I too have significantly more sensitive hearing than seemingly just most people, and can hear and often get annoyed by high pitched but low decibel sounds, very often caused by electronics, off balance high speed fans, etc.

Got gaslit about it by my family as well.

You may wanna look into an autism diagnosis, autists often have this kind of thing going on.

You’d think it would be called super hearing, but instead its often everyone without heigtened senses calling you delusional.

Same thing happened to me when I described seeing the entoptic blue field phenomenon to my family, but not knowing the fancy name for it because I was 11. Family got very concerned I was hallucinating, the reality is I am just more attentive to reality than they are.

A Finn once described the … intensity of ‘perkele’ when used as an insult/curse to me, as: ‘it is worse than ‘horseshit’, it is worse than ‘god damn!’, it is like you or it are worse and worth less and more despicable than flaming diarrhea from Satan himself’.

It always sucks to have to cut off or go no contact/ghost absurd family members… but after a long pattern of concerning, manipulative and/or abusive behavior… that’d you really only put up with because they’re family… after a while, that reason/excuse becomes worthless.

Reading the main post and other comments you’ve made giving more context, IMO you are correct, your aunt is a narcissistic sociopath.

Whew, yep, its a tough job, but Petey’s got a good head on 'im and rolls with the punches, somebody get that man a drink!

Err. Uh. I mean… Do we have O’Douls?

EDIT: Also, dear God, the sub headline:

Trump asked if hackers can break into Signal…

You might as well ask a dog what its favorite shade of red is.

Fucking called it.

This shit isn’t hard to predict, yet huge numbers of people treat you like a delusional conspiracy theorist when you say that a tech service provided by a company/org that converts into a public corp and plans to do an IPO… is now fully shifting into ‘make everything shitty and squeeze as much money out of it as possible’ mode.

I am just hearing the end of 2112 by Rush, the guitars and effects wailing as a vocoded voice repeats ‘WE HAVE ASSUMED CONTROL’…

… Would your rules imply that if you get no attention, you would just keep adding on overshirts and jackets and more and more hats, gloves, shalls, etc?

=P

If you go back far enough, you’d be coding the ENIAC via punchcards.

… Or maybe today you could write code on paper and have an AI augmented OCR system try to run it?

I mean, the entirety of Steam’s code could maybe be described as an obfuscated version of

while(true){ print(money); }

What a shame.

So… I’m sorry to do this, but…

You’re not a ‘pretty average height guy’.

I can’t be 100% certain of your nationality, but it seems English is your first language, and you measure yourself in Feet/Inches so chances are you are American…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_human_height_by_country

The average adult male height in the US is between 5’ 9" and 5’ 9 1/2".

You’d have to be in Saudi Arabia, or Mexico, or South Africa, to be an average height adult male.

For Americans, looks like the standard deviation is in a broad range between 2" and 3", looking at other sources, and most SD estimates seem to be between 2.25" and 2.5".

So… you either are or are quite nearly a standard deviation shorter than the average adult male.

You are in fact short, statistically speaking.

You’d be somewhere in roughly the 10th to 25th percentiles range by differing exact figures plugged into height distribution calculations, meaning 75% to 90% of adult males are taller than you.

Tony musta got a job with JP Morgan or Amazon or some cushy government job:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3320030/federal-workers-ordered-return-work-no-office-space/

https://www.benefitspro.com/2025/02/20/rto-reality-check-amazons-office-shortage-exposes-return-to-work-hurdles/?slreturn=20250308-20413

Employer: RETURN TO OFFICE!

Employee: … okie dokie… where’s my cubicle?

Employer: Fuck, wait, we actually need office space after we tell everyone to RTO?

Damnit.

Yeah, ok, that would work.

Congratulations, you have invented a new spice, made of mostly microplastics and a dash of metals, a few of which can bioaccumulate and cause organ / nervous system disruption.

… I …uh…

I dunno how you’d be able to actually accomplish that.

You could poo in multiple places over the course of a few days… but chances are the actual remnants of the sd card would come out in the same poo.

You see, God allows Satan to ravage the Earth and either directly cause evil or manipulate others into doing so, and God allows this because otherwise there would be no free will.

And also when you are a good Christian and die and go to heaven, it will be impossible for you to ever feel bad even though many of your friends and family won’t be there, and it will also be impossible for you to commit a sin, but that’s not the same as not having free will as I just previously defined it because… you’re a sinner, you wouldn’t get it.

… But yeah, I’ve heard that a lot from a lot of Christians, though as far as I can recall, the Bible actually describes only the seraphim, the highest class of angels, as actually doing nothing but sitting around god and chanting ‘holy holy holy’ at him, all the time, forever.

I don’t think its ever explicitly described that everyone in heaven does that.

Smash it with a hammer for a minute or two, then microwave the chunks.

That’ll probably do the trick.

Alternatively, smash it, eat it, shit it out later at not where you live.

Used to make $80k a year (before taxes) as Co-Lead of a Data Analytics department.

Managed databases, did analytics (regular, structured and custom one off SQL queries), reporting, general software development (basically my team and IT, 2 or 3 people, were the only people in the whole org more computer literate than ‘can respond to an email, maybe’), API construction/management, process documentation, coordinated with every other team.

I enjoyed the work, loved my team, though the technical and general incompetence of many other employees was challenging to deal with.

As an example:

In doing process documentation with one team, I interviewed 5 different people on that other team, including their lead, and all of them described completely different processes with maybe 20% agreement…

But, then I got assaulted, crippled, lost my job, got evicted, car got stolen, eventually got SSDI payments to kick in after spending a year homeless (my family are abusive and dysfunctional, my ‘friends’ didn’t care) and now live off of about $22k a year, still recovering, still doing PT.

If Elon and Trump gut Social Security, I’ll die homeless and starving.

The place I used to work at was a non profit housing and aiding the homeless, by the way.

Go Team America.

A one day boycott is about as effective at sending some kind of message as taking off a condom after the first thrust is at preventing a pregnancy.

Americans are seemingly incapable of doing anything other than virtue signalling online.

I say this as an American.

I moved over from corporate tech work to take a pay cut to do tech work at a non profit helping the homeless, to actually, literally do praxis.

No one, none of my friends, none of my family, nobody seemed to understand why I believed that ones actions should align with ones beliefs.

Americans are largely performative, self-obsessed narcissists.

I am beyond disgusted with this country.

I spent a decade telling people what is currently occuring is not only possible, but becoming increasingly inevitable.

90% of people told me I was mentally ill.

10% said yes they agree, but what can you do?

Fine. Fuck it.

There is nothing we can do I guess, as doing something would involve actual planning, risk and sacrifice, and we’re all a bunch of either vapid preening esoteric socialites, or murderously stupid death cultists.

Beam me up Scotty, no signs of intelligent life here.