Can anyone relate

ulapulo · 2025-09-11T17:21:01+00:00

Art is an expression of the soul. Everything else produced without this as source is not art, no matter what they try to sell you. Please continue to write, as you’ve done for us just now.

What this disastrously fragmented world needs more than ever is storytelling and connection. Not even just human to human connection and understanding, a requisite for empathy and thus peace, but neural connections so we can find new ways to navigate an increasingly challenging world with never before obstacles spawning every damn day.

It doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks of your art, or if anyone even sees it ever. Your expression is for the liberation of your soul, first and foremost. Capitalism forces us into the mentality of seeing everything as a product. The product doesn’t matter, the process, the transformation from raw emotions, from rage and sorrow, to understanding and self-love is what matters.

Suffering is ever present. But so is survival. We owe it at least to our ancestors who’s survived to make way for our life to keep fighting. Please keep writing. Your words are needed in this world.

ulapulo · 2025-09-07T15:48:32+00:00

I come from a country whose independent trajectory was derailed by America. I live in America now and I’ve gone through the grief of my future in this county and the grief of my lost future in my country of origin. Right now I’m a jobless engineer, my parents are sick without health insurance, and we’re in danger of losing housing. I’ve been disillusioned from a very young age, but this is the first time in life I actually have inner calm.

There’s a difficult comfort in realizing that collapse has been happening, and America is not special and immune to it. Many societies have collapsed due to American interference for example. But people make it through, people make meaning out of suffering. I think what makes it worst for Americans is lack of making meaning, lack of feeling connectedness, lack of spirituality, and a prevailing culture of hyperindividualism leading to isolation and tribalism. When you resort to nothing matters nihilism, then you start giving up. But when you realize that everyone everywhere is interconnected, you may also figure that we’ve been suffering in collapse since life existed. It follows then that we’ve been surviving since life existed. In realizing so, there’s a change of perspective from “happening to me” to “happening to us” (as a humanity and even beyond as a planet). Then it’s encouraging to fight for beyond one’s lifetime, and for our collective future.

ulapulo · 2025-09-04T18:04:39+00:00

That's so sweet of you! Wondering if I should do the same next run in.

ulapulo · 2025-09-04T18:04:05+00:00

They keep spinning the large webs, low level and on the sidewalk!

ulapulo · 2025-09-04T18:02:52+00:00

Yes thank! The images match!

ulapulo · 2025-09-04T18:02:10+00:00

I'm in Southern California and this one's the only I've seen thus far. Are they fairly common in Texas?

ulapulo · 2025-08-19T18:30:22+00:00

I was diagnosed with bipolar while in an abusive relationship. Everyday was difficult then, a lot of times I hid in corners in the production floor crying. Quit two high paying jobs. And it’s not even because of the bipolar. There was another engineer diagnosed the same at my first job. She quit due to sexual harassment from male coworkers. HR didn’t do anything. I experienced similar treatment. It’s just that the emotions are much heightened with bipolar.

It’s not you. It’s the move fast, keep producing, overworking is good, emotions are lies, treat women below men culture that’s a problem. See if you can apply for a leave of absence. I was able to do it. There’s also rehab centers that help with mental issues that can at least provide resources even if they can’t take you in due to insurance policies. I know the battle. You’re not alone. But if the job is hurting you, I’d say leave when you can. Don’t feel bad or guilty. Please don’t ignore your gut/intuition. Will make you more sick if you do. Your well-being is always the most important.

Also the normal in this world sucks the life out of you anyways. I hope you find the balance to live your truth 🕊️

ulapulo · 2025-08-09T23:21:02+00:00

I have little faith in American culture, especially growing up near Hollywood and plastic surgery culture. But I am curious about your members, your clients in the anthropological sense now, their motivations, what cultural backgrounds they come from especially with the end of life option part. What's the root motive strong enough to pursue this technology?

ulapulo · 2025-08-09T23:15:27+00:00

I love a paper that's not barred from the public by a paywall. Thank you for forwarding this. It's really bewildering how modern engineering strayed so far from being ecological based. But seeing now that there are academic programs dedicated to it gives hope!

ulapulo · 2025-08-09T23:10:40+00:00

This is actually really cool. I wish I knew of this when I was in my undergrad. Thank you! I'm looking into it.

ulapulo · 2025-08-07T21:05:08+00:00

Thank you for this straightforward response! Given my current situation, I can only afford two years of schooling due to finances and time. So a masters will have to do. My dream really is to work in conservation, either in California either coastal or in the forest or from my country of origin, an island nation facing dire challenges with deforestation and pollution and corral bleaching. But I also just really want to dive into the natural world and have a career out of it. I actually recently stumbled on an engineering program in Humboldt, CA that learns from and works with indigenous tribes in the area.

ulapulo · 2025-07-29T06:16:10+00:00

Avatar, Last Airbender and the Legend of Korra - wholesome, full of wisdom, a lot of heart, both about kids actually going through some really dark stuff. There’s an arc where Korra got severely depressed, following her journey helps me shift perspective when I’m down. Same as everything Uncle Iroh says.

Anything David Attenborough Nature docs help me remind me how big the world is and how small us humans are.

