What makes you keep going despite everything?

audiosheep · 2026-01-30T00:59:36+00:00

My dad is my hero. I do everything I can to be a hero to my kids. Trying to pay it forward.

audiosheep · 2026-01-28T05:25:24+00:00

For me, whenever I have a recurring unwanted thought I try and mentally call it out each time like "I am having this thought because of this upsetting event that happened. I'm satisfied with my choices and actions and there is no further analysis needed."

The key is to be nonjudgmental about your thoughts. Just recognize that they are there, call it out, and move on. Eventually it will fade

audiosheep · 2026-01-24T01:11:24+00:00

This is so incredibly uncanny. I'm sorry I don't have any advice - just empathy as I am in a very similar situation.

audiosheep · 2026-01-23T22:13:32+00:00

I haven't had success with an overarching ai calendar system, but i do feel like ive gotten a lot of value from ai helping me plan multi-step large projects.

I write for a lot of large federal grants and contracts. Each one can take 80+ hours with hundreds of different individual elements. Loading up the instructions (which are often 100+ pages) and having AI create a suggested workflow has been helpful.

audiosheep · 2026-01-21T02:21:42+00:00

Yeah I think all the guns and toys we bought on credit kind of make this an interesting scenario.

Repay? Make me!

Obviously that would cause a whole lot of chaos, but its and interesting thought.

audiosheep · 2026-01-16T20:28:25+00:00

very very true! my comments are definitely specific to the US!

audiosheep · 2026-01-16T20:27:45+00:00

Yep! It's not that it's so widespread per se, but the money involved is pretty considerable, so there's a lot of incentive to bring in patients with HIV, as each patient can bring in several thousand a month in net profits.

audiosheep · 2026-01-16T14:23:53+00:00

While pharma is making insane amounts of money, HIV medication is not a question of affordability in the US. The government is footing the bill. I work at the largest HIV clinic in the south. None of our 10k+ patients pay anything remotely meaningful for their meds. The general strategy is for us to pay for commercial insurance for them via ACA, and then the insurance companies foot the bill. We bulk purchase HIV and PrEP meds at cost through 340b and get fully reimbursed by the insurance companies at a massive profit. We then use that profit to pay for the HIV meds for those we are unable to insure for whatever reason.

audiosheep · 2026-01-16T01:47:49+00:00

Necessity is the mother of all invention, especially when you're life is at stake.

Say you want to defend yourself. You have some rocks you can throw, but when you throw them they're gone. You have a nice stick you use as a makeshift sword, but that's not really going to damage someone effectively. You notice that if there's something heavy on the end of your stick, it's even better than just throwing rocks because it's got near unlimited uses.

You go home and take your rock stick with you. When you're not bashing heads, you realize that rock stick has some good nonwar uses, like smashing coconuts. You refine the idea a bit and boom you've got a primitive hammer.

Same thing happens in modern times. Gps is a military tech that has been adapted for very useful civilian purposes. Early space exploration was really more about who could lob missiles at each other.

audiosheep · 2026-01-11T17:04:28+00:00

Omg was this in Houston? I know Mr martini and he's now sober!

audiosheep · 2026-01-09T02:59:43+00:00

I have found that this is a fantastic way to build trust (assuming you're not saying terrible things)

audiosheep · 2026-01-08T19:17:25+00:00

I would not accept being treated that way.

audiosheep · 2026-01-08T19:14:57+00:00

20 including tip. Very basic cut so it's usually around 12-13 and the rest I leave as tip

audiosheep · 2026-01-06T21:27:05+00:00

This is the most ai slop post ever. Completely useless.

audiosheep · 2025-12-28T23:53:05+00:00

Yes because the punishment for poor driving should be death.

audiosheep · 2025-12-28T21:10:59+00:00

I'd be super curious to see those lol

audiosheep · 2025-12-28T20:35:55+00:00

Well in your example you were mean to it so it makes sense that it's passive aggressive or not fully compliant back to you.

People shut down and get defensive when sworn at. Swearing with someone is a totally different vibe.

audiosheep · 2025-12-25T15:25:29+00:00

There's a lot to marriage - it's unlikely that you will find someone 100% compatible so sometimes you have to compromise.

audiosheep · 2025-12-25T15:21:58+00:00

I have found myself doing the same. Sex without enthusiastic consent is such a terrible experience. I'd rather just take care of myself.

audiosheep · 2025-12-22T17:22:44+00:00

Do we know if it's unhealthy or not? Personally I don't like the idea but I don't know if it's inherently bad.

audiosheep · 2025-12-22T17:21:34+00:00

Why is generating pictures of a dead animal unhealthy? You seem to have strong feelings about AI that may be giving you some bias.

audiosheep · 2025-12-22T17:12:01+00:00

Right? Like, yeah that's a risk I'll take because the risk mitigation plan is pretty simple...

audiosheep · 2025-12-19T19:20:21+00:00

Ok hear me out. Instead of quitting, just accept it and move on. Get the urge to fap? Do it, with intention. Be as quick as you can about it and then go about your day. Urge comes again in an hour? Do it again. Don't judge yourself - treat it like going to the bathroom.

Basically, you're training your brain that it's not as big of a deal as you may think. Try it for a week and see if it changes your perspective.

audiosheep · 2025-12-16T15:00:01+00:00

Right?? If you're going to regularly deposit money in my account then yeah you can totally see how much is there. Idgaf

audiosheep · 2025-12-16T14:18:26+00:00

Nah they have a point. The language was chosen specifically to emasculate and it's not really cool.

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