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lonefighter

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  • How happy are you with your life?

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  • Well, I have a job, a roof over my head, food in my fridge, and for the first time in my entire life I've the ability to actually start doing hobbies and figure out what I actually like and who I am and I'm not being entirely held back by finances or people, although I'm still in a very financially tight spot. So I'm blessed for that.

    On the other hand, my first waking thought every day is how lonely I am, it's always the thing that keeps me awake, and I can't sleep more than an hour or so at a time without waking up having panic attacks because I'm so miserable and alone. It's not even about being in a relationship, I don't even have a single friend anymore that I can just send a text to or talk to about something funny that happened in my day or anything. I'm so fucking lonely. I just want someone who will tell me about their day and share memes with me or something and make me feel like I'm not alone on this damned earth.

  • What are your thoughts on apolitical people?

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  • "When someone tells me he is politically neutral, I always ask which politics he specifically has in mind" - Baptism of Fire (The Witcher Book 5)

  • Pizza Hut closing 250 US stores as parent company considers selling the brand

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  • I haven't had Pizza Hut since I was a kid. It's not great pizza, but you used to be able to sign up for the summer book club at the library and get prizes for reading so many books. I was a pathetic kid with no friends who read nonstop to cope with the loneliness and boredom and one of the prizes was free coupons for personal pan pizzas. We were the kind of barely middle class that thought burger king was a huge treat we only got once a year, so earning a pan pizza was the absolute shit as an elementary school aged kid. My mom always took me there for my end of summer reward lunch and it always felt incredibly special.

  • Khajiit has wares...

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  • No coin either, but I've got pets AND cat treats. How much for the controller?

  • Looking for recommendations for a conversation style podcast

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  • We Were Told by the VLDL crew. If you aren't familiar, they are YouTube creators out of NZ who started by make skits lovingly mocking video games and now have expanded into stuff like doing TTRPG and own their own studio with the biggest green screen in NZ, but they actually seem like really sweet, down to earth guys. I haven't listened to their podcast since some of their early episodes, but it's basically them just chatting with each other or a guest about random topics and it sounds like listening in on a conversation between some good friends. They don't take themselves seriously and their first podcasts they liked to joke that they're "3 white men doing a podcast, something that has never happened before". Topics I listened to included mental health, the fact that two of them were an extra in Avatar and one actually has a blip of recognizable screen time and what it was like, their careers, having kids (one has a kid, one doesn't want kids, and one is on the fence, and they even stopped to get the opinion of their woman producer when they started talking about how pregnancy affects women's careers because they acknowledged it was sort of weird not to let a woman talk). I really need to add their podcast to my gym podcast playlist, I've just been catching up on podcasts related to my job.

    Speaking of which, super niche, but if you have any interest in learning anything about EMS, I highly recommend the EMS 20/20 podcast. It's two paramedics who are good friends who either review cases sent to them or who give each other DnD type medical scenarios and roll D20s to determine outcomes and there's tons of educational stuff but it's also really funny and light hearted and makes me laugh a lot.

  • Feds Identify “Leader of Antifa”

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  • Interesting! I also agree the second option sounds far more likely. I was raised super Christian (am not anymore) and I never understood or agreed with the belief that the Bible can't be mistranslated, deliberately or accidentally. It's been hundreds of years that humans have had their hands on it and humans suck. Of course it's been twisted and misconstrued.

  • How big or small would a fairy or pixie be?

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  • I always assumed children were charmed by the fae rather than overpowered and taken by force.

  • Feds Identify “Leader of Antifa”

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  • From my understanding, it's not referring to the eye of a physical needle, but the city he was in when he made that analogy had a small gate known as "The Eye of the Needle" that was meant for human passage and not carts/large animals, which would go through the main gates. You could theoretically force a camel through it, but it would be nearly impossible. I heard that long long ago from some video that analyzed the meaning and context behind biblical stories and have no idea if that's actually real, so I'd be happy to be proven wrong or right.

  • My therapist says she might have to report my abusive family to the authorities. How do I avoid being reported so the cops don't show up and make everything worse?

