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Someone please convince me I'll be alright if Trump wins
  • I'm sorry to hear you got bit.

    No problem. I'd take a gruesome, mind-wrecking rabies death over Trump any day if it didn't entail so much suffering for everyone around. So yeah, I thoroughly disinfected the wound. The election scar on my soul will stay way past 2029 though, if I love that long.

  • Someone please convince me I'll be alright if Trump wins
  • Thanks but my discipline is terrible so today I did mostly the same shit as yesterday. I succeeded at trapping a free-roaming cat that's been coming to eat but after half an hour sitting in the cage with it I grew no closer to befriending it, just got bitten. Oh well, at least you get a cat pic.
    Scared and alert black cat on a perch in the upper corner of a big cage, at eye level with me and camera

    I sent the "progress" report to my coach and she told me I don't have to bother coming next week, as there is no point when I can't follow her advice.

    I replied positively to a course offer at uni that will make this "gap year" at least somewhat productive, so there's that. I still have to type out the email to the psychiatrist before I go to sleep.

    The college is impractically far and commuting makes me tired. My parents are at home in the afternoon but they are way too aggressive at trying to get me to work, I am already too tired most of the time and can't focus when they're watching. I tried dad's office but his boss is not happy with my frequent toilet visits and I don't get too productive there either. The problem is: they're right, the only time I'm productive is when there is somebody around but they just wreck my mood when they're behind my back so there is a huge cost: I get 0-10 minutes of productivity for every evening spent crying or pouting. However, still better than what I would be doing alone.

    The nearest town has a library but I'm still pretty sure I couldn't end up productive if I used the study room. The work is coding btw and I'm not disciplined enough to disable procrastination webpages; still I would probably end up binging "Unusual articles" or similar collections on Wikipedia. I guess it there is harm to try the library, though.

  • Someone please convince me I'll be alright if Trump wins
  • Thanks. I'll be trying to push my psychiatrist to do ADHD tests ASAP so I can get productive before the project's Christmas deadline. Until then, this is pretty much the best advice I could be given. Thank you for your empathy.

  • Someone please convince me I'll be alright if Trump wins
  • You haven't seen my garden and it's quite barren now that the vegetation period has ended for everything outside greenhouses.

    Anyway, you deserve a pic so here is one from earlier this year.


    (My phone is from 2013 and full of dust)

  • Someone please convince me I'll be alright if Trump wins
  • Don't worry, nothing will happen if you forget your phone at home.

    I'm not in a crime-ridden city but a beautiful countryside. I only go walking with my SIMless phone because of offline podcasts and crosswords I'm addicted to. I guess I should go on a longer walk but resist the temptation to actively use the phone, which I carry for GPS logging (not for fitness but OSM).

  • Someone please convince me I'll be alright if Trump wins
  • Idk, gay rights in my country are expected to be decided in 1-2 years and I'm pretty sure we will not follow through with gay marriage if America doesn't. Why do I even care so much? I don't even know any openly LGBT person IRL, and just one Ukrainian! Am I too obsessed with Elon facing justice instead of a key government job offer?

  • Someone please convince me I'll be alright if Trump wins
  • I have a semestral project to work on and I've been failing to get anything done for weeks. I'm unemployable until I get better meds or something. Instead of staring at a screen fruitlessly all day, I guess I should just accept this failure and embrace your suggestion. Thank you very much.

    Trump isn't worth this

    He's a symptom of a greater problem. If a criminal incoherent populist can challenge a future-oriented centrist with decent moral standing except for one or two issues, even by popular vote, I don't see much hope for 21st century democracy becoming what it could be globally.

  • Someone please convince me I'll be alright if Trump wins
  • I still have some 5 decades left in my life (hopefully, if I get through this crisis) and everyone has been convincing me that a second Trump term will have a huge, lasting impact on the entire globalized world. You're telling me it's OK just because the terror would start on January 20 and not tomorrow?

  • Someone please convince me I'll be alright if Trump wins

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    Fuck. I don't want to downplay your suffering if you're American, Arab or Ukrainian, an oppressed minority and/or female (I'm neither) but sometimes I feel like empathy is taking a toll on me. It's a huge weight to add to my mental problems. Thanks for the advice, I'm trying to get my parents on board with the "winding down" on the project while I try to get my mind off things and establish a schedule by trying to work in a help call center (I would have preferred manual labor but they are the only company hiring around that is large and evil enough I don't mind them losing money through my incompetence in the presumably short time I last).

