Your feelings are only valuable to one person: You.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepThoughts/comments/c4tpuo/theres_a_sweetness_inside_of_me_that_i_buried/

Don't listen to all these weepy, open-hearted bastards. They're just waiting to be stabbed in the back repeatedly.

Fuck no.

The real advice and ability is to emulate those feelings and project them into the world while still retaining your hard outer shell around your feelings. Let the world think you're vulnerable, when in reality you're still as stone cold and brusque as the day they left your emotions on the side of the road, cold and alone. This is required to be a functioning human being in this day and age, where people joke about suicide and depression and anxiety, and all this "ironic" fucking shit that seems to be the norm nowadays. Emulate the human connection. Emulate outward emotion.

Never let anyone in, ever. Because if you do, they will wreck your shit, over, and over, and over again. Different people, different names, different faces, whatever. It's a cruel world and you just have to be harder than the world.

Expel your happiness and joy to other people, your sadness, your anger. Your dreams and wants and needs. But be warned: It will be used against you at one time or another.

You will be constantly judged for sharing anything with anyone at any time, and again, it will be used against you later at one time or another.

Put on the facade and show the world that you are a normal, functioning human being, but let nothing affect you deep down.

Because when it affects you is when you've lost the war against the pressures of the world.

So no, OP. Guard your feelings with your life, because the minute you lay them in someone else's hands, they will be squeezed like jell-o, seeping through the gaps between the fingers and landing on the floor for the roaches to eat, and then the rest will be slammed to the floor, and you'll have to pick up the liquefied pieces, and you'll never be able to put them back together again the way they were before. Because your feelings are only valuable to one person: You.

Take care of yourself only, because that's what the world comes down to: You and your life.

Reddit rant about America's healthcare.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rant/comments/c2k1mj/stop_making_fun_of_americans_for_their_shitty/erldjo3/?context=3

Americans would be outraged at what they would be taxed for a "free healthcare system". It'd be pretty steep and the whole economic landscape would have to change to accomodate that. Most people can't even afford an extra $50 being removed from their paychecks on top of what they already might be paying for healthcare through their work, not to mention dental and eyesight (which are typically a lot lower but for good plans, combined would come out to $20-30 bucks on top of the healthcare plan).

Americans want to have their cake and eat it too from what I've experienced, also as an American here, but it's not feasible to do that. You have to pay your dues if you want a "free" service/daddy gubment to take care of you, and a lot of people don't really understand that.

We might arrive at that conclusion in maybe 200-300 years but Europe as a whole is VERY MUCH older than the U.S. and as such is far more advanced in their treatment of their citizens as a whole because of it. I mean, technically 1776 (ish, the year the declaration of independence was signed, but there was still a lot of y'know, legal crap after that I don't know about between the colonies and Britain) was only approx 243 years ago. That is STUPID YOUNG compared to literally anywhere in Europe.

America has a lot of catching up to do in terms of social policies and stuff like that. 'Murica is just a wee babe compared to Europe, and even Canada, despite the first colonies in Canada only being established really in 1608, according to Google. That's almost 200 years (- ~30 years) before America became "free" from Britain.

However the status as a whole today in the US is basically greedy politicians and CEOs > the common man, when it should be the opposite, because the common man is what produces said lifestyle for those CEOs and politicians in general. But it does work both ways, but the common man is content to just have a roof over his head, electricity, and with the advent of the internet, the internet at his fingertips.

We're pretty fucked in America unless there's a large change in the political and economic landscape, but, idk, I'm just an idiot pulling things out of my ass, so who cares.

Reply I put to someone else saying that "Canada is younger than the U.S. and that we should spend less on military (which I agree with):

So the first colony was founded in the U.S. by Britain in 1607, while Canada's is actually 1534.

I actually clicked on some links this time instead of skimming Google results.

So if we're going by "technically" standards and not being under rule from another country for the U.S., and Britain themselves has been around a whole lot longer if we count from when it was first settled in 1066.

So, Canada is about 20 years older, which, in the grand scheme of things, is not very much older at all. However, you have to consider how America developed separately from its parent nation compared to France having a colony in Canada, and keeping in contact with them and all that jazz. I am 100% sure it influenced culture in Canada today, whereas we had to produce our own "American" culture, as it is today. And Canada is still similar in function to how America works, but they get the benefit of having France as their parent country, which is part of Europe (or the EU, whatever) and a lot of the policies from there have transferred over to Canada.

