vinbreau

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by vinbreau 5y ago
I started a new job this year. The employer and our manager have made it clear, IF you feel safe coming into an office once the company declares it safe you can. If you are never comfortable ever again with coming in to the office, you won&
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by vinbreau 6y ago
Reminds me of an old adage I heard in high school: If you take the frogs out of the environment, you don't have the same environment minus frogs, you have an entirely new ecosystem.
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by vinbreau 6y ago
I reconnected with an old friend from childhood a few years ago. I knew he was politically opposite from me so I kept politics out of our conversations... do you know how hard that is? It's hard enough that it requires effort, effort t
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by vinbreau 6y ago
I worked in a bookstore in the '90s and there was a fantastic series of books, for authors, about how poisons worked, how it is like to die in certain situations, all kinds of dark stuff that was designed to help Crime Fiction writers
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by vinbreau 6y ago
My daughter started Kindergarten and we're doing remote learning. She' almost 5 years old and can work a computer for the things she needs. But she can't work a zoom meeting. So I am a teacher's asst. from 8am until 2:30
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by vinbreau 6y ago
I work from home and have a disabled wife plus a 5 year old doing remote learning. I never leave the house except for needed things. Losing social media would isolate me even more.
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by vinbreau 7y ago
This skit from Amazon Women on the Moon turned out to be prescient. It's not so funny anymore. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/technology/clearview-inve...
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by vinbreau 7y ago
Just last week I received an email from a manager saying "Never do (this), especially with US customers." Three days after that email I ran into (this) situation and emailed him asking what I am to do. He said frustratingly that I
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by vinbreau 7y ago
Or they were conditioned to this as the normal state. I grew up in a home with three TVs: living room, parent's bedroom, my bedroom. The TV in the living room was on 24 hours a day. It only went off if we left the house. My father was
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by vinbreau 7y ago
You must not own capital then. If you had they would have worked hard to help you. If you had been a big box store showing the footage to the police they would have helped. But as an individual, they are not there for you.
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by vinbreau 7y ago
It's been about 20 years now. No idea what ever happened to him sadly.
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by vinbreau 7y ago
I've lost three friends over the years to psychotic episodes or schizophrenic breakdowns so I've seen several examples of what happens to people and it all comes down to financial means. The friend born to a wealthy family had a s
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by vinbreau 7y ago
This is why I left work in advertising. I could see the levels of psychological manipulation 30 years ago and knew with the future of data mining it was only going to get worse. There is nothing ethical about advertising. It's all abou
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by vinbreau 7y ago
I dated a vegetarian many years ago. It was my first exposure to that lifestyle. She was not against me eating meat even in front of her. She didn't politicize her choice, it was for her health and nothing more. Luckily some fast food
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by vinbreau 7y ago
I do this. I learned a long time ago that past-me could be quite an asshole even to future-me. Thinking in this context allows me to assess the now and try to be a better past-me while in the present. I consider how future-me will react and
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by vinbreau 7y ago
Same here. I was fast-tracked from Cubs to Boy Scouts because I was picked on and teased endlessly by many of the scouts. Later in my early teens even the scout master gave me hell because he was the father of the worst bully in the troop.
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by vinbreau 8y ago
My wife put her foot down eventually and told me she wasn't going to be able to live with me any more after too many verbal angry outbursts. I received an ADHD diagnosis as a child but was never treated. I lived with the extreme anger
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by vinbreau 8y ago
I use it, but it fails in several areas. It has no filter to limit searches to a year, their options stop after 1 month. Their image search results also lack the depth of Google's. These are features I actually use heavily. So even tho
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by vinbreau 8y ago
Running requires a safe neighborhood. I've lived in enough bad neighborhoods where my wife would never feel safe running in. When we did move to a better neighborhood and saw runners, my wife was surprised. Many poor people do not live
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by vinbreau 8y ago
My mother taught me to be autodidact. She would never answer my questions and instead told me to go get an encyclopedia (It was the 70's) and find out myself. When I spouted ignorance she would correct me. Now she's widowed. As my
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by vinbreau 8y ago
Don't forget ageism. Older people love memes with "back in my day" in the headline that shows some perceived difference between when they were young and the youth of today. I have friends who sometimes share that stuff on the
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by vinbreau 8y ago
I've been remote for almost 8 years now. I love it and dread ever having to go back into an office. Faking productivity for show when the workload is low was the worst feeling, as if I was wasting my time and life. Plus I have social a
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by vinbreau 8y ago
This works unless your anxiety is being triggered by the vagus nerve in which case deep breathing only makes it worse. Had one related to an illness recently, the vagus nerve makes you feel like you are having terrible anxiety that is made
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by vinbreau 8y ago
Grew up in a rural area. 45 minute drive to nearest recycling center. My father would collect an entire truck load of bagged recyclables and bring it there. He would walk away with maybe 5$ if he was lucky. 5$ to bring 15 bags 45 minutes aw
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by vinbreau 8y ago
My wife has called over 10 therapists in the last few months. All of them have had no openings for new patients unless you agree to see them off the insurance. The rejection from so many therapists is taking it's toll. It's even m
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by vinbreau 8y ago
This is me as well. My brain is useless until close to lunch time. After lunch I start feeling productive and this feeling begins to steamroll into the evening. When I am allowed to structure my day I don't even plan to start work unti
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by vinbreau 9y ago
As a kid I began to map my CYA books in a similar fashion. I wanted to write my own and so would mimic the structure of the books I had. Twelve year old me would have loved nice clean maps like these. I'm sure mine were nowhere as neat
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by vinbreau 9y ago
It makes me miserable because I see people spouting ignorant nonsense as if from authority. It shows me the effect media has on my aging family members. It shows me bigotry in friends I had thought better of. And it appears to be accelerati
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by vinbreau 9y ago
Thanks. I have a few friends, all on the conservative end of the spectrum, that claim I brought it upon myself by not trying to fit in. I was the weird kid in my town, not bad, just not a cowboy like the majority of the people in the deep s
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by vinbreau 9y ago
Same here. I was once assaulted by a police officer on the property where my father worked. The cop was employed as security and did not wear his badge openly. He was dressed in civilian clothes with his badge on his belt, behind his back.

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