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  • Expect a lot of fearful people who are expecting their medicaid to get cut and lose access to healthcare.

    As someone with cancer, that's what I'm going through.

    Not much can be done. The suffering is the point. The majority will not stand up for people like me.

    • I'm definitely expecting a lot of fear, I know I'm pretty terrified myself.

      I'm so sorry, you just shouldn't have to worry about your healthcare being dropped randomly, especially not in the middle of treating something. I hate that I can't make your situation any better, I'm just sorry you're facing that.

      • I'm in the USA, I've been seeing this harrowing bullshit for a long time. Long before it affected me personally. I've been angry about it for a long time. Nothing changes, everything gets worse. I'm just a statistic. It is what it is.

        Thank you for the kindness, however. The kindness does matter.

  • Every day hearing stuff about Trump is eating away at me. I remember four years ago. Depression settled in. I’m afraid for the next four years of this. It’s only been like 5 weeks.

    • I envy the blissful ignorance of teenage me. I didn't understand much of what was going on during the last presidency of mr. orange. I hope you and me find some way of coping. I fear it will be a long 4 years. Maybe I'm wrong, I'd love to be wrong.

  • I've been sleeping like shit. The air mattress I sleep on has a slow leak and deflates halfway through the night. It's also been cold af for the last 3 months and the baseboard heater isn't enough to heat the room.

    On the bright side I finally found a job, so the threat of homelessness is subsiding. I'm looking forward to getting a real bed, now that I know I'll have a place to keep it.

    Relative to the last several months, I'm doing amazing. Thanks for asking.

    • On an upward trend is awesome, glad to hear it and congrats on the new job! I'm looking forward to you getting a real bed too, air mattresses are awful.

  • I am quite unwell for the most part. I spend most of my time alone. I'm either at home playing games in a filthy room (because I never have the energy to clean it) or I'm at the low-paying job I hate surrounded by people I'm either indifferent to or despise. As for a personal life, that's about it. The only person I'm close to is my sister and we don't even want to talk to eachother at least fifty percent of the time. I'm in my mid-twenties, can't drive, and I live with my parents who I believe would have kicked me out if they didn't feel sorry for me. Mental illness runs in my family so I don't bother talking to them about it because they're all dealing with their own shit. I feel no excitment for anything. I spend most of my time bored and alone which I hate to admit. I know it's not, but it feels almost shameful. I'm not going to jump off anything in case anyone is worried, I just wanted to take this opportunity to vent.

  • An actual list of the "problems everyone hopes they never have" category of our various problems is pretty long right now, and many of them are more personal than I want to share.

    Shit's not the worst it's ever been for us currently, but financially it's closer than my wife realizes it is (because she's got enough to deal with right now), and (gestures around at everything Trump related) I'm figuring several of our problems are going to get worse before they get better.

    I've got long and medium term plans to sort most of it out, but like all such plans they depend on the short term stuff going at least more or less as I hope, and on the complete collapse of US society not actually happening.

    Glib sounding yet serious response in meme-form because this really is how it's looking so far in my mid-late 50s:

    OP sounds like a nice person for posting such a thread, and I hope you are doing well sir or madam. 🙂

    • I get not wanting to share anything too personal, totally no worries. I'm glad you have plans at least! I think we're all crossing our fingers that the US doesn't totally collapse, it's interesting times to say the least. Hopefully whatever happens doesn't hit you two too hard. I think as long we get through this mess things can start getting better.

  • I'm doing good, though I spent the whole last 48 hours working on a tiny, tiny writing project so I could get it exact, and it might not even lead to anything. The things I do when I need to sleep.

  • My sleep has been off the last few nights. Waking up every couple hours. And I take sleeping meds to boot. I have a big audit Friday (I’m the lead auditor and it’s my first major one) so I’m hoping the next few nights are better so I’m on top of my game.

  • Besides worrying that my country might be invaded by the US in the not so distant future, I'm doing good! 😃 I've got everything I need and my health is good. I've got some slight art block going on at the moment, so I'm mostly playing videogames in my free time which usually tends to inspire me haha.

  • I'm barely getting by. Too burnt and overwhelmed out to do things that make living feel more worth it, or to get on top of the backlog that's dragging me down. I've just been in survival mode for too long, and I feel like I've forgotten how to live — how to be me. I desperately need some aims that can give me a sense of forward momentum and act as a thread that connects different days, but my capacity is so low that even the basics of daily living are too ambitious for me to reliably do right now.

    I've got a long history of struggling with suicidal ideation and I do worry that some day, I'll just break and won't be able to stop myself from making an attempt. In the past, when I have struggled and made attempts on my life, it was because I chose to stop being alive. This feels different because even when I'm at my lowest, I do desperately want to live, but I feel like it isn't my choice. Either I will or won't be enough, and to some extent, all I can do is wait and see. That limbo is what's getting to me though; it's why goals are good for me — they keep me focussed on where I want to be heading and this grounds me.