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  • I've read a few of OPs posts and I don't want to sound harsh but can't tell if they're genuinely looking for help or if they're just stuck in a self-pity-I-need-a-savior loop. OP, are you a bird who is flying repeatedly into a window while there's an open door right there because you're too terrified and traumatized to realize you could just fly away, or are you truly locked in a cage? You'll never know unless you ask for help opening the door. Maybe it's locked and the key is unreachable, but maybe someone will hand you the keys. Yes, in today's world funding is being cut, but it still exists, and there are still organizations that help victims.

    Now this part is harsh and maybe it's unfair to you and if so I apologize, but you can either start to be an adult, start to help yourself and ask for help and see if you find any, or you can realize that you don't actually want help, that you'd rather stay in your miserable situation and aren't actually looking for change. Because I see people who hate the awful situation they're in but are so trapped in a victim mentality to actually want to stand on their own 2 feet and escape. I grew up in an abusive home and it was nowhere near as bad as what you are living in but it's hard getting out and re-acclimating to the world, but you can either be miserable and trapped for your entire life or you can start to do scary things and take the chance that you find a way out of this.

  • bbq flavored confusion

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  • My ICE loving MAGA coworker trying to rile me up: "These damned liberals drive me crazy"

    Me: "I agree, but not for the same reasons"

  • Participation in General Strike + Public Service Jobs?

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  • I work in EMS. I will be at work on Friday. I want to participate in the general strike, but if someone in my community dies or has a worse outcome because my ambulance isn't in service then I feel like it is defeating the purpose of a general strike which has the ultimate goal of helping the general public. I have just determined to not spend any money and to express solidarity with anyone who is participating or speak out if I hear any negativity towards the strike.

  • Outside of politics, have you ever had a position on something that you have doubled down on and refused to move an inch on to the point of upsetting someone? Were you right?

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  • I love candy corn. I like sticking it onto my front upper incisors like I'm some weird harvest vampire. Yes I'm an adult.

  • TIL “sleet” does not have the same meaning in all English speaking countries

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  • It doesn't hail in the winter, and hail is larger. Hail comes down in pellets due to the fact that it's made by water droplets falling down, getting blown back up into a cold cloud, freezing, getting blown back up to freeze some more, and so on until it's heavy enough to overcome the updraft and fall to the ground. Sleet is like rain that freezes as its falling, but doesn't become the soft gentle snow, and the difference between sleet and freezing rain is that freezing rain is liquid until it hits a frozen surface.

  • TIL “sleet” does not have the same meaning in all English speaking countries

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  • Yes, around here the difference between freezing rain and sleet is that freezing rain is liquid until it lands and it freezes on contact with a cold surface and sleet is solid as it comes down.

  • TIL “sleet” does not have the same meaning in all English speaking countries

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  • If its winter, you walk outside and the precipitation is very loud and stings like hell when it hits you it's sleet.

  • Soundtrack for these dark times?

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  • Rise Against is always my "The world is fucked I'm so mad" band. All their stuff is great, but Re-education(Through Labor), The First Drop, and Mourning in America are so incredible and so relevant.

  • in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention

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  • I'm a woman and I'm all about doing things for the people I love, but I don't really cook. I'll happily unclog a shower drain, put together furniture, change your spark plugs, but I hate cooking. Nothing makes me feel attracted to someone quite like when they cook for me; it makes me feel so loved. I joke that the worst part of being single is having to make my own dinner and do my own grocery shopping. I eat so simply now because I refuse to actually cook for just myself.

  • I'd probably raise one eyebrow. Maybe.

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  • If a dragon flew overhead right now I'd be absolutely delighted, run outside waving and shrieking "OMG look everyone it's a fucking dragon I can't believe it I'm so excited" and promptly be incinerated by said dragon.

  • What diseases do we never think of but should really know how to spot the signs of?

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  • I mean, it's mostly the older range of the spectrum, but I've absolutely seen 50-something year olds become acutely confused suddenly and ultimately get diagnosed with a UTI.

    Source: 8 years in EMS. I get called by panicked family members all the time.