same, I thrived in COVID. no more commutes, literal 4.0 terms because I can nap in between online classes and do homework on 2nd monitor but pay attention when the lecture gets somewhere fuzzy
I was unemployed, isolated, and anosmic-- then covid hit and I was like, "hey everyone, welcome to the club! Yes, it does suck but at least now there's people to empathize with."
Dang, that's rough. I'm glad things turned around. Speaking to my own psychology: It's easy to internalize a string of bad luck. Then when other people go through it-- whether in group therapy, a global pandemic, or a massive recession-- it shows how random or circumstantial life and luck can be. It helped me internalize it less and get out of my own way.
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"so, it all started with this fuckin gorilla..."
I'm a proponent of the theory that the weasel in the LHC is what opened the rift
LHC is definitely the cause. Harambe was just a symptom.
Ball out for Harambe!
Wait, are you asking me to play really good basketball? Or expose just the one testicle?
Yes.
2016-2017 was the worst time in my life. Covid was ezpz
same, I thrived in COVID. no more commutes, literal 4.0 terms because I can nap in between online classes and do homework on 2nd monitor but pay attention when the lecture gets somewhere fuzzy
Covid was the best years of my life.
I was unemployed, isolated, and anosmic-- then covid hit and I was like, "hey everyone, welcome to the club! Yes, it does suck but at least now there's people to empathize with."
Dang, that's rough. I'm glad things turned around. Speaking to my own psychology: It's easy to internalize a string of bad luck. Then when other people go through it-- whether in group therapy, a global pandemic, or a massive recession-- it shows how random or circumstantial life and luck can be. It helped me internalize it less and get out of my own way.
Yeah I felt the same.
Also afterwards it's been rather easy to ask people to imagine if lock down had lasted for five years instead, and how they would feel about it.
Pretty funny how I was very suicidal in 2016-2017.
2019 was the year time stopped for me. anything prior to that year was the "before times"
2017 for me if we go by having processed that year..,
I mean Mario Galaxy was just released yesterday and that was in 2007 It couldn’t be that soon.
The one on the Wii? No way
Two months and eight days 🙃
2016? That's ancient history. 2020-2022 still holding me back. 2024 still feels new.
Hey, watch out for that Adolph Hitler fella! I hear he's a bad egg!
Too early for jokes about that
It's closer to 2 months.
No waaaaay
I only know because I saw it in another meme.
201320122011*Wake me up when September ends.
I was 12 back then, now I'm 20, for me, that's an eternity, and I always had found crazy that for other people is nothing but a blink of an eye.q
Wait until you’re 30
Dweeb lords stuck in prior years.
Do you remember?
No, remind me
Do people still think this joke is funny
It's not a joke.
Yes. Yes we do. Because it is.
People who don't take themselves seriously do.
Yes, because trump isn't in jail yet, hopefully when he flees to Russia the military will shoot him down.