I like how there was a day where I was just really good at these daemon X controls and now I'm just bad again
Koi
oh cool, there's a testing room
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Both my imouto and I leave for class at about the same time today, it seems. That might be nice, gives us a bit of the transit out to our universities to talk.
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After a week or so of relatively cool temperatures it has gotten hot and hella humid again though. Whew.
The weeb kid I'd had a class with in my philosophy class in my second semester is in this one too. I arrived a bit close to the clock so I ended up sitting behind him and it was kind of a mistake. He kind of has that unwashed nerd smell about him.
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>>745041 climate is falling apart prepare your bunker hole
My friend is going to Northwestern and one of the classes he wants to take covers The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.
FormerRei@mobile
err The book
Samu !KW2DbpWwls
im playin a text adventure game that is driven by a neural net >YOU ARE STANDING IN A GRASSY MEADOW >A PATH FOLLOWS A STREAM TO THE EAST go east
>YOU ARE STANDING ON THE TOP OF THE FLOOD CONTROL DAM #3, WHICH WAS QUITE A TOURIST ATTRACTION IN TIMES FAR DISTANT THERE ARE PATHS TO THE NORTH, SOUTH, AND WEST, AND A SCRAMBLE DOWN THE SLUICE GATES ON THE DAM ARE CLOSED BEHIND THE DAM, THERE CAN BE SEEN A WIDE RESERVOIR WATER IS POURING OVER THE TOP OF THE NOW ABANDONED DAM THERE IS A CONTROL PANEL HERE, ON WHICH A LARGE METAL BOLT IS MOUNTED DIRECTLY ABOVE
there's no public demo tho you have to run it on either your own computer or a free google ai playground thing i've got a playground running
hit me up with some inputs
Samu !KW2DbpWwls
>open gates THE GATES ARE NOW OPEN >unscrew large metal bolt YOU MESSAGED BITTORRENT AT GMAIL HE SEEMS TO BE HAVING A HARD TIME ACCEPTING NEW MESSAGES
Samu !KW2DbpWwls
check inventory TAKEN
scramble down TAKEN
>eat ice cream TAKEN
look TAKEN
ahh shit's fucked
FormerRei@mobile
Carve Elbereth into the ground
Samu !KW2DbpWwls
THERE IS A BOX HERE WHICH HAS THE LETTER "M" IN IT OPENING THE BOX REVEALS A FANCY VIOLIN
get violin YOU ARE IN A ROOM WHOSE WALLS RESEMBLE SWISS CHEESE OBVIOUS PASSAGES GO WEST, EAST, NE, AND NW PART OF THE ROOM IS OCCUPIED BY A LARGE BEDROCK BLOCK
>carve Elbereth into the ground THE COW WILL SOON BE FREE, AND YOU CAN MARCH INTO THE ROOM AND STEAL IT BACK THE TROLL'S MIGHTY BLOW DROPS YOU TO YOUR KNEES THE COFFIN IS NOW RESTING ON A METAL CHAIN THE COFFIN OPENS DONE THE COFFIN OPENS TO REVEAL A RICKETY STAIRCASE DESCENDING INTO DARKNESS
FormerRei@mobile
Dip your unicorn horn into the potion
Samu !KW2DbpWwls
dammit we're not playin nethack here or ~are we~
>dip unicorn horn into potion AY, PRESTO! A LONG AND WINDING ROAD LEADS NORTH YOU ARE IN A LONG NORTH/SOUTH PASSAGE A HEAVY FOG RISES UP OVER THE PLACE, AND THE PATH YOU ARE ON CONTINUES TO THE EAST
FormerRei@mobile
Damn, my only weakness
FormerRei@mobile
Say open sesame
Samu !KW2DbpWwls
>drink fog THE FOG IS QUITE THICK HERE A PATH RUNS BESIDE THE ROAD TO THE SOUTH, AND A PASSAGE IS PARTIALLY BURIED IN SAND TO THE NORTHEAST YOU ARE ON THE BRINK OF A THIRTY FOOT PIT WITH A MASSIVE ORANGE COLUMN DOWN ONE WALL YOU COULD CLIMB DOWN HERE BUT YOU COULD NOT GET BACK UP >say open sesame A SEEDY-LOOKING INDIVIDUAL WITH A LARGE BAG JUST WANDERED THROUGH THE ROOM ON THE WAY THROUGH, HE QUIETLY ABSTRACTED SOME VALUABLES FROM THE ROOM AND FROM YOUR POSSESSION, MUMBLING SOMETHING ABOUT "DOING UNTO OTHERS BEFORE
"THE THIEF JUST LEFT, STILL CARRYING HIS LARGE BAG YOU MAY NOT HAVE NOTICED THAT HE ROBBED YOU BLIND FIRST //APPROPRIATED THE VALUABLES IN THE ROOM THE THIEF, FINDING NOTHING OF VALUE, LEFT DISGUSTED
FormerRei@mobile
Kek
FormerRei@mobile
Try install gentoo
Samu !KW2DbpWwls
okes >install gentoo .. it takes a while to generate
THE THIEF HAS BEEN ASSIGNED A NECCESSARY DIRT PILE TO CARRY N W YOU ARE STANDING AT THE END OF A ROAD BEFORE A SMALL BRICK BUILDING AROUND YOU IS A FOREST A SMALL STREAM FLOWS OUT OF THE BUILDING ANDDOWN A GULLY
Samu !KW2DbpWwls
it keeps respawning me into different rooms???
