How are you doing? - Kiwi Farms Wellness Check

[Sped Xing]

I misread, but like the idea of therapy as "sexless dating."

 

[kūhaku]

I coincidentally had a lot of the same beliefs as Uncle Ted and after fully reading and digesting his manifesto I’ve gotta say I can really see where he’s coming from. It’s made me look at life and society in a whole different light, in a depressing way. As immature as it sounds I think it changed the way I look at life. All the menial shit and the way people talk about buying things, all the useless jobs that people say you need to do to be a good human being, it’s actually surreal looking through life with this lens now. I hate my job already and this makes me hate it even more. I’m no revolutionary and I hate attention so I’d never dream of mail bombing but I can sympathize with Ted wanting to live in a cabin in the woods, which is a desire I’ve held for a long time.

 

[Blamo]

I am feeling pretty great.
With some rules and self check, I think I can finally get over my internet addiction.
That's pretty good because, it not only wasted a lot of time for me, but it gave me a bad case of brainfog and anxiety as well.

 

[Fliddaroonie]

I'm getting pretty sick to death of people with nice big homes and access to gardens cooming their panties over muh perpetual lockdowns. I've had two friends who were in smaller apartments with no back yards (one in a tiny, tiny studio) take their own lives in the last 3 months.

I feel like the worst kind of shit because I should have known they were struggling and offered to help. I could have done something, but one of them in particular, wrote me a letter to be opened after he died. It kind of showed that once he decided he picked up in his mood. Edited for clarity. As in, once he had made his plan on how to end himself, and got what he needed for it, he became a lot calmer and happier. I noticed that. Maybe I should have said? I just assumed whatever was troubling him has passed. I'm an idiot.

I'm sick to death of these "I'm alright Jack" cunts wanting people locked in their homes forever, just because they're enjoying it.

 

[Stasi]

Yes.

Spoiler: Freedomsperging

I don't know you, or where you live, or what you're dealing with. All I can speak to is the experiences of a healthy white male in the USA with no dependents.

As someone who fits that description, and who has been an adult for just about the same amount of time he was a minor, I have a lot of fun. "What do you do for fun" has always struck me as an idiotic question; living is fun. If you're not enjoying the ride, get off, I reckon.

I have a nice 13 month gap in my resume where I just enjoyed being me and pissed away my savings. That was a swell year. When I've been asked about it in job interviews, I've talked about some of the cool shit I did. Doesn't seem to be a problem; I've consistently found work when I wanted to.

A single person has one and only one responsibility, and that is to his tummy. In America, adults only starve by choice; hunger is for children with evil parents, another strike against childhood. I can't conceive why people think children are free.

I could just walk off the job today, just go for a long walk in any direction, and the worst thing anyone could legally do to me is take my stuff. Which it's just stuff. Ten years ago, I could carry every one of my possessions in a sack, and indeed did so not infrequently. I can go back to that; it won't kill me.

Everything is so much easier if you remember literally none of it actually matters. I see old friends, people I know are smarter than me, and harder-working than me, and they're struggling. It's preposterous.

Their problem is they're worried what-if. They date their girlfriends for years because "what if I find someone better? What if SHE does?" They hold onto their crummy jobs for dear life because "what if I suck at a different job, or it sucks?" They won't drink MD 20/20 with the guy with jizz in his hair because. . . well that one WAS a bad call, but whatever. It was interesting.

I'll tell you what-if. You'll be worm chow. Everyone you ever loved will be forgotten and they'll build a Krystal Burger on your grave. Life is a choose your own adventure book with only one ending. Might as well try the funny options.

Underrated spergpost. I know circumstances are different and some people barely get enough to cover basic living costs but if at all possible do everything you can to build up an emergency fund and a bit of fuck you money.

I got some painful lessons early in my career and have been squirreling money away for years. I'm not wealthy but I have enough to last a year or two if shit goes south. I still deal with a load of shit at work but being annoyed at a shitty boss is one thing and being annoyed and knowing you have no way out and need that money whatever shit they give you is much worse.

 

[Coffee Druid]

I'm no stranger to seasonal allergies in spring, or sometimes fall. A certain tree's pollen kicks my butt every February/March. But for some reason I'm having some bad congestion and allergies in summer of all times. My nose is unusable atm. I looked up local allergens and grass pollen is moderate. It would check out, since we had our front lawn mowed almost a week ago so it's probably all over the air now. I hope I'm not allergic to something as ubiquitous as grass, dammit. It could also be a cold but I'm not sure, especially in this weather.

