Shit that makes you mad - V28 - General

You better set them straight, racism is racism. Doesn't matter if it's against blacks or crackers.

I tried to do this with my brother when I was talking to him about the ex-Bioware dev. I kept saying that demonizing white people isn't fucking helpful or productive and is in fact giving the alt right more ammo, but he just kept saying "I don't think so". He thinks being shitty to white people will be more effective in minimizing racism than being shitty to just racists who won't change their mind, since he has the impression that all white people commit microaggressions daily or some shit like that. He's also one of those guys who legit think that the definition of racism means "power+prejudice", and I told him that that wasn't the actual fucking definition that's in the dictionary , but he basically said "language changes over time". If I wasn't an autistic introvert who sucks ass at speech, I probably would have been able to change his mind, but I definitely can't at this state.

Fucking woke up to Putin’s jets or whatever invading the sky thinking this is it lol

I don't doubt that making content for Youtube can be a challenge, especially when you're not in the mood or want to do other things, but some good communication can help with fans.

My brother sleeps in less than 10 minutes. Always. All he said was "just keep the mind empty", but thinking in nothing long enough to fall asleep is already hard for me. I usually end up needing 40-70 minutes to sleep because he also snores very loud and almost every night. I can fill my 7-8 hours goal but the quality is another story. The snore is one of the most annoying sounds the human body can make.

I can get that problem too sometimes. Now, I'm not the type of guy that's usually into meditation (the "empty your mind, think nothing" type) but there's this really sweet little app called Headspace. It's guided meditation and you get 10 free 10 minute sessions that you can replay as often as you want. Since there's someone talking softly, you have his voice to focus on and it really helpes me out just get RELAXED. I'm pretty much always ready to sleep after listening to a session. If you really like the app, you can buy a sub for access all their other sessions but the 10 free ones are plenty to me at the moment.

when people talk to me on steam that i've had on my friends list for years and they talk like we are good friends and i have literally no idea who they are.

This is why I purged my FB and Steam friends list 3 years ago. I still do regular sweeps. If I haven't talked to them in the last month they're out.

Hit him with some of these: Prejudice plus power

Come down to georgia. We have rabid trump supporters, tons of people flying the rebel flag on backs of trucks, 98% humidity, only a single month of comfortable weather, and two electorates fighting on who can be more racist than the other.

I hate when people demonstrate that they have a clear understanding of their issues and what they could do to fix them, but then do fuck-all to resolve them while still complaining about their issues and fishing for sympathy and pity.

I keep getting told "Oh your aunt misses you!" "Your grandma misses you!" "Your mom misses you!" All of these people have smartphones, can use their smartphones well enough to initiate calls, and have me as a contact. Why do I have to call all of my family? Don't guilt me for not talking to people when they haven't made a single effort to contact me in the last few months. Relationships, even family relationships, are two-sided, and I don't always want to be the one to put forth the effort.

Would it be fine if I sent him the whole page or would that be a bad idea?

Rationwiki is...a little iffy, as is any site that purports to be rational or unbiased or w/e front and centre. If the article is actually good then it's nice as a source of ammo, but it's not really the kinda site you just link to someone to change their mind if they've already made up their mind to be opposite what the RW article has settled in to. It's the kinda site that's used to strengthen existing beliefs, not really create them. Wikipedia is often good when it comes to academic views, and the article on racism - specifically the Popular usage subsection of Etymology, definition and usage - goes over the same thing but in a less direct manner. I'd hope they'd be able to read that and understand that trying to force a specific definition in all uses for such a complex and multi-faceted concept just doesn't work even if some scholars do use it like that.

I have over a hundred people on Steam, but I don't want to remove any because I know some of them are old friends that I no longer remember due to my memory problems. The long list doesn't bother me anyway because I have created a current friend group, even though half the people on there I've also drifted away from.

That's weird, because I looked it up on Media Bias / Fact Check, it says it has a center-left bias. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/rationalwiki/ Although, a lot of people rated it as extreme left in the poll at the bottom, and I get the feeling it's just because the people who rated it that got butthurt that it doesn't take far-right conspiracy theories seriously, at least from what I can tell from a couple of the other pages that I took a glance at.

I'm probably be wrong then, I was going off old memories of the last time I used it. I might be thinking of something else entirely.

I had to send my phone in for a screen repair and I'm using my old phone until I get it back. It became obvious immediately why I bought a new phone. The old one doesn't hold a charge, even after I replaced the battery.

Shitty "I'd like to thank the academy" style edits to posts that receive a lot of acclaim on reddit or any other forum.

Came across an old halloween picture of when I was a kid. It almost looks like an anti-semitic caricature. I was supposed to be an evil business man, I was wearing devil horns and a suit, but I wore Groucho Marx glasses too for some reason. Ugh why.

Same issue here. Dropped my S8 and screen cracked, luckly I had a phone insurance (otherwise it would cost around 300 Eur to fix), sent it off. Using my old phone for time being (HTC 10), while HTC 10 isnt that bad - my one is because 30% of touch on top of screen doesn't work, so I cant even pull down notifications or use tinder Had a call from insurance company yesterday, it should be here today.

Can the summer just fucking end already? I really can't handle the heat and it's been weeks since we had a real rain. I WAS meant to spend the summer improving my programming ability, I even bought a C++ book that describes the fundamentals of programming to read through and practice with. Have I done anything? No, because the heat is murdering me. It doesn't help that I have hay fever and my asthma to fuck me up. I want the summer to end. Or to be dead. Whichever will take me away from this heat.

Samsung doesn't cover physical damage under warranty or anything so I have to pay $200.

I just got my phone back. Yeah I didnt use warranty, I had the phone insurance (I usually get it for first 6 months after buying new phone).

I've only been diagnosed with asthma this year after a chest infection triggered it and holy shit I had no idea how bad humidity and hot weather affects asthma. I've had to have a humidifier installed in my room to try and stave off asthma.

I had some pretty severe asthma attacks as a child, to the point where my doctor made me take home her breathing machine (no idea what it's called) which was meant to be kept in the doctor's office at all times. I am absolutely convinced that if I don't die from a heart attack (I'm a fat fuck), cancer, or some accident that I'll die due to the heat fucking with my asthma. The fact that I got used to waking up and barely being able to breathe is pretty horrifying when I step back and actually think about it.

I still forget to take my inhaler with me everywhere; if I die from asthma it will be a result of my own negligence.

My lazy as fuck managrr keeps dumping his orders on me with other shit piling up fast. Meanwhile he turns around to leave on the clock to go get breakfast, then heads into his climate controlled office to stuff his face while he watches tv shows on his phone with his feet kicked up on the desk. This dude gets paid double what i make and literally does nothing all day.

Movies starting a musical number from virtually almost nothing. I like to call that Family Guy Syndrome (FGS).

Welcome to the magic of management, do fuck-all and get paid a shitload. My most recent managers have been fine but in the past I've had managers who would take 2 days off a week in addition to their guaranteed weekends off and would never lift a finger unless a director was going to visit while finding reasons to not let me go to doctor's appointments.