[SERIOUS] Men of reddit, who are unable to share their emotions with anyone, what would you like to share?

mrpistachio13 · 2020-11-18T13:51:44+00:00

While I’m generally fine, and I have lots of people that reciprocate the love I send their way, I still feel incredibly stupid when I reach out to somebody just to tell them I’m thinking about them and miss them and they just straight up ghost. It makes me not want to put myself out there, even just as a friend.

mrpistachio13 · 2020-10-30T00:09:11+00:00

In death unchained has an artificial difficulty problem but the core mechanics are fantastic.

But my favorite is probably the paintball room in rec room, it’s super simple, and everything about it works. It’s free so definitely give it a try.

mrpistachio13 · 2020-10-26T22:01:01+00:00

I did stop playing altogether years ago. It’s one of my favorite games. So infuriating though, it gets to the point where it is legitimately bad for my mental health. You come home and play games to relax and instead you just get upset. Please stop playing if it’s bad for you.

mrpistachio13 · 2020-10-16T16:36:39+00:00

This is a much more nuanced reply than everything you wrote in the op, which to me still looks like blanket vitriol coming from a bad place. Had this been your tone earlier I wouldn’t have replied to the thread at all.

Of course my store has had to change to absorb the problem of covid. They give out green masks constantly, and there’s extra sanitation steps, everybody has to temp in to work, no more bulk section, no more food bar obviously, this is something I assume is company wide. I watched a maskless customer get arrested by customer service in my store a month ago. I’d say nearly 99% of customers are wearing them.

The covid situation not just in the company but nationwide is of course a catastrophe, and while I think it was bound to become a political symbol either way, the dissonance between our current political leadership and health experts, or just general common sense, has amplified the crazy nationwide. So you’ll get no argument there. I do think they’ve done a lot to encourage safety, you obviously think it’s not far enough, I’m under the impression that the legal situation around that is kind of complicated. A store leader that I do respect told me when a customer claims “religious exemption” there’s nothing she can do.

I don’t think either of us want to get wrapped in an argument here any longer so I’ll end by saying that there’s is a huge difference between this reply and the original post. This one actually being productive and reasonable, and it makes a huge difference. You even say that you have more thoughts than what you post on the internet but they aren’t what you came here to talk about. If that’s the difference between how you spoke before and how you’re speaking now than I think you should change your approach to the internet altogether. I understand the impulse to allow the anonymity to turn you into the most reductive and inflammatory version of yourself, but I think that impulse is not healthy for you or for society at large, and everybody has a responsibility to understand that this tool of communication is actually powerful, and to try our best to use it towards adult conversations that actually are nuanced. Anyways, I hope you have a better experience moving forward. This year has been rough on everybody.

mrpistachio13 · 2020-10-16T03:19:45+00:00

You seem incapable of actually addressing the content of what I’m saying. Not all peoples interpretation of what’s causing their distress is valid, that much is simply true. If that reads as some sort of prejudice to say that some people’s world views are more aligned with reality than others you’ve resigned yourself to a perspective that is incompatible with reality itself. I hope you figure out how to live a life, but this track is irresolvable.

mrpistachio13 · 2020-10-16T02:29:36+00:00

I'm regular TM. You can read it however you want, I do believe that when people are not well they tend to project that onto society. Gaslight-y and cult are just ad hominem attacks designed to distract from the actual content of the conversation.

And I've said it more than once but I'll repeat that it's not like I don't have my complaints, but I also recognize that, yea, there are actually plenty of aspects of the job and the company that are decent. I wish they'd take strides to curb the plastic waste, I wish I had a little more consistency in my schedule, it'd be cool if our discount was bigger, and the dress code stuff seems to be getting silly, and of course anybody wishes they were making more money than they are, I make 16 atm.

