What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)

[noisyturtle]

Almost every single freaking Youtube video's thumbnail shows a person making a dumbass facial expression. Seeing your stupid, hammed-up shocked face doesn't make me want to click on your video.

It's for kids,  you're no longer the target.  If you feel bad, it's cuz we've [Aged out].

100% correct. The majority, and I would reckon it's like 70-80%, of the audience that pumps these channel views up my the hundred millions are little kids sitting at home unsupervised who's parents just plopped an iPad on autoplay in front of them. These drooling malformed brown-brained infants are the ones driving the entire algorithm. That's why channels with actual content and work put in get a fraction of the views that toy unboxing and some retard in a pink wig saying "tHIs TRucK Is BluE, cAN YoU say BLuE?" get.

[yui]

funny, kinda reminds me of Asimov's interpretation of the future of humanity, although he got the order wrong, he thought we would have had space faring technology before abandoning our kids education to robots (cf Foundation series, i think it is in the 4th book)
and anyone else sometimes has that problem with one eye become way more sensitive to light than the other, makes reading much harder, especially reading TP teal font... (low contrast)

[suicidal_orange]

I'm back on shifts and am no longer a useless newbie which means significantly more money for less work, plus not working 9-5 means I can go to shops, the dentist, opticians or whatever, or for now just seeing the sun and getting some vitamin D will be nice.  Also being home in the morning means no more problems buying stuff online.

After the initial ecstasy wore off I'm back where I started except it's worse because I now know what an emotional high feels like having forgotten long ago.  This experience of a second emotional state very different from normal suggests my 'depression' is actually primarily depressed bipolar.  Not that assigning a label will help in any way but it could be a start.

[tp4tissue]

funny, kinda reminds me of Asimov's interpretation of the future of humanity, although he got the order wrong, he thought we would have had space faring technology before abandoning our kids education to robots (cf Foundation series, i think it is in the 4th book)
and anyone else sometimes has that problem with one eye become way more sensitive to light than the other, makes reading much harder, especially reading TP teal font... (low contrast)

LIESSSS,   LIES AND SLANDER.

Tp4's font is @ the perfect lvl of contrast.  Yui's monitor is off and requires Calibration...

[tp4tissue]

I'm back on shifts and am no longer a useless newbie which means significantly more money for less work, plus not working 9-5 means I can go to shops, the dentist, opticians or whatever, or for now just seeing the sun and getting some vitamin D will be nice.  Also being home in the morning means no more problems buying stuff online.

After the initial ecstasy wore off I'm back where I started except it's worse because I now know what an emotional high feels like having forgotten long ago.  This experience of a second emotional state very different from normal suggests my 'depression' is actually primarily depressed bipolar.  Not that assigning a label will help in any way but it could be a start.

Gotta take Vit D and B12, w/ lack of solar.  Facial xposure is not enough. surface area is too small.

[yui]

funny, kinda reminds me of Asimov's interpretation of the future of humanity, although he got the order wrong, he thought we would have had space faring technology before abandoning our kids education to robots (cf Foundation series, i think it is in the 4th book)
and anyone else sometimes has that problem with one eye become way more sensitive to light than the other, makes reading much harder, especially reading TP teal font... (low contrast)

LIESSSS,   LIES AND SLANDER.

Tp4's font is @ the perfect lvl of contrast.  Yui's monitor is off and requires Calibration...

nah my eyes needed calibration when one eye sees brighter than the other everything less than black on white/white on black becomes quite hard to read.

[xtrafrood]

Ponytail or man bun?

[tp4tissue]

Ponytail or man bun?

Quad SLI man bun tail

[xtrafrood]

Ponytail or man bun?

Quad SLI man bun tail

 

[noisyturtle]

Ponytail or man bun?

pigtails

[xtrafrood]

Ponytail or man bun?

pigtails

Ohhh, nice choice

[tp4tissue]

Ponytail or man bun?

pigtails

Ohhh, nice choice

They key to cool hairstyles is having ALOT of hair.

[yui]

still rocking the "Stallman" hairstyle

the thing bothering me today is how unable i am to deal with "losing" someone dear to me, losing not that they are dead, that they went dark and no one knows if they even are still alive, been 3 months and it still affects my relations with others in a bad way, and my health via really high stress levels and very low sleep levels. how does one deal with that? it feels much worse than dealing with deaths, at least to me...

