u/09232022

I've been struggling with worsening mental health for about six months. It started when I quit smoking in January and has progressively gotten worse. Started with sleep disturbances that have had little to no improvement, progressed to intrusive thoughts that have become racing at times. And over the last week I feel like it's become unmanageable. I am angry and anxious all the time and have been just trying to turn off my brain with alcohol which actually makes it worse at a certain point.

Last night I scared my husband with some things I said and I woke up this morning (at 3am) and decided enough is enough. I need help. Appointment scheduled for July 10. Wish it could be sooner but it is what it is.

I get SO frustrated with this at work. When I write my emails I spend so much time trying to make them as short and concise as possible, with the important parts bolded, and yet 50% of the time, the person asks a follow up question that is answered in the email I just sent.

Yesterday I sent an email asking for additional access in a program. I tried to make it as short and concise as I can, with the final request of my email bolded, because this is a reoccurring issue for me.

"Good morning. I am working on X account and am missing XYZ documents. I need the documents out of Y program. Can you please provide security access to this account in Y program?"

They respond to my email asking me why I need additional access!!!! When it was extremely clear just two sentences before why I was requesting it.

And pretty much all of my coworkers are like this. It's not like I'm spamming paragraphs and sending novel worthy emails. I also have to write dispute letters as part of my job and years ago I used to make them extremely detailed and they got us payment. But in recent years only the extremely short dispute letters work, even if they're missing critical details that I purposely omitted because I knew the reader likely wouldn't be able to read more than a paragraph or two.

It genuinely feels like hardly anyone can read anymore. If it's not 2-4 sentence, your meaning will get completely lost. But sometimes you have to leave out key information to meet this extremely low attention span expectations.

It's just so frustrating.

TL;DR - You're part of the problem. This post is 280 words, just read it!

I've mostly been proud of reddit for calling out (obvious) AI slop. Between obviously AI generated comments and AI images, you could usually count on someone calling them out and most people agreeing that AI doesn't have a place on Reddit. At least the obvious stuff.

Last couple of weeks I have been getting down voted for calling out AI use and calling it slop. And it's not like im just calling everything AI and going fully "nothing ever happens". Like most of the posts I call out have been *self identified as AI*.

I'll say something like "no one wants to see your AI slop" which just a few months ago would have been met with at least lukewarm reaction. Now getting downvoted to oblivion. It's not that I care about the downvotes but it's just such a stark contrast.

Are people really accepting AI generated content or is there astroturfing going on? I have also seen a huge tide turn in the tech subreddit discourse that have gone from completely anti AI to "AI is the future" or "use it or get left behind" language. It feels really inorganic.

For me:

* Vacations - I stopped taking vacations years ago. I probably could afford it, but lodging has become so expensive. You can't stay anywhere but a roach motel for under $150/night in most places.

* Beef - Obviously. I can't justify easy dinners like Hamburger Helper or burgers. I cook a lot of pork and chicken now.

* Food Delivery - I used to get food delivery multiple times a week. Cut down to once every pay day. Its now been multiple months since I've used it. Paying $40 + tip for a burrito and chips is insane. I eat out way less in general because it's always $100+ for me and my husband to go out and eat at a restaurant, or $30 for fast freaking food.

* Nicotine - I'd like to say I quit using nicotine for health reasons but really it's just because it became very expensive and I was spending hundreds a month on nicotine products.

* Processed foods - $8 for 8oz of lunch meat?! Since when did packing a sandwich for lunch get so expensive?? $6 for a tiny box of cereal. $5 for a bag of air and chips. $3 for an ITTY BITTY frozen meal with only like 200 calories because they've shrank it so much.

What are some things you've cut back on?

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Sometimes my supply line isn't working for some reason, and when I try and troubleshoot where exactly my resources are going, my eyes cross 500 different ways because once you're running 20+ supply lines on a map, it can be nearly impossible to tell what's going where. Kind of easy to tell something in going to HQ, but it takes guesswork and memory to tell from what asteroid/to where after you have a couple dozen lines established.

If you roll over an start or end point, the entire circuit should be highlighted.