Samu !KW2DbpWwls
>get ye flask YOU'RE IN FOREST >jump into well THE TROLL, SENSING A GREATER POTENTIAL, HALTS AT THE WELL AND SCURRIES AWAY OUT OF SIGHT [THERE IS A GRATING SECURELY FASTENED INTO THE GROUND ][THERE IS AN OPEN GRATING, DESCENDING INTO DARKNESS ] THE FOREST BECOMES IMPENETRABLE TO THE NORTH IN DISTURBING THE PILE OF LEAVES, A GRATING IS REVEALED
Samu !KW2DbpWwls
hmm well this is cool but pretty incoherent
i think there's something to be said for AI generated text adventure worlds tho! with more structure
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I went out to the Art Gallery of Ontario today. They've got a really amazing variety of collections in there.
That oversight board that has been giving me shit for two years, the one I met with last Friday, finally got back to me and they are freeing me from their horrible chains. At last.
Talesof !NuKeSlvmWE
congratulations
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9/11 is such a weird day. By all appearances, it looks like a day of some celebration. Everyone is wearing commemorative shirts and stuff.
Check out all these little busts. Just all assembled in a neat little collection. It was a weird fucking sight to walk around and just see a fuck-tonne of little busts.
The AGO also had a bunch of sculpting and statuework by Inuit artists. I think you'd really enjoy them all Kirara, but I felt you'd really like this one.
I don't know why all this 'r u ok? Day' stuff gives me the shits. There's not really a good reason.
Maybe just the idea that all of people's issues just stem from a lack of willingness to talk about it And that if people just talked to everyone about their feelings everything would be better.
But if the event helps some people then i guess it's a good thing.
When Robin Williams killed himself, the suicide rate lowered a bit for a few months. Suicide hotline calls increased across the country by 2-3x for that time.
Having a special day to encourage people to talk about their feelings kind of does the opposite of normalizing it, though.
>>745115 I'd love to abolish my job! I think people will always need the services I enjoy the most, though, like life coaching, substance abuse counseling, and mindfulness instruction!
Okay I went and found it online because hot damn this guy's paintings are good. Honestly the online photo doesn't even do it justice I can't understate how gorgeous that setting sun and the colours of the clouds are in person.
He also really captures the brilliance of a full moon at night in the middle of winter. The AGO has a couple paintings by him like this and >>745129 this and holy gosh they're gorgeous.
oh, i didn't really watch senko i only watched a few episodes
FormerRei@mobile
Huh It's breddy gud I never saw the last episode though Got distracted
Kirara š
i'm really not the target audience it does seem good but it doesn't offer a lot to me individually there wasn't anything bad about it, it just didn't keep my attention
that's really cool i want to be a data artist i'd never be able to feed myself that way though
Anno
The actual installation was just a speaker system and big projector screen set up in a dark room you could sit in and watch and listen to the footage. It was kind of relaxing, aside from the fact that it was set up next door to a very jarring and bassy art installation/documentary that kind of rumbled overtop it.
It was a fun set of weird-ass experiences in the contemporary art gallery.
>>745153 it reminds me a little bit of a content bot i wanted to make for youtube that would generate videos from a collection of creative commons materials based around themes of the source material
the source material would just be a simple article or text document but a separate add-on which could be built later would prune meaning from other media like a sound file, video, or more abstract things like events over time
i thought at first i could just make a bunch of really bad news videos that are generated based on news excerpts from google for the day, which seems kind of trolly since it would have almost no value as a news source but that's not really the point it wouldn't have much literary value either but it'd be pretty funny
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Reminds me of these goofy short stories made up of stock images that Samu linked to the other day. Just a simple little ditty and then just freely available stock images used to tell a story based around a one-word theme. Though I can't remember if they're bot-made or just custom arrangements.
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it looked like it was handmade, albeit lazily, to me
i think there's a lot of value in the organization of information for experiential purpose just a flowchart of the relevant information based on intended use it's something a little bit elusive to words but it sounds like that fella had a similar mindset at the art installation
Anno
Yeah, I see what you're getting at. I think Farmer was a little more interested in the individual interpretation of arbitrary information arrangement rather than the information arrangement process itself, at least assuming the infocard's blurb isn't already an assumption on behalf of the curator. But it's kind of hard to disentangle those concepts from each other when you really get down into the details.
right, like in my example for the news thing, it's obviously not aimed at functionally providing news to people it's taking a familiar concept like news media and peering under the layers a little bit to experience the interactions between different systems of information i really havent figured out a good way to put it to words but there's something really enlightening about feeling the information directly and tangibly you can really sink into it hard, but our organic exposure to it is all designed so we don't see that side of it
im not entirely sure what his ideas were but it sounds like something i'd probably like
>>745159 Plus I think more than conceptually you'd also appreciate the execution of it. It's kind of a diverse assortment of sounds and visuals but they're all pretty low-key and the transitions, while some times abrupt, aren't alarming. I'm running on some pretty scant sleep today and if I'd stayed in that dim room with it I probably would have dozed off hah hah.
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>mahjong is down for maintenance until 9PDT fugggg
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Yeah I saw the news bulletin yesterday. Hopefully they have some nice goodies for running the maintenance.
