Ah classic I guess. Sucks, but an unfortunately prevalent mindset in that generation (my parents are also fairly skeptical about it, never having had access to it themselves).
That’s fair to me. Also it’s for meds, which I’d assume he would at least want you to have, even if he’s self-absorbed and obnoxious (unless he also hates medication, therapy, etc, which I hope is not the case).
Sorry to hear about this.
I’m not serious about this, but part of me thinks “he’s clearly incapable of managing his financial shit online, OP should just start taking his money and blaming stupid websites…since they’re gonna get blamed anyway”
You could swap in some decaf to sub out 1 or 2 of your normal cups a day. If you drink a lot of it, definitely do not go cold turkey. I did that once and started getting horrible headaches. I’ve cut way back a couple times, switching to green tea but I don’t think I’ve ever been able to cut it out completely, sigh. Went for a good 6 months onky having a few green teas but like the other commenters, as soon as I got really busy and stressed, coffee was back on the menu.
Sounds like he got some of Alex Jones’ supplements.
I remember when I learned that jeep Windshields fold down not because it’s a cool lifestyle thing, but because it allows you to stack them on top of each other in the holds of liberty ships… didn’t have to worry about roll bars in ww2 I suppose.
Unless we get a blow-out for either candidate that cannot be challenged, which does not seem likely based on the polls and battle lines, even if we have a Biden-esque victory for Harris, I’m fairly unsure of what will happen next. I personally doubt full on Civil War like in the Garland movie, or the actual civil war, but I would expect all kinds of shitty legal tricks, possible Supreme Court involvement and of course, stochastic and targeted violence, particularly towards immigrants and minorities. In other words, win or lose, I think the US may be in for a bad time. Hopefully I’m working in my assumptions here and it is somewhat more boring.
To better answer your question though, assuming things don’t completely fall apart: the two sides already don’t mix much, which is part of the problem in the first place. We’ll get more govt inaction due to gridlocked congress, probably more defense spending and some states, in the absence of federal legislating, will continue to take a larger role as they have been doing already in the recent era.
So basically more of the same, on a not-great trend line. Something has to give at some point, it’s hard to imagine how you could put the genie back in the bottle now, particularly with overall conditions in the world due to late-stage capitalism and climate change constricting each year.
Probably is a good idea. My ml feed is very similar to Hexbear, just has lib stuff like .world and some beehaw stuff. I find it useful to find articles basically, which is what I used Reddit for back in the day. But conversation wise it’s goddamned wasteland of horrible takes and smugness, so yeah, not really missing anything.
What is so amusing is that I just saw a .world post where they were complaining that .ml is too hardcore left and they were getting banned for their liberal opinions. One poster actually said they prefer hexbear users because despite being obnoxious they’re more civil and honest. That was quickly followed by a reply about how all the hexbears had alts on .ml that they did their real dirty work on so as to protect the mothership from defederation. I honestly have no idea what they’re talking about though, I’ve seen so many bland lib posts about how we all must hold our noses and enjoy the genocide on .ml comms lately, I just assumed it was a mostly lib instance or something (I assume the .ml is for Marxist Leninist though?
Edit: saw below the .ml is Mali country code, not Marxist then. Also I’m a hexbear who has a .ml alt like they say, but I never do real posting anyway, and if I was to start, I would for sure use my hexbear because how else would I get credit on the internal shitposting leaderboard?
Yes strongly agree. I realize there are extremes that are very unpleasant, but I also tend to think that the way things are organized at the work/society level is not intrinsically the best or the most efficient or whatever. Like, it’s a compromise that selects for certain kinds of outcomes, and those things may not be necessarily good or important.
Or just to put it simply: I generally like how I am, and I don’t really see what’s so great about fitting into dominant work/office culture. The fact that I’m not a good little office drone isn’t a downside to me…
Yes exactly. I’m super effective under deadline, with tons of crap flying my way. Problem is, it’s hugely damaging for me to operate in that state for any long period of time. After burnout for the nth time, I made a decision to switch jobs to something way lower stress (which somehow also paid better). I struggle with the low pressure sometimes, but my god am I a happier and healthier person most of the time.
Also: why would they expect people with ADHD to get better. It’s a fundamental baseline in how exec function systems work in our brains. You can mediate it with medication and practice better routines and habits to avoid some of the worse aspects, but until we can physically manipulate neurology at the cellular scale, I doubt you can cure it.
It’s the “General’s Plan”. It was offered up by one of the nastier IDF generals early on in the year, and now they’re carrying it out.
Edit: meant to add that when this general floated the idea back after oct 7, it seemed unreal and impossible to imagine as real, but now it’s obviously very real.
Yeah his cursing was really cathartic. Particularly after being abused by necromorphs that were unkillable.
According to the totally unintentional and legit executive leak, they stacked 100 them!
Ah that’s interesting. There’s something about the lighting and color that really ramps up the seedy and grubbiness things, seems crucial to the movie.
I hope he doesn’t drastically fuck with the color grading. He has a distinctive look he does since digital everything, and it’s fine, but Fight Club uses it to highlight the anodyne normal life parts, and then has a more organic and vibrant palette for the Tyler durden side.
Man I’d like that so much. Nothing else has come close to Silence of the Lambs vibes like that show does.