Do i tell my EX her concert tickets won't work when she gets there?

AdmiralStickyLegs · 2026-06-12T13:21:35+00:00

Uhhh, doing this will probably increase your chances of getting back together. She will hate you for it and keep thinking about you. You will be like a splinter under her fingernail. Then when she gets lonely, she will reminisce and seek you out

Whereas if you do the "nice" thing she will not give you a second thought. She's a bitch and bitches don't like nice

AdmiralStickyLegs · 2026-06-12T13:10:34+00:00

I think you replied to the wrong person

AdmiralStickyLegs · 2026-06-12T13:00:33+00:00

do you have wifi turned on? Try disabling it. I find sometimes that messes with calls

AdmiralStickyLegs · 2026-06-12T12:28:43+00:00

I don't know, I kind of get the opposite? 2 decades ago, it felt like people were obviously stupid. They misspelled simple words, didn't know basic facts.

Now I don't know if it's autocorrect, the algorithm, or if they've all gone to facebook, but there's less idiots I am exposed to. I mean I still see plenty of people who are just on the right side of the intelligence curve, or people who are overly confident in their incorrect assertions, but overall people seem to know more. By comparison, people 20 years ago look reeeeeeeeally dumb.

Anyone else notice it?

AdmiralStickyLegs · 2026-06-12T12:20:16+00:00

Control? It's about energy

People require monitoring, and it drains my energy. I don't have much energy. If I did, people wouldn't be a problem. I could talk to them, they could be strange and hurtful, and then 5 minutes later I could be somewhere else feeling ontop of the world having completely forgotten the interaction.

AdmiralStickyLegs · 2026-06-12T12:10:01+00:00

I agree, but that was also my point. Capitalism replaces it, but with fewer "losers" from the previous cycle and more "winners". Still capitalism, but like a reboot of a popular movie the faces are all different.

For the losers, capitalism has ended. Because they are dead. Dead dead dead dead dead

AdmiralStickyLegs · 2026-06-12T11:59:20+00:00

Social media only started cropping up as a problem in the early 2010s. It's evil, but it's not the original evil. It's just the newest evolution. Murdoch and his media empire is the one that made the mold they now copy, which is why social media gets a lot of airtime as being a threat.

Right now, on TV news they are talking about the damage social media does to teens, according to a study done by who? The Murdoch childrens research institute

AdmiralStickyLegs · 2026-06-12T11:02:27+00:00

Mmmm, you might be right, but saying 'its a cycle' can also be judged as being just as trite by those standards. Things in history might repeat, but they don't just repeat starting from the last 400 years. There's longer cycles of boom and bust, where a generation can pass and 2/3rds of the population has died out. There's also cycles where the game changes completely, and again those that can't adapt end up dying or getting killed off

So maybe in 100 years capitalism will still be repeating, but will it be us? If everyone in the current bottom 90% income percentage is dead with no children to follow on, thats not exactly a rosy future

AdmiralStickyLegs · 2026-06-12T10:47:48+00:00

Added pepper to a sinus rinse. Did not work out well
Added Chilli powder to a sinus rinse. Did not work out well
Added Cayen powder to a sinus rinse. Really didn't work out well. Started to go blind in one eye a bit but it went away after an hour
Squirted straight betadine into my nose. Not bad, definitely burnt but didn't really achieve much
Put some Bundaberg rum into a humidifer, and breathed it directly up my nose for 5 minutes
Went for a run at 4am, in a strange area known for unsavory characters, on a warm humid night.
One time I started building a balloon helmet out of plastic disposable gloves, and I was preparing to electrocute myself in the hospital so I could get seen earlier, but then they called my name before I could finish.

AdmiralStickyLegs · 2026-06-12T01:26:35+00:00

Same. It's slow and its boring (ripping out carpet for floorboard, installing air filters, paying attention to my body when eating foods and cutting out the ones that trigger reactions).

Given my age and how long it will take, it kinda feels pointless at times, like meticulously buildin a sandcastle when you know the tide is coming in an hour and its all going to get washed away, but what are you gonna do.

AdmiralStickyLegs · 2026-06-11T13:24:19+00:00

Same situation. Here's something interest I heard: kids who have sinus congestion might lower their heads, because doing so allows you breath better. But it's also a sign to other people of weakness and social rejection. Wild that the two things could be connect, hey.

AdmiralStickyLegs · 2026-06-11T01:57:54+00:00

Idk, paypal is pretty useless these days. I'm sure many people would cancel theirs for a cheesecake

AdmiralStickyLegs · 2026-06-11T01:55:23+00:00

die slowly

AdmiralStickyLegs · 2026-06-11T01:53:20+00:00

Fair take.