[tp4tissue]

still rocking the "Stallman" hairstyle

the thing bothering me today is how unable i am to deal with "losing" someone dear to me, losing not that they are dead, that they went dark and no one knows if they even are still alive, been 3 months and it still affects my relations with others in a bad way, and my health via really high stress levels and very low sleep levels. how does one deal with that? it feels much worse than dealing with deaths, at least to me...

Veggies + Xercise, 

If you're 2 lazy like Tp4,  At least do the Veggies.

Also Vit-D and B12

[yui]

Veggies + Xercise, 

If you're 2 lazy like Tp4,  At least do the Veggies.

Also Vit-D and B12

i already do both although far less exercise since, because it is rather hard to exercise and think about myself while stressed out for someone else i found... and i never had to take any supplements, well if you do not count sugar as a supplement (yes i was one of the strange kids not liking sugar and actually going into hypoglycemia from not eating anything sugary, at all)

[tp4tissue]

i already do both although far less exercise since, because it is rather hard to exercise and think about myself while stressed out for someone else i found... and i never had to take any supplements, well if you do not count sugar as a supplement (yes i was one of the strange kids not liking sugar and actually going into hypoglycemia from not eating anything sugary, at all)

If u is get dat solar, don'ee ne Vit D.

But you probably need B12 unless you work with soil for a living, / farming

[yui]

If u is get dat solar, don'ee ne Vit D.

But you probably need B12 unless you work with soil for a living, / farming

i am still having trouble seeing how eating more veggies (that i do not given that it is my main source of food) and taking B12 would help with forgetting someone though... or even vitamin D for that matter. my sister takes tons of complements and is even more ****ed up in the head than me, so i do not think it is the solution thanks for trying though.

[Kavik]

If u is get dat solar, don'ee ne Vit D.

But you probably need B12 unless you work with soil for a living, / farming

i am still having trouble seeing how eating more veggies (that i do not given that it is my main source of food) and taking B12 would help with forgetting someone though... or even vitamin D for that matter. my sister takes tons of complements and is even more ****ed up in the head than me, so i do not think it is the solution thanks for trying though.

Tp4 has a hammer, so everything looks like a nail.

[tp4tissue]

If u is get dat solar, don'ee ne Vit D.

But you probably need B12 unless you work with soil for a living, / farming

i am still having trouble seeing how eating more veggies (that i do not given that it is my main source of food) and taking B12 would help with forgetting someone though... or even vitamin D for that matter. my sister takes tons of complements and is even more ****ed up in the head than me, so i do not think it is the solution thanks for trying though.

Tp4 has a hammer, so everything looks like a nail.

[noisyturtle]

still rocking the "Stallman" hairstyle

the thing bothering me today is how unable i am to deal with "losing" someone dear to me, losing not that they are dead, that they went dark and no one knows if they even are still alive, been 3 months and it still affects my relations with others in a bad way, and my health via really high stress levels and very low sleep levels. how does one deal with that? it feels much worse than dealing with deaths, at least to me...

Veggies + Xercise, 

If you're 2 lazy like Tp4,  At least do the Veggies.

Also Vit-D and B12

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Be vary careful w/ vitamin D it can cause buildup really quickly in your system if you are regularly taking high doses. I knew someone who got  sick from taking it every day, had to go to ER and get on a drip to flush their system because it was giving them irregular heartbeat building up in their body (from calcium overdose?)

[yui]

Tp4 has a hammer, so everything looks like a nail.

the problem is that when the hammer is a stale carrot even a simple nail in butter will not go in, and that carrot is really getting stale, you need a new carrot TP, or hammer?

[tp4tissue]

the problem is that when the hammer is a stale carrot even a simple nail in butter will not go in, and that carrot is really getting stale, you need a new carrot TP, or hammer?

NOpe, Tp4 haz Infinity carrot.

[yui]

the problem is that when the hammer is a stale carrot even a simple nail in butter will not go in, and that carrot is really getting stale, you need a new carrot TP, or hammer?

NOpe, Tp4 haz Infinity carrot.

yes but if they are all stale, you need new ones if you want to nail stuff with them

[fohat.digs]

you need a new carrot TP

TP4 only dreams of nailing something with his carrot.

[Shapey Fiend]

Home schooling is taking it out of me. My son crawls through it unless yelled at frequently, and when yelled at it only works marginally faster.

[tp4tissue]

Home schooling is taking it out of me. My son crawls through it unless yelled at frequently, and when yelled at it only works marginally faster.

Txt based RPG. learn 2 Read, learn mat w/ DPS calculations, learn life skills, such as how to be alone and not have friends, before the pandemic people thought Tp4 were crazy for going lvl 99 on this skill tree, oh how the turned tables.

