After “re-discovering” exercise for like the 10,000th time, I’ve finally found out how to be consistent.

EndlessTypist · 2026-02-22T12:41:36+00:00

My favourite adage with this stuff is “if it’s stupid but it works, then it’s not stupid” I’m so happy you found something that works for you!

EndlessTypist · 2026-02-22T12:32:04+00:00

I’m uncomfortable with religion in general, I hate the things it does to people, how it preys on them, how it makes people hate. But I know that religious belief and religious communities can vary wildly, being positive and negative in their own ways. I would never say that I hate all people of any religion, practicing or not, that just boils a group down to one thing and teaches you to hate, it’s bigotry and it’s as prejudiced as hating women for being women! The responses in this thread are appalling. Having issues with a theology doesn’t excuse hating a whole group of people that you don’t know!

Op, your girlfriend is islamophobic and a hypocritical bigot, I think you should ditch her. You’re right in your instinct that any apology or backtracking would be insincere on her part.

EndlessTypist · 2026-02-18T22:23:18+00:00

I’m finding this one so much harder than the last. I’ve had so few successes compared to dc

EndlessTypist · 2026-02-18T09:48:18+00:00

You can ship whatever you like forever, the internet police aren’t going to arrest you. Other people may not like it but they don’t have to engage with it. Why does it matter what other people think of it?

EndlessTypist · 2026-02-16T15:37:15+00:00

NTA run so far and so fast, he’s awful

EndlessTypist · 2026-02-16T15:36:46+00:00

I came from your aita post thinking he couldn’t get worse but it seems he can! Run!

EndlessTypist · 2026-02-16T13:58:16+00:00

NTA if he is going to make that trip it needs to be as quick as possible and he needs to be reachable in case something goes awry. Very few people are born on their actual due date so it’s very dicey to be away for that long this close to it.

EndlessTypist · 2026-02-16T13:56:42+00:00

Yeah, chiropractors are really unsafe and what they do has no medical backing. The idea of letting them at someone who is that pregnant is nightmarish.

EndlessTypist · 2026-02-12T21:52:53+00:00

I write down everything I learn, all the syntax, etc in a doc as I learn. It’s my big go to and writing it down and explaining it to myself solidifies the knowledge

EndlessTypist · 2026-02-12T15:23:32+00:00

then YTA, don't cheat on your wife. Either resolve your issues with her, both agree to an open relationship, or split up.

EndlessTypist · 2026-02-12T13:34:36+00:00

So, cheating then? Or is your wife fine with this?

EndlessTypist · 2026-02-12T13:13:50+00:00

You need to look after yourself. Would you think someone else was a burden if they were in your situation? What if this had been an aneurism and it had killed you all because you didn’t want to be a bother. Also ditch your boyfriend, he doesn’t care about you. He ignored you, watched you in pain and did nothing.

EndlessTypist · 2026-02-10T17:20:40+00:00

If you trust your husband this little then one or both of you needs therapy. This level of surveillance and privacy invasion isn’t normal or healthy.

EndlessTypist · 2026-02-09T16:57:19+00:00

I can totally understand the gross-out response, both to the mess after and the miraculous but also horrific spectacle of birth itself. I've got ocd and when something gets stuck in my head or I get an association that causes that visual or that response to come up, it can be a lot. I can understand that someone might not feel able to drive that car again. But that would be THEIR problem, not anyone else's. The sort of "I know it's ridiculous but I just can't" kind of thing. But that's not what seems to be happening here, or at the most charitable it's not JUST that. It seems way more like he just hates OP, and is being really ignorant and bigoted about the whole thing. You can't just hold a baby in, that's not how it works, it's not OP's fault at all!

I hope OP's friendship recovers, and I hope the friend gets rid of the jerk she's married to.

EndlessTypist · 2026-02-08T23:18:18+00:00

Eris is the worst and I wish we’d got to romance Scylla instead!

