Behaviorbabe

It does resemble a pad from this photo.

I was thinking of taking my kids to see the eclipse at Niagara but…these guys and the combination of a large crowd has me concerned.

Sickening behavior, but not shocking.

Maybe infinite growth doesn’t need to be the goal.

Just mentioning this because I see all the others: spicy food. Your brain makes happy chemicals to help with the pain, apparently.

Long ago when I lived in Florida there was a lady who shot her husband for eating the last fried pork chop. I tried to find it online but there are a variety of similar stories and it was before everything was online.

I don’t think I need to be fair to these folks who have neither a worry or a care of the consequences of their actions. However, it is already more than generous to mock someone who makes a healthcare decision en masse based upon the stated reasons. Mocking ridiculous statements is the minimum. And honestly, we already know how the exceptions are playing out in states with 6-week bans. How would you like to be on deaths door before reviving care because biology wasn’t your side? Or just allowed to die because you lack the resources to flee reprehensible policy? Yeah, I was already being overly generous. Thank you though.

“People will die of preventable illness but I like this number because it’s shaped round” motherfucker.

I just wanna play Simtown and SimCity2000.

I’m not very tech savvy, my Adblock sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t. I’ve been using Firefox with extensions incognito for YouTube or I just avoid the site these days. I really liked it for music videos, since in unwilling to pay Spotify. So far my strategy is working.

Hmm. I work in a high stress field. As in, behavioral modification. I get hit a lot. It does impact me over time. So what I do to manage my emotions is taking the time to take it easy on myself. I make that space. One hour after work every day (not counting the drive) where I am just alone with my thoughts and doomscrolling before I let anyone else place any demands on me (myself included). You sound a little bit like me before I burned out originally a few years ago and put some boundaries in place where self-care is concerned. That one hour did wonders.

“You’re still upset about that?”

The writers

Republicans can go fuck themselves, how about that?

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“Why don’t you just…?” And it be the most obvious alternative or solution OR fundamentally at odds with me as a person.

Example: I did not choose or want to breast feed.

“Why don’t you breast feed, blah blah blah unwanted and unnecessary advice.” Multiple times. I guess these types of questions are intended to give the asker some sort of downward social reference.

Something new every day. Create. Spend time with my children. Volunteer my time and knowledge.

I want a community that values feedback. Downvotes are a form of feedback (low response effort too!) that anyone who is a part of that can choose to engage with, even people who don’t want a comment history at all. I have used them in the past to reflect on myself, and the community I was a part of as well.

Situational.

First, if it’s directed at me, I do not engage. Like, at all. If someone is trying to get my attention with shitty behavior, they’re not getting it. If it’s the guy on my discord meme channel who posts incel memes, I really have do have to remind myself not to engage. That one is harder, because I feel like they’re taking away from the quality of the space, I don’t want them in my orbit AT ALL, but they are part of the greater community, and this channel sort of quarantines their brain vomit. So again, I never engage with them, but I deliberately engage with other posters and community members who are productive and positive. In the short term, it’s not rewarding, but in the long term I do feel much better about myself. And finally, sometimes I really do need to step away–maybe it’s into another game, another community, etc. Sometimes I do need to take a break, seek other forms of entertainment and reinforcement. The main thing is not to continuously expose yourself to things that are aversive to you and just stress and stress. You have to break it somehow.

Skinners verbal behavior. Woof.