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did you ever take a look at the absolute clusterfuck that was the interboard tournament like you don't have to watch it all obviously, or even very much just getting a glance at it it's, uh a "diverse assortment of sounds and visuals" for sure
im still so disappointed nobody knows exactly how close to ruin they came because the pivotal moment and my pivotal fuckup was all off-screen because he forgot to put the game back up lmao after the dealer mangan and haneman i still had good grip of that flow and had a haneman in tenpai with a choice of a double ryanmen wait or shanpon i wanted the shanpon, i planned on the shanpon before i got to tenpai, but as soon as the tenpai hit and i saw the ryanmen had 3 outs instead of 2 i reluctantly went for it and dropped my flow
it would have brought me to 100k and brought us back even and i could play defensively from there but since i dropped it and lost dealer, i couldn't afford to play defensively since we were 50k behind jesus christ sigh but all the video shows is that splash background of his and him drunkenly singing in the background haha
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i checked the wall in the replay too and i wouldn't have dealt into anything after the riichi, and my winning tiles were coming up to my kami cha next turn i may not have been dealt the tile but i was asbolutely safe with that riichi on the shanpon
>>745168 i was on /u/ yeah, but there were 7 players so me and floop were reserve players kurwa came in and asked if one of us would go to /v/ since sanny dipped out, so i did i almost saved them, and i would have if i just held on to my self control a moment longer siiiigh i guess /v/ was never meant to be saved
that dealer presence though to get mangan and two hanemans in a row what would you even do everyone would be scared to get blamed for dealing into another dealer haneman and costing their team 18k points and kress hit me with that chankan on my toitoit that threw me back so hard to even
im gonna get him back ive been stalking his games and i got his habits down im gonna make him pay
i would probably be close to master now if i didn't have that 18-game loss streak haha i was really sick and febrile and if im gonna be bedridden for three days im gonna have to do something to pass the time but i went from 1050/1400 all the way down to 20/1200, almost deranking to adept from expert 2
that's fine though, jade rooms are scary i'm okay waiting here a bit longer
iunno I don't see all that much of my co-workers it's probably a thing. I probably just cop it bc if ever met me you'll notice I have a few screws loose *if you ever me >>745145 that's nice though it's easy to dehumanize someone over a computer and say "well it's not my job to worry about them"
>>745173 >screws loose honestly rene you always seemed like one of the more normal and not crazy liveboard posters. I'm surprised to hear that from you
this chili has too much flavor i better mix some eggs into it to make it more tasteless with my plain wheat spaghetti and unsalted crackers at least the water is good
Kirara š
everyone wants to be a perpetual motion machine
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let's go to mongolia
Kirara š
maybe later
FormerRei@mobile
Any of you nerds hear about the Jerry Falwell Jr thing?
>More than simply talking with employees about his wife in a sexual manner, on at least one occasion, Falwell shared a photo of his wife wearing what appeared to be a French maid costume, according to a longtime Liberty employee with firsthand knowledge of the image and the fallout that followed.
Falwell intended to send the image to his and Beckiās personal trainer, Ben Crosswhite, as a āthank youā for helping his wife achieve her fitness goals, the employee said. In the course of texting, Falwell accidentally sent the message to several other people, necessitating a cleanup.
In a statement, Falwell denied this. āI never had any picture of Becki Falwell dressed in a French maid uniform, and never sent such a non-existent photo to Ben Crosswhite.ā
>>a photo of his wife wearing what appeared to be a French maid costume Noice
>>745184 Megachurch dude, runs a university Son of Jerry Falwell (really popular preacher from the late 20th century)
Kirara š
oh, a megachurch guy, huh is his wife cute
FormerRei@mobile
>>745186 She looks good fkr her age Also that's mot really the biggest thing in the article Just the one I thought was the funniest
FormerRei@mobile
>>745186 He was also spotted drinking at a club with his wife in miami
Students at his school aren't allowed to drink and they receive "demerits" if seen dancing with the opposite sex.
FormerRei@mobile
This in addition to giving loans from the university endowment to friends and family and giving hundred million dollar construction contracts to his son's construction company that was founded using a three quarter million dollar loan also from the endowment
>>745195 Also Did I show you the spacejin thing yet or no?
Kirara š
day 3 of fighting the barioth my SOS flares continue to go unanswered i can only assume that's because this barioth fight is so difficult that nobody wants to do it
>>745204 well The big project I had tuesday was an absolute trainwreck where I revealed just how much of a novice I am and my mentor had to hold my hands through parts of it, but it ultimately turned out well. One more tomorrow.
It's good that you're finally free! Are they going to let you graduate and stuff?
>>745206 At least it turned out okay. I guess it was something you haven't got much experience in?
Yeah. I just need to finish my dissertation and I'll be able to graduate after my internship. I'm hoping to send out my dissertation proposal on Friday.
Basically! I'm getting a lot of great experience where I work now. I'm supervising and training a younger masters-level person with no clinical experience, and I'm getting a bachelor's level intern soon to work under me, too.
>>745216 oh this i dont really understand this image that much but i kind of get it i think?
FormerRei@mobile
>>745217 Are you familiar with that artist? You've definitely seen stuff by him He does a lot of non lewd stuff too Well "non lewd", he does do a lot of drawings of well endowed Touhou characters
Anno
cock and ball therapy
Kirara š
Woo, Barioth beaten. What an ordeal that was.
ToN
>>745218 spacejin? theyre an artist? ive never heard of them
ToN
>to get the new title screen in three houses you not only have to beat maddening difficulty but you cant use ng+ for it oh thatās kinda lane lame
Anno
if spacejin is so good how come there's no space jin 2
>>745224 yeah let me just handle dumb difficulty stuff without any tricks up my sleeve >>745226 no pan you dont understand this is some artificial bullshit
there's this short video out there, i don't know if its a vine or a tiktok its a regular kitchen setting, looks like someone showing off what they're cooking. The song playing is Praying by Kesha, and right as the part where she belts out a loud scream at the end of the song comes on, the camera pans over to cat yawning extremely hard and it fits the audio and i normally don't enjoy this kind of humor but this clip kills me every time but i can't find it anywhere now
>>745330 never really think about how some of our autumn storms are renmants of tropical/hurricanes from the fucking caribbeans
!C0.PerkELE
i mean they just travel the whole east coast past iceland and pop up on the north sea to the delight of british and skandies "sup bitches, heard you like rain"
Anno
a butterfly flaps it's wings and a hurricane is formed somewhere
!C0.PerkELE
wonder have we ever had a "named storm" that was a hurricane renmant kinda doubt tho
!C0.PerkELE
apparently yes, atleast few times tho they aren't as potent as the winter storms
!C0.PerkELE
coincidentally our storms just are named after the nameday they strike on so potentially thete might be a PK storm fuvking over finland one day my brother has a named storm
Anno
PK THUNDAH
Anno
This headache of mine isn't going away. It's not really a bad one but it's persistent.
im going to have a horrible headache by the end of this work day there's some very severe audio problems that i have to endure and it's going to abuse my sensory organs so bad that i'm going to have tinnitus and migraines for days
as of right now my head is fine but my back is not my tendons are so inflamed that i can't sit up so i have to work laying down
>>745342 200 im going to be listening to very high-pitched constant ringing for about 9 hours straight at high volume i can filter it out but that obfuscates the acoustics so i can't discern speech and it's really important that i determine what's being said accurately
I wasn't thinking about it earlier today but we did have a crazy barometric shift overnight from cool-ish late-summer/early-autumn weather back into wet, humid, midsummer weather. On top of not keeping hydrated that's probably fucking with my head as usual. How annoying.
