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@Ominous said in Should Rinel become smol birb?:

@smolbirb

@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

when I reboot my Mac, it remembers what programs I had open and relaunches them for me.
Get your fuckin' Windows to do that.

...why?

You know what's awesome? Constant low-grade anxiety interfering with your focus when you need to draft motions. I love my mental illness significantly impeding my work.

@Warma-Sheen

ADHD is a relatively well studied condition. It is not the brain functioning faster than normal, although it certainly can feel like that. It belongs to a vlass of diseases known as executive function disorders. OCD is another executive function disorder.

The drugs for OCD and ADHD do not slow the brain down. Very few drugs actually do, and the ones that do tend to be reserved for people with epilepsy and severe anxiety.

@Warma-Sheen

To sort of rephrase what @faraday said, if you have made an argument and everybody (or even a substantial number of people) is taking it the wrong way, then regardless of the intent of your argument, you almost certainly have a deficiency in form.

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.

@Ominous

It is the Platonic goose. It transcends mere details like sex and specie.

I've yet to watch ep 2 and won't be back till I have, but here's my episode 1 reaction:

@Rinel said in Great TV:

So. Watchmen. Am I supposed to be cheering for the fascist police state because it's taking out white supremacists?

I'm going to assume that the point is "just because a fascist police state is taking out white supremacists doesn't meant that fascist police states are okay." But now I am just sitting here watching weird satirical liberal revenge porn.

I feel very confused.

@Auspice

Yeah, I mean... I'm not going the DIY route, but there is definitely a "you had one fucking job" going on right now.

@saosmash said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

today, i drove to the wrong courthouse, in the wrong city, for a hearing.

This is meant in the spirit of solidarity, not oneupsmanship.

Today I learned that in relation to the writ application I filed last week (my first time personally filing anything), I:

1. Failed to complete the index, which was also incorrectly numbered (violation of the uniform rules of the state's appellate courts),
2. failed to send a copy to opposing counsel and the trial court and include an affidavit thereto (violation of the local rules of the court), and
3. failed to ensure that our office manager scanned a copy of the complete file into our digital records.

My boss is calling in an hour to discuss the event. I'm hoping I can put on my big girl pants and stop being a total wreck before then.

@saosmash said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Sounds to me like you need better mentoring if you were filing something for the first time ever and didn't have somebody on hand to talk to about the nitty gritty.

The person who knows filing best was busy and I decided that I could definitely handle it on my own (spoiler: I could not) and there was no need to bother her (spoiler: there was such a need).

@saosmash

That makes me feel a lot better, actually. Thank you.

Well the meeting that was scheduled by my boss to be between 3-4 and then to be at 3 hasn't happened, and the boss didn't answer my call...

...great.

ETA: It's all good another emergency call happened and it wasn't related to me

When people scoff and say "oh, they're just going to spend it on drugs," it makes me think that those people don't really understand addiction.

I usually give food to the homeless folks I come across. But sometimes I give cash. Whether they're legitimate or they're "scamming" for the grand total of 12k per year, they need it more than I do.

@Auspice

Your safety comes well before any duty you may have to give to homeless people. I still look like a six foot tall guy in his twenties; I have the privilege of not being accosted, for now.

@Derp

Something like 80% of my past week's meals have been soup. The same soup.

I feel guilty for complaining about this because it's a really lovely soup and this is first world problems to the max... but I really don't want any more soup. ;_;

@Aria

Thank you. I appreciate that, truly. I've never really struggled with suicidal ideation, in part to that support.

@Ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Rinel

I’m not sure I understand what you revealed, but that’s all right. My understanding does not enhance or diminish your courage.

I'm not sure trans people understand being trans either so that's just fine

@skew said in How to use Potato MU Client:

@Rinel Hate to be "that guy"... but you might want to just move to Beip.

https://musoapbox.net/topic/2676/how-to-beipmu-the-best-mu-client-for-windows

It has all the features of Potato, and then some. Most importantly it's actively developed and has great support.

I might check it out. Strangely enough, the Potato issue resolved itself. Or something. It's no longer happening.

@insomniac7809 said in Recommendations: Neo-noir book theme.:

@Auspice said in Recommendations: Neo-noir book theme.:

authors do get hung up on certain words/terms it is true.

So it goes.

To quote literally every character on literally every page of literally every book Steven Erikson has written:

"Alas."

@Ghost
I am not a fan of WoW or its lore for a bevy of reasons, but the constant "WE MUST PUT ASIDE OUR DIFFERENCES TO FACE A LITERAL EXISTENTIAL THREAT" every few years is the biggest one. You'd think they'd have figured out Azeroth probably needs a united force to defend it by now. Like at some point you'd think the Tauren and the Night Elves would realize how much they have in common, or the Orcs and the Dwarves, or the humans and the blood elves WHO WERE ALLIES FOR CENTURIES BEFORE GARITHOS.