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Is there a way to minimize the chances of having bad dreams? I've been having them pretty constantly lately and I'm sick of it. Also hi friends. I wasn't around for the last thing but it must have been pretty bad.
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Prokhor Zakharov posted:Are these standard nightmares or PTSD-related? Sorry for the delay on this but mine are very clearly "standard" stress and anxiety related. My anxiety is hardcore, brothers and sisters. It's not fun I'll tell ya.
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I'm really struggling here guys. Basically I was/am really self conscious about how expensive my laptop is gonna be. My parents have made me feel like money is scarce enough that it's in my head (even though I'd be looking for the machine to last me a long time and obviously I'd be using it a fuckton). I know that we're not that hard up for money for like a lot lot of reasons I won't get into because I think it's inappropriate and tacky but just trust me. I just feel awful because I feel like I don't deserve it and like I'm imposing. It makes me feel like a piece of poo poo who is draining on them even though logically I know I'm not. I don't like it. To clarify my parents need to pay for it because I'm not legally allowed to have that much money in assets in my bank account. America gently caress yeah. But I pay rent every month to help my parents out since I live at home in case anyone forgot my situation there. SamuraiFoochs fucked around with this message at 03:49 on Dec 19, 2019 |
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Push El Burrito posted:You could try to explain to them but from what I have heard parents just wouldn't understand. You are a great poster.  But credit to both mom and dad. They treated this really well. I sent them a link to the config I was looking at with quote and Dad actually said I should double the memory I put in the machine. And apparently he came out and said to my mom, "It'll come out to $[x] and that's fine", and when I told Mom I felt awful she goes "What, with the contributions you make to this house?" IDK where the gently caress that is most of the time but hey. They are being shockingly supportive on this one. 
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Dec 19, 2019 04:43
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WSAENOTSOCK posted:I'd wager we could crowdfund you a laptop. The money isn't the issue, it's my brain. That said I'm a mess about something else. Now if I'm gonna get a custom build of the model I want, because of the Intel processor shortage, I could apparently be waiting until MARCH. I think there's a prepared one ready to ship with all the specs I want, but there's just something about the idea of getting a machine built for me that just feels so much better. But the security death of W7 is January 14, and it was one thing when I thought I might be waiting an extra couple weeks, but a month+ has me concerned. How much fire would I be playing with waiting it out?
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Dec 19, 2019 21:54
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Endless Mike posted:Like, real talk, unless you're doing particularly risky stuff or are a specific target, probably not a *lot* but yeah get out of W7 ASAP. W10 is free. Just upgrade. I thought W10 cost now? Also realtalk I think trying to upgrade my current machine to it might make it explode because that fucker is OLD.
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Dec 19, 2019 23:04
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Spiderdrake posted:I think the biggest thing about BLOCKBUSTER OMG poo poo is taking them too seriously nowadays I agree with this man. I anticipate probably thinking Star Wars is pretty okay because I'm easy to please. That's just me.
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Dec 20, 2019 05:30
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I ordered my laptop today thinking I could focus on getting it set up after Christmas because the site said 3-5 business days but it shipped right away and is getting here today and I don't like it because yeah I could just wait a couple days and try to relax but I'll feel like a bit of a tit leaving a brand new laptop just sitting in my house for a couple days. Blah.
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Dec 24, 2019 09:41
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Merry Christmas. I sincerely love you guys even if you hate my posts or wrestling opinions. Don't know what I'd do without this place.
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Dec 25, 2019 06:13
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the escape goat posted:my dog Newt hopes you’re all going to have a great day and weekend and a great new year, all 366 days of it That is a GREAT pup, right there my dude.
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Dec 27, 2019 04:42
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Happy New Year. I love you guys. I truly believe 2020 will kick rear end.
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Jan 1, 2020 06:11
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Seams posted:death to America Let me just clarify this because it's not made immediately apparent. It's one editorial from a chode working for a loving business network. That said this all legitimately has me thinking self destructive thoughts so I'm gonna try to distance myself from it for a while
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Jan 3, 2020 08:01
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Wait has there been another new announcement? The last I saw was basically "FYAD is dead because it's bigoted trash, I was an idiot for giving so many chances, if you're mad you can't post slurs gently caress off" which, I mean yeah it's late but I wouldn't call it toothless.
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Jan 7, 2020 01:42
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WSAENOTSOCK posted:I loving love your name here. I still laugh when I see it sometimes. Finally realizing that the mixture of emotions and urges and confusion about the way most relationships seem to work was actually polyamorous tendencies might be the best thing that's ever happened to me tbh. I definitely have some monogamous aspects but I don't understand the way some people monopolize or lock down love and attraction. Also I just realized I may not have told RR I'm poly (I did on Twitter tho) so yeah that's a thing. Three out of the last four nights or thereabouts I've literally been up all night because my depression and anxiety leaves me unable to sleep. It's a real bitch.
