I want to somehow go back to 1998 and find young me when I still believed the internet and computers would truly make us love each other more and break down national divides and bring a greater peace to the whole world and i want to punch him square in the mouth.
Also i think this might be my last Christmas. Like I will still be around but Christmas as we grow up with is no longer going to be a thing.
If it makes you feel better, my husband and I met in an online game (while we lived across international borders,) fell in love, and began dating. The game also has VR, and we explored massive chunks of the Milky Way Galaxy over many months during the pandemic :)
We’re married now!
Elite: Dangerous?
Yep, Elite!
That is nice to hear, I also found my wife online dating site before they went to crap and actually wanted you to find a healthy relationship instead of keeping you on the dating treadmill and thus a customer.
It’s not young-you’s fault, they had us all hooked on that potential. And it 100% had and still has that potential, it’s just that the wrong people are calling the shots.
Tell you what, I’ll go back with you and we can punch the ones who ruined the internet!
Yeah I mean the web is lost but the tildeverse is still a thing so that’s something but it’s not going to change the world only become the resistance.
I wholeheartedly believe nothing is lost yet! We’re still around, we’re still full-on “seditious” (from the perspective of Big Bucks McOildrill), we can do this!
But, yes, we do need an Underground Railroad type network for now…
Don’t blame the internet for the unjust hierarchy that permeates every facet of human civilization. It is a tool, nothing more.
While I totally agree i also think that tool is like the machine gun in world war 1. We had guns before but it supercharged the rate in which the people in power inflict human misery. It’s like web 1.0 was like general relativity. Intelligent people just working for the further understanding of their world. Web 2 was the atom bomb taking that technology and using it to make carnage. Where it had the potential to just light everyone’s home.
If I don’t get my health in order, build better habits, and find a decent job this year, I’ll probably end up dead before 2025 ends. Somethings not right with my body but without insurance or an income to get a plan from the marketplace, either my heart, lungs, or Crohns will take me out.
Sounds like you live in the US. Do you know anyone that lives in states that have Medicare for low/no income earners? Perhaps you could claim you live at their place and drive in after you submit your application for their program and get free healthcare?
I’m not a lawyer, but if you have your friend to back up your story they wont be able to prove you dont live there. Youre just out of town looking for work.
We live in a unjust world, do not follow these rules that were not made for us. The insurance corporations sure have bent and broken the rules to put this “Healthcare system” in place. You should to. Fight back.
Hope you find your way. Peace.
Thank you. Yes, I’m a software engineer by trade in the US and really hope this new year and the new administration (not saying I agree with it) encourages businesses to hire again. Been applying and interviewing since July with no success. Many other devs I talk to that left/loss their jobs last year have shared the same experience.
Once I get that sorted out, I should be able to get insurance again. It’s just crazy that you need to be working to even attempt to be healthy and get the care needed.
Just to point out, many software dev places are trying to replace developers with AI.
I mean, that’s not going to work out well, what with the high rates at which AI hallucinates. But businesses are going to keep trying until they collapse from all the shitty code that’s been created.
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My dad died a couple of weeks ago. I hadn’t met him for years because of my disability, I’m not sure what the correct translation is for it but “action paralysis” is a direct translation. My anxiety completely shuts me down, both physically and mentally, I’ve been on long-term sick leave for 15 years due to it (along with general anxiety, depression etc.) My family has been alright in helping me, mostly my mother but she always takes the easy route to just sending me some money or leaving some cooked food, washing my clothes, cleaning my apartment for me etc. Instead of actually helping me get better. Whenever I get on my feet a bit and I manage to get doctor appointments, psychologist, etc. she kinda stops helping, so it always ends with me missing those and going back to square one of needing to contact them, get appointments again etc. It feels like she doesn’t actually want me to get better. Ever since this paralysis latched on to being able to meet my father, I’ve begged and pleaded to both my mom and the rest of my family to help to get in contact with him and meet him, because it was clear he wouldn’t love for much longer. They tried like two times then just ignored it. I continued to ask for help, and made it clear I really need that help. I said clearly several times that it’s the most important thing in my life now, I told them that they could stop helping with everything else and just help me get to him, but it’s like they just didn’t hear it. I told them it would break me completely if he died before we could meet. And that’s what happened, he died, and I just told them I could never forgive them for this. And since then it’s been radio silence. Not even a merry Christmas text or anything. I’ve lost contact with all my friends because of this disability too so I’m completely alone now. It’s a bit over 3 hours till the new year and I’m just sitting home, alone, with barely any food and no clean clothes and a super dirty apartment and I don’t know what to do. I’m just broken, I’ve never been sad in this way before and I don’t know how to even start to get better from this.
I miss my cat and I wish my family wasn’t so fucked up.
I want to be more productive and less depressed
Approximately 16kg
