Eh, don’t let it get to you buddy, things will either get better, orrrrr… we’ll all be dead and it won’t matter anyway.
Not saying: don’t be aware, don’t try for a better more just and fair tomorrow.
Just… don’t let the machine grind you down. Anxiety, desperation and despair make people compliant. Be happy and keep fighting for whatever you want for tomorrow. 🍻

🍻 no worries bud, they can keep spazzing out, and I’ll keep trying for liberation of the workers and calling fascists fascists. Hope you have a better day than BraindeadInABox, they seem like they’re coasting on towards an aneurysm 👍

Right? I figured I’d just let them keep winding themselves up. Never even said I was pro-Biden. Honestly, imho, he’s not great, didn’t do much I liked during his tenure and a bunch I didn’t. The stuff he did before was mostly anti-labour which I very much disagree with. BraindeadInABox is frothing at the mouth so hard that they should probably be checked for rabies. The Sartre quote was delectable in it’s blind use as some kinda gotcha. The bozo’s reping a fucking Cheeto, who’s a known rapist, insurrectionist(not even in the respectable way,) and undoubted racist, and if he believes in anything at all further than his own personal power and wealth… he’s certainly an anti-Semite. It’s been interesting watching the masks come off these tankies. Marxist-Leninists my fucking foot. They’re rabid fascist neckbeards, simping over Putin, Xi, and now Herr Trumpf.
Which is a bit sad, they were so close to actually getting it.

Anyway, fully expecting this post to be removed. Probably too close to the truth for these soft bootlicking snowflakes.

One, I’m Canadian, two I’m firmly left, well past “liberal”. Two, you’re not really worth talking to. Have fun screaming into the void buddy.

Edit: heh, I’m just going to leave the poorly numberedness.

Righto 👍

Fair dues. I started at .ml, and I’m not a rabid tankie troll, so I usually like to give the benefit of the doubt…up to a certain point, of course

Cease fire was negotiated and secured by the Biden administration. Try again.

Edit: or am I misunderstanding what you’re saying?

Not me, but a good friend of mine. He has a film production/editing side hustle. He was doing a promotional video for a night club, high end place …like if you’re not a good looking girl, if you’re inside you’re somebody or know somebody and they’ve got you in. So the owner of the establishment had hired a guy with a semi decent reputation to do all the filming and stills of the club while open and when it’s closed to hire out for events. So buddy’s going through footage with the camera guy and the owner, flicking through, everything looks good, then a bunch of stills and videos of actual porn. Not like amateur shit, like a full set, lights, crew, the lot. Buddy just skips through, apparently it’s not all that uncommon. After they’ve got through the footage, the owner says to the camera guy:
Thanks, I think we have enough to put something together. I’ll call if {buddy} needs more to work with.

So camera guy is away, and owner turns to buddy and says:
Did you fucking see that?!

Buddy explains it’s not that uncommon to find sex pics and video on the same drive as professional shots.

Owner replied:
THAT’S MY FUCKING CLUB! AS A FUCKING PORN SET!!

Probably feels like that in the States right now, but it’s really a case of voter apathy and a vocal minority. In all politics, but especially in the States, the people who yell the loudest and longest hit the public awareness the most. And sadly, the more deranged and unlikely the things the nutjobs say the more it seems to strike a chord with people who are feeling disenfranchised by the government.

I have issues with pessimism and negative thoughts…loops? Definitely doesn’t solve it, but I find when I’m starting to find myself getting really negative I try to stop and think of one moderately good thing about what I’m stuck thinking negatively about.

Ehhhh…I guess? I’m still a smoker, so maybe that says something about the addictiveness of nicotine…

Didn’t really have a choice. I had started to attract the attention of the law, and I could see myself spiraling out. Didn’t want that, I’m too soft for a life of crime. So… shear force of will? Stubbornness?

Daily usage was fairly high, I was snorting or smoking 4-6 grams a day depending on purity. Which…like… looking back? I’ve got no idea why I’m not dead. Between sleep deprivation, chemical intake, and not eating… definitely should have kicked off.
I’ve been clean off meth for 20 years in May or June this year, and clean off everything else except weed and alcohol for 16 sometime closer to September.
I actually don’t regret a single thing, I would highly advise against doing meth or any other chemical stimulant, but I learned a lot about myself and my breaking point. I regret being a smoker more than anything from that period of my life. I also regret that most of my friends from around then are dead or in jail. Two of us managed to move on and have a normal life, and the rest were either dead before 30, in the clink for another 5-10 or are living off the dole with no further aspirations in life than getting stoned and playing video games.

My dude, that rings super true for me. I’m very… textural? I’m not going to buy something if it feels shitty to touch. Most of the foods I don’t like taste just fine, but I don’t like how they feel in my mouth.

Don’t feel bad about it, you’re not alone, and even if you were, that’s really got to be one of the stupidest reasons I’ve heard to be pissed at someone.

Physically painful, mentally crushing. I didn’t speak to anyone for a week and a half, just couldn’t bring myself to do it. Everything ached, my skin felt like it was on fire in random patches that kept moving around, and I was more depressed than I had ever been in my life to that point.

Yes, and they’re either sociopaths, or were born with a critical lack of curiosity.

Quit meth that way, fucking brutal. Worst experience of my life, and there’s a fair few shitty times to compare it to.

People do not want games to feel like it’s a job […] and while that may be your opinion it’s 1) not everyones opinion and 2) just because the game feels like a job FOR YOU, doesn’t mean that it feels like that for everyone.

Good examples of this is Wurm Online/Unlimited, or OSRS/RS. Personally not too fond of OSRS/RS probably just didn’t get into it at the right time. Wurm though… I’ve got almost 1000hrs into it. When someone asks what I like about it, I can’t even really give a decent answer. The grind is insane, the best way I’ve found to describe it is:
My favourite game where I’m not entirely sure if I’m bored or not.

It’s an absolute slog, everything takes forever, and depending on the server, if you’re not online often enough everything you built decays and crumbles away. And yet I keep playing it, it’s a bit zen, I can log in and mine for 2hrs then sculpt for 2hrs and go to bed relaxed.

I was 17 and drunk, had a new pocket knife and saw probably the largest traffic cone I’ve ever seen in my life. The better part of 2m tall(over 6ft), and that cone was asking for a shanking. All fun and games until the lock on the blade failed and the knife closed on my thumb. Walked 4km to the closest 7-11 where I guy I knew worked so I could use the first aid kit. Probably should have gone to the hospital…or at least a GP. Healed up mostly fine, just if I have quite a long gaming session using a controller that thumb will lock bent and I have to force it to unbend…

Yeah, most of what I watch is cooking, gaming, and trades stuff. The algorithm has decided what I really want to watch is videos on VTuber drama. It’s almost literally the only thing it suggests to me, so I just watch off my subs list.