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I love explosion based mining, its so fun to watch those series explosions go off

Similar issues present themselves at my bullshit job every day, but this example from a friend highlights this perfectly imo. Friend Works as a second grade teacher and was recounting an instance where kid a tells person b to go back to Mexico. Kid b dumps milk on kid a. Guess who got in more trouble (it wasn’t kid a).

It’s best for mental health to stop putting some much mental energy into shit like this because I have no control, but it just boggles my brain how kid a likely hears reactionary bullshit from his parents, repeats it without a second thought without realizing the damage it does while kid b has lived the damage and very believably views this as the threat it is. Funny how the parents don’t get a call though because reasons. It’s not like there is any possible world where they could bear any responsibility

It all sucks so much

Why is this and how do the capture the exact feeling of self destructive mania so well

They seem to think everything just comes easy, everything is obtainable. I was just reading a thread on reddit about a woman who screams non stop at her son and takes all her frustrations out on him and all of reddit are like "She needs to get therapy, for a long time, maybe years, maybe permanently." Like, what the hell? Who on earth could even afford that? Do they all just have endless money? Even if you live in a country with socialised healthcare you normally have to spend ages on a waiting list for a short course of therapy. Who are all these millionaires who think everyone can just be in therapy permanently? Whenever anyone has a problem the reddit answer is always "Therapy, now!" With no thought at all about whether the person can access or pay for that.

I've noticed this with other things on reddit too. There was once a reddit thread where people were asking why poor people buy takeaway food and how they can't be poor if they buy it. I spoke on there about how I'd been in a situation where I was living in a bedsit, had run out of money, only had a few pounds left. There was no money left on my gas or electric meter. I could either put my last few pounds on the meter, or I could buy food, but then with no gas or electric I wouldn't be able to cook any food. So my only option was to buy some cheap ready cooked food like chips from the fish and chip shop. Some really rude redditors refused to believe this, saying no-one is ever in that situation. They are so dissociated from reality they really don't even believe people can be so poor they have to choose between utilities or food.

I've see other threads where someone posts photos of a medical condition they have, asking what it could be. When told to go to the doctor they say they have no medical insurance, no money to pay, etc and the others are like "Just go, this could be serious." Like OK, just materialise money out of thin air then. It's like they think everyone actually has an emergency fund but just doesn't want to dip into it. It makes me think there's no hope for humanity, when so many people are like this, not even wanting to believe how poor other people are, there will never be enough appetite for change to actually change things.

Laguardia got this comical sinkhole yesterday. They recently had the deadly plane-truck collision, too.

https://abc7ny.com/post/lga-delays-cancellations-sinkhole-shuts-down-laguardia-airports-runways/19138641/

https://abcnews.com/US/laguardia-airport-closed-collision-air-canada-plane-airport/story?id=131315551

https://abc7ny.com/post/delta-regional-jets-collide-low-speeds-taxing-laguardia-airport/17921202/

Then there's Newark, which is constantly in the news for near misses and ATC problems. Plus, there was recently that plane-highway near-collision (as a plane was landing, it hit a highway streetlight and maybe even touched a truck on the way down

https://nj1015.com/newark-airport-near-miss/

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/shocking-video-shows-united-flight-striking-pole-truck-on-new-jersey-turnpike-during-landing/3931404/

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/22/g-s1-68333/newark-air-traffic-controller-atc

They're in the news so much for incidents/accidents. I get it. They're small, fucked-up airports under the most congested skies in the country. but come on, we've had some time to figure it out

Bill gates has gone too far

Probably not what it looks like, but still gave me a minute's pause!

christopha! whatsa matta wit you? what you mean you neva heard of operation fuckin gladio???

the old man is snoring.

I fkn love falling asleep to the rain. Nite nite.

this one gets me every time:

Everyone on hexbear is too busy echo-chambering “L liberals” to actually see this for what it is.

I wouldn't have been able to have it without the help I received from here. Thanks so much. Now I have to wait for it to heal up to see if it cleared all the infection.

