Somebody made a post a few months ago about covering their windows with aluminum in order to keep the heat out. I commented on their post, saying that I already had been doing that for a few months and that it had been quite effective. I also added that I was expecting the police to come knocking on my door any second now, because it looks absolutely psychotic from the outside: It either looks like I'm doing human trafficking or like I'm growing weed.

I was watching Breaking Bad a few hours ago, eating dinner, trying to relax after work, when suddenly my doorbell rings. Nobody rings my doorbell?! I have a T-shirt on, otherwise I'm completely naked. I look through the peeping hole and I see three police officers, standing in quite the strategic formation. I call out to them, saying that I will just be a minute. I put on some pants and gently open the door. My heart was racing.

Apparently some neighbor had called 911 because they "got worried by seeing how the windows are covered". I explained that I am really weak against heat and I invited the police to come inside if they felt the need to check the apartment for whatever reason. I invited them twice and twice they declined. I asked whether light was reflecting harshly on any of my neighbors or the likes and that, if that is indeed the case, I can take the shit down no prob. They said "no", thanked me for opening the door and went away.

I took the shit down. Summer's gone anyway. And while doing so, I saw and heard them in the street below, informing some civilian with a dog about our conversation. I acted like I wasn't interested in the scene and kept removing the insulation from the windows.

I am absolutely thrown off balance here.

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Just as I left my workplace and turned around the first corner, enjoying the cozy protection of my umbrella in the downpour of the ages, begrudging only the unending noise of the automobiles passing by, I see a pile of papers, books and notebooks scattered about violently under the eves of my workplace. Notice them in the corner of my eye is what I did, not stopping for such trivialities. After all, I was about to have a cup of coffee at my favorite café, listen to Diana Panton and read Marxist theories. Then, faster than I could say workers of the world, unite, it struck me that the books must belong to a child attending one of the schools in the vicinity. I stop, turn around and walk up to the painfully ill-handled books. I see a firstname, in quite poor handwriting, scribbled on the front page of several notebooks: Incognito 4C. As if taken directly from any number of anime series, a flashback washes over me and I see myself being harassed, bullied, violated. Hating the world, hating myself. I snap out of it. I feel a burning sensation in my stomach. I feel the blood rush to my head. I make fists with both my hands. I go to the nearest school, just a few hundred meters walk from my workplace. I tell about the books, the firstname of their owner and their class. This is a junior highschool. There is no "4C" here. Try XYZ. I thank them, leave the school and call social services to report the matter. They thank me for the report, I thank them for receiving it and walk to my favorite coffee shop. Marx and his theories will have to wait. There is too much to feel there. After finishing writing this, I'll read up on pointers and arrays in the programming language C instead. There is not as much to feel there.

int triggersOfTrauma;  
bool newExperience;  
if (newExperience == true) {  
	triggersOfTrauma++;  
}  

Ugh and many people have made memes and such of this but its so annoying. If your policy says its to old then just have that in the message. Implying its the wrong one just pisses people off. You have a password manager and you know its the right one but you do the forgot password link and then when you put your password manager one in the truth comes out as it says you can't use your current password. I swear non of the actual IT people from my heydey would ever do this. I feel like its the cs/mba types that bring all this bs.

I have read major newspaper in english speaking the world.

The Guardian, The Economist, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, The Financial Times...

By and large, the worst is the Wall Street Journal. It's owned by the same family who owns Fox News and The New York Post. A lot of the content is absolute trash.

Leftists keep attacking the New York Times for attacking Israel or being pro-corporations. That's actually the proof they have no idea what they are talking about. I regularly find opinion articles urging sanctions on Israel or stronger laborl laws. I have never seen any of this in the Wall Street Journal.

In my experience, the WSJ is A LOT more pro-israel and a lot more pro-corporations than the NYT. It's not even close.

I mean look at this trash:

What is the origin of the false belief — constantly repeated — that almost all scientists agree about global warming?

There is actually no scientific consensus on global warming

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303480304579578462813553136

There's no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to 'decarbonize' the world's economy.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204301404577171531838421366

Climate Science is not settled

https://www.wsj.com/articles/climate-science-is-not-settled-1411143565

Global warming doesn't matter. Contrary to the latest news, the evidence that global warming will have serious effects is thin.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB119258265537661384

President Obama wrote “As a Nation, we must act before it is too late.”

Obama is wrong. There is no reason to act.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-climate-change-religion-1429832149

It's the worst major newspaper in the english speaking world.

It's the premium version of the New York Post.

To be or not to be
T568B

My fingers are burning
My patience is gone
Is this the price of learning
Network engineering on my own?

