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Anybody want to commiserate on something that sucks?
I hate the isolation that comes with everything being privately owned. I hate everything being a subscription that capitalists can take away at a moment's notice. I hate how I'm too tired and poor to take part in my community. I hate that there is hardly any community left in our society because everyone is working or tired from working and there are no free public spaces around anyway.
We can't even loiter and hang out at most places. We can't be indoors in an air conditioned room without being expected to buy things. We can't even have private spaces
Biden is an awful president and I'm tired of anyone who says otherwise
Oh my god I hate him so much. He's just hiding behind not being trump. And the fact that libs have used him to set the bar for leftism (as they usually do when they manage it) means that any critique against him gets read as conservative.
I want to say I hate Biden without drawing in nearby chuds.
"I hate biden, he's just like trump but less funny"
now everyone will be mad at you :garf-troll:
When you look at the impact of his policies and the Trump policies he's continuing he's literally worse
I just ruminate on how much the Dems suck with them until they bring up some stupid chud talking point and then I go away.
"well let me get this straight, you think Joe Biden getting COVID is funny?" 
It disgusts me at a deep primordial level that so many cultural norms in the west are rooted largely in one great overriding sentiment: caring about things is for stupid weaklings, and apathy is smart and for the strong.
Omfg me too, it makes me passionately angry to the point of inarticulate screaming.
A Co-worker of mine murdered my boss. Now, he was a piece of shit, but that was the best job I'd ever had. Worked like clockwork, the pay was terrific. Now I'm gonna have to partner with the son of a bitch who murdered him so I can compensate my guys in prison.
If I'm with friends or people I know I can be playful with, I like to give a simple "shut up."
I miss the Beforetimes
Like, if I had known that the world was going to get like this, I would have really cut loose in college
Instead I studied like a nerd and got my degree because I had a five year plan and everything
I should have listened to that cool old guy at the bus stop who told me to enjoy life and not worry about school so much
Grass is always greener my friend. I'm 45 and just starting my first "real job". I've had a lot of fun, but I'm not super stoked to be looking at starting a career while my friends ponder retirement.
Are you me? I didn't get cool until way late in life. Missed out on so much by either not having the right friends in school, or by being too afraid of getting into trouble.
It's rough to see how many opportunities are going away with time. It's shitty too because a lot of that pressure to not live life came from previous generations who are now saying we should've majored in x or just invested in something.
I don't regret my education so much, but I do regret believing in support systems that would be there once I finished.
How are there so many anti-vegans who go to vegan spaces/discussions to post their ”I like eating meat tho” tier bullshit? Fine, then you can fuck off. The irony is that vegans supposedly can't shut up about 
, but I see way more of this online.
Right?! I used to think a lot about that kind stuff a lot and I have theory about it: They see a vegan simply existing and (maybe subconsciously) think "shit, not eating meat etc kind of makes sense" but then instead of learning from it, they take it as a personal insult almost. Like "fuck you, you're not a better person than me". Then the initial reaction is to deny and deflect and throw shit, so you can delegitimise the argument and won't have to think about it critically. Same reason that people who like to drive cars a lot might dislike cyclists, or why some people are instinctively annoyed with people who are athletic. And now that I think about it, the same thing happens when libs face criticism from the left. Probably this is already a really basic psychological concept that I re-invented, but anyway.
Probably this is already a really basic psychological concept that I re-invented, but anyway.
Sounds like cognitive dissonance to me. I get, I also used to do the 
”actually vegan diets aren't as good as you vegoons think” stuff before I figured out that the best way to get rid of cognitive dissonance was to just be vegan.
I never would've gone to spaces specifically for vegans to proclaim how awesome meat was, though. Do these people think there's a Medal of Edgy Contrarianism in it for them or something?
I think my biggest regret is saying that I'm vegan at work. Now people talk about what they ate over the weekend or whatever, remember that I'm vegan, and then start talking about their reasoning behind why eating fish is okay. I didn't ask bro
And it's like, I care, but you don't want to have the conversation and I don't have time for it in the brief spaces where we can talk.
I wish I could truly be myself but society would hate me for it (autism)
Society be like "have you tried not being autistic" and I'm all 
You know that episode of Twilight Zone where it's the last man on earth? I fantasize about the scenario all the time. But alas.
I will forever angry about how capitalist obsession with intellectual property has fucked over the progression of genetic sequencing.
Like, you have all these next gen genome sequencing techniques like Sanger sequencing. But because the methodology for them is heavily patented, research in the genetic screening techniques have largely focused on doing the same thing in legally distinct ways. The end result is that screening techniques haven't really gotten much better or more efficient in years.
The best minds in genetics are all locked away in separate labs unable to properly iterate and improve gene sequencing because the most profitable research (and therefore the most important to pharma corporations) is to develop as many of these techniques as possible and then squat on the patents.