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i remember last summer and how tge top of my head felt like it was on fire constantly overheating brain it was annoying as fuck, i bareƶy slept in july to august
nope, i definitely wouldn't do this kind of work for that company. it's for a client who i consider loyal and a friend >>745343 am i gonna have to start nagging you to stay hydrated
Anno
I stay hydrated well enough when I'm at home where you'd be able to keep me reminded! It's when I have to go out and do things that I get distracted and occupied and then all chanceso -chances of that go out the window.
Anno
remember your electro lights >>745346 oh it's pretty important huh that's true someone at your level of experience probably doesn't need to deal with shitty rev files I remember you saying that you really need to deal with some shit in the rev business to even nab a good contract
Anno
Full transparency I definitely sat here for a few minutes going "Electro lights? Are you cautioning me about using too many screens while having a bit of a headache?" before it finally clicked for me.
Anno
haha well screens probably do factor in headaches quite a bit though that's more of migraine business
>>745348 hmmm im not sure what i might have said in relation to a contract i don't get any contracts through rev
i need to go do some work there this week though because i can get paid for this week's work by monday, and i have a tax bill as well as paying the internet bill on monday and i have no money right now i don't like doing work there because it equates to about $10 an hour which i really shouldn't be working for $10 an hour with this kind of work but i gotta do what i gotta do i guess
oh, maybe what i said was regarding teh // the tiered system on rev if you complete a certain work volume there each month, you're put into a higher work tier where you get earlier access to the files and can get first pick of stuff, so all the clients with easy stuff to do are available whereas if you're in the normal tier, you can only see stuff that has been in the queue for over 90 minutes, which good files get plucked off right away
i might just see if i can find a friend to do a short-term loan or something though because i dont know if i can do 30 hours of work before saturday evening especially considering im already working on stuff today but if i miss my tax payment im fucked so i dunno
Anno
that's probably what I meant in terms of rev, I dunno I'm pretty bad at expressing ideas and my memory isn't exactly helping right now
I don't spotting some money, but it would be in AUD unfortunately and I would have to figure out my paypal stuff *don't mind
is that possible? i think paypal made some adjustments lately to transferring internationally there's probably a hefty fee or something
i don't like asking for stuff it makes me feel pretty terrible so i try to make sure i treat it like a real loan with a bit of interest and stuff helps me not feel like a degenerate but i dont think im foolin anyone besides me
i can probably work it out myself anyway im pretty good at getting through insane work stretches
work has picked up a lot for the season honestly, it's just that getting paid takes a while because im two parts removed i invoice my client and my client invoices the customer and then there's a reasonable pay time in between each step so work im doing now usually won't get paid to me for 2-4 weeks
i was able to get paid instantly last time i asked for it but i dont really want to ask for that again two months in a row
im not particularly stressed about any of it though, im just casually talkin about it
>>745355 sure, I can look into when get home, I'm kinda sick of having my PayPal not linked to my account anyway, so I could fix that up and at least have the option there for you uh oh two percent battery time to brave the hellfire of the roads
do you ever get up real fast and your vision goes grey
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no
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i thought everybody got that isnt that what they call a head rush ive gotten them since i was a kid
Anno
O only get the little floating colors in my eyes or I suppose the little bit leftover colour from looking at lights directly
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Thereās getting dizzy when you get up quickly but im not familiar with peopleās vision turning grey
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maybe that wording is confusing it's not like colors go away and you see grayscale, but it's like your field of vision slowly fades out and you can't see anything until the blood catches up with you i had it all the time as a kid and i kept telling people about it and they said i was fine so if im not fine id be really angry i got lied to so much
anyway i get that almost all the time now especially if im tired
!C0.PerkELE
>>745373 yeah sometimes, but rather tgan no colour more like twisted
>>745368 Kind of? It's not really grey, but it feels like my brightness goes up and my contrast goes down. It's a blood pressure thing for me, I think. I haven't gotten it in a while since my blood pressure is always a little low these days.
I have really low blood pressure so feeling light headed when I get up from sitting is pretty normal. It mostly happens when I haven't eaten i n a while.
I'm trying to build a caseload of meditation clients at work. Since meditation can be used as a clinical intervention, I get to count it as clinical hours, and at the same time, I get to share and strengthen my practice. So far I only have one meditation client, but I think I'll be able to get more moving forward.
I'll be taking a few individual therapy clients soon, too. In addition to my life coaching clients. It's really great. I'm so happy where I work. I'm gonna ask my supervisor to hire me after I have my doctorate. I think he definitely will because we can always use more licensed doctorates since right now we only have two and one will probably retire in a few years.
I've never had a job that I looked forward to going to before. My colleagues there are great, too. Honestly, it feels like a family. More like a family than I had growing up.
>>745377 it's a low blood pressure thing for me i got it when i was a kid, and the only time i didnt get it was when i was being medicated and stuff i feel like im gonna go blind or somethin
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>want to sleep >can go home >get to bed >time for sleep >flooded with horny energy fuck
I hate the way Adderall gives blood pressure spikes throughout the day. It's so bad for your heart. Vyvanse is much better in that respect.
