dualmindblade [he/him]
The elusive Portuguese fog o’ war. Commonly thought to produce sensory or cognitive impairment but studies show the actual effect is to temporarily allow one to notice how confused they always are about reality
Flash forward 50 years, after decades of negotiation a consensus has formed on borders, a new constitution, transition of power, but the whole thing breaks down over whether to call it Palestisrael or Palestrael, soon after the remaining humans not killed in the great climate migration die in thermonuclear fire
I’ve been complaining to myself and family about my depression, my frustrations trying to treat it, and various life stressors, had actually typed a long post in this thread doing the same but wtf like they were launching a truly organized and large scale invasion of the West Bank as I was typing that. Also in my own country:
Half of the 200+ responses are essentially just “same”, this is reddit mind you, not really known as a hub for the 65+ crowd. I follow that sub and it’s 95% people under 30…
I realize that “other people have it worse” is usually wrong thinking when you are struggling but idk imma try and spin that into “I really am privileged and I will try to be grateful and at the very least I vow somehow to use that privilege to do something, anything, to make the world better, I owe it to my family for one thing and I just despise suffering and most of the suffering is happening outside my own head. Period.”
This wouldn’t even be possible at the place I work lmao. When I started there there was still a physical server in the building that housed my now empty desk (yeah it’s still there after 4 years of work from home) hosting some of our applications, there was a room that had a filing cabinet filled with punch cards, we had to fill out paper forms sometimes to get access to a database. Our security team has no idea what they’re doing, like they’re not even technical, we have basically one very good dev ops guy frantically duct taping over processes designed, badly, in the early 2000s, their job will never be done and they’ll never pay for another person if that calibre to join the team.
The idea of this happening to a bleeding edge 100 billion dollar tech company is fucking hilarious, I guarantee you the devs were constantly complaining to management about the possibility of such a scenario, and some poor overworked programmer is going to lose their career while their boss gets another high paying management job after the company goes under, or just retires out of savings.