up to much more.
For lunch I had a delicious tofu sandwich. I remember thinking as a kid that mcdonald's burgers tasted so good. As an adult, I wanted to re-create that flavor without the greasy bit of animal corpse, but I didn't know what made them taste so good. Then one day it hit me: the combination of ketchup and mustard. So simple. So that's what I had on my tofu sandwich. I don't normally like ketchup on any kind of sandwich-like food (to me it is a condiment for fries), but what makes it good is being mixed with an equal amount of mustard, so that the whole doesn't taste too ketchupy.
My counselor says that dor doesn't cover the cost of a DL unless it's the consumer's first DL ever and it's for a job. Kinda doesn't make sense because only young people will be going for their first dl ever. Maybe I will try rephrasing the question; I don't think she understands that I have no valid ID. I get so tired of having to explain basic shit to people in bureacracy.
Next to nothing is getting done this evening because I'm miserable again. Triggers everywhere.