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Jan 9, 2020 12:51
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This is my first SA post on my new, non-dinosaur laptop. I still have some stuff to set up but I have taken many steps and it is very exciting to be on a machine I do not need to fear exploding. Yay.
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Jan 10, 2020 21:50
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It's my birthday, I'm 33 years old, hooray
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Jan 12, 2020 06:08
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Spiderdrake posted:Happy Birthday Foochs! Have it set up other than soft data transfer, and it seems pretty bitchin, thanks for asking.
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Cavauro posted:foochs is two months younger than me, but feels so much more wise and powerful. happy birthday I am neither of those things, but thank you my good friend.
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Jan 12, 2020 06:25
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Drew McIntyre posted:happy birthday to SamuraiFoochs This is beautiful. 
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No Irish Need Imply posted:nxt uk gave foochs a great PPV to celebrate Except I couldn't watch it because our internet is down.
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Jan 12, 2020 20:43
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Punch McLightning posted:I’m an uncle for the third time as of today! A good birthday for the little one! Thank you all I love you all very much.
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I just wanted my dear friends to know I had a very good birthday because my partner was able to come see me and is also staying tomorrow. Best present ever. All of the well wishes from you all warmed my heart as well. Thank you all so much.
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So I'm closer still to my new laptop being set up but I'm noticing I'm typing at least a little bit slower. I'm hoping that that's just adjustment to the new machine and that the ergonomics to the keyboard aren't totally hosed compared to the old keyboard because boy howdy I like to be able to type things pretty quickly. I'll probably adjust, right? I mean, I used the other laptop for literally over ten years, there's probably going to be something of an adjustment period, or at least I'd like to think so. 
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Jan 19, 2020 03:31
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WSAENOTSOCK posted:Within like six weeks, you'll be so used to your old keyboard that if you try to use your old familiar keyboard your muscle memory won't let you because brains are weird and magic. And by old you mean new?  I guess what I'm saying is it stands to reason that I'm going to need to relearn some muscle memory for the new machine? Someone who switches laptops more often than I do would be able to speak better on this.
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Spiderdrake posted:I went through three different laptops in 2018. Then I spilled tea on this one, and sent it back to lenovo which involved replacing the keyboard, which changed the feel yet again! Unless you're having trouble with coordination (typing into the wrong keys, pausing to find your place) it may not be your muscle memory, but that kind of millisecond task assignment is super sensitive and you may not even notice. I'm absolutely having some coordination issues. It's a ThinkPad but it's a P53 Workstation so it's the nicest you can get in a laptop, pretty much. If I'm being honest I think it's 95%+ momentary coordination issues because it doesn't feel remotely worse than the other machine did once I get into the actual flow of the typing, if that makes sense. I'm also generally tired as gently caress mentally and moderately tired physically, plus I'm probably being hypervigilant in the sense that I'm looking for things that are different or "wrong" because I'm nervous about that being the case. I quite like the feel of the keys, so I know that's not the issue. It is a bit more spread out in terms of layout, but I think that's something that, if it is slowing me down to any great degree, I'll probably learn to compensate for in time (I'm a two-finger typist because cerebral palsy isn't conducive to ten finger typing).
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Everything is officially 100% set up. New machine LET'S GOOOOOO
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No Irish Need Imply posted:I'm gonna dip out. I forgot how toxic and mean this place is. I will miss certain folks here but... I'm so much happier off this forum. It's become a negativity circlejerk and I'd personally rather not. I don't know if you'll see this but you know how to find me, right buddy?
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Mekchu posted:Who was being lovely/toxic to this poor goon? If I had to guess, it was probably in either the NXT or WWE thread. FFS everyone here calls WWE the Big Trump Fundraiser and while I do understand why, there's an element of "If you watch WWE and enjoy anything about it you're a fascist" and there has been on this sub for probably a couple years now. It started with the Saudi Arabia shows existing and has just gotten worse and worse as more of the people who choose not to focus on those things re: wrestling (in many cases because we get enough of it from other sources and use it as an escape) have chosen to avoid the threads if not leave the sub altogether. I've posted about WWE on this forum probably five times in the last year. There's a reason for that.It's not because I don't watch. It's even worse because a lot of the anti-WWE posters know what I do with my life and loving trust me, I'm not on board with WWE's politics, but people still gave me poo poo all the time and treated me like I was blind to the horrible aspects or flat out wrong for wanting to post about a wrestling show in a way that wasn't "LOL THIS SUCKS, BLOOD MONEY BOOTLICKERS TRUMP TRUMP NAZIS". This concludes my post about posts.
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Jerusalem posted:This thread is a positive place for people to talk about stuff other than wrestling (and especially not to talk about posting) and be nice to each other, so let's stick with that please. Sorry, just wanted to answer the question but probably should have PM'd instead. My bad boss.
