Hexday 2024, Happy 4th year anniversary nerds!!! - New General Megathread for the 24th-26th of July 2024
On this day, 4 years ago the site was first launched (then a day later the first post made), Formed from chapotraphouse remnants, the old admins decided to make a site using Lemmy as its base. Originally called chapo.chat, Hexbear has grown into one of the biggest instances in the lemmyverse.
Despite various sitewide struggle sessions, wrecker incursions from other forums and federation drama, Hexbear has keep growing strong in its 4th year, now with 4 megathreads, over 4 million comments, 300k posts and much more.
Its being great running the general megathread for a bit over 3 years, since i took over i have tried to get it mostly in time and just one unlike during the old times, i like to think i have done a decent job, plus i have also added a bit of reading material to them so you nerds can learn from them and i like to think you have been reading them , its also nice to see the new megathreads how they have slowing grown up to the size to the old general mega in the time of the old admins.
dont have much else to say so have a good day nerd. also
Whats has been your favorite post/event from last year (july 2023-july 2024)?
I wont lie, all the fedidrama has been fun to read, especially when libs wander here
My coworker told me the other day about how someone who used to work here got fired for bringing in their PS4 and playing video games on the clock using their work computer monitor and the entire time I was like
On my way down to DC to protest Netenyahu's speech and send a message to all the genocidal monsters in congress
This is a good way to celebrate Hexbear's anniversary, my favorite post/event has to be mkuktrawide coining the phrase Genocide Joe and today I represent the corner of the internet where it happened
Used the prolewiki page on the "Holodomor" to convince someone with no prior knowledge that the prevailing narrative on the subject originates in Nazi propaganda and they immediately accepted it hell yeah.
I have never seen astroturfing as effective as what's happening for Kamala right now. It's actually terrifying, leftist TikTok creators are getting destroyed in the comments of their videos for speaking out, and the libs are naturally eating it up. This to me is eerily reminiscent of the Obama campaign in 2008, back when I was still a lib myself. Kamala is not nearly as charismatic, but I am sure we still see some very forced parallel imagery.
It's very early and time certainly has accelerated in the past few years, but unless something crazy happens between now and November, my instinct is that Trump is going to get steamrolled. They are running her as the younger cool mom candidate vs the nasty old white man, non-jaded zoomers will eat it up and they will set themselves up for their own Obama disillusionment in a few years. Nothing will fundamentally change.
just got a 25% raise at work unexpectedly! Apparently it's what I should have been earning this whole time, as our union forced the employer to do an equal pay analysis and I was being paid 25% less than I should have for my experience and education. First time in my life I can remember feeling the financial burden ease instead of tighten
Four years of this place, makes me sad I missed it. Wife brought me here last september or so? and I made my account in November. Pretty cool webzone, hats off to the feds for orchestrating the creation of such a neat site.
Thank you to Hexbear and all of the comrades here for keeping me sane for the past 4 years. Without Hexbear I would still be posting in the trenches of r*ddit, arguing with the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet. This website is unironically helping me stay sane.
No current struggle session discussion here on the new general megathread, i will ban you from the comm and remove your comment, have a good day/night :meow-coffee:
I'm actually glad reddit went to complete shit over the app bullshit. Otherwise I'd never have learned about Lemmygrad and subsequently Hexbear. These communities are the first time I really felt like I have a place online where I fit and that isn't a pickme contest like on FB or Twitter.
the Netanyahu standing ovations are so fucking depraved and the only non-Hitlerian elected official in the country is Rashida Tlaib, death to this excuse for a nation and a thousand apolitical gooner Pensyltuckians upon the halls of congress
"Liberalism is extremely harmful in a revolutionary collective. It is a corrosive which eats away unity, undermines cohesion, causes apathy and creates dissension. It robs the revolutionary ranks of compact organization and strict discipline, prevents policies from being carried through and alienates the Party organizations from the masses which the Party leads. It is an extremely bad tendency." - Mao Zedong
I appreciate the mods and admins keeping this place useable and even enjoyable. It's a thankless and annoying job and you seem to not become self-important power mods/users over it, so thank you.
I haven't gotten the results back from the swab test but the cough I have is UNMISTAKABLE and very unique and it's gotta be. I am an infant, apparently.
