Discussion What made you angry today?

[stygal]

Im very very angry for having been fooled by somebody, also at myself for always making the wrong decision as it seems like.

 

[TriggerHappy]

The cost of experience vs the price of ignorance....
or is it the price of experience vs the cost of ignorance...?
I hate my life,

 

[Manaaja]

I realized people are behaving differently from what I'm used to. I like things to go a certain way. I'm very orderly in how I want things to go.

.... Now I realized why this forum seems odd! I'm using light mode! Gonna switch back to black mode.

I miss those humans who made me proud to be a human. Those intelligent, brave humans with hearts of justice and kindness.

I no longer know what a human is. It makes me angry. And I feel alone.

I also wish there were fellow long posters. Imagine reading a forum full of replies each one ten pages long. I like short posts and medium posts, but long posts are so rare it makes them exciting.

I want others to be as unique as me. I wanna meet lots of nice, intelligent people. It makes me m'angry that I haven't met much of them lately.

 

[SleepDealer]

Someone who loves me until I shift my attention to someone else.
Like many things, it's exhausting. Playful jealousy is fun. Overprotective and domineering jealousy bears too much resemblance to a certain horror anime trope for my taste.

 

[stygal]

Not being in control over my emotions and being hungry 24/7 & gaining weight is also not really annoying.

 

[UseItOrLoseIt]

Nothing

 

[StevieNixs]

Today the news hit that a group of about 15 kids had kicked a puppy to death in the field near my local swimming pool.
These are the people that go onto become extremely dangerous and the reason we all have to yield our liberty and permit 24/7 cameras.

What made you mad today?

Someone gaslighting me. I really dislike gaslighters. They said something to me then expressed surprised with an accompanying LOL as if the conversation they had with me was a fantasy in my own head. I find people like this kind of dangerous.

 

[Soulless Angel]

People just people, people fucking people hate people

 

[A_miStake_of_NATURE]

Seeing my image while FaceTiming………

 

[AtMostOkay]

My father's mere existence.

 

[nofutureghost]

being alive, my family, my mind, myself, everything...

 

[Ladytears]

I try kill myself yesterday and no sucess. My father is obsessed for me and makes me have Hard crises. I just wanna be free of then But somehow I just cant. I have no one to talk about this, Im really alone. Thats why Im so angry and tired

 

[Meditation guide]

Someone gaslighting me. I really dislike gaslighters. They said something to me then expressed surprised with an accompanying LOL as if the conversation they had with me was a fantasy in my own head. I find people like this kind of dangerous.

I'm tired of this too.
Yes they are dangerous.
Imagine the level of malevolence, deviousness, and sheer hate it takes to do this. What is going on in their heads?

 

[MiseryWithoutCompany]

Seeing a bunch of individuals parroting instances of fake "modesty". There's a clear indication of when someone thinks highly of theirselves - when they claim to be one thing or another, rather than just claiming to aim towards being a certain way.

Any second spent with interacting with the "normal" population makes me angry. Like today.

 

[demuic]

People who think they know everything but actually know nothing. The combination of smug haughtiness and complete lack of awareness is infuriating.

 

[Heartaches]

Typically I've gotten angry around the same points for months now:

• Remembering how my ex-partners treated me as "lesser" when I criticized them for their awful behavior.
• Feeling betrayed when I confided stuff I was shameful about to people who I thought I could trust but completely dismissed me.
• Hypocrites I used to consider "friends". They'd trash-talk me to feel better about themselves but then they'd praise me whenever it was convenient or they wanted something in exchange.
• Remembering the sexual harassment I suffered since I was very young
• Being surrounded by people who think they know better about everything and reject or mock everything that may differ from their worldview.
• Feeling useless, that I never do enough, that I'm destined to fail at everything.

And others I don't feel like mentioning. Today is no different, in fact it's worse.

People who think they know everything but actually know nothing. The combination of smug haughtiness and complete lack of awareness is infuriating.

This! I absolutely loathe it. Worst part is that they're constantly backed-up by they're friends or others who think alike, like a pack of wolves, so trying to say anything that opposes their ideas usually results in mockery, a stream of smugness or in the worst case, harassment. Feels like a neverending nightmare since people constantly enable that kind of behavior, self-reflection and instrospection are non-existant.

