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Author Topic: Things that made you sad today thread.  (Read 9722083 times)

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #120180 on: August 13, 2021, 07:03:57 pm »

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #120181 on: August 16, 2021, 12:12:27 pm »

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EDIT: Now sad at myself, because this is such a trivial thing compared to war, earthquakes, tropical storms, and earthquakes simultaneously with tropical storms.  :-\
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #120182 on: August 16, 2021, 06:44:15 pm »

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #120183 on: August 16, 2021, 06:56:25 pm »

... if it makes anyone feel better, I'm pretty sure you could occasionally see those back in like the 90s or early 00s or somethin', too, just very rarely and much less intrusive or whatever (due to lower bandwidths and whatnot). If this is the first time you've ever encountered one, it's almost heartening it's taken this long for you to get pestered by them...
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #120184 on: August 17, 2021, 07:27:59 pm »

One of my pet mice managed to find a way out of its cage (now patched with 1/4"-gap steel mesh) and our two cats got a hold of the poor girl :(
Spent half my morning looking for her before realizing she had crawled into a shoe for security and was super beat-up.

That was last week and she looked like she was on the road to recovery, but... I noticed her hind legs were weak last night so I made a lil' bridge to help her get around without climbing. And when I went to check on her today she's apparently lost all sensation and movement in her lower half. Considering euthanization now since it seems like severe spinal damage. She probably had her back broke when the cats got her and she damaged it further when she started to feel better.

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« Reply #120185 on: August 19, 2021, 09:56:58 am »

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #120186 on: August 25, 2021, 12:58:33 pm »

To deter Afghan refugees from coming to Greece, the Greek police has been handing out fines of 5000 euros to newly arrived refugees, for not being able to show a negative PCR test.

https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/geen-negatieve-pcr-test-als-vluchteling-dan-geeft-griekenland-je-5-000-euro-boete~b53348f4/
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #120187 on: August 27, 2021, 08:03:42 am »

To deter Afghan refugees from coming to Greece, the Greek police has been handing out fines of 5000 euros to newly arrived refugees, for not being able to show a negative PCR test.

https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/geen-negatieve-pcr-test-als-vluchteling-dan-geeft-griekenland-je-5-000-euro-boete~b53348f4/

I'm not saying that this is not true but if it is true, it flew completely under the radar. There has been no mention of it in greek media.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #120188 on: August 27, 2021, 11:22:05 am »

Black people have been dying left and right in this town due to homicides.

I got a laxative intentionally by the state or something, like I got inoculated in secret in Florida, but after reporting it to the police department, no one pressed charges and he told me he'd never do it.

So like, my family was already trying to kill me a little less than half a decade ago, but like, they're still doing that stuff.  And I'm just exhausted.

I dunno.  Now I'm thinking about the implications.  I'm a paranoid schizophrenic, so like, a few facts:

I make less than six-hundred thousand dollars in my lifetime on average.  So far, I've made a few grand in my lifetime.
I live fifteen years less on average.  I suspect I'll die a lot sooner.
I still have to deal with visions and voices and thoughts, and they're always directed towards me walking with nothing in my pocket.  So like, I'm cleaning dishes, and all I hear is a multibillionaire putting hit after hit after hit on me on a secure channel.

And like, it's followed me up the South, and now I have to deal with people STILL doing the same thing, I imagine.  Maybe I am paranoid, but I never am.  I can't seem to get away from that stuff.  Maybe I just wanna have a good time.  Maybe I don't want to get whispered to on the street by every pedestrian, every car, every creaking door, and every compressor component to the point of reality literally embibing me with a lack of purpose.

I'm listless at the moment.  Just a lot of people dying and I have to deal with people who don't like me to begin with, but that hasn't changed in the last three years.  They always hated me since I graduated, and even though they still lie with a smile on their face, they still get killed.  I was sleeping on a bench the other night when I literally heard someone say, "We don't like you!" while I was chatting with myself by the river.  I told him I was just talking to someone else, and as I walked away, I heard several gunshots in the distance, not thirty seconds later.

