How are you doing? - Kiwi Farms Wellness Check

[Dysnomia]

Wildfire smoke from Canada and Jersey is choking the air here. I was coughing like crazy last night and I'm all congested now. I have some minor scarring in my lungs from a bad respiratory infection in 2017. I guess it's making me more sensitive. My chest burns.

 

[Betonhaus]

Wildfire smoke from Canada and Jersey is choking the air here. I was coughing like crazy last night and I'm all congested now. I have some minor scarring in my lungs from a bad respiratory infection in 2017. I guess it's making me more sensitive. My chest burns.

Does wearing a mask help? They were originally intended for large organic particles anyways.

 

[Inafune Fanfiction]

Thinking of moving. I just don't fit in here and everyone is in their secretive cliques. Its only bad whenever you want the same common courtesies and respect as anyone else. Fuck that double standard bullshit. Life's too short to be surrounded by assholes.

The problem is theirs since I had no problems fitting in before I moved here for school and landed a job shortly after. Fortunately I can and will move back thanks to the new job.

 

[Betonhaus]

update: the seller of the seatbelt stops finally got his two braincells firing and realized what I was talking about, and I got a 63 cent refund. Which, you know what? I'll take that as a win. fireworks.gif

In other news I got the sneakign suspicion that this company I'm working for has basically lost it's entire client base, which with it being a predatory car loan company isn't a huge surprise. I should find work elsewhere as they're probably going to stop paying wages when they run out of money instead of letting people go first

 

[anustart76]

Thinking of moving. I just don't fit in here and everyone is in their secretive cliques. Its only bad whenever you want the same common courtesies and respect as anyone else. Fuck that double standard bullshit. Life's too short to be surrounded by assholes.

The problem is theirs since I had no problems fitting in before I moved here for school and landed a job shortly after. Fortunately I can and will move back thanks to the new job.

I hear that. I honestly never feel more alone than when I'm surrounded by other people.

 

[Dysnomia]

Does wearing a mask help? They were originally intended for large organic particles anyways.

All I have are the cloth ones and not the fancy ones. I'll try it though. Better than nothing. I can't even post well. I'm lightheaded and my chest burns. Everything tastes burnt. I opened the window because I was hoping it dissipated a little. Nope. It might not get better until Monday.

My friend told me some people like the smell and taste? Burning wood is only pleasant in small quantities. Not breathing in all day long.

 

[SilverRoseChariot]

Speaking of the Canadian Wildfires, I'm in Ontario and the nearest fire is an hour away from me, so that's been stressful. I'm just hoping none start in my area. You can't go outside here without smelling the smoke and the sky is just all dull and I miss the blue sky and bright sunshine. I just hope it clears up soon. I hope it rains again, all the grass looks dead now.

I have alcohol so that helps make things less bad but I still worry, I don't think I could leave here like that even if I was in danger, I live on a farm so my family has horses. I'm a bit worried about them, I hope they don't get sick from the air here.

 

[glow]

I'd like to report a feeling. I don't normally feel strongly about anything, but this business with Reddit throwing out third party apps has me sad. My oldest Reddit account was made around the time people were debating whether subreddits were a good idea, and whether a del.icio.us type link tagging system was the future.

I haven't been on the site in a while, but the one thing that set it aside from other social media sites was the third party clients and bots, and this was something that I romanticised as making it special. Without their developer community, they're just another corporate site now. The subreddits that have gone dark will be resurrected by the admins, taken over by power hungry scabs and in time it will become another investor friendly website, the corners rounded off, the undesirables banned.

The end was inevitable, all platforms let you down, one day even Microsoft and Apple will be gone. But still, I feel. Like when Lowtax necked himself and SA changed hands, I feel deeply nostalgic for the days that are now gone, when weirdos would start strange websites for fun, only to either burn out or sell out, climbing new heights and pulling the ladder up after them. What would Aaron Swartz think now to see what has happened?

It's bullshit to care about, but I feel all the same. Thank you for reading my feeling report.

 

[AnOminous]

It's bullshit to care about, but I feel all the same. Thank you for reading my feeling report.

I get the feel but fuck reddit. The more they do to nuke their own platform, the better. It is a cancerous shithole of vile perverts and reprobates and its utter destruction would improve the world immeasurably.

 

[Yamamura]

Ate a lot of food. Now I'm sleepy.

 

[Betonhaus]

I get the feel but fuck reddit. The more they do to nuke their own platform, the better. It is a cancerous shithole of vile perverts and reprobates and its utter destruction would improve the world immeasurably.

I'm still not fully clear on what extent the API access restrictions is going to be like. I do know that they are heavily used by mods to shut down free speech, and r/conspiracy has demonstrated the existence of voting bots used to artificially suppress or enhance content dependign on the handler's whims. Will those bots get blocked? Reddit hasn't done the thing Twitter did of discussing how many of it's traffic is bot generated. It might be a lot.