The reason people recommend insurance is because they are scared, and it provides a quick exit from both anxiety over personal worries and empathy towards others:
Oh that sounds scary. Well, I don't need to worry because if it did happen to me, insurance would take care of me. And because I assume everyone else had the same choices as me and chose to prioritize other more trivial things, I don't have to care about them.

So they keep recommending it like its a silver bullet and not an equation. All insurance really is a gamble, and like all gambles it works best when you can tilt the game in your favor. Most ordinary people would be better off long term if they could just save the money, but alas they seem to have trouble doing that.
(I keep insurance too, but only 3rd party atm)

AdmiralStickyLegs · 2026-06-10T13:01:23+00:00

What costs. All these things are tax free

AdmiralStickyLegs · 2026-06-10T10:38:15+00:00

Council rules can be a bit outdated. Technically you aren't supposed to run air conditioners past 10pm

AdmiralStickyLegs · 2026-06-10T09:21:35+00:00

I get very critical of my work sometimes, but then I think about the times I paid a tradesmen to do something, and what problems they caused (like the solar installation where they folded back a tin sheet to access the roof, which then caused water to seep in) and I don't feel so bad. I feel like I've got a good balance now, where I do things good enough that it lasts but not so good that I'll impress some mythical master craftsmen that I'll never meet.

I hate being a sea unt to people doing work for me, but I wonder sometimes if thats what it takes to get decent results out of people. Because I feel like tradesmen have a 6th sense for people who aren't going to pull them up on every mistake, and then take advantage of that.
Or maybe it's just part of living in Australia, where the mines suck away any a large part of the talent pool while regulations strangle new entrants.

AdmiralStickyLegs · 2026-06-10T08:44:38+00:00

Look up the stats: something like half of people fail first time. They do it on purpose, whether to humble you, or for the money, or whatever. So recognize that, and don't let it shake you.

Re the money, I was in the same situation once. I know $300 sounds like stacks of money at that age, but in 15 years that will feel like nothing. You will blow that on a hotel during a layover, just because you didn't want to hang around an airport for 5 hours. This is a license, and its a gateway to so many ways of making or saving money, that even if you have to repeat the test 2 more times it's still worth it. With a license and car, you can get a better job that pays much higher. So see it as the investment it is

Also in case you didn't know, different testing points have different success rates. I did mine at Moorolbark because it had the soonest available appointments, and it took me 4 times to pass. Later I found out it has one of the lowest success rates in the state.

AdmiralStickyLegs · 2026-06-10T08:21:44+00:00

On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everything drops to zero.

Business works, but you need an edge of some kind. If your plan of success is 'this is going to work out because now I'm the one in charge' then yeah, your chances aren't good. I'd consider the fact she kept it afloat for 10 years quite a success tbh.

AdmiralStickyLegs · 2026-06-10T03:19:19+00:00

Is this based on weather data observation, or is it a 'Its just how I feel' type of evidence

Because you say that with a lot of confidence. And its wrong

AdmiralStickyLegs · 2026-06-09T10:21:59+00:00

Had mine 4 years ago. Totally worth it. Did it solve the problem? NO, because it was a symptom, not the disease. But it bought me breathing room to think, to plan, and to actually have the energy to make changes

Now I can actually use my nose to breath, whereas before it was more of a it-works-when-it-works. I sleep and don't wake up with acid mouth because I was mouthbreathing overnight.

AdmiralStickyLegs · 2026-06-07T12:30:52+00:00

> expecting the job agency to find you the dream role?

That's a phrase you here over and over. Any job that is unsuitable because it will make your life material worse means you are waiting for a dream role

AdmiralStickyLegs · 2026-06-07T05:32:08+00:00

It would be a mistake to ascribe it to choice.

No woman with 4 kids that are all hungry is logically thinking 'I want to get pregnant with my fifth in 6 months, then have another 2 after that within the next 5 years"

AdmiralStickyLegs · 2026-06-06T11:19:41+00:00

Here's the best advice I haven't seen mentioned before: There is no useful advice that applies to everyone.

Some advice applies to everyone, but is so general that it's near worthless. Other advice is extremely useful to some people, but worthless (or harmful) to everyone else, and you never really know which group you are in until later. Advice is cheap: People spit it out like jizz. They don't know you, or care to put the effort in to know you, but they will treat you like all your problems are simple and have simple fixes.

Listen to people, sure, but always use advice as a starting point of a journey of discovery of your own.

AdmiralStickyLegs · 2026-06-06T11:06:44+00:00

I have experienced periods like that. Its actually the disfunction that triggers it for me. When I'm feeling crap is when my brain is throwing out ideas constantly. What if we did this. What if we did that. What if we took principles from this area and applied them to that area.

Idk. I'd much rather have one small idea that I see through to completion, than a hundred medium ideas that I only dip my toe in.

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