    In terms of how people could help, I don't think they're is anything, besides continuing to be the lovely people y'all are. The world is grim, but I'm actually in a pretty healthy place re: social media usage — the people here remind me of the power of human connection. Anyone reading this doesn't need to direct me to mental health resources, because I have actually started receiving support on that front. It's just that unpicking a heckton of trauma and rebuilding a life from scratch is a lot of pressure; it's hard to feel like life itself isn't just saying "git gud, scrub", when the ordeal of getting on top of everything is so arduous.

  • can Internet strangers do anything to help?

    Thank you for asking, sincerely, but if Internet strangers tear into me for just having my comments have licensing footer text, there's no way I'm going to start stating any of my real issues that I'm dealing with, for them to judge.

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    • real issues

      Really not trying to be rude, but it's like going out dressed up like a clown, and then wondering why no one takes you seriously.

      The person dressed as a clown could still have cancer, but people aren't gonna ask about your health because you're dressed like a clown. Perception sets expectations.

      To a lot of us, the licensing text is silly and superfluous, sorry. The courts the world over prioritize corporations over individuals and if you try to sue an AI company for scraping your comments... no offense but you'll probably lose unless you're a secret billionaire. That's why it's silly and superfluous, because the likelihood of you actually being able to protect them as intellectual property is near zero.

      You literally put it in every comment, and thus, people look at you like you're dressed like a clown.

      • You're defeatist attitude, and being so readily willing to give up your rights and protections, is disturbing to see.

        Metaphorically speaking, you don't have to suck corporate penis automatically. It's okay to push back, even if you fail, at least you can look at yourself in the mirror the next morning.

        Believe more in yourself, and of those other citizens around you. Don't give in to the despair.

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    • Your footer rules, don't let them haters win!

    • I support you in wanting to post whatever text you want that isn't hurting other people. I do not believe your footer text is hurting other people, so you should be able to post it.

      However, I find it very annoying to read through comments and continuously have to re-read your footer because I believe it is text you are intending for your audience to read on the topic on the thread. This is my problem though, not yours.

      So my solution is to block just your footer text from rendering in my browser. Using uBlock Origin I've added the following filter to my browser:

       
              lemmy.world##[href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode.en"]

      This completely removes your footer from all of your posts across the entirety of Lemmy.world while leaving the rest of your posts intact.

      I believe you would support this action because you've communicated its for consumption by corporations and AI and not other readers of Lemmy. This may also be helpful to you, because you can refer other people like me that hate looking at your footer all the time. You get to keep your footer, and we don't have to ever see it again. Have a great day!

      • I believe you would support this action because you’ve communicated its for consumption by corporations and AI and not other readers of Lemmy.

        This is not true.

        The license declaration is supposed to be communicating to all readers, as it lets others know that my content is licensed for free use for open source purposes.

        It's not just to prevent for-profit usage, it's also to notify that it's available for non-profit usage.

        Also, generally speaking, there may be legal issues with stripping a license declaration from content.

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    • People focus so much on “but it’s not enforceable” and “you don’t own what you say on the Internet” that they forget it’s a statement of intention.

      You’re sharing your support, however nominal, for good causes. I see nothing wrong with that ¯(ツ)/¯

      People used to put goofy-ass sign-offs on comments back in forum days; a couple extra lines of text that don’t hurt anybody shouldn’t be an issue.

      You keep doing you, comrade. /gen /pos

      • People focus so much on “but it’s not enforceable” and “you don’t own what you say on the Internet” that they forget it’s a statement of intention.

        My inner tinfoil hat persona thinks its just corporate bots/astroturfers trying to shape the narratived away from every adding a license to their comments, as it truly does hold legal power.

        Regular people either agree to different degress, or think its harmless and don't care. Its only a few that REALLY REALLY REALLY get bent out of shape about it, for strange reasons (which goes back to fueling my inner tinfoil hat persona).

        You’re sharing your support, however nominal, for good causes. I see nothing wrong with that ¯ツ)/¯

        Exactly, or moreso, additionally. My license allows for open-source/non-profit usage of my content, giving back to everybody else.

        I just don't believe that Corporations should be able to make money off of my content without compensating me for it, as that is one of the fundamental tenants of Capitalism.

        You keep doing you, comrade. /gen /pos

        Thanks for your support, its appreciated. o7

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  • I've got a tweaked muscle in my back from helping my mom move some heavy furniture around last weekend still. Other than that I have no major complaints about life at the moment.

    I do have the minor complaint that people like you think anyone who holds even one single stance that is slightly right of center is a full blown conservative (even when they have never voted red in their lives), but you walked away from that thread to make this post just like most people on this site do when they don't know what to say to me anymore.

    So far Lemmy users seem to think there are "normal" people who are exactly like them (which is extremely far left) and then anyone who is even slightly right of that is considered a nazi conservative racist Republican shitbag that deserves to die.

    But other than those things life is peachy. How about you?

    Also waffles>French toast> pancakes

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