If society at large continues to eat CAFO animals, there are MANY new pandemics to come. The rate of which will accelerate as we increase the number of CAFO farms.

[noisyturtle]

Home schooling is taking it out of me. My son crawls through it unless yelled at frequently, and when yelled at it only works marginally faster.

I don't even have kids and I worry a lot about quarantine creating a generation of dumbasses. No offense.
All the parents I know say their kid just watches YT while remote classes are happening and aren't paying attention

[suicidal_orange]

As expected based on the timeline of DDR5 being available next year my computer is crashing increasingly frequently.  Thought about watching a boring blue screen (memtest) for a couple of hours but either it will pass and say it's good in which case I need to swap out the mobo as the problem is definitely elsewhere, or it will fail and I'll still have to swap out the mobo as the problem could still be elsewhere.

I'm also bothered that I used to enjoy building computers but now the idea of a rebuild is just annoying.

[Kavik]

Home schooling is taking it out of me. My son crawls through it unless yelled at frequently, and when yelled at it only works marginally faster.

I don't even have kids and I worry a lot about quarantine creating a generation of dumbasses. No offense.
All the parents I know say their kid just watches YT while remote classes are happening and aren't paying attention

Hey, that's what I do at work.

[tp4tissue]

Home schooling is taking it out of me. My son crawls through it unless yelled at frequently, and when yelled at it only works marginally faster.

I don't even have kids and I worry a lot about quarantine creating a generation of dumbasses. No offense.
All the parents I know say their kid just watches YT while remote classes are happening and aren't paying attention

Hey, that's what I do at work.

It's possible they come out -Smarter-.

K-12 was mostly a time waster. 

At least on Youtube, you can refine the information you receive,  in School, it's just all garbage all the time.

[Shapey Fiend]

My six year old watches a certain amount of trash YouTube but and plays videogames but he binges something like Horrible Histories or Operation Ouch! as well. I just try load up Plex with the biggest variety of stuff I can find. Any time we're in the car it's audiobooks. Tryna train the attention span offset internet algo I suppose.

Most primary school seems to be handwriting cos kids don't really have much motivation to do colouring or anything on paper in the modern era and their pencil control is trash.

[fohat.digs]

K-12 was mostly a time waster. 

Training the mind in the techniques it needs to navigate life starts well before K, and if they are not installed early it is all but impossible to re-program a brain later.

If parents fail in their initial duty, it is very hard for a stranger to instill critical thinking in a personality that has settled into id-controlled behavior.

Before readers pounce on my "re-program a brain" statement in relation to the current social/political situation, I will say unequivically that rampant falsehoods and conspiracy theories are successful because they fill a void that has existed all along. I would suggest that these voids tend to manifest emotionally rather than intellectually, and leave people feeling vulnerable and helpless - ripe for harvest.

On the other side, people with critical thinking skills do not need absurd bunk, and recognize it instantly for what it is.

[tp4tissue]

My six year old watches a certain amount of trash YouTube but and plays videogames but he binges something like Horrible Histories or Operation Ouch! as well. I just try load up Plex with the biggest variety of stuff I can find. Any time we're in the car it's audiobooks. Tryna train the attention span offset internet algo I suppose.

Most primary school seems to be handwriting cos kids don't really have much motivation to do colouring or anything on paper in the modern era and their pencil control is trash.

Also, Shapey,  Frame of reference is important,  it's not HOME school that's taking it out of you,  it's that you're being overworked and taken advantage of by your Employer.   He nets most of the harvest from your labor,   leaving you pressed for time to teach/educate your own child.

As for handwriting, I'm not sure how critical that is in the future.  Keeb skillz is far m0ar relevant, as it has a direct time cost impact to computer use.

People who keeps open 10000x tabs, the majority are bad typers, so to them it's more efficient to keep tabs open rather than type out addresses.

Imagine having a question to ask,  every question has a time cost for entry.  It takes Tp4 <1 second per question,  Hunt and peckers could take 30 seconds +,   The hunt and pecker will be psychologically less inclined to ASK and research, because to HIM,  questions are EXPENSIVE.   This is how the brain subconsciously evaluate investment/return

[Findecanor]

People who keeps open 10000x tabs, the majority are bad typers, so to them it's more efficient to keep tabs open rather than type out addresses.

Type addresses? Ever heard of "bookmarks"?