Basically comparing Europe/The UK to the U.S. is apples to fucking orangutans, they're vastly different countries in how they work and feel to live in, what benefits everyone has, etc.

However I do agree that we could cut back a LOT on military spending and invest that into other things for our country, like FUCKING HEALTHCARE AHHHHHHHHHHH.

I don't know why I'm awake at 1:33 AM but here's a rant

So I just finished Domestic Girlfriend, the anime. Now, this was kind of a "harem" anime but it was definitely more serious-toned, which was nice to see, except the "harem" was just three women with 1 guy, and the women weren't really fighting over him or anything, since the guy knew what he wanted and went to get it, basically, who was his teacher at school. They eventually end up together yadda yadda school finds out, she moves away, he writes a novel and ends up with her sister.

So I wanted to talk about hoooow fucking duuuuumb this anime is. For one, the teacher, during the anime, has a boyfriend, and cheats on him with some other guy, meanwhile the guy is married so he's having an affair with her, if I understood the situation correctly from her point of view (the affair guy may have been the bf). Why anyone would want to get with someone who was okay with being the side chick, I have no idea. The student's attraction to the teacher was just TOO STRONK I guess and he really didn't seem to care.

Anyway, the whole anime is "decent" but it's still a train-wreck of women competing for this one guy, namely the teacher and her sister in the end, and in the end the sister gets him because of complications with the school. I'm too lazy right now to type out the whole plot but that's the gist of it. Plus this guy or "kid" seems really grown up, more than enough to actually be out of school, so it's a bit weird.

But hey at least there are no 12,000 year old little girls who are dragons in the anime or some shit. Just women with da anime tiddies all around. No flat chests here, no sir. Is it bad that's really the only thing I enjoyed about the anime was mostly the eye candy? I mean sure the plot was "intriguing" at best, but let's be honest...

Oh and of course:

Gawddamn I love me some JoJo memes.

Anyway, yeah. Anime is like 2/5 probably. Which is the rating I'll give it on Anime-Planet.

But also, I just wanted to say the end of the anime and finishing it off really just... disgusted me. This guy in the anime is an excellent novelist and he's wasting his time with women. I don't hate women one bit but until they can prove they're not idiots and/or sluts etc. to me, then why waste your time with them?

I mean jesus christ even a girl at my work who I'm friends with and say hi to and stuff (different departments now) just rides the cock carousel like no one's business, but you wouldn't know it from the look of her. Shit's scary, man. It's scary what's underneath those visages. But, the same can be said for men too. I should know, I was one of those "nice guys" who are manipulative bastards. And I've seen my sister run through "nice guy" after "nice guy" after they mistreat her.

Am I glad to not hear her crying over this shit like 3 times a fucking week? F yeah I am.

But my point being here is both men and women... no one knows what each other's personal lives are like until you get to know one another, and then you have to decide for yourself if that person is worth your time or not. There's no use outright hating a person if you don't know them personally, or at least at "acquaintance" level.

Anyway, that's it for this. I'll probably write something else tonight that's fucking stupid or something idk it's 2 AM and I'm not tired for some reason.

I hate people who don't do things in a methodical manner.

I hate people who don't do things in a methodical manner.

This is super annoying to deal with, especially at work. Today one of my co-workers passed 2 appointments to me because she's going on a vacation for a week (wish I could do that shit, hahahahah women right -_- Noooo I have too much work on my plate) and I asked her for details on the appointment. You can probably guess what happened.

Now, I have a particular way I go about doing stuff at work, particularly with all the email migrations we are doing right now. The End-of-Life for an email service is in the middle of the year coming up, and another email service is dropping at the end of the year. So we have a lot of people calling our support line and the support line making appointments for us, then we have to have our admin (coolest dude ever) research the appointment and look into what kind of migration it might be. I literally don't know how this co-worker is functioning right now because she is missing such vital information from the customer, she has to be just doing appointments by the brim of her pants barely. 

So what I look for is:

How are they checking their email? If it's an Outlook client, what is the version of the Outlook client? (2007 is depreciated and does not work with Office 365 anymore, and 2010 soon will as well I'm sure, probably next year or the year after that) Typically this gets me the information I need about how they check their email. Most people using the "webmail service" we provide will say they use the web to check their email.

