• hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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    2011 months ago

    What is it about journalism that if you pursue it you only get a job given you’re the most insuferable person on earth?

    • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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      11 months ago

      People basically have to be nepobabies to get a job in journalism to begin with, and then they either need familial wealth to survive on the shit wages and instability or they need to become SEO grifters churning out huge volumes of vapid slop. Those material conditions strongly bias them towards being insufferable in one way or another, whether that’s the out of touch upper/upper middle class failson coming through or the grifter grindset mentality consuming them.

  • MaoTheLawn [any, any]
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    1911 months ago

    I did this by accident when I was 15. 9 hour flight. Solo. Films didn’t download on my phone. Very cheap airline.

    I got thirsty, they said they only take cash. I didn’t have any cash. So they said I can only have a cup of boiling water.

    Fun times.

    • LaughingLion [any, any]
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      511 months ago

      wtf did they also make you drink the boiling water by catching it in your open mouth as they tossed it in your face?

    • Chronicon [they/them]
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      1311 months ago

      I got thirsty, they said they only take cash. I didn’t have any cash. So they said I can only have a cup of boiling water.

      gui-better

      I’ve taken a couple dogshit flights (redeye across the US in a tiny regional jet, in a little seat I didn’t fit in, with no headrest on a budget airline) but zero water is way over the line. Even the aforementioned one, probably my worst, they gave me a tiny little cup of water once or twice

      • MaoTheLawn [any, any]
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        411 months ago

        It was insane. I only got the boiling water because I demanded that it was my legal right. Total fuckers.

  • Egon [they/them]
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    2011 months ago

    We used to lay on grass hills and stare at the clouds, now I die if I have to be alone with my thoughts for an hour

      • Egon [they/them]
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        211 months ago

        I’m pretty sure it’s just because I blast my brains with instant gratification from my phone all day. I didn’t have internet for a week and felt much better.
        Isn’t dysphoria body-based?

        • Findom_DeLuise [she/her, they/them]
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          211 months ago

          Body-based, but you don’t necessarily recognize it as such. It’s more a sense that something is off or wrong and you may not even be able to articulate it if you have any mental barriers preventing you from questioning things that you feel are tied up heavily within your own sense of self. Most people do.

          For me at least, it was like a low-level depression that tinged everything, and I kept it drowned out by constantly keeping myself preoccupied with other things. I eventually hit a point where it was like an intrusive, self-destructive impulse. Any time that I was alone with my thoughts, I’d have no way of shutting it out, and controlling that impulse got very difficult.

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    4811 months ago

    You: no bathroom breaks and staring at the ceiling of my flight like a true red-pilled warrior.

    Me: steam deck and my entire library of pirated games and a bathroom break every hour.

  • @[email protected]
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    211 months ago

    the gender that brought you frat hazing and Logan Paul.

    Tf did I do to contribute to these two things.