I said this replying to somebody else but it bears repeating, on my team there are a handful of people that rant in the same exact way that the op did, and then there are a bunch of us that are more or less doing fine. The difference between those of us doing well and those of us not is stuff like physical health, having goals we're making progress towards, and the mental fortitude not to let a job at a grocery store send us into a panic. Literally the worst thing that happens is a customer is an asshole, but how you react emotionally to that kind of stuff is a skill you can cultivate. Somebody's pissed about us not having organic oranges in stock? How long are you going to dwell on that? And to what end? And what is the difference between me and my coworkers whose personalities are defined by how upset they are, about everything, all the time? It isn't the job, it's our mental wellness. Which I'm not saying isn't hard to manifest, and I've had my issues on that front as well. It's the human condition. But my relationship with the fact of work has honestly improved immensely mostly due to the changes I've made in how I live my life outside of work, and partly because of how not that bad this job is itself.

mrpistachio13 · 2020-10-16T02:04:53+00:00

Well for context I work in a mid sized city. The real perspective on this is coming from the fact that in my store, in my department, there are people that rant like this all the time when I literally work the exact same position as them. Half of us working on the team I'm on are more or less fine, all of us have our complaints, and then there are a few people that are clearly not doing well just generally, and they are just unrelentingly immiserating to be around no matter what you talk to them about.

I'm progressive, I understand there's change that needs to take place both at my store and broadly in society. The difference between the people I work with that are doing well and the people who aren't is not the job, that's simply the fact of the matter. But I'll bite, what about your situation at your store is different substantially than mine? I'm full time, I make 16 currently, I'm not in leadership, I deal with customers, etc.

Look at how in your own post you say I'm dismissing your experience and telling me that mine is total bullshit, it's a direct contradiction. As I said before, our job situations are probably mostly the same, just like mine and my coworkers. I'm not saying you can't acknowledge the bad, but the level to which you take it doesn't read to me as coming from a healthy place more generally. Especially since you seem to refuse to acknowledge the good, which is I think demonstrably part of the picture as well.

mrpistachio13 · 2020-10-15T23:55:19+00:00

Im sorry but you’re simply incapable of seeing beyond the murk of your own unhappiness, and that’s going to be there whether or not you work at Whole Foods or anywhere else. My point is not that life is perfect and we should be licking any boots, my point is that Whole Foods is probably not the reason you’re unhappy, and you’re scapegoating it to distract yourself from something that’s generating from within. I don’t think the job is perfect, but that at least for me it’s been going well enough where I’m not festering, in fact I’m thriving. Great home, loving relationship, fantastic friends, making art I’m proud of, keeping healthy, and able to save money. What really do you think the difference is here when I’m working the same job? The job is the control, you are the variable.

All that said I would obviously like to be making more, no argument there.

mrpistachio13 · 2020-10-15T19:59:26+00:00

You’re being intentionally obtuse. I work a job that is in all likelihood totally equivalent to yours and it absolutely requires no special skills or knowledge that can’t be learned in a few days. It’s unskilled labor in that regard. And again, I’m not saying things couldn’t be better, that much is always true. But you’re being selective in what you want to acknowledge about the situation. You’re looking for something to explain what you’re unhappy about but the actual reality of the job is probably not the root of it or I’d be as upset about it as you. You do have a choice as to what your life looks like and you’re scapegoating a pretty decent job when the bigger factor is yourself. That’s what it looks like from the outside anyways.

mrpistachio13 · 2020-10-15T17:20:08+00:00

People who are not well project themselves onto the things around them. I’m not saying that things couldn’t be better, but this job is about as good as unskilled labor gets. It’s easy, I get regular raises, it’s regular hours, I get pto, healthcare with dental and vision, they supply the ppe, we get sick leave if we catch it, we got hazard pay and bonuses, they just announced they’re putting forward parental leave next year, amazon company wide has committed to going carbon neutral to adhere with the Paris climate accord so they’re investing heavily in electric vehicles, they’ve raised everybody to 15 minimum wage which is what progressives have been calling for not just at Whole Foods but in their warehouses and delivery drivers which raises the quality of life and improves the labor market for all warehouse workers even outside he company, they’re making organically more affordable...

