I'm starting to feel a bit burned out I think. Haven't had a proper day off since July apart from the odd holiday. I'm starting to feel annoyed by people lol. I take public transport to work and I'm just instantly mad at everyone around me for making noise, being rude, whatever. At work I get confronted with poverty every day and it's getting harder on my mental wellbeing I feel. I'm annoyed by things the party is doing and in the evenings I don't have the energy to do anything.

Currently sitting on the train next to two girls being loud and annoying and I have to stop myself from yelling like a Karen I feel.

Also, I have been taking cold showers for like a year now and usually they are fine with a small mental step to take every morning, but the last two days I spend 5 minutes staring at my shower being unable to get into the cold water. I took a warm shower instead. Couldn't get myself to do it due to stress.

I have a day off this week so maybe it helps.

Brazil has ended all diplomatic ties with Israel and has recalled its ambassador.

THIS IS HUGE

New polls again have us as the fourth biggest party in Flanders for upcoming elections.

New emoji just dropped

lol. why do I even bother with reddit?

I hope you all have a nice week :D

New google open source model gemma

Life under capitalism:

For months I had been experiencing some back pain, which gave me stress. I have a mole near the painful spot and had it checked out by a doctor, but he saw no worrying things. I still had back pain, though. Months passed with daily stressful thoughts about what was going on. I worried it may have been cancer (lol) or that I was supposed to get an expensive treatment for whatever issue I was having.

Last week I figured I should just go to a physio because this couldn't go on any longer. Made an appointment for today. Had some examination. There's just this one muscle in my back that's so tense it could've very well been made out of steel. Had a massage, some stretch exercises and I feel better. I have some follow up appointments made to keep track of the muscle.

The best part? Apparently health insurance should pay for the majority of it. Here I was stressing for months over what turned out to be something minor all because I was afraid of high medical costs and what not.

I keep struggling with the electoralism that has taken over the party the past few months. I get that elections are coming up and that thy are important but it's just not what I signed up for. Makes it hard to get motivated.

I made a mistake, I engaged with Zionists, I think I am going to lose my mind, its unbelievable.

I'm so fucking done with fucking redditors and their fucking unfunny jokes and pop culture references. They think they're comedic geniuses but they're beating a dead horse into the ground. So many jokes in movies and tv shows get ruined because redditors quote it all the time. I'm Dutch and I'm so tired of seeing that Austin Powers quote everytime my country is brought up. I swear when I saw Star Wars for the first time, I already knew half the dialogue. And when they do try to be funny without using preexisting jokes from media, they're not funny either. I saw someone make a joke about Steve Irwin's death.

I am posting more because I deleted Grindr which was practically my only social interaction as my friends are sadly adults with jobs. I appreciate every person interacting with me. Thank you for your labour.

stonks up https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/22/japans-nikkei-hits-all-time-high-on-reforms-robust-corporate-earnings.html

but wages down

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15151006

capitalism go brrr

and yes japan entered recession last week

Found footage of a person surviving a mauling by

I saw this on reddit and want to know your perspectives on Assad.

You can’t believe ordinary plebs don’t even have access to compute because it’s gobbled up by big tech, so you have to pay corporations to use AI. this should be a basic right now.

To add to my previous comments about the polls:

Besides being the fourth biggest party in Flanders, we are also the third biggest in Wallonia and we even remain THE biggest party in EU and NATO capital Brussels

Is it time we stopped talking about boomers as if they're a generation? It seems to me there are some great people from that generation and plenty of younger people who have the traits of the boomer meme. I'm starting to think 'boomer' should apply to anyone who got wealthy in a bubble of a boom and didn't lose the wealth afterwards. It just happens that they're were lots of those people post-war. But the same distortion of reality has infected many others since then, too.

Hot controversial take: engineers have the most important role in society because they are in charge of developing the productive forces. Problem is that the current education program makes them donkeys with no ideology, or status quo bootlickers.