Elite was the reason I stopped buying early access. $150 for beta that was over hyped.

she later told me that I was anti-authoritarian and more likely to do what I thought was right rather than what I had been instructed to do. I am still baffled to this day about how that is an undesirable attribute

It isn’t unless you’re a corporation trying to keep employees down.

Nah. Report it as spam. Still gets moved to your spam folder and if enough people do it, they’ll be flagged by default.

One of my previous jobs had an employee exercise room. Some people used it and management didn’t like that so they said we’re not allowed to use it during our shift and only after hours. It was a government position so we weren’t allowed to be in the building before or after our shift.

These places only use them to advertise to new employees how “friendly” they are.

Yup. I’m using the chargers from my old phone

Next they’ll removing the charging cable and send us just a fucking phone.

Oh you mean like google did? I was pretty surprised and disgusted they didn’t include a charging cable with my pixel 7. All I got was a 6 inch data transfer cable.

Too real

I used to browse it about 15-20 years ago.It used to be a good place to learn tricks about all sorts of electronics. I’m not sure exactly what happened but it was like a switch flipped and they got awful almost overnight. Probably bought out.

I’m thankful high profile people are starting to speak out about this. The more celebs that talk about it, the faster we can make positive change.

Yeah. I tried talking about once with my grandma because I had been failing college courses after my mom lied about vitamin pills and forced me to take them, (they were prozac) and it fucked with my brain chemistry so bad I couldn’t eat or sleep and the world felt like a dream where anything outside a small bubble simply didn’t exist to my brain. Like I could see it but my brain would not acknowledge it’s existence. The exact words I got back from her were “What such bullshit!” in a very angry tone.

I haven’t even been able to think about mentioning anything related to my anxiety and depression since then to anybody I know irl because I’m afraid of that response again. There’s a really bad social stigma in the states about only weak minded people have mental disorders and we can’t get the help we desperately need. It’s especially worse if you’re a male because then you’re not real man in the eyes of your peers. It makes trying to function at work nearly impossible, it makes trying to go out and do basic errands difficult, it makes keeping social relationships difficult. I’ve lost count of the friends I’ve lost contact with because all I want to do is just sit in a dark quiet room by myself most days. The isolation is crushing. I have a friend that keeps trying to get me to “come back” as it were and I’m trying, I really am but I struggle to find the energy to do so and I don’t know what to do anymore at 36 years old. Life gets just a little shitter every day and I already feel like I’m well beyond my breaking point and the only think keeping me going is fear of being homeless.

What is a new person supposed to do to learn then? I’ve been stuck trying to figure out what the 5-8 different services, frameworks, libraries, and IDEs all do and I feel very overwhelmed.

You unlocked some core memories I buried years ago

Got a Brother laser printer when I was still at home because I got tired of using the cheapo inkjet. Because everytime we needed something printed we’d have to run to the store and buy $50+ in black and color cartridges for 1 or 2 pages. I took my printer with me when I moved out and helped my parents pick out an identical printer because they liked mine so much lol.

Unfortunately my work put me in a position where there’s no good food nearby so I skipped that part only to find the next part asks about napping. Can’t really do that on the job either. Test seems nice if you’re already in a comfortable spot though.

I struggle with learning how to program because I keep losing focus on what the code I’m writing does. I’m not diagnosed but it sure sounds like ADHD to me.