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[MetalSlimeHunt]

Someone caught a video of the fertilizer plant explosion. I don't think there are much bigger booms than that.

[Sirus]

Someone caught a video of the fertilizer plant explosion. I don't think there are much bigger booms than that.

Damn...

Poor kid, too. Hope his/her hearing recovers 

[Xantalos]

Someone caught a video of the fertilizer plant explosion. I don't think there are much bigger booms than that.

Damn...

Poor kid, too. Hope his/her hearing recovers 

That was a her, I think.
Damn.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Most likely will. Temporary deafness is common from explosions.

[Pnx]

Frankly young kids are hard to tell apart my tone of voice. Since you know, the differences generally set in during puberty.

There really seems to be a lot of exploding factories in that area. This is the third I can think of in the last five or six years or so.

[Sirus]

There's probably a lot of volatile chemicals being worked on in that area. Wide open spaces with low population density are about the safest places to work on stuff like that.

[Pnx]

At least one of said explosions was in the industrial area of Texas City. The other was a factory explosion which I can't track down... because I found four or five likely results and I can't remember which one it was (the one I vaguely remember wasn't in Texas but in that area, I want to say Arkansas?). This sort of thing certainly does seem to happen periodically everywhere there's industry so it's probably all just some kind of perceptual bias anyway.

[Vector]

I just can't deal with one of my acquaintance's chronic depression anymore.  I don't know what to say about it.  I feel put-upon and tired.  It's like he expects to say "I feel down" and then I'll rush in and make him feel better.

You feel down!  Yes, and?  Did anything happen?  No?

I realize that I sound like a self-centered little shit, but I actually think that this is the first time in my life when I don't generally feel, well, chronically sad.  I'm not succeeding all the time, I mess up plenty, and I'm still doing okay--this is really new for me.  I don't want to have expended all that effort to get away from my own depression in order to just fall into someone else's sinkhole.

[Ogdibus]

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[Max White]

I invite friends to go for a run with me when they seem a little depressed. They say yes and get some exercise, which makes them feel better, or they say no and I get to avoid them until they latch onto somebody else.

[Vector]

I invite friends to go for a run with me when they seem a little depressed. They say yes and get some exercise, which makes them feel better, or they say no and I get to avoid them until they latch onto somebody else.

He has muscular dystrophy.  So unfortunately, that would be a pretty shitty thing to do.

He might see you as a sort of anchor.  I don't think you're really the person that he should look to for that sort of thing.  You both probably need a friend that shits sunshine.  It makes a difference for me, at least.

Yup.  But he's sooo shy and I'm his best friend blah blah blah.

I didn't ask for this.  He was briefly happier when he thought for some godforsaken reason that I was going to be his girlfriend (he asked me out immediately after leaving the psychiatric hospital) and now, possibly because I told him some many months after the rejection that I was interested in someone (in the interest of having a healthier, less "maybe this might turn into something if I pray hard enough" relationship), he's taken A Turn For The Worse.  I don't have a problem with "I have this problem, let's discuss it," but it practically enrages me when folks show up looking glum and expecting me to pull it out and give a billion soothing reassuring gestures.  I am not this fellow's girlfriend.  I am not willing to act like the ultimate emotional sponge that this fellow seems to require out of his friendships.

I don't think he's trying to be emotionally manipulative, but I am totally done dealing with this sort of situation.  I've done it before.  I am done.

[Xantalos]

Well that situation sucks Queen Elizabeth's ... crown.
Do you know anyone who he would actually like? You could introduce them and hopefully be left alone.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Protip, you should probably tell him all of this. He might not react well, but in the end it might be good for him. Perhaps more importantly, if you don't he'll try to cling even harder.

[Max White]

He has muscular dystrophy.  So unfortunately, that would be a pretty shitty thing to do.

Ok, well at this point I feel like the biggest jerk in the known universe. I mean I know that wasn't your intention but holy shit is my foot in my mouth.

[Vector]

I don't know anyone who would like him.

Given that he's ~suicidal~, or has been, we'll see about what I tell him.