This is so relatable, I’m dying.
LOUDER FOR THOSE IN THE BACK
This is so relatable, I’m dying.
LOUDER FOR THOSE IN THE BACK
Small update: tonight terrorussia has launched a huge air attack on Kyiv, including 6 “unstoppable” Kinzhal rockets. We’ve heard 20+ explosions, every single rocket and drone were shot down by our defence system. Ukrainian AAW are gods. Love and thanks to our partners who have supplied us with the means to protect ourselves.
Also, whoever is responsible for writing reports from the Ukrainian Air Force has made an…. interesting typo in their infographics, so this morning ukrainian Internet is making fun of the russian SuperCum drones
In the meantime, western twitter is highly confused
IT’S TRACTOR TIME BITCHES
eastern european mario kart
So how do you tell which parts of your routine are load-bearing? I wish I knew, but some heuristics:
Things that are part of your access to food which you’ll reliably eat are often load-bearing. If you get a lot of your calories from the free food at work, you should expect changing jobs to one without free food will throw you off your game. If you rely on the corner store then you should expect that moving to a new place where you have to get in the car to get groceries will be a problem. Going vegetarian can screw up something load-bearing for a lot of people (and I say that as someone who believes that factory farming is morally horrible). Going on a diet is reasonably likely to fuck up something load bearing, and I suspect this is part of why statistically dieting doesn’t work at improving peoples’ lives or health.
Things that are part of the environments you spend the most time in are reasonably likely to be load-bearing.The length of your commute, the environment you work in, whether your bedroom is clean, well-ventilated, high-ceilinged, has natural light, whether you have any space that you don’t share with another person…. for some people ‘having a car’ is loadbearing because it’s a space that is theirs and will reliably have their stuff and get them places. For other people, living somewhere where they can get places without a car is load bearing.
Cleanliness needs are often load-bearing. This one especially sucks because you can get into a trap where your space gets chaotic/cluttered/awful and this breaks your brain and makes it harder to keep your space clean.
Pets are often load-bearing.
This might be influenced by who I hang out with, but I think personal time when you’re alone and no one has any claims on you is load bearing for a lot of people. Some people have their own room and know they need their own room, but lots of other people make do with a long commute where they can quietly listen to the radio, and don’t even realize that this is filling their need for introvert time until it changes.
I think people often have a particularly bad time if they have something load-bearing that’s considered ‘indulgent’ or a ‘luxury’, like ‘living in an apartment building with a pool’ or ‘having a big yard I can garden in’ or ‘having an ensuite bathroom with a tub’ or ‘having a soundproofed practice room’ or ‘having a grand piano’. But, like, having expensive load-bearing bits of your life does not say anything about you morally; it may mean that it’s harder for you to get your needs met, and it may not be a preferable situation, but it doesn’t make you selfish or greedy or bad. And, you know, trying to just not have things you need because you believe you’re bad for wanting them doesn’t often work out great.
Which of these extremely fanfic situations have you personally experienced?
Pretending to date someone in order to get out of a jam
Cuddling for warmth
Only one bed
Wait, you guys are getting into fanfic situations?
Two of these things have happened to me (pls specify in notes)
All of these have happened to me. My life is controlled by a sadistic author.
None of these but in the notes I will regale you with another
Whoa, dig this clicky button!
Recently discovered, fully by accident, that the trick to feeling like you have more time in the day is to actually do shit with the time that’s there, which seems fake and wrong and it’s frankly infuriating that it works >:|
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weevils just look they would burst into tears if you yelled at them
Neil Gaimain about writing Good Omens with Terry Pratchett (x)
depression creature
Okay but this is serious, I work in retail and I had a lady come up and ask for 2 $500 Google play gift cards. We have been trained to look for these scams and to warn the customers NEVER give the card numbers over the phone unless you have met this person face to face. I told the lady this and she started crying, saying they were the IRS and that if she hung up they would call the police and have her arrested. They wanted to keep her on the phone so she couldn’t call her husband, who was more aware of how the IRS works. I was able to convince her to hang up and call the police on *them* instead, and saved her $500.
Scams are serious, people lose a lot of money and older people are targeted the worst because they’re easy targets.
First of all, the IRS will *never* call you and ask for money, and they definitely won’t call the cops on you. They’ll get your money if they really want it through taxes.
But now they’re trying to target our generation using crypto, which is super hard to trace if the money gets lost. So they’re getting smarter, and they’ll use whatever they can to get you to give them money.
What you really need to know or take away from this is: NEVER, and I mean EVER, buy a gift card and give the barcode number on the back to someone over the phone. It is ALWAYS, 100%, a scam!
Please be safe and hang up on these fuckers the second they ask you to buy a gift card.
Also young people are not exempt. I know someone who in his 20s fell for one of these scams and lost his food money. It was his first year doing taxes since being disowned, so he was already in a mindset where he was nervous about potentially having messed up on his taxes, so when the scammer called, he was already in a position to be manipulated.
Scammers and con artist have this trick where they know emotional people are easier to manipulate because they think less clearly. So the first step is to pick an emotion and elevate it. Most phone scammers pick fear, because it’s easy to trigger and makes people the most irrational, but some scams go for other emotions, like pride or lust or grief. And once you manipulate someone’s emotions, you can manipulate them like putty.
Scammers will also make sure there’s an urgency to prevent you from slowing down and thinking things through, and make sure you stay on the phone so they can control your pace and continue manipulating you. Pretty much the only think that can stop you from doing their bidding at that point is another person stepping in (another reason they keep you on the phone!)So yeah maybe let’s not pick on victims of emotional manipulation? Especially those in vulnerable situations who may have just lost their food money?