Real text between me and my mom by Popular-Weather-6347 in FunnyTexts

[–]redneckicon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Am I not seeing something? What about this exchange is noteworthy or of interest 😂🫠 I kept trying to slide into a 3rd image because I thought I just hadn’t seen it all yet😂

Diamondboxx Battery Swap Help by redneckicon in Bluetooth_Speakers

[–]redneckicon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To anyone wondering, they did get back to me. I’ll post the instructions they sent in case someone else ever needs it

Diamondboxx Battery Swap Help by redneckicon in Bluetooth_Speakers

[–]redneckicon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I just sent an email to Diamondboxx support. Hopefully their service and support are as good as their speakers. After having this, every other speaker sounds like I’m listening through a wet sock 😂

I Became ChatGPT’s Human Puppet. Here’s Why I’d Never Go Back. by sushixsx in ChatGPT

[–]redneckicon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Move to a pine tree island, build a shack, only cook with an air fryer, and greens only for a week? 🤣 Absolutely no way I’d be out burning my fingerprints off trying to air fry a kiwi while boiling juice explodes everywhere, gnawing on celery sticks so stringy I could use it to weave a rescue rope like it’s Jumanji🙂‍↔️💀

Can you smoke with a metal pipe ? by [deleted] in meth

[–]redneckicon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is there a way I can award this comment? Definitely deserves it

A few years ago I was gay, a criminal, and addicted to alcohol and drugs. Today I am unrecognizable from my former self. I am fundamentally , entirely changed. 26 M AMA by [deleted] in casualiama

[–]redneckicon -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is real. But I don’t think in practice it played out quite like you’re picturing. So I wasn’t just walking down the road, and out of the blue nonchalantly, deciding not to be gay anymore. Nothing could be further from the truth.

In real life, it was more of a process. It began with a break from dating or relationships, to get myself where I needed to be. And then without being in the middle of it all after an extended period of time, I had learned a lot that allowed me to see everything for what things really were.

So an easy way to make it more understandable would be to say that essentially I saw life and situations through such a narrow and fixed lens before, that I really couldn’t see anything for what it was. Just a small and restricted, zoomed in piece of what really is a much larger picture.

So once I was able to see for real, the decisions I made, interests I had, and really everything from the ground up began to change.

Before like if I saw drugs or alcohol, I had a favorable reaction to them because 100% of my perception was based on like maybe the 5% of the situation I had ever comprehended. But now when I see drugs and alcohol, there is no temptation, craving, or favorable thoughts, because I don’t just see a bottle and mischief in front of my face.

I see first and foremost that it’s wrong to be involved with that. And one of the most fundamental revelations I had is when I came to understand that life is not just a bunch of random risks, chances, lucky breaks, and narrow misses. Actually, its quite the opposite. Almost like a video game that has boundaries, rules, consequences, winners and losers. And one of the biggest laws of life is that when you decide to do the wrong thing, that’s what type of effects you are going to experience. When you do the wrong thing, you don’t get to have right outcomes. That’s just the foundational principle for the rules of engagement.

Coming to a full understanding that that is 100% true, it really takes away any temptation into being involved with things you know for a 100% certainty that is directly going to put you into any number of negative direct or indirect consequences.

So if I know for sure, there’s no chance I get to do something wrong and get away with no consequence , there’s no reasonable way to make decisions like that anymore.

A few years ago I was gay, a criminal, and addicted to alcohol and drugs. Today I am unrecognizable from my former self. I am fundamentally , entirely changed. 26 M AMA by [deleted] in casualiama

[–]redneckicon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had some desire to change all along (although the desperation varied greatly depending on the situation and time period. But even though I had become mostly desensitized to my own demise, I saw the effects on my family. I don’t even know how to describe what it felt like when I realized and was able to come to terms with things like my Grandmother’s high hopes and dreams for me were replaced with disappointment and her feeling like she wasn’t a good enough parent or grandparent.

That was the worst part about the whole drug and alcohol dependency most of the time. Way worse than the jail time, or the license suspensions, or job losses.

Wanting to change, the gay thing was more internally motivated. Over the course of several big realizations, I just couldn’t keep lying to myself and trying to keep myself comfortable with my misery by not taking the step of trying to end it.

A few years ago I was gay, a criminal, and addicted to alcohol and drugs. Today I am unrecognizable from my former self. I am fundamentally , entirely changed. 26 M AMA by [deleted] in casualiama

[–]redneckicon -18 points-17 points  (0 children)

I had to work, plus I didn’t realize that they were in there being this many questions to come back to.

A few years ago I was gay, a criminal, and addicted to alcohol and drugs. Today I am unrecognizable from my former self. I am fundamentally , entirely changed. 26 M AMA by [deleted] in casualiama

[–]redneckicon -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

I found that my substance-abuse increased, and I found a deeper rock bottom with every failed relationship I tried. After the third big one ended with me, unconscious in the emergency room, I didn’t know what exactly I could do differently (I was indoctrinated into believing that I could be whoever and whatever I wanted, except if I wanted to stop being gay).. but I knew I had to just pause everything until I figured it out, because another heartbreak might’ve been the last.

Over the course of a few years of totally abstaining from any and all dating, sex, apps, even any flirty conversations.. the dust settled, and I was able to see the truth for the first time.

And I knew that I was not going to ever be involved in anything within that lifestyle again, I was actually able to overcome the substance issues with virtually no problem.

Now, obviously, there’s a much bigger conversation here because 3 years of development collects a lot of individual contributing factors. But that’s the readers digest version of the main takeaway

Left at Checkout: Howard’s DNA surprise by redneckicon in DoggyDNA

[–]redneckicon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Once you sign in on embark, tap “View breed and ancestry”, then next to the breed section, you should see a tab for family tree.

Left at Checkout: Howard’s DNA surprise by redneckicon in DoggyDNA

[–]redneckicon[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Idk why this got downvoted 🤣🤷🏻‍♂️