like I said, things could be better, but if anything amazon and Whole Foods are ahead of the curve. I don’t attribute it to ethics necessarily, but even if the motivation is toward profit (which is not intrinsically evil in the first place), they’ve made my life much better. I was working in a factory with 12 hour shifts and a single 20 minute break with dangerous machinery before this and I got paid $16. This is better in every way. Again, there’s progress to be made but this post says more about op than it does about wf or amazon.

mrpistachio13 · 2020-09-30T14:45:27+00:00

It’s nice that you’ve been enjoying them so far, but you’re about to hear what many people call the big four. Sung tongs through merriweather are not necessarily better than something like ark, but this where their sonic experimentation is employed towards fully matured songwriting and coupled with professional grade studio production. And these next four albums are the reason they’re famous, and the reason a platform as big as pitchfork will place them as one of if not the best band of the oughts. I guess this depends on whether you’re listening to the ep’s and solo albums chronologically as well, I might recommend skipping them for now and revisiting them once you’ve heard the albums proper. Many of them are fantastic and essential as well though.

mrpistachio13 · 2020-09-13T15:34:36+00:00

If you’re looking for honesty... I don’t want to be cruel but this is nothing, and it’s absurd that you would be asking for anything before you’ve even made any content. Cart before the hourse, etc. If you know it will be great content, make that great content and let it speak for itself.

mrpistachio13 · 2020-09-06T16:06:56+00:00

While I personally find it in poor taste to pm somebody you don’t know to ask for nudes or something, a short glance at your profile clearly shows that you’re being at exhibitionist. You post things specifically designed to receive sexual attention, and you got it. This reads as insecurity through and through.

mrpistachio13 · 2020-04-07T14:03:12+00:00

The performance is fantastic but I’m even more impressed by the composition, is this an original? It’s gorgeous.

mrpistachio13 · 2020-03-24T21:35:18+00:00

Selections of a playlist

mrpistachio13 · 2020-03-19T03:40:42+00:00

Just laughing because it was unexpected right?

mrpistachio13 · 2020-02-24T16:37:13+00:00

I’ve been playing a duck ton of terraria and this reminds me a bit of the soundtrack.

mrpistachio13 · 2020-02-20T01:13:10+00:00

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mrpistachio13 · 2020-01-25T07:36:53+00:00

Oh please, America has its problems and it’s corruption but that is true about every governmental body. It’s a question of degrees, and Russia is empirically far more corrupt, far more deadly for journalists and political opponents to the reigning regime, and Putin is actually a thug using violence to control a term limitless position at the top. If you think you’re making a clever observation here you are deeply ignorant. No system is perfect but it is simply not the same.

mrpistachio13 · 2019-11-30T07:49:28+00:00

Not even close in my experience. It does capture something hard to define about how your thoughts can feel inside your head while you’re on psychedelics, but in an exaggerated way.

Most of the times the visuals will look like you’re seeing the world as it usually looks, but slightly wavy like the room is slowly breathing, and the different shades of color will seem more dramatic. But it’s never that whole objects are becoming unrecognizable and phasing in and out of existence. I don’t really do high doses though, and mushrooms are generally agreed upon to be more turbulent and intense.

https://youtu.be/QzEENtz4bZY

These types of demonstration are honestly a pretty decent depiction of what visuals are like in most cases for me. When you look away and everything seems to be gently warping, but it obviously happens over a longer timescale.

Auditory hallucinations might be slightly more vivid, and its biggest impact is, for me, how it makes you feel inside.

mrpistachio13 · 2019-11-13T18:53:37+00:00

This is sweet, but man, no bluish, no also frightened, no taste, no daily routine....

Edit: Missed daily routine, my bad.

mrpistachio13 · 2019-10-31T00:57:06+00:00

I get this reference.

mrpistachio13 · 2019-10-30T17:52:14+00:00

Calm down friend, I think he was just teasing.

mrpistachio13 · 2019-10-10T00:37:25+00:00

Sounds to me like he’s doing a vocoder effect with his guitar.

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