It’s because mortality is absolutely fucking terrifying. Anyone who says otherwise, be they atheist or religious or what, is just using some heavy copium/denial to try to deal with that shit.
Cue the inevitable response I get from this about insane people claiming that they are happy that life has an end point and that they will be happy that they will cease to ever exist again so some mold can be fed or some random bullshit.
I use to be a huge Disney theme park fan, but the increasing nickle and dining throughout the years has really turned me off. I still deeply appreciate and admire the architecture and artistry of the parks, but I am not a fan of the direction of the company as a whole tbh.
I don’t have ADHD and it still sounds insane to me!
I live in the southern US and I see them daily. They seem to be more common than squirrels. They run away from you though so they don’t bother anyone. At my old apartment, there was a period of time somehow lizards kept getting inside my place. I kept trying to free them but I would accidentally kill them when trying to handle them. Another one I just tried to let live in my apartment, but he quickly died…presumably from not being able to find enough food and water. They are super fragile.
You can’t say you like literally any product on the internet otherwise people call you a corporate shill. It’s frustrating because people sometimes like things…that’s just the nature of life in general. Sometimes you like something that was made by a company and not just already existing in nature…
Reminds me though…I recently got called a “Russian bot” by someone on Lemmy recently. I was super confused because the content of the conversation had nothing to do with Russia or the war or Russian viewpoints or anything. It was so out of left field that I had no idea what they were talking about.
I hear this but I don’t understand. All diet soft drinks taste absolutely disgusting to me. I’ve had both Coke Zero and Diet Coke and both have that disgusting fake sugar aftertaste.
I either get non-Diet soft drinks or I go flavored sparkling water. I can’t do that fake sugar shit. It’s nasty.
But the one exception for me is that I put fake sugar in my coffee. The bitter aftertaste of the coffee helps mask the aftertaste of the fake sugar.
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Omg hope she ended up healing up ok after a while. I know I’ve heard after a break that people don’t necessarily always fully heal which sucks.
That’s where I’ve always been confused. Every living being wants to propogate their species through innate biological urges and behaviors, whether they realize it or not. Obviously humans recognize these behaviors and are able to choose whether or not to actually have children or to simply act on these urges without procreating (condoms, birth control, etc.). But the innate biological inclinations are still there.
It’s odd for me because I’ve never had these urges or inclinations for sex. Sometimes it makes me feel like I’m not human or something. Because every living being seems to experience this. Even when I discovered the concept of asexuality, I found that a very significant number of these individuals either oddly still had a sex drive or they were sexually traumatized in some way which blocked it. I have never had a sex drive and was never sexually traumatized. I was not a “late bloomer”, as I’m in my 30s with the same lack of normal human feelings.
I find it incredibly interesting that people knew the always wanted things like that…a spouse, a grand wedding, children of their own. I don’t think I’ve ever really thought that way about those things.
I’m really sorry that you’ve had to carry this for so long. You have to remember that you were in an absolutely terrifying, unprecedented situation. I had my first experience with a relatively “minor” natural disaster last year and I was awed at how quickly things broke down into feeling mildly apocalyptic. I was one of the lucky ones and even then I was stressed the fuck out. I cannot imagine the sort of extreme levels of chaos and stress that you were going through…day by day not knowing what the next will bring.
You were young, practically still a child, and probably scared even if you don’t remember being scared. Things went sideways and someone died. The very fact that you feel such remorse for someone you didn’t know is a huge thing. If you didn’t care about this man, I would say there might be something wrong with you. But you care and you know that it was a big deal. This event didn’t happen because you are some bloodthirsty maniac, but rather because you were in a desperate situation. Should or could things have been done differently? I mean maybe. But no one can be certain and at this point it doesn’t matter if things should have been done differently. Because they occurred and that was that. Time has progressed forward.
I hope that if you haven’t already, that you find someone to talk to very deeply about this. Whether it’s a therapist or a close friend or someone. In doing so, there might be a way for you to eventually find peace.
Best of luck, friend.
I mean yeah, can be pricey, especially if you want all the features. But you can go bottom of the barrel bare bones basic shit and have it be not too much of an ordeal.
I bought my washer and dryer new and it totalled less than I paid for my cell phone lmao. They function just fine. I actually specifically didn’t want extra fancy features because it meant more ways to potentially break.
It could be that the first message was automated, but the second message was not.
It seems nowadays, when I get appointment reminder texts from various places, the initial text is automated. But then you can reply whatever you want and a human looks at the message and can respond to you.
I’m reminded of this classic from MadTV:
I feel you on that unfortunately. I think therapy works for people who are good at gaslighting themselves, but beyond that everyone is SOL. I also think it can be useful for very specific problems (like I had a friend who went because she had panic attacks) that are easy to identify. If you have more vague, nonspecific issues, then therapists are lost as to what to do and therapy itself becomes useless.
I’m gonna try again soon tho we’ll see.
Wow thanks I’m going to go cry now
Shitty. My supervisor is making my life a living nightmare. I can’t go to HR because people have done that before and nothing bad ever happens to her. All it does is makes my supervisor target you and try to get you fired. My supervisor is very careful to tip toe the line where she rarely has ever said anything egregious enough to be reported. It’s just incessant nitpicking and condescension and nothing I can do is ever right. It’s also not limited to me…she does it to everyone…but I have a tendency to get caught in her crossfire a bit more than some.
Problem is my one and only friend works there. I don’t want to leave my only friend. And my job field is so small that I would have to move hours away to get another job.
Literally everything else about my job is absolutely amazing. I get paid very well and get free food every day and everyone else is super nice. But I don’t know what the hell to do. I feel like I want to commit toaster bath.
What the fuck even is this? Does anyone have a source because I am horrified and entertained