theangryseal
@theangryseal@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anon makes life choices 6 days ago:
I mean, yeah, but he spent his whole workday riding around in the woods on an atv. He came to my little gas station to fill up his truck and atv and he was always happy.
He also inspected mines, I think most of his job was about looking for runoff from the mines.
- Comment on Anon makes life choices 6 days ago:
I knew a guy who did that around here and I never seen anything but a smile on his face.
- Comment on Standard tRump supporter 1 week ago:
I am from a very poor place in WV where most people are on assistance because there are no jobs.
Trump flags everywhere. Cars driving down the road with no tags or insurance, but Trump stickers all over.
I don’t get it. Well, actually I do.
Religion. The preacher says the gay is bad. Preacher says the trans is bad. Democrats want to extend basic rights to those people and preacher says god don’t like that.
- Comment on We're cooked, I'm hooked 1 week ago:
That’s what I need to do. I just gave up recently. I was so happy to be sitting here as a stay at home dad and making money.
I’m glad I mostly cashed out when dipshit Don was elected because I knew he was going to tank us.
- Comment on Little poser 1 week ago:
What? In Utero should at least be played a few times a year when shit just isn’t going right.
- Comment on 90s band alignment chart 2 weeks ago:
Nirvana In Utero is my favorite record of all time.
They aren’t my favorite band, but my god that record hits me right where I need it.
- Comment on You are not living in reality if you do not see the huge difference between THEN and NOW 2 weeks ago:
It blows my mind that gen z is old enough to be stuck in this mess with us.
The only chance I ever had to own a home was taking over the one I grew up in from my parents. I couldn’t raise my kids there though. The neighborhood went from being a nice little mining town to meth as currency town.
Good luck you guys. Maybe y’all can work on the boys following Andrew Tate off of a cliff and get this world going in the right direction.
Shit, in 40 years us millennials will finally be old enough to hold elected office. Hahahahaha
- Comment on Thicc 2 weeks ago:
People are saying 🤗, I have the best lordosis.
- Comment on u up babe? 2 weeks ago:
You can see the trauma in this pic. So sad.
- Comment on Skill issue 2 weeks ago:
I’m right there with you. I haaaaaate the direction of modern gaming.
- Comment on Skill issue 2 weeks ago:
Man. I miss when gungame was filled with people and all the fun addons. Warcraft 3 mods, vote for knife fight, “gotcha bitch” with every knife kill.
I want to go back.
- Comment on Mother 2 weeks ago:
I read that parents ate some kids during famines. Could be bullshit though, I don’t want to look.
- Comment on Hehe 2 weeks ago:
Oh no!! I went to get it for you and they re-listed it without the whore side in the photos.
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- Comment on Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been shooting since I was about 5 too.
I haven’t in many years, but I think I was 10 or 11 when my dad got me a 20 gauge.
- Comment on Which game is it? 3 weeks ago:
Now you need to make it 1,234.5 hours and stop.
- Comment on Is 33 cents a small amount of money? 4 weeks ago:
Pay them more? So they can lose their benefits? Are you crazy?
I’m kidding, of course. I know that what you mean is, “pay them so that they can afford to live without requiring benefits.”
You get into some of the poorer places in the country though, that truly would be nearly impossible for most businesses. There are some places in West Virginia that would immediately have no access to gasoline, groceries, etc.
It is crazy to think that Bobby McBusinessman gets to ride around in a giant RV all summer because the government pays his employees. They don’t see it that way though, as they collect their HUD payments and accept food stamps while all of their employees receive food stamps and medical benefits.
All while the rest of the community lives on nothing and experiences very little joy in this life.
What do I know though? I’m just a pissed off hillbilly who helped make someone who isn’t me very rich.
- Comment on I don't envy the humans pre-dentistry 4 weeks ago:
Dude, more. 200% more as my wife and I sit her and suffer tonight. She’s getting it dealt with next month, mine rotting out while I wait to even get a luxury bone appointment.
