I’m glad it wasn’t Patrick Moore the much-beloved British astronomer!

Vibe mathsing.

Sorry to hear that! I remember it well, it feels like death. I don’t completely know why mine stopped but it’s been years now and it hasn’t really got me for ages. I’m still sensitive but I don’t get that “I’m dying” feeling any more. I also used to have to sleep to reset.

I got out of a long relationship (13 years and 3 children!) which had run its course and that also helped - we’re much better as friends and co-parents. I’m a lot more stable overall these days.

Wishing you a way through!

Becoming able to be OK - like really OK - on my own for days and days without interacting with any other people helped with this one. I didn’t used to like it but now I can’t get enough alone time - though I have children so it’s basically impossible for now.

Anyway at some point I realised I didn’t give a fuck if someone likes me or not because I’m completely happy on my own for extended periods of time, just being me. If someone doesn’t like me it’s their loss… and sometimes to my benefit anyway because who wants to hang out with a flimsy friend? Go deep or go home, I’m happy on my own so whatever!

I have actually fired some former friends when it became apparent we would be better not hanging out. Make sure you aren’t just hanging out with crappy people? They will drag you down.

I definitely wasn’t like this before approaching my 40s (now in my mid 40s) and was highly rejection sensitive and “nice” to everyone at least as far as 37.

Fuck being a people-pleaser!

Another hardcore way to get to this (being OK alone, thus not caring what others think of you, thus getting over much rejection sensitivity) is to go on a vipassana meditation retreat. 10 days silence, no eye contact, no physical contact etc… it’s about as alone as you can be while not actually being alone. It is both tortuous and amazing. It’s also free your first time, food and bed and everything, not a penny. I’ve only been once, might go again one day but not in a hurry. You will experience all of your unresolved bullshit and there’s nothing to do about it except experience it. Anyway… it shifted a lot for me in a comparatively short time. I realised I was just as fucked up and OK as everyone else sat there, for days until it sank in. That’s not even the purpose of it but just a side effect.

I still smoke weed though… not into “enlightenment” haha except to know there’s no such arrival place, just more of the same. “Meditation people” tend to bore me and I don’t trust people without some obvious vice because it often tends to come out as nastiness if they’re not onto it.

Anyway, I’m not at.all who you’d imagine as the kind of person who goes on a meditation retreat but it was a very pivotal experience for me even though I haven’t kept up a regular practice.

I hope you find some relief from RSD, it is an exquisitely painful thing to experience.

Relatable!

Though I have kids now so I’m permanently exhausted. My brain still has no off switch but falling asleep is easier.

But that sweet sweet sleep of staying up late until I can’t stay awake any longer. Mmm.

I ended up working as a sound engineer due to my propensity for staying awake later than most other people!

Weed, martial arts and making music.

Occasionally shouting at inanimate objects to fuck the fuck off.

He also fucks children!

I doubt the old cunt will even see his next birthday.

Israel is not all jews. Stop conflating the two. Many jews are horrified by what Israel is doing.

Fuck Israel. Fuck Hamas.

I am against ALL genocide without exception.

Not a word of complaint about Israeli 4k livestreamed genocide? Shooting children in the head? Blowing up hospitals? Murdering aid workers? Starving an entire population in an open-air prison?

You could condemn both October 7th and Israel but you don’t. Your “middle” is skewed as fuck.

Your opinion isn’t “radical”, it’s straight up genocide-apologist.

Fascinating! I looked up that 1799 report - here’s the link for anyone else interested.

sudo shutdown now

No.

I’ve still got a backup copy of The Internet from back in the day when you could install The Internet on your computer using a cd which arrived in the post. I also have a backup pile of optical drives so if necessary I can burn you a copy of The Internet and post it to you? Though I haven’t got a copy of the postal service.

We are not at war.

Seems this is just the way now, to never actually declare war, just carry it out?

His brain is the best, like nobody ever saw before. It got the highest score ever on every cognitive test.

Your brain is a fat slob, really the worst brain. All your thoughts are completely fake, put there by the Biden administration. Nobody even cares what you think, you should get your brain revoked.

It is! They’re trying to “compile” insulin on the smaller scale. Not home labs but local production. They haven’t managed it yet but I believe they will eventually.

We could change it to being called a Mountbatten-Windsor but that’s a much lengthier way to say the same thing.

Please support the Open Insulin Foundation who are creating an open source model for insulin production! Such an important project!

Whatever it is, every single hair follicle on his head is pointing away from it. Could be signs there is a butthole nestled between the cheeks?

Don’t tread on me! = Go tread on “Them!”