Yeah, that’s fucked. With some serious reverse engineering and reimplementing, it sounds like it could be a pretty great product, but even if something like a FOSS implementation of the protocol StarVision uses or something like Valetudo but for the Vega existed, I wouldn’t feel right about patronizing a company that does that kind of shit.
Seriously, if people have that much investment in my enjoyment of anything, that will ruin any chance I might have otherwise had of enjoying it.
I had an experience like that with the anime Berserk. Had my coworker not been so desperate for me to like it, I probably would have.
First off, be careful. Make sure you aren’t putting yourself in danger. Don’t talk to them. Talk to someone who can do something to protect you. HR if it’s a work thing or the police if it rises to that level. If in doubt, err on the side of caution. If something like HR or police aren’t an option, ghost them.
I hesitate to even go on. So let me reiterate. Aggressiveness is the kind of red flag you don’t want to take lightly.
All that said, if none of the above helps; if you’re talking about something other than fear for your personal safety (and again, please don’t let denial blind you here), then: don’t talk about their behavior. Talk about how you feel. Say that you feel nervous/on edge/scared when they behave in whatever way you’re alluding to.
Some day science will make designer pets who have features like this, or like the cat with the headset, or with purrrrfectly-shaped heart markings and memes like this will lose their magic. I’m glad not to live in those times.
Why do people say more people didn’t vote for Trump than did?
Because more people didn’t vote for Trump than did.
Trump got more of the popular vote in the U.S. in 2024 than any other candidate did, but he still didn’t get 50% of the vote. He got like 49.80% of the popular vote. And that isn’t even considering those who didn’t vote.
Don’t you agree that the statement this “question” is rhetorically making is false?
“Is a question?” is a question?
“About once a year?”
And it sounds like right now you’re just out of the tail end of one of these once-per-year episodes?
If this isn’t already on your radar, I strongly suggest trying out a SAD (seasonal affective disorder) lamp.
I’m (pretty certain I’m) not autistic. And it’s possible the (arguably) somewhat similar episode I’ve had over the recent yule season was less severe than what you’re describing.
But I think I can at least somewhat relate. And I think a big part of what contributed to that problem for me was just not getting enough light in my eyeballs, particularly in the morning.
My technique (when I finally figured out SAD was a big part of my problem) was to put my SAD lamp right next to my bed pointing right at my head and turn it on when I first wake up in the morning and then go back to sleep with the light shining in my eyes.
Even if your issue is 100% SAD (and it sounds like that probably isn’t the case if you have “suspected schizophrenia”) a SAD lamp may not be enough. It couldn’t hurt to preemptively start regular appointments with a therapist starting in like… October or something every year anticipating a difficult season. Your GP might have some options for you as well.
Good luck. That kind of shit sucks.
Imagine this conversation in the IT department at a large bank:
IT Manager: It’s what?!
Security Engineer: Gone. It’s all gone. Every red cent this bank held in every account has been transferred by malicious actors to anonymous Swiss accounts.
IT Manager: How could we have let this happen?
Security Engineer: The hackers got approval to install PuTTY. There was nothing we could do.
Reality has a well-known liberal bias.
They were marketing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (though not by name, because it didn’t have a name yet) before the WiiU was released. And they strung everybody along until after the Switch was released.
Fuckers! I was an early adopter of the WiiU because “well, I’ll for sure want one when the WiiU exclusive Zelda title comes out.”
That’s what “they go low, we go high” translates to from Hillary’s native tongue.
Watch out for scams
…such as Bitcoin.
Legally, at least in the U.S. (though I hear not in Japan?), if you’re sued on a defamation case (slander or libel), if you can prove that what you said was true, that’s an ironclad defense.
I think it’s fair to say that you can’t necessarily know if something you’ve said about something was ethically acceptable until it’s certain whether what you said was true or not. If you say something about someone that you aren’t 100% sure is true, then whether it’s ok for you to have said that can’t really be known until the truth or falsehood of the assertion is certain.
doesn’t stop the worry.
As someone who makes a lot more money than I did previously, I’d say it largely does, at least for me.
I don’t spend anywhere near as much time:
In short, I spend less time thinking about money, which means I spend less time worrying about money.
It’s not like I don’t worry at all about money, but I do worry a lot less of the time, and less intensely.
At this point, honestly, I think having more income might make me more stressed than I am now. Though I would like to be able to quit my day job for a business I own myself, maybe. As long as the income was reliable.
We summon the great demon king Asmeowdeus to teach us how to use can openers!
Do we really think there’s a significant number of Trump voters out there who regret their vote? Really?
It seems far more likely to me that most Trump voters are doubling down. “Prices are going to come down way lower than they were before Trump took office. This is actually Biden’s fault. Prices are going down, actually. Particularly eggs, depsite what the woke MSM would tell you. In fact, eggs are cheapest in states with the least restrictive gun regulations and highest deportation rates for illegals. Prices have never been this low. Trump is making Mexico pay our grocery bills.”
Sure, you can find one or two people who will claim to be regretful Trump voters. (Just like you can find a very few microbiologists who swear the universe was created in six literal days around 6,000 years ago.) But I can’t imagine any significant number of Trump voters having that much self awareness and intellectual honesty.
generate code, memorize how it works, explain it to profs like I know my shit.
ChatGPT was just his magic feather all along.
Maybe left-wingers are too demoralized right now because of Trump to even protest and protests will ramp back up once they’ve had a chance to grieve?
I’m not familiar enough with the scene you’re asking about to speak, though.
It’s not too late. He can still turn from his sin and accept Satan into his heart. Or more importantly, his lungs.