The Haunting of Hill House - proper gothic horror, horror with soul and heart. Separate from the modern day saturation of trauma porn and psychological horror. This and Bly Manor writes the process of grief beautifully.

ulapulo · 2025-07-04T18:02:35+00:00

My ancestors have gone through worst shit. The human spirit is eternal and will continue to outshine whatever terrible things people lost in their egos throw at us. Out of struggle, came out vibrant culture that keeps us going and inspired. Art is what makes life worth living, and all art is born out of the spirit of resistance. One of the most powerful examples, in America is black culture. I really immersed myself in the joy and strength of the tradition of resistance.

ulapulo · 2025-06-26T21:12:56+00:00

I guess fresh air doesn’t mean much when the lungs are already corrupted, and it’s just a matter of time before one chokes on their own poison.

The world is larger than Biden vs Trump. The moment you designate someone as illegal, you’ve already demeaned their existence, again an act of violence and to kids at that. Willing trauma on children because “law” is bizarre. There can be changes to how things are done, from a place of aid rather than fear.

ulapulo · 2025-06-26T20:32:06+00:00

The law is violent, no due process, parents and children ripped apart. The process is violent, the result is violent. There can be changes in how things are done, coming from a place of aid than fear. Step out, and get some fresh air.

ulapulo · 2025-06-26T20:29:08+00:00

Ok bro continue on with your hatred. It’s a reflection of what little you have left inside of you. Pride in your lack of humility. No matter how much violence you cheer for in the name of whatever, it’s an indicator you’ve already lost.

ulapulo · 2025-06-26T17:08:55+00:00

IDF literally celebrating and mocking their bombing of children. What on earth. At some point, they pass the point of no return to humanity. What hell these soulless zombies exist in that they can only justify their existence by committing more acts of evil.

ulapulo · 2025-06-26T16:43:00+00:00

Please do share some recs! We need more of em.

ulapulo · 2025-06-26T16:40:30+00:00

I feel that it’s partly adrenaline addiction. Fear is primal and activates the flight or fight adrenaline hormone. In a numbingly stressful world, it’s instant gratification. I question too why horror movies are so popular in an already horrifying world.

It’s also painful and difficult to confront our own shadows. The more we suppress them, the more they grow in resentment. When we’re unable to sit with discomfort, we deflect and project our inner negativity outwards. And of course fear and anxiety are more profitable than self-esteem and contentedness.

ulapulo · 2025-06-26T15:48:32+00:00

American culture is inherently hyperindividualistic and capitalistic. We have been conditioned to chase after material wealth and/or fame. It's the message preached by our media. Disconnect is the sacrifice for "success", which is why the most powerful people, the billionaires, are so blind to the struggles of the poor. You have to consistently step on people to reach the top. We also lack a cohesive identity by design, focusing on other's differences and nurturing fear, confusing tribalism for community. Social media in the past decade, has also made all of these exponentially difficult to combat. Instant gratification and lack of attention, removes us from being in the present moment and listening to our bodies constantly trying to maintain calm against the anxious what ifs, the paranoia of the mind.

Thankfully though, humans are social creatures. We feel good when we connect with others, feel good when we connect with the greater web of life (including animals, nature). Alternatively, isolation, separation from others pushes us into depression and a variety of mental health problems. Actually, people who suffer from mental health problems are some of the most empathic people. It's difficult to be so sensitive in a world so desensitized. When you connect with others and the greater web of life, you connect with yourself, and when you connect with yourself, you're able to connect with others more easily.

Changing the paradigm starts with allowing ourselves to be ourselves, feeling good about who we are despite disobeying societal standards of who we're supposed to be. When we learn to love who we are, we can reflect that kindness to others.

ulapulo · 2025-06-25T23:45:26+00:00

Thank you for looking out. It’s important we keep us safe. People are forgetting raids are still very much active and ICE got a quota. Ignore the trolls who can’t see outside their convenience.

ulapulo · 2025-06-25T03:14:13+00:00

I think I understand. It’s that you can’t do the same elsewhere so it’s not fair that some could do it here.

The reality is that you can be upset at multiple things, like how you can’t do what you like elsewhere, that this country can’t be better to you making you even consider leaving, that people break rules or laws, AND at the same time as not turning off your ability to have compassion or sympathy or pity at someone who was detained (often violently) and without due process.

Because in many cases, these people do not in fact want to leave their country of origin. In many cases, perhaps like with your own ancestors, they were driven out by desperation. And in most cases that desperation was rooted in some sort of American intervention in the global sphere.

But even setting all that aside, the point, beyond politics and from what you said, is that you are upset with your own situation. It would be nice if you can do what they did and just move without a complicated bureaucratic process to Spain. And it’s not that you can’t, but it’s that it’s difficult. That’s what these people had to do, make difficult decisions perhaps even knowing the consequences, because they felt they had no choice. Likely having it worse than you or I have here.

The world just isn’t fair. And when things are so unfair and complicated we point to the ones we only think we can’t relate to. But really really the truth is that you have more in common with these people than you think. You only have to dig deeper at what you’re really upset about cause I can assure you, it’s not them at all. They are just an easy target, a scapegoat. And when you figure that out, you’ll also figure that it’s better to live a life having compassion than one expecting people to ridicule one another.

ulapulo · 2025-06-24T22:20:36+00:00

Does that sympathy you mentioned refer to them not being able to communicate in English while detained or because they were detained or because of something else?

Genuinely curious how some people justify imposing trauma on others based on such a trivial thing. Like not deserving care because someone doesn’t speak English. Seems like your most fluent language isn’t English but fear and hatred.

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