Anybody want to commiserate on something that sucks?
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Old enough for the occasional eyebrow to decide that it needs to be 3 cm long. Young enough to pluck them. Sloppy enough to take out a lot of civilian eyebrows.
What’s your record on nose hairs? I’ve pulled out 5 in one go before. Bracing
Probably around there. When I have a mustache, they can grow in deep cover and it’s so gross when I finally discover them.
I will forever angry about how capitalist obsession with intellectual property has fucked over the progression of genetic sequencing.
Like, you have all these next gen genome sequencing techniques like Sanger sequencing. But because the methodology for them is heavily patented, research in the genetic screening techniques have largely focused on doing the same thing in legally distinct ways. The end result is that screening techniques haven’t really gotten much better or more efficient in years.
The best minds in genetics are all locked away in separate labs unable to properly iterate and improve gene sequencing because the most profitable research (and therefore the most important to pharma corporations) is to develop as many of these techniques as possible and then squat on the patents.
It’s awful! I hate IP laws for several reasons, but we can’t share data in medicine because different companies own research.
We don’t have access to collective knowledge because it’s not profitable. And then there are the little bits of capitalism that further hinder research innovations: paywalls, different user interfaces for different sites making it hard to cross-reference information, junk studies that were published because somebody wanted to make a quick buck.
Patent law just needs to not exist.
Best possible system that encourages innovation.
Don’t know whether I should keep stressing as much as I have over college because I have a good GPA and would like to stick the landing. Just feels like a waste of my time to bend over backwards when it feels like some of my profs are making it up as they go along. Not all of them, but I have a class rn where the instructions for the class project worth 70% of our grade are a WIP and I swear the prof changes his mind on something important every single time he talks with us.
Fucking Cars ruin everything, not only inner cities but rural areas as well.
hey jean, we’re out of eggs, i gotta go see if the neighbors got any! drives 10 minutes there and 10 minutes backthey weren’t home jean, guess we’ll have to go to town (that takes 40 minutes)
How are there so many anti-vegans who go to vegan spaces/discussions to post their ”I like eating meat tho” tier bullshit? Fine, then you can fuck off. The irony is that vegans supposedly can’t shut up about
, but I see way more of this online.Right?! I used to think a lot about that kind stuff a lot and I have theory about it: They see a vegan simply existing and (maybe subconsciously) think “shit, not eating meat etc kind of makes sense” but then instead of learning from it, they take it as a personal insult almost. Like “fuck you, you’re not a better person than me”. Then the initial reaction is to deny and deflect and throw shit, so you can delegitimise the argument and won’t have to think about it critically. Same reason that people who like to drive cars a lot might dislike cyclists, or why some people are instinctively annoyed with people who are athletic. And now that I think about it, the same thing happens when libs face criticism from the left. Probably this is already a really basic psychological concept that I re-invented, but anyway.
Probably this is already a really basic psychological concept that I re-invented, but anyway.
Sounds like cognitive dissonance to me. I get, I also used to do the
”actually vegan diets aren’t as good as you vegoons think” stuff before I figured out that the best way to get rid of cognitive dissonance was to just be vegan.I never would’ve gone to spaces specifically for vegans to proclaim how awesome meat was, though. Do these people think there’s a Medal of Edgy Contrarianism in it for them or something?
cognitive dissonance
oh right so that’s what it means
Medal of Edgy Contrarianism
also known as Reddit Gold
Right?! I used to think a lot about that kind stuff a lot and I have theory about it: They see a vegan simply existing and (maybe subconsciously) think “shit, not eating meat etc kind of makes sense” but then instead of learning from it, they take it as a personal insult almost. Like “fuck you, you’re not a better person than me”. Then the initial reaction is to deny and deflect and throw shit, so you can delegitimise the argument and won’t have to think about it critically. Same reason that people who like to drive cars a lot might dislike cyclists, or why some people are instinctively annoyed with people who are athletic. And now that I think about it, the same thing happens when libs face criticism from the left. Probably this is already a really basic psychological concept that I re-invented, but anyway.
They can’t be doing the wrong thing. They’re the main character.
It’s called moral envy
I think at least some of it is their attempt to bury a painful sliver of guilt about what they’re consuming, overcompensating by going from the uncomfortable “maybe what I am consuming is cruel” feeling to “sticking it to those silly comical vegans validates my consumption” reaction.
