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Don’t even think about the future. With Donald Trimp in charge, it is terrifying. Even if it were not, and you knew what was coming, you would get bored pretty soon and see the future as interesting as daytime tv. With nothing left to look forrward to, what is left to live for?
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Don’t even think about the future. With Donald Trimp in charge, it is terrifying. Even if it were not, and you knew what was coming, you would get bored pretty soon and see the future as interesting as daytime tv. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Wm4j-Dw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2481,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2017\/03\/a-countrys-future-strength\/","url_meta":{"origin":2450,"position":0},"title":"A country;s future strength","author":"taxicle","date":"March 28, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"is one of the weapons in its armoury.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2226,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2015\/08\/the-future-of-work-in-the-uk\/","url_meta":{"origin":2450,"position":1},"title":"The future of work in the uk","author":"taxicle","date":"August 26, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Depressing. 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