Anything really grinding your gears that you need to get off your chest? Lets talk about it.
The limited Jewish support for Palestine in the NDG neighborhood highlights the diversity of opinions within the Jewish community in my experience.
NDG
I googled, what is this?
Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, a neighborhood in Montreal, Canada
It’s fun to first expand on initialisms the first time you use them.
That does sound annoying.
I want to point out that not all Jews support the Israeli government with what’s going on in Palestine right now. I see this sentiment all over the internet and Lemmy.
It’s split down political lines. Right wing Jews are more likely to support the Israeli government and their actions, and left leaning and most centrist Jews are appalled.
Please don’t lump all Jews as being supportive of this horrific situation. That’s how you get society (again) to blanket hate all Jews.
I am well aware of that . I hope the edit of my comment will clarify it
It’s late April and already starting to get hot, I’ll soon need an electric fan and in one month it won’t be enough. Half the year is unbearable, and it’s only going to get worse with time.
I feel you! I am in PA and it was 85 degrees the other day. Hello we are in the NORTH why am I sweating in April?! There used to be surprise snowstorms in April around these parts.
Yes same in France… we have the saying “en Avril ne te découvre pas d’un fil” (in April don’t remove any clothing) because it’s supposed to still randomly get very cold very quickly 😭
I fear that in 10 years we’ll all be climate refugees in Iceland or Canada
SAME
I hate having to store hop. This happens all of the time to me with Dollar Tree. I live near like 6 dollar tree stores. I’ll be looking for, say, work gloves. So I go to the one next to me, shit, they don’t have it, well now I gotta decide how far I want to go to the next one. I go to the second closest, fuck, they have gloves but not the kind I’m used to. Fuck, gotta go to the third one but now that’s a little further away because I had to drive a bit away from the other two. Same applies to other stores.
Things that protect your hands and feet you won’t find at dollar tree. Go to a actual farm supply store, or anything that sells Carhartt or CAT
That for my entire life retirement age has not gone down, health care costs have gone up, and the hours worked per week haven’t changed.
I’m tired.
hours worked per week has gone up for me except when unemployed which is too often.
Family
Family can be SUCH a challenge. You need to limit your exposure to the bad elements and increase exposure to the good ones (who likely suffer like you with those bad ones).
It’s okay to ghost your family a lot, my dude, if it keeps ya sane. They may love you in some weird broken way, but they aren’t you; take care of you.
The constant barrage of unfortunate events.
Went through a breakup while unemployed and was facing homelessness since my cost of living practically doubled instantly. The cats were hers and I miss them every day.
Got a new job and my car broke down and died on the first day of work.
Trying to move to somewhere affordable but I definitely need a car for where I’m looking to go. Found a car but it’s 5-6 months wait time for the factory order, so I continue to pay insane rent by myself in the meantime, and look for a used car to maintain my good standing with the insurance company.
Got a brand new bed a few weeks ago. Yesterday noticed ants climbing all over the wall right next to it. Luckily they weren’t in the bed but I had to move it to an inconvenient spot for peace of mind, and worry about more ants coming back. There’s no food or anything even close to the bedroom.
Every time someone moves out of this apartment building the new people who move in have multiple dogs. There are more dogs than people living here. They’re constantly barking and howling and setting each other off and nobody does anything about it. I can’t escape the noise anywhere in my unit.
I just want to get out and start the rest of my life in a new place already.
You described exactly why I am so thankful to never have experienced apartment life and pray I never will. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve definitely been in worse places than a shitty apartment, like homeless or living with my mom, but at least I still get to say I never had to share a space with strangers that can hear me getting it on. Now I live in a single-wide trailer, my rent is only $450 a month ( I make $25/h working from home, so rent to income is insanely low) and I have 3 bedrooms, fenced-in front and back yards, a dedicated laundry room, and I can’t even see my closest neighbor’s house.
Funny how one persons nightmare could be another persons dream. People use “ending up” in a trailer as a warning, and I literally could not imagine a better place to live.
Sounds like you are a couple steps ahead of where I’m trying to be. I don’t need many amenities or anything, just some peace and fucking quiet. Outdoor space for a garden would be a dream come true.
I presume you are in the US. Out of curiosity - how does bathroom work with trailer life? Do you have a shower and toilet in the trailer or do you go somewhere else for that? I’m a complete stranger to trailer life, I suppose it’s just like camping but perhaps over there you have some differences when it’s a permanent full time lifestyle. I don’t know
single-wide trailer
Such mobile homes are fully plumbed. They’re functionally equivalent to an apartment/flat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_home#Construction_and_sizes
Single-wides are 18 feet (5.5 m) or less in width and 90 feet (27 m) or less in length and can be towed to their site as a single unit.
That was informative, thank you
This is not my house but close to what it looks like, much bigger than what you are picturing. Mine has an extension built onto it and I have 3 bedrooms.