 

[possumoutpost]

Nothing I make is satisfying, while also making nothing ruins me. I long to create but it never feels right. It angers me that this feeling never goes away

 

[Makko]

 

[stellabelle]

Flashbacks of being abused. Including flashbacks of redundant empty words and statements. Disrespect.
"We were so worried" - about yourselves and exploiting it for attention.
So many lies. If you were worried, you would've helped and listened and done as I asked instead of ruining everything good in my life for your own amusement. And then trying to creep back in later.

 

[MiseryWithoutCompany]

Last night... Taking out the trash, the bag broke, spreading bones from food everywhere. A wine bottle had gotten snagged on something outside... It made me instantly hate myself for how short I am, and how there are a lot of things I can't do and never will be able to do without great difficulty.

 

[Deleted member 8975]

I'm angry as fuck right now. Angry at this site. The users here. People in the real world. My mother. Everyone. The whole fucking world.
I just can't take it anymore. Im so sick and tired of what life is about and the fucking monotony of it all.

One of the hardest things to fucking get over is my indoctrination about after life. I don't want life to fucking continue past my death. I have not come to terms that I will receive what I want; non existence.

I wish I could beat the shit out of something right now.

 

[Celerity]

My brother and my sister-in-law have been letting my 4 year old nephew watch YouTube unsupervised and without parental controls. To no one's surprise but theirs, the kid has gotten into some very disturbing shit. While babysitting him today, I saw what he was watching - violent "fan"-made Sonic cartoons in some weird foreign language - and took his iPad away from him. He pitched a hissy fit since Mom and Dad never do that (even though they have found him watching age-inappropriate crap before). I notified them and hope that they take away YouTube entirely, but I doubt that will happen.

Gen Alpha is so fucked. Hell, it's in the name. They sound like a fucking COVID variant.

I would not make a good parent. I'm well aware. Small children annoy me. That said, seeing this basic failure to protect your kid aggravates the hell out of me. How they think this is okay is beyond me.

How they think it's okay that he won't let you read him a book is also beyond me. He doesn't really know how to count. He doesn't know what words are and can't identify letters. He has a speech impediment. His mother refers to him as stupid.

I just don't get it. It's so far removed from how we were raised. My parents read me books religiously. I was well ahead of my classmates in reading comprehension for the entirety of K-12. My SIL thinks my nephew is too stupid to do the same. The truth is that they just don't take any time with him to make it happen. Instead of reading or learning numbers, he stares at a screen all day that shows him new, expensive toys and really fucked up cartoons made by edgelord teens and disturbed life failures.

I'm also frustrated with myself. I lack the temperament to even go about trying to maximize the little time I have with him. My parents are similarly at a loss, but at least they get along better with him. I let my frustration with the circumstances turn into frustration with the kid himself, and none of this is his fault.

 

[Makko]

My brother and my sister-in-law have been letting my 4 year old nephew watch YouTube unsupervised and without parental controls. To no one's surprise but theirs, the kid has gotten into some very disturbing shit. While babysitting him today, I saw what he was watching - violent "fan"-made Sonic cartoons in some weird foreign language - and took his iPad away from him. He pitched a hissy fit since Mom and Dad never do that (even though they have found him watching age-inappropriate crap before). I notified them and hope that they take away YouTube entirely, but I doubt that will happen.

Gen Alpha is so fucked. Hell, it's in the name. They sound like a fucking COVID variant.

I would not make a good parent. I'm well aware. Small children annoy me. That said, seeing this basic failure to protect your kid aggravates the hell out of me. How they think this is okay is beyond me.

How they think it's okay that he won't let you read him a book is also beyond me. He doesn't really know how to count. He doesn't know what words are and can't identify letters. He has a speech impediment. His mother refers to him as stupid.

I just don't get it. It's so far removed from how we were raised. My parents read me books religiously. I was well ahead of my classmates in reading comprehension for the entirety of K-12. My SIL thinks my nephew is too stupid to do the same. The truth is that they just don't take any time with him to make it happen. Instead of reading or learning numbers, he stares at a screen all day that shows him new, expensive toys and really fucked up cartoons made by edgelord teens and disturbed life failures.

