[-] HandOfDoom@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

I'm poor, living in a 3rd world country, with no money for air conditioning. What the fuck am I supposed to do.

Guess I'll just have to enjoy (lol, like I can) the few years I have left.

[-] HandOfDoom@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Last year in Brazil a rich right wing white man opened fire on the federal police and even threw grenades at them.

Here's a picture of him talking to the police after the shooting (he's the old guy on the left): https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2022/10/ED_VIS_241022_IL_PF_JEFFERSON_frame_935.jpeg?w=876&h=484&crop=1

I wonder what would have happened to him if he was a poor black man.

[-] HandOfDoom@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

It's sad that the only two alternatives that you can think of are killing people or "letting them get away without anything".

[-] HandOfDoom@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

It's winter where I live. Temperature should be around 10ºC but some places registered 30ºC. And this week we'll have our 4th hurricane of 2023. My house is old and I fear soon I'll wake up without a roof.

My anxiety is so bad today. I keep trying to find new ways to deal with it, meds, meditation, exercise, but how the fuck am I supposed to keep up?

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Hello,

I know there are tons of articles and videos about this topic on the internet. But I think I need to interact with real people with similar struggles (feel free to share articles and videos that have helped you, though).

I've always had anxiety problems, even as a kid. I got diagnosed late (at 30) with ADHD, depression and social anxiety, and I started taking meds for those. The meds helped, but after a year or so I stopped taking them, mainly because I was feeling better and they were too expensive. Unfortunately the cheaper options gave me too many side effects.

I can function without the meds. But this year is being really hard on me and my wife, and my anxiety is starting to get out of control again. I'm getting some panic attacks and they make me feel like shit.

Can you share some tips on what works for you when you are feeling anxious?

Thanks a lot and wish you the best.

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I know data privacy is important and I know that big corporations like Meta became powerful enough to even manipulate elections using our data.

But, when I talk to people in general, most seem to not worry because they "have nothing to hide", and most are only worried about their passwords, banking apps and not much else.

So, why should people worry about data privacy even if they have "nothing to hide"?

[-] HandOfDoom@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago

American solution: put the 3yo in prison for forced labour and arm all 1 year olds so they can defend themselves.

[-] HandOfDoom@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

When you don't have the truth at your side, you gotta resort to something else.

[-] HandOfDoom@lemmy.world 157 points 1 year ago

While I agree that we have a duty to avoid unethical brands whenever possible, there's just no way to escape them all. I live in a poor country and I there's a lot of "bad stuff" I have to buy just because it's what I can affford at the moment.

There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.

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Hello!

I'm a 30 year old male living with my wife on a 3rd world country. We have no help from our families and we've been through some very difficult times, but we managed to get by. My wife had a severe case of depression and even tried to take her own life at a point.

Now things got a little better, even though we are in a tight financial situation. We both feel a lot better and we even managed to get off our meds (it's nice to be able to save the money and get rid of the side-effects).

But, there is something weird that came as a consequence of all those bad times. Whenever I receive a text message from my wife, my heart races and my anxiety goes through the roof. It's an irrational fear that the message will be bad news.

I don't really know if there is such a thing as "text phobia", but that's how it feels (english is not my main language, so it's kinda hard to explain). I alread mentioned this to my wife and I think it made her feel bad because she thinks it's her fault. Of course I said it's not her fault, but now I'm kinda afraid to bring this up again with her. We both are trying so hard to be strong for each other.

I wonder if anyone else had a similar problem and I would be very grateful if someone could give me some tips on how to work on this problem.

Thanks a lot and I hope you have a great day.

[-] HandOfDoom@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

I work with online sales and that's not what happens at all. Fake discounts just works, sadly, and people just won't learn. I don't really know why, maybe they use the "discount" as an excuse to themselves just to buy more stuff.

[-] HandOfDoom@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

Work until you have no more energy left to live. Wait for your day off from work to live. Don't live because you have no energy left (plus the anxiety from having to work the next day). Feel like shit because you wasted your day off.

Repeat, repeat, repeat and die.

[-] HandOfDoom@lemmy.world 121 points 1 year ago

The moment I start seeing Meta content here is the moment I leave. People are being very, VERY naive in thinking that the Fediverse is immune to corporate interest. Judging by the Mastodon response, we are already seeing that it's not.

[-] HandOfDoom@lemmy.world 80 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
We drive our cars and planes
And burn the fossil fuels
We ignore the scientists
And call them climate fools

We chop down all the forests
And fill the seas with trash
We melt the polar ice caps
And watch the glaciers crash

We suffer and we will die
From the heat as we get older
But hey, at least we created a lot of value
For our dear shareholders
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Galera, preciso tirar umas coisas do meu peito e como o Reddit foi pra bosta, vou postar aqui mesmo. Sei lá, talvez eu queria só que alguém me dissesse que vai ficar tudo bem.

Tenho 30 anos, moro só eu e minha esposa em uma cidade distante de ambas nossas famílias. Minha mãe morreu quando eu era adolescente, meu pai tem síndrome do pânico e acabou mudando pro interior e eu meio que fiquei sozinho (o resto da minha família nunca foi muito próxima, até por eu ser diferente deles, não temos muito em comum).

A família da minha esposa é horrível, do tipo que a mãe fala pra ela que ela está gorda pra deixar ela mal. Acho que a mãe dela tem ressentimento com ela por ela ter saído de casa com 17 anos (depois de sofrer uma tonelada de violência física e psicológica).

Aí somos só eu e minha esposa. Tínhamos dois gatos lindos e grandões que ficavam dentro de casa e faziam companhia para ela. Porém, nossa rua está com uma infestação de gatos, e um vizinho começou a matar todos com veneno. Nossos gatos tinham acesso a rua e não deu outra, ambos comeram veneno e morreram.

Gastamos mais de 500 reais com veterinário tentando salvar eles, mas não teve o que fazer.

Minha esposa, após um período de depressão profunda (incluindo tentativa de suicídio, para o qual os pais dela cagaram, não vieram nem visitar), precisou parar de trabalhar.

Meu salário cobre mais ou menos nossas despesas, mas o dinheiro acabou e precisamos apelar pra empréstimo. Fizemos as contas aqui e dá para reverter, era só termos bastante disciplina.

Aí, hoje fui ligar o carro para vir pro trabalho e o carro começou a falhar. A água baixou um pouco, parece junta de cabeçote queimada, se der merda vai ser uns 2k para a retífica. E eu preciso do carro para trabalhar...

Eu estou com uma sensação absurda de angústia, ansiedade, vontade de chorar, tudo ao mesmo tempo. Não tenho nem de longe como fazer terapia, o jeito é aguentar no osso.

Fico arrasado de ver minha esposa triste, e eu sem dinheiro pra pagar uma terapia pra ela também, ela precisa até mais do que eu. Pelo SUS não tivemos uma boa experiência, infelizmente.

Enfim, é isso, só queria colocar pra fora. Se alguém leu até aqui, muito obrigado.

Tudo de bom pra vocês.

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