What can I do?

Gunshots and death and hate just follows me around like a bad raincloud, and I would do anything in the world to be disconnected and right, like I felt like when I was younger, but this punition of mankind has wrought more misery and anguish than justice; it hardly constitutes reciprocity, and I'm just so dog-jagged tired of walking with nothing worthwhile in front of me.

Think of it like this: in 2018, my head told me that I'd get to meet my cousins who slept around and fired a bullet at me.  Three years later, not only have I not gotten to see them, but I was inundated with three months of them letting me know they wouldn't want to see me.  The one that was less reluctant than the other called me for a week, pulled back but pretended otherwise, and my schizophrenia just continued: another news story and another big bold white-letter pull.

And I just get stuck in this big lie, as if I ever really told a genuine, big lie.  Everyone around me lies, but I don't actually tell lies.  I stopped telling lies when I became an adult, save for the occasional white lie and a bit of conservatism.

So what's made me sad is this: I've literally spent almost all of the time I'm ever going to have trying for something I am literally incapable of ever getting, which wasn't much, which makes the gunshots odd and unusual.  Why would someone need to get killed over such a trite concession or two?  Why blow it up into something it didn't have or need to be?  Why couldn't it be handled the same way every other case for ordinary citizens is handled?

The fifth time I've thought it today.

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #120189 on: August 27, 2021, 11:22:22 am »

To deter Afghan refugees from coming to Greece, the Greek police has been handing out fines of 5000 euros to newly arrived refugees, for not being able to show a negative PCR test.

https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/geen-negatieve-pcr-test-als-vluchteling-dan-geeft-griekenland-je-5-000-euro-boete~b53348f4/

I'm not saying that this is not true but if it is true, it flew completely under the radar. There has been no mention of it in greek media.

My Volkskrant works with non-embedded journalists around the globe, and are renowned for their solid and well-informed journalism. I do believe it when their Greece-correspondent reports on such a story.

It was also reported in this newspaper: https://www.efsyn.gr/
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #120190 on: August 27, 2021, 12:52:16 pm »


My Volkskrant works with non-embedded journalists around the globe, and are renowned for their solid and well-informed journalism. I do believe it when their Greece-correspondent reports on such a story.

It was also reported in this newspaper: https://www.efsyn.gr/

It isn’t that I trust our local media more than the Volkskrant. I’m mostly surprised by how our politicians didn’t jump on the opportunity to attack each other over it. The only reference I could find was a group in social media quoting the same newspaper you mentioned.
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So the conclusion I'm getting here is that we use QSPs because dwarves can't pilot submarines.

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« Reply #120191 on: August 29, 2021, 06:14:05 pm »

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« Reply #120192 on: August 31, 2021, 11:12:26 pm »

I've reflected a bit on myself. I would say I'm much healthier, more handsome, more well-adjusted, more sociable and socially intelligent, and psychologically durable than I have been ever since setting out to live by myself...

...but I'm still quite lonely, and the prospect of ever being in a real relationship seems even more impossible and foolish than ever before. It's enough to kill me inside. In a way, it seems all the gains I've made have come at the sacrifice of accepting my lot in life, and just accepting that I'm a peon and always will be forever. And even with those gains, have I come even one inch closer to reconciling my hatred towards the society that created me? I honestly don't know.
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« Reply #120193 on: August 31, 2021, 11:25:41 pm »

I don't know how much consolation it is, but the terms and conditions we apply to ourselves and others as relationship partners tend to fall away as we age. You won't have to be the put-together archetypal handsome can-doer, long as you're compassionate and thoughtful, both of which I say with certainty you are already.

Incremental progress is still progress. You are worthy of love and respect, remember that!
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« Reply #120194 on: September 01, 2021, 06:11:07 am »

Sometimes living in SOCIETY is accepting everything is buggered and our social status is hard to move beyond the place we were born into. I just get by not worrying about such things and instead focusing on being sincere and true regardless of what others want from me; it's worked out well so far
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