The Most Neurotic Generation In History, Gen Z, Now Won't Leave Home Without Their "Anxiety Bags," Bags Filled with Self-Soothing Gizmos

"Experts call it genius," the NY Post claims.

Hannah Fowles was spiraling.
It had been a grueling day at work, and by the time the 22-year-old from Provo, Utah, got home, panic was bubbling in her chest as her thoughts raced and her cheeks flushed red.
"I was starting to get super overheated and I couldn't calm myself down," Fowles told The Post. "Nothing that I normally do, like breathing exercises or lying down in a dark room, was working."
Then she saw the bag.

Just weeks earlier, Fowles and her therapist had put together a small, grab-and-go kit filled with items to help calm her mind when anxiety strikes -- an idea she'd first come across while scrolling on TikTok.
She now reached for it, swallowing her anxiety medication and pressing a cold pack to the back of her neck. She flicked on a small portable fan, letting the cool air wash over her face, while in her other hand, she gripped a spiky fidget toy, feeling its prongs dig into her palm as the panic began to ebb.
"Within 10 minutes, I was able to calm down and go to sleep. It normally doesn't happen that quickly," Fowles said. "I never would have thought to have these things until I made the bag. It's been a game-changer -- I use it all the time."
Others her age are finding relief in the same way.

Call them anxiety bags, panic pouches, calm-down kits -- whatever the name, these DIY creations are rapidly gaining popularity online, especially among Gen Z women.

Oh young women are adopting this viral trend? I didn't see that coming.

It's easy to see why. In a survey of nearly 1,000 Americans aged 18 to 26, 61% reported having a diagnosed anxiety condition, and 43% said they experience a panic attack at least once a month.
And while many turn to talk therapy and medication to cope, those tools don't always work in the heat of the moment.
"Stuff like mindfulness and body scans are great, but you have to remember to do them," said Dr. Kyra Bobinet, a physician and behavioral neuroscientist. "When you're in an environment like ours, this storm of hyper-stimulating triggers, you won't necessarily have the ability to remember to do those things anymore."
That's where anxiety bags come in. Keeping self-regulation tools within reach during moments of high stress and sensory overload is, in Bobinet's words, "genius."
"It's a way of distracting and soothing," she explained. "It creates other sensations to focus on so that you don't feel completely taken over by the rapid firing of your anxious or depressed mind."

The "body scan" thing that's mentioned works for reducing stress and falling asleep. There's a "guided meditation" here. The basic gist is that you focus on one part of your body at a time (I just do parts of my head) and imagine the nerves and muscles switching off and going slack. I think it's the same principle as counting sheep -- it's not what you're thinking, it's all the stuff you're not thinking about by focusing on this boring, repetitive, non-stressful thing. By making your brain focus on this one boring thing, you keep your brain from buzzing or catastrophizing.

I only tried it because someone said they tell special ops guys to do this. They have limited time to sleep in, and are usually very keyed-up, and this protocol helps them fall asleep in the few hours they're allowed to sleep.* That sounded bad-ass and Not Gay to me, so I tried it, and it does work.

I don't bother to do this any more. Now I just put on episodes of Always Sunny I've seen 50 times before. Same idea again: Your brain is trained on this boring thing (every show is boring after 50 watches) and that's just enough to keep you from thinking about more exciting things.

* I also knew a spec op medic who said he's very loose with ketamine and other tranquilizers to make sure people can sleep even after coming off 10 hours of combat. So I guess there's that, too.

Call them anxiety bags, panic pouches, calm down kits... whatever the name, these DIY creations are rapidly gaining popularity online... amongst the liberal crowd no doubt. 🙄😏 pic.twitter.com/LvS2eA0Ir1
— Jannine.. #MagaMemeQueen ™️ 👑🇺🇸 (@janninereid1) April 10, 2026

Gen Z is carrying around ‘anxiety bags’ packed with tools to calm their nerves “An anxiety bag is like your very own superhero toolbox,” one Gen Zer told The Post. Experts approve. https://t.co/WoaL8k3dmI pic.twitter.com/HRlyj62VJG
— UnfilteredAmerica (@NahBabyNahNah) April 9, 2026

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1 Dildoes and sleeves...

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 13, 2026 04:25 PM (Sco7b)

2 C'mon, look at that last picture and prove me wrong!

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 13, 2026 04:26 PM (Sco7b)

3 The Most Neurotic Generation In History, Gen Z, Now Won't Leave Home Without Their "Anxiety Bags," Bags Filled with Self-Soothing Gizmos

I don't leave my house without a bug out bag but I suspect that is a different kind of bag.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 13, 2026 04:26 PM (0N4FZ)

4 Practically everybody my sister worked with at her last job was on ketamine, and massive doses of it. Often bragged about it, too.

Also worth noting that my sister's last job was at a pharmacy, which...is slightly alarming.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 13, 2026 04:27 PM (Z8dF5)

5 Just weeks earlier, Fowles and her therapist...

Oh, boy. Here we go. No wonder you're crazy!

Posted by: t-bird at April 13, 2026 04:27 PM (60OBK)

6 There is a Military Method to falling asleep in a few minutes. It's on YT.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 13, 2026 04:27 PM (Sco7b)

7 "-- an idea she'd first come across while scrolling on TikTok."

I think I see the root of the problem.

Posted by: Ripley at April 13, 2026 04:27 PM (GUOwU)

8 The lack of coping skills is incredible to me.

Posted by: Piper at April 13, 2026 04:27 PM (2N3ca)

9 A generation of neurotic basket cases.

Posted by: steevy at April 13, 2026 04:27 PM (YwEeS)

10
Every generation has had its challenges. Even the hated Boomers. But Gen Z seems to react to them by having nervous breakdowns.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 13, 2026 04:28 PM (tgvbd)

11 People two hundred years ago: Well, the Injuns raided us a few days ago so they probably aren't coming back so...I'll just go back to working 10 hours a day in the field

People now: Oh my Gaia what if someone gets my pronouns wrong? I can't even focus on watching reels at work!

Posted by: 18-1 at April 13, 2026 04:28 PM (sKqQm)

12 >>>Fowles and her therapist had put together a small, grab-and-go kit filled with items to help calm her mind when anxiety strikes

It sounds like being a therapist is a great scam. Once you get a hold of a sucker, just encourage all their phobias. Cash for life.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 13, 2026 04:29 PM (syz1S)

13 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

1 Corinthians 13:11

Posted by: bob (HQ Comment of the Week Award Winner) at April 13, 2026 04:29 PM (sMG3g)

14 Pussies.

Posted by: The Whistle at April 13, 2026 04:29 PM (2WIwB)

15 Life is so hard in 2026 ...........

My iPhone Battery died and now I cannot live for 5 hours while it recharges !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jackson K. at April 13, 2026 04:30 PM (X7dyz)

16 My mother had one of these things in the 70s-80s. All her friends had them too. It was called her "pocketbook."

Posted by: Alec Leamas at April 13, 2026 04:30 PM (ssz2a)

17 Off whistling sock!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 13, 2026 04:30 PM (2WIwB)

18 Our three daughters are in their mid to late 20’s.

I’m happy to say they’re all pretty normal and despise people like this.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at April 13, 2026 04:30 PM (hzEuy)

19 swallowing her anxiety medication
......

side effects include swelling between the anus and genitals, brain damage, and death

Posted by: wth at April 13, 2026 04:30 PM (UjdFS)

20 ... Dr. Kyra Bobinet, a physician and behavioral neuroscientist. "When you're in an environment like ours, this storm of hyper-stimulating triggers, you won't necessarily have the ability to remember to do those things anymore."

Spoken like a person who wants to keep her clientele coming back for treatment without end.

Posted by: m at April 13, 2026 04:30 PM (fNISR)

21 Body scans do work to chill out, I do them for clients in my stretch and restore class. Breathing exercises work as well, and different mhz of music can be restorative. All things that are much better than using some sort of chemical to deal with life.

Posted by: Piper at April 13, 2026 04:30 PM (2N3ca)

22 Well if experts say so.

Posted by: Heroq at April 13, 2026 04:30 PM (UuB1r)

23 6 There is a Military Method to falling asleep in a few minutes. It's on YT.
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I learned how to nap at Parade Rest. Parris Island teaches you shit.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 13, 2026 04:31 PM (FmapG)

24 They're just reinventing things that already existed and putting a particularly gay and retarded spin on them.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at April 13, 2026 04:31 PM (ssz2a)

25 A lot of these snowflakes oughta go bake some cookies and tidy up the kitchen.

Posted by: m at April 13, 2026 04:31 PM (fNISR)

26 Why didn't someone just tell her to calm down?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 13, 2026 04:32 PM (XMhLA)

27 I thought these bags were called "purses?"

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at April 13, 2026 04:33 PM (gHSfI)

28 Oh young women are adopting this viral trend? I didn't see that coming.
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Better than cutting their bewbs off, I guess.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 13, 2026 04:33 PM (s+IMr)

29 Weren't Quaaludes invented for this reason? Duh.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 13, 2026 04:33 PM (FmapG)

30 By the way, boring bedtime stories on sleep apps also work and do a better job than a tv in the background because you don’t have the flashing lights. Colored noise is interesting to me- white noise is very grating to me, and apparently is that way for a lot of females, but green noise is soothing.

Posted by: Piper at April 13, 2026 04:33 PM (2N3ca)

31 There’s this neat thing to relieve anxiety it’s called getting laid.

They should try it.

Posted by: Vengeance at April 13, 2026 04:33 PM (bucPA)

32 In my day, we called anxiety bags flasks.

Posted by: Mark1971 at April 13, 2026 04:33 PM (CNl8/)

33 Candy, mints, tea, cold packs, wet wipes, a stress ball, and a fidget spinner.

That’s not an anxiety bag it’s the contents of most women’s purses.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 13, 2026 04:33 PM (6ydKt)

34 23 6 There is a Military Method to falling asleep in a few minutes. It's on YT.
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I learned how to nap at Parade Rest. Parris Island teaches you shit.

This!

Posted by: The guy that says nothing will happen (again) at April 13, 2026 04:33 PM (6uxuX)

35 Maybe they should learn to make sandwiches?

Posted by: pudinhead at April 13, 2026 04:34 PM (FmapG)

36
I got your anxiety bag right here.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 13, 2026 04:34 PM (VWtfl)

37 30 years from now society will be so fucked when these people run things. I’m genuinely scared for what’s about to come.

Posted by: Heroq at April 13, 2026 04:34 PM (UuB1r)

38 I am so glad I grew up before the internet and cell phone age.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 13, 2026 04:34 PM (IYIYn)

39 Oof. That last pick explains why they aren’t getting laid. Who cut her hair- the guy who painted the Dutch boy on the paint can?

Posted by: Vengeance at April 13, 2026 04:34 PM (bucPA)

40 Weak men create hard times.

Hard times create strong men.

Strong men create easy times.

Easy times create weak men... <--- YOU ARE HERE

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 13, 2026 04:34 PM (N1DT3)

41 I reach for a bag too!
A bag of chips to go with my 2nd beer.

Calm me right down.

Posted by: Brice at April 13, 2026 04:35 PM (CA7ct)

42 31 There’s this neat thing to relieve anxiety it’s called getting laid.

They should try it.
Posted by: Vengeance at April 13, 2026 04:33

Fun fact - men release a hormone after sex that makes them tired. Women release one that wakes them up.

Posted by: Piper at April 13, 2026 04:35 PM (2N3ca)

43 10 Every generation has had its challenges. Even the hated Boomers. But Gen Z seems to react to them by having nervous breakdowns.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 13, 2026 04:28 PM (tgvbd)

Lots of Victim Mentality.

