@Stigma when that sort of shit happens to me, I'll usually act slightly amused and say something like "you're awfully trusting". If they keep at it too much, especially if they start telling me shit I don't want to know, I'll straight up tell them that I don't want to know.

Today, all three of the colleagues I work closest with began to confide in me. All three on separate occasions, began to divulge things to me they wouldn’t necessarily want people to know (or otherwise do want people to know and have found an outlet in me).

Now, I don’t like it, and I would like it to stop. I mostly don’t like it because I strongly believe their confidence is not due to traits I find positive in myself or them. They aren't how we might say ‘alpha’ traits - they see me as empathetic and having enough time to hear their woes.

Is there a way to pivot away from this dynamic, preferably as neutrally as possible?

@Baron I feel that. I dislocated my right shoulder doing one of those assault courses like ninja warrior or whatever it’s called. It popped right back in so I just put it in a sling and rested. I must have done more damage than I realised cause when I got serious about my lifting that shoulder really holds me back and causes no end of pain.

Got multiple wounds on my wrists/hands from a motorcycle accident that make push ups difficult as well….

The folly of youth.

@SwarmShawarma

it can stay in your balls sack for months\years

Nothing stays in my ball sack for months/years

Anything to the hantavirus? I’d seen it come up a couple of times, but today I got a notification from management with details of how it’s transmitted and how to protect yourself.

Anything about the virus really coming across your feeds?

He’s enjoying himself. Play 45 seconds of unskippable adverts.

@Stigma Yeah abortion is so sacred to liberals that they will sacrifice justice for it.

Its funny isn't it how women don't like prison. Men don't either but no one cares.

@MentORPHEUS Even if it were legit, they'd still be analysing the data for highest engagement points in horrific events anyway as evidenced in the picture. Who needs something like MK Ultra anymore when you have trillions of data points on human psychology to all kinds of fucked up events being analysed by AI learning algorithms. The machines have probably even taken over the writing of the script in that optimisation phase and the humans play it out and then that gets analysed and it just gets weirder and weirder.

You look at all of this Erika Kirk stuff and it's just fucking weird, man. But then... it makes you wonder about the people who eat it up.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgVBqcqUGE0