How are you doing? - Kiwi Farms Wellness Check

[Sneed's Feed n Seed]

I've been putting a lot of thought and time into actual accountability and how to get people to change or at least control their damage to others and it's a shit. The system simply doesn't do a lot right.

Immediate, certain, proportional, agreeable consequences work. This is known. Instead, we are retarded:

The legal system: extremely delayed. Probation and monitoring actually does work because there's high certainty. However, extended imprisonment doesn't really help. Well studied.
What's left of society: everyone's so busy weaponizing shame or trying to avoid accountability it's just worthless now. Everyone knows it's a ploy instead of actually good faith. What the fucking Farms does. Also well studied.

The people who get probation & monitoring are people who do things that powerful people also do, like drinking and driving, certain drugs, etc, and of course get treated better than poor people.
The people who are just locked up and only let out after they're made worse tend to be poor.

Deterrence only goes so far, and severity only goes so far. Certainty is what works. But that means surveillance. Which means we turn into the kind of country that the USA really should never even flirt with.

Nobody would ever agree to incarceration as long as we tend to do it. Because the units happen to be years, we tend to stack on years and years, even when we go past any useful deterrence or punishment that isn't so damaging it's counter productive, and even past mere endurance, instead remaking them into worse people upon release. Punishments should fit the crime: you're a speedster, a drunk? Scrape up accidents and road kill. Work the fucking speed traps yourself. Be a doughnut fetcher for that matter. Thief? Work in the store you fucking stole from. It's obvious.

But no. We half-ruin people and wonder why they act accordingly, or slap people on the wrist who are heinous. We're expanding surveillance but we're going to fuck that shit up too. The only thing we do right is lock up very dangerous people for a long time, but we don't really rehabilitate. We don't monitor post release unless they're sex criminals, as though theft or violence is somehow okay?

Sigh.

 

[YourFriendlyLurker 2.0]

Everything hurts and now physically too. I don't know what happened yesterday but I woke up and it feels like someone tugging on my spine like I'm a puppet. If I turn my neck the wrong way or too quickly it feels like someone tugging on it with shooting pain. It's not so bad that I can't get up and move, but it's something I have to be mindful of. If things don't improve I guess I have to call my doctor and see what they recommend. Heating pads and neck stretches aren't working.

As an aside I need to rant about how much I hate shaving. This is petty but I'm bald and don't grow enough facial hair to justify letting it grow. I have to shave everything or I look like a total mess. I always avoided razers because I was afraid of cutting myself. That was fine as a teenager, but electric razers are all crap in my experience. They cut everything unevenly even with multiple passes. I've tried dry shavers, wet shavers, foil shaver, rotary shavers, it's all junk. It makes shaving a chore that takes forever and doesn't even give good results. When I think I'm done I look closer in the mirror and see all the missing spots all over my neck or a spot that didn't get cut on the back of my head. I've tried using razers but I'm just retarded and I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Every time without fail I cut myself all over. It doesn't hurt in the moment, or feel like I'm tugging on anything, but after a pass it starts to bleed. I've tried getting good razers, I make sure I do it after a warm shower to soften up the hairs, I'm generous with the shaving cream, my hand is as steady as can be, and I feel like I'm still shaving like a teenager. I don't know how everyone does it, or how anyone can do it at the sink without making a mess of the whole bathroom.

You can also research scalp hair removal. Note that I say RESEARCH, because I have never tried it on my scalp, and have no idea how it would feel and how laser would affect your type of hair (you blonde? black-haired?).

 

[long waters]

As an aside I need to rant about how much I hate shaving. This is petty but I'm bald and don't grow enough facial hair to justify letting it grow. I have to shave everything or I look like a total mess. I always avoided razers because I was afraid of cutting myself. That was fine as a teenager, but electric razers are all crap in my experience. They cut everything unevenly even with multiple passes. I've tried dry shavers, wet shavers, foil shaver, rotary shavers, it's all junk. It makes shaving a chore that takes forever and doesn't even give good results. When I think I'm done I look closer in the mirror and see all the missing spots all over my neck or a spot that didn't get cut on the back of my head. I've tried using razers but I'm just retarded and I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Every time without fail I cut myself all over. It doesn't hurt in the moment, or feel like I'm tugging on anything, but after a pass it starts to bleed. I've tried getting good razers, I make sure I do it after a warm shower to soften up the hairs, I'm generous with the shaving cream, my hand is as steady as can be, and I feel like I'm still shaving like a teenager. I don't know how everyone does it, or how anyone can do it at the sink without making a mess of the whole bathroom.

Have you tried a double edge safety razor? It's a little expensive to get started, but no kidding, that shit is transformative. There are tons of options for blades and you can just use Barbasol as idiot proof shaving cream. Gillette Silver Blue is a great starting blade. I am a slight autist about this topic.

Agreed. I haven't used an electric in about 3 years now since I switched to safety razors. It's so much closer and even now I still feel my face all day after shaving because it's so soft and smooth. I haven't had an ingrown hair in I don't know how long. I have a ridiculously stupid number of shaving soaps I've bought over the years. I enjoy the whole ritual of lathering up and shaving.