Posted by: m at April 13, 2026 04:35 PM (fNISR)

44 My mom always had wintergreen lifesavers in her purse and her pockets. Her breath was always minty fresh. The sideboard where she kept the big bags she bought still smells like wintergreen even though she died in 2010.

Posted by: huerfano at April 13, 2026 04:36 PM (98kQX)

45 Just skip all the pseudo-therapeutic nonsense and hand these people a stuffed animal, a pillow, and a blankie.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 13, 2026 04:36 PM (6ydKt)

46 >> Fun fact - men release a hormone after sex that makes them tired. Women release one that wakes them up.
Posted by: Piper at April 13, 2026 04:35 PM (2N3ca)

That’s essentially Gods way of saying make him a sandwich for when he wakes up.

Posted by: Vengeance at April 13, 2026 04:36 PM (bucPA)

47 I prefer Shawn Ryan - "I took his eye out."

He's his own superhero tool kit.

https://tinyurl.com/2hhrc7vm

Posted by: beckster at April 13, 2026 04:36 PM (kX27y)

48 kind of exactly the opposite of superhero stuff, honey

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 13, 2026 04:36 PM (j+aD2)

49 16 My mother had one of these things in the 70s-80s. All her friends had them too. It was called her "pocketbook."
Posted by: Alec Leamas at April 13, 2026 04:30 PM (ssz2a)

Some of the pocketbooks had cigarettes in them.

Posted by: m at April 13, 2026 04:36 PM (fNISR)

50 One Gen-Z chick does this.

Therefore a majority of Gen-Z chicks do this.

Got it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 13, 2026 04:37 PM (1Q6Kv)

51 Fun fact - men release a hormone after sex that makes them tired. Women release one that wakes them up.
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Is that why women talk so much?

Posted by: pudinhead at April 13, 2026 04:37 PM (FmapG)

52 6 There is a Military Method to falling asleep in a few minutes. It's on YT.
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 13, 2026 04:27 PM

My FIL can fall asleep very fast but he calls them combat naps.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 13, 2026 04:37 PM (qWalT)

53 Some of the pocketbooks had cigarettes in them.
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Yep.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 13, 2026 04:37 PM (FmapG)

54 I'm as happy to savage "youngsters" as the next guy, but why do people uncritically accept that whatever "trend" is announced in clickbait articles is representative of what is happening in real life? Does anyone actually know someone in Gen Z (whatever age group that is) who is doing this? Cause I don't. And I suspect it may be as widespread as most "trends" announced by the news, which is wrong and/or dishonest about virtually everything else. In sum, let's get to know Gen Z and hate them for themselves, not silly articles announcing they need woobies and chupies to manage everyday stress.

Posted by: Press "x" to doubt at April 13, 2026 04:37 PM (pG2sa)

55 18 Our three daughters are in their mid to late 20’s.

I’m happy to say they’re all pretty normal and despise people like this.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at April 13, 2026 04:30 PM (hzEuy)

Wow!
Congratulations!

Posted by: m at April 13, 2026 04:37 PM (fNISR)

56 Afternoon.

I feel like the term "Gen Z" should be replaced with, or at least amended to include, the phrase "urban pussies."

I just don't think this is something young people outside of big cities are really doing.

Posted by: Robert at April 13, 2026 04:38 PM (AjjOd)

57 Jesus is always there for you.
Just call His name.
He will relieve all your fears.

Put a bible in your bag. It’s all you need.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 13, 2026 04:38 PM (bucPA)

58 My FIL can fall asleep very fast but he calls them combat naps.
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You're napping but you are aware of what's going on around you. It works.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 13, 2026 04:38 PM (FmapG)

59 In a survey of nearly 1,000 Americans aged 18 to 26, 61% reported having a diagnosed anxiety condition, and 43% said they experience a panic attack at least once a month.
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That doesn't exactly bode well for the long term prospects of a stable society.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 13, 2026 04:38 PM (gnNyN)

60 The lack of coping skills is incredible to me.
Posted by: Piper at April 13, 2026 04:27 PM (2N3ca)

These people have been driven into despair by the media. However, I suspect that these Gen. Z "hothouse flowers" are concentrated in the big Dem/Commie controlled cities.

They need Jesus in the worst way.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at April 13, 2026 04:38 PM (ksbjf)

61 Posted by: Press "x" to doubt at April 13, 2026 04:37 PM (pG2sa)

Good point. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 13, 2026 04:38 PM (IYIYn)

62 Does anyone actually know someone in Gen Z (whatever age group that is) who is doing this?

I have Gen Z kids and no, not like this

that said they do know kids like this! by which I mean girls like this

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 13, 2026 04:38 PM (j+aD2)

63 Willowed
Thunder and rain in van nuys!!!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little at April 13, 2026 04:39 PM (Kt19C)

64
They need Jesus in the worst way.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at April 13, 2026 04:38 PM (ksbjf)

____________

Or a drill sergeant.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 13, 2026 04:39 PM (tgvbd)

65 We'd go to a bar and get blotto.

This seems healthier.

Posted by: Tom C at April 13, 2026 04:39 PM (VdbRM)

66 Marcus YES

be not afraid

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 13, 2026 04:39 PM (j+aD2)

67 Ace, this is one of your most disturbing posts .

Posted by: tubal at April 13, 2026 04:40 PM (pDt9x)

68 51 Fun fact - men release a hormone after sex that makes them tired. Women release one that wakes them up.
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Is that why women talk so much?
Posted by: pudinhead at April 13, 2026 04:37 PM (FmapG)

That’s how they release all the gas pressure without farting.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 13, 2026 04:40 PM (6ydKt)

69 Intense hail!!!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little at April 13, 2026 04:40 PM (Kt19C)

70
She'd be better off with a Rosary in her "anxiety bag".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 13, 2026 04:40 PM (tgvbd)

71 What these whiny little babies need is to watch this 25 second cat video of my friends' adorable, fluffy cat Snowflake race from her house into mine...

Very soothing

https://tinyurl.com/2zems3v9

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 13, 2026 04:40 PM (Sco7b)

72 You're napping but you are aware of what's going on around you. It works.
Posted by: pudinhead at April 13, 2026 04:38 PM (FmapG)

We called them Power Naps. It is a wonderful skill.

Posted by: Reforger at April 13, 2026 04:40 PM (emWLT)

73 68 51 Fun fact - men release a hormone after sex that makes them tired. Women release one that wakes them up.
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Is that why women talk so much?
Posted by: pudinhead at April 13, 2026 04:37 PM (FmapG)

That’s how they release all the gas pressure without farting.
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Snort.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 13, 2026 04:41 PM (FmapG)

74 It's funny.

These people are the most coddled, least threatened people in the history of the world...

And they have more anxiety than the people in this country who had (or in other countries who still have) to work every day to make sure they were able to EAT and live.

Humans need challenge and struggle. These neurotic porcelain dolls are fragile precisely because they've never had to struggle. So they imagine their own struggle. (Another was of phrasing it: Humans are anti-fragile)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 13, 2026 04:41 PM (N1DT3)

75 Kids have systematically and deliberately not been allowed to develop resilience, independence and self-reliance, starting with the extreme protective helicopter and lawnmower parenting, along with the outright criminalization of letting kids do anything unsupervised, and it reached a screaming crescendo with the COVID bullshit. Kids are terrified of anything and everything, and have not been allowed to experience the normal process of trying, failing, learning, trying, failing, and so on that actually builds true self-confidence and mental fortitude. It's a multi-generational betrayal and when the bill comes due we're in trouble.

Posted by: The kids aren't alright. at April 13, 2026 04:41 PM (TbWk/)

76 Well, shit, I mean, if a flask isn't "cool" anymore, and you can't kick a butt anywhere within fifty thousand miles of a structure.... how else are you gonna deal with social anxiety?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 13, 2026 04:41 PM (Ot/FD)

77 We all know exceptions. I do. But, if even half true it is discpuraging.

Posted by: tubal at April 13, 2026 04:41 PM (pDt9x)

78 Not longago there was that survey of hiring managers, 20% of whom said a GenZ candidate had brought a parent ton an interview.

This shit isn’t isolated. The kids are fucked up.

Posted by: Heroq at April 13, 2026 04:41 PM (UuB1r)

79 Whenever I feel like Im getting anxious I simply stand up and punch someone in the face

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at April 13, 2026 04:41 PM (REq0p)

80 My job is not military, but it did teach me how to nap.

Posted by: wth at April 13, 2026 04:41 PM (UjdFS)

81 I won't denigrate Gen Z too brutally, as us my usual default for everyone else.

I've raised my kids to be tougher, which isn't a big challenge, so they can outcompete these sissies in real life.

But, on balance - the Z kids appear to be much better people than my Millennial cohort. I wouldn't call them worthless degenerates like my cohort. I wouldn't call them intolerant, hyperconformist, borderline-braindead Jacobins like my cohort. I wouldn't say they ruined everything like my cohort did.

They're just really huge pussies. At least they aren't evil.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 13, 2026 04:42 PM (BI5O2)

82 I got your "anxiety bag" right here!

Posted by: Sea Bass at April 13, 2026 04:42 PM (4eiIm)

83 Alot of Z'ers are like this.

There are the rare chosen few that are basically Gen X just 30 yrs late to the party.

It's sad that I am going to grow old in a world full of these neurotic sissies.

Posted by: fox at April 13, 2026 04:42 PM (I4Eoo)

84 Posted by: Piper at April 13, 2026 04:35 PM (2N3ca)

That’s essentially Gods way of saying make him a sandwich for when he wakes up.

Your Honor, that's when the murders started.

Posted by: Nazdar at April 13, 2026 04:42 PM (NcvvS)

85
I'm sorry they feel stressed but this is ridiculous and if you need a binky let's not talk about it, go hide in the bathroom and catch your breath like a normal person. They need to live in the world as it is.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 13, 2026 04:42 PM (qWalT)

86 56 I feel like the term "Gen Z" should be replaced with, or at least amended to include, the phrase "urban pussies."
Posted by: Robert at April 13, 2026 04:38 PM (AjjOd)

urban puss-Z's

Posted by: m at April 13, 2026 04:42 PM (fNISR)

87 57 Jesus is always there for you.
Just call His name.
He will relieve all your fears.

Put a bible in your bag. It’s all you need.

That and a 9 with a few spare mags

Posted by: BIP at April 13, 2026 04:42 PM (HcoTw)

88 These kids are just broken.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 13, 2026 04:42 PM (Wnv9h)

89 I prefer xanax. What on earth are they so anxious about? Their gender confusion? Trump? Covid? ICE? Septum nose ring infection? What? I need more to result to this stupid bag.

I could not deal with these nervous people without slapping them. Think Scarlett slapping Prissy in Gone With the Wind...when Prissy suddenly did not know about birthin' babies. Melanie is in labor and Atlanta is burning down. I feel sure the pressure would build and I would smack someone.

My presence alone would give them anxiety on top of their other anxiety.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 13, 2026 04:43 PM (WONhk)

90 My anxiety bag contains a G26 and 3 extra mags loaded with Gold Dot 124gr HP's.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 13, 2026 04:43 PM (abIsI)

91 that said they do know kids like this! by which I mean girls like this"

Hmmm.

Read the linkage. Know what they all have in common?

*grabs popcorn*

Posted by: man at April 13, 2026 04:43 PM (XuXeR)

92 on balance - the Z kids appear to be much better people than my Millennial cohort.

-

Tallest midgets.