You are the clear evolutionary winner.
- Comment on surgeon generas warning 4 weeks ago:
Worked on me. Been a lifelong problem and by the time I was old enough to realize it wasn’t cool I was hooked. I collected camel dollars as a child.
I thought I looked so rad at 11 marching down the road with a cigarette. I see that now and it just looks so wrong. It’s still like that where I’m from too. Little kids with cigarettes are a common sight.
- Comment on Starbucks continues to be terrible 4 weeks ago:
I did some reading. It would be spot on if he wasn’t convinced that he was perfect and everyone else wasn’t.
No one is smarter than him. No one does it better than him. No one could even come close to comprehending his work. When he dies he feels sorry for anyone who has to work behind him and it will take teams of people to understand tie genius of his work. Anyone who has a slightly different worldview than him is “thinking wrong”.
He isn’t obsessed with perfection. He is perfection. No lover could please a woman like him. No one is stronger or more capable. He has done the work of 500 men in one lifetime.
He prides himself on being the best, but not because he has anything to prove to anyone. He knows he’s the best. No one is better.
His father’s dying words were, “Please God. Let my son find some humility. Please. He’ll have no peace until he finds it.”
His father was a great man. An activist. A man who actually worked to change the world.
He wasn’t always that guy though. He had to learn some hard lessons to get there and his son suffered while he learned those lessons. He knew that. He took accountability for it.
I don’t know. I wouldn’t have made it without him in this life, but it was always a transaction. He doesn’t know how to do anything without a transaction. I’ve been trying to show him that it isn’t always about that. Every job we do, he tells me to keep track of my hours so he can pay me. I don’t want him to pay me. I want him to see that life can be something we experience and enjoy without it being a transaction.
I’m probably wasting my time, but I love my uncle irrationally and I don’t know why.
- Comment on Starbucks continues to be terrible 4 weeks ago:
What ended up happening to him? Was it drugs that stopped him from being successful enough to really hurt people?
Sorry to say it like that. That’s just been my experience.
- Comment on Starbucks continues to be terrible 4 weeks ago:
I have spent most of my life dealing with a successful sociopath. Thing is, at times it really looks like he means well.
It’s a constant battle in my head. Is it just his belief system? Is it just that he views everyone else as incompetent?
I constantly find myself making excuses for him because I love him. I get angry and I’m able to really look at everything sometimes, or he does something really shitty to someone else. Like recently, he wanted to buy tires for his son. Great, right? But he had to find a way to make it a tax write off or he didn’t want to do it. He got his daughter a car, but with the condition that her mother couldn’t drive it under any circumstances. And it had to be a flood damaged car. Good deals with the salvage titles and all.
He finally caved and sent his son money when I guilt tripped him, but he was mad for weeks about it. He’s probably still fuming. Mom ended up buying his daughter a car she couldn’t afford on credit and have the one he bought her to his girlfriend.
He ended up buying his son used tires because he couldn’t work it out to get the write off without sending a check and he didn’t trust him with it (with no reason to feel that way).
He built a cabin with his step brother in the 80s. They both poured blood, sweat, and tears into it. He had the money so he technically owned it, but it was understood that it was theirs with no strings attached.
When it was completed he informed him that he was welcome to use it any time he wanted, so long as his mother never stepped foot through the door. Naturally his step brother said “fuck that”, took the L and never went back.
I don’t know I’m doing dealing with it. Emotions are weird.
- Comment on Starbucks continues to be terrible 4 weeks ago:
You have to be willing to exploit your fellow humans to get where he is. Either you don’t have a soul to start with or it gets torn to bits every step you take up the ladder.
I’ve known people like that. I’ve been very close to people like that. It’s crazy, everywhere they look they’re looking for some win/something they can take. They never feel guilty. Honestly, the only thing they feel is betrayal when someone won’t bend the knee.
That’s my little observation.
