I dunno about Michael Jackson, but he’s perfected the drunk uncle at a wedding.

Oh, I’m right there with you, my friend. Emotional immaturity can and does absolutely make personal growth relfection or change, almost impossible. And a hugely toxic and damaging childhood, for any kids involved.

I’m old now, and I’m going to therapy to try and fix some of the deep deep damage, still there. It’s had a hand in messing up everything in my life, it’s frustrating! The most frustrating thing is, it’s built into the foundations, so you don’t see it till it pops up in terrible ways. It’s like playing whack a mole with a soul infecting virus. I’m focusing really hard on breaking generational traumas being passed down, because they’re like that because their needs weren’t met, also. My biggest fear is becoming them.

Yeah, I had foster fails, I’m looking at their fluffy butts right now. It doesn’t hurt as much to give them back to be adopted, when that feeling is compared to the pain of the grief you feel. And it does feel very nice to funnel that grief into something very positive.

When they turn it into content and flood your feed with it, for a reason, it sends everyone into perpetual fight or flight, which makes an entire populous easier to control. Learning emotional regulation tools, to get you down outta fight or flight, is an act of resistance, in nowadays time.

Maybe you have the space to foster, I funnelled the grief from losing my gorgeous cat, towards caring for sick kittens so they could be adopted.

Completely understandable, considering everything going on, right now. My only argument against that thought, when it crosses my mind, is that’s genuinely how they want you to feel. The bombardment in media of devastating stuff, is planned manipulation, designed to get you to give up hope you can ever resist, and if they make you miserable, they know you’re more compliant. I won’t give them what they want. I will find hope, I will find new ways to enjoy the space I have, regardless of how small they make it. It’s a hard slog, right now.

More cult. Cults are literally brainwashing. The TV brain washes you into their cult. If you had no other source, you could imagine how people are sucked in. Leaving cults takes deep deprogramming. I don’t wonder if you pretended to be interested and asked them to show you how all they think is true, as if they were winning you over.

Eta: disclaimer, I don’t in any way think that excuses their behaviour.

Getting older isn’t a real thing. Your outsides just get really crinkly from sleeping on them so much.

I was wondering if this was a takedown from the inside, because of the whole, people working together to stop a company being shorted to death, thing. Which, i could imagine, angered those who think they’re gods, to no end. But surely they wouldn’t be so obvious about it.

Imagine if you were trying to take down the US. All you would need to do is whisper the right things in his ear. But I’m sure that’s not what’s happening.

Gen x’er here, weren’t y’all like starting things in 1981…wouldn’t that make you comingup on a different decade? (I’ll take my rotten tomatoes now, high velocity please)

Nah, man, engage your spite, live to 100, curse them as you die. I believe in you.

Apparently theres more to the type of blue, they used, too.

Let me just be really annoying and say, if snoring is something more serious, like sleep apnea, it can shorten your life and lead to coronary issues. Please talk to your doctor, when you can.

Just adding, TIME the seizure. Super important.

What you’re saying is so important to say out loud, because I don’t know if it’s easy or even in some cases, possible, for average Joe to find that information.

I do think that the whole rebellion from enshitification, is valuable in whatever format, so the whole crowd going for old tech, because they don’t know how to use new avenues, other than the ones they’re familiar with, still achieves the same task.

I don’t have a lot of time to deep dive, I don’t have a lot of expertise, those muscles have become flabby from no use for so many years, I used to download my music, then had Spotify for so long, then qobuz because Spotify turned evil, but I genuinely tried to download music again and I couldn’t figure it out. I just feel like, I wish there were more tutorials on how to do the things you talk about. (If anyone knows any, I’d be so grateful for the help). I feel like theres not a lot out there? I see this so often, Lemmy has some amazing talents and minds, who know all this stuff, but talk about it like it’s common knowledge. It’s not. You guys are magicians. I just wish I knew how to do all your tricks.

Was this all about getting rid of vpns…

Gaslighting. If he says it enough, he hopes we disconnect with reality and believe him.

What does it have in it? If its plain coffee, no milk etc, you could freeze it in ice blocks. Reheat it in the microwave to revive, as you need, or mix in iced coffee. The water has been boiled to be used, so theres going to be less bacteria in the water. So it should sit for a bit without going too bad. Personally I’d freeze whatever you can’t use within 3 days, to be safe.

But look at you, being the village, awesome job, stepping in and helping them grow up to be rounded little people. I have 7 niblings, and they’re all a mix of neurodivergence, I’ve been gathering them all and taking them to events and teaching them, playing with them, since day dot. Even though I have kids of my own. It’s so hugely necessary to be in the kids in your life, lives, like that. You can’t parent from an empty cup, and the ability to refill that cup has been removed from us. You taking that time, also gives time for the parents to recharge. You’re amazing, keep it up!