I think my biggest regret is saying that I’m vegan at work. Now people talk about what they ate over the weekend or whatever, remember that I’m vegan, and then start talking about their reasoning behind why eating fish is okay. I didn’t ask bro
And it’s like, I care, but you don’t want to have the conversation and I don’t have time for it in the brief spaces where we can talk.
saying that I’m vegan at work
So now they know not to offer you animal-based treats and stuff?then start talking about their reasoning behind why eating fish is okay. I didn’t ask bro
I thought I’d just say I was vegan early to prevent the awkwardness of denying every offered meal, as a treat.
How do you know when someone’s vegan?
Don’t worry, you’ll be able to tell by the small crowd gathered around them asking them inane questions like:
“But what if the animal consents though?”
“If you were stranded on a deserted island…”
“If everyone went vegan then wouldn’t that make farm animals go extinct?”
“What about if I tell you that for every piece of meat that you don’t eat, I’ll eat two?”
etc. etc.
Every weekend I have to work 8 hours as a cartpusher/janitor/bagger until my legs die, every weekday I get more schoolwork than I can complete in that timeframe before coming home to get my phone confiscated like I’m a 12 year old so I can “focus better” on homework, I have next to no free time whatsoever, my number of friends is in the single digits and even then I can only see one or two of them in person regularly, I have no fucking clue what college to go to, my dad’s semineglectful, my mom’s a former ABA torturer, and my little brother is being raised horribly by them and will probably have to put up with it for twelve more years
Shit sucks
Wait how old are you? I always assumed you were in your mid-20s or older. Please tell me you’re at least an adult, but then you were on here as a kid too?
Senior year of HS rn (yes I know I’m terminally fucked in the head, at least I never had a filthy frank phase in fifth grade or something)
It’s so weird finding out we have children on here, it makes me feel uncomfortable.
You were a child on here once though
Nope, I’ve been an adult on this site the whole time.
That’s fucked, and I’m sorry to hear you’re going through this.
If you’re unsure about college to go to, it’s really all the same, especially if you have stuff you still want to figure out.
I applied to the college that would get me out of my house fastest and just having some distance from my home life gave me a lot of breathing room. You’re already working hard and it sounds like getting a chance to rest and heal will do a lot to help
I hate how American ammo boxes are so fucking large for no reason. European, Brazilian, and Turkish (as shitty as the quality is) ammo brands come in compact boxes with Serbia and Bosnia having the superior quality boxes (and ammo) - Belom and Igman are quite cute. In fact, much of the former Yugoslavia’s ammo is actually quite good. There is no reason for ammo boxes to be as large as my phone.
Lighthearted, but I hate that Lego sets are all really bad. Except for Ninjago’s dragons. Which are all kind of reskinned anyway, they’re pretty bad.
I miss Castle, Kingdoms, even Nexo Knights. I bought the 100 USD Lego Castle 3-in-1 two years ago but I really resent that Lego seems to be allergic to that old genre.
Harry Potter legos are really bad. Just an awful wizard-isekai-school aesthetic.
Also, Emet-Selch is only the interesting villain because the other villains in FF14 are really tame and one dimensional and Emet-Selch benefits from a halo effect because of it.
I heard someone say once that Lego sucks now because they lost the trademark to that exact style of brick and people can make what they make cheaper and better so they had to pivot to IP to still have a niche.
It’s a very petty thing but it’s annoying to me how 90% of contemporary Lego figures have some kind of DreamWorks face.
I hate Zenos so much. Not like good antagonist hate but obnoxious bad character hate. Fuck him for ruining the ending of Endwalker. I wanted to literally just walk away after Endsinger and leave his stupid ass standing around at the end of the universe. He didn’t do shit Middy could have flown me but no the incel prince had to show up and neg the antispiral.
It annoyed me how many people were bazinga for the “that, I cannot deny” dialogue choice before the final battle with Zenos.
I wish there was some Alisaie-inspired “fuck you, you don’t get a final battle, you deserve to be lonely and unfulfilled for all you have already done” option but the best I could do was “believe what you want, but you are not leaving here.”