That looks amazing, why do you say something like that would be average Joe’s nightmare? LOL TIL trailer isn’t at all like a campervan and I’m really confused now haha
Because thats how people in the USA act, like ending up in a trailer park is the worst thing that could happen to them. They would rather pay $2,000 for a 1 bedroom apartment than $450 for a 3 bedroom trailer simply because they don’t want to be thought of as “trailer trash”. Its very stupid and irresponsible, but any time I bring it up to anyone irl, that I am not paying a million dollars for rent the way they are, which is why I can work part time and still afford more than them, they have 45,000 excuses and reasons why that couldn’t possibly be true, even when I actively show them my rent receipts and paychecks.
LOL A single wide trailer has a full bathroom with a full shower and a working toilet. I am not in a CAMPER a trailer is something completely different. I have full indoor plumbing and a full sit in kitchen, laundry room all that jazz.
I’m slowly losing the sense of belonging I had to my work. I’m afraid I’ll never financially recover from it if I fully realize it.
Insomnia.
I finally landed on a sleep pattern that (mostly) alleviates/prevents my chronic migraines and today I got all of 45 minutes and haven’t been able to get a wink since. Think Green Day’s Brain Stew.
Trying to keep my meds and routines as much as possible and hopefully stay up/sleep in to where I need to but I worry I’m screwed for the next week or so.
I have a sleep issue and my latest job has a standby/on-call component I can’t avoid right now. I’m dramatically affected by even the potential to be awakened and it’s been a challenge.
I’m looking forward to avoiding that again, as I can usually recover about a week after that all ends.
I’m in a similar spot, but with fatigue/brainfog instead of migraines.
I believe in you, friend. I feel like shit and I’m sure you do too, but we can make it through.
That does not sound like fun. I’m sorry this is happening to you.
Thank you, I appreciate it. /gen
The banality of daily life as we slip into authoritarianism. None of this matters.
It just seems like nothing works the way I expect it should these days, and I’m happy to be wrong, but I don’t think my expectations are that high.
I make an appointment at the driver’s license office for 10 a.m., I kind of expect to be seen around that time, especially since they tell you to show up at least 15 minutes before your scheduled appointment. Certainly, I don’t expect to have to wait 2 hours to be seen.
I go to the store to return an item that was missing parts, I don’t expect to be turned away completely because the “printer is down”. I have the receipt, can’t you just make a copy and refund the very small amount of money or let me exchange it?
I go to the bank to withdraw a few five and ten dollar bills, I don’t expect to be told “I don’t have enough”. I especially don’t appreciate being treated like I’m the first human in history to want specific denominations for a withdrawal.
I get told to return my internet equipment to any of your locations, only to be told you can’t accept that at your store. Why did the customer service person I talked to on the phone say any location, the company website have your location in the list of locations available when I filtered by “returns”, and my final bill state “return equipment to any location” if your location doesn’t accept returns?
I go to the doctor for a specific health concern (that unbeknownst to me is a red flag for a major problem), they give me a medicine that actually exacerbates said major problem without ever mentioning it or testing for it first. You’re the expert and professional, not me, and I guarantee if I’d asked about that major problem because I saw something about it online, you’d have made a snarky comment like “don’t confuse your Google search with my medical degree” or similar.
And all of this, plus much, much more, in just the past month or so.
My cars ignition coil and spark plugs are completely destroyed. Will cost me lots the repair…
Gen AI
My fucking Brain. I have severe ADHD, and difficulty understanding concepts that are even more than a little complex. I forget stuff so easily. I fucking hate it so much, it is massively fucking frustrating.
I have passion, time and a want to be better. But changing myself is like walking barefoot through a narrow corridor, shoulder wide and full of glass shards on both the walls and the ground. All the while I keep forgetting where the exit is, even as it is right infront of me. Things that should take normal people a day to do, takes me more than a month. I hate it, I hate that it takes me so much time. And only fear drives me to do things, WHY? Why can’t it be something that I want to do instead of fucking fear. I fucking hate that. It’s like my brain has some bottleneck that just can’t be gotten rid of.
If I weren’t lucky with my circumstances, I would have killed myself.
My ankle that I rolled in early December hasn’t healed fully yet Almost, but not quite
Omg I can relate. I rolled my ankle once and it was hurting for months and months, turns out I had a hairline break that never healed correctly; now my ankle is permanently slightly crooked.
RIP I got an X-ray so I’m g, just pushing to exercise too fast and too hard before the tendons can heal 🫤
We are getting old
I fell of a bike in October. Stupid knee still feels on some days pretty wanky but on other days like nothing is wrong.
I nearly failed my driving exam because of it.
I rolled mine badly at the end of Feb and it’s still hurting. X-ray didn’t show a fracture but the doc said sometimes they don’t show up right away.
Sorry to be that guy but an xray won’t show much compared to something like an mri. Get a second opinion and have them do something other then an xray.
It was the ER just checking for a break. Entire foot was swollen, couldn’t put any pressure on it, etc.
I’ve moved and never set up a new PCP either. The billing alone has put me off healthcare. I spend about 2 hours a month dealing with a prescription. The ER billing has been crazy too, spent a few hours talking to various billing depts, getting bill weekly for things that were paid for, etc.
I can’t wait for this US system to be replaced.