Posted by: Heroq at April 13, 2026 04:43 PM (UuB1r)

93 In a survey of nearly 1,000 Americans aged 18 to 26, 61% reported having a diagnosed anxiety condition, and 43% said they experience a panic attack at least once a month.

I have never been happier to not be a young man today.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 13, 2026 04:43 PM (4NO2D)

94 34 ITR at Geiger in my day was very big on sleep deprivation. Fall out on the street at 0 dark thirty and go on a nature hike to some range. I swear I saw guys sleeping while on the march, and I think it happened to me a couple times.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 13, 2026 04:43 PM (gm9Sb)

95 "Within 10 minutes, I was able to calm down and go to sleep. It normally doesn't happen that quickly," Fowles said. "I never would have thought to have these things until I made the bag. It's been a game-changer -- I use it all the time."

Try going to sleep for a few hours directly under the number two arresting wire of an aircraft carrier doing constant flight ops.

It helps that you are so exhausted you fall asleep in about 5 seconds.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 13, 2026 04:44 PM (0N4FZ)

96 The girl with the bag has anxiety bangs.

One little trick for falling asleep is to move your (closed) eyes from side to side. I do it so subtly that I wonder whether my eyes are really moving. Sleep is coming fast at that point, obv.

Posted by: Oglebay at April 13, 2026 04:44 PM (GPa4z)

97 Amen Blackorchid.

He tells us many times through the gospels to not be afraid.

Spend less time on social media and the internet. Spend more time reading His Word.

It will brings you indescribable peace.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 13, 2026 04:44 PM (1zcQ9)

98 What they need is a good rodgering. Nature's stress reliever.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 13, 2026 04:44 PM (n5tGW)

99 65 We'd go to a bar and get blotto.

This seems healthier.
Posted by: Tom C at April 13, 2026 04:39 PM (VdbRM)

It's more solitary.

Posted by: m at April 13, 2026 04:44 PM (fNISR)

100 Attention Ace of Spades Readers! You are ordered to watch Deep Space Nine more than 50 times and enjoy it.

Thank you for your attention and diligent reading.

Posted by: Gul Dukat at April 13, 2026 04:44 PM (GYrNB)

101 100

Posted by: m at April 13, 2026 04:44 PM (fNISR)

102 I dont actually see a lot of Gen Z men like this, which may be correlated to a huge percentage of them being MAGA, while the Gen Z women on the other hand are brittle screechbots

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at April 13, 2026 04:44 PM (REq0p)

103 tangential but a lovely young man at the local college was walking with his friends by the university Saturday night when he was struck by a drunk, speeding driver (this is not an area for fast driving, it's quiet and basically on campus).

he died the next day

absolutely tragic and I am SO SICK of the insane drivers going thru West Chester it is awful. he was with a group of friends they are all devastated by what happened.

His name was Garrent Nicholas, and his family could use some prayers.

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 13, 2026 04:44 PM (j+aD2)

104 Intense hail!!!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little at

Commissar, where's your finishing noun?

Posted by: Nazdar at April 13, 2026 04:44 PM (NcvvS)

105 I saw this routine used for WWII pilots.

Make sure your body is totally relaxed from head to toe

Think nothing

Then, fall asleep.

What's in the bag? Bug out bag. Inquiring minds want to know

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 13, 2026 04:45 PM (Fn30I)

106 These neurotics will never live a normal life.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 13, 2026 04:45 PM (AkEZC)

107 I see a society that is becoming conditioned
to accommodate them, like society accommodates so many of the aberrations we have
now.

Posted by: tubal at April 13, 2026 04:45 PM (pDt9x)

108 94 34 ITR at Geiger in my day was very big on sleep deprivation. Fall out on the street at 0 dark thirty and go on a nature hike to some range. I swear I saw guys sleeping while on the march, and I think it happened to me a couple times.
---------------
I was at Geiger. Lots of running in boots. I was still on the heal from Parris Island regarding my pitting edema.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 13, 2026 04:45 PM (FmapG)

109 Anxiety is an evil you cannot shoot.

Cleanse your soul. Read His Word.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 13, 2026 04:45 PM (1zcQ9)

110 My anxiety bag contains a G26 and 3 extra mags loaded with Gold Dot 124gr HP's.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 13, 2026 04:43 PM

Recoil Therapy is best therapy.

To quote Homer Simpson, 'When I held that gun in my hand, I felt a surge of power... like God must feel when he's holding a gun.'

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 13, 2026 04:45 PM (4NO2D)

111 That and a 9 with a few spare mags"

Kimber. 1911.

That is all.

Posted by: man at April 13, 2026 04:45 PM (XuXeR)

112 Neurotic, self-satisfied, and stupid is no way to go through life, young lady.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 13, 2026 04:46 PM (ZVgZ4)

113 Skip the bag question. My bad

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 13, 2026 04:46 PM (Fn30I)

114 From last thread:

61
I'm surprised there's such a thing as an "Intelligence Community Inspector General." I thought the "Intelligence Community" was an unofficial term, like Uniparty or The Squad.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 13, 2026 03:43 PM (n7rxJ)

Ditto! There *is* an unofficial term, but it's The Interagency.

Posted by: SciVo at April 13, 2026 04:46 PM (Sy6m/)

115 feel like the term "Gen Z" should be replaced with, or at least amended to include, the phrase "urban pussies."

I just don't think this is something young people outside of big cities are really doing.
Posted by: Robert at April 13, 2026 04:38 PM (AjjOd)

Good point. I think even within cities it’s the children of AWFls that are doing this primarily. But unfortunately there are millions of such people out there.

Posted by: Heroq at April 13, 2026 04:46 PM (UuB1r)

116 My presence alone would give them anxiety on top of their other anxiety.

you and me both Christy!

I have, in fact, in real life, smacked someone who was freaking out across the face.

lol. she calmed down.

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 13, 2026 04:46 PM (j+aD2)

117 His name was Garrent Nicholas, and his family could use some prayers.
Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 13, 2026 04:44 PM (j+aD2)

Done.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 13, 2026 04:46 PM (BI5O2)

118 Why do we have so many dirtbags here from the UK?

Retard Harry and his hootchie mama, Trudeau and his nasty whore. Don't bring your anxiety and tweener porn here.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 13, 2026 04:46 PM (Fbc0I)

119 His name was Garrent Nicholas, and his family could use some prayers.
Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 13,

How awful, I am so sorry. Will definitely pray.

Posted by: Piper at April 13, 2026 04:46 PM (7gm9V)

120 Basically, it's a pacifier or security blanket.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 13, 2026 04:47 PM (AlhUl)

121 When i can't fall asleep i start building an off grid cabin in my head. I rarely get past framing up the first wall

Posted by: BIP at April 13, 2026 04:47 PM (HcoTw)

122 why a bag when you can carry a flask

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at April 13, 2026 04:47 PM (ubCxQ)

123 In a survey of nearly 1,000 Americans aged 18 to 26, 61% reported having a diagnosed anxiety condition, and 43% said they experience a panic attack at least once a month.

Or as we used to call it - life.

Call them anxiety bags, panic pouches, calm-down kits -- whatever the name, these DIY creations are rapidly gaining popularity online, especially among Gen Z women.

Tit-calmers?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 13, 2026 04:47 PM (Riz8t)

124 to accommodate them, like society accommodates so many of the aberrations we have
now.

like ululating Arabs at a Sabrina Carpenter concert!!!

(maybe it will show up in quick hits later)

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 13, 2026 04:47 PM (j+aD2)

125 Every generation of human since Cain brained his brother for not sharing breakfast has had to deal with social anxiety.

These people aren't unique in that regard. They're unique because they literally have nothing to live for. You used to have to live to survive. Either you had your shit together on purpose and life was good, or you didn't and you had to scramble and hustle just to keep from starving or getting killed somehow.

These people have the luxury of not having to fight for survival, but without having had any exposure even to the concept of fighting for survival. There's no work ethic. There's no hustle. There's no reason they should. They're basically pets.

Embracing neurosis gives them the internal struggle they need to give their existence some kind of pathetic meaning.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 13, 2026 04:48 PM (Ot/FD)

126 Saw Brittle Screechbots open for Amyl and the Sniffers at the Factory in '22.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 13, 2026 04:48 PM (abIsI)

127 108 And then you just have to put all the tall guys at the front of the column and have a troop handler built like a 6'4" grasshopper. Makes for problems for those of us height challenged.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 13, 2026 04:48 PM (gm9Sb)

128 Great to have whatever it takes to help yourself get through your day, life can be very hard. But this crap about a “storm of hyper-stimulating triggers” leaves me pretty cold.
A friend of mine had breast cancer interrupt her great career and life a decade or so ago. She fought it hard and it went away. It has just returned and her life is now measured in anything from months to a few years.
Maybe a bit of perspective as opposed to frantic self pity could help.

Posted by: RM at April 13, 2026 04:48 PM (EHfix)

129 How dare you!

Posted by: Greta on a Shelf at April 13, 2026 04:49 PM (4NO2D)

130 these DIY creations are rapidly gaining popularity online, especially among Gen Z women.
________
What % of women are actually insane?

Posted by: Eeyore at April 13, 2026 04:49 PM (AlhUl)

131 >>When i can't fall asleep i start building an off grid cabin in my head. I rarely get past framing up the first wall
Posted by: BIP at April 13, 2026 04:47 PM (HcoTw)
_
Weird. Me too.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at April 13, 2026 04:50 PM (liDr6)

132 130 these DIY creations are rapidly gaining popularity online, especially among Gen Z women.
________
What % of women are actually insane?

North of 100%

Posted by: BIP at April 13, 2026 04:50 PM (HcoTw)

133 Anxiety used to be called getting nervous in social situations. But there was no money in it. Then the medical community discovered there’s billions to be made when it’s a disease called anxiety that requires a lifetime of drugs and visits to therapist.

Posted by: Heroq at April 13, 2026 04:50 PM (UuB1r)

134 Pansies. Just mainline caffeine and nicotine like God intended.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 13, 2026 04:50 PM (22p8M)

135 71 What these whiny little babies need is to watch this 25 second cat video of my friends' adorable, fluffy cat Snowflake race from her house into mine...

Very soothing

https://tinyurl.com/2zems3v9
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 13, 2026 04:40 PM (Sco7b)

Looks like Snowflake is PARTLY your cat!

Posted by: m at April 13, 2026 04:50 PM (fNISR)

136 Make kids free range again.

Posted by: steevy at April 13, 2026 04:50 PM (YwEeS)

137 I've got a cure for them.. Get off the internet !

Posted by: It's me donna at April 13, 2026 04:50 PM (FtULh)

138 Back to the previous topic, look at the date.

>>@FOOL_NELSON
·
Oct 12, 2019
Replying to
@FOOL_NELSON
BREAKING: Alleged #Whistleblower Eric Ciaramella ran the meeting that
@jsolomonReports
was "one of the earliest documented efforts to build the now-debunked Trump-Russia collusion narrative". @AndriyUkraineTe please confirm

Posted by: JackStraw at April 13, 2026 04:50 PM (viF8m)

139
Embracing neurosis gives them the internal struggle they need to give their existence some kind of pathetic meaning.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 13, 2026 04:48 PM (Ot/FD)

About 78% of youths in France, where Christianity is nearly extinct, say there's nothing worth living for.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 13, 2026 04:50 PM (tgvbd)

140 This has to be the first generation in human history that applies FOMO to being neurotic. If you don't have some sort of mental problem, you're just not trying hard enough.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 13, 2026 04:50 PM (Riz8t)

141 I learned this from my Dad:

"Oh for fuck's sake!"