In other news, I had a physiotherapy appointment this morning and since I've had very little improvement in mobility, inflammation, etc and some issues are actually getting worse the physiotherapist has finally decided, several YEARS after my stroke, to refer me for a 6 week course of rehabilitation. You'd think they'd give someone as much rehabilitation as they need, straight after a stroke, but no. Not on the NHS's watch. After my stroke I spent ages on the waiting list, and then had several years of having a physio appointment once every 2-4 months, where they basically just give me some exercises to do and now are shocked pikachu fact that I still can't walk, dress myself or anything else properly.

And this 6 week course of rehabilitation is literally just one appointment a week for 6 weeks. Like that's going to make any difference after all this time. And the physio outright told me that I can't keep having physio appointments now. Basically she implied that I'm clogging up the NHS appointments now, taking too many for myself when the waiting lists are so long.

I'm resigned to the fact that physio isn't working and I'll always be disabled but what worries me is in about 2ish years time I'll be reassessed for disability benefits again, and if I'm not still having some type of physio or rehabilitation for this stroke they will use that against me. I was reassessed for benefits right after having my stroke and that time they gave me zero points, stopped my payments and I had to go through appeal, and part of their reasoning was "You are not having rehabilitation for the stroke" even though I was on the waiting list. So next time if I say "I had rehabilitation and physio for several years, it didn't give much improvement and I was discharged," the NHS benefit Nazis will say "zero points, no more money for you!" They use someone not having treatment for a condition as evidence that the condition doesn't affect them. It's so stupid, not everyone can be cured and should we be expected to have pointless treatment indefinitely?

Oh and I even have to wait a month for the rehabilitation to start. Still with the NHS I suppose I should count myself lucky it's starting so soon.

Not sure this is the right place to post this, but I'm a bit desperate for advice and there isn't a dedicated mental health community. Sorry if inappropriate, will delete.

About 10 years ago a friend of mine had what I think was a psychotic break. Or maybe his problems just escalated enough for him to get super hostile and paranoid with me and push me out of his life, and the psychotic break came later. Basically, he got progressively more and more antisocial and paranoid, increasingly incoherent (talking about a lot of far out conspiracy/woo type shit) and just hard to be around. I sometimes called him out/challenged him on this stuff (not with the necessary grace, I'm sure, but I was young and dumb and didn't really know how). Eventually, after some stupid discussion (I think he'd said climate change as fake or something like that), he sent me walls of text messages accusing me of manipulating him, trying to make him look bad (don't know to who), being brainwashed etc. I tried to push back, and to kind of explain how much that shit hurt (we'd been close for like 5 years at that point), but he just escalated and escalated. Eventually he was basically talking to himself, projecting like crazy, like "I know I'm not crazy" (I never said he was) and "if anyone needs a psychologist, it's you" (I never said he did). It got heated enough and he got hostile enough that I just had to completely disengage. That triggered him even more and he spammed me through every venue, in the end even with weird veiled threats ("watch what you get in the mail, bitch ;)) kind of things. I blocked him and went no contact.

In the years following I learned through mutual associates that he wasn't doing well, but most people sort of also stopped talking to him, so details were sparse. I felt like shit, like I abandoned a friend in a really dark place, but I had no idea how to help or even really make sense of what had happened. I had introduced him to a friend, who didn't stay in contact after the break, but had his facebook still. He told me at one point that he was posting completely unhinged shit. Literally that he had been kidnapped by the government and forced to eat clones of himself, and posting audio files of him talking to local police trying to report this kidnapping. I never listened, but my friend heard a few minutes and it was as horrifying as it sounds. At this point I figured it must be schizophrenia/psychosis, but I didn't even know where he was living (he was calling the police in a different city in the recordings), didn't know any of his family (and back when we were close I got the impression he'd broken with most of his close relatives).

