ty I needed to see this too

You’re not wrong. Should it be different? Absolutely. Will it be different? Maybe someday in the distant future.

But ultimately what’s most likely to happen is that the average person is going to keep pressing the dopamine buttons on their pocket rectangles and telling the world about every fart that exits their buttcheeks and if you don’t do that you’re going to get slowly pushed out of society in a similar way to the Amish or Mennonites.

It weirdly reminds me of the mark of the beast from the book of revelation. Apocalyptic literature does so well not because it predicts the future but because it follows the repeating patterns of the past. The world as humans know it has ended and been replaced by something new and utterly bizarre more times than history has recorded and will probably continue to do so more times than we can comprehend.

Each new version of humanity has people that get left behind, or alternatively, who refuse to submit to something horrible no matter how much bigger than them it is. It’s a completely valid stance to take and one I will probably take myself but you do have to make peace with the fact that the rest of society is almost definitely going to pick the dopamine buttons over you.

If you can accept being disconnected, then by all means, live your best life. I’m certainly planning to (although it’s also important to recognize that this is not a purely binary decision).

Yes it appears to be untitled which explains my difficulty finding it even with tin eye. It’s such a shame, this painting deserves to be wildly famous; her eyes speak to my soul.

Orange is the New Black.

I always found her vaguely annoying but tbh that just means she’s good at what she does because the whole purpose of activism is to make people uncomfortable with the status quo. Like ugh I know the world is a raging dumpster fire but can I just finish this day in stardew?

I’m still waiting for my strattera to hit and my brain just went “oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my daaarling, tangeriiine……wait”

That was my thought as well. No way this is what he meant. He’s almost definitely just saying whatever seems like a confusingly almost correct enough thing to cover for the fact that he’s completely hamstringing the FDA and CDC so they stop looking too hard at the things big pharma and big agriculture are doing (and even worse, what they’re doing together) but it wouldn’t strike that vague “something is kinda right about this” vibe if there wasn’t some truth to the fact that yeah we are drowning ourselves in plastic and cheap dopamine fixes. On the subject of fuckery they’re up to together, I remember reading a CEU on antimicrobial stewardship that said agriculture is a major contributor to the development of antimicrobial resistant pathogens.

It made me remember back to watching (I think it was) Food inc in highschool: there was a guy who owned an actual real deal free range chicken farm. His butcher shop was actually open air, which the bigger factory farm tried to report as unsanitary. When actual swabs were taken, his setup was cleaner just because he was sanitizing all of his tools between each butchering. If there first chicken over the factory belt has e. coli, now they all do. So instead of slowing down and doing things in a way that doesn’t spread pathogens as easily to begin with, they just feed the chickens a shitton of antibiotics. And overusing antibiotics leads to antimicrobial resistance.

This is my favorite reply everyone else can go home.

Tbh I think creating new terms just muddles medical records over time because now when you go into a field you have to learn not just a disorder, but also everything it’s been called throughout the last 50-100 years in case you’re going through the records of a patient older that 50-70 years old. I think the public needs to be better educated on these things. And when they keep doing it anyway that just kinda is what it is. That said there’s definitely room for phasing out diagnoses and replacing them with entirely new ones that differentiate or combine what we currently know as our knowledge of them evolves.

My favorite comment was that he’s the only Greek god that’s faithful to his wife and doesn’t fuck with random mortals for no reason.

First of all I love this question. My suggestion is that you shuffle a deck of cards, flip them over and note their exact order, then shuffle again and note the order again then keep shuffling and checking the order until the deck resets to the original shuffled order. It’s gotta happen eventually, but it might take you a while. In fact a lot of people have studied that very specific problem and there’s actually really good odds that every shuffled deck you’ve ever held has been the only deck of that order in history. So, yes, it almost certainly has happened somewhere, but good luck finding it.

Nah. Might be a botany student finally connecting those last few neurons on this subject.

I have a study Notebook on esoteric spirituality that includes choice quotes. This is the quote for the reversed Knight of swords.

Between States with more or less lax laws on liquor, firearms, explosives, tobacco, etc, there’s usually various merchants immediately on the side of the border with more lax laws.

I just googled it. It caught my eye because it’s one of the few personality typing systems to have any consistent results When actually scientifically tested and that’s applicable cross culturally. Super creepy the way they used it though:

Honestly I did delete most everything off Facebook and only kept it open so I don’t lose touch with any of those people completely. The only posts left on my profile are birthday wishes from other people (which I periodically delete) and a link to my public facing mastodon and my LinkedIn which I kinda have to keep because I do have a career where it’s useful to stay in touch with old coworkers and also just be able to send people my resume (it’s gotten pretty long!)

I’ll just go back to modding morrowind LOL

Oooooh that’s why they tested me for that. They told me I was faking for drugs because I got a 140 something but I panicked and failed the left right thingy really badly and my MSE results suggested dementia (and I was like, 20). I did finally find a doctor who listened and I’ve been very functional on Strattera for many years now (which is ironic because it’s not even a stimulant / it’s functionally useless recreationally). I can’t even take simulants because I have too much anxiety.

Oh it was on the reddit remastered memes would have to fix that I suppose ty

If you catch yourself before you begin the infodump you get to hit them with the intensely cryptic,“how much do you want to know?” which is 10/10 keeper of the deep wisdom vibes and also gives people a chance to opt out if they’re not in a good place to receive the deep wisdom on 18th century wig fashions.