Posted by: Tonypete at April 13, 2026 04:50 PM (cYBz/)

142 My son is Gen Z, and he, and most of his friends, are pretty awesome.

Posted by: Bulg at April 13, 2026 04:51 PM (77rzZ)

143 Does this include bean flicking?

Posted by: Only mildly curious at April 13, 2026 04:51 PM (2Ez/1)

144
I have, in fact, in real life, smacked someone who was freaking out across the face.

lol. she calmed down.
Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 13, 2026 04:46 PM

Lol, I have too and it worked for me as well.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 13, 2026 04:51 PM (qWalT)

145 Fuck it, when colander face mask world arrives we're gonna need sandbags. I think we'll have plenty.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 13, 2026 04:51 PM (snZF9)

146 Remember that commercial with R Lee Ermey as a therapist who throws a box of Kleenex at a soy boy and calls him a jack wagon? That.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 13, 2026 04:51 PM (u73oe)

147 I have never been happier to not be a young man today.
Posted by: toby928(c) at April 13, 2026 04:43 PM (4NO2D)

No dates, no sex, no purpose, no future. It's ok for an old man but not for a young one. I am genuinely worried for our young men.

Posted by: It's rough out there at April 13, 2026 04:51 PM (TbWk/)

148 Rub some dirt on it, Hannah.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 13, 2026 04:52 PM (4NO2D)

149 >>>>When i can't fall asleep i start building an off grid cabin in my head. I rarely get past framing up the first wall

I just re-run my daily bike ride in my head.

After about 3-5 miles of trail I am nodding off.

Posted by: garrett at April 13, 2026 04:52 PM (3JuEJ)

150 I have, in fact, in real life, smacked someone who was freaking out across the face.

lol. she calmed down.

Was there a line of people behind you waiting their turn? Lie to me if you have to.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 13, 2026 04:52 PM (Riz8t)

151 I guess "just rub some dirt on it, pussy" doesn't cut it anymore.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at April 13, 2026 04:52 PM (XMwZJ)

152 >>>The basic gist is that you focus on one part of your body at a time (I just do parts of my head) and imagine the nerves and muscles switching off and going slack.

Sounds ghey.

Just kidding. Relaxation breathing is a tool I've used for calming nerves, and I teach it to calm the jitters on the pitching mound to kids.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 13, 2026 04:52 PM (22p8M)

153 In my day, we just kept a joint in our sock.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 13, 2026 04:52 PM (ndZc7)

154 146 Remember that commercial with R Lee Ermey as a therapist who throws a box of Kleenex at a soy boy and calls him a jack wagon? That.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 13, 2026 04:51 PM (u73oe)

"Maybe we can chug on over to namby pamby-ville, where maybe we can find some self-confidence for you..."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 13, 2026 04:53 PM (Ot/FD)

155 What is this "can't fall asleep" thing?

I can sleep anywhere, anytime. My wife insists I could sleep through a house fire.

But if something doesn't sound right or a twig snaps when it shouldn't - I'm instantly up on my feet.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 13, 2026 04:53 PM (cYBz/)

156 Somehow, this is the fault of men.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 13, 2026 04:53 PM (HXT0k)

157 I have very little doubt that this is yet another one of those things that only a tiny fraction of people use or have tried, and yet another mainstream media slop factory is blaming it on an entire group just to keep people at each other's throats.

It's getting very boring.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 13, 2026 04:53 PM (a+4eV)

158 this story is just so sad ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 13, 2026 04:53 PM (MIIRH)

159 Somehow, this is the fault of men.

Well, one man specifically.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 13, 2026 04:53 PM (Riz8t)

160 I've got a cure for them.. Start smoking cigarettes.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 13, 2026 04:53 PM (abIsI)

161 In olden times, guys that carried a hip flask, a DuPont lighter, and a cigarette case never seemed to get emotional. Maybe add a 1903 Colt to the mix.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 13, 2026 04:54 PM (gm9Sb)

162 Or Leslie Neilson trying to calm the female passenger down in Airplane. That works too.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 13, 2026 04:54 PM (u73oe)

163 There it is

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 13, 2026 04:54 PM (Kt19C)

164 Well, one man specifically.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 13, 2026 04:53 PM (Riz8t)

Dr. Spock?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 13, 2026 04:54 PM (Ot/FD)

165 Looks like Snowflake is PARTLY your cat!
Posted by: m at April 13, 2026 04:50 PM (fNISR

Yeah. I'm a dog person but I love her.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 13, 2026 04:54 PM (Sco7b)

166 In my day, we just kept a joint in our sock.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 13, 2026 04:52 PM (ndZc7)

Right?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 13, 2026 04:54 PM (snZF9)

167 159 Somehow, this is the fault of men.

Well, one man specifically.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 13, 2026 04:53 PM (Riz8t)

Jesus?

Posted by: Thats usually the right answer at April 13, 2026 04:54 PM (TbWk/)

168 Was there a line of people behind you waiting their turn? Lie to me if you have to.

ha ha it was in a club so probably

I'm sure I wasn't alone

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 13, 2026 04:54 PM (j+aD2)

169 Unless I am in physical pain, I sleep like an innocent. My wife thinks too much about problems when she goes to bed and it keeps her awake. For me, sleep is an escape from the cares of the world. I am gone in like two minutes.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 13, 2026 04:54 PM (4NO2D)

170 I have very little doubt that this is yet another one of those things that only a tiny fraction of people use or have tried, and yet another mainstream media slop factory is blaming it on an entire group just to keep people at each other's throats.

It's getting very boring.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 13, 2026 04:53 PM (a+4eV)

Look up use of anxiety drugs among young people. This isn’t isolated this is the norm.

Posted by: Heroq at April 13, 2026 04:54 PM (UuB1r)

171 Well, one man specifically.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 13, 2026 04:53 PM (Riz8t)

Dr. Spock?

I was thinking of Trump. Dr. Spock is ancient history.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 13, 2026 04:55 PM (Riz8t)

172 Jesus?

lol no he only pretends to be Jesus sometimes!

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 13, 2026 04:55 PM (j+aD2)

173 Well, one man specifically.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 13, 2026 04:53 PM (Riz8t)

Jesus?
Posted by: Thats usually the right answer at April 13, 2026 04:54 PM (TbWk/)

Lol.

Jesus already did return, and said "Seriously? No one? Wow", and left again.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 13, 2026 04:55 PM (Ot/FD)

174 133 Anxiety used to be called getting nervous in social situations. But there was no money in it. Then the medical community discovered there’s billions to be made when it’s a disease called anxiety that requires a lifetime of drugs and visits to therapist.
Posted by: Heroq at April 13, 2026 04:50 PM (UuB1r)

Rumination isn't healthy and I think they need to go for a walk outdoors, without earbuds.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 13, 2026 04:55 PM (qWalT)

175 I have joints in my socks along with tarsals, metatarsals, and phalanges. Doesn't everyone?

Posted by: Can't walk without 'em at April 13, 2026 04:56 PM (TbWk/)

176 These are the people who are cheating us blind in elections and then wielding power over us.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 13, 2026 04:56 PM (oSeBJ)

177 People two hundred years ago: Well, the Injuns raided us a few days ago so they probably aren't coming back so...I'll just go back to working 10 hours a day in the field
--
Shit, I've read journal entries that almost literally read, "got up, fixed breakfast, did household chores, gave birth to a boy."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 13, 2026 04:56 PM (HXT0k)

178 43% said they experience a panic attack at least once a month.

-
Like when I can't find the remote?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 13, 2026 04:56 PM (ndZc7)

179 Hunter S. Thompson had adrenochrome in his Anxiety Bag.

Posted by: Fear and Loathing in Bizarro World at April 13, 2026 04:56 PM (FxINA)

180 Well, one man specifically.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 13, 2026 04:53 PM (Riz8t)

Mr. Daddy Issues.

Posted by: Roy at April 13, 2026 04:56 PM (qwype)

181 My Fed Ex Driver must have decided to take today off...normally that guy is here before 10am.

Posted by: garrett at April 13, 2026 04:56 PM (3JuEJ)

182 Well, one man specifically.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 13, 2026 04:53 PM (Riz8t)

—————

Yep. It’s not my fault they don’t like their fathers.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 13, 2026 04:56 PM (u73oe)

183 Are they having genuine panic attacks or feeling uncomfortable/overwhelmed? Pooky has had a few panic attacks and they sound terrifying.

Posted by: pookysgirl knows a few mental health things at April 13, 2026 04:57 PM (Wt5PA)

184 Even if I’m generally stressing about something I have no problem falling asleep. I can turn my brain off and forget all about it until the morning.

Posted by: Heroq at April 13, 2026 04:57 PM (UuB1r)

185 No dates, no sex, no purpose, no future. It's ok for an old man but not for a young one. I am genuinely worried for our young men.

*********************

Being 29, Im fine as I havent had a huge desire to have kids and enjoy the peace and quiet

But if youre wondering why our birth rate has crashed through the floor, this might be a clue

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at April 13, 2026 04:57 PM (REq0p)

186 Does anyone actually know someone in Gen Z (whatever age group that is) who is doing this?

Actually, its just three ugly chicks in Queens.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 13, 2026 04:57 PM (COQGW)

187 On the one hand, Western Civ has a fertility crisis. On the other hand, looking at the childlike visage in the OP, I hesitate to encourage the immature to have kids of their own. On the gripping hand, maybe they would rise to the occasion as so many of our forebears did, and the lack of occasion to rise to is the problem itself.

Posted by: SciVo at April 13, 2026 04:57 PM (Sy6m/)

188 I read these social misfits are starting to decorate their Anxiety Bags and show them off to other their friends and family. Kind of like the Covid mask decorations.

I'm moving to the remotest part of Alaska.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 13, 2026 04:57 PM (abIsI)

189 183 Are they having genuine panic attacks or feeling uncomfortable/overwhelmed? Pooky has had a few panic attacks and they sound terrifying.
Posted by: pookysgirl knows a few mental health things at April 13, 2026 04:57 PM (Wt5PA)

These are the people who swear they're "autistic" because they once looked at a bug for more than a few seconds.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 13, 2026 04:58 PM (Ot/FD)

190 Apropos of nothing, I watched the new Road House movie last night. It wasn't great cinema, but it wasn't bad for what it was. Conor McGregor was the high point, but Jake Gyllenhaal did good work too.

Surprisingly, JG considers himself a Joo.

ake Gyllenhaal is of mixed Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) and Swedish, English, and German (father) descent. Born to a Jewish mother and a father with Swedish noble roots, Gyllenhaal has stated he considers himself Jewish. He was raised with a blend of faiths but identifies with his mother's Jewish heritage

Posted by: Archimedes at April 13, 2026 04:58 PM (Riz8t)

191 It helps to be busy, and so tired by the end of the day, that you don't have time to worry about bullshit.
I used to have insomnia, not any more after having kids.

Posted by: fb at April 13, 2026 04:58 PM (JVEmw)

192 I need an anti anxiety bag. Mom fell and broke her hip last night. Went into surgery this morning. Now back in her room. Been spending the waiting time dealing with ensuring rehab at the correct places post surgery release. She had vascular dementia and poor if any short term memory and the anesthetic is likely to make it worse. So we will see where the caseworker sends her of the faculties I listed and called to ensure vacancies.

In between, I had to fix a printer driver problem for a 2018 Color Laser printer on our network. The driver did not like the change from cable modem and router ISP to new cheaper fiber optic ISP provider gateway. Had to reinstall the printer using old bash script and archaic driver along with the latest version of CUPS. Got it working.

