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No Patrick, homeopatic sugar is not a solution to that. No... Being vegan is also not a solution. And neither is cannabis oil.

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My name isn't Patrick and I don't do any of the things you listed.

I think he's making a Spongebob Squarepants reference.

Wow. Okay. Googling that is pretty freaking insulting.

What do you do then?

Nothing I want to discuss with someone being openly insulting to me in violation of the guidelines and not apologizing, especially given that two of my comments here have been downvoted to the negatives and your insult has not been flagged to death. I consider that evidence of a hostile atmosphere, which is par for the course and in no way surprising, much to my frustration.

I would like to think 8.5 years of proving I am competent, not the attention monger people assume me to be etc would be worth more than that. But it isn't.

You didn't even post your opinion on some topic... You just claimed that you are being "ingnored" and "crapped on".

But seriously, why do some people insist so much on victimizing themselves?

E.g. again in your last comment. You could have posted your view, maybe it really was something amazing that would have blown all my stupid comments away. But no...

> snowflake melts

Its this really nessessary? You could have easily made your point without escalating further...

Your entire comment is still just a personal attack. Sometimes, people who feel victimized feel that way because they have been.

My other handle us still on the leaderboard. I no longer post under it, but there are people here who are well aware of my 8.5 year posting history and at least part of what I am referring to.

I am disappointed in seeing your remark upvoted for changing your ugly two word swipe to a three paragraph marginally more polite attack.

For the record: I spent nearly 6 years homeless. I have a life threatening genetic disorder. I am currently broke and have no idea how I will muddle through this month, a common occurrence but one which usually occurs later in the month. I am in this pickle due to a health event which robbed me of the ability to work for the past 2.5 weeks.

So I am cranky at the moment. Given that I have long been the top ranked woman on HN and achieved that status while homeless and then made the leaderboard about a month after getting myself off the street, I get pretty fed up with having to constantly behave better than the generally comfortably well off members here while having insults and disrespect heaped upon me under incredibly trying circumstances.

I don't have any delusions that you will have a shred of sympathy. It's just 3:10am here and my ability to bite my tongue in the face of so much that is galling is lacking.

Hopefully I can sleep soon and decide tomorrow whether continuing to put up with this utter and completely shit treatment from the entire world is something I want to keep doing. I am quite confident most people would have thrown in the towel long ago if faced with the level of bullshit I have had to wade through.

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