archonet
@archonet@lemy.lol
- Comment on Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June 4 days ago:
now where will bigclive get free discarded lithium cells?
- Comment on You're not you when you're dooming. 2 weeks ago:
Also has allergen warnings.
You’d be shocked how much candy that doesn’t contain nuts, might contain enough to kill someone with a severe allergy. Half my halloween candy when I was a kid, every year, would end up going to my mother for that exact reason.
- Comment on You're not you when you're dooming. 2 weeks ago:
actually I’m allergic to peanuts and treenuts, so a Snickers would probably only expedite my exit (can’t eat them due to allergy warnings)
- Comment on You're not you when you're dooming. 2 weeks ago:
literally just trying to stay alive until my mother passes away, just so she doesn’t have to bury a child. Then it can finally be over.
- Comment on This made me so angry, enjoy! 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Rainbow Dash jar cosplay 💦🌈🦄 4 weeks ago:
You know it was free to not post this, right? It would’ve cost you nothing to simply carry on with your day.
- Comment on Anon watches an old concert video 4 weeks ago:
what I’m hearing, here, is that society peaked at the end of the 1990s.
- Comment on Anon is an example 1 month ago:
Wow, you’re a twat.
- Comment on Choosing violence 1 month ago:
SIGTERM: stop that.
SIGKILL: That was not a request.
Case power button: listen here you little shit
- Comment on Maybe this is better for everyone 1 month ago:
“oh no, the vegans are leaving!” said no-one ever
- Comment on Social Engineering 2 months ago:
The homing briefcase will forever be one of my favorite if not my absolute favorite bugs. Especially as it was later embraced as a feature.
- Comment on Wall 2 months ago:
Now for some reason I really want to see “Pink Floyd / The Wall” edited in to the Walmart font.
- Comment on Incels 2 months ago:
it’s almost like people can have shared experiences or something. Wild!
- Comment on Is this 9/11? 2 months ago:
no, this is patrick
- Comment on Incels 2 months ago:
I have achieved it, when I was younger and skinnier, and it’s not even all that great. For one, yeah, kills your back. Two, it’s more like sucking dick than getting your dick sucked, so let’s hope you’re good at that – and if you are, you’re going to end up with a mouth full of cum.
Now, I’m gay, so these last two points didn’t bother me any, but I was so sore from the experience I did it like twice and then never bothered again. I imagine a straight guy would be even less impressed.
- Comment on PUBG owner Krafton have acquired Tango Gameworks and the Hi-Fi Rush IP 2 months ago:
yes, but I would rather they die the hero than live long enough to become dogshit
- Comment on her fuck you dying out 2 months ago:
“her shouting “fuck you” slowly stops as she works out that no-one else is joining in”
for anyone else who can’t decipher it.
- Comment on PUBG owner Krafton have acquired Tango Gameworks and the Hi-Fi Rush IP 2 months ago:
Fuck.
- Comment on This is good stuff 2 months ago:
What people answering you don’t understand is the difference between fighting for love and fighting for the CHANCE for love. This is like the difference between struggling to win at a slot machine and struggling to get in the casino. Then people try to convince you that there’s a system to it. Please, as if we don’t know the rules - shower, groom yourself, be assertive but not pushy, read the room, show interest in their interests but don’t interrogate, complement their efforts, be charming and make them laugh. We can follow all this to the tee but all we ever hear is “Yes, but not you”. And don’t get me started at the cowardism. There’s never constructive criticism, at best there’s a " no" at worst there’s a lie.
this.
I’d not be so resigned if I’d had some genuine interest turn up at some point. But the only person I’ve ever gotten a second date from (and a brief relationship for a few months), later told me he meant and felt nothing of what he said he did, over text, on Christmas morning 2020. Even he couldn’t articulate why, he just didn’t feel anything for me despite everything I’d done up to that point to be up to par for him. Everyone else disappears like a fart in the wind well before then.
I know love is not all sunshine and roses, and work and effort is involved, but I suppose we can’t all have what we want out of life.
I am reminded of the quote by Stephen Gould, “I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
likewise, there will be plenty of people who live and die alone who are just as good a partner as anyone else can hope for, but who just don’t get lucky. Me, I’ve had my relationship woes, depression, cancer, losing my job recently because of cancer, all kinds of fun hints that I am just not meant for the things I want out of life. And I guess I just have to learn to be okay with that.
