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don’t take it to heart I’ve ghosted people for baser reasons and for no reason at all, aside from the fact that I’m terrible at maintaining friendships. or they could be dead who knows   1 reply

with each passing day progressively getting worse than the previous one anything in the past is nostalgic. as opposed to whatever it is we have now (i can't memeship my way into wrapping my head around the flood control ghost projects going around my country and us this close to mirroring indonesia's approach to their government)   reply

chronic tardiness with no remorse. I knew someone who'd message an hour or more after the agreed time and say something like 'just woke up lol' and minutes later asks 'are you there now?' Not once, not twice, All The Time. Not even an apology or explanation.Anyone can get a last minute emergency or for any reason just can't meet. At this point, ju......   reply

Have you read Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams? It's an expose on that app and how it deliberately tailors your timeline to fuel divisiveness and insecurity. She was a former employee turned whistleblower and the hearing is still going on. I'm surprised it's not gaining more traction   1 reply

use the LNReader app, you can also download the novels in case you want to read offline   reply

join orgs, student conventions, clubs, and do volunter work. getting 'absorbed' into the company after an internship is a good thing too. that is, if you actually like the position they gave you or you just took it to complete the mandated hours. internships usually require 'projects' (at least in IT / IS /CS) they think can contribute to their wor......   1 reply

my sweet summer child   reply

op you’ll find your people sooner or later! mine is a high school friend i got mixed in with after missing assembly and the punishment was to stand under the heat of the sun for ten minutes. ours is a friendship that stemmed from unintended proximity i guess? Making friends as an adult though…is an entirely different story. at college i made so......   reply

smartphone make me Dumb (◞‸◟；) Whiskey makes me numB women make Me mmmMMMmM   2 reply

sometimes it happens, most of the time works are removed frm my Currently Reading list. it drives me insane feeling like I have a Mandela effect each time I run into something I'm sure I've read. try removing then adding it again to reading list. it worked for me.   1 reply

document everything. record, log, video. some jobs accept working students (depends on your country though) and once you turn 18, get something along the lines of an ETF (again, depends on where you are, for mine this is MP2) this account matures each year and so you have the financial resource checked out. If the abuse escalates to the point of ph......   reply

HELLOOO ursula k leguin the one and only ‘The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.’ What a ba......   reply