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Jerusalem posted:I can't stay mad (or get mad) at ya, Foochs I PM'd you a thing you'll likely enjoy
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My new laptop is RAD AS gently caress and I'm so happy rn. The only thing I am moderately worried about in my life is that the one moderately big money (by standards of advocacy work payment, mind, not by any other metric) contract that I have is, if my math is right, down to two paydays left and I feel like a piece of poo poo for saying this but I want to get paid for my work and it doesn't happen nearly often enough and in a lot of ways this contract (it's two years total) has been really really good for me and has sort of indirectly subsidized a lot of other volunteer work that I do and I'm kinda scared that I won't make money anywhere near the level I have been when it's over and it makes me really scared because I signed a (non-exclusive) contract with a particular consulting group probably three years ago with the thought being they'd find work and bring me along but one of the partners just left and the other just had her second kid and I'm kinda like gently caress am I about to lose this work connection or what I'm actually really scared professionally now that I type it all out like that. Everything else is pretty great though!
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I'm crossposting this from the Disability Thread I made in TGRS because I want my prograps pals to know what I'm going through as well, if you dislike whining from me please feel more than welcome to ignore:SamuraiFoochs posted:I'm having a rough time in my own right about something and want/need to type it out, if you don't want to read me If you read that thank you, either way carry on, god bless
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ChrisBTY posted:I can only say that you served your time. If thinking of it as a tour of duty makes you feel better then by all means do. That's the thing. I've been at least semi-professional advocate since the age of 16, and I've never stopped. By that metric, if it was a "traditional" job I'd be halfway to retirement right now. Problem is I don't get paid (enough) for that to even be a fraction of a fraction of the case. The other problem is, if I don't do this, then I don't know what to do. It's all I've ever known. Do I just let myself be lazy? Everyone wants me to go to grad school but gently caress that, they want me to go back for either law or a government job, neither of which I want for myself (not to mention I have no undergrad student debt, which is swell). Thanks for the kind words everyone. Love you guys.
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Captain Magic posted:I think that if you are the kind of person worrying about being lazy, you usually don’t need to worry about being lazy. You're 100% right and I've never thought about it like that before. I was raised to just always be doing, that any one minor meeting or conference or whatever could change one's life, which isn't a terrible attitude from a positive lens, but is extremely toxic when it turns into "but this is why you must do the things". Thank you all so much for the kind words, advice, and encouragement. It's exactly the kind of thing I needed.
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DJExile posted:twitter nuked my account with no explanation so welp bye twitter Wait what? Why the he? Also it really is great advice. Also my mom and I are in a vicious cycle. She wants me to go to a Disability Policy Summit in DC. Not a terrible idea on the face of it but here's the thing. We'd be paying to go (unless something changes) and I'm like God damnit I refuse to live my life paying to be a loving poster boy. It's bullshit. She was like "I was talking to [this lady she and I know] and she thinks you'd be great" and my response was "Okay, yeah, great for what?' and she was like they do interviews and record videos and stuff. So I'm thinking okay, so in other words I'm continuing to whore out my likeness for free. She has such a boner for anything related to DC because that's where SHE wants me to be. And I've told her over and over again that that's not my life. She's convinced I need to work a government job which would make me absolutely miserable. We're in this vicious cycle where she believes I need to continue to volunteer in order to get work, whereas my opinion is if I keep volunteering I'm never going to get work because people will just take for granted that they can get me for free. Oh and by the way, if I did go to the DC thing at best I'd turn around, leave from three days in DC and immediately go to the penultimate meeting (I think) of the thing I'm actually getting paid for. Seems insane to me.
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coconono posted:sounds less stressful tbh Unironically probably a wash at worst. Not even joking.
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DJExile posted:put up some flyers I needed this laugh. Bless you. Mom's still banging on about the DC thing and I've said unless we can get at least 75% expenses covered, I sleep, but she's saying she'd settle for half covered I'm like STOP IT she's like you wouldn't be paying for it anyway I'm like I DON'T CARE. I need to be thinking about it as though every bit of it is my direct investment. I don't think we'll be able to get it covered at all anyway so whatever, but it's the principle of the thing. Also there's a legislative breakfast on Saturday to which I am going to but I need to get up at the rear end crack of dawn (by my standards) for it. Typically I put on some podcasts and sleep in the car on the way to these things because I need the energy but now we're driving not one but two extra people which basically means no sleep for me. 
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yea ok posted:i liked 1917 i'll admit it It seems really technically impressive but also a very tough watch. Glad you enjoyed it though!
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Mr. Carlisle posted:Hug your loved ones, friends Did anything happen to someone you love? I hope not friend!
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coconono posted:Harley Quinn's a good animated series that does some pretty close to the knuckle humor. I enjoy the gently caress out of it. Haven't watched animated Harley yet. I should get on that huh? Also I liked Hush a lot but the twist they put in the movie version was awful, IMHO. This is the last time I'll rant about this today, I promise. But if my mom tells me one more God forsaken time that I should look at a situation where I'm working AT COST TO ME as an "opportunity for networking or to expand my resume" I'm going to lose my mind. I'm not a college kid anymore. I've been in the game and paying dues over 15 years. loving Boomer rear end bullshit.
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