To me, the biggest barrier to Linux acceptance are the driver situation as mfgs simply do not update their drivers and they can break on linux with new patches and upgrades.

Getting to be an issue for Windows too. I have an All in One Canon in the basement which will be Windows 10 4ever after I managed to find a windows driver from Canon India support page for Win 8.1. Original driver was XP SP3 vintage.

Posted by: whig at April 13, 2026 04:58 PM (E4rtv)

193 >>Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 13, 2026 04:42 PM (BI5O2)

Going to speak up for the Millennials, just a bit, as a tail-end Boomer. Ten Millennial nieces & nephews, nine married, no bastards, no divorces. No Jacobins, no Thanksgiving hectoring. So much depends on their parents - who are mostly late Boomer/early Gen X.

Posted by: Nazdar at April 13, 2026 04:58 PM (NcvvS)

194 This sounds like something like 3 people at whatever newspaper do and because young women often have main character syndrome they've decided it's the Hot New Trend. I remember alarming articles like this 20 years ago about Millennials and those were clickbait too.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 13, 2026 04:58 PM (2ocoG)

195 Have you ever noticed that when Millennials were young, only right-wing media said anything bad about us, while everyone else kissed our horrible asses?

That's because everyone was afraid of us.

Now that we're in charge of media we rip into the youngsters just like we rip into the Boomers, because we fear nobody.

We're the nastiest, most vicious group of living people.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 13, 2026 04:58 PM (BI5O2)

196 Anxiety bags for the douchebags

Posted by: Roy at April 13, 2026 04:58 PM (qwype)

197 The four life savers in that bag should do the trick!

How much does this crap cost in the litle bag? Is there a douche bag as well? Seems like there should be a Summer's Eve in there. Or a Fleet's Enema. Either/or/both while having a minty life saver. That would distract them.

I don't know what I'd do if I had a daughter like this. Probably give her xanax that I would be popping in depression that I birthed a dimwit.

My oldest grandgirl is 5yrs old and would scare them (she scares us at times). My husband saw her knocked down flat playing by a larger boy and she got up unfazed and continued on with her life. Just get out of her way. Unstoppable is our girl.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 13, 2026 04:58 PM (WONhk)

198 When I need to get to sleep by focusing on something boring, I go and read all the comments on the most-recent Sunday Book Thread.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 13, 2026 04:58 PM (Y1sOo)

199 >>Does anyone actually know someone in Gen Z (whatever age group that is) who is doing this?

This, specifically...no.

But, this is my Nephew's Generation and they are all sorts of fucked in the head.

I will point out that I have seen more than a couple of them get their shit together...but they put themselves through hell before they did.

Posted by: garrett at April 13, 2026 04:59 PM (3JuEJ)

200 The lady, she does not need the bag for the, how do you say, anxiety relief, when the Paolo is near.

Posted by: The Paolo at April 13, 2026 04:59 PM (COQGW)

201 183 Are they having genuine panic attacks or feeling uncomfortable/overwhelmed? Pooky has had a few panic attacks and they sound terrifying.
Posted by: pookysgirl knows a few mental health things at April 13, 2026 04:57 PM (Wt5PA)

True panic attacks suck ass. I've only had a couple but one was bad enough I thought I was having a heart attack and went to the ER. There's a hell of a difference between generalized or even focused anxiety and a full-on panic attack.

Posted by: Anxiety blows at April 13, 2026 04:59 PM (TbWk/)

202 Looks like the Cultural Marxists brainwashing is working well, Turning young people in to mental illness

Posted by: Skip at April 13, 2026 04:59 PM (Ia/+0)

203 There’s this neat thing to relieve anxiety it’s called getting laid.

They should try it.
Posted by: Vengeance

Ah, the good old sexual revolution advice that led to the increase in STDs, the breaking of everybody's ability to pair bond, and the wrecking of marriages for the last 60 years.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 13, 2026 04:59 PM (a+4eV)

204 Social Media is a garbage dump. Somebody said something mean to me, so I'm going to suck my thumb, cowering in the corner overwhelmed by anxiety. Now I have PTSD.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 13, 2026 04:59 PM (Fbc0I)

205 Uh, dude I think Snowflake loves you, whether she's technically your cat or not.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at April 13, 2026 05:00 PM (gHSfI)

206 Look up use of anxiety drugs among young people. This isn’t isolated this is the norm.
Posted by: Heroq at April 13, 2026 04:54

Js daughter, who has an AWFL for a mother, is on anxiety meds. She has just announced she is autistic, something I find funny as she has been around my daughter who really is autistic, she knows she is not. J started ti argue with her, I told him to let it go, because she didn’t chose being trans as her trend du jour, we should be grateful for small blessings. But I hate she is on anxiety meds, it cannot be good for developing brains.

Meanwhile, my children are all pains in the tails, but not on meds and making it in life - even the autistic one. Perhaps being the no rules mama, as J calls me, is working out in the end. Experience is a heck of a teacher!

Posted by: Piper at April 13, 2026 05:00 PM (7gm9V)

207 Prayers for a complete and relatively speedy recovery for your Moms, Whig.

Posted by: garrett at April 13, 2026 05:00 PM (3JuEJ)

208 I have, in fact, in real life, smacked someone who was freaking out across the face.

lol. she calmed down.

Did she immediately try to kill you as is the appropriate response to such stimulus?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 13, 2026 05:00 PM (a+4eV)

209 185 No dates, no sex, no purpose, no future. It's ok for an old man but not for a young one. I am genuinely worried for our young men.

*********************

Being 29, Im fine as I havent had a huge desire to have kids and enjoy the peace and quiet

But if youre wondering why our birth rate has crashed through the floor, this might be a clue
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger
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No sex, no drugs, no wine, no women
No fun, no sin, no you, no wonder it's dark
Everyone around me is a total stranger
Everyone avoids me like a psyched Lone Ranger, everyone

Courtesy of the Vapors.

Posted by: whig at April 13, 2026 05:00 PM (E4rtv)

210 These are the people who swear they're "autistic" because they once looked at a bug for more than a few seconds.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 13, 2026 04:58 PM (Ot/FD)

Ah, yes, the "I have autism and ADHD at the same time" crowd.

Posted by: pookysgirl knows a few mental health things at April 13, 2026 05:00 PM (Wt5PA)

211 whig owning a printer is just not worth it

my cat destroyed my color laser and I replaced with a less snazzy brother b/w laser and he's working hard at killing that too.

but the set up the drivers the updates etc etc

just easier to send stuff out to print and pick it up and get it delivered by staples or wherever

printers have been a nightmare my entire working career

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 13, 2026 05:01 PM (j+aD2)

212 Posted by: whig at April 13, 2026 04:58 PM (E4rtv)

I'm sorry whig and prayers for your mother.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 13, 2026 05:01 PM (qWalT)

213 Seems like there should be a Summer's Eve in there. Or a Fleet's Enema"

Vintage Lysol...

Posted by: man at April 13, 2026 05:01 PM (XuXeR)

214 >>Courtesy of the Vapors.

Man, that first LP of theirs was killer.

Posted by: garrett at April 13, 2026 05:01 PM (3JuEJ)

215 Did she immediately try to kill you as is the appropriate response to such stimulus?

a guy would but no. she was quiet and nice after.

weird, huh?

also whig- so sorry about your Mom. hope she heals well.

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 13, 2026 05:01 PM (j+aD2)

216 Posted by: whig at April 13, 2026 04:58 PM (E4rtv)

Sorry about your Mom...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 13, 2026 05:02 PM (FtULh)

217 My FIL can fall asleep very fast but he calls them combat naps.
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You're napping but you are aware of what's going on around you. It works.
Posted by: pudinhead at April 13, 2026 04:38 PM (FmapG)

***

Works best with the battalion radios on near by.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 13, 2026 05:02 PM (2WIwB)

218

INDIANAPOLIS — IMPD is investigating after a man was shot in the parking lot of a Kroger store Saturday evening following an alleged argument over Pokémon cards.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 13, 2026 05:02 PM (Cqx++)

219 The left has told 2 generations that they are victims. There was no other way this woke go. Being “mentally ill” is the golden ticket. Everything from more time to take tests, to sympathy from everyone to knowing you can never get fired. Why wouldn’t you want to be crazy? The real crazy people are the ones not taking advantage of this.

Posted by: Heroq at April 13, 2026 05:02 PM (UuB1r)

220 Generation Z (born 1997–2012), also known as Zoomers or iGen, are the first truly digitally native generation, known for being pragmatic, socially conscious, and technologically fluent. They value inclusivity, prioritize mental health, and are reshaping the workplace by seeking purpose-driven work-life balance over traditional corporate loyalty.

Yeah, I think I see the problem.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 13, 2026 05:03 PM (snZF9)

221 213 Seems like there should be a Summer's Eve in there. Or a Fleet's Enema"

Vintage Lysol...
Posted by: man

Dildo?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 13, 2026 05:03 PM (abIsI)

222 I once had a GC threaten to kill me over a delay notice, I did no need a support gizmodo or support network to get over it.

This country is doomed if these people take over.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 13, 2026 05:03 PM (XV/Pl)

223 207 Prayers for a complete and relatively speedy recovery for your Moms, Whig.
Posted by: garrett
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Thanks. Last night was stressful as the memory care facility sent her to the wrong (as in worse) hospital so we had to deal with EMTALA and Medicare to get her transferred early this morning after she was stabilized enough to travel. She had never been a patient at that hospital and they had no paperwork, etc. for her.

Got her to the right one about 2 am my time and surgery started about 11 am after a flurry of calls granting permission over the phone. I live multiple states away from mom and my sister who lives in town as an invalid could not manage to deal with the crisis last night before breaking down in a migraine.

Posted by: whig at April 13, 2026 05:04 PM (E4rtv)

224 I dunno man, I got all sorts of comfy shit in my car and I'm a middle aged dude.
There's a beanie monkey in the front, a rollout mat in the back in case I want to lie under a tree somewhere, a book or two, a water bottle, probably have some other stuff.
Be Prepared includes being prepared for having a bad day. Alan Moore's "Killing Joke" taught me that having one bad day can end up with worse problems.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 13, 2026 05:04 PM (gKWVE)

225 My anxiety had gotten progressively worse over the last couple of months and I figured out what it is. Fucking instagram. I was spending WAY too much time scrolling and just mindlessly seeking dopamine hits. I put the phone down and started reading books again. I feel light years better in just a week or so.

Posted by: ballistic at April 13, 2026 05:04 PM (oqH4h)

226 But if youre wondering why our birth rate has crashed through the floor, this might be a clue
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger

I think filming everyone is a big part of it. How are you going to ask a chick to dance at the bar if everyone films everything? If they turn you down they're going to post that shit and make fun of you.

I'm so happy everything wasn't filmed when I was young, everyone would just sit there and not dance or have fun.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 13, 2026 05:04 PM (qWalT)

227 People two hundred years ago: Well, the Injuns raided us a few days ago so they probably aren't coming back so...I'll just go back to working 10 hours a day in the field
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Shit, I've read journal entries that almost literally read, "got up, fixed breakfast, did household chores, gave birth to a boy."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 13, 2026 04:56 PM

I have a distant relative that homesteaded in Ohio in the late 1700's whose wife was killed by Indians. He married an shawnee Indian woman from Tecumseh's tribe a few months after that and had a bunch of kids with her.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 13, 2026 05:04 PM (0N4FZ)

228 I once had a GC threaten to kill me over a delay notice, I did no need a support gizmodo or support network to get over it.

