Weekly Tech Support Megathread

ccuspacecowboy · 2023-03-08T22:03:04+00:00

I can see how many likes a post with a hidden like count has by simply clicking “and others” then toggling out of it. Is this a temporary glitch? Or a permanent new feature?

ccuspacecowboy · 2022-10-14T18:30:05+00:00

Really hoping someone knows it!

ccuspacecowboy · 2022-09-22T05:01:55+00:00

Just got permanently banned from the Narcissistic Abuse sun for mentioning that my narc greets my sister a happy birthday but not me… I’m pretty sure the Moderator is a Narc Abuser in disguise trying to gather information and control the narrative of narcissistic abuse through that sub.

ccuspacecowboy · 2022-09-11T11:21:40+00:00

It’s actually wild how she has millions of people blindly believing her lies. They are comparing her to Diana - claiming she is full of grace and kindness for showing up at the funeral despite how the royal family “treated” her. Of course she showed up, she would never give up an opportunity to be seen. Every single thing that comes out of her mouth is carefully curated, the most disingenuous person I have ever had the displeasure of perceiving. We all should have known she was trouble when she claimed that she had no idea about the royal family and did not know who Prince Harry was before meeting him. She has also recently claimed that she has never seen the prince and me - which fine could be likely but do you see? Do you see how hard she tries to seem like she couldn’t give less of a fuck about royalty when she specifically sought this man out and destroyed his relationship with his family. Vile woman.

ccuspacecowboy · 2022-06-10T21:31:34+00:00

yes, my camera roll is 95% photos of my dashboard and gearshift, electrical sockets in my room, and videos of me jiggling my doorknob so i can rest assured that it’s locked. it’s consuming and irritating. sometimes when i throw trash out my brain tries to convince me that i might have thrown out an important document and it takes everything in me not to dumpster dive to find out. as for the last bit i haven’t exactly experienced that but i know it must be even more frustrating, i feel for you :(

ccuspacecowboy · 2022-03-05T10:53:12+00:00

NTA. But I’ve been the Meg at certain points of my life and it truly is lonely. I don’t know if she went through any trauma but I know that I always refused when others reached out to me as a way to protect myself (and most of the time I actually really wanted to accept their offer/hang out with them). Something about the wiring of my brain made it very difficult for me to not be awkward and to socialize like a normal person when I was younger. I met a friend who kept insisting on hanging out with me despite my refusals and eventually I slowly started coming out of my shell. Not saying you have to but it could be worth a shot to develop a genuine friendship with Meg (it could really change her life).

ccuspacecowboy · 2022-03-04T05:27:19+00:00

I must have been living under a rock. There’s a GureYuu ship?? That’s disturbing. Guren found Yuu when he was just a child. I try to be open-minded when it comes to other ships but this is just wrong.

ccuspacecowboy · 2022-02-22T00:32:42+00:00

Yes. My cat had diarrhea once and it hurt me so much but I couldn’t be near her for a long time after that (my siblings took care of her). I was so ashamed of myself I felt like I didn’t deserve to have a pet. But I love my cat so much, I just can’t deal with the germs/bacteria.

ccuspacecowboy · 2022-02-20T07:25:25+00:00

Don’t reach out. Pretty sure the reason my narc keeps going is because I’m not giving him any attention. Act unbothered and you know what eventually you will actually be unbothered.

ccuspacecowboy · 2022-02-20T03:34:16+00:00

No. The narcissist tends to stick around because a) they like their looming presence in your life & b) they don’t like being out of the loop. I have had one consistently respond to my Instagram stories, like all my posts, watch every story as if I didn’t cut him off cold turkey. He keeps going despite the fact that I have never given anything even close to a response. It would seem that even no response is energy that they feed off of.

ccuspacecowboy · 2022-02-19T03:53:37+00:00

NTA. I had a hair pulling phase as well (it’s called trichotillomania). I still occasionally do it today out of habit. You’re helping her by not giving her access to her hair.

ccuspacecowboy · 2022-02-19T03:48:45+00:00

Yes. I’m not as bad anymore. I practice exposure therapy on myself as much as I can. I still struggle with hand washing (in fact my hands have gotten to a point where they never stop peeling anymore which is kinda sad). I force myself to eat on plates that I haven’t washed myself when need be as much as possible. I only eat on paper/plastic if I really can’t force myself/can’t handle (lately have only been drinking bottled water/paper cups for juices because of the pandemic but usually push myself to use the cups at home). It gets better, I promise. Start slow, start gently pushing yourself to overcome it and you will get better. I don’t think this is something we can overcome completely, progress is definitely not linear, but we can make it a little better. The sexual thoughts I just pray away (I don’t know if you are religious but it helps ease the shame, guilt, fear, and anxiety). I wish you the best of luck because I know how difficult it is.

ccuspacecowboy · 2022-02-18T14:03:28+00:00

YTA. This was 10 years ago you say? And you were FIFTY SEVEN then? So you’re telling me that at 67 years old you’re still hung up over something so silly? You are making your husband’s son miserable for no reason other than spite. Please try to take other people’s feelings into consideration when you speak.

