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[–] 19 points 2 years ago

Existential dread

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    the children STILL AWAKE running around upstairs

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Which Corporate State I'll have to migrate mt family to after the US is broken up by oligarchs. Then the subsequent Russian landgrab.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Anxiety / stress. Usually it relates to finances either directly or indirectly. I have enough savings to survive few years with zero income but having recently transitioned from employee to being self-employed, there's quite a bit uncertainty about future. I'm not losing any significant amounts of money currently but I'm barely able to save anything either which makes me quite uncomfortable as someone who for the past 10 years has lived well below their means.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.

    Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape- descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

    This planet has – or rather had – a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

    And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm not sure Douglas Adams could have written that today. Most of the people who would have been digital watch people are generally more obsessed with their personal portable computing and communication devices instead. And I like to think that's what he would have called them, repeatedly and often in a handful of paragraphs dedicated to them for no other reason than how well "personal portable computing and communication device" rolls off the tongue.

    The sort of phrase that Ford would use when talking to Arthur who would instead be expecting "mobile phone" at most. And then there'd be a little pointless argument about how "mobile phone" wasn't anywhere near descriptive enough.

    "What? You mean like 'Mostly harmless'?" asked Arthur pointedly.

    "Exactly!" said Ford, cheerily. "Now you're getting it!"

    Arthur wasn't getting it. In fact he wasn't sure if that if he had it that he wouldn't want to get rid of it as soon as possible.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    A+ ⭐ 🏆

    that last line especially is beautiful, sounds like it was written by Adams himself.

    have you read the short story The Libertarian Police Department? I've always thought the author channeled Adams' ghost for that one :)

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I never understood what was so terrible about the digital watches. I understand that today's smart watches are an absolute detriment to any semblance of privacy that you might have had before in this brave new world, but why would one hate something like a Casio?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I never took it as hate, just an acknowledgement of the simplicity of thinking about your digital watch and going "you know what? this thing is pretty neat!"

    that being said it's been a while since I read the books so maybe I'm misremembering some serious digital watch hate from later on.

    personally I think my Casio is pretty neat and I also am unhappy for pretty much of the time, largely due to the movements of small green pieces of paper :)

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    Graveyard shift job.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Trouble sleeping…

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    What doesn't these days?

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    If we nuke ourselves now, we'll never figure out the mysteries surrounding black holes or the origins of the omg particle

    For the Oh-My-God particle hitting a nitrogen nucleus, this gives 2900 TeV, which is roughly 200 times higher than the highest collision energy of the Large Hadron Collider, in which two high-energy particles going opposite directions collide.

    The Oh-My-God particle's energy was estimated as (3.2±0.9)×1020 eV, or 51±14 J. Although this amount is phenomenally large for a single elementary particle – far outstripping the highest energy that human technology can generate in a particle – it is still far below the level of the Planck scale, where exotic physics is expected. Though a subatomic particle, its energy was comparable to the gravitational potential energy of a 1 kilogram object that could fall 5 meters off a two-story building

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Thinking about how I'm not going to get enough sleep.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Waking up to being taken to a camp because I exist

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Actually...

    1 the cat bring live mouse and forget about him/her

    2 the cat ask for food or general attention (at 3am)

    3 the cat wakes the dogs

    4 the dogs wake me

    5 I shout and send them all to sleep again

    6 the mouse pops up and wake me again

    7 I give up

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    My cat. He has no qualms about interrupting my sleep if he wants to play or cuddle.

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    trying to sleep

    also, i think you meant for the ask_lemmy sub lol. this one’s for factual questions

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    The wrong weed.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Insomnia also Balatro

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Adderall. When my wife shares one of hers with me because I have a long grueling day. It helps the day but ruins any chance of sleep that night.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Insomnia but lately I've been treating it with weed and it has gone quite well.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    YouTube shorts

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    My friends. I seem to have this weird ability where if I start talking to someone, time will go by really fast and then we suddenly realize it's some ungodly hour of the morning.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Stubbornly not taking my antidepressants in the morning, whether relenting later in the day or not. Venlafaxine, how I love thee and thy withdrawals.

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    trying to make the biggest financial comeback known to mankind

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    The demon from the horror movie, Smile (and the sequel Smile 2).

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    Being awake

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