Dating in hellworld fucking sucks so hard, dating while fat is even worse
Amen. It normalizes devaluing people's feelings and lying for self-defense
Amtrak really sucks ass and we deserve a proper passenger rail network
My go-to rant is that I hate it when historical dramas have fashionable, modern haircuts. I get it, Brother Bumbledorf of the Footsnifferian Monastery would look like shit with a tonsure, but if you want me to take your show seriously you can't have a ship full of fashion models with the same undercut the guy at the fancy burger place has landing in Northbumblia to sack the village and expect me to go "oh no vikings".
Every weekend I have to work 8 hours as a cartpusher/janitor/bagger until my legs die, every weekday I get more schoolwork than I can complete in that timeframe before coming home to get my phone confiscated like I’m a 12 year old so I can “focus better” on homework, I have next to no free time whatsoever, my number of friends is in the single digits and even then I can only see one or two of them in person regularly, I have no fucking clue what college to go to, my dad’s semineglectful, my mom’s a former ABA torturer, and my little brother is being raised horribly by them and will probably have to put up with it for twelve more years
Shit sucks
I'm annoyed I was circumsised. It just sucks that I'd rather have it, but that option was taken away from me.
Body mods, especially genital body mods, should not be done on infants. It's fucking disgusting how common it is in the states. I want my bodily autonomy too, damn it.
It's really fucked how a lot of the justifications are either from convenience and/or or a belief that youth feel pain differently (they won't feel it now, so you might as well get it done while we're here).
And it's something that doesn't have to be done. And then reading into the history of preventing masturbation adds a whole nother level of fucked up puritanical shit.
I'm so fucking sick of living in a society. I've got a host of neurodivergencies that make life in a society a living hell. I have ADHD, BPD, ASD, I'm Transgender.
All I want is to be a nomad, traveling the world at my pace, foraging for food and collecting trinkets and baubles that make my brain go brrrr but no, instead of that I have to work a job I don't want, for a company who doesn't respect me, just to maintain a decent standard of living in a country that couldn't give two shits whether I survive the day or not.
I really dislike the cultural norm of saying something when someone sneezes. I don't wanna hear it, there's never anything new in the what you say just the same few lines, and I don't like feeling like I might be being rude by not saying something to a stranger.
So you just want people's souls to escape out their noses? You're a monster.
I am actually on the complete opposite end of this and I consider it rude not to say something. It fits into other manners like "please" and "thank you".
Fucking Cars ruin everything, not only inner cities but rural areas as well.
I fucking hate my job. It's B2B bullshit that means nothing, my boss is a walking kidney stone who has never once told me 'good job' or given me anything positive in over a year, and I still have no fucking idea what I'm doing. Part of that is because of me, fine, but part of that is because there is literally no training for what we do. Every client wants something different, and if we're working with 3rd party software, I can't be expected to know all of that - ESPECIALLY AN ADOBE PROGRAM PLUS AN EXTRA PLUGIN ON TOP OF IT. When I got hired, I figured I'd be working on our proprietary system, but nope, I'm stuck 'specializing' in this shit. The person who trained me is leaving in 2 weeks, and I'm the only person who can handle the US projects. For a while it felt like they're gearing up to fire me, but I let them know I was diagnosed with a disability + others are leaving + I'm the only US person, so I think that's buying me some time.
Already touched up my resume (yes I lied on it a bit) and have been sending it out. At least the pay is good here, for now.
So many people (not all obviously) have a partner just so they are not single and monogamy has become a fucking cult
monogamy has become a fucking cult
There's also the part of it that we are economically incentivized to live with someone. Rent is so unbelievably high and somehow people are supposed to afford it off 1 income? Pushes people to be like "well, might as be someone I can sleep with"
people have become so numb to how shit everything is, suggestions to marginally improve things are seen as utopian
I picked up my mail the other day and it was just all shit ads. Just 100% garbage paper shipped around the country. Then I thought about how people are complaining the Post Office isn't making enough money to be self sufficient. Makes sense. Post Office workers are paid money to shove trash in a box for me to come move to the garbage can. Currently it's "too expensive" to ship trash to our mail boxes. The solution is the post office needs to send us more trash so they can get better equipment and staff to support the increasing cost of shipping trash to metal boxes that then get moved to trash cans.
It's insanity why are we moving trash around, why am I getting trash delivered to me. Why can't we just send each other love letters and seasons greetings. Nope gotta get a plastic sheet with the latest version of SUV #6, debt consolidation services, and tons of brilliantly financially engineered products to get more debt, or a fuckin bill. Why does the post office need to operate at the mercy of marketing - top 10 most damaging corp jobs.
I DON'T LIKE IT WHEN THEY PUT CHEMICALS IN THE WATER THAT TURN THE FRIGGIN FROGS GAYI hate how there's a lack of standardization in bike parts, especially electric bikes. I should be able to click stuff together like legos but no there have to be weird proprietary seat posts or frames designed to only take one type of wheel. Frustrating
Also I hate how expensive it is to move cross country if you have stuff or pets. You're telling me I'm supposed to find a job thousands of miles away and then get settled in 2 weeks after they hire me?
Why is there a gpa requirement to graduate. If i collect the required number of credits why do i have to go back and pad the funny number to get the piece of paper
