Any suggestions??

I really enjoy cable management

I've realized I'm a very atypical person: talking to coworkers in my age range today I realized they have a better financial situation than mine: they are married, some with children, own their own condos, houses, or are paying a mortgage, but can still live a normal life, own a car, some even have the luxury of not having to work 40 hours a week, but 32 because they don't need to work more, house already paid, family and life objectives achieved.

Me: I'm 43, I don't own but rent, meaning I pay for something I'm never going to own. The last 2 years I've been saving like crazy because I'm afraid of not having enough money for retirement, and because in my past I did so much stupid shit, meaning I wasted so many years not doing anything of use.

I have around 100K in the bank, I know I should invest but I'm also scared of losing that money and I don't know if I should use that money as a down payment for a house.

My father owns 3 houses and I envy him. I've been thinking about asking him to sell one of the houses and give me the proceeds so I can buy my own place because some of my coworkers did that and could finance their own home. When my father went to study to another state my grandfather bought him a house there so he wouldn't have to rent. When he moved back to home state he sold and invested the money to buy a new house there. He had way easier than me. It's not fair. I feel... unloved?

I guess this makes me an entitled ass but I feel so... lost?

To summarize, I feel like a loser because I'm old, I'm behind most of my coworkers my age, I'm a very individualistic person but this means I'm going to die alone, but sometimes I feel alone and scared of being old and alone. I don't own anything of value to my name, it's like I'm an old teenager.

Americans; I am trying to understand the subtlety and nuance of your expression "to haul ass".

Does it mean "to hurry"? Or more "to move under strain"?

Or something else?

long term I mean 10, 20, 30 years.

Some people say yes, because my horizon are these years, long after trump is gone, but I wonder if I should wait till after the midterms or after the presidential election.

I genuinely don’t understand why society treats social interaction like it’s one of the most important things in life.

If someone spends a weekend alone, people assume they’re lonely. If someone has no interest in constant messaging, group chats, or hanging out every week, people think something must be wrong.

Meanwhile, a lot of social interaction seems repetitive. The same conversations, the same small talk, the same routines repeated over and over.

People talk about socialising as if it’s automatically meaningful, but for many interactions the main purpose seems to be avoiding boredom or avoiding being alone.

If somebody has no friends it’s often treated like a tragic disaster, but what if that’s actually what they prefer?

Maybe I’m missing something, but I don’t see why being comfortable alone is viewed as strange while constantly needing people around is viewed as normal.

I was using Jerboa for a while, but then one day images stopped working on there for some reason. Then I found Blorp browsing on fdroid and it's pretty friggin awesome. Just wondering if anyone else is using it too, or if I'm the only cool guy here.

(the 'title' and 'body' was AI-fixed cause my English is bad)

The tool would work by:

1. Detecting a specific benchmark level within the game, regardless of the game engine used.

2. Running automated tests on every combination of CPUs, GPUs, and storage types (SSD/HDD).

3. On tool's servers: Testing against all conceivable hardware specs to find absolute minimum, recommended, and high settings.

4. Locally: Using the user's current hardware specs as the maximum benchmark limit.

5. Output: Providing the perfect system requirements (minimum, standard, and high) based on these results.

I remember being seeing this flash animation around 2000s, but the only part I can reasonably recall is, at some point near the end, the young man finds his former girlfriend about to leave with the other man at the airport. He is unable to reach them, where by he soon sees that have gotten on their flight and taken off, thereupon kneeling on the tarmac in the rain to cry.

I just had a really weird dream. One of those that you wake up and go back into the same dream later when you fall asleep again. I was me but surrounded by people I don't know irl but I truly did in my dream. I was with a group of friends. One of them was going through a separation and we were helping him move out. The ex was there as well and we all knew her and the guy for years. She was a part of the friend group.

The thing that really fucked with me is these people that don't exist were so real. It included inside jokes that I knew, back stories of how we met. Reminiscing of things we did together in the past. I remember pulling out my phone and shooting the shit with one of the guys showing old pics and videos of crazy shit we did in the past for instance.

There was also drama that I knew about in my dream and watched progress / unfold in front of me. Like a few of the closest people to the guy going through this were a no show.

Idk it was just fucking weird, like I was completely emersed in the situations, having unique conversations with these "friends", the story progressed like the movers finally showing up. People coming and going. Me getting yelled at to get off my ass and start helping.

The whole thing was surreal and I think what made it weirder was that it wasn't very eventful. Usually dreams are more interesting? Like it was just me, existing, doing something with this friend group that doesn't get together very often anymore that I had known for years but literally don't exist. Another weird thing is I wasn't the main character. I was just helping a friend out that needed me.

Idk, the whole thing fucked with me. I have never had a dream so.... Immersive based completely on people I don't know?

I use Hairstory New Wash for my hair.

