Well that’s fair enough.
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Prime Minister Sanna Marin (SDP) commented on the results of the study on Twitter.
“Incompetent, inexperienced, Sokos cashier, girl, girl government, lipstick government, pantyhose government, intimidation, hate speech, online shaming. Yes, women lead the government. Get over it.”
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Follow up on the Frogman’s puppers, Otis… he sadly passed away earlier today.
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Currently sitting at a doctor, waiting for an appointment, because I can’t take it any more. Job and pandemic-related stress are overwhelming. Still have the feeling of running away when calling in sick, and leaving my projects in limbo. I’m responsible for multiple projects spanning until and beyond 2025, and i am the only one who actually knows what is going on, but I also already lost control. I am the single point of failure. I flagged all of this to late. Now, when my superiors start actual controlling/coordination, I am in no state to deal with the pressure. So I am at a doctor, asking for their opinion to get sick leave.
Don’t be like me. If you feel overwhelmed, search help early.
ETA: venting my stress online didn’t help, but turned into an additional procrastination. Even getting emotional support from strangers, like on the BBS, now feels like an excuse not to act on the problem. Which might be ADS, or something else.
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This thread is for no judgement venting, so you’re completely on topic! 
I hope you feel better soon.
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Thank you. The actual ICD-10 I got is an insult, and the doc was as empathetic as a fence post, but the result is that I have some breathing room. That counts.
Going to see the real practitioner next week.
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What’s that thing the cool kids say? “I feel seen.”
My 2020 started in early 2019, and I am still rebuilding myself.
Seeking help from others? Thanks for the info, I should look into this new idea.
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Good deal. Glad to hear it. Feel free to post here if you need to vent again before that.
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Sorry to hear, and can relate.
14.10.2019, in my case. Early new year, and not a happy one.
Hope you’ll cope. At least, you are still pushing that rock uphill, I assume.
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Which is harder, the rock pushing or the liver-eating eagle visits?
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Yeah. All the blather y’all see about me playing with livestock and building barns, well, I did kinda run away. And this here BBS thinger has been more helpful than I care to admit.
I really hope you can get your stressors sorted successfully without running off into the woods. Unless that really is your dream, in which case, well, just don’t take any advice from me, only well wishes.
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Matter of fact: I started reading Walden to lull myself into sleep, both in English and a German translation when I wanted to see how some things were translated (I was thinking I was missing nuances, but sometimes I now think the translation got said nuances wrong…).
I can’t run away. I have a responsibility.
Which drives my search for professional help.
I’m trying to get to the source of many problems I have, which might or might not be dysfunctional behaviour related to stress. Or maybe I just expect to damn much of myself (and others, come to think, when I look at the pandemic response). Maybe it is a burnout, maybe society is just so fucked up that life as I would like it to be doesn’t even exist, maybe I am an idiot who just wants reality to bend to his will, and maybe it’s the economy (stupid).
I know it is harming the people I love, also because I obviously suffer from something. And I am, right now, even willing to take medication to help me to function. Even if it is the world which sucks, and not me.
I am mütend, as germanophone twitter puts it often.
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This really isn’t my day, week, month…
Went for a walk. Saw four kids, all girls, with two women and a dog. The kids were doing something on the sidewalk, sitting down every now and then, or chrouching.
On my way back, I realised they were using chalk to write down URLs and anti-vaxx slogans. I talked to them briefly and asked them if they found it funny to do so. Asked the parent and - possibly - grandparent (or whatever) if they found it ok what their kids were writing, and that I was appalled. They told me they would be writing it themselves, and they were appalled that I was wearing a mask, and other stuff. Asked me if I had lived for thirty years in date GDR, like them. When they continued, the oldest of the kids called out to me “we are living in a free country”.
Yes you are.
You are also fucking morons.
Fuck today, and fuck you.
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I take it there isn’t the mechanism we occasionally see here in 
, where the court refers the law back to parliament for a reworking of an invalid law, but the law gets upheld in spirit in the mean time?
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Facebook’s notification system is not an autodialer because it “neither stores nor produces numbers ‘using a random or sequential number generator,’” the court found
that’s extremely unlikely. ( and an unfortunate ruling )
i can’t imagine a system as big as facebook that wouldn’t have some sort of “queue” of numbers to contact. and any queue or list would require a sequential access.
the lawyers sounded like they were arguing grammar, not algorithms.
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Robocalls became a daily irritant for most people years ago, whether they have a cell phone or not. The existing legislation and regulations weren’t effective, even though we’ve got a Congress full of lawyers. Businesses are profiting from it, or they wouldn’t be doing it. Maybe this time around, Democrats could be convinced to publicize it as another issue that resonates with the majority of voters. The pro-biz pols don’t care how much this costs consumers, but some might support legislation to avoid this being mentioned in campaign ads.
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