Had I instead chosen T568A
Would it have been a child's play?
Nay, ended up with a crossover cable, I would have
Becoming crazy, becoming mad
Suitable for patching similar devices
Unfit for my goals, unrewarding of my sacrifices

Okay I'm done. Fuck this I'm gonna munch a bunch now.🍔🍟🍕🌭🥪🌮🌯🍿🍪

Americans who say socialism is good are fucking idiots.

In socialist countries, here is what actually happens

• A small group of powerful people control most of the economy

• People struggle to make a living due to high living costs and low wages

• Most folks can't afford medical care

There are a lot of things I have always disliked about the United States.

The gun violence. The religiosity. Their naive belief that complex problems can be solved easily. The fucked up healthcare system. But I'm not of those people who blindly hate americans. There are some things about their culture that I liked.

They have great universities like Stanford, Yale, MIT, Carnegie Mellon

They have very talented producers and writers. They produce great shows like Breaking Bad, Prison Break, Better Call Saul, The Wire

They are a multicultural society with religious freedom

They have the world's most beautiful national parks

But honestly, I'm truly scared of what this country is becoming.

The country is openly threatening Canada, putting 50% tariffs on a country that has never done anything bad to them.

Trump pardoned 1500 people who attacked the United States Capitol. He called them great patriots

The government says climate change is a myth and there is no reason to worry about it

ICE is beating people on the street. WTF??? Most of these people are restaurant workers, construction workers. Just because they are here illegaly doesn't mean you should beat them up

They talk about invading Greenland whether people like it or not

They just bombed Iran. The US Military has been bombing Iran for months and months with no end in sight

And yet, nearly half of the American public gleefully laps it up, with states like Wyoming, Alabama or Idaho practically worshipping the ground he walks on. 40% of people would probably support him if he bombed London tomorrow morning

China is a dictatorship, but the CCP actually looks reasonable

I'm genuinely scared

This time for calling out Nazis that adopt Norse mythology and culture. No hate, no threats, just the reasoning that if they believe in genetic racial supremacy, they must bow down to my guaranteed superior Scandinavian genetic purity and heed my words that racism is for the weak to steal valor by the least common denominator.

This time not even a ban from a mod of some random sub but sitewide from an administrator.

I'm not even mad. I got under their skin. It's worth it every time.

Edit: I'm not claiming to be racially superior but I'm demanding those that do to be consequent or admit it's bullshit

I'm at this wonderful, quiet, ambient coffee shop. Never been here before. Just ordered some mushroom stew. Can't wait.

AND THIS GUY IS CLEARING HIS THROAT EVERY 30 SECONDS I SWEAR TO GOD. They've been doing it for five minutes straight. I'm going to lose it. 😭

I'm going to put in my earbuds as soon as I've finishes typing this, but that kind of ruins the whole experience. 😭 I'll try some white noise...

Vent over.

I used to talk to random people online. About a year ago, everything was so active. Discord servers filled with people, friends active on Discord, so many random people. Nowadays? Nobody. What's going on? I'm going to college after this summer, sure, and my IRL friends are busy, I get that. But the Discord servers, even games, bro, nobody's talking in games anymore. L4D2? I used to talk with so many random people in VC on it. Now? Nothing. So I thought to myself, sure, maybe I have no life and I should go outside. I went outside quite a lot, rode my bike daily, nothing, dude. I genuinely don't know what's up, lmao. What is everyone doing this summer? Why did everything die this year exactly? I'm genuinely confused. I mean, sure, I could go to parties and meet lots of people, but I just don't like them, there's nothing good about them if you're not drunk.

I moved away from my hometown nearly 8 years ago. I was really close to a lot of people before that (I've known some of them since preschool), but I moved, and grew further apart from them naturally as time went on. This is mainly because they all hung out together in person, and while I attempted to stay in touch with them over the years, I never really found success in doing so.

I did like to lurk on their discord server occasionally, mostly so I could see what some of them were getting up to. I would occasionally react to their messages in their discord server, but that was pretty much it for the last 3 or 4 years. It made me feel a bit of nostalgia and made me happy to see the people they were growing up to be. I don't have social media other than here and discord (and I've frankly been on discord less and less), so it does kind of feel like a bummer that I won't be able to see their messages anymore.

I don't really feel any anger over it since we had grown apart, but I do feel some type of sadness that I can't quite identify. It's probably because in the 8 years that my now wife and I have lived where we do now, we have struggled to meet new friends. I legitimately have no in person friends other than my wife, which is not a healthy place to be. So, I suppose this feels like officially losing almost all of my in person friends, past or present.

