As a libertarian I appreciate their government’s not razing all that shit, and just letting people do what they need to do.

A friend of mine is homeless in SF. His mental health has dropped significantly ever since the city forcibly moved him from the spot where he was camping to a shelter. He says he was doing much better in the tent than in the shelter.

Isn’t anything non-committal from your source of income a red flag?

USA announces plan to ban the buds of the cannabis plant

• Take screenshot of screen
• Send screenshot to Claude 3.7 or any other decent chatbot. Even GPT-3 is light years smarter than current Siri, but I don’t know it if can analyze images
• Run Claude’s response through a text-to-Siri-speech layer

There, now Siri can see your screen. Why can’t Apple accomplish this? Why are megacorps so inept?

Depends on what’s outside my home.

Thus far in life I’ve only been able to afford living in cities, so the blinds stay closed 24/7

I’m all for paternity leave, but there is a conflict between taking time off to take care of your newborn, and taking time off to breathe.

Newborns aren’t exactly a vacation.

Wow you guys even lost the ability to do syntax. I guess it was only a matter of time.

Even if multipolarity means more war?

It sucks. I don’t have children because I’m barely functional. Can barely keep a roof over my own head, let alone maintain a romantic relationship.

I’ve wanted kids for a long time, but the only relationship that showed promise of that ended with a bunch of cheating and abuse. I eventually realized even if I was willing to put up with it, I couldn’t subject my kids to having her as a mother.

So I’m going on 42 and don’t know if I’m gonna make it.

That comment didn’t equate them, but rather associated them.

And they are associated.

I run into far more misandry in real life than online.

I joined a men’s group so I can have a place that what I am is celebrated.

I don’t know what OP wrote as he’s edited it out, but doesn’t the idea that “person reporting gang stalking must be delusional” just create a ripe environment for getting away with gang stalking?

Achievement unlocked: Talking Trash

Successfully communicate at least one thought in a trashy neighbor’s native tongue.

That’s a good point about the Peter Principle. What I’m referring to though is more like the ladder of existence. The hierarchy of stations in life.

Earlier I was a homeless man. Now I’m a single guy living in a small apartment, saving a tiny bit of money from a pretty hard and low-paid job. If I push a bit more I can be a single guy in a medium apartment, with a car, and a slightly higher-paying job.

But not a new job within the same company, just some totally different job that of a totally different nature. Hopefully more meaningful. Right now I’m making retail wages and doing retail work, so low pay for low meaning. But hopefully I can move up to something like social worker salary (not high in the overall scheme of things, but higher pay than retail work).

That corporate ladder is a microcosm of the overall ladder I’m describing. In both hierarchies successful execution, smooth surfing, is the path to the next layer up. And the responsibilities get more complex.

And yes, I appreciate you reminding me to face it and communicate, instead of just backing away silently, when I don’t feel that I’m ready to face the problems of the next level.

Growth requires discomfort and a big part of that discomfort is taking the risk of trying things I feel like I can’t do.

One of my problems in my career is I interview extremely well. I’ve talked my way into jobs I can’t do, then failed badly.

And it’s not by lying or anything. I just sound really smart because I’m a good talker and sound extremely confident.

But interviews are sprints and jobs are marathons, and I’ve burned myself by failing to acknowledge what I can and can’t do.

lol true dat. Thanks for reminding me I wasn’t even thinking about holiday uptick in activity.

However I will say it’s easier than being on the street, and if I go long enough at this level without fucking up, I get to level up to someplace even easier.

The thing that really scares me though is the way the problems change at the higher levels. The current problems get easy enough and new problems become visible and those problems are so complex. I like simple, even if it’s hard. I used to run long distance races. I love pushing into a simple but really hard problem like that. But complexity really scares me.

I’ve been working retail for the past year and I have gotten so much less reactive.

It’s really hard to toe the line between allowing disrespect, and being disrespectful myself.

One of my main goals for myself right now is to be able to hold my boundaries without getting loud and unpleasant. Just quietly, gently.