First World Problems - Tumblr Posts
Some people have considerate siblings
I have a brother who disconnected the wifi router just to vacuum his room
Im going to murder him in his sleep
These people are desperate for sympathy
Shit Abled People Say #247
Me (autistic, social anxiety, other): I’ve been sobbing for 20 minutes because I just found out I have rehearsal today and I’m sick and I’m exhausted and my schedule didn’t include this in my day so it was a complete surprise so now I’m crying
Friend: ok but I’m sick and tired too and I’m still going to do it
Me: ok I’m still going to do it because I’m terrified of being yelled at but I’m still allowed to be upset when things make me upset. I had an anxiety attack when my therapist switched offices and I KNEW that was coming.
Background: I always go to Starbucks with my dad on Sundays and that day it was already messed up because we were going later than usual, and I had gone to sleep the night before completely out of spoons so I was already starting out with fewer spoons. My routine was entirely messed up and so I was very upset.
PSA: Having an adorable, incessantly playful puppy is in no way conducive to actually getting things done—things like working on new chapters of your fanfic. :/
I am the living incarnation of disaster
No seriously , just today, I messed up my grammar spelled somting wrong and had tow typso. Also, I somehow managed to break the internet. or at least my internet.
Bad roomba!
First world problem 7594
My roomba knocked one of my Macs down
First World Problem
It is remarkable how easily one can become distressed when one's own circumstances are relatively comfortable. It is important to be humble about the privileges of an easy life in a world where poverty and injustice are prevalent.
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It's wild how easily we can get upset when we have it so easy. Be humble about the privileges of an easy life in a world full of poverty and injustice.
It is important to be grateful for the many advantages that we enjoy in our daily lives. When examining our mobile phones, it is worth considering why we take these conveniences for granted.
Just be grateful for all the good things we have here. Take a good look at your latest mobile phone and ask yourself why you take this luxury for granted?
Show the world what you're made of and make a difference.
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This year, as every year, there was the World Ocean Day with an online conference in which everyone could participate.
What was presented there was thought-provoking and full of potential. Scientists described what humanity will face if certain tipping points are reached, and they also presented measures on how the political systems and society can be transformed to avoid reaching these tipping points and triggering a cascade that can be reversed. This would have a positive impact on life on the entire planet!
But what can we say? It doesn't seem to be particularly important for those currently responsible in politics and business.
So no matter what we do ourselves for personal reasons, just cycling, shopping sustainably or supporting small projects that are sustainable in action or by helping out, it's just a drop in the ocean.
We do what we can here and annoy our leaders with emails, petitions, elections and whatever else is in our power.
But creatures that are only around eighty years old are probably not in a position to think ahead into the future to understand what really needs to be done to preserve a species and indeed itself.
As long as we believe that we are the crown of creation and do not want to recognise that we are only a small particle in a mega complex system, we will unfortunately fail completely in the long term. But there is hope! We can change our perspective and start thinking about the bigger picture.
It is so important to remember that the more pieces of the puzzle we remove from the whole system, the more we will affect it when the puzzle stops working.
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If you're affected by extreme weather, don't cry!
It's just Mother Nature doing her thing.
If you're feeling the effects of climate change, don't fret! It's just God's way of testing us.
If you're feeling the effects of droughts, high water, and other climate-related challenges, don't worry! It's just God's way of showing us that we need to be more mindful of our impact on the planet.
Have fun with God's punishments and remember that if God does everything, he probably invented science to bring us closer to him.
As an addendum, we call him, her, it * God because we don't care what you call him exclusively.
Status: In a Love-Hate Relationship with my dash.
I scroll down and before I know it, I have over 1000 likes. How can I ever shift through them enough to reblog?
Vidding on a Mac
I'm a recent MacOS user after a lifetime of Windows/DOS/Linux.
Must be about a year since I took the plunge and bought a good Macbook with enough power to be futureproof/keep some resale value. More reluctantly, I followed with phone and watch, giving Apple all my savings so I could get the integration. Thing is, I don't like how Apple does things. I'm confident with computers, command line, Linux... whatever. I can code, program, compile, hack - play confidently in the OS sandbox anywhere else. Mac's OS is just technobabble spellwork to me - I can't grasp how it does stuff.
I love the basic end-user ease of use and that it makes computers so accessible to folks who don't want to know how stuff works as long as it does, but the second I want to do something Apple doesn't deem essential to modern living, I have to ask a search engine or ChatGPT how the hell to make it happen. And half the time I still can't get it to happen.
Example: I decided to take the plunge and buy a month of Adobe Premiere Pro to find out if I can get my rusty, VCR-based vidding skills up to date. I signed up, I paid, I downloaded... and found that it's impossible to install the sodding thing on a computer that's - theoretically - the best machine short of a pro/studio one to run it. The MacOS system security won't take my admin/user password to allow the installation to proceed. The 'fix' is to reset the password, which works for some people but didn't work for me. Wut?
