Hear, hear!

I know these are technically memes, but I’ve been seeing so many of these hit home for months now. I’m starting to wonder if I was one of those kids who slipped through the cracks and never got diagnosed

I scrolled down specifically looking for a KSP comment, thank you.

I’m usually that person as well. BG3 was the first game in probably 8 years that hooked me on the story. If I sprinted through it, I would have probably saved like 80% of the time I spent playing it, but I enjoyed it. Maybe I’m simple, to me it felt like the decisions mattered.

Those two are already halfway there.

Learning to have a conversation and not a monologue is also a pretty solid skill.

People stand there talking without a break and I just stop listening.

Indeed, Telegram is a hive of criminal content. At the moment, the platform is in the news with the illegal broadcasting of Ligue 1 matches.

This is pretty funny. The first example of crime is people posting dodgy links to football streams? They can’t be serious.

“The government made 25% of my district unemployed, why didn’t I get reelected?”

Ask it from that side and you have your answer.

That whole mindset is weird to me. I’m in my mid 40s and just got hired on as a team lead for a bunch of kids who are fresh out of college. They’re exactly where I am when I started and I’m excited to share my 20 years of experience and mentor them.

They wanted to hire me on as their supervisor but I made it clear that the extra couple grand a year for that headache didn’t interest me.

I’ll bring the magnet.

As a general rule, you shouldn’t eat raw flour.

I was in endpoint management and security until last year. I got my A+ and sec+, and couldn’t find a job. I did actually find a job, but these fucks wanted to pay me less than I’m making in business ops now. So anything bad these companies have coming to them, they absolutely deserve it.

I don’t know where all of you live, but my windshield is still an aria of death in the spring of 2024.

They’re all just jumping off cliffs because their friends are doing it, too.

Ah yes. Lemmings

Careful now, IBM is also awfully litigious.

I don’t know how old your dad is, but when I was a teenager 25 years ago, I could pick up a car for under $500, and it ran. Now, if it runs and drives it’s automatically $2500. It’s also probably beat to hell.

I can’t really blame kids today for not being interested in that.

Maybe daddy Elon can pay another $50b to buy Reddit and run that into the ground too.

the users feeling entitled to both have a sub that was taken care of, and to shit on the mods, was quite perplexing.

New Reddit, in a nutshell. I really liked that sub back when things were good.

So a few great points you made here.

• I told the audiologist that it’s almost crippling, and she made a point to tell me to get help if I’m thinking of harming myself. I’m not, because I’ll just pipe white noise throughout my entire house before I consider that. That seems to dull it a bit for me. iPhones have an app called “hearing” built into control center that you can enable, and it plays different kinds of white noise. I run that all night and it seems to help dull my tinnitus a bit while I sleep. I do have the over the ear noise cancelling headphones, and playing music through that does help me as well.

• there’s no direct treatment afaik also. My blood pressure isn’t a factor here, but that was looked at. And the audiologist also made the same point about the brain compensating for hearing loss. According to what I was told, it’s a symptom of hearing loss, not the cause. My mom has hearing aids, and in her case, they pretty much eliminated her tinnitus, which I’m just praying that it does the same for me, or at least lessens it.

Everyone’s tinnitus is different for sure, but I’m just hoping that wearing the hearing aids will at least dull mine a bit. I test fit some and it definitely helped with hearing conversations, so here’s to hoping I guess.

To be clear, they aren’t bad questions you’re asking, but it’s hard to explain unless you experience it. For fun, search “6500 hz tinnitus” On youtube, and see how long you can stand it. Then understand that I’ve been hearing that nonstop for like 2 years now, 24/7