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PrefixKitten··on Ask HN: People who've been jobless for a while, what's keeping you going?
inability to suicide

desire for close platonic relationships with people who matter to me

that's about it

PrefixKitten··on Rejecting Unwanted Romantic Advances Is More Difficult Than Suitors Realize (2018)
Well I'm still obligated to make those advances if I intend to ever have another romantic relationship so this information isn't very useful
PrefixKitten··on Children’s Screen Time Has Soared in Pandemic, Alarming Parents and Researchers
I struggle to convince myself that this is really what people want for each other in life =(
PrefixKitten··on The richer you are, the more likely you’ll social distance, study finds
this is my thinking as well. I was already excruciatingly isolated and lonely beforehand. I'm not gonna pass up what few social opportunities I get just to avoid a little risk
PrefixKitten··on Twitter shuts down account of Sci-Hub
I find the notion of owning scientific knowledge kind of unsettling...
PrefixKitten··on 'Rent-a-person who does nothing' in Tokyo receives endless requests, gratitude
Now if only I could make money doing two chicks at the same time..
PrefixKitten··on Under Pressure: Why Athletes Choke
When we are choking the prefrontal cortex takes over what would normally be 2nd nature subconscious actions and tries to execute them 'manually'

This also reduces the brain's capacity to analyze the current game state and make abstract moment to moment decisions.

PrefixKitten··on I closed my Facebook account, and you should too
lol i got rid of mine about a year ago
PrefixKitten··on Learn to code in 2021, get hired, and have fun along the way
I learned to code back in 2015 and can't even get interviewed let alone hired. (comp sci major btw)
PrefixKitten··on Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App Store
He could literally just call it "benzedrex" instead as that is the name of a nearly identically acting but otc stimulant you can grab off the shelf at any walmart lol...
PrefixKitten··on Ask HN: Giving Junior candidates home assignment in unfamiliar programming lang?
Aside from the fact that I'm against expecting candidates to program as part of the interview process I don't think that that is an unreasonable task for a presumably college graduate to have to do
PrefixKitten··on Why Doesn't Anyone Answer the Phone Anymore?
The only people i know who wanna call me are the people at my psychiatrist's office. Anybody else trying to get ahold of me is probably spam not anyone I'd know in real life so there's no real point picking the phone up unless i'm expecting a call from my psych...
PrefixKitten··on What Will Your Job Be Once the Revolution Happens?
My guess is I'd be stuck babysitting
PrefixKitten··on Conflict of Pinterest: Women-friendly on the outside, toxic on the inside
just like the entire internet
PrefixKitten··on China Used 'Mass Surveillance' on Thousands of Americans' Phones, Report Claims
I thought this was common knowledge?
PrefixKitten··on SolarWinds Sunburst attack will spur the cybersecurity field to evolve
somehow i doubt it...
PrefixKitten··on Ask HN: Has too much coding changed my lingual skills
I highly doubt it's causing your lingual skills to deteriorate any.

What you're describing though sounds somewhat similar to some episodes of psychosis I've had(stimulant induced).

As my tolerance to the stimulants has rose the severity of that particular phenomena has diminished considerably

It may be worth asking how well you've been sleeping fwiw.

I don't mean to suggest you are experiencing psychosis symptoms btw. But if the things me and you have experienced have anything in common I would suggest spending some time around other people in person in a low pressure situation if that is an option for you. That's what seems to be what helps me

edit: you may also want to check whether your problem could be due to heat exhaustion.

PrefixKitten··on The Internet Is for Porn
Well I somehow went from having multiple exes beg me to marry them at one point all the way to not even being able to get to know a single woman in years. The complete lack of women in any aspect of my life has proven to be extremely inconvenient(even outside the context of dating)
PrefixKitten··on Ask HN: What are your must read software engineering books?
I clicked to specifically mention that book as a staple. That book was the single handed reason for the largest jump of my programming skill while in university.

I'd also recommend a comprehensive book about networking infrastructure if you haven't read on already. I don't think a specific one is necessary in this case.

I think the content in The Art of War is good to know in software too especially with how widespread espionage has become in those areas.

PrefixKitten··on [dead]
No shit... What do they expect will happen from severing social ties?
PrefixKitten··on A Man Is Betting $1.7B on the Rights to Your Favorite Songs
I never would have guessed how good an idea quitting guitar would turn out to be for me -.-
PrefixKitten··on The pandemic is forcing some men to realize they need deeper friendships
I've known this and have been saying so for the past 5 years...

Unless society changes in some significant way those friendships aren't going to happen though.

PrefixKitten··on The Internet Is for Porn
What women expect from men seems to have sharply risen in the last decade. Before getting my degree and getting in shape I was able to find partners. Nowadays people aren't even willing to be friends with me. If women's expectations in fact haven't gone up then I have no idea what the people from my past saw in me that more recent people don't.
PrefixKitten··on The Internet Is for Porn
Asexuality and even asociality have been effectively forced upon me by my peers. I don't see any viable avenue to express my sexuality the way I had presumed I would get to as an adult.
PrefixKitten··on The Internet Is for Porn
Because it demonstrated just how out of reach an actual relationship with someone is for me.

>Somebody else enjoying content they paid for has nothing to do with you - it's easy to avoid and easy to not be involved.

I'd argue that platforms such as these have an effect on gender dynamics in society as a whole.

PrefixKitten··on The Internet Is for Porn
The fact that there is even a viable market for OnlyFans type content was such a disheartening thing to learn.
PrefixKitten··on Ask HN: Why There Is No Ask Me Anything on Hacker News?
They generally are just promotional content from what i remember most the time. I think that would be a bit too tacky for this forum if that were to become a regular occurrence.
PrefixKitten··on Better Quake strafe-jumping with genetic algorithms [video]
Aww... I was hoping this would be about shot avoidance techniques. Back in the day there were some halo pros who had truly wicked strafe patterns.

The thread title gave me the impression that that was what it was going to be about. Now that I think of it though it would be kind of intractable to program an algorithm to avoid human fire since you would need someone actively shooting at it in real time in order to train it

PrefixKitten··on FTC issues orders to nine social media and video streaming services
Not the parent commenter but the only product I spend any money on whatsoever anymore is Benzedrex so beyond that any product being delivered to me is entirely at the expense of whatever company is involved in it's dissemination.
PrefixKitten··on Pornhub just purged all unverified content from the platform
I had been seeing one. I don't see what good it can do in this case though...
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