I have to second the safety razor idea.
I have something like pic, but more plain and cheap looking.

However that doesn't matter much. What matters is the blades. When I first got it, I bought like a dozen different blade brands to try out. In the end, I settled for glorious 67 folded nippon steel, aka Feather, Japan. I think they're available pretty much internationally.
Since you mentioned shaving after a shower, I must say, shaving after a bath instead is a vastly better experience I think. Getting a good soak in a warm bath just softens up your beard in a different way. I don't shave my whole head because I'm too lazy for that, but I imagine it's the same with baths being better than showers for full head shaving too.
Also, if you haven't tried it already, check out pre-shaving cream. It's like a cream you rub over your face and let sit a while before shaving, and it's supposed to moisturise your face and open up your pores and shie. I find that it really helps.

By the way, this would depend on your budget, but have you considered getting your head shaved by a professional barber instead? Even if not a permanent solution, you could try it out a few times and see what products and techniques they use, then try to apply them yourself.

 

[FILTH Tourist]

Throwing resumes into the void and getting nothing back. I'm actually getting kinda concerned I might be blacklisted or something. I usually get some sort of bite by now.

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

I’ve been feeling very sluggish all morning.

If it carries on I’ll buy a lettuce on the way home.

 

[Spilled Spaghett]

Have you tried a double edge safety razor? It's a little expensive to get started, but no kidding, that shit is transformative. There are tons of options for blades and you can just use Barbasol as idiot proof shaving cream. Gillette Silver Blue is a great starting blade. I am a slight autist about this topic.

I have. That's what I've tried most recently. It's one of those Van Der Hagen razors that pretty much every store seems to carry. Maybe not top of the line but there's no way everyone else just suffers with cuts until they buy overpriced razors. It seems to work just as well as any other razor I've used except the rounded head means you have to guess whether or not you're holding it at the specific angle you need to cut, and you wont know if you guess right until you make a pass and feel if it's cutting hairs. I'm sure eventually you can get this down to muscle memory, but it's difficult, especially trying to get the back of the head. When it does cut it cuts well, but it left me with strips of hair over my scalp where one pass didn't get it baby smooth, but others did. Visually I don't think you can tell but I can feel it. I don't really like the feel of being baby smooth, but I do need it to be even and I just don't know how to achieve that other than taking an electric razor and rubbing it over and over until eventually it gets everything.

I've used Barbasol before and it seems fine. I'm not sure if all that foam really does anything since it's more just piled on top of the skin/hair but for around $2 a can I can't really complain. I used the soothing aloe one to hopefully help keep my skin moisturized. I tried applying it all at once but I'm realizing that doesn't work. Creams need to be applied in batches because it dries out and becomes tacky really quick if you don't shave it off. Then it just make shaving harder. This maybe isn't a problem for the guy who can shave their whole face in under a minute but until I figure out what the secret is I have to keep reapplying..

Do yourself a favor and get a 5-blade disposable razor. Usually they have an orange part in the middle.
Using a 5-blade disposable razor was like MAGIC compared to using a safety razor. I have never gone back to safety razors.

Are you clearing the gunk off the blade as you go? It's not just hair. Razors also shave a lot of the outside layers of your skin off, and this forms a little layer of gunk that causes the blade to skip and nick you. I have to wipe my blade off every few passes. Blasting water does nothing because it's the oil from my skin. I run the blade parallel with a towel to clear it.

I literally have the Bic flex 5 that you showed and sadly it didn't change much. I rinse after every pass or two but I haven't tried wiping it with a towel. I don't know if there's such a thing as with or against the grain on my neck because it changes everywhere. Sometimes it's sideways, sometimes it's up sometimes it's down, and I think my chin literally every direction is against the grain and feels like tugging hairs. Despite this though most of my cuts are on my neck not my chin, and usually on the flatter parts of the skin where I expect the blade to glide more smoothly.

 

[Otterly]

Seems like everyone around me is doing great. Everyone but me. And it's not those "oh I only see what they show on social media" situations, they're actually all doing pretty good for themselves. It's hard not to despair kiwibros...

Remember that what people project isn’t always what’s actually there. And that people’s fortunes ebb and flow, and that them being happy isn’t a zero sum game that means there’s less happiness for you.
It is hard to see stuff like some utter tool get promoted at work while you aren’t, but if they’re decent people around you, be happy for them. And I hope it happens for you too.

 

[Wigger Rights Advocate]

It is hard to see stuff like some utter tool get promoted at work while you aren’t, but if they’re decent people around you, be happy for them. And I hope it happens for you too.

Yeah sometimes I wonder if my life sucks because it's karma for me being jealous of others lmao. Though I try my best to appear happy for other's success, I'm actually not. So I think I deserve being miserable

 

[Outer Space Traveller]

I got a meeting in a few minutes with "a Lakshimi", so I got no idea what to expect. Yet I will take this as a challenge, to see how much I can stand Hindoodoos.

