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Remember nerds just like in the old site, no current struggle session discussion here on the new general megathread, i will ban you from the comm and remove your comment, have a good day/night :meow-coffee:

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every time someone complains about the longer taglines I add an even longer tagline

Unemployment continues to blow.

On top of the general blow to self-worth, one of the worst parts is how it gaslights you into thinking a living wage is unreasonable. I've budgeted it out and think the least I can live off of in this area (where all my family, potential friends, and employment opportunities are) is just shy of 50k gross, maybe 45 if I found a roommate I'm comfortable with. That's not even factoring in student loan payments. But despite making about that much at my previous job, nobody paying that much is giving me the time of day. And it makes me think, even after doing all the math, maybe I'm asking too much?

If I didn't have family to worry about I'd probably just punch my own ticket ngl

rough day today. we've been giving rooms to several young trans people and the interpersonal drama has gotten so dire that we had to ask one of them to move out. it's cycle of abuse stuff so I really was to have empathy in repeatedly telling someone with seriousness mental healthy issues to

and separately driving her into sobbing fits from other mistreatment has just driven us to the breaking point. we've been trying to mediate a discussion so issues could be aired and addressed but the central person in this has repeatedly agreed to be there and then just left this house at the agreed upon time.

what really breaks my heart is how this impacts the girl she's dating who also lives here. she's never had stable housing but she's moving out with her gf. she's apparently been participating in the abuse of the other girl but she'd been here for a while before her gf moved in 3 months ago (they met when we took her in) and was genuinely decent despite a lifetime of trauma. so I still struggle to imagine her complicity despite everyone else telling me she's been involved as well.

we forced a conversation today so we could set the expectation that the problem child had to move out and the fear on her gfs face the entire time was palpable. I hate this. I wish it weren't a safety issue. if they were just being rude to me or my wife, there's not a chance in hell we'd have forced the issue like this. but at the end of the day the very first house rule is being respectful to everyone else living here - and that line has been crossed so severely that to not act would be subjecting another young person to abuse and further trauma.

we agreed to revisit the issue in 2 weeks, after they've had some time to try and get a lease signed.

not really sharing this because I expect anyone here to make me feel better - my personal feelings are the least important factor here. just hoping from some words of wisdom.

Liberals last week: "If you don't want to watch the Barbie movie, it's a red flag for dating"

Liberals this week:

e: And the hyphen really should be Bim-Boebert just so you can read it on the first try

when I see some fucker in a car trying to right turn on red across the crosswalk I'm in

guy whose solution to ADHD time management issues is to steal a magical artifact with the power to freeze time

I've almost finished reading The Jakarta Method and it's so depressing...

Also I wasn't expecting Obama to be in it

Just got broken up with over text. Tried to fix it, saw the futility, it's Joever. Can I get some emotes? Whatever you're feeling, funny, comforting, or random. Let's see em. I need little 300x300 pixel pictures for dopamine.

We are in the middle of yet another covid surge and once again I've managed to catch some other random non-covid upper respiratory infection instead. I'm beginning to think that I might actually be immune to coronavirus infections.

Boys are only into the Roman empire because we're fascinated by the idea of Italians running a country successfully.

very disappointing to learn that a "cowgirl" is not some sort of half-cow half-girl hybrid creature

just got nervous before sending an email to myself lmao

Research shows that medieval peasants used to goon all the time, it was only at the birth of the industrial society that this lifestyle was made unfeasible

My electricity bill has risen to 100 € a month (thanks Olaf Scholz!) and now I have to try a silly manoeuver where I cancel my electricity contract and then sign on again at the same company. According to their website, I'd only pay 2/3rds a month if I signed up now, but there's probably also some extra costs they're hiding. Still, 100 € a month is just ridiculous.

peta has to be controlled opposition right?

these three emotes are some of my finest additions of the year tbh, never gets old to see the combos

Me earlier. "Oh I'm gonna go read this article so I can finally read it and also clear up my tabs!"

