I don't actually know what I'm doing. I just keep getting away with it, and I know that one day I'll be found out.
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Am I even good enough to have imposter syndrome?
you have to have achieved something to have it.
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Very few people irl know my actual political beliefs because I water them down constantly in order to make them sound more socially acceptable
There is a silent war inside my brain between autism and ADHD
i have a phd in philosophy.
i can't ever talk about it because people never respond positively. they almost always attack me for it because it is scary or something.
if i say it's english they are are a lot less hostile, so that's what I do if it comes up.
Well I think it's a cool PhD. Fuck those haters.
i live in the USA. people here don't admire/respect nyone with a PhD unless they are an MD or a scientist, and even then...
Pfft. People are idiots. Philosophy is literally the OG PhD.
Found Chidi.
What is so scary about a philosophy PhD?
What was your PhD in? And what did you learn from it?
No one knows the cute little lady at work listens to extreme metal on her headphones lol. I pause my black metal and say the sweetest things to my patients.
I also know a lot of anime. Not the new stuff, but the tried and true stuff. I don’t watch it anymore, but yeah. No one would know because I don’t talk about it.
Oh and I know old school UFC too, because I’ve got Fight Pass and have been watching it (and Pride) chronologically lol.
My ethnicity mix also seems to trip people up. I get some interesting guesses!
You sound like someone who wants a good beer and tickets to Whitechapel. 🤘
Most people don't know that I left the Marine Corps an expert rifleman and sharpshooter with a pistol. I really miss hitting the range. It's kind of therapeutic for me.
Shakira is in my playlists
The Chainsmokers, chase and status and Coldplay are in mine. Next to people like Slipknot, Stormzy and various forms of trance. So I NEVER show my playlist
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I have a wicked sense of humor and a penchant for puns and word play. I also have a very large vocabulary from being a voracious reader from an early age which feeds my puns.
I can trace the point in time when my wife and I fell in love with each other was when we spent an entire car trip doing puns and word play. Not just any puns but as the trip went on they got more and more esoteric. We discovered that we could keep up with each other and we've been together ever since.
No one knows that I support lottocracy
Democratic-lottocracy where the canditades are drawn from the elligble population, but where people vote who they want to represent them in senate would be fire.
Bonus points if the terms end at different times. Like if there would be 200 seats and 4 years terms, there would be elections for 50 seat every year.
That would be roughly 1 election per week which feels very very draining. If you combine multiple election in a single day it would be too much for people to carefully consider every option
Maybe the solution could be that some of them are chosen elected like you said, while other seats are given randomly
Im thinking more like 200 seats divided by province or state or what ever is applicable and voting only representatives from your own area so it would be pretty close to parlamentic elections we have here now.
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I mean it does have legitimate narrow use cases imo ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Everywhere? Nawww not rlly
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My dad has a cancer that has no cure. He will eventually die because it, but the medication has given he a few good years so far and hopefully he has few more in him.
That's rough mate, how are you all managing it?
It was pretty rough at start. Especially when we were not sure whats happening and after we did, we did not know how the medication was going to effect as it varies a lot person to person, but luckily it has been effective for my dad.
It has also been tough because the cancer effects the immune system, so if i have made plans to travel to home and i get runny nose i need to cancel the trip. Especially because when the medicine stops being effective the cancer will develope quickly, so every time i miss a birthday or christmas, there is possibility that it could be the last one we get.
Since mom has retired now too, they have beem doing lots of travelling and they have come to terms with the disease they are pretty much living to the fullest while his is still fit to travel.
Big suprice was that the disease actually revealed useful side of facebook. There is support group of people having the same disease. It helped dad a lot to understand he should not just stop living his life because of the sickness. The group is little eerie tough as for the obvious reason people in there may suddenly just disapear.
Yes there's a lot of variables and a lot that's hard to predict. Even a runny nose could change things, which is a lot of stress. You don't even know how much time you have. The Facebook group sounds good but I get that it's eerie tough. I hope your family gets as much happiness as you possibly can over this time
I drive a truck for work, and I'm a major gearhead.
Nobody who knows me in-person knows that I've written erotica for money. Hardly anyone knows I like to write, like, period.
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None, I'm an open book.
Probably more like a super well-guarded secret than just an aspect at this point. There was one anime series that was both my favorite and quite foundational to my personality for a long time. I legitimately have never told anyone about it; not even my parents
And no I have no intention on disclosing it here. Probably not too hard to infer for hardcore anime fans who would know me in person, but still
I'm a deeply perverted person (shocker)
Username checked out.
I am frequently composing or listening to music in my head. It's like a radio I can turn on and off, change stations, etc.
I don't even really play any instruments with any regularity or write the music down, I just kind of entertain myself with it when I can't actually listen to anything.
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