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surreal wrote

i will never get used to this 8hours work a day routine bullshit, whole day just flies away.

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ziq wrote

Been doing it for 13 years. Only gets harder with time. I learned to bombard my mind with happy thoughts to get through it. Like a drug I can release in my brain on command.

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surreal wrote

many respects to anyone that can handle this, i don't think i will for too long even though i'm working on stuff i like atm.

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edmund_the_destroyer wrote

I lucked out by getting into tech. My original motive was greed. But the real advantage is that the better you get at writing software, the more interesting your work is.

It's still not as much fun as sitting on a warm beach sipping lemonade.

I'm not saying that anyone working in software has any obligation to improve their skills and knowledge. You're there to collect your paycheck, that's all. But I finish the most boring aspects of my work ten times faster than I did 15 years ago, and spend most of my time solving more interesting questions and that makes the eight hours far easier now than they were back then.

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ziq wrote

My only work motive is to have space to be alone with my thoughts.

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edmund_the_destroyer wrote

Damn. I respect your integrity, holy smokes.

I've been out of school eighteen years but I only worked for three companies. None have supported the military industrial complex or the advertising or surveillance industries directly, but two of the three support enterprise business so I'm still part of the problem.

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Fossidarity wrote

Finally got a breakthrough with programming my clearnet proxy for Tor, it's working, yay!

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betterletter wrote

im going to a food not bombs zine event tonight, havent checked them out before. hopefully i can get involved when im not working weekends.

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yaaqov wrote

I smoked cannabis for the first time in months yesterday and... it like magnified every ache and pain in my body??? I could barely put on clothes. Also focusing my eyes on anything closer than 20 feet, and especially screens, was horrible. Has anyone else experienced anything like this?

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celebratedrecluse wrote

If you're already feeling crappy, weed can make it worse as easily as it can make it better. That's why I don't think medical cannabis for pain management works for everyone.

Plus, taking a hit after a long T-Break can be pretty overwhelming. People forget because it's not possible to OD, but cannabis is a strong drug in terms of psychoactive effects. It can be immobilizing with a large dose

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yaaqov wrote

Definitely. In my own experience, it's sort of like, a super-placebo, delivering whatever you expect from it. Maybe that's with everything to some degree though? I don't have much experience with other psychoactive substances.

The thing that scares me is, are all these pains real things that are wrong with my body/ways that I'm hurting myself, but that I'm ignoring in my day-to-day sober life?

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celebratedrecluse wrote

Cannabis is grouped with hallucinogens, but it's very weak in humanly consumable doses, so it struts this boundary more than most substances that are consumed by humans.

If you are concerned about these pains being ignored, the only way to find out is to start cultivating more bodily awareness. If you are interested, meditation and exercise are two solid picks for ways you might be able to increase this awareness, although the problem with such endeavors is that they need discipline and participatory engagement to work correctly, much more than a detatched or intellectual understanding of the principles involved. I am sorry I cannot be of more help in your journey

Take care~

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yaaqov wrote

No, that’s very helpful advice! I appreciate your thoughts :)

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mofongo wrote (edited )

Fuck this week, I'm exhausted, and it's no over yet.

You know what I miss most about being younger? Stress felt like something, instead of a bunch of symptoms to pierce together while looking at the bathroom mirror:

Several days grumpy ✔️

Zits all over the face ✔️

Looks like I lost some weight ✔️

Lack of energy✔️


Looks like I have stress. 😨

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ziq wrote

I'll go back in time and smash that mirror before you buy it.

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this_one wrote

There's been some drama this week with an anti-trans 'womens right group' setting up a stall at the local weekly markets (technically just outside the boundary of the markets, so they dont get in trouble), handing out flyers full of lies and half-truths stretched to their absolute limits about some proposed laws that would make life a lil easier for trans people.

What irks me most, though, is that I can't punch them, because they'd just use that to say, "See! Dangerous males are biologically compelled to assault we poor women! This is proof we can't let trans people into women's spaces"

Fuck youuuuuuuuuuuu!!

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Atassa wrote

I grew up extremely poor and far-left. But I worked my ass off, put myself through school and now make 6 figures. It wasn’t easy but was worth it. Now I’m considered bourgeoisie and hated by the losers I went to school with, the same ones who didn’t study and chose a life of poverty and crime. I’ll never be right-wing but I see clearly how much of socialism caters to these lazy losers so I no longer identify as left-wing.

Anyway, some people literally choose a life of poverty. Some choose to break free. Don’t hate people because they succeeded!

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