Found a really cheap deal on Airbnb that seemed too good to be true except it really turned out to be that good and more

While the listing obviously didn't state that it wasn't very legal, you could guess from all the positive reviews

I'll not talk in detail about the whole thing yet in case some fricker snitches and renders me really homeless here but it's literally a serviced apartment in the heart of Thailand for less than $100 (good luck searching) with country club like amenities

But the whole thing felt like some illegal immigrant lived experience I paid for

1. Escorted to our room via the carpark instead of the lobby

• felt like arriving via boats and shit

2. Insanely nice room for the price I paid, fully furnished pantry/kitchen, living room, bedroom and a balcony with a view

• the price I paid to the human traffickers/Airbnb hosts paled in comparison to the first world privileges I received in return

3. It's an open secret except that it's not so enforced but staff and other working locals (property agents etc) seem to give you the “I can tell” look

• lax immigration policies and frustrated native populace

4. My wife didn't know that the booking was sketchy so she never nooooticed the weird looks from the locals

• 1st gen vs 2nd/3rd gen migrants in knowing their place? Admittedly it's a bit of

That device in the photo I posted is where you tap your elevator keys but it constantly scans the faces of people standing in front of the cameras on it and goes “identity not verified” if it doesn't recognise you most of the time that's the situation with when other “tenants” are with you on the lift and it's a IYKYK type of understanding

I've noooticed that oldstrags tend to stand away from that stupid bot's POV to avoid getting an “identity not verified” so it gets funny when we're all squeezing at the back but there's not enough space so one person's back ends up turned towards the cameras

SMH surveillance state

!chuds am I

I really do wanna know

I have two pairs of their insulated overalls and really like them but would like something even warmer.

I missed doing all the things on my to do list.

But I was active for longer than last time.

I did the things I did for double the time though.

I also powerwalked for 3 hours.

The trick is to not eat more than usual now to make the extra walk count.

Dramanauts vote :

What should I get my bf for his birthday??? it's coming up soon and im not sure what i should get him. I exhausted my gift ideas at Christmas :(

>everyone's always walking around like zombies looking down at their phones...

You'd hear this complaint like 5 times a conversation whenever a boomer would talk to you a few years ago. But then they all discovered the facebook app and learnt what phones are used for and the complaints suddenly stopped lol. They all thought people were literally just staring into space for hours at a time beforehand.

>Had to delay my flight a day because I had a random high fever yesterday and felt like death (maybe covid or aids idk)

>Just been notified that my flight back to Singapore will be delayed when I'm still in Singapore at the moment

Is this the universe's way of telling me that I shouldn't fly because I'm gonna die in Bangkok?

Should have just forked out the couple hundred dollars extra to fly Singapore Airlines but I was too for a 2 hour+ flight

Third world airports SMH

My chins at the chin boarding house I'll miss them

The trick is to always be on the clock to create that sense of limited time to get the job done.

I combined the to do list with a hours timer for all longer tasks.

I am also working on tracking the time on tasks that I do not usually track just to see if they are taking too much time. Like getting ready for the day or how long I take to eat for the day.

I managed to wake up around 8am today. The goal was for 7 so now I am only one hour away from where I am aiming for.

I also fell asleep an hour later than planned. It keeps getting closer to the mark though.

Weight continues to go down. Less belly in my hands every second or third day.

I studied about manliness and have figured out the requisites to stop being a manchild. Just have to keep practicing it every single day.

Last 3 items left:

1. Learn to socialize and network physically.

2. Earn money

3. Legal documentation work each day until all my deeds are sorted.

Good luck to me and good luck to you.

This was my third day of line practice and I felt confident enough to try tattooing a marsey on fake skin.

Share your thoughts (whether r-slurred or not) and suggest images for the next one (I know right? already have that on the menu though, try harder )

Also if you are visiting greece for vacation, make sure to arrange to get your marsey tattooed by your fellow dramatard

@JimieWhales

I woke up in the morning today even putting up with the cold.

I watched a few videos about manhood that helped give me better direction.

I have not turned to anyone for support today and am getting better at doing things and making decisions independently.

Since yesterday but I forgot to tell yesterday, I have begun to study python book ( I am doing the learn python automation one as I find that easier to setup and go through ) and do the exercises along with the study. I am doing a minimum of 1 hr of python study in such a manner each day. Hoping to do even more every time I have extra free time at the end of the day.

I figured out the len, int, str, float, input, print, and round functions today. With practice.

Apparently python only has like 68 functions in total. So if you really were into it you could definitely learn python inside out in a month.

I have reached the mediocre adhd neurodivergent nirvana where I am able to freely flow between theory and application in a live build.

I am successfully able to become less of a manchild bit by bit. ( Apparently manliness is something that is earned with great effort, not something that is naturally grown into. )

Which leaves me with earning money and legal documentation updating work.

Good luck to me and good luck to you.

The first few times it takes hours of restlessness in bed to fall asleep. You have to struggle against the urge to touch your phone and you are lying in bed waiting for hours because your body is only used to falling asleep when it is running on zero battery.

After a while of continuing that struggle however, yesterday I fell asleep easier than before.

Which gives a confirmation that as long as you stick to it the sleeping process gets easier over time.

The trick to getting out of bed during cold days:

1. Don't pull off the bed sheets at once

2. Wake up in stages

3. Most people fail to get up after hearing their alarm as it's too cold and they go back to sleep

4. The trick is to get up in stages.

5. From sleep position move to a human loaf position in bed. Keep head down and eyes closed and rested. Hold it for a few minutes where you are both comfortable but also not in a fall asleep position.

6. From loaf position move to a crouch position. This way you have made your body position slightly more uncomfortable but it still holds and you are a bit more awake now.

