@Aria said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Jesus H. Fucking Christ, you insufferable monster.
It's 7:30 in the morning on a Sunday. Stop laying on your horn over and over and over. Get out of your car and go knock on the goddamn door.
We have a few of these in my apartment complex. I fucking hate them.
@Darren said in Which text editor?:
IMO, Sublime Text is the best text editor and Visual Studio Code is the best code editor. Both run on all major platforms and are widely supported by third party libraries and tools.
Sublime, yes.
I've come to love Atom for code.
You buy a house.
Your new homeowner state becomes public record.
YOU GET ON EVERY FUCKING CALL LIST KNOWN TO MANKIND
@Thenomain said in Which text editor?:
@Auspice said in Which text editor?:
I've come to love Atom for code.
Ahhem.
Auspice [Today at 2:09 PM] goddamnit atom why are you being stupid
I feel attacked rn
@Rinel said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):
In general, the best way to remedy this is to apologize for any hurt your words may have caused and to either rephrase the argument if it is a very important argument or, and personally I am suggesting this course of action in the instant situation, simply withdraw from the argument entirely.
Thank you. This is what I've been struggling to find the words for.
I was hurt. Because the timing of the original post was such that it felt very much like a pointed (I don't want to say attack, but certainly response) note to me. I can acknowledge that perhaps it was simply a matter of timing, but there was nothing in the wording that indicated it was a wholly separate and independent post in and of itself and based on how others have reacted, I don't believe I am the only one who felt that way.
So I don't think I am wrong in feeling hurt. And I don't think I'm wrong, either, in feeling that it would be nice to be apologized to. I am not demanding one. I am not going to put my foot down and say I am owed one. But it would be nice. I was in a very bad place (I am still not in a great one) and someone came along and said something that knocked me down further. Then, when it was pointed out that what they said was very hurtful... they later came back and attempted to paint me and those who pointed out what they said was hurtful as the villains in the thing.
Again, @Warma-Sheen, I acknowledge that it may be a matter of crossed wires: you may have come in with a wholly separate concept and it was simply poor timing (see gif below):
but instead of being like 'lemme help put out this fire' you just sort of..... threw on some gasoline and then ran away.
I hate how it's been roughly a year and I still get messages from people about my sex life that I shared with someone on this board in confidence.
How has everyone around here enjoyed knowing about that btw?
but are also at the same time giving blowjobs in airport bathrooms.
at least go somewhere clean to give blowjobs, jesus.
Keywords are the thing.
There are websites out there (I honestly cannot remember them and I am sorry; perhaps someone else here can!) wherein you can load in the job listing and your resume and the site will tell you if your resume is keyword dense enough for the listing.
Because almost every single company out there just feeds incoming resumes through software to decide who gets to go to stage 2 (aka interviews). What your resume looks like, etc. etc. pretty much doesn't matter anymore. It's stupid. It's why I hate resumes.
All that truly, actually matters, is making sure the formula behind the 'reader' software being used will pick up on the right keywords.
fuck resumes
honestly, not so much anger as sad. going in to the first holiday season since my parents moved across the country, so i'm gonna be spending all of it alone. which isn't so great or fun, and super sad. i am a grown adult so i shouldn't be so sad but. eh.
I mean my family sucks, but I still sort of mope every Thanksgiving because it's cemented in my memory from childhood as that holiday where we'd all gather at my mom's or dad's side and eat tons of food and cousins and-
like, even when everything else sucked it was the one time of year where I was full of food and everything was cool, so sure! grown-ass adult, but them's was good times. So I get it. It's okay to be sad during the holidays. There's a reason that call centers get a spike in calls from people just wanting to chat during the holidays.
The imposter syndrome for this job is high. They have more acronyms than the military.
Upside is that it seems everyone goes through this 'Oh god I'm lost and I'm drowning and I don't know what I'm going to do' that everyone is super helpful and, knowing I'm new, will pause during meetings to explain what an acronym or company-specific term is.
...speaking of meetings I'll be averaging 4 hours worth a day at first.
I had an ex cheat on me with someone who looks very similar to me and also was a writer.
(Later found out it was because she didn't want kids, but I did, so he swapped for the model with preferable features I guess.)
She's not a wildly successful author, but she did get a publisher in the UK to publish her books and I know she's in a niche. But because we're both in writer/author circles on Twitter, I see her tweets from time to time. Every time I do, even though it's been over a decade, I still feel this wave of (misdirected, I know; it was his fault, not hers) anger.
It's balls when someone who has this big emotional impact on us crops up in ways we cannot help.
New coworkers are already comfortable enough joking around with me. For my terribly awkward ass, this is a good feeling.
....downside is that thanks to my being neuroatypical, I struggle sometimes to know if something is a joke or literal.
(Such as: me asking if I can be included in a meeting and guy going 'No, no you can't be in that one' but while laughing? Like I'm assuming he was already planning to put me on the invite list and thought it silly I'd ask but! I just don't really know!)
ETA: Also, I couldn't live without OneNote.
@Macha said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
Well, Celexa for the anxiety and hydro something or other for when I hit panic attack levels. If that levels out, we'll try wellbutrin for the ADD issues.
...I really hope the wellbutrin works for those, but I'm a little afraid they're doing to you what they did to me.
I'm on wellbutrin for depression. And it works great for that! But every time I asked about ADD I just got told 'let's give the wellbutrin more time to kick in!' or'let's try raising the dose...'
AFAIK wellbutrin is not made for add or even expected to treat it. 
I've honestly wondered if for us women there is the 'pffff women don't get add. They must just be depressed and getting the 'I can't find the power to care about things' symptom.
I found the bluetooth headphones I'd tossed into a basket randomly god-knows-how-long-ago because one of the sides was getting tinny-crackly (I mean I'd had them 2.5 years and they only cost $25 - I'D SAY I GOT MY MONEY'S WORTH)... Tried them out and whatever the issue was SEEMS to have cleared up.
This pleases me so much. I'm tired of trying to get through my day with the headphones that come packaged with the iPhone.
@Atomic said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
@Wretched said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
@JinShei You should also try cheering up. Maybe smile more? Cant you just get over it? It's all in your head after all. Just eat less.
You forgot somethingsomething gluten and weed is the new Jesus.
Oh lord I fucking hate the 'I went gluten free and it cured me!'
The worst I ever encountered was someone I only distantly knew messaging me to be like 'My husband's cousin had some medical condition and she went gluten free and it cured her so I totally think that it would cure you of your fibromyalgia!'
They didn't even know what the condition the person had was. And when I explained my dietary needs and also 'no, fibro cannot be cured by diet' they got really offended.
Pro-tip: someone with a chronic illness has probably been working with doctors and doing their own research for years. Good recommendations are things like 'omg I found this heating pad that's amazing' (I have an electric lap blanket I love for this reason!) or 'My cousin's girlfriend has the same condition and she told me that <doctor> has been really helpful and understanding.'
Those are fine. Getting in my face insisting I take on some fad is not.
