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Collapse of Earth's main ocean water circulation system is already happening
  • Been using NextDNS as well and happy with it. I went the opposite way. Had piholes and figured that yearly expense was cheaper than me messing with them when something broke. Now I get to be annoyed with someone else instead when something breaks!

  • What was the biggest bullet that you have dodged?
  • 12 ga, not sure if slug or shot.

    Gun was held to my head for 20-30 mins during some gang stupidity involving a family member not wanting to leave a party I was supposed to pick them up from. I left, came back and the place was crawling with police and EMS. The same gun, held by the same guy was used to shoot another person in the face.

    I ended up having to give statements, got subpoenaed, and myself, family, and friends being threatened by same gang for a number of years.

  • Losing the fight.
  • I have, all kinds of therapies over nearly 30 years, and with doctors and therapists from coast to coast in the US.

    I've yet to find a therapist that helps. I've had some that I didn't like, and moved on, but even the good ones haven't been helpful.

  • Losing the fight.
  • I am grateful that you have found things that bring you peace.

    Unfortunately ADHD is in my mix, I am a serial hobby abandoner. Scuba diving, guitar, synth, piano, glass work, neon bending, painting, drawing, 3d modeling, fly tieing, I could go on. Nothing ever sticks or even feels like it moves the needle.

    I've been in and out of therapy for almost 30 years now, CBT, EMDR, Neurofeedback, DBT, psychodynamic, I'm sure I can't remember more. Have been seen by doctors from coast to coast here in the US.

    My frustration is that everyone keeps telling me to keep trying. What's left? I've asked about ECT, but my nobody wants to take a risk with my cluster of issues. They won't even entertain a lobotomy.

    At this point I'm on a handful of bullshit, including ketamine and psilocybin, just trying to alleviate something. All I get is two brief periods a week where it's not crushing, but I'm too out of it to really enjoy it.

    I appreciate the advice, I've been trying. I really have.

  • Losing the fight.
  • I appreciate what you are saying, and I know I am loved. I know what I deserve even.

    How long is reasonable for me to wait before I give up on feeling any kind of peace? As it stands, I have 8 years before I can even consider any other options.

    Started with the cutting and suicidal ideation as a teen, and now I'm in my mid 40s now. I don't really even know if I know what it feels like to be happy. I just keep pretending everything is ok, under the surface I'm screaming for someone to put me out of my misery. Willing my heart to stop when I'm not otherwise engaged. Wishing I wouldn't wake up every night before sleep. And all desperately knowing that would be the worst for my child. But.

    When does it get to be my turn to stop hurting.

  • Losing the fight.

    I was diagnosed bipolar more than 20!years ago and have been on a slow but painful decline since.

    On and off meds (More than 50 at last count), in and out of treatment, inpatient and out.

    I have a kid, the most amazing little thing in the world. They are 10 now, their incredibly abusive mom and I having split and a nasty divorce 5 years ago.

    I have the most amazing partner, they are supportive, caring, just. I am so fucking lucky.

    So lucky that when my job was on the verge of killing me, after a stay in the hospital because they thought I had a heart attack, they grabbed my hand and said let's jump. Encouraging me to quit a well paid career in IT.

    Now I'm waiting on disability, I tried to work up the courage to apply for some entry level retail jobs just to give me something else to do and I panic. So bad sometimes I'm reaching for the Ativan.

    I was abused by my parents, raped by a priest and a camp counselor, I was nearly killed in some gang stupidity and had to testify and make myself and family a target as a kid. My second wife was so abusive I ended up shutting down my entire personality. I slept on the floor, with my dog, because I wasn't allowed on the bed. During the divorce I was accused of sexually abusing my kid by my ex, and for that lie I spent more than 4 weeks not being able to even talk to them. At 5.

    I am so tired. So tired of struggling, just to survive to hurt more. I have no plans to solve that because I can't leave earth while my child breathes, leaving them to be raised just by their mom would be disastrous. I can easily imagine them going to back to the cult compound they moved into when they left, and becoming another sexual assault victim of my kids grandfather, along side his other daughter he's been fucking since she was 12.

    I don't even know why I'm posting this. I can't really talk to anyone around me about it. I feel needy and bothersome.

    Fuck this sucks

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    Trump vows to deport millions. Builders say it would drain their crews and drive up home costs.
  • Thank you for what you do, it's absolutely necessary and we need people like you. I wouldn't for a moment say it's not worth doing.

    I don't blame them for not wanting to do construction. I ran fiber optic cable on poles, underground, into buildings for a long time. Not quite construction, but also not easy work. Pay was terrible, I was young, and they took advantage of me. for almost 10 years. I've roofed, I've framed, I've been a programmer, I've been a network engineer. ALL of those jobs were basically the same in that regard, decent pay sure... But the hours required, the recovery I had to go through. Nothing is worth that. I'm sad that I took this long to figure that out, I missed a lot of good times with my kiddo. I can never get that back.

    That's the same thing that's happening to all of us at this point. There's NO reason there isn't enough money in the pipeline to get things built that need to be built, paying people a wage that they can live on, and without eating nearly all of their time 'off' work. If you have to take so much time to recover that you feel like it eats into your personal job, your work life balance is way out of wack.

    I don't want to sound like I think your career isn't valid, or isn't important. Every single person that's a part of making our lives work deserves to get paid well. No matter their job. There are so many resources available to the world we could all have better lives, but then a small group of slime would have fewer 0's in their bank account. Otherwise, they wouldn't even notice.

    To speak to the other side, there are a number of people that thrive in that environment. My dad was one of them. He's at the end of his life, dying of Parkinson's and now seeing the relationship I have with my kiddo. I can see the pain in his face. He wants to have had that with me, but decided that money was more important. He's going to die a multi millionaire, I hope those dollars comfort him.

    That took a turn, I'm sorry. But it feels good to get out so I'm leaving it.

  • Trump vows to deport millions. Builders say it would drain their crews and drive up home costs.
  • You see that none of that is a good thing right?

    I don't want to work a job that destroys my work life balance for any pay. Doesn't matter how much. Nobody should have to give up their life for money.

    Young people are more likely to want to take care of themselves and not have the toxic mindset you and I were brought up with. They aren't just taking it on the chin, or putting in their time, or whatever bullshit platitudes my generation and older like to sling at young workers or those not willing to eat shit for peanuts.

    You are just perpetuating that toxic mindset, in servitude of the moneyed class.

  • Nobara Sound Delay, could us a push in the right direction

    EDIT : Appreciate all the input, never did figure out what the cause was.... Somewhere in booting between two kernels it just .. stopped being a pain in the ass .... Not my favorite type of resolution

    Two weeks ago, I did some updates on my nobara desktop and ever since I've had a significant delay in any audio playing.

    I've been poking at it with no luck, and am just out of ideas. Logs don't show anything worrying, running pulse audio in debug looks fine, tried reinstalling packages, tried some tweaks i found online and nothing seems to work.

    Rebooting into live environments from USB shows the sound working fine so decent chance the hardware is ok.

    Been administrating headless *nix systems since the 90s, finally decided to try on the desktop now that I don't have to use Windows, and .. struggling with this.

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