TheDoctorDonna

She, Canadian, and not from TV. Most of my growing up we didn’t have TV. I just didn’t want to make other people the way people made me feel.

By knowing how shitty it felt to be treated badly and not wanting to make others feel that way, unfortunately.

My goodness do we ever need this in BC

I’m pretty sure I’m a decent person and I’ve never had a support network. Kind of had the opposite, really but at very least I try to be a good person and I feel remorse when I fail.

What is QBitTorrent, and how is it different from BitTorrent? Please explain like I’m a boomer.

I feel like the salt water would affect the sweetness of the pineapple. I down with sweet and salty but soggy, salt water pineapple might have to bean exception.

That’s why I’m a communist, but most people are afraid of that term. I would settle for really good socialism in my lifetime though.

I hate being stuck as a wage slave creating wealth for the people standing on my shoulders, but I like to work and I like my job, it’s a strange place to exist.

I don’t want to work in order to survive but I want to be productive and keep my mind and body sharp while also contributing to the community. I like my job and while it seems mundane, it keeps me busy, gives me routine, gives my brain problems to solve, and is sometimes the most socializing I get. I just hate that I have to be afraid to lose my job or end up hungry or homeless because of it.

Oh yeah, no I just backed up and waited for him to go, sometimes I’ll dramatically bow at people who don’t stop for me but this guy was particularly infuriating because I was already walking on the sidewalk and he just went anyways. Too many drivers act like the fact that they can kill me gives them the right of way and a lot of the comments here are behaving the same way, it’s actually concerning. Like, sure wearing brighter colours can help, but it literally does not matter what you wear because the driver is going to make excuses anyways - “they dressed too dark”, “they came out of nowhere”, “I didn’t see them” - all of them amount to “I wasn’t paying enough attention to safely manage my murder machine but I can’t accept accountability because me!” And I’ve proven that fact by wearing bright colours, carrying lights, and being patient and giving up my right of way and they still almost hit me every day.

As if it actually matters what colour a pedestrian is wearing. My winter coat is white and I carry two lights - one on my coat and one either on my head or in my hand if it’s too irritating to wear. The other evening I was walking home from the grocery store and this guy kept pulling out of parking lot that crossed my sidewalk, even though I was waving my light right at him but he didn’t even look in my direction until he was already pulling into traffic. He was never looking for pedestrians, only vehicles.

The American Dream was an illusion. It was all propaganda to convince people to feed themselves to the capitalist machine for a chance at living the dream life, but even people who aren’t trapped under years of medical debt or homeless or visible minorities don’t have it easy, they’ve just been convinced that’s as good as it gets.

Edited cause my grammar was weird.

If this is happening at work then you need to bring it up to his boss or someone above him, preferably a woman who won’t make excuses for him. Outside of work there’s not a lot you can do except let him know that it’s a huge red flag when older men want women without life experience.

I am going to get a bike trainer so I can ride in my garage safely or take the bus to a park and ride the trails. There was a pretty big accident in my town that killed a cyclist in an RCMP charity ride near me this past summer and it really stuck with me. The drivers will bowl over anyone and you never know who’s intoxicated. I don’t want to ride in traffic anymore.

I have a really hard time with hand signals so I’m too scared to ride my bike in public because I had a driver yell at me for getting stop and right mixed up. I don’t know why the car couldn’t just stop at the stop sign and wait an extra second for me to pass regardless of the hand signal. So now even though I love taking to it to my shopping I don’t.

And people say my city of 100K is too small for a train.

Well they sure as shit don’t use them when they’re supposed to, but also, technology fails. When the camera dies and the operator decides it can wait to be fixed or they don’t have the money to fix it because they already spend $1600 a month maintaining the vehicle , children will get run over and the driver will turn into that little shit from the old Chips Ahoy commercials all “heeheehee, oops!”

It’s ok, my children are inside the children killing machine. Fuck those other kids.

You accepting that you don’t fit into a box gives you a leg up on both the weirdos and the normal people. Everyone is a bit of both when the stop repressing themselves.

Thanks, but I smoke for pain and anxiety and have done so for over a decade, irrational thoughts have never been an issue. I only added it because OP mentioned they hadn’t done drugs in almost a week and I was feeling surly.

I think a lot of our decisions are made unconsciously because they “feel” right based on past experiences. We probably don’t notice the process that makes the decision so we try to justify it afterwards but we’re only guessing. But I’m not smart and I’ve smoked a joint in the last half hour so I could be way off base.