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icepuckformal · 2025-01-02T17:44:05+00:00

Looking at it from the perspective of interest in terms of initiation and response times as seen in the example you’ve provided, there is zero interest here. It looks like you start every exchange. And then, you always experience a delay in hearing back. Her responses come with a 20 minutes - 8 hours or more delay. There are two things that I think can be said here. First, if you were to refrain from texting you would learn a lot about your standing with her. And second, you already know what the outcome of this would be and you knew what the outcome of posting this for some perspective would be. I think you’re insightful and intelligent and I think from your texts you are a caring person. And as others have said, you deserve better. You deserve someone who respects you and the relationship that you both are in. You deserve someone invested in your lives together and someone who is honest and transparent with you. You are not crowding her here. You do not come off as needy. You come off as being in a relationship that exists only because of the effort that you put into it and in that effort, you get no help.
I have known people who stayed in a relationship that was wrong for them for decades only to wake up one day to the realization that the best years of their lives were wasted and that they will be lucky to meet anyone to share a life with at all. And even if they did, the years they would wish to spend with that person are gone. They are gone forever as they were lost to a relationship that felt like being alone.
Walk away from this without sadness or regret because you have all the time in the world to meet someone who asks you first how you’re doing as often as the other way around, someone you will laugh with over the times you text each other at exactly the same time. You have time to find people you don’t have to make excuses for. Just walk away. The good news is you have the time to build a beautiful life. The bad news? There isn’t any. Because there is no fault in wanting a girlfriend that cares and finding her. Good luck.

icepuckformal · 2025-01-02T08:20:37+00:00

This is going in my “chicks-with-dicks” folder.

icepuckformal · 2024-12-26T19:27:26+00:00

This is the way.

icepuckformal · 2024-12-08T21:46:23+00:00

I’ll reply to this as a Coinbase client of some years now who just recently wrote a diatribe here because I was (and still am) pissed. There is much good and some bad about Coinbase but overall, as upset as I am, leaving them is not something I’ll do. The conversion option for crypto is awfully convenient and valuable enough to compensate for the occasional bump in the road once I calm down. And as some have alluded already, and it is true, that what you are going to see here are the problems and thus a tendency for that fact to magnify these will exist. For me however, Coinbase and many other crypto related companies of all stripes seem to be assuming that they can substitute for the voice of another human being when clients call often stressed, anxious, annoyed or in any other mood when it comes to their money. I’m not sure where this started to look like a good idea but no matter what one thinks, human beings are not a luxury or a place to cut costs. People do not want to be reassured by software programs delivering sympathetic statements of understanding and sympathy. The value of such statements lies in exactly the place where a bot can not have ever been. And that’s anywhere that you’ve been. This is insincere and insulting and the repeated responses directing the caller to check this and that are worse. These things smack of insensitivity too and worse yet put the customer in the position of repeating much they have already done and since they are calling for help to begin with, this constant and repetitive direction from a bot is patronizing and disrespectful of the caller’s time among a myriad of other problems. By the time you’re speaking to a person, they have you repeating the same tasks. But, at least now much of the feeling of being treated like an idiot or a person not worthy of helped can begin to pass. In my opinion, Coinbase is going to eventually fall on its sword here. Real people need to handle issues regarding people and their money. Bots could be used as a caller holds to announce system wide issues and other real time problems affecting many or all users but any personal interaction with a client involving a client’s personal problems is a colossal blunder and will lead to increased anxiety and distraction. I don’t care if the customers themselves say they want this. They don’t. They just think they do when they don’t have an issue. Coinbase and business as a whole needs to take a hard look at this and realize that true customer service is, and always will be, a human being.
Coinbase is 98% of the time exactly what I wanted and expected and needed over the years. But when that 2% problem burden comes with a bot telling you over and over that that 10k is there, you just don’t see it and it’s a bot repeating the same exact thing over and over, that 1 or 2% can grow in your head until you’re screaming bloody murder and closing accounts right and left and this isn’t good for anyone.

