“This event involves just 200 carefully selected guests and will bring major economic benefits to the city,” the local politician said

Tell me you don’t understand what is being protested without telling me you don’t understand what is being protested.

“Mom would be sad” was basically the only thought that carried me through my most suicidal years. So I guess it’d be “kid would be sad” for you. In any case fake it 'til you make it if all else fails, that was what they taught us in dialectical behavior therapy by the way of willingness & half-smile (or at least that is how I internalized it). Another thought that has been keeping me going since those suicidal years is “this too shall pass” with or without the additional “away” in the end, by which I have come to understand the transient nature of everything; the only constant is change, and it is inevitable. This combined with some personal growth in understanding of global geopolitical and economical concepts (straight up communism bro) has lead me to believe that better times are indeed coming, and although it may not be us alive right now who will be here to see those better days, we should not lose hope for the future. Someone once said that “wise men plant trees under whose shade they will never rest” or something, so I’d maybe encourage you to pick up again your hobbies that you listed: art, walks, talking, plant growing and community work and try to focus on what’s at hand, not what has been or could be or is somewhere else. You cannot affect any of those, so why worry about them?

I understand that the current global political and economical unrest is scary, but if it’s not currently threatening your life (or say your kid’s life) or stopping you from enjoying the things you are doing currently then it’s not really worth worrying about those, is it? I myself found help through DBT, it’s a long-form therapy used among others for emotional dysregulation disorders – like borderline personality disorder (that’s me!) – but it has many concept I believe should be in standard school curriculum globally, and the resources are available online as well as in print.

In any case, I hope the best for you. Raising children in the current global situation is no doubt incredibly anxiety inducing, and though it is good to stay strong for your children, it isn’t advisable to suffer because of your children so to say. It is good that you evidently know how to ask for help, and probably are capable to receive it.

Oh my, color me surprised /s But maybe the implementation of this will be the final straw for me, and I’ll finally be able to commit to degoogling myself and delete my account and every app for good.

Oh, also the irony of a Youtube CEO talking about “a revolution” is not lost on anyone I hope. Eat the rich.

could it be that Marx was right, then?

Now now, don’t get so triggered. Just tried to be funny, that’s all. Also your analogy about cars doesn’t hold water for shit :–D

But uh, maybe there are some power management options micro$oft allows you to fiddle with? Or ask the onboard AI, maybe that can hallucinate some answers for you?

Have you tried switching to Linux?

huh. happy to know we’ll never hear from this again! thanks capitalism!

Where does this magic cable go?

into the urethra, probly

No such thing exists.

oh hey, a clear list of targets for some Mario brother!

Yeah, that (the video hosting) is why I’m still using it. I started using Youtube in high school at the latest, so around 20 years ago (Youtube was launched in -05 so it couldn’t be earlier) and it’s the only one from those days I still use. But because everything tries to be a social media, and because of Alphabet’s rampant capitalism and the continued enshittification of everything it lies its grubby, fat, little fingers (kinda like DJT’s in a way), it has those disgusting aspects of social media forced on its users.

btw have you encountered the forced AI voice translation of videos yet? if there is one part of modern internet that I hate and absolutely despise the most, that causes more rashes than ads and more epileptic fits than all of the AI slop you can force down my throat, is when the internet is in my own language when it shouldn’t be and I have never asked it to be. if I’d want to watch shit in my own language I’d fucking search for shit in my own language, and there is a reason I never do (because it’s shit and cringe as fuck). if you’re gonna offer this service to the unwashed masses, at least let them op out. But no, it’s always on by default, and the video creator has to turn it off.

I don’t know which I hate the most, but since I don’t use any Meta products (finally dropped Whatsapp too last March), or Twitter (which I dropped after they made BetterTweetDeck unusable even before Felon took over), or Reddit (got banned from r/worldnews, r/asmongold among others), or Snapchat (which went along with insta and Threads earlier), so basically the only social media I actively use is… Youtube? And I hate all the social media aspects in there that I cannot evade. So I guess Youtube’s social media AI slop is the one I tolerate the most.

despite what my lightning fast intellect, general tendency to hallucinate, and inability to work properly because of capitalism may lead you to believe, i am not chatgpt

right on, thanks!

there was this microblogmeme where the joke was like “u need the ai to do your work because you’re too shit? do u need it to do your art for you because you can’t? u need it to fuck your wife for u also? fucking loser” and i think it’d fit here but couldn’t find it :( add: also why u gotta sully Tolkien’s name by naming your Military Industrial Complex AI-powered Snitching Machine Apparatus after his word? fuck you for that especially, please die to bullet wounds rn

this dude should really choke on it.

So just straight? Like seriously? That’s the most asinine type of trolling I’ve heard, I’m sorry if you don’t get it.

Ah, I see. So “I’d have sex with a man if he was assigned female at birth, but not with a woman if she was assigned male at birth” (assuming speaker is a super-straight male, and talking exclusively about transgendered people)? I, uh… I don’t know how to even approach this. If someone irl talked with me about this I’d probably suggest they seek some kind of therapy? Though I doubt people like this actually exist.

Doesn’t hypersexuality cover this? Or sex addiction?

I hate how people who should all be fucking killed with extreme prejudice are using words by my favorite author in their shitty fucking pig-enabling, authoritarian, weaponized technologies.