Sad thing is, they still have people who love them but they aren’t truly capable of reciprocating. Everything is transactional and they always expect it to be profitable for them. The only thing that truly hurts them is when it isn’t profitable. It sucks being caught in their orbit too. Believe me.
- Comment on Sam Bankman-Fried is angling for a pardon from Trump 5 weeks ago:
Also this. I doubt he will forget it.
- Comment on Almost done 5 weeks ago:
This is where i’ve been for about 7 months.
The cracks in my mind are just starting to show. I don’t know if I can keep doing it.
It is different though. She wants me to be a stay at home dad so I left my job of 24 years. First 5 months was awesome. My last day of work was the day before our third little one was born.
She’s in the “cry for nothing until you hold me” phase, so I’m hoping once she cuts it out I’ll be ok again.
I’ve been about to crack though. 4:30 this morning it was bottle time. Mom is working from 4AM TO 2PM at the moment, so that’s just the way it is for now.
I’m so so so tired. I guess I’d be even worse working right now.
I hope you enjoy every minute of retirement.
- Comment on fuck this asshole 5 weeks ago:
This is my go-to explanation, but christofascists don’t care.
- Comment on Bawitdaba 1 month ago:
Oh man now I want to get a rascal so I can have rascal nuts.
Why did you make me realize this possibility.
I want to get a little smart car and give it nuts too.
Everything needs nuts. We should fucking nuts for our phones bro.
PHONE NUTS! My 6 dollar idea!
- Comment on nuked from orbit 1 month ago:
Yeah that’s him. Love that dude.
- Comment on nuked from orbit 1 month ago:
That my game bro!!! I love that shit.
If y’all don’t know what it is, look up the dude who makes divorced dads on YouTube.
I love that guy.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
This is almost identical to what I said to my kid. I explained that it would be a process for both of us and he would need to be as patient with me as I was with him.
My kid has not spoken to me in 4 years. Two slip ups (said she or her twice accidentally) and me saying I was just going to avoid pronouns until it sunk in. Nope. “Fuck you dad. You’ll never see me again.”
His mother messed him all up though. We were very young when she got pregnant (I was 15) and naturally we didn’t make it as a couple.
He was allowed to eat family packs of Reece’s multiple times a day until he was so overweight it was ungodly. I was the bad guy for trying to do anything about it. He had to have a meal separate from everyone his entire life. If the family was having baked chicken and vegetables, my son was having ramen noodles or chicken nuggets. The body issues started there. When I refused and said, “Eat with the rest of us and eat healthy or I can’t help you. I can’t in good conscience feed you pop tarts and ramen for dinner.” Mom used this to paint me as some kind of monster who was starving my kid.
When the kid got to middle school those kids ate him alive. He ended up developing an eating disorder and starving/surviving on lettuce. Mom finally decided it was time to do therapy and blamed me for it. “You just had to make a big deal about what he ate!”
My kid has been spoiled and turned into a self obsessed person who I don’t recognize and I’d cut a foot off to just have my kid back. He’s an adult though, and I can’t change any of it.
All I can do at this point is hope that he regrets this one day but I don’t have much hope. That kid could have a best friend and love them with everything, and then just cut it off like it was nothing over some small thing and never speak to that person again, so my hope is very small.
Sorry to spill all that here. This just made me spin when I read it.
All I can do to show my love is keep paying for the services. (Netflix, Spotify, Hulu, etc.) And it wouldn’t surprise me at all if he’s laughing at me for it, but I’m happy to be doing something, anything. As silly and small as it is, it’s all I have left.
Y’all take care and if a trans kid reads this and can relate to this story, please don’t skip on your family because things aren’t going the speed you like. My kid stopped talking to everyone in my family overnight and never had a conversation with anyone but me. I get that it can be hard and I’m certain there are people who you will have to leave behind, but don’t cut your lifeline/support network and burn bridges unnecessarily. You could end up regretting it and causing yourself and everyone else a lot of unnecessary pain.
