This makes me feel old. I came from a time when schools didn’t have public shootings, and so bullying was more accepted. I CANNOT imagine for the life of me, even if it had been possible on Windows 95, anyone willingly sharing the fact that they do this.

If ANYONE in 6th grade showed off something this pathetic, they would be on the ground clutching their gut, which had just been punched so hard that they are struggling to breathe.

The end result is that people understood common sense that it’s not admirable to be pathetic and weak. So people would show off themselves getting better and stronger.

I feel like all that bullying 30 years ago made a lot of kids better for it, because it forced them to at least ATTEMPT to stand up to me. Even if I laid them out in the end, they learned not to be a loser.

And now, we’ve had decades of not encouraging bullys. THIS is the end result. THIS is what these insecure cowards turn into.

Now I’ve never seen OP, but I’m willing to bet he COULD be going out and getting pussy for real. It’s not hard. I am not a good looking guy. I’m not rich. I don’t have a sports car. I don’t have a mansion. What I do have is a confidence in myself instilled into me at a young age that I can do it. Where “it” is an interchangable variable that applies to most things.

You know how I got that confidence? By being a fat pathetic loser 8 year old who got bullied. Until I hauled off and just decked my bully. Who was bigger than me. You get a reputation as the kid who knocked out the kid 2 grades above him. Then you start believing in yourself. You start pushing your own limits. You start kicking your own ass. You toughen up. You take on the world, and win. And women see that confidence. The VAST majority of women are attracted to a man who knows he can do it.

You know how I got my first girlfriend? I called the girl I had a crush on. Straight up asked her out.

She said no. I’m not her type. Fair enough. Because if a woman says no, there’s no sense in insisting, or getting mad.

So I called the other girl I had been talking to. I said “You wanna go out?” And she said yes. We dated for 4 years until I learned she was a narcassistic psychopath who trapped our cats in the closet all day while I was at work, after dropping them in freezing cold water. I was not ok with that. You hurt animals, and you’re a damn monster. BUT! It was a relationship that failed not because I was weak and keeled over. It was because I happened to choose the wrong girl based on information I didn’t have. It happens. Not every person on this planet is a good person. Her parents failed her in showing what empathy is, and how to be a strong woman who can handle life. So, that was a dud, but life moves on.

Now rewind that story. Imagine I just stayed in my moms basement, and ate cheetos, and tried playing video games all day in a dark room crying that woman wants me. Do you think I’d EVER get a girl? Her or otherwise? Fuck no! If that version of me existed, afraid to be bold, afraid to take life by the balls, I’d be some lonely dweeb 40 year old virgin without the humor of Steve Carell.

So to OP, I’ll say this. I see life has failed you in a spectacular way. You should have been beaten as a kid by other kids, and weren’t. You should have had the chance to beat your bullys, but couldn’t because of school policy and anti-bully culture. Life failed you. You have no confidence. That needs to change. Go look in the mirror. Take a good long look. Do you enjoy seeing the person who stares back? No. We see you the same way you’re seeing you. So you need to change that. Nut up, and go join a gym. Take a boxing class. Get hit in the face. Take it. Again. Again. Hit back. Be the person who’s burried underneith all your insecurities. Fuck those insecurities. You have no room in your life for insecurities. Work out until you hurt. Jelly legs where you’re so tender that walking is hard. Jelly arms. Do it again tomorrow. And the next day. Do it about 4 days a week for 6 hours.

Be better. Improve yourself. You’re lonely and insecure? Yeah, that’s because women see you being gross and not worth talking to. BE worth talking to. It only gets harder as you get older. You can spend your 20s sleeping around, but you better find somebody by 30. Because after that, it is slim pickings unless you want a girl with like 5 kids by 3 different men but she’s insisting you go bareback. There’s a reason she collects so many checks. You wanna be next?

Or do you want to avoid that now by being a better you?

Because this? This is sad.

I mean…I get where you’re coming from, but fuck that!

I’d have deleted the entire matrix server entirely. Washed my hands of the entire thing.