So, strike one. I ask her what clients if any these 2 accounts are using. She says Outlook for both. I ask what version. She looks at me and says "Uhhhh, idk." I ask her if she remoted into their computer to check. She says "Nope." Inside I am fueled with the rage of a thousand suns at this point because I know she didn't bother to gather any more information from the customer besides information she could see herself.

So the second thing I look for is where their domain is hosted. Typically these people have what we call "business-branded emails" that are something like user@business.com or something. Also typically, we can look up their domains and check where their domains are hosted using who.is. (Who.is is a fabulous tool for this kind of thing.) So I typically do that during intake with customers and tell them as such. "Oh, your domain is hosted with us, so that will make everything really easy!" It puts them at ease and lets them know they're in good hands. (Fuck Symantec products btw, but that's a story for another post I may write out after this one.) So in this case this was okay because I didn't need to ask her for this information, but I did anyway. She answered correctly so at least she did some work. That's typically all I ask because our admin lets us know where their email is hosted typically in the notes before the appointment. If he can't find it, then we do have to ask at least, and I think that's something she also does not do, but I don't know since it didn't come up in this instance.

HOWEVER.
I remoted into the second customer's computer because I was told by her that they were using the separate email service we indirectly host that is shutting down at the end of the year. 

So with those, I typically remote in and do a .PST backup for the customer, and create a new mail profile, and import the mail back in. Typically it's a short process but some of those customers have like 20 years of flippin' email in their inboxes, but those tend to be far and few in-between. So I am typically able to get those done in a day, but they also cause the most stress for me because if they get additional emails in-between the time I'm able to change the MX record and verify their emails are working. I've been lucky so far with being able to skip some "unneeded" emails with customers but I am working to fix this issue with myself as well, to better learn the process to minimize missed emails and get things done in a timely manner.

Anyway, back to the point here, I remoted into the customer's computer and asked about their Outlook client and stuff. (I assume that most people know what "Outlook" is, and not the default Windows Mail client, or Thunderbird being referred to as "Outlook" but, that's definitely my mistake, which is why I usually remote in to verify what I'm working with, as in this case), and they said the client uses Outlook (I was speaking to their IT guy it seems). So I was looking for an Outlook icon on the taskbar or in the start menu, and the guy was like, "It's on the desktop." So I was like... okay? So I looked and it was the Windows Mail client that comes with Windows. I fucking rolled my eyes SO HARD and was like "Haha, this isn't Outlook, this is the default Windows Mail client." And the guy was just like "Yeah I guess so". 

Like this idiot calls himself an IT guy for this company and doesn't fucking know this shit? Fucking please. PUHLEEEEAZE. I also have another similar story about another appointment of mine right now, but that's another separate post.

So I find out that they are indeed not using Outlook, and you cannot export mail out of the Windows Mail client through some googling while on the phone with them. So, STRIKE 2 MOTHERFUCKER. She didn't even remote in to verify. The guy was very hesitant and nervous the whole time so I guarantee you he said something like "Yeah, Outlook, whatever". Literally any hesitancy and I will remote in to verify what environment I'm working with.

So I basically had to do an intake call all over again. However they only needed one email from the EOL(End of Life) separately hosted email program, so I set them up for a migration in the Office Tool and let it run. Of course it finished, but I could have had it fucking done today. So now half my week next week is just fucking piled on with fucking appointments instead of the first couple days because of FUCKING PEOPLE WHO DON'T ASK PROBING QUESTIONS.

You bet your ass I'm telling the team lead to coach your ass on this shit. It's basic shit for the job we work in, why would you not do this? And they gave her control of a HUGE, HUGE account too that's extremely important. Of course I actually don't want it but like... we have 2 other experienced members who could be doing that one.

I dunno man, just... people are fucking stupid. I love my co-workers as people but goddamn they are some of the slowest sons of bitches...

Okay, back to Runescape Slayerrrrr and watching Domestic Girlfriend. I have some more input about Domestic Girlfriend but that can wait for another post as well. 

Fackin' moved out m8s

Finally.

No more people stealing food from me.

No more people taking advantage of me.

It's all ... well, flat land from here I suppose. Nothing is really going to change besides my amount of expendable income, heh.

Cooking noodles right now and I forgot I didn't have a strainer... ugh.