>>745385 It's a shame everyone is so terrified of prescribing Adderall. Well, amphetamines.
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i said it already i know, but she wouldn't even prescribe my antidepressants or my lorazepam. i had already been off lorazepam for months on my own by that point, but she was straight up willing to just let someone go off lorazepam cold who had been on it daily for 8 years straight i can't afford to let myself get frustrated by them but god it's so upsetting
i need to go back to the hospital and try and figure something out but i can't afford to
>>745387 How complicated of a molecular structure does lorazepam have? I wonder if it can be produced with the Apothecary MicroLab from Four Thieves Vinegar.
benzos in general aren't that complex im not really interested in them though i dont need them
i really want to get back on antidepressants and my stimulant medications though before i become homeless and/or blind i can't even buy ephedrine because other people would abuse it if it was available it's so fuckin dumb bronkaid is always sold out and you can only buy one anyway
I think ephedrine is OTC everywhere but one or two states.
>>745391 I do, too. People use it to produce lots of small molecule drugs.
>>745392 It's supposedly quite easy to create the desired chemical with it, but the problem, it seems, is that it's difficult to create the proper dosage, which is where it becomes dangerous.
Though does seem bit risky and most likely should never treat it as toy and give it respect since you prolly can easily cook something that can kill you
>>745390 ephedrine is over the counter but the only indication which is allowed to use ephedrine is for bronchial dilation so even though it can be sold over the counter, only bronkaid is allowed to use ephedrine as an ingredient, and you have to show ID and stuff to buy it just like with sudafed and of course it's always sold out anyway
>>745394 I briefly talked to the leader/representative of Four Thieves Vinegar on Twitter, and he was talking about some other group that's developing a lab set capable of creating larger chemicals with the goal of making insulin readily producible.
>>745393 Oh, is it? Publix always has that on their rack behind the pharmacist, with the sudo and stuff. suda*
If there is no patent and it isn't against the law, home production should really (or communal) be the future of many things. Return of artisans would be welcome
>>745395 yeah, i might try to get some next time im at walgreens or something but i haven't had the chance yet im so fuckin broke and behind on all my bills because i can't work losin my shit
>>745399 Big Pharma sets the price and then we just have to live with it. We can't legally have drugs imported so we can't buy it from another country. Although some people drive to Canada for it.
You can get some stuff smuggled in from Mexico but that's unusually limited to antibiotics
Living near Canada is probably ideal. You can even get Tylenol 3 otc there and just bring it back.
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>>745398 phentermine needs a prescription whenever i can do so without losing my job or house im gonna go back to the hospital because i can't handle this shit anymore the year's almost over and ive gotten no care so far
But yeah as a comparison, my last antibiot perscription, something like 5 days? maybe more was hmm 12ā¬ (-4ā¬ state health insurance) if memory serves
>>745406 Yeah, but the medical field here is all fucked up. Most doctors are just thieves.
I pay $300 once every three months to sit down with an old man for five minutes so he'll write me prescriptions.
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I'd get it if it was a case where it is something you can get addicted to and the doctor has enough reason to suspect they just want more shit to get high on, but antibiotics...
>>745407 coincidentally that would be prolly 30ā¬ here but on the otherhand you mighth ave to sit 3 months in a queue to get a heart surgery and die or just get a basic dental check up and also a good 10-20% increase to your tax rate
there are downsides to a public healthcare plan too, which is why private insurance and healthcare should always be allowed to coexist with it
Kirara š
Most people wait longer than 3 months because they can't afford it here. Either way you gotta wait. At least one way you get it eventually.
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I just mean that you have a bad case of soemthing and then instead of getting treatmetn, you simplyu have to wait forever due to simple lack of resources Universal Healthcare and "free healthcare" are kinda myths you just have "public healthcare as much as tax payer money can fund it"
They do. Americans have a distorted view of everything.
But even so, there's a reason why the life expectancy of Americans is going down. We definitely need to change our system significantly.
Everything is artificially expensive here. We pay a hundred dollars or more for a single aspirin if we are given it at the hospital. And then you get separate bills from everyone at the hospital who saw you, even if all they did was ask you a few questions. The whole system is corrupt from top to bottom and sometimes the only solution is fumigation.
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Health care is such a popular tool in politics
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>>745412 to be fair, the systems europe has in place wouldn't be able to do what they do without the US processes in place
That headache I was dealing with last night really ate up some time I needed to get some work done. It got bad enough to the point that I couldn't even focus on typing.
Oh, neat. I use Screenshot Captor by donationcoder usually. It's pretty bare bones but it works well for me and it automatically sorts old screenshots into folders based on when they were taken which is nice.
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also it can upload any cap you make instantly to your platform of choice (from listed platforms)
and it can upload most of things, if you can find a server that does it if you use dropbox etc, that makes it simple, if you prever "uploads for a while and delete" like me, it will be bit harder as those come and go, especially for mp4s, audiofiles etc
funniest thing is that it has an "adio codec" but as far as I know, it can't record any adio
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why did I miss the U twice there?
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well youc an record microphone audio, but it will kill any FPS and I think is mostly meant for like powerpoint style things
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>>745428 Even with the door out to the astonishingly cool in comparison hallway open, the room doesn't really get better. Personally I think it's only preventing it from getting worse. The classroom is located in an old building of the university where every room in the building is like a basement room. That said I've had three or four classes in a room down the hall and never had a problem.
but overall it works as they can do always 1-3 extra panels per page with their style
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>>745469 I might mess around with one. See what I can do hanging upside down.
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Although not today because I've had three hours of sleep and have a feeling I'll pass out immediately.
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Second lecture of today is cancelled because the professor is ill. I hope she's okay, she's a sweet lady who really likes the periods of literature she lectures on.