[tp4tissue]

People who keeps open 10000x tabs, the majority are bad typers, so to them it's more efficient to keep tabs open rather than type out addresses.

Type addresses? Ever heard of "bookmarks"?

it's slower to click through book mark, vs just using the address bar,  it auto finds the book mark much quicker than clicking menus.

[noisyturtle]

People who keeps open 10000x tabs, the majority are bad typers, so to them it's more efficient to keep tabs open rather than type out addresses.

I knew tp was an AI

You see, this is what humans do when they are looking at porn.

[tp4tissue]

People who keeps open 10000x tabs, the majority are bad typers, so to them it's more efficient to keep tabs open rather than type out addresses.

I knew tp was an AI

You see, this is what humans do when they are looking at porn.

the neuro-net suggests that pr0no it's bad for one's health, and mental health 

[Shapey Fiend]

I'm definitely pressed for time. But I'm self employed so that's probably my own doing. Definitely going to teach the kid to type it's essential. I used have a million tabs open but I've tried to pare things back to as few as possible so I don't stay on the computer too long. I say this at 1AM but I at least had to open the tab come here.

I suspect there are a few things that modern parents are doing that can explain a lack of critical thinking. Although it's not exactly a new phenomenon people have been reading tabloids and false information as fact for a lot longer than the internet has existed.

1. People don't lie to their children. Truth absolutism has become fashionable to the extent some people think you should tell a 4 year old that santa claus doesn't exist. I'm not precious about christmas but I think you should pepper a bit of fiction and nonsense in there as well keep the child on their toes. If I tell my kid something wild but true he asks me am I pulling my leg and I tell him go check with someone else. Now he's able to spin very fluid lies that I often don't catch till much later.

2. Presenting a unified front. One parent thinks this so the other one does too. There's three adults in my house, and they often contradict each other so he's getting a variety of opinions. It's multigenerational so he's learning to see things from old people as well as contemporaries. This stuff filters up as well stops the old people getting dogmatic.

[yui]

People who keeps open 10000x tabs, the majority are bad typers, so to them it's more efficient to keep tabs open rather than type out addresses.

Type addresses? Ever heard of "bookmarks"?

it's slower to click through book mark, vs just using the address bar,  it auto finds the book mark much quicker than clicking menus.

even though i am a slow typist (170cpm) i do agree with TP4 on bookmark being slower than typing especially on modern browsers were bookmarks got buried 3 menus deep. although i do not keep tabs open because it is faster than typing the address but because it is faster than trying to remember it.

[tp4tissue]

even though i am a slow typist (170cpm) i do agree with TP4 on bookmark being slower than typing especially on modern browsers were bookmarks got buried 3 menus deep. although i do not keep tabs open because it is faster than typing the address but because it is faster than trying to remember it.

Full Gekha membership requires 600cpm proficiency,  Yui on probation.

[Findecanor]

People who keeps open 10000x tabs, the majority are bad typers, so to them it's more efficient to keep tabs open rather than type out addresses.

Type addresses? Ever heard of "bookmarks"?

it's slower to click through book mark, vs just using the address bar,  it auto finds the book mark much quicker than clicking menus.

even though i am a slow typist (170cpm) i do agree with TP4 on bookmark being slower than typing especially on modern browsers were bookmarks got buried 3 menus deep

What kind of browser do you consider "modern" then that does not allow you to organise bookmarks yourself, and which does not allow them to be readily available in a bookmarks bar or side-bar?
With a proper browser, you'd organise the bookmarks properly in the first place, thus having the mental burden once: when you add the bookmark.
How can you think that remembering an URL is easier and less error-prone than remembering where you put something?

[tp4tissue]

What kind of browser do you consider "modern" then that does not allow you to organise bookmarks yourself, and which does not allow them to be readily available in a bookmarks bar or side-bar?
With a proper browser, you'd organise the bookmarks properly in the first place, thus having the mental burden once: when you add the bookmark.
How can you think that remembering an URL is easier and less error-prone than remembering where you put something?

It's a waste of time to organize bookmarks,   for example,  if Tp goin' geekhack,  just type g,  and that comes up.