That's a very aggressive Gas Chromatograph.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 13, 2026 05:04 PM (Riz8t)

229 I have, in fact, in real life, smacked someone who was freaking out across the face.

How many people in line behind you?
(obscure Airplane! reference)

Posted by: Diogenes at April 13, 2026 05:05 PM (2WIwB)

230 here *passes whig the beanie monkey*

Posted by: gKWVE at April 13, 2026 05:05 PM (gKWVE)

231 These are the people who swear they're "autistic" because they once looked at a bug for more than a few seconds.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 13, 2026 04:58 PM (Ot/FD)

Ah, yes, the "I have autism and ADHD at the same time" crowd.
Posted by: pookysgirl knows a few mental health things at April 13, 2026 05:00 PM (Wt5PA)

It's obnoxious, especially because actually having one of those disorders can make life hella difficult and TikTok idiots are turning it into some kind of status symbol. It trivializes the actual disorders for the sake of attention and clout, and I can tell you from experience it really REALLY pisses off people who actually have legitimate diagnoses and struggle to get through the day because of it.

Posted by: Shun the fakers! at April 13, 2026 05:05 PM (TbWk/)

232 I'm sorry whig and prayers for your mother.
Posted by: CaliGirl
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Thanks. Fighting with a printer driver software issue has taken my mind off of it for a time.

Posted by: whig at April 13, 2026 05:05 PM (E4rtv)

233 My FIL can fall asleep very fast but he calls them combat naps.

It was said that Napoleon could squeeze in a nap while his headquarters was under an artillery barrage and wake up refreshed.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 13, 2026 05:05 PM (COQGW)

234 Must see tv Amanda Ungaro's CNN tv interview on Melania.

Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at April 13, 2026 05:05 PM (oor8Z)

235 197 ChristyBlinky, you and your family sound awesome.

Posted by: Bulg at April 13, 2026 05:05 PM (77rzZ)

236 224 I dunno man, I got all sorts of comfy shit in my car and I'm a middle aged dude.
There's a beanie monkey in the front, a rollout mat in the back in case I want to lie under a tree somewhere, a book or two, a water bottle, probably have some other stuff.

Do you carry a backup pair of Crocs?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 13, 2026 05:05 PM (abIsI)

237 Posted by: whig at April 13, 2026 04:58 PM (E4rtv

I'm so sorry.

After years of caregiving, the idea of old people falling creeps me out.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 13, 2026 05:06 PM (Sco7b)

238 technologically fluent

I'm dubious about this premise re: zoomers tbh

they have a phone attached to their hand but that's about the extent of their "tech savvy"

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 13, 2026 05:06 PM (j+aD2)

239 The Canadian government purchased over 66,000 anti-stress balls and toys for staff, according to 2023 documents. These items, including sensory and fidget toys, are used as morale boosters and stress relievers in offices to help manage anxiety and improve focus, a practice described as a tool for calming and decompression in professional settings.

_________________________________

Posted by: Orson at April 13, 2026 05:06 PM (dIske)

240 Social Media is a garbage dump. Somebody said something mean to me, so I'm going to suck my thumb, cowering in the corner overwhelmed by anxiety. Now I have PTSD.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

Governor Abigail Spanberger
@GovernorVA
I’ll leave online fights to others. Some people govern by social post. I prefer bill by bill, line by line.
We're busy delivering results for Virginians. That's the job.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 13, 2026 05:06 PM (ndZc7)

241 155 What is this "can't fall asleep" thing?

I can sleep anywhere, anytime. My wife insists I could sleep through a house fire.

But if something doesn't sound right or a twig snaps when it shouldn't - I'm instantly up on my feet.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 13, 2026 04:53 PM (cYBz/)

#metoo
These are gifts.

Posted by: m at April 13, 2026 05:06 PM (fNISR)

242 following an alleged argument over Pokémon cards

Glad nobody got him started on Matt Ward's Warhammer 40000 codices.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 13, 2026 05:06 PM (gKWVE)

243 In fairness, I get anxious when I need to drop a deuce and have to run to the lavatory before I soil myself. Those sharts will ruin your day.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 13, 2026 05:06 PM (Fbc0I)

244 When my boys were dating, I told them to always find out what kind a relationship their girlfriends had with their fathers. If they hate their dad, eventually you’ll become a stand in for him. Thank them for their time and move on.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 13, 2026 05:06 PM (u73oe)

245 >>I put the phone down and started reading books again. I feel light years better in just a week or so.

I can't stress how much even a 5 minute walk outside does to reset your brain.
Obviously, a park / forest is more conducive than a downtown setting...but, just 5 minutes with no extra input other than a change of your scenery will do wonders for your brain.

Posted by: garrett at April 13, 2026 05:06 PM (3JuEJ)

246 Grow up with neurotic helicopter parents and become neurotic children.... well into your 30s.

oh and GIRRRRRRL POWEEEERRRRRRR!!!!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 13, 2026 05:06 PM (xvV+O)

247 To me, the biggest barrier to Linux acceptance are the driver situation as mfgs simply do not update their drivers and they can break on linux with new patches and upgrades.
Posted by: whig at April 13, 2026 04:58 PM (E4rtv)
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Unless you're a hardcore coder that needs it for your job, or if you're a nerdcore hobbyist and run a home lab for whatever (NTTAWWT), Linux is just not worth it on a thousand different levels as a day-to-day home OS.

Posted by: ballistic at April 13, 2026 05:07 PM (oqH4h)

248 Anxiety Bag. Could have used some of those but, whatever.

Posted by: The Donner Party at April 13, 2026 05:07 PM (COQGW)

249 In my day we reached for a Quaalude

Posted by: Sidney at April 13, 2026 05:07 PM (Uy/WF)

250 203 There’s this neat thing to relieve anxiety it’s called getting laid.

They should try it.
Posted by: Vengeance

Ah, the good old sexual revolution advice that led to the increase in STDs, the breaking of everybody's ability to pair bond, and the wrecking of marriages for the last 60 years.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 13, 2026 04:59 PM (a+4eV)

I notice that you didn't dispute Vengance's assertion that getting laid relieves anxiety...

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at April 13, 2026 05:07 PM (JcF+m)

251 That girl holding the bag has the same expression of a brief college roommate of mine who ran away without paying rent/utilties after 2mo living with me.

I'd put up one of those tear the phone number deals for a roommate and she showed up. Initially seemed fairly normal. A respiratory therapist student. Having an affair with a married medical resident of the university med school (I found this out later). Shy. Never came out of her room to meet my friends, and I had a lot. Male friends coming over to have a beer and discuss their girlfriends. Parties. I couldn't figure her out.

Two male friends plus my bf/husband told me they thought she was very weird. Yep. Jealous and complained about "all of my friends." Ok. Once came to the kitchen at 0530 and screamed at me for ironing my nursing school uniform. I ignored her but should have ironed her face.

I came home from work one night to see that she'd stolen my coffee table (?) and some of my clothes. One a denim shirt my mother embroidered, which was a bummer.

I debated small claims court for the missed rent/utilities/theft but my gang said, nah, she's nuts. In other words, be glad she did not slit your throat in your sleep.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 13, 2026 05:07 PM (WONhk)

252 >>There's a beanie monkey in the front, a rollout mat in the back in case I want to lie under a tree somewhere, a book or two, a water bottle, probably have some other stuff.

I'm sure there's some lube in your messenger bag.

Posted by: garrett at April 13, 2026 05:07 PM (3JuEJ)

253 Proper Anxiety Bag:

-- Vibrating dildo
-- A fifth of Fireball cinnamon liqueur
-- Ketamine nasal spray
-- .22 caliber ivory-handled Derringer

Posted by: zombie at April 13, 2026 05:07 PM (Av6i5)

254 244 When my boys were dating, I told them to always find out what kind a relationship their girlfriends had with their fathers. If they hate their dad, eventually you’ll become a stand in for him. Thank them for their time and move on.

great advice!

same goes for guys and their moms btw

I figured that one out way too late

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 13, 2026 05:08 PM (j+aD2)

255 Hi, Piper.

Posted by: Bulg at April 13, 2026 05:08 PM (77rzZ)

256 These Gen-Z chicks just need a good hard shag. Volunteers? Anyone? Beuller?

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at April 13, 2026 05:08 PM (XMwZJ)

257 I am currently working on a project involving one of the most powerful financial institutions in the world, as you can imagine, things are pretty intense and stressful.

How are these kids going to cope if they fall apart at the most nonsensical shit?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 13, 2026 05:08 PM (XV/Pl)

258 211 whig owning a printer is just not worth it

my cat destroyed my color laser and I replaced with a less snazzy brother b/w laser and he's working hard at killing that too.

but the set up the drivers the updates etc etc

just easier to send stuff out to print and pick it up and get it delivered by staples or wherever

printers have been a nightmare my entire working career
Posted by: BlackOrchid
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There used to be brands better than others but pretty much all printer driver software (really most hardware driver software) has been made into trash or neglected until the latest OS update breaks the drivers.

PITA it is. Scanners can be even worse which is why I have some vintage computers that are more or less offline from Windows XP SP3 to Win 7 for certain hardware/software. Refuse to keep buying and paying new prices for hardware/software to get the same functionality as working old tech.

Posted by: whig at April 13, 2026 05:08 PM (E4rtv)

259 Wouldn't be surprised the entire Canadian government are mentally incompetent

Posted by: Skip at April 13, 2026 05:09 PM (Ia/+0)

260 I'm dubious about this premise re: zoomers tbh

they have a phone attached to their hand but that's about the extent of their "tech savvy"
Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 13, 2026 05:06 PM (j+aD2)
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You're right to be dubious. My profession is cybersecurity and the new generations are so naive and blind to the most basic no-shit risks and pitfalls online it's nuts.

Posted by: ballistic at April 13, 2026 05:09 PM (oqH4h)

261 My great-grandmother ran off with a Cherokee. He abandoned her, and became a hobo. Years later, my great-great aunt ran into him at a train station, and dragged him back home by his red drifter ear.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 13, 2026 05:09 PM (BI5O2)

262 The most pampered, most protected, least capable, and most coddled generation has anxiety? I shan't believe it. I SHAN NOT!!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 13, 2026 05:09 PM (xvV+O)

263 My anxiety bag contains a driver, sand wedge, a putter, other clubs, a flask in the side pocket, a flask in the other side pocket, and that fu*king #4 hybrid.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 13, 2026 05:09 PM (2WIwB)

264 I notice that you didn't dispute Vengance's assertion that getting laid relieves anxiety...
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts

It might for men, I don't know. Given the societal evidence I think it work exactly the opposite for women.

Unless it's her own husband who's laying her.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 13, 2026 05:09 PM (a+4eV)

265 Getting to be an issue for Windows too. I have an All in One Canon in the basement which will be Windows 10 4ever after I managed to find a windows driver from Canon India support page for Win 8.1. Original driver was XP SP3 vintage.

Posted by: whig at April 13, 2026 04:58 PM (E4rtv)

I had a nice, expensive MFD from HP back in Vista days, and HP EOLd it and MSFT pulled some driver signing BS that it wouldn't work on Win 7. $600 paperweight, mostly.

HP and MSFT are asshoe.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 13, 2026 05:10 PM (22p8M)

266 Since the answer for this post is basically "grow up", I can go totally off topic.
Came in from actual productive activities and was reviewing the earlier posts, and on one someone mentioned competitors in the earlier days of McDonalds. I've never seen anybody mention Howdy's Burgers (maybe Howdies'). I believe a national chain, know it was in Boston in mid-sixties. Basic burger was 8¢ around 1967. Anybody else remember it. One I remember for certain was at the rt.1/rt.109 West Roxbury/Dedham intersection, on the Dedham side.
Anybody else remember this chain?