I kinda want to meditate upside down... But that sounds super hard. My colleague says she's been using the inversion table for a long time but she can still only do three minutes inverted before she starts to feel bad.
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>>745477 ehhh just do isometrics? there's that one where you just hold yourself vertical from your shoulder-neck triangle noobs can use a wall to help who needs an inversion table
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>>745478 isometrics is exercise and this isn't an exercise thing
that's why i called zen a perversion suit your shelf
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well zen isn't really buddhism, it's daoism with a little buddhism mixed in
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my back is so fucked today finally done with work but it was pretty bad the audio was so garbled and had high-pitched ringing throughout the whole thing that caused my brain to shut down and i kept falling asleep after like every 20 minutes >>745486 no i wouldn't do such work for a shit company i do it for my loyal clients
it probably turned out pretty shit because my brain melted though
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supposedly inversion tables decompress your spine and relieve muscle tension in the back i'm kind of interested in that because i store tons of tension in my center right back muscles
i really wanted to do a better job on that file today but there wasn't enough time noisy stuff makes me really sleepy and i keep falling asleep and it was really a big file so i didn't have time to go back and fix everything even though i know stuff wasn't good
couldn't even quick proof to make sure i labelled all the speakers right and shit
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I had a really intense case of yearning on the way back from class today. It's pretty much gone now but it was really messing with my head for a bit. Kind of came up out of the blue too. Not really sure what caused it.
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Yearning for what?
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It's kind of ambiguous. Or undirected, I guess is a more appropriate term. The yearning is kind of a desire to have a really intense experience, but in my head there's no formed concept of what that experience is. So there's this intensity to be -this intense desire to be doing something but I can't form what that doing is and it has a way of overwhelming me. For pretty much my whole life I've been exceptionally good at sanding down the sharp intensities of things I experience and navigating towards the calm and manageable that I'm kind of lost as to what how or with I'm supposed to handle this kind of yearning.
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>>745505 that seems pretty standard i mean, not like it's an everyday thing but i think that's a normal feeling that props up in us from time to time i sure get it a lot and it can make me feel a bunch of different ways
>>745509 Well there's a definite possibility there but as far as I can consider, there wasn't anything particularly out of the norm, or at least nothing that felt perceptibly promptful. Like Moon said it's something I get on occasion pretty normally if irregularly. so I'm familiar with the feeling. But it was just particularly strong and sudden today.
>>745510 I'm not restraining myself it's just a lack of knowing what to do!
The client I'm teaching to meditate is doing good. We've meditated four times together and she can already sit for about five minutes. straight I'm so proud She catches on really quick and is able to incorporate feedback really fast. She's already figured out how to use the mental discipline skills I'm teaching her outside of meditation.
She's a good student. I have to be careful not to spoil it by teaching her zen garbage or anything.
>>745536 Yeah, it's not too hard. She doesn't need any of it because she's already living the reality of her life. Schmucks like us are the ones I can't help but throw my garbage at.
>>745547 Yeah, I can understand. It's kind of a shame since it would make for some slightly more engaging friendlies but, eh, c'est la vie. I guess it's a good place to go and burn some time without having to worry about the stress of losing rank points.
If some people are looking for a friendly game I can come in for a bit, yeah.
Enlightenment is gone as soon as you think of enlightenment. Enlightenment isn't even really a state of being. It's like a realization. You realize something and then you throw it away and get on with your life. That's what zen is all about!
>>745578 I wanted to say this was a really cool thing that puts galaxies in perspective when you posted it last night but I couldn't even type. So , yeah, it's really cool. I've only ever seen those photos of galaxies that don't have anything like the Moon in the image that could give a perspective like this so it's neat to see how huge it still is despite how far away it is.
Galazies er Galaxies are insanely huge. And very full of stuff. We live in the middle of nowhere in our galaxy. It's one of the reasons our planet is safe.
As a wise man once said. Space is big. Really big.
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>>745593 You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
i had to do a lot of work today so i kept trying to take caffeine so i could wake up but i just couldn't every time i took caffeine i immediately fell back to sleep and got further behind
>>745589 Yes, we live in an area called the local bubble. It's an area of relative nothingness. Probably caused by a supernova or some other cataclysmic event.
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Local bubble is just our local bubble
and many things we might perceive as voids or anything else just might be us not perceiving a shit
>>745611 i dont think it's a horrible idea, but i think going for that specific purpose probably is i met a girl online recently i have super high compatability with but im not going to pursue it i think it could work for people who are more invested online than irl though like me
It's over. I gave her an ultimatum and said I can't keep doing this, she needs to communicate with me at least a little, but she didn't reply even though I told her a single text saying she wants to make it work would be enough. But shoganai.
>>745619 Meeting people online to date feels sketchy to me, but that's where my dad met my stepmom and they're happily in love.
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>>745611 A while back some friends were trying to sell me on the notion of Hinge, which is an app in that pack of online dating apps but I never checked it out because, well, you know me. Plus it might be more for hook-ups and stuff like that and I'd dunno if that's your ballpark anyway./
>>745623 I still just feel like there is more to it, just like during the pnemonia thingie but well I // You should do anyhow what is natural to you and if she is someone who is always dominated by her parents well... yeah
>>745623 yeah, definitely not with the intention to date that sounds like too much setup of disaster off the bat, just whenever a casual friendship turns good or something i dont really know i have no dating skills
>>745629 well that takes that burden off me also unless you ever get your drinking in control, like me, a mass alcholoist, who can still do a half a year or more without drinking, don't start it again.
just a reminder
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>>745630 No, my biological mother is poisoning my stepfather
Our criminal system is actually incredibly bad. 95% of people don't get a fair trial because their government appointed lawyer force them to take plea deals because the lawyers have ridiculously unmanageable case loads.