He just contacted me today with the message "Hey, about back then - I found out that we only fought because some psychos were injecting us with serums that made us hostile to each other. I want to apologize, I was being crowd controlled for the last 10 years. I was being majorly timeline morphed, it was illusion of autonomy". I'm translating, but that was it, like almost word for word. Now I'm sitting here, all the old feelings welling back up, feeling so fucking sorry for my friend, but still just as powerless. He's clearly still delusional, but he feels some way about what happened, he is reaching out. What the fuck do I do? Do I respond? I want to tell him not to feel bad about what happened back then, like who gives a fuck, but I don't see a way to do that without implicitly agreeing to his delusional premise. I'm privileged to never have had to deal with this stuff, but I'm so lost. I have no idea if it would be harmless to hit him back or if it's like a massive bad idea.

Any input is massively appreciated.

TL;DR: Old friend who had a psychotic break and whom I lost contact with reached out to me, clearly still suffering from major paranoid delusions (he says he acted out in the past because of mind control drugs essentially), don't know what to do.

Well, that was a stressful night. And just off the top, no I did not relapse (well my girlfriend gave me some weed but that was after getting kicked out, who cares about weed?). So sober living has poor person restriction, if we're behind on rent, we're only supposed to leave the house for work and meetings. I followed these rules for a while, but they made my life very empty. I did this until I met my current girlfriend 7 months ago. Ever since then, I've been going to work and spending time with my girlfriend afterwards. And my girlfriend doesn't do any drugs other than weed, also a recovering alcoholic.

Well for the crime of spending time with my girlfriend after work, I got kicked out. Fortunately, my girlfriend has no problem with me moving in for a few weeks until I find my place with my two sober friends. They know how broke I am and want to get a place with the three of us so they can help me out some. I can at least contribute some. And with not having to worry about work the next couple weeks will help me save up that. Also having freedom, not having the costs associated with sober living will be so great.

Cause I do...

(thank god, most of the things I lose are just either a walkable distance away or funnily in my house, where they have stayed)

I should probably get some better sleep so I have the energy to better nip this habit of mine's in the bud

It doesn't really seem to be giving me consistent answers on what I should DO with this newfound knowledge so I was hoping y'all have some suggestions.

I don't know if this should be in neurodiverse or another place so I apologize, regardless I'm only posting since I just want to get it off my chest and this is the only place I can talk about it at this time.

But fuck, it sucks to have to live with CPTSD. I can last days where I'm mostly (relative to, of course) normal and almost forget about it, but then it wrecks and hits me like a freight train. I havent been able to sleep almost at all for the past week due to not being able to stop thinking about shit in the past, and a whole slew of other effects that comes with it, but the sllep one is the most annoying one for me right now.

Have a cute picture though

Was flying back from my brother's college graduation and my buddy brought my discs so we could play around after he picked me up from the airport. I just got a bunch of new discs and was trying them out and sunk it from 255ft. 10/10 weekend

One month ban for pointing out that consumerism bad. What a shithole of a site over there on the grad.

hexbear.net/login worked for me, now the site is running perfect. Shout out to @CARCOSA@hexbear.net for telling me what to do

Mines Megamind, no idea why but I fucking love that movie

Every american I've met has been willing to kill for something, or willing to die for something.

But not a single one of them is willing to be inconvenienced in the slightest. That's our sickness.

So i spent a long time ruminating on that and now i'm even more depressed than I was and shit is getting bad again. Sorry for the livejournal post, I haven't made one in a while. Still around.

The dude has literally dozens of easily discoverable quote-bites of him excitedly expressing how much he loves killing, can't get enough of it, wants to get back to doing it asap. How does he pass any smell test at all for anybody who is nominally on the left? I just don't get it, I feel like he should be seen as so rotten that touching him would taint you (looking at popular youtubers and twitch personalities).

Maybe it's just my algo, but first I see Any Austin saying he doesn't "get" stew in a video. Them some guy on Insta was holding a rotisserie chicken and saying "soup people be like 'I wanna drink this'", then some other guy on Insta calling soup "adult baby food".

Is there some soup related meme going around I missed?