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Wellness Wednesday for April 1, 2026

The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:

  • Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.

  • Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.

  • Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.

  • Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).

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I don't have any advice but I fucking hate people like this, having lived next door to a cunt who also liked to idle his car fifteen feet away from my bedroom window for twenty minutes on weekend mornings so that he doesn't damage his precious 2020 camaro. Fortunately I made enough money that I was able to upgrade to a mildly richer and more exclusive neighborhood with fewer antisocial personalities.

I guess that's my advice - make more money and leave. That's the only way to deal with noise ordinance violations in the USA in my experience.

Yes, I think in the long term we'll just have to move (and kind of wanted to anyway).

In the meantime, we are extra annoyed that they built a house, and then an unpermitted tiny house (the county apparently doesn't care, we did tell them), and then invited their dysfunctional son into the tiny house with his loud engine, while pregnant with our third child, which has a way of trapping people for a while, and not getting the best sleep to begin with.

I guess now I have something to add to the list of things to look out for when buying a house in the future, anyway.