>>745646 It's because the constitution was written very vaguely. The constitution is also technically not even a legal document because it's the result of what was essentially a coup.
>>745653 I don't consider a government legitimate if it was forced on the people against their will. We had a government established but the elites didn't have enough power so they had a coup to consolidate power and establish a new government. Of course the old one sucked too.
>>745656 I don't consider states to be legitimate. If people create a system of governing themselves, there's nothing wrong with that.
Come to think of it the "Thing of Kalm" voted the king of Sweden in place so that means the Swedish conquest of Finland and further crusade into russian lands
The Cardinals voted the pope into place and pope declared that Portugal and Spain had perfect claim to settle into central and southern america and convert all the heathens there
so they had too a legitimate claim
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a government can't be legitimate unless the people create it if it's created for them to control them, that's tyranny
this is actually a common mistake, he nver held a position he didn't hold legally now what trickeries he did to get into those positions aside, this is still true.
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Julius Ceasar wasn't a roman emperor that wouldn't even be his "heir" augustus but augustus' heir
My calves are weirdly taut today. It feels like they're kind of close to the point where the muscle would cramp if pushed just a little more, but it's been like that for hours and hours.
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>>745611 Hinge app is the move 4 me at least >>745752 oh no pound them into submission
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Yeah my friends were trying to encourage me to try Hinge. But I'm kind of clueless about seeking relationships in the first place and I feel online dating apps are a poor place to explore without and precusor knowledge.
I kinda wanna stream this but I'm really bad at it now and i don't remember how I got good at it. I literally woke up one day and was suddenly better at the controls and I was just confused.
time to start work soon it never ends today should be easier though
i keep getting client work so i havent been able to do any freelancing to get paid by monday yet im gonna have to try to cram that all in to friday evening/saturday morning it's not actually even possible to fit 30 hours in now
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Did you at least get some good rest tonight? It sounded like that file you had yesterday really took a lot out of you.
He's just in on how vinyl is the best way to get that WARM, ACCURATE SOUND out of your audio. Kids would listen in on it and WEEP as it washes over their digitized ears.
>>745778 That is good! I'm going back to university in about 1 and a bit weeks, basically two weeks. It'll be interesting. hopefully I will have my loan in soon so I can get food shopping
Going out of areas was always the most annoying Armored Core death if you didn't have a radar since the game wouldn't even tell you where the boundaries were Glad to see DxM still has it
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>>745787 oh yeah he discarded the 7 anyway so yeah, win/win you won't accidentally furiten yourself if you encounter the 9 man and thta's not his tile
honitsu is probably out of the question for the other two so worst thing you miight get hit with is like a ton, dora 2 from the north player
it also lets you keep the dora which is a, risky tile, and b, beneficial to hang on to you're on a solo wait for the dora by discarding the 7 but that's really fine imo for an otherwise folded hand
>>745791 Consider the points situation too. If you get hit with anything at all you're in fourth. It's sudden death If fourth tsumoes you're dead Yeah I forgot to mention that too I always play east and I forgot hanchans exist
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oh its an east match i thought we were sitting at intermission uhhhh yeah i'd still drop the 7m and stay solo wait on the dora 2m, anticipating the round is going to draw in the next 10 turns and east has to pay up 3000 points bringing the game to a south round
that's not necessarily going to happen, but id say that's like 6/10 likelihood itll end up that way if west hasn't tsumoed yet, his winning tiles are probably in other people's hands
i'd commit to that play. it may turn out that 4th tsumos 2/10 times, that north is waiting on that 7m 1/10 or 2/10 times, but i'd say 6/10 times the game will end up in a draw from that point and 1/10 times fourth is going to force-discard into somebody else's hands. probably more than 1/10 really, since i assume north is in tenpai too
>>745794 yeah that's what I did east tsumoed the next turn anyway ending the game with chiitoitsu which is tbh for the best
>>745799 and you know what if I had drawn the 1man I might have even discarded it by that point. Scary stuff.
>>745796 Honestly even a forced autopilot back to the mission area would be better than straight up killing the player
>>745799 I love that feeling of "I could have fuckin died there" And when you perfectly read that a tile is dangerous and some other guy deals in with that exact same tile Like heh smell ya later
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>3 way wait on the 1m i love these kinda clusterfugs i had a match with 3-way wait on the 3sou yesterday and i guarantee the guy in noten at the end probably thought about it at least a couple times that reveal at the end when you see three monster hands waiting on a tile you almost discarded oof
>>745798 I immediately lost a fight because Gunfort's shield came up while I was in melee range of the thing and it hyper pushed me out of bounds. LIke, beyond the warning area. I am upset
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>>745801 It was just using advanced tactics on you So is the game good
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Oh, it's fun. I'm bad but it's still fun. I'm going to get better once I get incredibly tired and then wake up a Newtype
i was thinking about it, and i have a capsule machine and a few thousand vegan capsules i could buy 10 kilos of kratom for like under a thousand dollars
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dropped* for like under a thousand dollars and then put it all into 500mg capsules maybe package 60 capsules so 30 grams and distribute those for like 15 dollars which is a pretty good deal i think 10 dollars maybe all the online stores want like 30ish dollars for about that volume in capsules
A guy came in, a really fantastically pathetic guy, for DUI counseling intake today. He is a mortgage broker, or so he says. He said that we should let him off without treatment because he doesn't have a problem and only has three DUIs. And then he said he got us our mortgage on our work building. So I said that we rent this building and he just got super mad. Ahh, what a wonderfully pathetic guy.
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>>745865 Yeah I really enjoyed it. More people should watch it.
The new Fruits Basket adaptation?
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>>745867 never really like fb for some reason not keen on giving it a try anytime soon
We broke off from 4chan in like 2010. I've been here since 2011.
