Unpopular Opinion AbsoluteChicagoDog • 1 week ago • 82%

Censorship is a real problem, but you don't have to embrace it. That's just making the problem worse.

Trees AbsoluteChicagoDog • 1 month ago • 97%

Found myself in a pretty terrible place mental health wise for a few years. Every day after work was 20-60mg edibles, a bowl or three, and vaping. I did this with some incredibly toxic people. I'm back on track with my life now and only smoke occasionally. But now when I get high I just fucking panic. I'm talking one single joint and I'm in full blown stoned panic. It's not eating junk food and laughing at stupid movies any more. It's being terrified that everyone hates me and that I'm wasting my life and stressing about climate change the increasingly fascist government. I literally cannot relax when I'm high any more. Is this a thing that happens? How do I go back to a happy high?

Doctor Who AbsoluteChicagoDog • 4 months ago • 83%

The episode starts with the Doctor stepping into a fairy circle, causing him to vanish and locking the Tardis. I'm not a huge fan of this season's "magic is real" vibe, but so far it tracks. A woman appears and follows Ruby around. She ends up in a pub where she asks about the fairy circle. After a long build up explaining just how serious the fairy circle is, it turns out no that's just racist. Pretty funny, and it works with the magic theme. So how does the fairy circle actually work then? No fucking clue, they never explain it. As far as I can tell it just exists for this bit. So this woman makes everyone near her hate Ruby. Everyone. Why? Who fucking knows. They never explain why. It just does. It leads up to a politician getting scared and ruining his career. Again pretty clever. But again no explanation is ever given as to how or why this happens. Then Ruby dies. And when she dies she becomes the scary woman. Then she goes back in time. How? Why? No idea. It just happens and you gotta deal with it. So apparently the Doctor stepping on a fairy circle that doesn't do anything makes him vanish for no reason, creates an old copy of Ruby that follows her around for no reason, who scares everyone for no reason, then when Ruby dies undoes everything for no reason. This. Makes. No. Sense.

YNAB AbsoluteChicagoDog • 4 months ago • 100%

Would love to switch to a credit union, but I travel a lot and most are regional. DCU seems decent but does it work with ynab? I don't want to manually enter everything.

No Stupid Questions AbsoluteChicagoDog • 5 months ago • 85%

I'm missing something here. Admittedly, I'm making the assumption that blowing up hospitals is a bad thing to do.

Asklemmy AbsoluteChicagoDog • 6 months ago • 87%

Been high nonstop for years. I realize it's bad for my health. But at least being high feels good. My future is on a planet becoming increasingly unhabitable, under a government becoming increasingly fascist, doing nothing but working and still not being able to afford rent or food, never traveling, never making real friends much less finding a life partner, water quickly becoming a luxury, and with zero chance of ever retiring. So why even bother?

Star Trek AbsoluteChicagoDog • 6 months ago • 39%

Would make the show watchable and cut like half the time.

Unpopular Opinion AbsoluteChicagoDog • 6 months ago • 53%

Using specific words and phrasing with the government to get a desirable outcome is literally what some of us have to do with the police.

No Stupid Questions AbsoluteChicagoDog • 7 months ago • 98%

I want to go biking in cities, but from what I've read most police departments simply do not give a fuck about stolen bikes. How do I make sure my bike doesn't get stolen?

No Stupid Questions AbsoluteChicagoDog • 8 months ago • 92%

Everyone is talking about the American soldiers killed in Jordan. But I don't know why they were there to begin with.

Doctor Who AbsoluteChicagoDog • 8 months ago • 61%

I like these types of lists because there's always a recency bias. The 7th Doctor was ranked the best in the 90s but now he's viewed much less favorably. I hated the 12th at first and now he's one of my favorites. Anyway here's Wonderwall Best - 4th I mean obviously who else could it be? 10th/14th Yes I am combining them 3rd Criminally underrated 12th I absolutely love how 12 is more of a scientist 11th For his first two seasons at least 9th My first Doctor 5th I like the celery bit 1st Bitter old man, it works 15th Too soon to call it but so far so good 2nd Almost as good as the 1st 13th I think Jodie did the best she could with the horrendous writing she was given 7th No strong feelings on him 6th Other than his jacket I remember nothing about him Worst - 8th That movie was hot garbage I'm not sorry, I don't count his cameos

Antiwork AbsoluteChicagoDog • 8 months ago • 58%

Sad to see capitalist propaganda leaking in here. But remember the fundamentals my fellow workers.

Unpopular Opinion AbsoluteChicagoDog • 11 months ago • 55%

I have so many friends who would 100% be labeled as an incel if they were men. They hold men to impossibly high standards while meeting none of those standards themselves. For example, women living with parents while expecting men to have their own place, women who are obese but are only interested in fit men, working part time while expecting a man who has a career, refusing to drive and expecting men to chauffeur them around, expecting men to have a variety of friends and interests while doing nothing but watching TV all day, etc. The worst part is, calling out this inequality will 100% get any man labeled as an incel. We're expected to either deal with it or be alone forever. This is NOT to undermine the very real issues women have to deal with, for example the loss of bodily autonomy in the US. But this is still an issue worth discussing and nobody is talking about it.

Trees AbsoluteChicagoDog • 1 year ago • 100%

I'm wondering if I have a weed problem. I started taking weed to help my depression then after a while I take it every day. Usually edibles and vaping sometimes just vaping. And I've been taking T breaks and it seems like when I'm on a break everything is horrible life sucks and it makes it hard to be on a t break. So I maybe don't take it for a day or two each month. I keep saying I'm on a T break but I never really am. All I do is get stoned, sometimes with my friends, usually alone. That's all I do. If I'm not working I'm high or getting high soon. I'm trying to find a girlfriend but sometimes they want to see me and I'm too high to go see them. That's happened to me and it sucks I really want a girlfriend and I missed those chances because I was stoned. I know weed isn't addicting but is there another thing for it? Should I move away and try to start over sober?

I don't think I've spoken to a woman on Tinder who is actually interested in dating. The majority of them don't ever reply, the few that do put zero effort into the conversation and often just want money. Once in a while a woman agrees to meet then just doesn't. What the actual fuck? How do you guys handle this bullshit? Before I get called an incel 1000 times, I am already doing everything right. I'm in therapy, I exercise every day, I eat healthy, I have diverse interests and several friends. I have paid people to review my profile and conversations and everyone agrees I am doing everything right.