I'm also frustrated with myself. I lack the temperament to even go about trying to maximize the little time I have with him. My parents are similarly at a loss, but at least they get along better with him. I let my frustration with the circumstances turn into frustration with the kid himself, and none of this is his fault.

To be fair, this is what boomers see when they look at us. Classical learning feels obsolete (it isn't really, but it feels like it is) because the internet largely does your knowing for you and having the attention span of a goldfish feels like a strength (it isn't really, but it feels like it is) because it allows you to "multi-task" faster. Even if it's true that there's currently being raised a whole generation of imbeciles, it's because it no longer feels like a big deal and you feel like you can get away with being an imbecile in a way you couldn't before (you actually can't, but it feels like you do).

 

[Celerity]

To be fair, this is what boomers see when they look at us. Classical learning feels obsolete (it isn't really, but it feels like it is) because the internet largely does your knowing for you and having the attention span of a goldfish feels like a strength (it isn't really, but it feels like it is) because it allows you to "multi-task" faster. Even if it's true that there's currently being raised a whole generation of imbeciles, it's because it no longer feels like a big deal and you feel like you can get away with being an imbecile in a way you couldn't before (you actually can't, but it feels like you do).

What's ironic here is that my brother is otherwise a cultural conservative, particularly compared to me, and he is unwittingly carrying out a huge experiment on his own son and daughter.

I disagree that Gen A is just continuing the same process Millennials and Gen Z started.

I am 28. I started using the internet heavily when I was around 10-11 years old. In my view, that was too young. I think I would have been better off if my parents had granted that unfettered access later - ideally in a gradual fashion until I took the training wheels off around 16.

Still, 10-11 is a far cry from 2-4, and I was a teenager by the time iPhone came out. It's not just about relying upon search engines and having the attention span of a gold fish when you introduce mobile devices at such a young age.

As @timf posted elsewhere in another thread, families have become super atomized to the point where there are much fewer shared interests tying them together beyond the fact of being blood relatives. That used to be a rarer outcome that stemmed from dysfunction, not a natural consequence of an electronic device nearly everyone has access to 24/7. It has been argued that TV was a predecessor to this, but TVs were often shared by families in ways smartphones and tablets simply aren't and can't be.

Then there is the obvious failures and delays in social development you can observe in Gen Z and A. I saw it when I took notes for doctors: a complete disinterest in talking to adults or really anybody who isn't a source of entertainment, a distinct lack of emoting with facial expressions or tone of voice, and even a basic failure to make eye contact. These behaviors used to be rare, especially all at once in one kid. I see it all the time now in retail and am seeing the beginnings of it with my niece and nephew. That goes far beyond being an imbecile.

Maybe I lack enough exposure to kids their age and am being hyperbolic about how common and big these behavioral changes are. Maybe these changes are happening but still not as big a deal as I think. I guess we'll all find out eventually. For now, I'm pretty much in the same camp as the alarmists interviewed for The Social Dilemma on Netflix.

 

[insomuchpain316]

Being alive

 

[UseItOrLoseIt]

Who knows? I woke up like a deer in the windshield.

 

[stilldreaming]

That I allowed myself to believe that it would be a good idea to return to the US for a longish bit of time when I knew how disastrous it would be. Nope. Can't do this much longer

 

[Celerity]

That I allowed myself to believe that it would be a good idea to return to the US for a longish bit of time when I knew how disastrous it would be. Nope. Can't do this much longer

I want to leave someday if I can. I have no clue how to make it happen. Not sure what your reasons are, but I understand the sentiment.

 

[DepressoEspresso]

Just spent a solid 24+ hours designing/filling in a coding standards assignment... It wasn't hard, it was tedious. I'm tired and I still have more work to do.

 

[Celerity]

Just spent a solid 24+ hours designing/filling in a coding standards assignment... It wasn't hard, it was tedious. I'm tired and I still have more work to do.

God bless anyone who codes. I couldn't stand it! "Coding standards" sounds even worse.