Because you can go to the police, and say “There’s child porn on MY server”, and the cops MIGHT work with you to catch the people actually posting it.

OR

They might take the easy way. There’s a guy here, saying he’s hosting a server with child porn. Arrest him, because we know who he is, and call it a win in the media. Yes thats not how the law works…but it’s how lazy and corrupt cops work.

Cops are never your friend. I’d avoid any interactions with them that you can.

Have you tried…GoDaddy???

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Boring and dependable.

Just like I wish politics were.

Now that Google is slowly but surely going to shits,

Slowly? Did you just wake from a coma from 2013? Because if so…literally nothing about life is about to make sense. I mean, not even talking about search engines anymore. You went into a coma with a black president trying to get healthcare for all Americans, and woke up to the bad timeline from Back To The Future II. Except in this reality, it’s even worse. Even Biff never gave nazi salutes…

Oh no, it’s worse than that. I’ve explained several times to several people the terrible business practices that nestle use.

I’ve named off some of the bigger products they make.

90% of people I’ve explained this to gave zero shits. The other 10% feigned interest but didn’t change their behavior.

So, the people I’ve explained it to can’t feign ignorance. It’s apathy.

They just said “for this particular issue, the hard drive is not working, and so there’s nothing we can do about that”.

I agree the hard drive wasn’t working. So I asked them to point me to the claus in the warrenty that dismissed them if the hard drive wasn’t working within the warrenty period. They just kept transfering me around.

It’s decades later, and I’m still of the belief that I was right. It’s also the reason I hold no grudge towards best buy.

Seagate defined their warrenty as 90 days, barring user defects (so like if I had spilled a drink on it, or did something on my end that would break it). Since nothing about the defect had anything to do with me, I’d say I fall into their warrenty.

If I had opened the box sooner, and gotten it back to best buy with the reciept, within 14 days, I’d expect them to have taken it back. I opened it a month or so in, so that part is on me. Best buy defined their terms before I purchased. I was outside those terms. Sucked for me, but you can’t fault best buy for that.

I was just mad that seagate said “this is our warrenty, these are our terms”, and then didn’t honor it on a defective drive. At that point I DO fault the company that doesn’t honor their own word.

I hadn’t opened the package for about a month. Best buy had a 14 day return period, which is why I don’t blame them. They offered their terms, I was outside of their return period, even if the package was unopened.

The seagate warrenty was 90 days. Which I was within.

Just a few weeks ago I made comments that I wouldn’t be interested in buying seagate’s latest 34 terabyte hard drive, or whatever it was.

My logic was that in 2008 when I bought a brand new seagate hard drive, and it was dead before I plugged it in, they refused to honor their warrenty.

Which to me, is them being an untruthful company. THEY wrote the terms of the warrenty. I fell within them. They refused to honor their warrenty.

Alright. Fine, you’re on the blacklist. And I haven’t bought a seagate product since.

And peoples response on lemmy to those comments was “it was 15+ years ago, they make better products now”

Which misses the point entirely. I’m not boycotting them to reduce risk of getting another junk product. I’m boycotting them because they don’t stand behind their word.

I feel we as people need to stand up, and police the businesses. Ok, so McDonalds is supporting trump. Mcdonalds is supporting russia. Mcdonalds is doing all this shady shit? Well then STOP BUYING BIG MACS, ASSHOLE! If we, collectively as a society held dishonest businesses to the flame for shady practices, then these shady businesses would stop being shady.

It’s a simple formula.

(Shady thing) - (lost sales from protests) + (completed purchases) = total dollars.

Now, if the lost sales from protests swallows the completed purchases, then that means that shady thing cost them money. When that happens, they will stop doing the thing that loses them money.

But if the shady thing boosts their sales more than the protests cost the sales, it becomes just a cost of doing business.

It seems like such a simple concept too. Don’t buy from shitty companies, but yet Nestle is out here just thriving.

Thank goodness bladders don’t require others for the flow of our own individual streams!

I know, right? I too wanted to watch your local media!