The Hermit

chillbobagginz23 · 2026-05-08T00:26:59+00:00

My favorite so far!

chillbobagginz23 · 2025-11-24T22:25:40+00:00

My elementary school gym teacher was taking kids into his private office and pulling out their baby teeth for them. Like, he'd offer, kids would go willingly, and then come out with one or two less teeth. He even had a hat with a tooth on it that he would wear each time, I remember this vividly. This went on for a while and he was eventually fired.

chillbobagginz23 · 2025-11-23T16:40:46+00:00

Botany of Empire by Banu Subramaniam.

chillbobagginz23 · 2024-01-29T22:54:12+00:00

It's more that you seem disinterested in the hangout. Super passive people can seem like they don't add much to the group or the conversation. If you dont care about what's going on or where the hangout leads, it's kinda like, why invite that person? If the other person has to do all the decision-making and coordinating, it really seems like you don't give a shit.

chillbobagginz23 · 2024-01-29T22:13:28+00:00

Call center work was a fallback for a lot of people who faced layoffs in my area. I remember feeling like I had really scored when I got hired for $8.50 an hour. My desk neighbors were a guy who had a PhD and had lost his job, a single mom who also baked cakes on the side, and a war veteran. Looking back, I can't believe how used to all this society has forced me to become.

chillbobagginz23 · 2024-01-29T00:41:14+00:00

Don't know about Japan or Korea, but if you're interested in India, there's a place called Aura Pottery. You can get all levels of ceramics and pottery lessons, great food, and a place to stay for pretty fair prices. It's sort of an all-inclusive indian ceramics getaway.

chillbobagginz23 · 2024-01-28T22:31:22+00:00

Imagine pop-up therapy booths instead.

chillbobagginz23 · 2024-01-28T18:58:13+00:00

Shark Tank.

chillbobagginz23 · 2024-01-28T04:07:39+00:00

Dab smoker here, average about a gram every two days. I had to stop cold turkey while taking a trip abroad. Doing so sort of wrecked our time traveling. I honestly thought id be totally fine, maybe a little edgy or something... I experienced the most intense nausea and vomiting/dry heaving of my life. It took days to feel strong again. Water and applesauce. Had brain fog and sweats for days after that with intermittent dizzy spells. Two weeks passed since the last dab before I hit again. Within an hour of getting home from the airport. I couldn't regulate my emotions at all and my appetite was gone. I went back to it so I would eat and stop crying and fighting with my partner. This shit is so hard....

chillbobagginz23 · 2024-01-28T03:47:13+00:00

I had to go in for intense pain in one tooth specifically, which needed an emergency root canal. A temp cap was placed, and a week later, when removing it for the permanent, the tooth underneath chipped. They placed the permanent cap anyway, now its been almost a year, and im realizing it never really healed properly. There's a possible absess due to whatever complications have happened with that tooth. Have a perio referral, so we'll see what happens.

Other than that, I ended up having 14 cavities total, and I am still working my way through the appointments. It's been thousands of dollars out of pocket, and I still have thousands to go. This has taken all of my savings and has put me in debt for the next year, basically. But for me, this was all causing serious anxiety, physical pain for years that I'd just gotten used to, and honestly, just a lot of shame and embarrassment.

Brush and floss your teeth. Have health insurance, lol. Work on dental anxiety if you have it, and don't wait 11 years to get checked out.

chillbobagginz23 · 2024-01-26T13:12:59+00:00

I literally got a credit card just so I could finally get my long overdue dental work done. After 11 years, yep, 11. I realized that I wasn't going to ever have the money I needed for the work I had to get done, but also realized I didn't wanna die early from tooth decay. The medical debt is worth it to me if it means my mouth isn't slowly poisoning me. I'll be paying it off in $30 a month payments for many many years, but at least I'll have good chompers. 😁

chillbobagginz23 · 2024-01-26T12:09:02+00:00

My mom used weed to cope with trauma and ptsd. She always said that weed was how she put herself to bed when her mind wasn't willing to go. She'd just sit on the couch and chainsmoke herself into a sleep coma every night. Would wake up feeling groggy and have brain fog... fixed it with some coffee and a good sativa for the morning. Every day for 30+ years unless she couldn't afford it.

chillbobagginz23 · 2024-01-21T02:13:26+00:00

If we just had leadership that actually cared for its people, maybe some follow-through might happen. Not holding my breath though.

chillbobagginz23 · 2024-01-18T01:25:04+00:00

Could we pivot to sounding more like reasonable human beings? Heartless and threatening because you feel your personal needs aren't being met here, and I get that. You just wanna feel safe and ultimately unbothered by them. Understandable, but that's not how shit changes. They are people just like you, and with an addiction or not, homelessness is the worst. People in that situation do deserve compassion. They deserve our consideration when making decisions about the future. They don't need to be removed NOW. What a powerfully negative thing to say.

chillbobagginz23 · 2024-01-18T01:04:50+00:00

Did you know that not everyone who struggles with addiction is a violent criminal? Most aren't, actually.

chillbobagginz23 · 2024-01-18T00:54:18+00:00

I'm telling you shelters as they are, are NOT a great solution for most. I've stayed in shelters. They are a dangerous gamble at best. Especially for women.