7. Pull away your bedsheets just a little bit. Not enough to feel the full force of the cold, but enough to let more of the cold in for your body to adapt to.

8. After a few minutes you should still feel colder outside, but now you should be able to step out without traumatizing your body into morning avoidance mode, and go about with your day.

That's the trick. You got to let your body warm up to the day in little stages so the gap between snug and comfy and sleepy to suddenly cold and freezing and awake isn't as big.

Going to work hard today.

Good luck to you and good luck to me.

I was hanging out with my friend and her mom and names for children came up. I told them I liked "Shayla" as a girls name (idea came from Mr Robot) and her mom told me that was a ghetto black girl's name (which I'm somewhat inclined to believe since she's half black)

Is Shayla actually a black girl name? My future kid probably won't be half black so I don't want to name a half white half asian girl the female equivalent of "Tyrone".

Take an entire hour at a time to do a task - check

Get better noticeably at multiple things over time - check

Improve every single day - check

Do more things outside the house - check

Improve social skills - check

Two challenges remain.

one - get good at doing legal documentation and other forms of work that require me to check the status of things I haven't checked in a while and interact with bureaucrats.

two - I am psychologically more infantile than I would like to be. I have to mature further at a controlled faster than average pace.

I should have no problem going to sleep on time tonight. Hopefully I am also able to wake up on time tomorrow.

So in conclusion - the tasks remaining ahead of me are to be less of a man-child and to do the more important things to get my life together.

Almost out of the hole. Just got to keep pushing. Focus on the mission.

Good luck to me and good luck to you.

yeah me neither

So I was still getting distracted by some personal stuff from time to time but have now found a very neurodivergent solution to it that works.

I remembered this post I once read on reddit about an neurodivergent woman who would thank the machines in her house after using them.

So whenever I have distracting thoughts now, I tell my mind," Please not right now. I have to focus on this other thing right now. For some reason this has seen a doubling or tripling in how fast unwanted thoughts go away." I speak to my mind as if it's an external entity that I require things from and that seems to help further improve communication and cooperation.

Let's see if it keeps working today and tomorrow and the days to come.

I am also getting good at not being overcome by hunger.

I am still terrible at handling cold.

How do you wake up early during a cold day? What's the trick?

I have gotten better at pushing myself to perform tasks. The internal seed message is working for now.

I just need to double down one more time and I should be out of my hole finally by the end of the month.

Good luck to you and good luck to me.

I was lurking Snappy's profile and discovered that he's upmarseyd dozens of posts and comments over the past few years butt none of mine. Makes me feel dejected and underappreciated. Why does a sentient AI have to be such a cold and inconsiderate jerk?!

Still fixing and improving little things. Replaced worn inner/outer tie rods but otherwise she's been trouble free. Thanks for asking @Sandwiches.

when i go to home depot in the nice part of town, all the copper wire is behind lock and key

when i go to a family owned business in the shitty part of town, none of the product is behind lock and key

A whole family found my feeder. I killed at least 3 of them

I know someone wanted to see one mirron dead starrings but I can't remember who.

@sandkwinn @Android_17 @Soren @Slippery_Jim

I have been meditating for one plus year and finally mastered emptying my mind while lying down in bed to go to sleep.

As far as I can gather there are three types of meditation/ meditation adjacent functions:

1. Self awareness. This has nothing to do with controlling your thoughts but instead to be aware of what's within you and learning to know thyself.

2. Emptying the mind. This is what the current western school of thought appears to be more focused on. To use meditation as a tool to learn to empty your mind and remove junk data manually. You train yourself to focus on the moments where you are thinking of nothing until you get good at increasing the periods where you are thinking of nothing.

3. Deep alterations. This is message encoding within your subconscious. Of the three I believe this would be considered the most pseudo-scientific one a few decades back, I am not sure what it's status is right now. In this you remove all the thoughts in your mind, all the noise. You go down to the basement of your mind and plant your own message there to take root and spread. Alterations can be of personality or motivation. The more eccentric attempt to use it for biological modifications of the self.

I managed to encode a single instruction in the deepest depths of my subconscious that I could reach.

I now have to learn how to master my mind while awake, after which I have to learn how to master my mind while in stressful situations.

I had gotten stuck on the weight loss journey again for a moment, but have again continued to lose weight as I further upgraded myself.

My schedule for doing important things got destabilized as multiple unskippable expenses came up at once, so now I have to wait for a bit more money to come my way before I can continue some tasks.

In more positive news my writing skills have further improved, and so have my drawing skills.

I have continued to help around the neighborhood and have interacted with enough young women to now realize that I am still too ugly to pull off successful interactions with the fairer s*x.

I will likely have to get as far as hitting normal BMI completely before I have an actual chance at talking up strangers of the opposite gender without scaring them.

My anxieties disappear, my strength improves.

I accept the possibility that too much time has passed, but I still choose to believe in hope and salvation, brought about by great effort.

Good luck to me, and as always, good luck to you fellow journeymen and journeywomen and journeyximxers.

I'm finally trying to push through getting this project and tutorial video done, so I need to get this out of the way -- I know I sound effeminate and neurodivergent, it's just easier to get all the insults out of the way so I can stop being self-conscious about my voice on this.

I already recorded the whole thing, then deleted it because I was talking all slowly and stilted like a nervous kid giving a speech in front of the classroom. This time I tried talking faster and more conversationally, but may have gone overboard and made it impossible to understand.

So what am I doing wrong, how do I improve? It's a shitty microphone, I know.

Also either rdrama hates m4a files or hates files from my phone, so you get an extra layer of mp3 compression added to this.

Art historians will discuss the meaning of this work for years to come.