Posted by: From about That Time at April 13, 2026 05:10 PM (sl73Y)

267 237 Posted by: whig at April 13, 2026 04:58 PM (E4rtv

I'm so sorry.

After years of caregiving, the idea of old people falling creeps me out.
Posted by: Stateless

Thanks. It is what it is. She has gradually increasing dementia (vascular predominately which is a bit slower in progression). But otherwise was in good health for mid eighties. That being said, she quit using her walker and fell in the facility breaking her hip joint. She cannot remember to take the darn thing when walking outside the room anymore or leaves it randomly in the facility (it is a large facility).

Posted by: whig at April 13, 2026 05:11 PM (E4rtv)

268 I'm sure there's some lube in your messenger bag.
Posted by: garrett

I used to, but we used it up

Posted by: gKWVE at April 13, 2026 05:12 PM (gKWVE)

269 69 Intense hail!!!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little at April 13, 2026 04:40 PM (Kt19C)

Did it zig? Because it's very exciting, everyone's always on the lookout, but most reports of zig hail are false.

Posted by: SciVo at April 13, 2026 05:12 PM (Sy6m/)

270 Reddit is FULL of posts about these, and they're all gold lol.

I’ve made an emergency bag to have at work for when I have meltdowns. So, 99% of my meltdowns (emotional dysregulation crisis) happen at work. (Long whine about mental issues, all the crap in the bag) Still missing: a cheap bruxism plaque because I bite my teeth hard from stress, and a note telling others how they can assist: don't keep too many people around, ask before you touch me, keep me where I am, I'll be fine, etc. Any other ideas?

I keep something for grounding each of my senses. Taste (candy, mints, gum), smell (tin of scented wax), etc. I also keep a protein bar and juice box for afterwards because that's when I go into shutdown and need help recovering energy. I also keep a mini notebook and pen so I can write everything out to help me process. And an instant ice pack to engage the mammalian dive reflex.

I keep a kit in my house, car, and office. I have multiple, so one's always accessible.

I wish I could do that at my job! I work in overnights in healthcare , so when someone presses their call button i can't have noise-cancelling headphones on or anything like that.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 13, 2026 05:12 PM (ycI94)

271 There's a theory that the rise in autoimmune disease in the First World is related to the fact that we don't have a heavy parasite load anymore, so the immune system has a lot of young punks with nothing to do, cruising around your body looking for trouble.

Maybe something similar is going on with anxiety. We don't have barbarian hordes galloping in from over the horizon to loot, rape, and burn. We don't have leopards puncturing Cousin Bob's skull and dragging his corpse up a tree for later consumption.

We're tuned to be on guard against threats, and the fact that we can't SEE a threat doesn't help. In fact, it makes it worse.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 13, 2026 05:12 PM (IG3/x)

272 my cat destroyed my color laser

-
https://tinyurl.com/5ywvv8z8

You can't win for losing.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 13, 2026 05:13 PM (ndZc7)

273 Superheros need anxiety bags? Gen-Z is fkd.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 13, 2026 05:13 PM (U/j9n)

274 How did we survive with total nuclear destruction hanging over our heads our life until 1989?

This is what a feminine culture looks and acts like.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 13, 2026 05:14 PM (xvV+O)

275 Unless you're a hardcore coder that needs it for your job, or if you're a nerdcore hobbyist and run a home lab for whatever (NTTAWWT), Linux is just not worth it on a thousand different levels as a day-to-day home OS.

Posted by: ballistic at April 13, 2026 05:07 PM (oqH4h) assume.

BS. Been on it for 7 years now. Most work is done there, except for some MS compatibility work done on a Win 11 VM.

Now, with MSFT cloud computing, you could probably do such on Chrome OS.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 13, 2026 05:14 PM (22p8M)

276 I had a nice, expensive MFD from HP back in Vista days, and HP EOLd it and MSFT pulled some driver signing BS that it wouldn't work on Win 7. $600 paperweight, mostly.

HP and MSFT are asshoe.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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Yep. Not content with grossly overcharging for toner and ink, they produce hardware that they have no intention of supporting past the normal business depreciation schedules.

Increasingly MSFT is making their software junk too. I keep ONE computer with their combination spyware/OS/Office completely updated. I don't used it as a daily driver due to the chance that MSFT OS update borks the system so I am always about one week behind on installing any updates. Don't turn it on to update it if the current Win 11 update is borked and wait until the update is patched.

Posted by: whig at April 13, 2026 05:15 PM (E4rtv)

277 I've long held that the population, as a whole, is getting dumber. I hadn't considered that this compounded by the fact they are also getting more immature.

My goto stress reliever was productive. Grab a wedge, a sledge and an ax and split some firewood. These nitwits are playing Tiddly Winks.

Posted by: Orson at April 13, 2026 05:15 PM (dIske)

278 2 C'mon, look at that last picture and prove me wrong!
Posted by: Stateless

Hell naw! 🤮

If you're going to break rule #1, at least go with an Amber Heard or something lol

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at April 13, 2026 05:15 PM (ycI94)

279 I notice that you didn't dispute Vengance's assertion that getting laid relieves anxiety...

*****************************

That only works if she leaves

ba dam tsssss

Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week, try the veal!

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at April 13, 2026 05:15 PM (REq0p)

280 I’ve made an emergency bag to have at work for when I have meltdowns. So, 99% of my meltdowns (emotional dysregulation crisis) happen at work. (Long whine about mental issues, all the crap in the bag) Still missing: a cheap bruxism plaque because I bite my teeth hard from stress, and a note telling others how they can assist: don't keep too many people around, ask before you touch me, keep me where I am, I'll be fine, etc. Any other ideas?

Yeah, here's an idea. You could just GROW THE FUCK UP, you big fat whiny baby.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 13, 2026 05:15 PM (COQGW)

281 OT/ but now I see we have Jesus gate...People who don't give a rats ass about Jesus are all infuriated.... Probably wasn't the best idea on Trump's part but still.. Get a life...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 13, 2026 05:16 PM (FtULh)

282 264 I notice that you didn't dispute Vengance's assertion that getting laid relieves anxiety...
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts

It might for men, I don't know. Given the societal evidence I think it work exactly the opposite for women.

Unless it's her own husband who's laying her.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 13, 2026 05:09 PM (a+4eV)

Well put.

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at April 13, 2026 05:16 PM (JcF+m)

283 Whatever. I bang my wife and then stare at the ceiling all night like always. It's called being a father of three with a mortgage and a corporate job that could vanish at any time, not "anxiety."

You don't sleep, you're on edge all the time, you occasionally have chest pains. It's all the symptoms of "anxiety."

Sex won't cure it. Drugs won't cure it. Death cures it.

Welcome to real life, children.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 13, 2026 05:16 PM (BI5O2)

284 >>We're tuned to be on guard against threats, and the fact that we can't SEE a threat doesn't help. In fact, it makes it worse.

imo...you are on to something.

I think, however, it is rooted in the fact that we are not made to concentrate on one thing over all others for extended periods.

We cast a pretty wide sensory net, as animals, and modern life is awash with things that essentially put perception into blinders. It fucks with our brains, which need a lot more static.

Posted by: garrett at April 13, 2026 05:17 PM (3JuEJ)

285 Sidebar:
Politico is reporting that multiple people have abruptly resigned from Eric Swalwell's gubernatorial campaign
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That must mean the people who haven't resigned from Swalwell's congressional office are fine with his behavior. Disgusting sexists!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 13, 2026 05:17 PM (Dv3i1)

286 I would like to point out that these are the people that think they should be telling everyone else how to live their lives when they should head to Canuckatan and hire a MAID.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 13, 2026 05:17 PM (xvV+O)

287 So, 99% of my meltdowns (emotional dysregulation crisis)

**************

emotional dysregulation crisis....

mkay

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at April 13, 2026 05:17 PM (REq0p)

288 I have a distant relative that homesteaded in Ohio in the late 1700's whose wife was killed by Indians. He married an shawnee Indian woman from Tecumseh's tribe a few months after that and had a bunch of kids with her.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 13, 2026 05:04 PM (0N4FZ)

I think you're the one I said that is probably distantly related to me via a Scots-Irish clan.

Posted by: pookysgirl, with Cathcart lineage at April 13, 2026 05:17 PM (Wt5PA)

289 You're right to be dubious. My profession is cybersecurity and the new generations are so naive and blind to the most basic no-shit risks and pitfalls online it's nuts.

Posted by: ballistic at April 13, 2026 05:09 PM (oqH4h)

Or so the Germans would have you believe!

But of course, you're right, todays kids are fucking clueless about technology... they just have taken it granted all their lives.....

Posted by: Denny Crane - My Friend Norm Asked Me To Post This For Him... at April 13, 2026 05:17 PM (dmDsy)

290 275 Unless you're a hardcore coder that needs it for your job, or if you're a nerdcore hobbyist and run a home lab for whatever (NTTAWWT), Linux is just not worth it on a thousand different levels as a day-to-day home OS.

Posted by: ballistic
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Used it as a daily driver since Vista came out. Major issue with Linux is old hardware works but sometimes gets borked when you transition things like routers--my home network is pretty sophisticated because I have wired the whole house with cat 8 cable with drops, use the 2.4 for wireless security and camera systems, and the 5 ghz for phones and laptop.

With the transition to webapps, even in Windows, the difference is a lot less than it used to be.

Posted by: whig at April 13, 2026 05:18 PM (E4rtv)

291 247 Unless you're a hardcore coder that needs it for your job, or if you're a nerdcore hobbyist and run a home lab for whatever (NTTAWWT), Linux is just not worth it on a thousand different levels as a day-to-day home OS.

Posted by: ballistic at April 13, 2026 05:07 PM

sudo mkfs -t ext4 /acecomments/419302/comment247

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 13, 2026 05:18 PM (0sNs1)

292 I could never be a journalist. My nature would have been to add one more photo to that article....."accidentally."

Hunter Biden holding a crack pipe, a bag of crack, and an Asian Hooker.

Posted by: Orson at April 13, 2026 05:18 PM (dIske)

293 Welcome to real life, children.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 13, 2026 05:16 PM (BI5O

REAL LIFE SHOULD BE LIKE IN HARRY POTTER!!!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 13, 2026 05:19 PM (oSeBJ)

294 I've long held that the population, as a whole, is getting dumber. I hadn't considered that this compounded by the fact they are also getting more immature.

I can see the IQ part. I've wondered if high intelligence people should really focus on marrying other intelligent people. Musk, for example, is at least above average, and he's doing his part.

For the second part, yes, both Gen X parents have overbabied their kids, thinking they were helping, and the Lefties in government WANT people immature and dumb, dependent on government, and therefore voting for Dems.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 13, 2026 05:19 PM (ycI94)

295 https://tinyurl.com/5ywvv8z8

omg Im ded

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 13, 2026 05:20 PM (j+aD2)

296 "Anxiety bags."

We used to call them, "twelve-packs."

Posted by: Sam Adams at April 13, 2026 05:21 PM (X+xvk)

297 BS. Been on it for 7 years now. Most work is done there, except for some MS compatibility work done on a Win 11 VM.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 13, 2026 05:14 PM (22p8M)
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The question is why, though, as a general bs'ing on the internet, browsing the web, listening to music type of thing. There are always weird quirks with drivers or compatibility with this or that, etc. I don't need to be fiddling with anything just to watch the fat electrician on youtube while I smoke a cigar.