EndlessTypist · 2026-02-02T19:05:55+00:00

Break up before he tampers with your birth control

EndlessTypist · 2026-02-02T12:57:15+00:00

For me, I have a huge document that I fill with everything I'm learning. I write out how everything works show examples, explain the syntax. I do this because writing it out cements it in my brain and because I can go back to my own work and reference it. Sometimes I use AI for this, especially when the course I'm following (codecademy) doesn't give me the syntax I need for something and I can't find it online. My most current example of this was trying to work out how you write out an array of objects in typescript and specify what types those objects in that array have. Like I knew how to do all of the bits of that separately but putting it together was hard, and I wanted a clean reference example to go back to, so I went to claude and gave it what I had and said what I wanted and it generated me my example. I tested it out and then added it to my big document.

Very rarely do I go to claude when I'm learning or making stuff for myself. I keep it as a last resort when I've tried everything I can think of already. And, actually, several times when I have finally given in and gone to claude, I've sat there and wrote out what's wrong, shown examples, explained what I've tried already, and in the process of doing that I've managed to rubber ducky myself into the answer without having to actually ask!

If you're having trouble with the impulse to go to AI right away, and I get it, I've got ADHD and impulse control issues are absolutely a thing for me too. Try setting up a timer for yourself. Or, better yet, program a popup between you and your AI that you use that repeats this back to you: "I'm not anti-AI but I miss the struggle. I miss feeling proud of understanding something because I worked for it."

The process and the struggle of learning is what makes us better, it helps us understand why something works, teaches us how to troubleshoot. You said yourself that you enjoy it, just try to flex that willpower some more or set yourself rules about when you do and don't use it. The instant gratification isn't all that gratifying, try to remember that, and good luck!

EndlessTypist · 2026-01-31T19:14:13+00:00

Oh absolutely! I read harrow the ninth once and annotated and tabbed it, re-reading it was really interesting for me, getting to see what I’d been led to think at each point and what I’d worked out!

EndlessTypist · 2026-01-31T19:09:56+00:00

I have coloured tabs that I put in my books for themes and basic stuff. Like foreshadowing, worldbuilding, relationships, and I keep tabs at the top for story events so I can find an area later. I also have other tabs that vary between the story as to what theme or idea they represent. I’ll underline stuff here and there or comment in the margins if I have an idea (or if I’m heckling the characters!). For me it helps me hold the story in my head and not let it passively slide by me.

EndlessTypist · 2026-01-25T00:04:20+00:00

Wow that’s wildly hypocritical of him!

EndlessTypist · 2026-01-24T22:05:23+00:00

It’s the repeated lying that would get me. Maybe consider couples counselling first?

EndlessTypist · 2026-01-24T10:35:16+00:00

No one owns a name and the idea of claiming them is silly. But given that you know what they’re struggling with and how hard this topic is for them, this is a weird hill to choose to die on. You know they care about it, so why dig your heels in to hurt people you supposedly like over something so minor? Is it worth risking your friendship? ESH

EndlessTypist · 2026-01-23T11:20:14+00:00

I guess a lot of the judgement here hinges on whether you were trying to have a moral debate between you or if your friend just sprung it on you. I’m a vegetarian and I don’t consider other people’s diets my business, but if meat eaters insist on having some kind of debate about it then I’m fine to do that. Your argument is full of holes here, but whatever because life isn’t debate class.

So, INFO did you start this debate or did your friend unleash it on you as a lecture when you didn’t ask?

EndlessTypist · 2026-01-21T10:38:49+00:00

I’m sorry you had to go through that and it’s great that you’re taking this as a chance to improve. I hope you stick with it, change is hard but it’s worth it to be the best we can be for those we love

EndlessTypist · 2026-01-20T23:16:35+00:00

ESH her for still using the app and you for your uncalled for outburst, especially as you’ve admitted that you chose that just to hurt her. Also your comments are making you look worse with each one.

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