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[Rolan7]

Yeah GO can do better than those communities which support that sort of behavior.  Any open-minded community is going to include some rancid takes, but the stuff she mentioned gets (embarrassed) push-back where I hang out.

[McTraveller]

Interesting about food prices - in my town, grocery prices are mixed - some items are well off their highs (milk was $3.89, now is $3.49 for one that I can remember off the top of my head; conversely my kids grape juice is $3.49 instead of $2.79; beef and chicken are down, cereal is up, etc.), and gasoline is now back below $3/gallon (when it had gotten up to about $4.30 for regular).

Most notably: even with the "high grocery inflation" I never busted my weekly budget for groceries.

[TD1]

Woke up yesterday with a slight cough
Shivering by 6pm; I go to bed and turn up !!heat!!
Shivering mostly calmed down by midnight
Go to sleep with splitting headache


Wake up mostly fine (except for chesty cough)

This has to be the quickest flu in history.

[McTraveller]

Afghanistan.... seriously?

This is why I can't be a politician. I would not be able to be in the same room as the leadership of that country.

[Eric Blank]

It fucken cold out. Everything freezing, have to load hay and go buy propane. Really just want to curl up in bed until noon but I cant

[Vector]

My doctor's making me take prenatal vitamins and a couple of other ones cuz my recent blood charts were so bad after a bout with COVID, so I'm tasked with improving my diet :I But the good stuff that my stupid body can handle to eat costs... at least here ...

I'm wondering if it's insecurity on their behalf, which as someone who's pretty self-confident nowadays I find really offputting. I'm just glad I still have these forums.

I think it's just different social norms... some of it will be about age. There is a subset of trans women who after a very long time of being in a role that they don't want, finally get what they wanted, which was to be a girlboss, queen bee, princess, or meangirl.

I don't get along with cis or trans people who want to be those things, but they've got a right to be those things, and trans people who are like that shouldn't get any more penalty than their cisgender counterparts. To me you're saying something like: "I went into a female-only space and there are some weirdly harsh rules." Well, yeah, it's like that sometimes. There are also cis female type spaces/friendgroups/whatever that are more or less exactly the same. Part of the distinction is political (trans oppression) but part of this just sounds like the Mean Girls movie where they decide that today everyone's wearing pink and then the next day it's ponytails. It's ... it's normal among a small segment of the population. Some women are just Like That.

... so just go look for other groups, there's a lot out there.

[King Zultan]

I had the AC on in my house a few days ago and now we're almost in the negatives with out factoring in the wind, why can't the damn weather just decide what it wants to be and stick with it?

[Eric Blank]

Because our digits must be punished, with frostbite.

[Grim Portent]

The guy who (most likely) invented the Chicken Tikka Massala died the other day. Things a cultural staple meal round here, so it's sad in an abstract way.

[martinuzz]

The new Israeli government makes me sad.
Previous Netanyahu governments were already bad, but now it is really horrible. Netanyahu made deals with the worst elements of society to get a majority government, when his party lost a lot of voters in the recent elections.
Isreal is now run by riff raff from the extreme right, ultra orthodox, women haters and gay haters.
The new minister of internal security is a gun nutter that has been convicted for racism.

[Great Order]

Neck's fucked right now. Dunno why, but it's blood killing me.

[scriver]

Badly sleep positioned?

[Great Order]

Thing is it started for literally no reason last night, before I'd gone to bed. It's just got worse with sleep.

[JoshuaFH]

Currently having a hard time getting to sleep. Just one of those nights where I'm emotionally thrown off balance and my stoicism cracks. I just feel lonely and wished I wasn't sentenced to living in the squalor of my own mind. Wondering if I'm simply going to remain an alien in my own culture and society for the remainder of my life. Fighting off how certain it feels that my death, when it arrives, will be violent and tragic; and ultimately meaningless.

Preemptive Merry Christmas everyone.

[Great Order]

Everything we do is meaningless beyond the meaning we ascribe to it. I find a bit of comfort in that myself, my deeds might die with me but at the same time I've no great God or force to please or direct my life. I'm free to do with it as I wish.

I like the story from Kill Six Billion Demons of three wanderers in the desert. The first walks on and dies of thirst. The second looks in their canteen, sees there's not enough water, gives up and dies. The third looks in the canteen, sees there's not enough water, and keeps walking anyway. He dies all the same.

No matter what any of us do, we're not getting out of the desert, but the doing is the important part. If you give up you have the same end result as continuing on and just doing, but one's filled with despair and the other hope and happiness.