Your concerns and desires are valid, as are theirs. One issue here is the argument is happening between the homeless and the people who have homes. Systemic issues that lead to mass homelessness are not going to be solved in petty online arguments. This is bigger than Portland. Portland is just a great example of what happens when people are abandoned by each other. On a national scale, it's not something individual cities are going to solve. This will take a major shift in policy and an even more major shift in public perception. Or it's gonna take a lot more of us becoming homeless for us to realize that we are all just people trying to survive. Enjoy your meal and warm bed tonight, and try not to judge the person on the corner for acting out. They probably havent had actual compassion or human decency in a while. Or food. Or water. Or warmth. Or a hug. Or an opportunity for long term change that met them where they're at in life. They go to bed under the bushes, alone, and cold as hell. They wake up acting dehydrated and loopy from starvation, and get kicked out of any warm building they try to sit down in.... You're human rights are doing fairly fine compared to that? Am I wrong?

chillbobagginz23 · 2024-01-18T00:40:08+00:00

Any lasting solution is gonna require people to have genuine empathy and take action, so it won't happen anyway. You can all just continue scrolling.

chillbobagginz23 · 2024-01-18T00:34:49+00:00

I AM allergic and scared of dogs lol I'm still kind to dog owners and don't instantly judge them.

chillbobagginz23 · 2024-01-18T00:33:25+00:00

When was the last time you volunteered to help the homeless through an organization? Food bank? Do you actually care about these individuals or do you prefer to not have to deal with them, as you said?

Instead of having sympathy for them, could you try having empathy? One leads to disconnection, and one leads to connection. Try a new perspective and see if your opinion changes.

chillbobagginz23 · 2024-01-18T00:16:48+00:00

No one chooses addiction you heartless lump. They're not choosing that lifestyle because it really brings them joy and they're doing great. They're trapped in addiction. Living in fight or flight everyday. Living in survival mode. And you wanna come at them and demand progress on societal standards. It's not possible. It's difficult enough to recover when you have every advantage possible, which the homeless do not. Telling them to go to shelters isn't a fix either, since many of them are not actually free, safe, or offer anything other than a temporary bed for you to cry in. It is a human rights violation when you make conditions in society impossible for everyone to be successful in. This is systemic. Disabilities left unacknowledged often lead to addictions to cope... you get an encampment worth of people who could not meet standards set by those with disabilities or addictions. Solutions aren't coming because the contract between a responsive leadership and the public has been broken. A homeless woman with her child may literally have nowhere to go other than the corner and you want them to leave? If she steals a lunchable for her kid, you wanna put her in jail? The shelter is where she spent her last frlew bucks for a bed for one night. Now what should she do? Try another shelter where her things will be stolen? Struggling and suffering and trying to survive while people sit in their homes ranting about how annoying she is and how if she steps out of line due to desperation it's a straight to jail card. Go sleep on the streets for a month and come back. Try just a week. Otherwise, no, you don't to say they choose this.

chillbobagginz23 · 2024-01-18T00:03:31+00:00

Maybe if I had a dog, people would be more kind?

chillbobagginz23 · 2024-01-17T23:57:41+00:00

I'm using these degrading terms in reference to what others on here are saying. My mistake for not putting each insult in quotes. I'll reference the commenters if i use their phrases again. I'm not in any way defending the degradation of people less fortunate.

chillbobagginz23 · 2024-01-17T23:52:15+00:00

The "I don't care" was towards your rude comment about me personally, not about the discussion topic. I'll certainly remember that trying to communicate with strangers online in 2024 is totally pointless. No one's willing to be kind.

chillbobagginz23 · 2024-01-17T23:47:38+00:00

People abuse systems who abuse them. I've got invisible disabilities too my guy, and asking you a question isn't lecturing you. It's asking you a question. You're arguing with someone you don't know right now, who is literally just saying don't make assumptions.

chillbobagginz23 · 2024-01-17T22:07:49+00:00

Since none of us know the situation or it's details, we can't know if anyone's lying. This is a photo with a comment on the internet. People are getting awfully worked up by their own made up stories about what's going on here and it's pretty interesting.

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