Me now or meow. "now I have even more things to read and even more tabs"

I've been unusually exhausted lately. Not like sleep-all-day-exhausted, more like mentally drained to the point I can only manage to play computer games or stare into a wall for six hours after work. Everything is overwhelming all the time, nothing excites me, and it's all just a fuck. I sleep well enough (afaik), I take my ADHD meds every day, work isn't super stressful, my diet is decent, I exercise a few times a week (though less than I used to), but still. I'm thinking it's some kind of depression? Or maybe I'm on the verge of a burn out? I've dealt with both of those in my life, but those were both way worse. Maybe it's just a tiny little depressive episode? I've never taken them, but could it be worth it to try and take antidepressants and see if it helps? Or just force myself to exercise more, at least a little bit every day? I'm gonna ask my therapist about this of course, but our next appointment is like a month away, so I figured I'd ask the second best option: hexbear.

Hey hexbear, Biggs here. Have a request. Girl I know wrote her first song a few months ago and she's great at singing. Last I heard she's having a rough time rn. She would probably appreciate a few people listening to it and commenting. Firefly - Eveliny

Thinking about the stories of freezing pensioners and "warm banks" last winter, and it fully occurs to me that America really did inflict like ten 9/11s worth of frozen dead people on Europe with that Nordstream bombing, but nobody cares because they were poor and not stock brokers

time flies, fuck how is it already monday. my wisdom teeth extraction is tomorrow. and now im suddenly getting anxious despite being okay with it for the last month. not sure why im getting anxious, I'm not gonna be awake for it.

anyways today is prep day. so I probably should prepare some meals later on. assuming if later on today doesn't turn out to be bad like sunday. also I'm feeling a lot better from whatever I caught since I don't really feel sick anymore. so I don't need to reschedule I hope. I don't want to wait another month.

I should also probably go to bed "early" so I'm not sleep deprived when the next day comes. also im really trying not to imagine the worst, as in imagining fighting with my dad. like for example, imagining my dad doing something like not picking up the pain meds after and then getting mad. like nothing has even happen and I'd doubt he would do that. I dunno it's kind of annoying my mind immediately jumps to like things like that.

anyways moderately positive mindset time, kind of. im not really sure how anyone can be positive 100% throughout the day since even when trying to be positive I'm still like negative so I dunno.

Every time I post here I need to psyche myself up for like 30-45 minutes like the tribesmen in Northman. I need to become a beast so that when the inevitable counter-posters try to run over me with their walls of text and fury I will be unfazed. I need to steel myself. In this moment, I am an emotional killdozer.

Post or die.

Lurkers must stay beyond the threshold.

Met a guy in CPUSA who seems to have decent influence locally and been around for 10+ years

He's known to support the cops. Got called out in the group chat for liking them arresting mostly teenagers for skateboarding down a hilly street (only ~3 blocks) in a once a year event which included rough wrestling, dozens of cops in full riot gear, and rifles up and pointed

Said it's because he supports the "rule of law". Normal for CPUSA or just a fed? Wtf is this

It's funny how conservatives claim to be populist then show their whole asses with John Fetterman, getting frothing mad at him for doing things average people find relatable like being a clone

Thinking about pulling an allnighter since today is a special day for me.

Every year there's a new make-up that women are pressured into spending hundreds of dollars on by an industry that preys on insecurity, meanwhile temporary tattoos are a buck each.

Got my first student loan bill

Sister’s girlfriend just said “pee is stored in the balls” and I’ve never felt so proud

Woke up this morning to walk to work, put in my headphones, turned on CumTown. Listened to it all day at work, occasionally pausing to look at a CumTown animation or compilation on YouTube. Got home, turned my headphones off, set them on their charger, picked up my bluetooth computer headset, turned it on, played a CumTown livestream. The livestream started buffering and I didn't want to wait so I opened a file called cumtown dot fpl on my computer which opens Foobar2000 with a CumTown playlist set to shuffle. I think I have a problem.

I just had the strangest experience. My dad decided to take me out to eat because wisdom teeth surgery tomorrow. anyways we went to some restaurant and there were some really fancy, very clean, and expensive looking cars out front. which was weird. and when we got inside and were seated, there was just this group of like really out of looking place people. I think two of them might of been some small time white bourgeoisie assholes? they also acted like they own the place because they were going up to the window and shutting the curtains, going up to other people table and telling them to twist the blinds shut.

I dunno it was just fucking weird especially because this wasn't some fancy rich restaurant me and my dad went to. Also they were loud as fuck. They talked about doing something with tata chemicals???? and like just what the fuck. It was just so out of place.

also just a little awkward because like ya know. anyways that was just an odd experience