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by hestipod 7y ago
Your post just made me chug a glass of water. Having seen many people go through it (most of my family as well), I am terrified of stones and drink a lot of water and thus pee annoyingly often. Staying in the lane between stones and water i
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by hestipod 7y ago
Growing up in the US then living for quite some time in Europe it was initially weird for me to not see AC everywhere, but I quickly realized it was much more comfortable for me. Something about being in a cold building and then going out i
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by hestipod 7y ago
Guess some Texans have seen your post ;) Not in TX myself but after a recent Texas-like heat/humidity wave I found myself thinking how much more energized and comfortable I felt after it left, but it was still subjectively quite a high
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by hestipod 7y ago
I even dispute the notion that there is anything wrong with being anti-American. It's not a personal insult unless one chooses to take it as such. I am American by birth, have lived abroad, and find the way things are done in the US to
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by hestipod 7y ago
I've been on the hunt for the "perfect" body for years after having gone way too in depth into testing refills and obsessing over minutiae of the writing experience, but I seem to want the opposite of what most people do. I w
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by hestipod 7y ago
Here is another similar one I had saved: https://www.wellappointeddesk.com/2014/06/epic-refill-guide-...
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by hestipod 7y ago
That's mostly what my reaction was too :) I did think there would be a lot more interest. I would have thought Trek fans were common here.
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by hestipod 7y ago
New trailer for the series. I am putting the YouTube link below as well but it may be regional. It might sound ridiculous to be so excited over a TV show, but TNG was formative for me. My life is completely miserable and hopeless and day to
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Star Trek: Picard(startrek.com)
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by hestipod 7y ago
If the sustainable tight knit community is awash with horrible "values" like racism, homophobia, xenophobia, tribal bigotry and arrogance etc then I don't want to be a part of it. It's perpetuating the wrong things in my
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by hestipod 7y ago
I live in a different country now and it's difficult to maintain long distance relationships in the best circumstances. When I lived there and saw them on the street (I lived nearby) it was always nice and they are wonderful people, bu
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by hestipod 7y ago
I've always been envious of such families. Only one person in my family was really a quality person, and he passed long ago. I moved abroad for a time to a country where families are closer and while it was exhausting and intense in it
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by hestipod 7y ago
I think they took PoC to mean "Person of Color" rather than whatever the parent comment meant, which I think was quite clearly not that.
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by hestipod 7y ago
>The default is people like me. I think not finding things in common with young people isn't abnormal. My childhood was miserable partly BECAUSE of the sameness of it all. I find the suburban vanilla Stepford ways soul-killing. I ha
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by hestipod 7y ago
>The consequences can not be contained to those who >commit the action, so while you might want to be left >alone and free, the world you live in doesn’t allow for >it. Also nobody does it all alone, with the possible exception
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by hestipod 7y ago
I am not OP but I will answer as I have relevant experience. I grew up in Midwestern US suburbs and rural areas and find the problems he/she mentioned to be accurate. "Church" is always trotted out by people there as THE comm
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by hestipod 7y ago
I am an introvert but the isolation I experience is soul crushing. Half of it is location and culture, rural nowhere and no public transport. Half of it is poor health. I am not here by choice and it's sapping my will each day. Living
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by hestipod 7y ago
What would be the leanest linux browser option if one HAD to use Google Docs. I am assuming there would be no practical way for a typical user (read "not a software engineer") to do that in a text only environment.
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by hestipod 7y ago
My sincere apologies if I ascribed intent to you that wasn't there. Your comment is the sort of thing nationalistic egoists say all the time and I am self admittedly extremely sensitive to this because of how much the topic has affecte
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by hestipod 7y ago
I didn't downvote you and don't like how that tool is used as a "disagree" button. However, you are describing the well known "Pascal's Wager" and it doesn't do it for me. IF, and I don't think i
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by hestipod 7y ago
I am sorry you are suffering like this. I get it. It upsets me to see your words downvoted/greyed out. That's a big part of the problem in that people attack things that they don't want to hear or that make them afraid...rath
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by hestipod 7y ago
>One thing to consider is that life circumstances that make us stressed and feel suicidal are transitory, but suicide is permanent Mine haven't been transitory. If anything they get worse. Sure it's sensible for a kid to see if
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by hestipod 7y ago
I am not the person you replied to but I want to ask you when this happens? I am 45...have been dealing with this for 15 years in a bad way on top of a miserable childhood. I had some good years in my 20s when I was able to make my own path
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by hestipod 7y ago
Because it's not as simple as you think to do that. I'd have left permanently long ago. I have lived abroad a few times but could never get legitimized because of my wrecked health and life collapsing interrupting the process each
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by hestipod 7y ago
That's what really did it for me. Losing any notion of security or a future. Initially I thought losing my physical health was the worst of it, but the losses of relationship and financial (and thus physical) security were an order of
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by hestipod 7y ago
Yeah its deeply hypocritical in many ways. I just don't understand how it's so hard for so many to just be good to each other, to take care of each other. There is too much angry, tribal nonsense and way too much opposition to hum
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by hestipod 7y ago
You can never have this discussion honestly because egos come out and attack it. So many people have their identity so deeply tied to their place of birth it's impossible to extricate them and talk about any failings. I live in rural
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by hestipod 7y ago
I have never heard anyone rational, even in pro choice forums, say it should be a free for all. Put age limits on it since children have developing minds and lack the perspective to make such choices. Put awareness/rationality checks o
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by hestipod 7y ago
Victorinox built in scissors are great. I use mine on a Classic all the time. They will send you a few replacement springs for free if you ask. It's the only problem I have ever had and that's after years and years of abuse.
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by hestipod 7y ago
Nail on head. For the majority of people, if it makes them feel afraid, threatened, confused...then it is something to be ignored or attacked. That's a sad truth I have learned through this experience. The empathetic and caring people

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