This is not a healthy environment for you or your kids. My friend’s wife grew up in the same kind of environment and is now doing the same thing to him, she’s currently working on kicking him out of their home while still expecting to control his paychecks. You should strongly reconsider getting yourself and your kids out of that situation or at least into therapy. Her unwillingness to work on the situation should not mean you have to suffer.

All their peers are on discord shit talking them for being the weirdo that can’t do anything. While I agree that it needs to happen, fixing this is going to require more than just individuals restricting their own kids. It’s going to take a collective effort, requiring a decent time investment, from all parents or at least enough of them to ensure their children have a decent social network. I’m not optimistic with how fucked up and exhausting every single aspect of life has become. There are things politicians could focus on to actually improve the situation but they’d rather cater to all the data stealing corporations.

Whoever’s currently responsible for the kid should be responsible for watching them and keeping them out of shit they shouldn’t be getting into. Expecting everyone else to put up with this privacy invading shit is fucking stupid.

Kind of. The book about the girl from Rogue One goes into it but I don’t remember the details or even the name of the book

Yeah. Having to get a job and ending up in a customer facing role did more for getting me over a lot of my shit than anything else I tried. There’s still things that are just absolute no-gos for me (singing is the biggest one that comes to mind) but I got over all the shit I had to get over to be able to function more or less normally day to day without too much anxiety.

Yeah, I found resumes to be a pretty poor indicator other than kind of “subconscious” things I started picking up on after a while. I doubt any AI or program could manage that though. I can’t even quantity it myself. Talking to someone is infinitely better and I’d always try to get in as many interviews as I could.

Anybody want to team up with me and see if we can pick up Vincent and rotate him so he can look at the stars?

When I did hiring our HR had some system that did this. It fucking sucked. It passed through so many shit candidates. I eventually ended up just going straight to the discard pile when I had to review applications.

You don’t even have to be educated to learn basic morality. Virtually all popular media teaches right and wrong. Babies can understand empathy. Being an evil prick is a choice.

Any education required to not be a piece of shit has been available to him his whole life. It’s everywhere. Instead he’s made the choice to ignore all of it and be a hateful fascist turd. Fuck him.

So? He’s too far gone already. Fuck him. I hope he realizes that and kills himself.

Yeah I couldn’t give less of a shit about china. They’re on the other side of the planet and have no reason to care what I do. American government and corporations on the other hand could find all sorts of ways to fuck me over.

That’s during the afternoon shower

Only 15 minutes? You’re doing pretty good!

Idk either. I see how people text to people they’re flirting with these days and I’m just like wtf?? If I said half that shit to any of the women I’ve been with they’d have been pissed, and that’s an established relationship.

It’s giving an inch. We shouldn’t be doing that. We should be fighting tooth an nail against every single aggression against our privacy. They’ve already taken far too much.

Yeah this is what I do currently (with a few other exercises mixed in as well) but it’s not as effective as I would like. My attention span shorts out and I find myself wandering off or fucking around with shit in my bedroom. For whatever reason I didn’t have the same problem when I had a exercise bike to use. I suspect it’s because the exercises take just enough coordination that I can’t switch off but not enough to not be tedious where the bike was basically “sit on this and kick your legs”.

Burpees are great but I can’t just mindlessly do them for an hour just to burn calories like I can with a machine. I want something I can watch a video while I’m doing it and be able to zone out.

I don’t need to have sex to be really horny.

That is actually a good point. I only eat white meat because I don’t like the gristly gross parts of the rest of it. Maybe I just don’t like the flavor of chicken…