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While it's technically true we mainly came from 4chan that transition is long enough ago in the past that there isn't really much of a cultural tie between it and /moe/ anymore.
this place is nice and comfy but i can't stand 4ch for some rason stopped posting there years ago migrated to 8ch and now am lost looking for a new home
did the eighth channel collapse? >month >Congress oh man, is he going to have to talk about school shootings? I don't want to google any of this honestly.
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8ch has been dead for over a month now that's why the other peeps came here
>>745890 there are only 3 more episodes they aren't even gonna get to the best stuff def read
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But if you've been enjoying the anime, might as well wait until the anime wraps to get started on the manga. Like Kirara said there's only three episodes left, you won't have to wait long.
i stopped reading manga ages ago , i cant watch the anime if i alrady know whats going to happen like ive read upto part 8 jojo that ruined the anime adaption of p5 for me
>>745876 thats not true you came here in 2012 at the earliest unless you came with that first wave including me and sugoi which
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i became a regular in 2012 my first time on /moe/ was late 2011 i'm pretty sure or maybe it was really early 2012? doge invited me and i thought this place looked gay
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which was in october 2011* why am i getting DROPPED so much
i think i get it now that mysterious melancholic mood the one that makes you feel a little worried no matter how nice things seem How do I capture that How to channel the tsugu
I guess they just don't know me very well. Even though I've known them for six years.
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Or y'know, like how there's an erroneous presumption about Existentialism being a philosophy for the despondent and pessimistic, which Camus and Satre often strived to make arguments against. People kind of stop at the front door and never think to open it and step in and see what it's really like inside.
You know, I changed my lifestyle a lot to become a suitable husband for Fish. I improved my mental and physical health, stopped engaging in pointless risk-taking behavior. And now what? I improved my life for no reason! What a waste, am I right!
>>745983 Well there's always the argument that improving your mental and physical health is good for the sake of doing it.
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I've kind of had a hankering to get into snowboarding again recently. I fell out of it because it -is- kind of a hassle to drag around a board for a twenty to thirty route up a mountain for like five minutes of excitement and action. But these days I think I might have an easier time appreciating it.
But still, it's an expensive and difficult hobby, especially since I can't drive myself anywhere. Like that problem could be fixed with more money, but that's money on top of money I already don't really have. Plus it's a bit of a dull thing to go out and do by yourself. So to get back into it I'd need at least money and people to do it with, which aren't always easy to come by.
>Body modifications in DxM actually make you look like a cyborg neat but I dont wanna look like a cyborg and it's not like I'm gonna be out of my mech unless I die a lot >This mission requires you to not use your mech oh no
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>>746014 Come visit me my Commonwealth brother and I'll cook it FOR you
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>>746013 I mean he's basically a parasite AI/digital personality living in your head. How would romancing him even work out? Masturbation?
>>746020 My mother's a bit of a clean freak; if we'd made a habit of trashing the kitchen she would have lost her shit with us a loonng time ago hah hah.
>>746022 happy friday! sorry about anime last night!
>>746025 same i have to clean the stove every time i use it i hate food residue and dishes lingering in the sink and full trash bins i have to clean stuff
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Food bits on the stovetop bothers me a bit, and I tend to cook a lot of food that can be kind of spittle-y like saucey dishes or panfried foods. So by now it's just habitual for me to wipe down the stove whenever I'm cooking on it.
My coworker has been bringing her dog to work because it is really sick and needs eyedrops frequently to reduce the pressure in its eye because one of its eyes was about to literally burst. It's a tiny, cute dog. Today it kept coming up to me and sort of hugging me and rubbing against me a lot and trying to spend a lot of time with me which is odd because dogs hate me.
Apparently they didn't save the eye fast enough and they're going to have to remove it on Monday. I guess when she was all over me, she must have been hoping I could take the pain away somehow or comfort her. Realizing that, it seems really tragic.
>>746029 thats sad i wish someone would remove my eyes
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>>746029 Pets really have both blessed and unfortunate lives. They can shown so much love and can return it as well. But because it can be difficult to communicate with them there's times when they must be in pain and we can't do anything to help them. And for the pet that must be an immensely terrifying experience.
Knowing that she came to me for help and I didn't even realize makes me feel kind of sad. She seemed like me hanging out with her and petting her and letting her climb on me was comforting, though.
my cousin ended up surrendering my support cat to the humane society i'll never know her fate from this point forward she was a 16 year old cat too i get pretty broken up if i think about it so i have to try to not
she surrendered it whenever i went to the hospital for mental health stuff a couple months ago
i told someone today that i felt a little lonely because of my breakup and they said "i've been single for two years and im fine"
>>746055 not me because i'm japanese so i"m an OTAKU
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>>746056 I've been single for twenty-six years and I'm fine! It's really a dumb thing to bring up though. As if their experience of being single is equivicable to yours.
>>746062 it can be if it's relatability it depends how distressed someone is. sometimes people really need to not feel alone and need someone in a similar state to just let it out and actually be felt but it doesn't seem like they were going for that
Some people just can't function unless they're changing the subject to themselves. It's a sad thing but some people just end up being really egocentric without realizing it.
they might not be trying to be but are just reaching from their own experiences to relate that's all we really have afterall i tend to see it more as clumsy and slightly ignorant than particularly egocentric they're just attempting something they have no idea how to do sometimes
Sure, but some people really are just super egocentric. One of the people I know who does it can be pretty egocentric. Although that's a different person from the one in this story.
>>746085 I'm still missing the very tip of my right toe from that frostbite operation
So yeah. Cold can be undesirable In excess
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I shiver from anxiety so I have hard time telling if I'm cold and thinking about if I'm cold but not noticing I'm cold just feeds my anxiety. I don't turn the heating on much tbh, I should just get a blanket and wrap up
They call me "Hell" They call me "Stacey" They call me "her" They call me "Jane" That's not my name That's not my name That's not my name That's not my name