- Comment on This is good stuff 2 months ago:
You can’t create a false, bullshit narrative, and then expect everyone to accept your “truth” […]
and that’s where I’m done reading, it’s quite clear you’re just here to shit-stir and I don’t have time for trolls. Bye!
- Comment on This is good stuff 2 months ago:
Ah, yes, “your attitude now is bad so clearly your attitude was always bad”. Naw, I used to have a better attitude, as I said in my original comment, and having a good attitude didn’t help one bit. And trying to pretend it does, doesn’t help anyone – I could have the sunniest disposition in the world, but that doesn’t change shit about the world around me – being an optimist doesn’t help you if, say, the house is on fire. And the world around me wants very little to do with me romantically, and pretty much always has. I can either accept that, or I can live in denial of it, but neither changes it.
- Comment on This is good stuff 2 months ago:
Good for you, I’m glad you have better luck than I do.
You seem to think that because I’m not willing to put in effort anymore,, that means I never did. Allow me to correct you. I spent long enough putting in extraordinary amounts of effort for a very long time and merely got shit on in return, but I’m glad it worked out better for you, really I am. But in so many words, I’m the one who gets to decide when I’ve had enough heartbreak, not you.
- Comment on This is good stuff 2 months ago:
I never said everything is outside your control, don’t put words in my mouth. There are some things you can change, and some things you can’t. And after spending long enough trying different things and taking stock of what I’ve tried in the dating game, and not a single human being has ever had any genuine interest in me, as I approach my 30s – I have come to this conclusion not through flip “woe is me” bullshit over a night of binge drinking, this is years of depression and deep thought on it. I accept the reality that is presented to me, and the reality is that whatever drives others away is simply not something I can change, and my best going theory is I’m just an annoying fucking spastic who can’t see through bullshit. That’s not to say I know that for certain, just that I’ve tried changing up everything that I can (and am willing to) change to attract another person – from small things to large – and it’s never helped, and I’ve tried for long enough.
Some of us just aren’t meant to have certain things in life.
- Comment on This is good stuff 2 months ago:
Oh, believe me, I spent long enough being upset about the lack of human connection I have. It was a bitter pill to swallow. Now I’m mostly just numb to it – but selling someone a fairy tale ending “if they just believe in themselves!” that might not exist is just cruel.
It is what it is.
- Comment on This is good stuff 2 months ago:
Oh please, I tried that “fake it til you make it” horseshit and it was worn away through years of constant shitheads using me for their entertainment, all the while trying my hardest to believe it would come eventually.
The hard facts of life are this: life is not a fairy tale. Not every story has a happy ending. As you read this, there are kids out there catching bullets in Gaza who will never even get to finish puberty, let alone find love. Nothing is guaranteed – you can try as hard as you want at something, and sometimes you simply will not have it for factors entirely outside of your control. Some people will never be able to serve on submarines, because they are too tall. Some people will never be able to be a commercial pilot, because they are colorblind. Likewise, some of us just aren’t destined for love, be it for any myriad constellations of psychological and physical factors.
In my case, I have mild autism, and I can never mask well enough that someone decent won’t see through my facade. Oh, sure, I’m apparently fun to be around for brief periods at a time, but I guess the novelty of a spastic wears off for them and they quickly make their exit, ghosting me soon enough. But more upsettingly, all the horrible people who stick around to use me for their entertainment, I can never see through theirs before it’s too late.
It’s not fair. But sometimes that’s just how things are.
And now, knowing what I do, I’d not put effort towards something as hard to find and keep as love. At least when I put my efforts towards other pursuits, I can see measurable progress in some way. Trying to find love was like ramming my head against a brick wall and hoping the wall would break before I did.
- Comment on what a strange timeline we live in 2 months ago:
you know, I knew I was out of touch around the time of fidget spinners, but this is a new level of “get off my lawn” I thought I wouldn’t reach til my 30s
- Comment on Shiny and chrome 2 months ago:
TWO TRUCKS
HAVING SEX
- Comment on What Can Be, Unburdened By What Has Been 3 months ago:
shoo, I forgive your stupidity, now go away
- Comment on What Can Be, Unburdened By What Has Been 3 months ago:
oh god, it’s an enlightened centrist come to teach us all about how the world really works.
Please, spare me, I’ve got better things to do.
- Comment on What Can Be, Unburdened By What Has Been 3 months ago:
And I see you have a problem with people telling the truth and calling things as they are.
How was the gay sex at the RNC? I hear Grindr had a hell of a time keeping up.