Exactly my thoughts. I mean Harlem World wasn’t all that, but he was trying things. Then he just said, “nah I’m good. I do need this anymore.”

Sometimes life is stranger than fiction.

Kind of like that Workaholics episode where Chris D’Elia plays a pedo.

Roll up that girl blunt. https://youtu.be/xI8w-h-HCAg?si=WUTyPK012ZgHuRL_

My theory is that is why ma$e retired early and started preaching. He found out about diddy, knew he didn’t want that life, but too scared to try to do anything about it.

The same actually. 😂 I’m pretty sure the guy I’m thinking of used that exact argument.

I remember getting into arguments with people about what germ theory is and how it works because they couldn’t understand stats and graphs. They were saying “see masks and social distance doesn’t do anything. Literally nothing. Look this charts shows that the regular flu went down during covid-19. Doesn’t that mean something?”

Like “yeah, it means social distancing and putting on masks slow the spread of germs. That was why we were wearing them remember? That whole flatten the curve thing.”

“No I thought it was to not get sick at all.”

“Nope, just to slow the spread. I’m not sure where you get your news, but it seemed clear to me.”

" Well so and so did whatever and got sick so nothing preventative worked."

“If nothing preventative worked then we wouldn’t have seen this spread staring to slow down when compared to other countries that didn’t implement x, y, or z. Also it slowed the spread of the flu because that’s how germs work.”

Can’t digest food. The only reason those trillions of living organisms in your gut microbiome are doing it is you’re keeping them enslaved by being their sole food source. Way to practice monopolistic practices on a entirely isolated living ecosystem!

Idk…how much vomit?

Is there a business in selling fake polling data to political campaigns? They spend so much money on all this shit. I need to figure out a way to get money out of politics.

My brain felt weird when I read this.

I know people have different hardships that I would never understand, but the outlook of ‘woe is me, I can never be happy’ I see in some people is just poop. I know people need to vent and this might be a little of that and not a 24/7 type of attitude for the people that post it.

Plus there is a whole nother part that might have mental health issues. I wouldn’t even start to pretend to understand that.

I was mainly focusing on his “it’s over for me” attitude. I know life is hard. I don’t like being social, but I learned how to turn it on if I need to. It is just very draining, but it is a good skill to develop. I’m pretty introvert but I was in the military and had to go recruiting. I was a nerd in high school and didn’t have too much of a social life. During recruiting duty, I developed some character to act like when I need to be more open and talk to groups. Not a completely different character, but more of an idea of a person to start acting like for this role. It was like old Colbert Report energy mixed with quiet samurai jack endless drive to accomplish his goal. It sucked recruiting but I made it. I was with people that hated their life too. Knowing that I was with people that hated their life and were struggling too made it easier for some reason.

I’m not trying to complain about my fate here.

I mean, go ahead if you want. It’s good to get your thoughts out.

I don’t really have a 100% correct answer, but there are different answers you could try that might point you in the right direction. My non-solicited advice is try to find a hobby that you like and work getting to know people around that. I can find places near me to do baby goat yoga on the weekend. Even if you don’t like yoga, you can check out baby goats! You can look up any comic shop, they usually host events. I want to get more into gardening and I just started looking in to amateur radio. I guess there are a bunch of ham radio groups, so I might be able to talk to people without being near them.

Public libraries host events too. They are awesome and need some more love.

Idk. I hear a lot of people are on twitch now, but I’m too busy between work and Lemmy so I’m content. Sorry for rambling and I hope you didn’t/don’t take offense, you might have tried all of that stuff. I totally understand the wanting to leave a place when I’m out in public. My wife and I have been known just to disappear early during social gatherings.

That reminds me of that monk joke…

A new monk joins an abbey and dedicates his life to copying ancient books by hand.

After the first day though, he reports to the head priest. He’s concerned that all the monks have been copying copies made from still more copies.

“If someone made a mistake,” he points out. “It would be impossible to detect. Even worse, the error would continue to be made.”

A bit startled, the priest decides he better check their latest effort against the original which is kept in a vault beneath the abbey. A place only he has access to.

Well two days, then three days pass without the priest resurfacing. Finally, the new monk decides to see if the guy is alright. When he gets down there though, he discovers the priest hunched over both a copy and the original text. He is sobbing and by the looks of it has been sobbing for quite some time.

“Father?” the monk whispers.

“Oh my goodness,” the priest wails. "The word is ‘celebrate.’ "

Gotta add a splash of sex. Unbutton a couple more on that shirt and enhance the pic with tasteful cleavage, so we can ignore the surroundings.

Just started this show. In the middle of season 2 now. It’s very good so far. I’m actually super rooting for Guillermo. I hate how he gets treated.

I was hoping Harris would start rumors that the RNC was going to get Vance to stand in for a presidential debate since trump is too old.

Seems the main difference is the OP graph has straight couples meeting in a bar going up and the one you linked shows a fall for all couples.

I would conclude that more straights hooked up in a bar while the non-heteros used apps to make sure the person they were hitting on was like-minded.

They are blaming bad luck for their shitty personality. No matter how ugly you are. You can do things to make improvements and become more attractive to a potential partner. (Diet, exercise, breathing through your nose (for real), getting a hobby that a potential partner would like (music, draw, express yourself through poems?, car maintenance, something))

They think they’ll never find anyone because they’re under 6ft or don’t have dimples or whatever other thing these guys obsess over. It’s really because they have a shitty personality that they won’t improve their lives, so they blame everyone else for the actions that they aren’t taking.

We laugh so we don’t end up screaming. 😂 😆 😱

Someone high up in the chain of command you are trying to join that knows a professional public perception is important when we shot people into space? That type of thing gets taken very seriously by people in the PR world.

I was thinking something similar. Like if a “God” exist they would be like a programmer that set us up and then let us run. Why? They wanted us to transform the world into a plastic hellscape. After that it would be “terrafromed” (plasti-formed?) for whatever will be the evolutionary descendants of those bacteria that are eating the microplastics in the Pacific Garbage patch.