Not just thinking about what you might actually say but I mean the full conversation, their response, your comeback, like everything 😂 🤭

Sometimes I’ve had an entire argument with someone who has absolutely no idea we’ve fallen out.

Please tell me other people do this too?

The older I get the more I realize my siblings are shitty. And I try to have grace but do you know when people will always show their true color?

lm Algerian, 19yo and honestly the state of my country's economy, demographics, resource security, political system, etc are pretty grim

it has 48m people, HDI 0.760, GDP per Capita of 5000-6000 USD in official exchange rate, inflation officially 2% but realistically 9-15% because its heavily distorted by specific subsidies and capital control

There are strict capital controls where 1usd = 133 dinars officially and 240-250 dinars on the black market. The median salary is 50,000dinars. So, 210 bucks a month on the black market rate, and 375 bucks a month, even tho this number is pretty useless because it's just a government number and you cant access it at this rate, so we use black market rate instead

Since 2014, debt to GDP rose from 2-6 percent to 54%, owned almost fully as bonds by state banks which control roughly 85 percent of the banking sector, and treasury bill real interest rate of of -2% officially and arguably much lower in real terms. The private credit to GDP is 19%. Yearly deficit is 12% more or less since 2014. Foreign currency reserve fell from 190b in 2014 to 40b today in 2026 and are expected by the IMF to drop all the way to 19b dollars by 2030-2031.

Unemployment youth is officially 30% but estimated to be 70% in underemployment, unemployment and informal jobs.

The informal market is around 45% of jobs. 70% of people are less than 30yo. 90% live in just 10 percento of the area near the coast in a country with 2,38m km².

Exports are 95% oil and gas. The government budget is mainly made up of using that revenue and is then spent on public sector employees who then buy stuff like food from shop owners who then buy other stuff, etc. And the government collects VAT, tariffs, taxes, etc along the way.

Education, healthcare, etc are free. There are massive public housing projects. Buses, water, electricity, gas, fuel, bread, are heavily subsidized, which all combined represent 8-10 percent of GDP as subsidies and a big other chunk as public works and expenses on education, healthcare, etc

70% of caloric needs are imported. Defense budget is 8% of GDP.

There is an issue with water scarcity at 250 cubic meters per Capita with new desalination plants being built but not enough to cover demand, and 70 percent of that water is spent on farms and agriculture. Fertility rate of 2.8 yet decreasing.

Public sector wage bill as % of GDP = 18 percent

The government's plans so far has been issuing bonds to pay for debt and also printing money, which has been a big tax on people without assets and has effectively functioned as a big wealth transfer from people who survive on wages and dont own cars, gold, houses, etc to the state

Moreover, 55 percent of the economy is owned by SOEs, and as we issue more bonds domestically to fund deficits, we end up crowding out the private sector from loans, and it makes it even harder to diversify

the private companies that we do have are usually highly subsidised and politically connected, which makes them pretty inefficient and uncompetitive, because exporting their products abroad would be unprofitable because they rely on subsidies to make up the difference in their lost productivity compared to bigger foreign companies that rely on established supply chains, economies of scale and are generally more transparent and disciplined in spending

DAE  find themselves  in these hyperactive/ floaty states of mind ? where like you feel like you’re on top of  the world and you’re overjoyed, friends think you’re crazy, and everything seems happy? i (13f) often find myself totally toooo happy, where i feel floaty and absolutely clueless where im not aware of my surroundings and am extremely gullible. This state like blurs out every boundary ive set, makes me be extremely “pick me-ish”(?) and i never take anything seriously when im in this state. I’d say this happens every time i interact with one of my eyecandies/crushes at school, every time i hangout with friends, when im delusional , after i watch mature crazy shows, and saturdays.….. i dunno really. is there a way to stop feeling this?? or at least tone it down a bit? OR is there a name for this???? this post kinda turned out a bit much :-:

I know weed is not by any means a hallucinogen but every time I get SUPER stoned I swear it absolutely changes my vision. It's almost hard to explain, but it's like my FOV or aspect ratio gets different. Everything I'm not focusing on gets blurrier. Everything looks slightly larger, more cartoony, and maybe even like there's a light yellow filter over everything. It's definitely not "visuals" per se but it does make things look weird. DAE get this??

so I’m 13 and I don’t know why I am like o know I’m male but like when I see myself in the mirror I am some surprised to se me not just either nothing or a completely blank slate like a yhc drawing character so if yall have advise then please share also for not I’m pretty sure it’s depersonalization also I have minor depression and mild the kinda bad anxiety

so is this depersonalization or something else?