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[–] russjr08@bitforged.space 2 points 20 minutes ago

I am tired. Very, very tired.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago

Badly frankly.

[–] d00phy@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

American here. I am numb, and profoundly sad for my country.

ETA, I also learned today that I’m probably going to be putting my dog down in a week or two. That will be the second one this year.

My week could be better.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

I'm so sorry.

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hey I'm really sorry to hear about your dog. It must be tough knowing that it's coming.

[–] d00phy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Thanks, it is. TBH, I’ve known it was coming. We took him to a neurologist today and she was getting red-eyed talking to us. Rough day all around.

[–] AchtungDrempels@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Spent all week at hone sick with corona. Not too bad though, felt kinda good to just hang out.

And today I received a replacement display for my old olympus camera, which gets no more official repair and I actually managed to successfully replace it myself. I hope it'll hold up but so far so good.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 day ago

Hope you'll get better soon!

[–] lime@feddit.nu 3 points 1 day ago

i'm completely unmotivated at work and my tasks are time-sensitive. also my employer is collapsing around me so i'm trying to see if anyone else needs people.

also i'm halfway through a move, and there's no internet in the new place until december so i'm sitting here in a room without curtains and full of boxes, the only thing still unpacked being my remote work setup.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] obscur_e@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago
[–] sbf@feddit.org 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Quite well. I recently got accepted to one of my top three picks for school!

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

Congratulations!

[–] Pistcow@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ooohhh sorry, school has been outlawed.

[–] sbf@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago

Aw, shucks. To the coal mines I go, I guess…

[–] moistclump@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] sbf@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

Thank you! :)

[–] Servais@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 day ago

unemployed and what I believe to be one of the worse presidents of my lifetime has been re-elected with his party winning control of both houses and a judiciary he stacked in his last time. Oh and he appears to have fallen deep into senility in the last year and his vice president is one of the few that can make him look good in comparison. Lastly his thinktank include rfk junior, musk, and host of other nutters.

[–] Alice@beehaw.org 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Alice@beehaw.org 12 points 1 day ago

My condolences

[–] obscur_e@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago
[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’m sorry.

-southern escapee

[–] Alice@beehaw.org 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Congratulations! You don't have to see the guy with a confederate flag skullcap tattoo around town and resist the urge to bash his face

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Didn't see a guy with a face tattoo, but there are definitely Trump supporters and thin blue line people here too even though I'm in a blue urban area. A guy with huge obnoxious Trump flags attached to the back of his wheelchair was on the bus I took today 😬 Not so many people like that around that I feel like I'm back in The Bad Place, but any is more than you want to see, you know?

I'm sorry you're having to be in the eye of the storm and I hope you can stay safe.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's FAR better to be in the eye of the storm than in the part that has all the winds and rain and stuff.

[–] gila@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Started a new job managing a retail store, so I'm trying to balance my new routine with my study. At the same time, I had to leave where I'm staying for a few days and figure out alternative transport. Tomorrow I only have study in the morning, so I've got some waking hours to myself for once ... I'm probably gonna crash on the couch hard. But looking forward to it!

[–] sbf@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago

Nothing beats having to do, well, nothing! I recently had to stay with a friend of mine due to some housing issues, and even though the couch wasn’t mine, I can’t tell you how nice it felt to slump on it after a stressful day.

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not great for money but could be worse.

I should have known better than order from AliExpress, as I've had a $200 package probably stolen. It was delivered to the floor of the lobby in a building that has 300+ apartments, a Friday evening, and I couldn't get home until Monday. There are secure lockers but they were not used. So yeah, no package and AliExpress is like "but it was delivered so it's your problem".

Also, winter is coming here and I hate it, so I'm trying to plan a short trip in the Carribean in a few weeks, and maybe a longer one in January. It's probably going to be St-Martin for now. Hopefully, the planning and the trip itself will help me take my mind off all the recent shitty news.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I should have known better than order from AliExpress...

There are secure lockers but they were not used.

I fail to see how this is in any way, shape, or form AliExpress' failure. I mean aside from the knee-jerk "CHYNA BADD!" shit that Americans always spew.

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

It's not their fault per se but more in the way their delivery system is setup. I live in a building with over 300 apartments. A place where ordering anything that will be left on the floor of the lobby for more than a few hours is going to be stolen.

If I order from eBay, they use the local post and my stuff is either left in my mailbox, or I have to go get it at the post office. It's never left on the floor.

If I order from Amazon, they will usually (not always) put my packages in the secure lockers. And if I'm waiting for something rather pricey, their estimate is good enough that I can stay home that day.

But ordering from AliExpress is a huge gamble for me. I don't live in a house, don't have a door giving on the outside, and their courriers are not consistent. Sometimes they call me on my phone and they (apparently) want me to open the downstairs door, but I can't do it this way because they have to ring my apt # on the doorbell. So they lose patience, hang up and I can't find where the package was left. I have never had a delivery that went smoothly with them. I tried with cheap items first and delivery was always spotty. That's why I should have known better. Ordering from them and have packages delivered where I live is a taking a risk. Their delivery estimates is also all over the place. The package was supposed to arrive yesterday but it arrived on a Friday evening while I was out of town for three days. I just can't stay home for two to three weeks waiting for the AliExpress courrier to leave my package on the floor of my apartment's lobby.

It would probably be much better if I lived in a house and they simply left the package in front of it. Like, if I ever order from them again, it will be at my parents' house. But because I live in a tower with a lobby, they just dump the packages on the floor of the entrance, mark it as "delivered", and I usually never find them. I would really really prefer if they used the local post instead of weird random inconsistent courrier companies.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

It's not "their" delivery system, though. Their logistics system ends at the border. After that it's in the hands of whoever did the local delivery.

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 1 points 41 minutes ago

Doesn't really matter. In the end, I should know that ordering from AliExpress where I live just ends up as packages being "delivered" and me not finding most of them.