 

[VIPPER?]

Thinkin' of buying an air (or even airsoft) rifle for backyard plinking, but I'm still afraid of normie karen types to call the cops on me. I've Seen Footage.
Also it's a little insulting that your average toy "sniper rifle" costs more than an actual SKS and optics.

I coincidentally had a lot of the same beliefs as Uncle Ted

TED: Ideas Worth Spreading

Speaking personally, I think a lot of my more emotional issues in life are summarized pretty well by

69. It is true that primitive man is powerless against some of the things that
threaten him; disease for example. But he can accept the risk of disease
stoically. It is part of the nature of things, it is no one’s fault, unless
it is the fault of some imaginary, impersonal demon. But threats to the
modern individual tend to be MAN-MADE. They are not the results of chance
but are IMPOSED on him by other persons whose decisions he, as an
individual, is unable to influence. Consequently he feels frustrated,
humiliated and angry.

 

[pochacco the pup]

Spent the afternoon in the ER; I'm completely fine. I've been having some mild chest pain for the past two weeks, and while my parents have known about this for several days, my mom was reading stuff online last night, convinced herself that I was dying, and made me go in today. I had a feeling going into the hospital they would tell me I'm fine, and after several hours and multiple tests, they said everything looked good and they quickly discharged me and told me to follow up with my PCP or come back to the ER if my pain worsened.
Maybe tomorrow I'll have a more productive day

 

[Coffee Druid]

Thinkin' of buying an air (or even airsoft) rifle for backyard plinking, but I'm still afraid of normie karen types to call the cops on me. I've Seen Footage.
Also it's a little insulting that your average toy "sniper rifle" costs more than an actual SKS and optics.


TED: Ideas Worth Spreading

Speaking personally, I think a lot of my more emotional issues in life are summarized pretty well by

We’ve had an air pistol for awhile, but I got an air rifle recently. Partly it’s to see if I can ward off raccoons or other critters that try to get into my chicken coop. But I also want to practice more since my aim is sucky. I live outside of town so no Karens to worry about here thankfully.

Spent the afternoon in the ER; I'm completely fine. I've been having some mild chest pain for the past two weeks, and while my parents have known about this for several days, my mom was reading stuff online last night, convinced herself that I was dying, and made me go in today. I had a feeling going into the hospital they would tell me I'm fine, and after several hours and multiple tests, they said everything looked good and they quickly discharged me and told me to follow up with my PCP or come back to the ER if my pain worsened.
Maybe tomorrow I'll have a more productive day

What kind of pain? I would get costochondritis (sp?) when younger. Basically an inflammation of the chest muscles. Usually on my left side and was a sharp pain especially when moving. Could last a few minutes to an hour a couple times. It scared me a lot when I first got it, but as far as that goes that’s not anything major I think.

 

[VIPPER?]

We’ve had an air pistol for awhile, but I got an air rifle recently. Partly it’s to see if I can ward off raccoons or other critters that try to get into my chicken coop. But I also want to practice more since my aim is sucky. I live outside of town so no Karens to worry about here thankfully.

Off the top of my head, a .177 at 400-500fps is sufficient for the smallest varmints, and above that you want a .22 at 400-500fps. I know the bongs love their near-sonic air rifles in either caliber for removing foxes, and you can get hollowpoint/fragmenting pellets specifically for non-hunting pest removal. From what I can tell, they're basically wadcutters with slits cut in to enable better expansion if you don't get into gimmick shit like knockoff RIP .177 boolits. That's in the range where you don't need a license, though; I've heard of .30 and up PCP air rifles that touch the sound barrier and they're mostly marketed for deleting foxes.

If you just wanna practice, I had a lot of luck using a dumpster-dived pan as a backstop after taping a bunch of solid packing foam and a few pieces of cardboard to it. Just don't miss entirely. But again, that was for a canuckistan legal 495fps .177 model.

If your aim is sucky, get a cheap scope. I see cheapo air rifle 4x ones at pawn shops pretty regularly, and 4x isn't as much as it sounds. Modern stock sights are fairly high tech in being fancy fibre-optic glown in le dark stuff, but the ones I had were made of plastic on top of being normal notch/post pistol-style sights, and aren't terribly easy to use. 4x scopes are cheap though, It seems like every air rifle comes with one these days. Before I moved and still had an air rifle, mine came with one and I used it as a glorified collimator sight. Modern manufacturing makes them pretty good at keeping parallax in any position. That said, air rifles tend to be very accurate up to their maximum range, so maybe you'll want a 12x or even 16x if you can find one for cheap and aren't shooting so close you'll use irons. When I tried to, an 8-12x adjustable made for spring pistons ran as much as the rifle i was gonna fit it to, used. If you have money to spend and a real rifle, I'd consider it a decent investment though.