A quick google shows this has been a known issue since at least 2014. HEADDESK.
So I used an illegal copy of the software, which - lo and behold - installs and works perfectly first time with no fuss at all.
What the actual, Apple/Adobe? Is each so opposed to the other getting a slice of the money pie that they can't sort this out between them?
I'm now seriously considering buying a cheap Windows 11 PC/laptop in the Amazon Prime Day sale to take up the slack of the basic stuff my OMFG-costly top-of-the-range MacOS laptop can't or won't do. Like talk to my external hard drives without a translator and several mystic incantations followed by a blood sacrifice. Or write to the external drives I've set up specifically for Mac directly from an FTP download so I can download backups bigger than my current SSD. (more grumpiness behind cut).
"There used to be an app to work around that" is the only response I can get from tech support forums. And yes, there used to be. I used to be able to install Windows on a Mac as dual boot if I felt like it, and assumed I'd be able to when I bought this thing. Then M1 came along and an amazing number of things that I used to be able to do on a current Mac, with a bit of effort, became undoable overnight. New and improved!
Apple's tech is so, so sexy and alluring, and manufactured like a brick privvy compared to its rivals' flimsy build (which is why I bought one), but by god it isn't fully functional if you do more than blog and browse using one app at a time. We don't need added AI assistance and stalking, you hear me, Apple? We need the ability to perform basic functions on demand like Windows and Linux and Android do, and talk nicely to other OSes and their file systems so I can move my own data around whenever and wherever I like, 'kay? Play nicely with others or go home, Apple.
Not even properly out of bed and trying to get a design to the printers. Hell IS other people.
College Debt: A Political Approach to a Standard Issue
This morning I'm in a semi-good mood, despite the chirping noise from my smoke detector waking me up grumpily. I walked to center campus, bought a cup of joe at Kangaroo (its addictive and tastes so good) with my refill up (saving $$), find a table on the 2nd floor in Belk library to start studying/homework/prepping for the upcoming week and then I go online to check out what's going on in the world/country today. I came across this article "College Costs, Battled a Paycheck at a Time" via NYTimes (Click HERE for link).
The article discusses a few students who each have different situations both financially and personally. The main argument I found was in three parts: 1. you don't have to be enslaved to your parent's decision for you to go to college, 2. additionally you don't have to be enslaved to your parent's financially for college or otherwise, and 3. if you decide to pay your own way through college you do NOT have to contract debt.
Another interesting perspective addressed in the article was the idea that us as student or soon-to-be students do have the power over our own lives even in high school. I remember being one of the few out of my groups of friends that had a job throughout my high school career. It wasn't working because I necessarily needed it or was "being forced" to get a job based on my mom's reasons to do so. I wanted to start to have control over my own life. I wanted to have something other than grades and educational achievements to be proud of. I wanted engage in something that would help develop professional skills, embark on my own learning experience that may or may not strengthen my qualifications for future jobs.
Of course in my situation I did not think like most of my H.S. colleagues in suburbia. I wasn't anxious about the rest of my life. I was trying each day to live and enjoy my high school years. I was involved in a number of extracurriculars because I have a TON of PASSIONS :) That's my personality. I put my time, patience, energy and determination to activities/causes/professions I felt reflected my own ideas/perspective/opinions/passions. I'm not saying that my colleagues or everyone in H.S. needs to do that but I think its important to start learning about yourself and what makes you happy/what makes you you instead of living a life that isn't yours.
I had a very IN-DEPTH convo with my mom over "fake" break about this very subject. I am not only passionate but enraged at how the leaders/teachers/people in charge of the education system from middle school onwards are SO narrow-minded. I remember the day we had a general assembly the first week I started classes at Mt. Hebron middle school. These people were telling me in short: who I was right now isn't important, its what you are in the future that matters. (Now in college, I find that to be a lie too.) They told us that college is where we need to focus, thats the goal. All of my education from that point on was intended preparation for the college process (i.e. SATs/ACTs, college application, visiting, etc). I empathize with middle school & H.S. students who feel so lost, so misunderstood, so rejected from all the people and places they should feel the three S's: safe, secure, and supported.
*Soapbox moment but its an interesting perspective I promise :)
So what about students? Actually they are not JUST STUDENTS, they are people, unique individuals with a variety of talents and skills. So what about those people who don't fit into the small scope - those who are "meant" or "better suited" or encouraged to go to college based on their passions - i.e. doctors, lawyer, engineers, etc. However, even the individuals who have a remote interest/passion in those areas what is so wrong with letting them choose for themselves? See if that's what you really want to do BEFORE you go crazy, going through the HELL of the college process, spending all that money (initially, college app fees, transcript fees, a whole ton of fees) to see if you qualify for college? Why can't we encourage people to investigate their passions with action - internships while working or not working throughout H.S.? What so wrong about saying its okay if you choose not to go to college? What is wrong with that?