 

[AnOminous]

I'm still not fully clear on what extent the API access restrictions is going to be like.

Two of the main apps their "power users" use have already announced they're just shutting down. Anything that makes reddit a useful "user experience" is just going to go away. People made their horrible site vaguely usable for free, and now reddit wants to be paid for people generously unfucking their horrible interface.

Who is going to stick around?

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

My mental state is shit and I dislike the world and this new global culture. I have a lot of varied interests I don't talk about and since everyone is a child these days that cares more about spider man and Star Wars than things of value, this endless childish play, when I care more about knowledge... makes it hard to deal with people. I can't be fucked anymore and I'm becoming increasingly distant from everyone I know.

Two of the main apps their "power users" use have already announced they're just shutting down. Anything that makes reddit a useful "user experience" is just going to go away. People made their horrible site vaguely usable for free, and now reddit wants to be paid for people generously unfucking their horrible interface.

Who is going to stick around?

I don't know why people are siding with the reddit admins, they're not the good boys, they CREATED the mods, and furthermore their API demands are ridiculous and if the rest of the web does this you will be very unhappy. Furthermore most redditors even have goddamn reddit browser enhancements since the site is so shit. Remember how long reddit didn't even allow image embedding? Reddit happily piggybacked off that. I was OG reddit since digg died, on and off through the years I saw a lot, and I have absolutely, zero, zero, ZERO sympathy for reddit as a company. Siding with the reddit admins because most reddit posters are fags tells me these people have no idea what faggy douches the reddit admins are. And it's funny they think reddit's political slant wasn't engineered in 2012 by the admins and really is organic.

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

My day has started well - a client was "blown away" by something I "executed flawlessly" - and that's always nice to hear. Plus, I just ate a pretty good mango.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Car is going to be in the shop for the next two weeks- I got a ride to work, but I'm walking home. On one hand it sucks, on another I'm glad, because the car has been stalling for a while and scaring the shit out of me, so oddly, there is some relief in my heart.

The estimated cost is also less than anything else I've put into my Hyundai XG350-nice car, 2005, luxury model that competed with Chrysler 300's, old people ran it into the ground- so that makes me pleased.

I've also come into some money finally, building back up my savings, so I'm thinking on getting a old F-150, there's a 1987 4x4 model that's within my reach that should be able to handle a future welding rig with its 5.0 liter V8, at least a small one, so that has me optimistic, highly optimistic.

 

[Tequila Jong]

I have two weeks left at my shit job, and every minute I spend there feels like a fucking eternity. I have to be back there in half an hour and I can already feel my chest tightening up with dread.

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

Car is going to be in the shop for the next two weeks- I got a ride to work, but I'm walking home. On one hand it sucks, on another I'm glad, because the car has been stalling for a while and scaring the shit out of me, so oddly, there is some relief in my heart.

Two weeks!! You have my sympathies. I got some overdue work done on my car this week (and walked the 4 miles home when I dropped it; for pickup I Ubered there because I don't have that much time it was hot and muggy and I'm a baby), and though it cost a week's salary, the mental benefit is worth every penny.

I have two weeks left at my shit job, and every minute I spend there feels like a fucking eternity. I have to be back there in half an hour and I can already feel my chest tightening up with dread.

Congrats on the new gig! I propose to you a mantra: "two more weeks, two more weeks; nothing here matters, nothing here matters." You're on to better things! Hope you get a few days off between old and new, but either way, might be really good to practice de-associating work and dread. PL: It's pretty fucking phenomenal not to feel it.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Two weeks!! You have my sympathies. I got some overdue work done on my car this week (and walked the 4 miles home when I dropped it; for pickup I Ubered there because I don't have that much time it was hot and muggy and I'm a baby), and though it cost a week's salary, the mental benefit is worth every penny.

A car that works is worth it. I feel ya brother. They're just backed up, as long as there isn't any hiccups, should be around a days work.

 

[Battlecruiser3000ad]

After surviving winter in a house woefully unprepared for it, I get a good feeling now when fixing any of the window frames, panes, putting in gaskets 'n shit.
Also the "new" neighbors telling me that if I ever need anything I can just ask them is nice. I'm going to do anything to avoid ever having to ask, but just knowing the safety net is there is bringing me some sort of inner peace.

I spent some time just sitting on a bench and watching bumblebees bumble around my flowers. Love those guys. Makes one forget the evil world for a while.

 

[anustart76]

I have to take a shit but the public restroom here is unusably disgusting because this shithole country is full of people that don't know how to use a toilet properly and have no respect for their fellow shitters.

I'm going to have to hold it for at least an hour. Wish me luck.