And the browser uses frequency to associate the search, so the ones you use most comes up first.

if want amazon,  just type A, and that's the first one that comes up.

if bestbuy, just type bes

[yui]

What kind of browser do you consider "modern" then that does not allow you to organise bookmarks yourself, and which does not allow them to be readily available in a bookmarks bar or side-bar?
With a proper browser, you'd organise the bookmarks properly in the first place, thus having the mental burden once: when you add the bookmark.
How can you think that remembering an URL is easier and less error-prone than remembering where you put something?

on Firefox 3 or 4 your bookmarks were one click away in a list in a bookmark menu, that i find ergonomic, it meant that accessing a bookmark was 2 clicks and without needing an extraneous bar, now you need to click on the menu icon then library then bookmark then all bookmark then in the new windows double click on your bookmark, 6 clicks to do the same thing as 2 clicks in old versions, i do not find that more ergonomic, looks better but far worse ergonomics (and i am speak in Firefox because it is the one i use, but that trend was started by chrome)

[iri]

What kind of browser do you consider "modern" then that does not allow you to organise bookmarks yourself, and which does not allow them to be readily available in a bookmarks bar or side-bar?
With a proper browser, you'd organise the bookmarks properly in the first place, thus having the mental burden once: when you add the bookmark.
How can you think that remembering an URL is easier and less error-prone than remembering where you put something?

on Firefox 3 or 4 your bookmarks were one click away in a list in a bookmark menu, that i find ergonomic, it meant that accessing a bookmark was 2 clicks and without needing an extraneous bar, now you need to click on the menu icon then library then bookmark then all bookmark then in the new windows double click on your bookmark, 6 clicks to do the same thing as 2 clicks in old versions, i do not find that more ergonomic, looks better but far worse ergonomics (and i am speak in Firefox because it is the one i use, but that trend was started by chrome)

1) Press Ctrl-B
Bookmark bar opens
2) Click on your bookmark

[yui]

1) press ctrl+B
2) click on one of the 3 menus
3) click on your bookmark
4) click in the corner that is not on an edge of the screen to close that eye sore

still twice as many actions with the closing click being rather bad given its position, the removal of menus was design over usefulness from both Google and Microsoft, and it worked because peoples like things that are prettier. ergonomics has gone backwards, plain and simple.
bookmarks have become a waste of time, they never needed to be that complicated to deal with.

[iri]

1) press ctrl+B
2) click on one of the 3 menus
3) click on your bookmark
4) click in the corner that is not on an edge of the screen to close that eye sore

In Firefox 78 on Linux, the 'other bookmarks' menu (the only one that I use) is expanded by default for me. And instead of clicking in the corner, can't you Ctrl-B again to close the 'eye sore'?

[tp4tissue]

1) press ctrl+B
2) click on one of the 3 menus
3) click on your bookmark
4) click in the corner that is not on an edge of the screen to close that eye sore

still twice as many actions with the closing click being rather bad given its position, the removal of menus was design over usefulness from both Google and Microsoft, and it worked because peoples like things that are prettier. ergonomics has gone backwards, plain and simple.
bookmarks have become a waste of time, they never needed to be that complicated to deal with.

Not to mention Ctrl-B  is not a comfortable hand position.

[yui]

1) press ctrl+B
2) click on one of the 3 menus
3) click on your bookmark
4) click in the corner that is not on an edge of the screen to close that eye sore

In Firefox 78 on Linux, the 'other bookmarks' menu (the only one that I use) is expanded by default for me. And instead of clicking in the corner, can't you Ctrl-B again to close the 'eye sore'?

still 3 instead of 2 at best, this is kludge and the option did not need to disappear, especially because the menus still exists, just press alt and they appear, but why did they need to be hidden, and don't tell me you like to have that bookmark menu open at all time, at that point it just become a 2nd tab list, just a slower one.

[xtrafrood]

One would think more than five years of unemployment without benefits would be enough motivation.  Four months on the job and sometimes (like today) I have trouble focusing or getting started.  I wish I could point my finger to video games or some other addictive habit--these days I can't seem to play more than an hour at a time.

[Kavik]

People who keeps open 10000x tabs, the majority are bad typers, so to them it's more efficient to keep tabs open rather than type out addresses.

This has nothing to do with it for me. I have tabs open because I'm afraid of forgetting things. I want to read a story but I don't have time to read it, I look up a term but I don't have time to fully investigate it, I look up a word but I'm too lazy to add it to my vocab list, I type the lyrics to a song I heard on a TV show that I want to find later, etc. The problem is that I almost never get back to the tabs, and, when I do, I usually don't care anymore. I've tried the method of adding things to bookmarks, but then I truly never look at them again. This is probably some form of OCD or something similar. A year or so ago, I had to delete all my "Watch Later" videos on Youtube because the list was 5,000+. Now I try to keep it under 300, but, even then, I watch only about 10% of them.