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    I'm European but after doomscrolling on Lemmy, watching Last Week Tonight etc. I can't keep my calm over the US election, which is not helping my existing depression and suspected ADHD. The only good thing I did today was not eat much (I'm overweight) and 15 minutes of gardening. I can't keep todo lists because I'm really depressed over not having completing any meaningful item for weeks, and not even my long-abandoned passion projects spark joy anymore.

    I'm afraid things will go very wrong for my mental state if Trump wins. I have two psychologists and a psychiatrist but I'm only meeting them next week. Please help me get my mind off this and maybe even get something done.

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    In 2024, please switch to Firefox
  • Other than YouTube, which purposefully slows Firefox down, I only ever encountered one webpage in years where the issue was 100% “caused” by my browser choice – the left pane (lesson list) in my school’s tutoring platform would not scroll due to what I assume was a trivial HTML oversight. After reporting the issue, they insisted that they would not support browsers other than ones based on Chromium and Safari and tried to convince me to switch. I don't have access to the site anymore and I did not understand web development at all back then so I could not create a patch myself; I just worked around the issue using a very tall, zoomed-out “mobile view” to reach the off-screen buttons.

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  • Yes. However, now that my IP address has been verified, I see all your posts like you do. I don't feel like getting a VPN to check but I’m pretty sure the directly uploaded image does show up for everyone.

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    Sorry for the irrelevent post but Pirates weren't interested.

    One of you can get a SkyShowtime voucher (see below). As a consolation prize, the rest can watch Czech movies with English subs via Google Drive.

    > ### Status: 🟢 AVAILABLE > > Ahoy, fellow lemmings! > > I was gifted a SkyShowtime voucher for an electronics purchase but piracy is somewhat legal and easy in the Czech Republic, so I won't use it. > > You'll most likely have to VPN into the Czech Republic to use the voucher but the (limited!) range of shows will be also available in English, Spanish, Polish or Hungarian. IDK if the UI language can be set. A dollar will also be blocked from your credit card but will be returned when you cancel the subscruption. > > To claim the voucher, DM me your e-mail and "My Czech VPN is ready. I promise not to watch Deer Squad" so that I can make sure that you will be able to use it. The first person will be sent an e-mail with the code and instructions on how to redeem it. I will provide support if you encounter any issues. > > Note that the selection of shows is limited and most are shit. Highlights include (not guaranteed to be available): > > - Shrek movies (all of them I think) > - Madagascar (all of them I think) > - Puss in Boots 1 & 2 > - Avatar: The Last Airbender > - Spongebob Squarepants > - The Office > - Forrest Gump > - Green Mile > - Pulp Fiction > - Dexter > - Dr House > - Schindler's List > - Indiana Jones movies > - The Birds (1963) > - Inside Man (2006) > - Land of the Lost (2009) > - Nocebo (2022) > - Mr. Robot (2015-2019) > - Twin Peaks (1990-2017) > - Billions (2016-2023) > - Californication (2007-2014) > - Heroes (2006-2010) > - Frasier > - Bates Motel > - The Usual Suspects

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    A month of mostly shitty, DRM-protected movies for free

    Status: 🟢 AVAILABLE

    Ahoy, fellow lemmings!

    I was gifted a SkyShowtime voucher for an electronics purchase but piracy is somewhat legal and easy in the Czech Republic, so I won't use it.

    You'll most likely have to VPN into the Czech Republic to use the voucher but the (limited!) range of shows will be also available in English, Spanish, Polish or Hungarian. IDK if the UI language can be set. A dollar will also be blocked from your credit card but will be returned when you cancel the subscruption.

    To claim the voucher, DM me your e-mail and "My Czech VPN is ready. I promise not to watch Deer Squad" so that I can make sure that you will be able to use it. The first person will be sent an e-mail with the code and instructions on how to redeem it. I will provide support if you encounter any issues.

    Note that the selection of shows is limited and most are shit. Highlights include (not guaranteed to be available):

    • Shrek movies (all of them I think)
    • Madagascar (all of them I think)
    • Puss in Boots 1 & 2
    • Avatar: The Last Airbender
    • Spongebob Squarepants
    • The Office
    • Forrest Gump
    • Green Mile
    • Pulp Fiction
    • Dexter
    • Dr House
    • Schindler's List
    • Indiana Jones movies
    • The Birds (1963)
    • Inside Man (2006)
    • Land of the Lost (2009)
    • Nocebo (2022)
    • Mr. Robot (2015-2019)
    • Twin Peaks (1990-2017)
    • Billions (2016-2023)
    • Californication (2007-2014)
    • Heroes (2006-2010)
    • Frasier
    • Bates Motel
    • The Usual Suspects
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