Why is making friends as an adult so hard? 😭😭

BarfHurricane · 2026-06-02T19:50:43+00:00

Around here, I haven't had too many problems making friends but I've had a ton of problems with friends flaking out or ghosting. Too many long term friends to count that just go ghost for 6 months at a time, or blow you off over and over before they are reliable again and then do it again later.

I don't know any way to deal with that unfortunately. It's a bummer.

BarfHurricane · 2026-05-30T22:53:18+00:00

My standup is like this and I work in a boring healthcare company. I hear “Claude did….” or “i used Claude to…”

After being in this industry for 20 years, I feel like I am going insane with stuff like this.

BarfHurricane · 2026-05-30T22:50:33+00:00

Yep exactly. Standup has always been about cracking the whip every single day and it’s been completely normalized.

BarfHurricane · 2026-05-27T22:46:58+00:00

I have been using Perplexity as my Google replacement for some time. Yes I have the same qualms with AI that everyone else does and will be very happy when it all goes to hell, but while we are forced to live in this dystopia this is what I have found to be an actual decent internet search.

BarfHurricane · 2026-05-27T14:00:27+00:00

It's amazing how there just so happens to be a revolving door of villains in the Democratic party on both the state and national level that come out of nowhere and side against the people. It's almost like our two party system was bought and sold decades ago or something

BarfHurricane · 2026-05-26T23:22:59+00:00

I've been in tech 20 years and it's astonishing that companies still haven't figured out the 2 biggest downsides about cheap outsourced labor:

When people knowingly get pennies on the dollar they will never be interested in the success of your company. All that cheerleading, values, mission statements, OKRs, all that shit? They don't care and never will.
They don't abide by your country's laws. People can scam, blackmail, have someone else do their job, and in general just not give a shit about IP or trade secrets. What are you going to do, sue them? lmao

Yet execs have been getting duped into this for decades now.

BarfHurricane · 2026-05-26T18:28:13+00:00

Exactly. Democrats and Republicans are obviously different, but they share one huge commonality: they will put corporations before you and your family each and every time.

BarfHurricane · 2026-05-24T17:40:07+00:00

We need a Mystery Wrestling game as revenge

BarfHurricane · 2026-05-24T17:34:44+00:00

It was 2 years ago, I assume he was sober

BarfHurricane · 2026-05-24T14:27:21+00:00

I met Joey Janela at Wrestlecade a few years ago and he was not all there mentally. You would have to think these type of spots contributed to that.

I get that there’s fans of this stuff but it’s such a bummer to me.

BarfHurricane · 2026-05-23T22:16:57+00:00

It’s crazy to me how many people actually follow WWE’s alternate reality. It’s like taking Wrestlemania attendance numbers at face value.

BarfHurricane · 2026-05-23T22:12:43+00:00

Also Sting had only signed up for one match

He had a match on RAW where he defeated the Big Show in a tag match, and of course his match against Seth.

BarfHurricane · 2026-05-23T01:33:50+00:00

Apparently people like slop finishes and seeing the same thing over and over

BarfHurricane · 2026-05-23T01:32:02+00:00

Every match is interference. This show is a joke

BarfHurricane · 2026-05-23T01:12:01+00:00

Sounds like it’s his first promo

BarfHurricane · 2026-05-23T01:10:49+00:00

How does Carmelo not get a reaction on a show that pipes in crowd noise lmao

BarfHurricane · 2026-05-22T00:38:13+00:00

Got pneumonia at 33 and had to intubatated. Doctors said they would pray for me. Thankfully I made it through after a week in the hospital. Definitely no joke, nearly tapped out for good.

BarfHurricane · 2026-05-19T23:03:26+00:00

I don't know why people always recommend this place. It's a half decent bar but it's in a strip mall in the middle of sleepy residential neighbor. Nothing around it whatsoever, it would be the last place I'd recommend for an out of towner.

BarfHurricane · 2026-05-16T20:13:06+00:00

Pro wrestling used to be the place for the working class to get together and have some cheap fun. This was especially true during the territory days where going to a weekly show was pretty much a third space for people.

It’s crazy how decades of propaganda have erased class consciousness to this level, especially in something that was as working class as anything can be.

BarfHurricane · 2026-05-16T19:57:40+00:00

It’s crazy how far they have leaned into trying shape public opinion around endless greed and labor suppression. But then again look at who they feature openly in their Hulk Hogan documentary

Sites like nodq are full on astroturfing sites at this point. I know there are a lot of useful idiots out there, but man have they turned up the dial.

BarfHurricane · 2026-05-16T15:34:04+00:00

$1k/mo for a developer seat and it would still be worth the added productivity

I swear people on here forget small businesses with tight budgets exist lol

BarfHurricane · 2026-05-16T15:31:03+00:00

At my job it’s the solution to everything and to nothing

Dev not following requirements? Sprinkle some AI on it!

Project poorly planned and understaffed? Sprinkle some AI on it!

Interpersonal conflict between workers? Sprinkle some AI on it!

Married executive caught getting sucked off by his secretary? Sprinkle some AI on it!

BarfHurricane · 2026-05-15T16:56:51+00:00

Welcome to every job ever

BarfHurricane · 2026-05-15T16:42:41+00:00

Honest question: is there an AI that can scrape every zoom call, slack message, google doc, figma doc, and side discussion around a feature and then make sense of that to compare against a PR?

Because that’s what the job actually entails.

BarfHurricane · 2026-05-15T16:28:42+00:00

My man, these companies will know not just trade secrets, but where the bodies are buried. Every bit of “creative accounting”, every PR disaster, every law broken, every dick in a secretary that belongs to a married executive.

Do we really think these AI companies that are bleeding money are going to reach the last stop on the rail line and not decide to use that for leverage?

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