The name fits your attitude perfectly :D

Stress of dissappointing people who may care.

How the hell did you get that from my comment?

what about people on 2nd or 3rd shift

My niece and nephew have perfectly regular sleep schedules. As in their sleep schedules are super consistent.

Is it "regular" like "regular people have it"? Fuck no!

But their schedule is like clockwork with it's regularity.

Wake up at 4am, full of energy until 4pm, unconscious until 8pm, wide awake until midnight, asleep until 4am, repeat. They're 10 now and I really hope they get a job someday that let's them keep that kind of schedule because it works so well for them.

EDIT: I should clarify though that their schedule is almost perfectly at odds with my brother's (their dad) schedule.

I am too garsh darned broke to friggin' swear.

Being stressed out by the world is unhealthy. Withdrawing from reality to avoid that stress is also unhealthy. The fuck am I supposed to do move to another planet? In this economy?

Entertainment budget. Every day I walk down to the tracks, retrieve the smushed penny from yesterday, admire it for a moment and set another one on the rails

I dont think I've ever heard of 2nd and 3rd shift, Pippin

And the Spanish word for throat is garganta

I suppose drugs? The doctors have a lot of those. Though those drugs make the Sacklers a loooot of money and ruin people's lives. So I suppose one can choose artisinal life-wrecking (by a guy named Kevyn who made the drugs himself at home in his trailer, or the industrailzed version. But that's the US I suppose, not being from there I just take a stroll in the woods and feel fine

Why would you have children if you wanted to sleep ever again?

"Avoid stress" is code for don't worry about things you have no control over.

Where to get my next meal, is something I don't always have control over.
Unfortunately it's also not something I can stop worrying about.

Edit: made it clear that my situation is much better now, but it wasn't always.

Huh? Where and what you eat is absolutely something you have control over. A war in Iran raising prices on food is not something you have control over.

Oh yeah? I'm jealous you never had to worry about what job to do in the economy that will feed me.
I had few months where I was going door to door, hoping someone wants their lawn mowed or windows washed so I can eat that night. And I'd say I'm privileged ones because I knew this kind man who was willing to lend me his tools to mow and to clean windows. I'm lucky because I got a scholarship for tuition for university and I don't have to worry about what to eat anymore.

But for the few months I relied only on window washing and lawn moving, I remember I at least had 4-5 days where despite going through 100s of houses, no one needing the services.
But Please tell me how absolute of a control I had about what I eat with 0 earnings in that day and my networth being essentially 0. I guess absolute control I had was starve.

Not trying to get into a poverty contest with you. You mistook me clarifying what I said as a challenge against your life experiences.

To reiterate: don't stress about things you have no control over. Stressing about it won't change anything. That time and energy is better spent stressing about the things you do have control over.

AND YOUR MOM IS GARGANTUOUS

It gets better. The early years are so exhausting that it’s hard to function. It so often feels like you’re talking to a wall and repeating yourself every day. And then little by little, they start to parrot your saying and mannerisms (which is frankly, hilarious). Be kind to yourself while you’re in the trenches, it will get better and every year will be easier than the one before

Don't let your dreams be dreams.

Thinking I have no control over things feels defeatist

Oh no doubt. We've got friends with older kids and we're getting a bunch of hot tips about what comes next - some good, some bad.

One of my friends swears the best day in a parent's life is the day you change the last diaper. But the second best is the day your kids beat you at chess.

So I've got a lot to look forward to

You can control things, just not everything.

Y'all have never been to court ordered alcoholics anonymous meetings and it shows.

Reinhold Niebuhr wrote the first known version of the Serenity Prayer, and it's been through a few revisions just by popular word of mouth or even literal Hallmark greeting cards, but the version they say at AA meetings is:

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

The basic principle can be decoupled from the religious origins and still be a useful approach to life. Learn not to stress about the things not in your control, while still taking control of the influence you do have.

Well yea. My point is, there is very little you have "no control" over; and "things I can influence" is where stress comes from

don’t worry about things you have no control over.

Is code for "just don't have anxiety or burnout! It's easy!"

I am the embodiment of your option #2. AMA! 😄

Because sex is fun, birth control is not always perfect, my wife did not wish an abortion and I respect her bodily autonomy.

Oh, so Kirk was the new college gargoyle, not just grotesque. Now I get it!

Maybe you not liking the taste of boot is some kind of mental illness? Or maybe you just need more drugs. No I will jot prescribe them. Yes I will judge you.

Also thank God for indie + AA games and GOG + itch. Gaming can get pretty predatory but at least there are some places still where new games come up that aren't using every engagement technique to bleed you dry.

I've been really enjoying rain world and just getting to be a little guy running around and dying a lot.

Who has savings, most of us just have debt.

Do you want to be friends and not talk about the outside world ever?

Perhaps “goblin mode” is a viable option?

What is this? Mulder from the X-Files?