The Not Happy Thread

I've seen photos of Finland where people stand ten feet apart at bus stops. . . not sure if that's related at all.

 

Well I was hoping to hear some talk of my state easing restrictions today, but of course the morons with their crackpot conspiracies had to go out and protest in Melbourne yesterday. If just one of these fools had the virus and didn't know it, then we've got at least one new cluster on our hands.

Right when we're talking about the steps to getting back to normal, this happens.

 

I have a lot of things to do, but I'm doing my old way of just angrily staring off into the computer, and saying to myself tomorrow morning. I know now that I will get none of the stuff I wanted to done. I will simply sit here in the irritation of frozen irrational thought, and sulk in it until I make my way to bed. I haven't felt like this in a while, and it causes quite a bit of turmoil in my head since it was my mainstay in the past. I just blink slowly knowing inability to focus will carry for a couple more hours until I give up on jumping between several things and completing none.

 

Not happy thread.

Straw man rhetoric and thinking behind it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

It's an easy and not very intelligent way to seek power & status via dishonesty.

It's a way to create unhappy world because of unhappy reasons.

Funny thing but it seems to walk with projections...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection

...which are also a tool to create an unhappy world.

 

I've told CT to always be honest with me, even if he knows I won't be happy about it. I get far more upset with a lie that "keeps me happy". That's not how life works. I need honesty, so I know where I stand and to enable me to make an informed decision and/or grow from the experience.

 

Seventy years into my life, I'm having my first experience with serious pain. Christ, does this hurt.

 

Well, then I guess it’s time to expose the big lie about CT, he’s not actually a troll. He’s part vermicious knid.

 

Today feels rather dank and not the fun meme kind. I just want to be an angsty Holden.

 

@CT heads a household of twenty three. Three wives and twenty piglets all around his boots. Night times he crawls to his bureau, & sends sweet love to Ireland. He says 'one day I'm gonna leave those pigs, swim to Ireland if I have to...'

That's where @You come into the picture. CT arising from the surf, dripping and so beautiful you want to eat him. But he says, 'stop, stop, the sand in my crack' and all that kind of crap. That's when you rub your jaw and ask questions.

 

So he lives on a farm on your planet? Interesting.

 

"That fucking completely depends on your definition of fat."

 

"It is your plump delicious glorious ass that makes your ass look fat, my dear. May I kiss it?"

 

I don't comment on other people's bodies, so why is it ok to comment on mine?

 

My previous was a general reference to the irony of the expected response. It is a quote from my story in which the MC threatens to kiss the ass of any girl who complains about her ass. It is now quoted in OP. The scene goes on to reslove that "it's not the size of the ass, but how you wear it."

 

The guy with M16A1 that first shows up in the clip.

 

... And I'm getting ads with asses again lol.

 

Like I said, not telling. Could be one of the dark-green drill instructors, you never know

 

Waited 9 days to get a copy of "Wolf Children" in the mail, and the discs were all slightly scratched, one wouldn't sit in the case right and as a result was worse than the rest. The audio on all of them was damaged; in English, in Japanese, everything.

Sometimes it would sound fine. Clear and crisp. Then suddenly it would get all muffled and crackly, sometimes to the point where it was inaudible. It made watching it impossible. I gave up after 10 minutes. Nothing wrong with the player or the sound system.

Call me paranoid but I have a feeling that I was not the first person to receive this "new" copy of the film from Amazon. Conspiracies aside, I have returned it and will be exchanging it for a copy of A Silent Voice instead, which only cost me a couple extra dollars. I have ordered another copy of Wolf Children from a different supplier, Funimation, and threw down an extra $20 for 1-day shipping. I paid double, but I won't really care if I get a clean, pristine copy on-time.

On the bright side, I am thus far content with the simplicity of Amazon's return process. All I needed to do was put it back in the box as it was, and print off a return label that they emailed me. Now to drop it off tomorrow at UPS. Shout-out to the Amazon fulfillment centers that are still open during these times, and all the people who are still making deliveries.

 

My ad-block game is strong, but I still often find myself getting risque anime ads. Somewhat related, I got an Amazon Echo as a present this past Christmas, but I didn't trust it so I gave it to my mom. As a Prime Member, I figure I give enough money to the Amazon overlords that they don't need to monitor my every uttered syllable. They already know I have Mein Kampf and the Communist Manifesto sitting in my cart, along with like 200 other books that I'll probably never get around to buying, much less reading. But nevertheless I feel like I should, so I keep them in there.

 

Tell me your free ad-block secrets.

 

lol, try uBlock Origin, and I have a cousin who works in IT security (or whatever it's called) and he knows how to largely erase internet footprints, and to prevent leaving them in the first place.

It's honestly a lot of hassle, so I really only bother with a couple basic tips. Have a good adblocker, routinely scan for cookies with a good anti-virus (my version of Kaspersky also has a built-in VPN function that I can use for monetary transactions), don't save passwords and such even though it's convenient, any profile that you make on any forum or site you should try and make as private as possible by simply using the settings that they provide you. And constantly be vigilant of what information you reveal, to who, and how. A password keeper like KeePass can help guard against keyloggers, and will also generate passwords for you that are complex and difficult to force. Utilize 2-factor-authentication when convenient.

You're better off enlisting the help of a professional. There are actual, reputable companies out there that have made a business off of helping plebs like me stay in the digital shadows. Costs quite a bit of money though, and you'll never be able to completely disappear.

I'm not that important of a person to justify paying for such a service. But it's a legit thing, and not as sketchy as I'm making it sound. When in the digital wild west, do as the gun-slingers do.