Perhaps “goblin mode” is a viable option?
this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2026
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Being stressed out by the world is unhealthy. Withdrawing from reality to avoid that stress is also unhealthy. The fuck am I supposed to do move to another planet? In this economy?
"Avoid stress" is code for don't worry about things you have no control over.
Thinking I have no control over things feels defeatist
You can control things, just not everything.
Well yea. My point is, there is very little you have "no control" over; and "things I can influence" is where stress comes from
Y'all have never been to court ordered alcoholics anonymous meetings and it shows.
Reinhold Niebuhr wrote the first known version of the Serenity Prayer, and it's been through a few revisions just by popular word of mouth or even literal Hallmark greeting cards, but the version they say at AA meetings is:
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
The basic principle can be decoupled from the religious origins and still be a useful approach to life. Learn not to stress about the things not in your control, while still taking control of the influence you do have.
Where to get my next meal, is something I don't always have control over. Unfortunately it's also not something I can stop worrying about.
Edit: made it clear that my situation is much better now, but it wasn't always.
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don’t worry about things you have no control over.
Is code for "just don't have anxiety or burnout! It's easy!"
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Quits job and retires early
“You told me to avoid stress…”
Until your meager savings runs out and now the stress level is 100x what it was before
lol y'all have savings?
not for long at this rate
Who has savings, most of us just have debt.
What do you think the pennies in the jar are for?
To punish myself for swearing too much
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Gargoyles are water features. So unless you want to be installed at the end of a gutter and vomit water, I recommend becoming a grotesque instead.
One of my favorite fun facts is that the proper name for a Gothic grotesque that is purely decorative is hunky punk
Ok, wow, this just made me realize that "gargle" and "gargoyle" share the same "mouth/throat water" origin. Mind blown.
And the Spanish word for throat is garganta
AND YOUR MOM IS GARGANTUOUS
I love all these YouTube videos, health gurus and influencers encouraging me to sleep a full eight hours.
Y'all motherfuckers have never had children, have you?
Or worked hospitality. These fuckers have never done an AFD or a clopen
Love the word "clopen". It's a terrible word and it gets the point across perfectly.
You don't even get to finish "close" before you're already opening. There's no hyphen or breath time in-between.
It's all just mashed together, rushed, and stressful, just like the shift it describes.
Christ. My son has a cough, and he crawled up into our bed last night. Spent hours coughing directly into my ear, slapping me with flailing hands, and crying for milk (which he then rejected after it was offered).
I am in an absolute haze this morning.
That’s rough, buddy.
It gets better. The early years are so exhausting that it’s hard to function. It so often feels like you’re talking to a wall and repeating yourself every day. And then little by little, they start to parrot your saying and mannerisms (which is frankly, hilarious). Be kind to yourself while you’re in the trenches, it will get better and every year will be easier than the one before
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Sadly. No one wants to hire a hermit to live in their garden these days.
NoW HIRING: Reclusive nature-loving gardener. Duties: Lurk in my front yard garden 40 hours a week and tend my garden but don't interact with me, and I won't interact with you. All gardening tools & materials provided. Salary: $500k.
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Patient: "Uh, there are systemic reasons I can't avoid stress, doc."
Doctor: (Dusts off hands) "Well, my job is done here!"
The only way for me to avoid stress would be suicide and even then there would probably be some cunt in the afterlife like "nah, nah, nah no rest yet, because you are here early you have to work off the remaining years you should have been alive and then we'll talk about interests, oh wait that's kinda like it is now...
Stress of dissappointing people who may care.
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Just move to Stardew Valley bro.
Grotesque
She could try not doomscrolling and blasting herself with horrible news and opinions from crazy people on social media for a start
Reminder that every sizable company in the attention economy retains amongst its employees individuals who have the academic and professional background to fine tune their systems to make and keep a vice grip on the attention of it's users/victims, regardless of the negative effects it has on the micro level for an individual victim, or the macro level on society as a whole.
On top of that, most of us only get ~~meaningful~~ substantial social interaction at work, if that.
Just "quitting all social media" is tougher than it sounds because deep down humans want to interact with each other, but we often can't! And aside from algorithms, lots of stuff sucks right now, so that's what people are talking about. And that's before we bring algorithms into the equation.
The Internet used to be this wonderful place to reach out and meet other human beings from anywhere, and make friends, and share, and be connected to those other people without being stuck in 100°F heat and traffic or airlines. It was a digital "third place" for humanity to hang out.
And now the main 'net is an unholy, ravenous corporate homunculus that wears the skin of that third place.
We're still mostly physically isolated from the rest of our species unless it's an unpleasant obligation, but the "people" are harder to find amongst all the shapeshifting shills, ads, propagandists, and most of all, bots.
Lemmy has none of those algorithms, and a lot of the articles and posts bum me the heck out, badly, but I still feel the urge to visit because outside of work and my overworked family and busy friends on wacky schedules, I too, am isolated.
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