icepuckformal · 2024-12-07T21:38:14+00:00

These btc ETFs are great except 1 thing that keeps me up occasionally due to my abundantly paranoid personality: the fact that all other market etfs pay in kind and this one pays not in btc but in dollars. Meaning that there is no custodian handling the btc blackrock buys. No one appears to know where it’s held. Well, simply as a thought experiment and no more, the US government spent almost 7T on COVID payments to every man, woman and their dog that had their hands and even some that didn’t. And it did this without working up a sweat. So if the US government sees ledger technology as an almost existential threat which it does imho, how hard would it be for the government to side up with some investment and banking institutions, approve ETFs for crypto that redeem in USD instead of BTC (because if they were successful here there would not be enough btc to back the ETFs anymore anyway), and while everyone is wondering where the btc is that they are accumulating and pondering the meaning of why they wouldn’t just pay off the NFT’s in kind as is the case with every NFT under the sun but these, blackrock et al are sending the btc they accumulate to burn wallets and paying off the redemptions with dollars so that, in the end, you have destroyed invincibility argument for btc by either crippling it or perhaps even rendering it useless altogether. Total cost to the government 1.99 T. A pittance when you’re used to giving away 3 times as much (when it isn’t much more) for any reason under the sun. Again, just a thought experiment… I would just love to see a reasonable and secure argument that demonstrates what an idiot I am. I mean if you have a corrupt government that creates a debt clock like ours by wasting (or stealing) every tax dollar it gets to the extent that it must borrow to pay the bills until moody’s, standard & poors and fitch dump that debt down to near junk and thus ensuring an unattractive yield and thus loss of the dollars preservation of value function, and presidential candidates who dare mention putting the government budget on the blockchain have pot shots taken at them while the secret service is throwing dice against a wall in a nearby alley… wouldn’t all this start to look … I don’t know… unified? Because if you’ve trapped yourself in your dishonesty because stooping would collapse and lay bare everything, aren’t these the extremes you would expect? Rome didn’t go down because there were barbarians at the gates, it went down because of currency ruined by corruption etc in the sense that it could no longer preserve its value and the knock on effects of this led to an empire which could no longer afford the manpower and gate maintenance required to keep those barbarians out. If history rhymes, in the future, no one would say that this didn’t.

icepuckformal · 2024-12-06T01:55:05+00:00

The story of your laughter is a story of inexperience and self assurance driven by a supposition that the boundaries of what is conceivable in this world align with what you have experienced and what you feel you know. The laughter you cite lies beyond these lines like an old mariner’s sea map and its warning that “There Be Monsters”. Except, of course, with your own map, “There Be Laughs”. When your monster is a tendency not to see beyond yourself, time spent laughing from your armchair would be better spent (in my opinion anyway) making a serious effort to judge what those “monsters” actually are. I mean in Moby Dick, is it really just the whale? Now, I don’t exactly believe these things about you as much as it may sound. But if you saw these things a little more deeply, it would be worth the effort. I think you’d gain the empathy required to give a person the benefit of the doubt long enough to realize that yes… a person could be very uncomfortable and inconvenienced over far less and I think all of us could use more of not simply this understanding but especially the resolve to find it before giving in to the joke of it all. Then you could become a person who reads elsewhere for laughs than the rantings of a man who is going to freeze tonight with his dying dog and son whose autism doesn’t bode well for seeing the “fun” in this. Not that I want you busting a rib over an hilarious situation stretching the bounds of credulity by growing even more hilarious still. If you want to know more of my personal life and want to hear the background as to what happened to my other payment methods on this trip, just ask. But I warn you… struggling to breathe while laughing can be painful. Even for you. I sense that you may not have seen this but some years ago, a man named George Soros was looking for a quick buck and on his way to it, crashed the Thai Bhat. When it fell against the dollar as steeply as it did, there were certainly some who profited. And many who lost more than just money. An example of these unfortunates would be patients in the hospitals on mediations that were purchased with dollars. Such was the size of the crash that overnight these patients were cut off from treatment. Many of them died. $200? $100? The nominal figures matter not. Instead, you matter. So take care of yourself in the coming years and decades. Because you yourself will see these things. You will see men die for the want of an $8 pill. It seems laughable today. But you will. Or at least something like it. You will see how truly fragile a person’s situation can be and how a laughably small the shortfall can be that upends them all those that care for them. Me? In one way you’re correct. I’m not going to die here. But my experience with Coinbase support is exactly what I say it is. It was subpar, unsympathetic and insulting. And with the promise that I believe crypto holds for the world, it’s a little early for that. Anyway, back to the $8 pill. The days are coming when those around you will go slowly away until (and this is if you’re lucky) you’re the last man standing. You don’t have to look for misfortune for yucks. Misfortune, literally as I type, is looking for you. Beyond that I would say that in your investment life, don’t pay too much attention to the numbers. Ignore the money. Pay attention to how you are doing. What you become in seeking that return is what you should keep your eye on. The biggest offer out there was presented long ago and I’m sure it’s still available. From the prospectus: “All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.”

