The spite, hate, rage, apathy and mild irritation thread...

[Disarm D'arcy]

It's okay, it was literally shitty fake news.

[Chankgeez]

Bonus points if the newspaper had a photo of Trump on it.

[karmablock]

icloud bullshit! I can't use my computer because my apple id password isn't being accepted despite it working for 3 other devices.

Did you change your iCloud password recently? If so try the old one if you haven't. If not you may be able to reset then password via the recovery partition. Not sure if or let's you do that with AppleID.

My iMac wouldn't recognize my password for App Store, iMessage, and iCloud. It would on everything else. I ended up having to delete my computer from my account then add it again. But before that I changed my password to make sure they were all using the same one. That caused everything thing else to disconnect and even when logged back in wouldn't connect without a lot of menu diving.

[odontophobia]

I do not like utilizing appleID passwords for log-in passwords for just those such reasons.

[waltdogg]

i've never fucked with appleid or keychain passwords. fuck that nonsense.

[odontophobia]

i've never fucked with appleid or keychain passwords. fuck that nonsense.

i understand it probably in the way you understand tech work on a guitar so for me it's not all too bad but there are just certain things about it i dislike.

[karmablock]

99% of the time it is fine. The time that it does fucks up it is a big day long fucking hassle. I'd still rather deal with this once or twice a year pain in my ass than have to be proficient in problem solving like I had to with a pc.

[nieh]

I'm just sick of everything. Just absolutely everything. I can't even put it into words. I just can't do it. I haven't felt like this in a while and I don't know if I can go through this again.

[Iommic Pope]

I'm just sick of everything. Just absolutely everything. I can't even put it into words. I just can't do it. I haven't felt like this in a while and I don't know if I can go through this again.

Be cool man.
Just another trip around on the merry-go-round.

Fucking dumbasses selling shit on Reverb...

[D.o.S.]

going to be circumspect about this but someone I know wound up in the suicide ward recently for what are, in some lights, very petty/offputting reasons.

[Iommic Pope]

It doesn't take much when it's bad.
I wasn't trying to flippant, I guess I'm just at a point where, personally, when i start to feel like the world is packing my bags for that one way trip to Shitsville, I can kind of sit back and see it for what it is.
"Ah, this again." Depression doesn't get better, and life is constant flux, it is what it is, but the way you deal with it can change for good.
Nieh, I hope that didn't come off as dismissive, but my point was, you've dealt before and gotten through, whatever it was, you're stronger now because you've dealt with it, so you can do it again.
And again.
And again.
No matter how many times.

Obviously, identify patterns and change the actions that lead you back down the same old paths.
Not learning is death.

And, DoS, I hope your friend is doing better and getting what they need.

[Invisible Man]

Posted about this here before, but good grief this job is kicking the shit out of me. I lose sleep over it every night.

It seems insane to me that you can't both contribute something or advance a field in some infinitesimal way and survive...you can have an interesting, fulfilling job or you can eke out a meager living supporting a family by prostrating yourself to insane economic forces (if you are so lucky as to get either; most are not). In my naivete, I thought I'd found some reasonable middle-ground by spending every second of my twenties working toward it. Ugh. Not willing to give up yet, but wow work is grim.

tl;dr: I want it all; can't have it; paralyzed by realization of sunk costs and idealism.

[Wittgenstein]

Posted about this here before, but good grief this job is kicking the shit out of me. I lose sleep over it every night.

It seems insane to me that you can't both contribute something or advance a field in some infinitesimal way and survive...you can have an interesting, fulfilling job or you can eke out a meager living supporting a family by prostrating yourself to insane economic forces (if you are so lucky as to get either; most are not). In my naivete, I thought I'd found some reasonable middle-ground by spending every second of my twenties working toward it. Ugh. Not willing to give up yet, but wow work is grim.

tl;dr: I want it all; can't have it; paralyzed by realization of sunk costs and idealism.

I sold out, took a job in finance, and am (mostly) happier for it. I make considerably more than I would as an assistant professor in the humanities (which isn't saying much), and I still don't have any money (spend it all). I guess if I'm being perfectly honest, though, I do miss the work. I just recently poured over Xenophon's Hiero, with its obvious relevance to the current state of politics, and started to do some writing before realizing no one would fucking read it. Actually, I guess that's not so much different than academics anyway.

[Lurker13]

Posted about this here before, but good grief this job is kicking the shit out of me. I lose sleep over it every night.

It seems insane to me that you can't both contribute something or advance a field in some infinitesimal way and survive...you can have an interesting, fulfilling job or you can eke out a meager living supporting a family by prostrating yourself to insane economic forces (if you are so lucky as to get either; most are not). In my naivete, I thought I'd found some reasonable middle-ground by spending every second of my twenties working toward it. Ugh. Not willing to give up yet, but wow work is grim.

tl;dr: I want it all; can't have it; paralyzed by realization of sunk costs and idealism.

Man, that sounds really awful. Academia is a mess right now, that's for sure. Putting business managers in charge of educational institutions is without a doubt one of the most fucked up ideas of all time.

Let me know if I can help, even if you just need more moral support.

[spacelordmother]

Craigslisters setting up a time for a sale and then letting you know last minute they sold a bunch of the stuff you agreed upon but "it's cool you can still come over."