There's still a couple that I occasionally chat with on Signal, and ironically I'm in my hometown visiting family right now and will see one of them in a few days. I might ask them about it, but again, I'm not expected to be re-added and I honestly probably shouldn't be. Maybe it'll push me to want to put the effort in to meet some new friends.

For now, though, I'm just oddly sad. It definitely doesn't help that I'm here visiting when I was removed, I guess.

Edit (update): friend I visited today said that they sometimes clean house and added me back.

tl;dr: she [F27] cheated on me [M30] with a one night stand, I forgave her, but I guess she wanted to leave the relationship any ways and just be alone. I didn't try as much to stop her this time, I could see that she doesn't love me in the same way anymore. I just wanted to vent.

I am not saying that I am the best person out there. I've made mistakes. But I always tried to support in any way I could, and in the things that I couldn't, I kept trying to improve.

We had a good run, of about 1.5-2 years (keeping it vague). We had fights, we had good moments, little precious moments as well. But we both struggled in the early days of our relationship and even before. In the early days We mostly spend our time in my shared apartment, where I had a single room. It was big enough that we could spend our time there. But as I got a better job, we decided to move in together.

We found a place, we told each other parent's about us, both sides were supportive, things were going great, we were planning about our life together and even talked about marriage.

But I think I was blind. She struggled with keeping her job and studies. She has ADHD and depression, she also says that she has autism, but I hasn't been diagnosed. I struggle with understanding her views sometimes, but I try to improve. Sometimes I cannot tell in the moments when she's harsh whether I should take it as if she really means it or should I assume it's her attempt to escape the conversation.

It was a few weeks ago that we had another fight. She doesn't want to stay at a job where some of her co-workers are far-right in their behavior. Although in some conversations, I did agree that we can look for other jobs, and we tried to find other jobs. One day, as I was getting late for work, the fight started again on the same topic, and I said to her in a very indifferent manner that she should "just go to work". I think that was the moment when something shattered.

She left that day, for the whole day and night. I tried calling and messaging her, but she didn't respond. Even her family contacted me to know where she is. We all were worried. The next day she messages me that she did weed (she avoided it for years). I remained calm and just asked her to come home and we can talk, but she said that she doesn't want to remain in this relationship. I wasn't ready for this message, I was shocked. I asked her to at least talk with

The next day we met, and she told me that had cheated on me as well during that night from before (with a person that she's been engaging with at a therapeutic clinic that she signed up for as a patient). I knew about the clinic as well as this friend of hers, but I never suspected this. I trusted her.

I simply asked whether she loved me, I am ready to believe that this was a mistake. We can talk about this, we can try to build the relationship again. She said that she feels guilty and that she couldn't continue. But I insisted, thinking that if she does love me, and that there is still intention on fixing this, then we can work on this, despite the mistakes. Admittedly, I haven't been as supportive too, I want to be better as well for her, to be able to understand her, to be there for her when she wants someone to talk to. She said that she loves me, and we continued the relationship. I haven't told anyone about the cheating.

Things were fine during these days. She went to visit her cousin, who as about to leave in a week's time. However, just recently, she came home and said that she's found a different apartment, and that she doesn't want to be in this relationship anymore. I didn't know what to say. I was already pretty feeling pretty homesick and was feeling down most of the day. But I think I knew that there's nothing to save in this relationship anymore. She doesn't love me. No point in asking her to stay. But I still asked her to talk, it didn't go anywhere. She left now, I'm here alone.

It hurts being lonely. I feel that the last 3 years I have been in isolation. With more and more friends growing apart as you age, I never felt so disconnected from others than I do now.

I grew a lot as a person in this city, but what hurts is that the little friends I had left here, only 1 asked to make arrangements before I go. I did ask other friends to see them or to tell them when I'm free, but they don't seem interested, and I won't ask again. This is painful. Just a realislzation I already knew. This is devastating and humiliating.

It hurts being this lonely.

I am a guy who moved to a western country a few years ago. I am a vegan, atheist, antinatalist on top of already being an introvert, a privacy enthusiast, and a person from the other end of the world.

I find it extremely hard to find anyone. I literally haven't been on any dates in, like, 6 years now. I have zero success on dating sites because:

1. Most of my values are so extreme to people that they would not want to swipe right on me
2. This seems to reinforce the algorithms on the sites, and they score me further lower. When requested data from Bumble, I found out that I swipe right on ~3% on the profiles, Bumble only shows my profile to what amounts to 30% of that 3%, and I am swiped right by only ~1.5% of that.
3. I have been blocked a few times before because of stupid stuff like absence of Google Play Services, phone numbers from a different country, etc., which I believe further lowers my score. Also, I do not verify myself, so yay.