A few months ago, I bought a glass and metal dispenser to squeeze out my refills into.

I recently noticed that instead of a pleasant smell, there is a rancid / acidic smell coming from cowash inside and pumped out of the container.

I wonder if this is because I would just layer a new refill on top of the old refill over and over. But the same refill packets still smell perfectly fine inside, even after months of being on the side & having been opened before.

Any ideas why the glass container now has an expired cowash, or is my guess correct?

Hey!

So, a few years ago, I happened in upon these weird parody(?) videos on YT with a lot of mashups of edited-in stuff. What stood out in one of them was Putin looking miserable driving a bus, and the meme stripper guy popping up out of nowhere and dodging bullets (yeah, it sounds like an acid trip, but that was the entire video).

Anyone remember seeing those? Thanks in advance!

I have a meaningless job that pays my bills, lets me invest and save for my 401k. I should be happy but I'm not.

I should be more ambitious but I don't have any motivation to find something better in my current field, nursing. No matter where I work with my degree in nursing, it's going to be the same shit wherever I go: stupid, entitled people, both coworkers, doctors and patients, drug addicts, people with dementia, cancer, drunks, infuriating relatives who believe I'm their waiter, people with minimal complains who believe they're more important than the possible heart attack next to them, the coworker who won't shut up talking about her children...

I know no matter where I work there are always curious characters you simply have to pretend to like but I find it so tiring faking interest in their crap (coworkers I mean). It could be even worse because my actual manager is not much of an asshole.

I always wanted to study literature and write novels, which I still like and do, but there is not much money there. As much as I hate my current job, it pays the bills.

But I still feel stagnated.

One doctor suggested me to enroll in a nursing master to get better job options but I'm simply not motivated.

This doctor doesn't seem to understand that what I need if I go this route are mentors, because the master will only teach me theory on paper, not the practical experience I'm going to need and my hospital is not a good teaching hospital: people claim they'll help you but as soon as management leaves, they ignore you.

I don't know if I have unrealistic expectations.

I also feel like a coward sometimes because I don't want to lose a mediocre position with financial stability for a passion that might not earn me a living.

At the same time, the best opportunities usually require you to go outside your comfort zone.

I don't know what to do.

Cognitohazard posting

Like walk me through the steps here. There will be more Hezbollah posting later. Just humor me on this

Which channels should I subscribe to? The goal is to make my YouTube feed so useless I'll never want to touch it again. Suggest channels, and I'll subscribe to all of them, no questions asked. Give me the channels that make you question humanity, and I'll handle the rest. Drop your worst channel suggestions here, and I'll subscribe to all of them. Now is your opportunity to make my YT feed even worse than it already is.

Some background

This is a reference to my earlier post. About two months ago, I decided to subscribe to anyone who asks. Turns out, most channels don't even bother asking any more. Maybe they know how little it matters.

My feed was still too functional, so I knew needed to up my game. While doing household chores, I started putting on some pointless trash videos and ignoring them. I also subscribed to all the background channels I wasn't even watching. Sadly, that wasn't enough to ruin my feed. What's next? My feed needs more idiot nonsense channels, so it's time to go nuclear and ask the internet.

My conclusions so far

Subscriptions seem play a minor role, but that idea needs to be tested properly. It's too early to tell just yet. The home page and sidebar recommendations are mostly from channels I've never even seen before. If I haven’t subscribed but have liked or commented, those channels get recommended more. If I subscribed but only watched one video and didn’t engage, I might never see that channel again. But how well do those channels get buried? I need to throw more channels into the dark void that is my subscription list. I want to stress-test test idea properly by subscribing to even more channels. Throw all your dumbest channel suggestions here, and I'll take it from there.

Yeah but why though?

YouTube already sucks, but it can suck more. The more I hate it, the less I’ll use it. This is my twisted way of ditching YouTube permanently. It might take a while, but once my feed is beyond repair, there’s no turning back.

…what would you put on for him?

The majority of my life I have as convinced that dogs couldn’t see TV’s. Now I have one that no only watches but reacts - shakes pillows at things he doesn’t like, growls, barks, and dances at creatures he’s trying to protect me from, etc.

He’ll lay his head on a pillow and just watch dramas…any suggestions for things he might like but not attack?

With the writing on the wall and Android becoming a locked down ecosystem this year, I'm planning to transition to a cheap Android phone.Wondering if anyone knows some good safe options that will have many years of security updates.

I'm looking to spend less than $300 and I just want to text, call, and be able to hot spot with it. I'm planning to take my laptop with me more for work and just use my phone to connect to the internet with my laptop, rather than using as many Android apps. My laptop is Linux so I can have much more control and alot of the cool Android apps have Linux counterparts.

I've been thinking about using my phone less and I believe that if I move to using my laptop more, then I will spend less time on the internet which would be great for phone addiction and being more present.