I run a home lab for my nerd stuff and enjoy it, hell I even f'ed around with FreeBSD back in the day. Fiddled with Linux as a general desktop OS and never saw the point. YMMV.

Posted by: ballistic at April 13, 2026 05:21 PM (oqH4h)

298 Superheros need anxiety bags? Gen-Z is fkd.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 13, 2026 05:13 PM (U/j9n)

Well, Thor carries a hammer. (Symbolism?)
Iron Man hides in a metal suit.
The Hulk has to change personalities
Captain America hides behind a mask and shield
Loki wears a ridiculous dual horn helmet (talk about compensating)
Doctor Strange waves his hands around under his cape.
Yup. Fkd.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 13, 2026 05:21 PM (2WIwB)

299 If these kids had actual dangerous lives, or had kids, they would get over it quick.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 13, 2026 05:21 PM (0U5gm)

300 I have a Gen Z female coworker who recently had a baby, actually I have two coworkers like this (yes two coworkers who recently had babies)

Both of them are completely deranged and unhinged (before and after having babies)

Even crazier, one of them is going to be promoted because she's so insane, but people feel sorry for her because her husband got laid off and she needs money to pay the bills etc etc

ergo she gets a promotion and raise over people who have years more seniority over her, because muh precious feelz

Z men see this crap and go full John Galt as a result

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at April 13, 2026 05:22 PM (REq0p)

301 So, 99% of my meltdowns (emotional dysregulation crisis) happen at work.

How convenient...

Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 13, 2026 05:23 PM (ycI94)

302 This is dangerous. Seeing someone breaking out their bag would cause me to laugh myself to death.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 13, 2026 05:23 PM (yAteE)

303 If these kids had actual dangerous lives, or had kids, they would get over it quick.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 13, 2026 05:21 PM

Do you really want these kids to be having kids?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 13, 2026 05:24 PM (0N4FZ)

304 Man, this is dumb shit.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 13, 2026 05:24 PM (utfVc)

305 Quickie nood

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 13, 2026 05:24 PM (fE6HJ)

306 We coddle people who have neurosis or are insane, or borderline. Transgenders, p3d0, TDS, etc. The left champions them... elevates them. They have a huge effect on our society.

They collectively belong institutionalized.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 13, 2026 05:24 PM (AkEZC)

307 emotional dysregulation crisis....

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at April 13, 2026 05:17 PM (REq0p)
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"my vagina is sore"

Posted by: ballistic at April 13, 2026 05:24 PM (oqH4h)

308 288 I have a distant relative that homesteaded in Ohio in the late 1700's whose wife was killed by Indians. He married an shawnee Indian woman from Tecumseh's tribe a few months after that and had a bunch of kids with her.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 13, 2026 05:04 PM (0N4FZ)

I think you're the one I said that is probably distantly related to me via a Scots-Irish clan.

Posted by: pookysgirl, with Cathcart lineage at April 13, 2026 05:17 PM (Wt5PA)

I had an ancestor killed by Indians in 1803 in Missouri. They wanting his horses. Such peaceful people the Indians were, right?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 13, 2026 05:24 PM (ynpvh)

309 Linux PopOS (or maybe Mint) is what I hear is the best transitional OS to get away from Windows, since I use Apple PopOS appeals because it offers a similar GUI look

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at April 13, 2026 05:24 PM (REq0p)

310 *glances at alarm clock*
Okay, 10:30 pm time to sleep...
Goodnight little toe on my right foot
Goodnight not quite as little toe next to the little toe on right foot
Goodnight middle toe on my right foot
...
Goodnight- ugh, what time is it?
*glances at alarm clock*
3:00 am! Oh geez, I got a big day tomorrow. Gotta relax gotta relax
Okay okay
Goodnight anus
Goodnight colon
Goodnight large intestine
Goodnight appendix
...
Good, uh, goodnight...what what time-
*stares at alarm clock in horror*
Five...five forty- five. Oh man. Oh man! I gotta get up at 6:00. Gotta get to sleep. Gotta relax. Okay. Alright.
Goodnight uvula
Goodnight palate
....
Goodnight hair. Goodnight hair.
* alarm rings*

Posted by: naturalfake at April 13, 2026 05:24 PM (iJfKG)

311 224 Be Prepared includes being prepared for having a bad day. Alan Moore's "Killing Joke" taught me that having one bad day can end up with worse problems.
Posted by: gKWVE at April 13, 2026 05:04 PM (gKWVE)

I did not know what this is.
It's this:
Batman: The Killing Joke is a 1988 DC Comics one-shot graphic novel featuring the characters Batman and the Joker written by Alan Moore

Posted by: m at April 13, 2026 05:25 PM (fNISR)

312 If you ever watch bodycam videos, you'll note nearly every woman and about half of men claim to be having a panic/anxiety attack. They think it will somehow make the situation better. It's juvenile and stupid.

Posted by: Grow Up, You Creeps! at April 13, 2026 05:25 PM (oftw2)

313 and a note telling others how they can assist: don't keep too many people around, ask before you touch me, keep me where I am, I'll be fine, etc. Any other ideas?
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 13,

This is performative and I've never seen anyone have a fit like this at work and keep their job? If you have to have a note to tell people what to do when you;re throwing your fit? What even is this and how do you get to work without having an apparent epileptic fit?
I wouldn't trust them to answer the phone.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 13, 2026 05:26 PM (qWalT)

314 BS. Been on it for 7 years now. Most work is done there, except for some MS compatibility work done on a Win 11 VM.

Now, with MSFT cloud computing, you could probably do such on Chrome OS.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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Got pissed off that just as I got ready to build a containerized computer with enough memory and storage to make it useful, the AI craze tripled the cost of memory to make it unworkable for the next year or so.

Built my systems since the 90's and all but a really old Intel Motherboard BX-2 boots okay in windows. That BX-2 boots Debian Trixie Linux though it is very slow. Did that for diagnostics of the Win 2k Hard drive.

Posted by: whig at April 13, 2026 05:26 PM (E4rtv)

315 Life is tough. Get a helmet. That's what Denis Leary said, anyway.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 13, 2026 05:27 PM (wBaIH)

316 even f'ed around with FreeBSD back in the day. Fiddled with Linux as a general desktop OS and never saw the point. YMMV.

Posted by: ballistic at April 13, 2026 05:21 PM (oqH4h)

Today's desktop Linux is not 6 years ago desktop Linux.

I thought I'd have to do GPU passtrhough to Win 11 VM to run windows games, without dual boot. The last reason to holdout, games, is mostly solved with Steam/Proton, except for games sing kernel level anticheat SW, which is mostly FPS games.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 13, 2026 05:37 PM (22p8M)

317 Built my systems since the 90's and all but a really old Intel Motherboard BX-2 boots okay in windows. That BX-2 boots Debian Trixie Linux though it is very slow. Did that for diagnostics of the Win 2k Hard drive.

Posted by: whig at April 13, 2026 05:26 PM (E4rtv)

You are old, computing wise, my friend.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 13, 2026 05:38 PM (22p8M)

318 A Buddhist taught me a technique in the 70's, very similar. You start at your feet, telling them calmly to relax, let go, fall asleep. Then you move up your body, telling each part the same. The beauty of this is you can just do major parts or, you can do each toe, each part of your foot, calves etc. all the way up. I don't believe I ever made it to my head awake.

Posted by: phydeaux at April 13, 2026 05:41 PM (ep56E)

319 You can thank the panic pushing on socials.

I have a DEI Gen z boss and it's like having a nervous group of puppies around you all the time. She is extremely hyperactive. Oh and she doesn't know anything about our job.

She says a lot of stupid babbly bullshit like I just feel like etc. It's nauseating

Posted by: melodicmetal at April 13, 2026 05:42 PM (XLfSN)

320 272 my cat destroyed my color laser

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https://tinyurl.com/5ywvv8z8

You can't win for losing.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 13, 2026 05:13 PM (ndZc7)

haha!

Posted by: m at April 13, 2026 05:43 PM (fNISR)

321 305 Quickie nood
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 13, 2026 05:24 PM (fE6HJ)

Posted by: m at April 13, 2026 05:43 PM (fNISR)

322 To me, the biggest barrier to Linux acceptance are the driver situation as mfgs simply do not update their drivers and they can break on linux with new patches and upgrades.

Getting to be an issue for Windows too. I have an All in One Canon in the basement which will be Windows 10 4ever after I managed to find a windows driver from Canon India support page for Win 8.1. Original driver was XP SP3 vintage.
Posted by: whig at April 13, 2026 04:58 PM (E4rtv)

Printers are a PITA, generally. Paper handling is a bitch. What I would like to see: some company should bring out a cheap clone of the old HP Paintjet tractor-feed printer, with cartridges made to be user-refilled. And along with that, a service called PrintDash; you e-mail them your copy, and they set it up and print X numbers of copies to your specifications, and courier them to you. If it's something confidential, they will send an Uber to pick you up, along with your copy on a thumb drive, and take you to their shop, so you can print it yourself on an off-line printer. For a price.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 13, 2026 05:46 PM (utfVc)

323 281 OT/ but now I see we have Jesus gate...People who don't give a rats ass about Jesus are all infuriated.... Probably wasn't the best idea on Trump's part but still.. Get a life...
Posted by: It's me donna at April 13, 2026 05:16 PM (FtULh)
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I wonder if he posted the "Trump Christ" image to ruffle Pope Leo's feathers.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 13, 2026 05:49 PM (U/j9n)

324 Unless you're a hardcore coder that needs it for your job, or if you're a nerdcore hobbyist and run a home lab for whatever (NTTAWWT), Linux is just not worth it on a thousand different levels as a day-to-day home OS.
Posted by: ballistic at April 13, 2026 05:07 PM (oqH4h)

Could not disagree more. Using it right now. The printer driver I needed was native to the build. I rarely have to get under the hood of the thing.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 13, 2026 05:53 PM (utfVc)

325 Wouldn't be surprised the entire Canadian government are mentally incompetent
Posted by: Skip at April 13, 2026 05:09 PM (Ia/+0)

Well, they are Liberals. It's baked into the cake. Now there are allegations coming out that Justin Trudeau was viewing kiddie pr0n on his devices.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 13, 2026 05:57 PM (utfVc)

326 Yeah, delicate little flowers who would also kick the plug for some needed machine from the hospital wall if an older family member with $ was lying there.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 13, 2026 06:18 PM (NFX2v)

327 Can't you just carry around your anxiety toys in your purse?

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 13, 2026 06:27 PM (w6EFb)

328 "43% said they experience a panic attack at least once a month."

Bullshit. I've had panic attacks. Three. In my entire life.
They're debilitating. No way are that many people having them.

They may THINK it's a panic attack, but it isn't.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at April 13, 2026 07:01 PM (pE12i)

329 A bag of Cannabis indica gummies is a good enough stress bag for me.

Posted by: logprof at April 13, 2026 07:09 PM (jo6FO)

330 We need to draft all AWFL's into a woman's boot camp where they get their heads shaved, 6 weeks of physical training, Stripes or Spies Like Us every night. No Time for Sergeants on Saturday. On Sunday, The Best Years of Our Lives.
Then, we send them home, tell them chicks aren't required to serve, just wanted them to know what men do to preserve our civilization.
Could cure a few Karens. And we get 6 quiet weeks.

Posted by: No Justice for Iryna, No Peace for Charlotte Government at April 13, 2026 07:54 PM (2Qqm3)

331 Can’t they just drink a lot of bourbon then hit the bong like normal people?

Posted by: Jak Sucio at April 13, 2026 08:07 PM (Aoykm)

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