Though shooting individual pests will probably not ward off others; pwning foxes and coyotes tends to tell the rest around "don't go here" but things like raccoons, squirrels, etc. are either really stupid, overly brave, or just don't communicate and are a constant menace to gardens and livestock.

 

[pochacco the pup]

What kind of pain? I would get costochondritis (sp?) when younger. Basically an inflammation of the chest muscles. Usually on my left side and was a sharp pain especially when moving. Could last a few minutes to an hour a couple times. It scared me a lot when I first got it, but as far as that goes that’s not anything major I think.

It's usually more of an ache, but sometimes it's more of a sharp pain that I'll get very briefly in different spots in my chest. It's always very surfacey so I've thought it was muscle pain rather than anything coming from my organs. It also happens at random instead of in response to anything, which is perplexing. They did several blood tests, an EKG, and took an x-ray, and nothing came back abnormal or indicative of any inflammation or a blood clot or anything. I'm not surprised it's not anything serious, but I feel a bit stumped.
That sounds really painful though and it's good to hear that it sounds like you don't experience that kind of pain as much as you used to. Even though you would've known what the pain was, having chest pain is always really unnerving.

 

[verygayFrogs]

Tis bedtime for all and the loneliness seeps in. The dog doesn’t even want to stay in the room with me. :,)

 

[Vingle]

I hate the fact this is basically my vent thread because I wish I had someone to bounce ideas off of in the middle of the night and not bother you guys

Why not make your own venting thread?

I misread, but like the idea of therapy as "sexless dating."

Dating asexuals is basically sexless dating. Can't really understand the poor fuckers with a normal sexuality dating an asexual.

Feeling pretty great. Still pretty sore in my thighs after deadlift 2 days ago. Did fuck up my back a little with bad technique before rona, so lifting much lower than what I did before. Going soon to the gym and it was meant to be squats-day, but its going to be an arm-day.

Waiting impatiently on payday, I'm itching to buy more stuff to my apartment. Maybe some UPF clothing too, because I refuse to let my naked skin be in contact with the sun without sunscreen. Since good sunscreen is expensive, that means dressing up. Anyway, UPF clothing tend to be more cooling. Since it's actually designed for hot weather.

 

[verygayFrogs]

Why not make your own venting thread?

Don’t know where to put it

 

[Justtocheck]

Don’t know where to put it

Reminds me of my first date (btw, it could be general discussion)

 

[VIPPER?]

I woke up very late today and basically immediately started drinking and havent stopped since. I need some kind of real work to occupy my time properly. But after complaining a lot elsewhere, not to mention drinking all day (and night now) I feel calm and sedated. I should start doing ketamine or something.

Why not make your own venting thread?

Hey, doesn't this place have come kind of non-aggression rule? Don't egg someone on to doing something not just cringey, but inviting to abuse.

 

[Sped Xing]

Don’t know where to put it

Up your butt and around the corner.


No but seriously listen to @VIPPER? ; kiwifarms is a terrible place to put a personal venting thread. :powerlevel:

 

[Vingle]

doesn't this place have come kind of non-aggression rule? Don't egg someone on to doing something not just cringey, but inviting to abuse.

Only when it comes to spergs outside of this site, on-site is okay. As far as I understand it. verygayFrogs is an outstanding young lady, me and many others believe in her.
I don't see the difference in that she's venting in this thread or writing in her own thread. Nobody is abusing her, but actually is trying to help her.

 

[VIPPER?]

Only when it comes to spergs outside of this site, on-site is okay. As far as I understand it. verygayFrogs is an outstanding young lady, me and many others believe in her.

All the less reason to

Distributing individual concerns across already existing general threads would probably be more useful anyway, since those threads have wider audiences already there to discuss specific things to glean things off of.

 

[Vingle]

All the less reason to

Distributing individual concerns across already existing general threads would probably be more useful anyway, since those threads have wider audiences already there to discuss specific things to glean things off of.

This is up to verygayFrogs, and I only suggested this because:
1: She feels bad for posting so much in this thread.
2: Some are tired at looking at her venting, and one went vocal about it.

I'm just trying to find a solution.