For example, I love to sing. However, only one other person in my life has ever heard me sing and I haven’t seen that person in years. I’m not sure I’m good at singing but I think I can hit the notes well enough.
My dad has a cancer that has no cure. He will eventually die because it, but the medication has given he a few good years so far and hopefully he has few more in him.
That’s rough mate, how are you all managing it?
It was pretty rough at start. Especially when we were not sure whats happening and after we did, we did not know how the medication was going to effect as it varies a lot person to person, but luckily it has been effective for my dad.
It has also been tough because the cancer effects the immune system, so if i have made plans to travel to home and i get runny nose i need to cancel the trip. Especially because when the medicine stops being effective the cancer will develope quickly, so every time i miss a birthday or christmas, there is possibility that it could be the last one we get.
Since mom has retired now too, they have beem doing lots of travelling and they have come to terms with the disease they are pretty much living to the fullest while his is still fit to travel.
Big suprice was that the disease actually revealed useful side of facebook. There is support group of people having the same disease. It helped dad a lot to understand he should not just stop living his life because of the sickness. The group is little eerie tough as for the obvious reason people in there may suddenly just disapear.
Yes there’s a lot of variables and a lot that’s hard to predict. Even a runny nose could change things, which is a lot of stress. You don’t even know how much time you have. The Facebook group sounds good but I get that it’s eerie tough. I hope your family gets as much happiness as you possibly can over this time
I drive a truck for work, and I’m a major gearhead.
Nobody who knows me in-person knows that I’ve written erotica for money. Hardly anyone knows I like to write, like, period.
No one knows that I support lottocracy
Democratic-lottocracy where the canditades are drawn from the elligble population, but where people vote who they want to represent them in senate would be fire.
Bonus points if the terms end at different times. Like if there would be 200 seats and 4 years terms, there would be elections for 50 seat every year.
That would be roughly 1 election per week which feels very very draining. If you combine multiple election in a single day it would be too much for people to carefully consider every option
Maybe the solution could be that some of them are chosen elected like you said, while other seats are given randomly
Im thinking more like 200 seats divided by province or state or what ever is applicable and voting only representatives from your own area so it would be pretty close to parlamentic elections we have here now.
I mean it does have legitimate narrow use cases imo ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Everywhere? Nawww not rlly
Very few people irl know my actual political beliefs because I water them down constantly in order to make them sound more socially acceptable
Just between me and you, what are your beliefs?
I could tell you but then I’d have to kill you.
I do love a challange
Shakira is in my playlists
Why hide that? She’s got an amazing voice and great rhythms.
The Chainsmokers, chase and status and Coldplay are in mine. Next to people like Slipknot, Stormzy and various forms of trance. So I NEVER show my playlist
I don’t actually know what I’m doing. I just keep getting away with it, and I know that one day I’ll be found out.
Am I even good enough to have imposter syndrome?
you have to have achieved something to have it.
I have a wicked sense of humor and a penchant for puns and word play. I also have a very large vocabulary from being a voracious reader from an early age which feeds my puns.
I can trace the point in time when my wife and I fell in love with each other was when we spent an entire car trip doing puns and word play. Not just any puns but as the trip went on they got more and more esoteric. We discovered that we could keep up with each other and we’ve been together ever since.
I too have been trying to make people laugh with damn near a dozen word jokes, but no pun in ten did.
I think I found Canopyflyer’s wife
Im not sure there is anything. Im kinda an open book in person. Im one of those person who if you could read my mind would be hearing the same thing I am saying.
That sounds like it can be challenging to be around. Just saying what I’m thinking here.
likely it is. Im pretty sure I have friends and family that do not want me at particular things because of what I might say.
No one knows the cute little lady at work listens to extreme metal on her headphones lol. I pause my black metal and say the sweetest things to my patients.
I also know a lot of anime. Not the new stuff, but the tried and true stuff. I don’t watch it anymore, but yeah. No one would know because I don’t talk about it.
Oh and I know old school UFC too, because I’ve got Fight Pass and have been watching it (and Pride) chronologically lol.
My ethnicity mix also seems to trip people up. I get some interesting guesses!
You sound like someone who wants a good beer and tickets to Whitechapel. 🤘
i have a phd in philosophy.
i can’t ever talk about it because people never respond positively. they almost always attack me for it because it is scary or something.
if i say it’s english they are are a lot less hostile, so that’s what I do if it comes up.
What was your PhD in? And what did you learn from it?
What is so scary about a philosophy PhD?
they don’t know what it is. so it’s scary. people fear the unknown.
Found Chidi.
Pfft. People are idiots. Philosophy is literally the OG PhD.
Well I think it’s a cool PhD. Fuck those haters.
i live in the USA. people here don’t admire/respect nyone with a PhD unless they are an MD or a scientist, and even then…
There is a silent war inside my brain between autism and ADHD
None, I’m an open book.
I’m a weirdo boot fetishist. I love riding boots and leather pants, gloves. I obsess of them endlessly. Sex in boots is beyond anything else. The filthier the better. Booty lickin, pee drinking, all the butt stuff, all the filth. I work a successful corporate job in exec leadership. I’m reasonably well respected in my field. Work and filth never cross over. Nobody knows, I don’t mix business with leather.
…who knew that execs are freaks?
(/s)
I flirted with the manosphere for a while. I don’t regret it, but I’m aware enough of the public perception that I don’t mention it to most people today. Yes, I’m aware of the irony of announcing it here. I would simply say that it suffers from the over-simplification of groups and ideas that affect all groups today, including feminism. Are there bad elements to it? Absolutely, but even feminists admit it has good points and members. People just tend to submit to basic views of things in general.
Kudos for sharing. Before it was called the Man-O-Sphere, I used to listen to Dave Rubin and Joe Rogan. That was over a decade ago. Once Trump came onto the scene and they pivoted hard to the right, I couldn’t listen to them anymore.
a lot of the gender extremism stuff was free, but it pivots towards even more extremist content when money gets involved, because they need to ramp up the fear and hate content to sell pills and merch.
i remember the early manosphere was just random blogs mostly… and then it became social media content, and then it became advertisements for books, seminars, supplements… and similar with the incels and the femcels and the ‘femosphere’.
just all grifters copying one another to convince sad angry people to give them their money. IMO
exact same pattern for political extremism as well. the more crazy alex jones got, the more dick pills he sold, the more money he made.
the irony to me is the people who hate the manosphere so much are the very same ones who drive men towards it, due to their crazy hostile views towards men generally. and how deeply embedded these views are in our popular media… a lot of boys have no choice but to go to the manosphere to find a space where their experiences and problems are at legitimized.
gender hostility is so over the top these days, it blows my mind. I’m continually baffled at how ‘calm’ gender relations were in the 90s/2000s compared to today, but ID politics types of thinking didn’t really get popular until social media took over. my first encounter with ‘hate feminism’ was like 2011 or so, and the manosphere took off a few years later. then both groups were all over reddit by 2014 or so, duking it out and spilling their ‘truth’ and ‘war recruitment’ tactics all over various subs.
