Fuck. That. Shit.

Why bother living?

I just don’t care enough to “just be alive” if it’s all spent working to make someone else rich.

You thought that, because you’re stupid, Joe.

Because you’re stupid.

Religion/superstition is the cancer of our species.

I’ve been there before. I notice it when I develop a tolerance to caffeine and it doesn’t wake me up.

Depending on how much you take, your withdrawal might really suck major. If you can afford to lose a weekend or any 2 day consecutively, go cold turkey those 2 days. You’ll lose those days cause you’ll feel like absolute shit when the headache kicks in. But then on Monday go back to caffeine but only around half of what you usually do per day. You’ll feel amazing getting the caffeine again after the cold turkey weekend, and you’re tolerance should go down. This has worked for me in the past.

Or wean slowly. Whatever works for you.

Those 2 days suck though. I love caffeine…

Anecdotal, might not apply to you. I knew a guy like this, was a roommate for a while.

He had a similar issue. He said he would literally set an alarm clock in the opposite side of his room, so that he would have to get up and walk over to shut it off, hoping that would wake him up. According to him, in his sleep daze he would go shut the alarm off and go back to sleep, and not even remember doing it… Crazy.

Regardless, I noticed he drank tons of cheap diet soda. This contains caffeine. He’d drink around one or sometimes two 2-liters of this shit per day, from the afternoon after work, until late into the night, usually gaming.

I told him about the caffeine. He said it made sense, and that also “it might be why he had trouble falling asleep at night”… Fucking DUH.

Long story short. He tried cutting it out for about a week. Mentioned a minimal improvement in being able to wake up, but said he felt like shit the whole time, so went back to his old habit.

He probably felt like shit due to the cold turkey caffeine withdrawal, which I tried to point out. He went back to his old ways.

Anecdotal, but check your diet, caffeine intake and times of day, exercise, consistent sleeping patterns, etc. That’s my 2 cents.

Nah bro

Got the same message LOL, I was also one of the down voters.

Had no idea mods can see voting stats.

This mod is weird and creepy for the message alone, stalking down voters WTF? Obviously thin skinned and on a power trip.

The freedom of anyone being able to start their own instance, then get a load of the ones that own their own servers… Some will be assholes on a power trip. It’s bound to happen.

Just for watching movies.

Fuck.

VERY NSFW

Watch at your own risk. Up close and unedited.

Such a pointless waste of time with the only purpose being to ingratiate bigots with other bigots.

So fucking stupid.

So they lied. And they’ll lie again. And they’ll get away with it.

That’s who these people are and they’re fucking all over the US. They’re everywhere. The Confederacy is alive and well in the US. Are they making a comeback? Just look at people like Hegseth, and we all know these types voted for trump.

Difficult not to be doomer here. I don’t see anything changing.

Countries all around the world (that are democratic) citizens are electing conservatives and far right increasingly. And of the worst kind (trump). Unless these conservatives that are elected cause such big problems (and fast enough) that cause people to shift to progressive voting, we’re not gonna make meaningful change in remotely enough time.

And we have so much fucking work to do to actually fix these problems.

Press X for doubt.

EPSTEIN

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I will maybe get destroyed for this comment, as I have in the past, but oh well…

The trans in sports topic shouldn’t be considered this binary issue that defines your political alignment or morals.

It undeniably seems more complicated than some make it out to be. Use silly over exaggerated examples: if a man becomes a steroid popping powerlifter professionally, then decides to transition to being a woman, should he then be allowed to compete in women’s powerlifting competitions? Over exaggeration, but there’s a point isn’t there? I don’t really know, but it seems like in this thought experiment, she would easily beat out all other competitors. Insert any other sport where men dominate over women due to biology. Is this a bad way to think? If so, why? You made the example in swimming.

I will forever support and vote politically to protect all minorities, including the LGBT community. I will always reject bigotry. But saying this is not a complicated issue, just doesn’t seem right. And questioning it in this way, doesn’t make me a bigot. Let trans athletes compete in any sport? Categorize them differently? I don’t know, Im not sure it’s that easy.

At the end of the day, this stuff really is a distraction that creates infighting to shift focus away from more important things. The oligarchy likes this distraction because we’re not talking about how they’re exploiting all of us. This is the kind of thing where I say “I honestly don’t know, but why aren’t we taxing the billionaires?”

42 - fully abled, healthy and strong.

He’s just divorced.

Fucking LOL!

I’m one of the moderate fanboys and I love gpt5 and not having to switch models anymore, compared to before. So far, it’s pretty good about when to think longer and when to give quick answers.

That being said, I don’t use it for anything other than STEM concepts and coding tasks. I have no idea what the complainers use it for.

I did hear that people thought it had less “personality”. Funny, I did notice it got more concise in its answers. This was an improvement for me, but I’m using it as a tool, not a friend or therapist or something. To each their own.

TIL dial up is still active. Interesting.

Who’s paying for this?

Your argument absolutely has merit. However the opposite is that there might be people there who are aware there’s maybe way more to their small world, and want nothing more than to see it.

I care more about the latter, but mainly because that’s how I would think. If we found out there’s an alien superhighway passing over earth hidden from us, and they’re keeping us “protected” and not allowing contact, I’d be very pissed off. I immediately would want to leave, meet the aliens, learn their ways and knowledge, etc…

Just sayin’, it can go both ways. Ya never know if you don’t talk to them.

Also, it seems kind of morbid and archaic in a way, keeping them protected. Not like a zoo by any means, but still. If we knew for certain they all wanted to be left alone, that’d be better.