It sounds like you’re describing the restlessness from lack of purpose or direction in life.

I think about my life as it exists, my life as I wish it existed,

This sounds like a great start for purpose and direction! It sounds like you have a vision of what you wish your life was like. How are you doing with your planning and execution on making your life go that direction? That’s purpose. That’s direction. For me, it quiets the restlessness. If I make progress that day on my plan or execution, when I lay my head on the pillow at night I know for sure if I’ve taken a step toward where I want to go. For me this has been a tremendous source of comfort.

I just want it to stop. I can’t focus on anything, even videogames which I very much enjoyed. I just sit and rot.

I’ve experience this too in the past. Those things aren’t satisfying because they are just distractions, and I have an awareness they don’t change anything for me positively. I feel like I haven’t earned that relaxation at that time, because I’m ignoring what I should be doing productively instead. This isn’t to say that all distractions are bad, but only engaging in distractions, when you have something you want/need to accomplish, is bad. Relaxation is the reward for effort expended.

Have you ever completed a project or met a personal goal and had that restlessness go quiet, even for a short time?

Can I ask how bad your prior car was? When I was driving a shitbox, not only did it look like hell (giving me anxiety about dating), but it was very unreliable. I had the ability to fix most things, but it meant unplanned use of time and expense for tools and parts. It was a constant source of anxiety whether the car would start and I’d make it to work on time or have to pivot to make sure I could take care of adult responsibilities. Forget about road trips. Thats just asking for trouble. So when I finally got a decent car in both appearance and function, it was a huge point of pride and relief.

If your prior car was decent enough, then not having a large reaction to a slightly better car is perfectly normal, I would think.

Harp, who is in her mid-30s, brings the president stacks of printed-out drafts of social media posts—many of them recycling content from other accounts—for Trump to approve, sources told the Journal.

…and…

"The platform allows Trump to ‘offer’ his unfiltered and direct thoughts to the American people, without the biased media taking him out of context,” he added.

Apparently not direct thoughts then. Its Natalie Harp’s direct thoughts she filters and presents to trump for him to have indirect thought on. That is the opposite of unfiltered and indirect. She’s actively fomenting dissent and chaos in the USA. I have no idea what she gains by doing this. Anyone check to see if she’s getting a separate paycheck from Russia?

‘I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation’

We know, trump. Unless its wrapped in gold or a bribe he doesn’t care.

Wait wait wait, he just spent billions deporting Venezuelans from the USA because he said how bad it was they were here with crime and taking jobs. If they were a state, they could simply fly back in as full citizens. Does he not know how statehood and citizenship works? (that’s a rhetorical question. He doesn’t know how anything works)

The ribbing is warranted. I’ll take it if it means I can still get my All Dress chips, peameal bacon, and poutine.

This tweet from her matches Russian political positions. Especially considering that Russia had seized almost 1/3 of Ukraine when she tweeted this. It was particularly tone deaf on Stein’s part because Ukraine had surrendered its nukes, and its reward was being invaded by the country it gave the nukes to.

Steins dinner with Putin was in 2015, so post invasion of Crimea and over a year into Russian “little green men” invading the Donbas.

I like coming north and spending my money to boost the Canadian economy because our laws down here are stupidly hurting my brothers and sisters in Canada. I hope that’s still okay that I come north.

First, I’m not stupid enough to go to Russia to celebrate their propaganda apparatus like she did. Second, I notice you selectively ignored the other option of her just standing up and walking away.

You’re working very hard to craft some kind of narrative trying to convince us she has repeated poor decision making (a bad quality for a President). Are you trying to do that because the other, more likely scenario, is the reality she’s willing tool for Russia?

That explanation isn’t helping her cause or that of the Greens. She actively went to a celebration of the Russian state propaganda machine, that is mistake #1. Then, according to you, she made a choice to continue to sit silently a table with Putin. She could have either kept quiet, stood up and removed herself, or she could have exercised some statesmenship and when presented with the President of Russia, challenge him on his policies of invasion of the sovereign country of Ukraine killing its citizens and kidnapping its children in the Donbas.

Instead, according to you, she sat silent.

she did not have dinner with putin. this is misinformation

You’re looking at the picture. Both Stein and Putin are sitting at the same table. There is food in front of both. Are you claiming the photo is fake? Or are you playing word games where the meal was something like “lunch” instead of “dinner”?

I have two folks I know employed professionally in chemistry. One is does testing quality control testing for a very large internationally chocolate company. As a side benefit, she gets lots of free chocolate bars. Another does chemical analysis for a giant agribusiness conglomerate which produces seeds and fertilizer. If your friend is still interested in a chemistry career there may be opportunities outside of academia and pharmaceuticals doing basic lab work. It doesn’t pay great to start out, but can lead to better pay as she advances.

The ruling parties love to smear the Greens on this side of the pond too, unfortunately

The Greens on the USA side of the pond do a great job of smearing themselves.

Here’s the US Green Party 2024 Presidential candidate Jill Stein having dinner with Vladimir Putin, members of Putin’s senior staff, and self admitted registered foreign agent for the Turkish government, Michael Flynn.

I still have zero respect of MTG. She made her turn of face while still in office where her vote could have affected real change, but instead she immediately resigned. If she had started voting to match her new rebrand then perhaps there would be something to undo all the partially damage she’s done while in office, but no. She quit instead.

She’s all talk just onto her next grift, and she thinks the left are her new mark.

What surprises me most is that I don’t think Apple ever sold an expensive cradle for this mouse to be held upside-down. Die hard Apple fans would have bought it.

While this is certainly partial a function of my advancing age, I honestly don’t know how young people are getting (or keeping) jobs these days. Everything seems to be set against them succeeding. Nearly every avenue I had at the same age is closed or closing fast. There was a version of this when I was younger compared to the Boomers when they got jobs young (computers weren’t a thing in society for young Boomers), but nothing like how bad it is today for GenZ. Nearly none of my experience translated to advice would be useful for them. It feels helpless to see them go through this.

Federal minimum wage is almost exclusively for red state populations that hate their working poor. All blue states besides one (that I can see) have state minimum wage set significantly higher that the lower federal minimum wage so the federal minimum wage doesn’t apply it those blue states.

You might have been provided a “less-ipe”. In communities where recipes are closely guarded, social pressures may force one to share what would be a personal secret. So they give an adulterated version ensuring only they, the original recipe holder can produce the beloved result.

Further, your DD 5.25" could have been set up in a RAID array so you could have 3 buses full of diskettes and only need two buses to reach the destination to rebuild the whole file system.