No. When I do something I’m not wondering if it’s against the law, I’m wondering how this affects someone else.

Thank you! Those are some very kind and validating words. 🙏

Definitely! I had such a streak of bad dates and relationships that I felt so traumatized. It made me so nervous while dating him that I was literally shaking when I felt that things weren’t going right.

Funnily enough, two years later, now I feel the opposite. I don’t really care about dating and I feel like I’d be the one detached. I just can’t be bothered with giving so much for getting nothing in return anymore.

No

I’m tired of hearing about this company and its owner. Why is this news? Why is this shared? Can move on?

He didn’t want to be with someone clingy but framed it as codependency, when in reality I was going through an anxious attachment phase because I didn’t want to fuck it up. My incessant worrying was to blame but his lack of empathy made it worse. In the end I think I dodged a bullet because he was a functional alcoholic.

We’re two companies short of MAMA-MIA

Mom says that my great grandmother had a notorious potty mouth. Whenever she’d get up off the chair she’d yell “oh, this heavy ass of mine!” (“Ay, este culo tan pesado!”)

Oh I understood on first read that people mysteriously disappeared there a la Sweeny Todd lol

Yes, I’ve had a better time with it since then. I also couldn’t get it to work initially but now I’ve used it on two phones and it works fine. The trick is to use a slightly older release of the YT apk.

I’ve been watching shorts lately and now EVERYTHING is about shorts. I don’t ever get the little x anymore to remove the annoying fucking shelf anymore. Why does all this shit have to suck so much.

I keep forgetting this exists

I discovered the mythical and magical power of a great mattress. One day I’ll be able to afford one, once I grow a spare kidney.

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I have seen a couple of comments removed by mods that I thought were perfectly fine, so there’s that. 🤷‍♂️ I just hope it doesn’t become a regular thing.

I did have many regrets. Mainly overheating and the card eventually failing on me. Funny how these large companies ship their shit to “third world countries” so that people have a lower chance of returning their POS

I cringe when I remember willingly filling out my contacts list like it was nobody’s business. I’m so sorry, friends and acquaintances. :(

[Cackles in Evil Spanish]

The alternative is putting pressure on companies to not succumb to greed and to go as far as enacting regulation to protect consumer interests. Paying some other companies to mitigate the harms of these companies while pretending that it’s a sensible solution to everyone is not my idea of solving a problem. You’re just sequestering privacy behind a paywall and pretending it’s all fine. It’s not; it’s elitist and plays into the pay-for-privilege that toxic capitalism breeds. Because let’s keep in mind that privacy–unlike the continuous stream of manufactured goods–is a choice that only needs to be made once.

Let me just spare a few dollars for privacy after paying for rent & groceries in my third world country currency.