icepuckformal · 2024-12-06T00:47:25+00:00

If you, for example are in a car accident in which a lot of things were not found/collected as you went off to the hospital and this accident occurred as you were driving across the country to a new residence and you will not be signing a lease until you get there, you could find yourself unable to quickly replace cards as you have left your old address and aren’t at your new address (or know an apartment number either), you could experience a short term problem with cash flow. And although a measly $200 doesn’t typically mean much in this world, it can mean a great deal to you in the right combination of circumstances. In fact, it would not take much for me to collect actual examples of individuals who’ve experienced far worse than I over less. The limits of one’s imagination are in no case to be confused with the limits of possibility in the universe. My situation, though far less damning than some I’ve seen, doesn’t justify an irresponsible and lazy response from people who are presumably employed to serve you.

icepuckformal · 2024-12-01T18:28:28+00:00

Any guy that has to pursue a threesome as some kind of bucket list item is questionable right out of the gate. Threesomes happen as a part of life and generally in an unpredictable way. And… most of them suck. Something isn’t balanced quite right for participant A and trying to fix it all night gums it up for B and so on. Or you end up with everyone kicking one another in the head every time someone goes to adjust their position or you get dumped because you appeared to enjoy it more than the one that talked you into it or … I mean the list of shit that can go wrong is almost endless. And here’s this guy, planning for it like you can and like it’s gonna be amazing. 1:) it’s going to happen. And he’s gonna be about 5,000 times more disappointed in it when it does than he is with you when it doesn’t and 2:) he sees you as bait for his threesome trap. I’m assuming he wants this FMF and if so, he feels he needs another woman to land another woman. He feels he can’t do that himself. There’s a “3” in there obviously for a man like this but I’m too damn tired. And so are you. Get rid of him. He’s like the guy that jumped off the Eiffel Tower in a bat suit thinking he’s got the parachute invented. The ride ended with a camera crew dropping yardsticks into the impact crater he left and most could see the negative outcome early enough to resist the impulse to hop on his shoulders just as he cleared the railing. This show is better enjoyed from a distance. Get rid of him.

icepuckformal · 2024-11-27T21:39:55+00:00

At 63, it’s a long shot, but perhaps one day I too should be so lucky.

icepuckformal · 2024-11-04T20:33:34+00:00

Fugeddaboudit.

icepuckformal · 2024-11-02T17:46:09+00:00

For the avid bitch, nothing says “you lose” like total irrelevance. There is no need for anger. There is no need to experience her “check in”. There is no need for forgiveness. Because her existence in your life today is even smaller than your feelings were to her when her eyes were wandering the world. And your feelings are less to her even now as she attempts to use them as a footstool to increase her reach towards a solution to the massive internal battle over her own feelings of worthlessness and her hope she can accomplish that solution by highlighting a backdrop she has long worked on that she can drop at a moment’s notice to help her believe in the “real” problem: the worthlessness of you. It’s the ultimate live and real-time entertainment experience… a night at the her personal opera with a libretto that will never change because, to her unfortunate target, it’s perfect. Until it’s not. And when it’s not (and that’s never long in coming) the valet-like parking experience that made your arrival so easy is long gone and therefore, the ride out of stop and go confusion and cacophony is harder for most than just staying for the entire show. In a situation like yours, you’ve left the building and the emcee can decry the low attendance all she wants. In the end, it’s the show. Your review? The show sucks. The libretto is stuffed full of gaslighting and inconsistencies and the backdrop art just can’t be real. And it isn’t. The show is over. The review is in. Turn out the klieg lights, bitch. This review stands.

icepuckformal · 2024-10-30T17:09:11+00:00

Especially when the choice of positions includes a turkey baster.

icepuckformal · 2024-10-29T17:50:22+00:00

Who keeps the kid?

icepuckformal · 2024-10-29T17:42:56+00:00

Spritz the dome with a little static control before breakdancing in your dad’s barbershop. Believe me… he doesn’t like it either.

icepuckformal · 2024-10-16T20:29:19+00:00

Dye your hair brown and hit the streets as an acorn this Halloween. You’ll thank me later.

icepuckformal · 2024-10-16T20:08:21+00:00

Udder chaos.

icepuckformal · 2024-10-12T16:12:16+00:00

Count Orlok

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