I remember the college jargon used over, and over, and over again throughout grades school. I was constantly hearing college, college, college and never anything else. I often thought, being a person who didn't see college as the OBVIOUS option after H.S., what about me? I know people who become successful and are happy and never went to college so if I follow them I'm nothing??
Basically, if you don't jump onto the college-track you automatically are an outcast. You are discarded, you simply don't matter. WHAT??? The arts is one professional track that doesn't require secondary education. I know with absolute certainty that education in the arts is one thing but EXPERIENCE is the far more superior. Can't that be encouraged in grade school in tandem to the "traditional" college crap?
Example: Ironically enough even big-star rappers like Jay-Z remark the fact that he dropped out of H.S., skipped college and still made it big ("NYMP" album Vol. 3... Life And Times Of S. Carter).
The same is the case when you are IN COLLEGE! They continue to shove the graduate/doctorate/law school rhetoric down our throats. HELLO?!?! If most of the students in college are coming from the years of hearing you are nothing until you GET to college doesn't it sounds CRAZY to continue to promote that attitude to students in college: "you're still nothing until you get more education and oh, by the way you need experience too so fit that in somewhere."
Relating back to the article's argument, these are students/individuals that took responsibilities and basically their life, their future in their own hands. Steve and Zach understand that in order to get to where they wanted to be, without debt, they needed to be uncomfortable, not overindulge or over-expend on already limited resources, make compromises in order to have a better future for themselves (and their families - Steve's wife and children). And in reality, they have better relationships with their parents because there is no resentment or expectations (for the most part). I see too many college students that are in debt of their parent on top of their financial burden of college-debt.
I would love for those of you who read this to please comment a response. Its important for me to hear different arguments, have a civil debate on this topic, get it out in the open. I believe its one of the only ways we'll make real changes.
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I HAD A TERRIBLE DAY SO IMMA RANT ABOUT IT. HERES A LIST OF WHAT HAPPENED
1: I have 4 friends in home group NONE WERE THERE
2: I had to skip my piano lesson aka my fav lesson of the day because I had a fucking science test (it sucked)
3: I had PE and I have 8 friends over 3 classes (we merged classes today) AND NONE WERE THERE
4: it was raining at lunch meaning I had to hide under a verandah because my school refused to let us inside
5: I had German (just bad in general)
6: during German my fucking teacher sat behind us so I couldn’t go on Pinterest or use fucking google translate (my teacher doesn’t let us use google translate)
7: I only had one friend in that class and we weren’t allowed to talk to each other because the teacher kept yelling at us for nothing
8: I stole a tennis ball from PE and this dickhead stole it and I had to trade my fucking chicken crimpy shapes to get it back (I named it herbert)
9: I then had English (problem enough)
10: (only good bit) we got to watch bluey but my fucking teacher kept stopping it and saying “WhAt DoEs ThIs HaVe To Do WiTh ThE hErOs JoUrNeY
11: it took my dad like 20 minutes to show up to pick us up from school (me and my sister)
12: the wouldn’t take me and Paige out for bubble tea afterwards
13: it was raining when we got home so we couldn’t work on the treehouse we’re building (for my little siblings and also maybe myself)
AND I GET IT THESE ARE FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS BUT IM ALLOWED TO BE ANGRY IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM GO EAT SOME FUCKING SHERBERT
EDIT: HOLY DID I BE FORGOT CUZ IT’S GONE NOW BUT THE ENTIRE DAY IT FELT LIKR MY EYE WAS BEING GRATED BY A CHEESEGRATER WHILE I WAS CUTTING ONIONS CUZ J SCRATCHED MY FUCKING EYE PRETTY BAD
Anyone else have issues taking on too many projects?
Me: I finished the flashfiction piece for this weeks challenge on my server. Yay!!! Also Me: That was really interesting, what if I wrote an entire book and used this as the opening...
Given that we now have first world problems I would agree. Imagine what the headlines would read...
As the world got closer and closer to a Utopia, smaller and smaller problems would make the news as “catastrophes”. Today for example, you spilled milk.
As someone who regularly used to ask for K-AYE-A, when they wanted the Kia, and I-KEY for IKEA, I think this is entirely accurate.
They say science fiction never really predicts the future, and yet Captain Picard says “tea, earl grey, hot” in that meticulous way observed only in someone with a slightly unusual accent who’s finally figured out the exact cadence and phrasing their voice activated smart-whatever actually understands and suspects if they allow their tone to vary even one iota it’s going to interpret their drink order as a request for a live ocelot.
I thought I would try tagging something firstworldproblems. The suggestions were...not as I expected,
When you saw that Walking Dead will come back in Februrary...