(In my opinion, I am an average looking guy, and my photos are okay, so I do not think the photos are the problem)

Between work, a couple of hobbies, gym and recovering from work, I get no time to meet with people in person. Even if I wanted to, there aren't many common places to meet with new people. I miss when we were young, and could casually make friends in school without even trying.

Some days, I just want to remove all those "filters", but then I cannot explain the removal logically/philosophically. I wish I could have lived my life in blissful ignorance of everything.

May be I am doing adulting and everything related horribly wrong. But regardless, I just wanted to vent and get it out.

Note: I know that there are people who do not agree with my values. I would be happy to discuss them (not sure if this thread is appropriate for that though), but I would appreciate if you would not outright dismiss them.

Yep. That's the truth of it all. That big huge conspiracy theory you probably heard about is not really that exciting or not really that much interesting as much as you think. It's really just the government being stupid and playing around with their citizens because they can and they don't care about humanity as much as you and me.

I encountered a theory about how the Doors were feds, if you don't know who the Doors are, is that they were a acid rock, psychadelic rock band formed in 60s and pretty much are known for their interesting and variety of musical styles during a time of 1960s countercultre where most people were known to be hippies and Woodstock.

The theory comes from the fact that most of the people from the Doors and many other individauls of well-known artists of that time were all living in California and their parents were all federal workers or so I was told. Apparently, this means the parents have influence and they all worked for the CIA, and I'm gonna be honest.

****That's not how that works.

If anything, I'm surprised given how the CIA was at that time, I'm shocked that the Doors and many other bands were not censored if anything if that was somewhat true.

I'm so tired of conspiracy theories because they're not that interesting once you actually get some context coming around and they're extremely easy to explain when you finally get some intelligence.. And the worst thing, these theories masks our actual issues constantly on a daily basis because no one doesn't want to read and learn.

"Why did this happen" "Because Protocol dictates so-so-so-so-so" That's not conveient that's literally someone explaining to you why this is occuring. Yes, it's fun to think of random reasons but the most biggest issue while it's fun, we don't say reality outloud and the real reason why this happening in our reality

Why is this happening? Because at reality's core, shit's boring as fuck. It's escapism at it's finest. So that's why at the end of the day, your AM radio or Joe Rogan Podcast, there's just two people on the microphone simply writing real life fan-fiction.

I don't know anything about Kentucky except the fact they invented KFC.

Kentucky elects total scumbags. The kind of politicians that attack scientists, take bribes, cut taxes on the super-rich. Surveys show Kentucky love Trump. So I assume that Kentucky must be really bad place full of evil people.

I generally judge a place by the kind of politicians that they elect.

Wyoming is the most pro-Trump state in the US. I would never go there. I think the majority of them are very backward and violent people.

Maine elected Bernie Sanders. He is an honest man. So I really like Maine.

Did you buy it on Amazon? Can I buy this on Amazon? Can I find this on Amazon?

One of my many hobbies is archery, and at the range, there's this new guy who asked me if he could find some archery stuff on Amazon, because apparently that's the only place he buys stuff from.

One week he's shooting this recurve bow that seems improperly sized for him, then he comes back another week with a compound bow and complains about the draw length being too short. I tell this guy to go to an actual archery website to buy decent equipment since the combined cost of all his current shitty equipment will cover a decent beginner recurve and some additional accessories. He tells me, '"if I can shoot on shitty bows then I can shoot on anything", after that, an arrow bounces off the target and we found out the arrow tip is poorly glued on.

Any of the numerous hobbies I take part in, you don't buy this shit on Amazon. Machined pens, specific airsoft components, balisongs, rock climbing equipment, scuba diving gear, even little fucking resistors on electrical equipment you don't buy on Amazon.

The combination of the easy one place shop for everything and ignorant people will kill people one of these days.

Key takeaway is that I ask all of you in any hobby groups to direct newbies towards places where they can get started in a way where they're not getting garbage equipment that will end up costing them or hurting themselves (and others)

I'm staying in my brother's house and there has been so many instances where something weird happened that I'm starting to think there's indeed a presence in this house.

They all happen in the second floor and the stairs to the third floor but never in the third floor or the first one, even tho the first floor is darker and scarier. I've slept there many times and nothing ever happens.

Now the second floor is another story... The balcony's door opening by itself, hearing steps when there's no one in the house, extremely loud noises of something falling to the floor, noises of the chairs in the dining room being moved, and knocking noises on the second floor's bedroom.

I've slept in that bedroom with a friend, all night long knocking noises that are too ambiguous to know where they specifically come from, sometimes the knocking is faster and then it slows down. The scariest thing is that my friend asked it to stop and it indeed stopped for a few seconds before it starting again... I swear I almost peed myself.