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  • Random computer quirks always fascinate me. The strangest one I had involved a computer that shouldn’t have existed.

    One time in the early aughts I had a patchwork computer that I put together from the junk pile of a local computer store that a buddy of mine ran.

    It was barely holding together in a rusty frame, with zip ties and wood glue.

    Its modem was temperamental as hell. It would only stay online so long as it was pinging a website via command prompt. It was only some websites, too. Like I could ping Geocities, but not livejournel.

    I remember many weekends doing Mephisto runs in Diablo II, praying that my command prompt doesn’t bug out anytime I’d get anything worthwhile.





  • There’s a good reason that ‘good’ cops don’t exist for long.

    He’s about to be made miserable, forced to quit (or be framed), then blacklisted from any other law enforcement position. Yeah, doing that is 100% illegal, but who’s going to do anything about it?

    My ex-wife was trying to be a “good” cop, but not only was she forced out with a swiftness, but she was on the secret law enforcement blacklist.

    Cops don’t like snitches any more than criminals do. Same difference, really.


  • The best way to do it is to go into therapy.

    You don’t have to go to therapy for the rest of your life. If you want to just work on one thing, like discovering why you can’t get into a long term relationship, then that could be as easy as 6-8 weeks once or twice a week for a half hour.

    You don’t even have to leave home as nearly all the independent therapists do therapy via video call.

    I used to run a therapy business that focused on sex ant trauma with my ex-wife, and people coming in with your issues was about 1/3 of the business sometimes.

    Another thing that’s great about independent therapists, is that will work with you on a sliding scale so that each session won’t break the bank. We would get reimbursed by grants and the government, so it doesn’t really harm the therapist in any way.

    Check out Psychology Today to find a good therapist near you









  • Sorta, but not really. My family was doxxed by some bad people, and that caused my father to run away and back slip into drugs as his paranoid schizophrenia made him think that the death threats he was getting were real (which they were sorta real). We found him after being missing for a week. He was comatose, naked and covered in chemical burns.

    After he got out of the hospital, I brought him to another state where I live to try to take care of him. Only he slipped out and found some random person who sold fent spiked meth.

    I found him dead on my couch.

    The paramedics tried to resuscitate him, but he was already gone.

    I’m looking into therapy now as I can’t get that image out of my head. Plus all the guilt of him dying in my care.



  • I have a degenerative bone disease that causes my bone marrow to turn into tumors. It’s really painful and I break things as I walk.

    I’ve been on fentanyl patches when my pain gets too extreme. I also drink coffee when I don’t have the energy to do much due to my condition. I was taking stronger stimulants NuVigil in order to be able to function at work in a corporate job before I became 100% disabled for several years. Nowadays, I just stick to coffee or caffeine pills.

    A lot of people mix uppers and downers like that. It’s just that coffee and caffeine are much more acceptable stimulants even if they work pretty close to the same…