Yeah I wanted the same. My little sch catgirl ending up in a fistfight with that jackass was a supremely unsatisfying conclusion.
For non-melee classes that felt especially off, didn’t it?
My dadbod knightcat fit kind of but he would have totally heeded the most comrady of the Scions and just told Zenos to fuck off if he could.
It was pretty funny socking him as a Lalafell, hehe.
I appreciate that Zenos is portrayed more transparently as a “not this asshole again” kind of character, unlike the beloved Emet-Selch who even unto his temporary rebirth in Ultima Thule said “My ideals are inviolate and invincible (read: He’s still proud of being a Magic nazi and viewing the sundered as lesser beings even after the context of reclaiming his memories)”
(Midgardsomr was incapacitated from the events in Omega back in Stormblood, I think.)
Say what you want about the tenets of Emet-Selch at least it’s an ideology. Zenos is literally just a fight incel.
Zenos is literally just a fight incel.
“I’m bored so time to do atrocities to feel something” is pure chanlord brain, yeah.
And Fandaniel had achieved levels of Jokerfication that are hard to imagine.
Even more so once he fixates on the WoL. Big “Ma’am can you spare just a crumb of
pussycombat? No? You’re making me massacre these civilians you bitch” energy.Fandaniel’s jokerfication is much more interesting. Up there with Garlean Gendo Ikari.
I actually hoped for a longer more satisfying villain arc for Fandaniel.
I even hoped for a surprise eleventh hour “Akuma/Gouki owns Bison/Vega” final boss switcheroo, but noooooooooo.
It was pretty funny socking him as a Lalafell, hehe.
I’m sad that CiderSpider stopped making “Mad Because Small” videos, because I wanted to see Pantene Pro-V and Small have a slapfight then see if Crystal Mom would take Small to Wendy’s after all.
I hate how every business wants to force us to download their app (especially when browsing any site on your phone), even though they’re all secretly just websites wrapped up into an app anyways. All the inconveniences of downloading combined with all the inefficiencies of bloated websites, just the worst of both worlds for anyone who isn’t a data harvesting company.
So many banks I’ve used is just the website inside a shitty app lol
The worst thing about having an EV around the Bay Area is every fucking charging station has its own app and they all demand storage space and malware.
The browser is a political statement that the way the page is rendered should be under the control of the user. The app is a capitalist reaction to that statement.
I picked up my mail the other day and it was just all shit ads. Just 100% garbage paper shipped around the country. Then I thought about how people are complaining the Post Office isn’t making enough money to be self sufficient. Makes sense. Post Office workers are paid money to shove trash in a box for me to come move to the garbage can. Currently it’s “too expensive” to ship trash to our mail boxes. The solution is the post office needs to send us more trash so they can get better equipment and staff to support the increasing cost of shipping trash to metal boxes that then get moved to trash cans.
It’s insanity why are we moving trash around, why am I getting trash delivered to me. Why can’t we just send each other love letters and seasons greetings. Nope gotta get a plastic sheet with the latest version of SUV #6, debt consolidation services, and tons of brilliantly financially engineered products to get more debt, or a fuckin bill. Why does the post office need to operate at the mercy of marketing - top 10 most damaging corp jobs.
This isn’t a societal-level solution, but if you want to greatly reduce the amount of junk mail you get I can personally recommend this guide:
https://ecocycle.org/eco-living/refuse-and-reduce/stop-junk-mail/
It goes into detail about some individual junk mail companies later in the guide (Valpak was the one I needed) and returning to sender and whatnot, but just doing the DMAchoice opt-out and the credit/insurance offer opt-out nearly eliminated the junk mail I get. All the other stuff is for cleaning up the few stragglers that remain.
I came here to rant not for solutions
spoiler
Thanks if this gets rid of any of the spam it’s a great way to free a couple bucks
It disgusts me at a deep primordial level that so many cultural norms in the west are rooted largely in one great overriding sentiment: caring about things is for stupid weaklings, and apathy is smart and for the strong.
And then there are bullshit things you’re expected to care about, but ultimately just reinforce the status quo. Defend
but if you use that same to talk about the US exploiting people in another country for our amusement, all of a sudden, that’s cringe.Omfg me too, it makes me passionately angry to the point of inarticulate screaming.
