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agk's diary 
8 November 2022 @ 16:10 UTC
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written on GPD Win 1
in dense smoke from forest fires before we vote
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Somebody I know was hired by Maximus in Winchester
Kentucky, 40 mile commute. Top indeed.com review:

> They routinely engage in Satanic worship and offer
> employees for sacrifices. Stress of wondering if
> you're next's unbearable. Pros: There are no pros.
> Cons: Probable death due to being chosen for sacr-
> ifice to Lucifer.

Somebody I know works at Bluegrass Army Depot, one 
of my country's chemical weapon stockpiles. Our reg-
ion has drills, klaxons on poles, plastic & tape to 
shelter in bathrooms, evacuation plans, zones posted 
on highway signs, emergency radios. Should 100 year-
old mustard gas or 50+ year-old VX & sarin nerve 
munitions blow up.

Less known: Depot's Amazon-style fulfilment center.
Missiles, rockets, drone tech, firing platforms off 
to black markets, failure, destruction by Russian 
shells. For Saudi slaughter in Yemen, Israeli occup-
ation of Palestine. To point at China from Korea & 
Japan, escalate in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Chad, Burkina 
Faso, Caucasus, Venezuela, Syria, etc.

Somebody I know's a Navy officer. In February Ukra-
inian Armed Forces dramatically, unilaterally esca-
lated shelling, cluster-bombing of Donetsk, Lugansk. 
Zelinsky, against Servant of the People platform, 
exited 2014 Minsk ceasefire, swore anti-Russian re-
nuclearization---de-facto withdrew from Non-Prolife-
ration Treaty. My bud and I sat in a backyard. "I 
expected this from State," I said, "but thought Def-
ense'd restrain the idiots. What's happening?"

"I'm training guys to deploy to Europe. We're provo- 
king Russian military response. When Biden left Afg-
hanistan, war contractors needed new feeding trough. 
My guys'll die, lotsa people will, so they can sell 
overpriced garbage."

"What can we do?" I asked. "Veterans and active duty 
are concentrated in few congressional districts now. 
War profiteers everywhere. War's abstract to every-
one else. We don't have political representation; 
they do."

My bud did his job, trained his guys. He cares for
them. Manufacturer lobbyists & line workers do their 
jobs. Congresscritters, State ghouls, Depot & Maxim-
us workers do theirs. I sacrifice for my job, too. 
Direct-care staff help patients as best we can while 
our hospital & their insurance robs them. 

Plenty jobs are captured by the devil, but hard work 
has dignity and meaning, even in a firm in thrall. 
Studs Terkel knew that. So do most people who work 
for a living, who sell labor for our wage. Owners & 
C-suite administrators don't give our jobs dignity 
and meaning. That's entirely on us.