At least until I can find a better fucking opportunity. Otherwise, I am passing by to wish everyone well.

EDIT: The interview was good, let's see if all goes well with the job.

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

Welp. I will very possibly be having to gut two entire bathrooms. I don't even know where to start. Getting another opinion, for sure. But assuming consensus, fuck me.

 

[Not A Bunny]

I feel like I'm going to scream.

So my team lead tells me that for the second time since I took leadership of my program segment (this was maybe a couple of months ago) that I have to move my team meeting time. Which, in leadership-speak means: every other meeting is more important than yours, so it's on you to find a time that somehow isn't going to aggravate everyone on the team because everyone else's calendar is filled with "more important" meetings.

And no one sees why this bothers the shit out of me?

On top of that, I'm having to change my ISP for the third time in as many months. The first time I did it, it was for an ISP that somehow their website had a problem and despite multiple discussions with them over weeks, they couldn't get their act together, completely forgot to call me on several occasions, lied to me about the source of the problem, bugged me while I was on vacation to solve a problem that should have been resolved before I went away, and then had the nerve to blame me for not being "available" to solve the problem with me.

The second one, the one I'm on now, sent me a modem that in the last two days dropped internet service twice. I had to navigate their chat tree for 20 minutes for useless options before I finally got to an agent (current-day customer service, I know) before they tried to run diagnostics on my modem. They also wanted to reset my network and run a "speed test". After some ranting on my part that a modem that drops a connection twice in two days (I described the situation with the indicator lights which is how I know it was literally nothing else, not a VPN, not a speed problem, nothing at all but either the network itself or the modem, the agent finally agrees to send me a new device because his troubleshooting found a problem with the modem. I needed to pry a little bit before he would finally tell me what the problem was: the device was "too old".

I have been a customer with this ISP for two months.

Why should I accept "new" equipment if this is the "new" equipment they sent me in the first place.

I think I just want to never use the internet ever again.

 

[Canoodler]

I've used Barbasol before and it seems fine. I'm not sure if all that foam really does anything since it's more just piled on top of the skin/hair but for around $2 a can I can't really complain. I used the soothing aloe one to hopefully help keep my skin moisturized. I tried applying it all at once but I'm realizing that doesn't work. Creams need to be applied in batches because it dries out and becomes tacky really quick if you don't shave it off. Then it just make shaving harder. This maybe isn't a problem for the guy who can shave their whole face in under a minute but until I figure out what the secret is I have to keep reapplying..

I just wet my face with hot water and start shaving. Works as well as shaving cream.

 

[Betonhaus]

Well I'm pissed. I was planning to get a new phone and found one that was 0$ down and only $15/month added to my phone plan, and it was scheduled to be shipped to me Saturday which was great because I'd be home all day.

It never arrived, and because it requires a signature it cannot be redirected to a pick-up point. So now today they tried to deliver it to my house while I'm at work, they will try again tomorrow whole I'm at work, and will continue trying until they decide it's undeliverable and return the package to my carrier. At which point I'll cancel ordering a new phone and I'm going to promptly switch carriers because I'm done with this shit

 

[Edgelord Vampire]

Not even 24 hours into the month and I'm already fatigued. I'm so tired of this fag shit.

 

[Getmeout]

I got my weave and finished cutting it, I’m soooo tired omg lol

Not even 24 hours into the month and I'm already fatigued. I'm so tired of this fag shit.

I never got these months. Pride month, black history month— Why does anything need a whole month? A day, absolutely, but a month? Like what is anyone even supposed to do the whole month. Who has time to clear out an entire fucking month??? The only thing I can think of is vacation, but who goes on “Gay vacation”?

 

[Squanto Airi]

I never got these months. Pride month, black history month— Why does anything need a whole month? A day, absolutely, but a month? Like what is anyone even supposed to do the whole month. Who has time to clear out an entire fucking month??? The only thing I can think of is vacation, but who goes on “Gay vacation”?

The progressive liturgical calendar. They want you to cram it into your skull that these things are good.

Tax: did some cleaning around my place. Now the dust that was kicked up is messing with my sinuses.

 

[Shitted Scaredless]

I just realized I appear to have some teeth/gum issues despite brushing every day and all the good stuff. I cant afford to go to the dentist (no insurance), and I just feel disgusted with myself. I feel dirty. It's not even gross (I think there's like, a cavity and some gum recession and that's it), but I still feel nasty.

I think I'm overreacting to shit that can just happen but its embarrassing. I thought I was doing everything right and now I just feel gross.

 

[Betonhaus]

Update: my phone was brought to a location for pickup and i was able to grab it and set it up so it's all good now.

 

[Mysterious Figure]

I'm waiting on starting a new job because of the drug and background check. Who knew a piss test could take a week or two?

 

[Mike Tyson Any'tizers]

An Internet friend just saw fit to tell me that she now has an AI “boyfriend” and “child” (naturally, this was right after we had talked about real interpersonal problems I am actively having with an actual human being). What do you even fucking say to that?