Fucking same. I always talk to people about individualist mindsets vs communalist mindsets. We are just so brainwashed into being individual that we (see:white westerners) don’t have community, don’t care about other people, don’t care for our elders…And that’s just it. I hate it
Dating in hellworld fucking sucks so hard, dating while fat is even worse
For real. Dating is such an uncomfortable space and I know classism was always a thing, but the body shaming is a nightmare when people can just scroll past or filter you out.
It’s not that as much as I’ve never been somebody’s first option in anything. Not relationships, not friendships. It’s a very, very, very, rare day when someone hits me up to hang out.
Oh, I see what you meant now. Thanks for clarifying it for me.
When you’re not treated like anybody’s first option, that really hurts. For be what it’s worth, I’m sorry that you’re experiencing that.
things not go well with that boy?
Uhh yeah, he already had a boyfriend. Everyone’s already taken it seems. I’ve asked out several people and they were all already taken.
ah, thats rough. it really does feel like no one is ever single anymore.
I can’t even imagine how shitty online dating has gotten since I found someone and got married. And the “touch grass” alternatives (including the memetastic “go to le bar”) sound horrible in their own ways for single people.
yeah, Im struggling to make friends personally. I dont want to go to bars, people who go to bars are there. i think i need a hobby like roller derby. I hear roller derby is mostly queer women and enbys. but i gotta get in shape, and buy roller skates. theres one near me that is proudly trans inclusive and they need people.
I dont want to go to bars, people who go to bars are there
That is such a real mood and it’s haunted me for decades without putting it to such words.
haha glad I could help
Amen. It normalizes devaluing people’s feelings and lying for self-defense
I fucking hate my job. It’s B2B bullshit that means nothing, my boss is a walking kidney stone who has never once told me ‘good job’ or given me anything positive in over a year, and I still have no fucking idea what I’m doing. Part of that is because of me, fine, but part of that is because there is literally no training for what we do. Every client wants something different, and if we’re working with 3rd party software, I can’t be expected to know all of that - ESPECIALLY AN ADOBE PROGRAM PLUS AN EXTRA PLUGIN ON TOP OF IT. When I got hired, I figured I’d be working on our proprietary system, but nope, I’m stuck ‘specializing’ in this shit. The person who trained me is leaving in 2 weeks, and I’m the only person who can handle the US projects. For a while it felt like they’re gearing up to fire me, but I let them know I was diagnosed with a disability + others are leaving + I’m the only US person, so I think that’s buying me some time.
Already touched up my resume (yes I lied on it a bit) and have been sending it out. At least the pay is good here, for now.
Man fuck this whole work thing. I can think of so many times where simply saying ‘Good job today! You really helped out!’ Could’ve made working noticeably better. Seems these days, the slowing growth in a society that needs rapid growth is really making the niceties go away. And then when people leave because the morale is bad and the pay is worst, out come the think pieces on how nobody wants to work anymore.
I have a review this week with my big boss and i stg if any opening comes up for me to (diplomatically) shit on my immediate supervisor, I’ma take it. Fuck them.
I’m so fucking sick of living in a society. I’ve got a host of neurodivergencies that make life in a society a living hell. I have ADHD, BPD, ASD, I’m Transgender.
All I want is to be a nomad, traveling the world at my pace, foraging for food and collecting trinkets and baubles that make my brain go brrrr but no, instead of that I have to work a job I don’t want, for a company who doesn’t respect me, just to maintain a decent standard of living in a country that couldn’t give two shits whether I survive the day or not.
All I want is to be a nomad, traveling the world at my pace, foraging for food and collecting trinkets and baubles that make my brain go brrrr
I think a lot of historical hatred for Roma/Tinkers/Travelers throughout the world comes from people in generations past being that mad at people living that way.
BP, queer, and going through not only ADHD but full psych screenings now. Feel this. If you ever need an inbox, hit me up.
As a fellow ND person, I seriously relate. It was hammered into me as a kid that I needed to be a good part of capitalist society even if it didn’t make sense to me. Now that I’ve deprogrammed parts of that, I see the pointless bullshit for what it is. None of it makes sense and there’s never a reason for most of it outside of ‘because the owner of ____ said so.’
It sucks now too because we can’t easily wander off like in the days before social media and credit scores
Round profile pictures are bad.