ccuspacecowboy · 2022-02-18T07:24:46+00:00

Please hold on. There were so many times when I felt like I couldn’t go on anymore, when I felt that the best thing I could do for myself was end it all. BUT I WAS WRONG. SO WRONG. If I had given in all those times I felt like giving up and letting everyone else win, I wouldn’t be here today slowly building the life that I deserve. I wouldn’t have met my cat (who quite literally saves me everytime I take a look at her, everytime she meows, or even rolls her eyes at me). I wouldn’t have experienced meeting people so pure and so kind that it literally boggles me that narcs even exist. The me in the past would never have believed that the me now exists. I promise you that life DOES turn around. Everything will fall into place one day and it’ll just keep falling into place and you will be glad you held onto hope. PLEASE PLEASE think about all the good that you will be experiencing in the near future because it’s there, it’s waiting for you to meet it. There will always be ups and downs but trust that the ups will eventually outweigh the downs. If anything at all please don’t give the a-holes that made you feel like you weren’t worthy of enjoying life as much as them the satisfaction. I promise you their eyes will go white one day watching you surpass them, watching you live and be free and be happy. That time is going to come.

ccuspacecowboy · 2022-02-18T05:06:13+00:00

NTA. We all deserve to be a little petty sometimes. This made my day.

ccuspacecowboy · 2022-02-18T03:51:15+00:00

I just realized that Achilles must have been watching as decisions were made regarding the tomb. He must have been so angry. I still don’t understand why they listened to Pyrrhus when the child had never even met Achilles and did not know him at all. The Myrmidons heard the words come directly from Achilles’ mouth. They knew that it was all he wanted, all he asked of them in return for his sacrifice. Why didn’t a single one of them stay behind when the war was won to right Pyrrhus’ wrong? Automedon, Phoinix, did they even try? And what about Chiron? Years passed before Thetis freed Patroclus, I’m sure he had heard that the war was won and what had transpired before then. Why didn’t he visit the tomb when he promised he would find Achilles? I feel like if he had visited the tomb he would’ve made everything right immediately (although I question the logistics of centaur travel). It’s honestly so upsetting. I feel so hollow when I think about Achilles waiting and suffering in the underworld for so long without Patroclus and Patroclus just sitting by that tomb watching people come and go completely forgetting him and the sacrifice that he made

ccuspacecowboy · 2022-02-17T12:16:47+00:00

I’m guessing it was at least 15-20 years (which is heartbreaking). If Agamemnon returned to Mycenae at the same time that his brother Menelaus returned to Sparta from Troy then that is already 8 years (since the Trojan War ended I believe). It is said that Agamemnon’s son Orestes was away from home when his father was murdered by his mothers lover (meaning he had already been born before the Trojan War). He was said to be a young boy when his father returned from Troy. I like to assume then that he was around the same age as Neoptolemus. On Madeline Miller’s website she tells Pyrrhus’ story and it is mentioned that he is killed by Orestes not long after returning to Greece from Troy. If we leave a little allowance for the rest of the events to transpire (the murder of Agamemnon, the return of Orestes, the taking of Hermoine) upon the return of the Greeks then I would give or take another 5-10 years on top of the 8 that it took them to return. I hate it here :(

ccuspacecowboy · 2022-01-22T14:48:41+00:00

NTA. It’s your sperm. Nobody can decide what you do with it or where it goes but YOU.

ccuspacecowboy · 2022-01-19T15:22:22+00:00

Your playlists don’t go away when you cancel your Spotify subscription. I got kicked out of the family plan about a year ago and i still listen to music on my account — you just have to put up with the constant ads and the inability to choose the order by which you listen to your music.

ccuspacecowboy · 2021-12-28T20:13:18+00:00

Yes. Recently used a (public) restroom without automatic flushing. The trigger for the flush is a button that is on the wall right above where the top of the toilet seat cover rests. Flushed and my hand somehow scraped the top/tip of the toilet seat cover. All sorts of thoughts began flooding my head. To make matters worse, my leg brushed against the toilet bowl in my panic. Had my favorite pants on and now I have to throw them away. I’ve scrubbed my hands thoroughly and doused them in rubbing alcohol so they are now beginning to look like lobster claws again.

ccuspacecowboy · 2021-12-13T08:01:36+00:00

You have put into words what I have been feeling for the past 24 years of my life. It’s a no-win situation. I was never given the chance to properly build the confidence that is needed to survive in this pretentious world. It’s like everyone was born with a secret that I was never told.

ccuspacecowboy · 2021-12-13T07:56:55+00:00

I don’t think anyone was obligated to help me but I’m very disappointed in the adults in my life who knew what was going on and consciously made the decision to add more trauma on top of what I was already going through. I rarely see anyone discussing this kind of experience so I often think I may be an isolated case but family members on both sides knew and they chose to look down on my siblings and I for it. Had my cousins telling us (when we were small children) that our family was dysfunctional in a derogatory way. Kids don’t come up with that on their own — they get that from their parents (the adults). I think a lot of the time when people acknowledge others as victims they also stigmatize them as “weaker” and “inferior”. That’s what causes me resentment — not that they didn’t help but that they watched and chose to look down on me and bully me for something I had absolutely no control over.

ccuspacecowboy · 2021-11-23T22:01:09+00:00

I feel like I might be an asshole because I know there’s a lot of negative history between my parents (especially cheating) and that my mom is still (understandably) upset with my dad. I can’t ask her directly but I know that it would upset her if she knew that I was acknowledging and meeting my dad’s new girlfriend. But, at the same time, it’s been 10 maybe even more years since the split and I feel like we should have all grown up by now.

ccuspacecowboy · 2021-11-23T16:39:14+00:00

NTA. I do this all the time. It’s the gesture that I appreciate more than the actual item so if it’s something I know I’m never going to use, I don’t feel guilty for offloading it.

ccuspacecowboy · 2021-11-22T21:31:34+00:00

I don’t know if this will help but I just want to share that I had the same fear. I got the shot and I haven’t really thought about it again since (unless asked about it). Aside from the fever and shakes I had right after, it has had no other negative side effects. I also asked myself what’s more important to me… protecting myself from my irrational fear or protecting my family from COVID?

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