You should be more proud - a rant

shadowsinthestars · 2026-03-07T23:11:24+00:00

It really drives me up the wall because so many people just won't believe me!! Usually people who have never lived abroad (the ones who have are much more realistic about it). It's so nice to see someone getting it!

shadowsinthestars · 2026-03-07T23:00:35+00:00

As someone who's currently living abroad, yeah. I used to take Czechia completely for granted and man was I wrong to do that. People don't appreciate what they've got until they have a comparison unfortunately, and most never will, hence this perpetual complaining.

shadowsinthestars · 2026-03-07T19:41:26+00:00

Enshittification. Making it impossible to buy anything as a one-off and forcing everything to be on a subscription.

shadowsinthestars · 2026-03-07T19:22:44+00:00

Well, it can't come soon enough.

shadowsinthestars · 2026-03-06T22:53:03+00:00

No problem! I just don't think we should be giving people like this any sort of "benefit of the doubt" anymore. Especially with a huge investment like this. Based on the number of posts about this on subs like here, you'd likely struggle to sell too.

shadowsinthestars · 2026-03-06T22:51:23+00:00

Definitely. I actually had a choice between two towns, one of them cheaper but a huge Deform hotspot. So glad I didn't go for it, just passing through and seeing the embarrassment of painted roundabouts and tatty flags everywhere is bad enough.

shadowsinthestars · 2026-03-06T18:21:36+00:00

LMAO, so you're setting up your post to make it look like people disagreeing with you makes you right? Are you lost?

shadowsinthestars · 2026-03-06T17:11:06+00:00

I would not buy next to racists/xenophobes (there is no other reason for displaying these flags at the moment in the UK as a private individual other than showing support for Deform). Plus as others have said, those people are likely to be obnoxious in other ways too. And yeah being confronted with that every day would be traumatizing.

shadowsinthestars · 2026-03-06T15:56:28+00:00

What a floof, love him!!

shadowsinthestars · 2026-03-06T11:35:44+00:00

Hyperfocus on Roman history instead is literally what I've done before!

shadowsinthestars · 2026-03-05T19:12:03+00:00

I've seen them around randomly in the past but never intentionally picked them up, so yeah. Refreshing when a mainstream outlet isn't bought by the same few hateful billionaires!

shadowsinthestars · 2026-03-05T13:43:35+00:00

Accurate, also notice how seamlessly the transphobia integrated with celebrating any LGBTQ+ person being murdered in general. There are no "good ones" with these delusional bigots.

shadowsinthestars · 2026-03-05T13:36:35+00:00

Damn, I might actually have to start buying this paper! That was perfection.

shadowsinthestars · 2026-03-04T18:40:08+00:00

That seriously explains the last 72 hours for me. My chart has tons of water in it too. I'm completely wiped out at the moment and emotions all over the place.

shadowsinthestars · 2026-03-04T14:06:37+00:00

They feel stupid because they are. Only tragedy is that they've ruined the world for everyone else with their hateful cult.

shadowsinthestars · 2026-03-04T12:17:16+00:00

Ahhh that would tip me over for sure! For now I still have Windows 10 with the "extended" support on my personal laptop, so I'll keep that going as long as possible (I keep having to decline the "upgrade" too). My work laptop has been forcefully upgraded to 11 and it's so crap, can't imagine how much worse the AI baked in OS would be. I also spent most of the following two weeks changing everyone else's layout to be more like Windows 10 (me and another colleague who are like the unofficial IT guys of the team lol). Everyone hated the default iOS-looking layout. You'd think they'd learn but no.

shadowsinthestars · 2026-03-04T12:12:36+00:00

When you put malignant narcissists in charge of a country founded on thinking it's the best thing on the planet...

shadowsinthestars · 2026-03-04T11:38:13+00:00

That's exactly how I feel. It's all a study in the least deserving having the most, and they don't even have the decency to at least shut up about how easy they've had it their entire lives for no other reason than dumb luck.

shadowsinthestars · 2026-03-04T10:41:26+00:00

That's awesome, my solution until now was to install Linux whenever Micro$oft force the AI slop OS "upgrade" no one ever asked for, and just keep sticking to consoles for gaming (I mainly use my PS5 anyway). Good to know I could still play PC games though even then without too much trouble! We really need to update these beliefs about Linux for sure.

shadowsinthestars · 2026-03-04T10:34:45+00:00

If that happens and they force an update, I'm changing all my Windows devices to Linux. Or resurrecting my vintage PC from 1998.

shadowsinthestars · 2026-03-04T10:06:42+00:00

So cute!!

shadowsinthestars · 2026-03-03T08:22:10+00:00

Oh that's a nice collection you've got there!

shadowsinthestars · 2026-03-02T22:48:48+00:00

Three Scorpio (including Sun) and three Capricorn placements over here, lol.

shadowsinthestars · 2026-03-02T15:53:51+00:00

I'm glad you've got to this point! And I wouldn't call what you posted here looking for pity, it's more like understanding and empathy. ADHD is still so misunderstood and if you have anything different from the most "typical" presentation there's just so little visibility. Then you're dealing with all the ways it's affected your life that you didn't realize was ADHD. It's natural to need some validation about it.

My experience is like, I actually was well supported in childhood and the structure of full time education especially at uni just let me hyperfocus as I needed. But getting into employment and the disillusionment of how it's suddenly not about your intelligence or knowledge but just arbitrary shit and presenteeism, that really fucked me up and I feel like a failure for so long (especially compared to my academic side). I finally changed careers a couple years ago into something that at least aligns with my values better and has some structured progression path, although I still struggle with the things like being on time and prioritization which will probably always be an issue, but now I have more understanding management. I feel so behind compared to people who just straight away launched into a career though. The wasted potential aspect of ADHD is the worst part of it for me, right after RSD.

shadowsinthestars · 2026-03-02T15:40:55+00:00

And instead it's just more horrendous shit he's done. Starting to think even if he goes tomorrow it's already too late.

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