I really should start asking my clients to wear masks in my office; this shit is so gross
someone make my thoughts into an effort post my brain is too fried right now
what im thinking is that anti-capitalism, or anti-establishment themes, have been rising in media recently. squid games, the boys, parasite, etc. there are loads of satires of modern politics about how rich people suck and are racist - the menu, bodies bodies bodies, and some i havent seen like dont look up. these are permitted to be produced and marketed to mass audiences by capitalists because crucially, they dont actually present any solutions. they show rich people being bad and poor people being fucked over, but the resolution is always just "shits fucked, oh well, we live in a bad world". they point out that things are bad but don't entertain the notion that things could be better.
consider how many movies and shows criticise modern politics and society for example - it seems like there are several of these movies made every year that become successful. now compare that to how much media is made that presents a solution, or shows people fighting back. how many popular shows have presented joining a union as a solution? how many have portrayed communism positively? how many show the satisfaction in the fruits of your labour being owned by you, rather than how many show how disheartening it is for them to be stolen?
anti-capitalism is for sale. you can consume the products that make you feel like something is changing, because some people in hollywood wanted to tell a story that acknowledges that things are bad. ive watched three shows in the past few years that actually do present radical solutions - the boys, andor and fallout (all sci-fi lol, i dont even like sci-fi that much). fallout shows communists as decent people, and capitalists as evil, but thats about it. the boys is kinda about a group of anti-fascist revolutionaries/vigilantes, but is always teetering on the edge of liberalism and seems more concerned with being anti-trump specifically as of season 4. also it constantly tries to prove that being too violent in resistance to fascism is bad. andor is actually good so far, presenting small anti-fascist acts as meaningful, mainly the funeral in the last episode, and will in season 2 lead to andor joining the resistance for real and becoming a legit freedom fighter. also it has space stalin.
its very ironic that disney and amazon are the companies producing the most radical shows, but again, they're profitable right now and i guess not enough of a threat in their messaging to stop being made.
i've said variations of this before but in honor of the site's bday: this site is truly a window into what a kinder and more humane internet might look like. genuinely kinda baffling it exists, in a good way. (should still be named chapo . chat though you fucking bastards, the original subreddit was a wild and wonderful place and the pod is fine-to-good, why erase our history )
Not a fan of Kopala, but it is funny watching all these right ring spaces fall into misogynistic angst over the slightest possibility of a female president.
so hawk tuah girl is just someone who suggested spittin on a d durin oral? that's literally all? idk man thats pretty vanilla but mb there's somethin im missing here
My cousin told me something really sweet today. We're both in our 40s. He's very into classic rock, and I also still love the bands I grew up listening to. What I didn't know until tonight is that one day when we were about 11 years old, he was over at our house and I played my dad's Abbey Road cassette, and he was totally floored! Before that, he'd only heard pre-65 Beatles, and he had no idea how much their sound changed. So he was talking about what a big impact that moment had on him and all the music he discovered after that. It was a really cool memory to share with my cousin!
I think you could describe Connor O'Malley's stuff as having a sort of Midwestern Gothic bent. There's a strong sense of regionality (fucking Rod Blagojevich turns up in the "Fuck Coin" video), and his style feels very influenced by the southern gothic undercurrent a lot of early Adult Swim stuff had going on.
Someone in another group I work with got promoted to manager. I thought they were already a manager because they don't really do anything, but I guess there's always the possibility to do less.
I literally missed both the trans pronoun and vegan struggle sessions as I was too busy with work. Probably good I missed the former, my thinking had not yet developed on this matter.
I was at a coffee shop this morning, and the barista asked the lady for her name on the cup and she said βKamalaβ. The white lady in front of me shouted βYou go girl!β. The line started cheering. The whole coffee shop was clapping. A man wearing a MAGA hat threw it to the ground mumbling slurs under his breath as he left.
I love reading the history in the megathreads, thank you for taking the time to write these up and educate us!
My favorite post/event was when UlyssesT left to go kill Kissinger. I miss reading his rants against treats, but I also really like that Kissinger is dead.
It turns out the classic kitchen sponge, the ones with a hard side and a softer side, is a major source of microplastics and we just rub that stuff onto our plates and cooking utensils.
Been on a Civ kick lately, I forgot they had Stalin and Mao as playable leaders in 4. Another series ruined by woke
wtf Civ 2 had Lenin? Devs used to be cool
in north korea the supreme leader once asked me to play this card game i've never heard of before with him but when i said yes he simply threw the deck of playing cards onto the ground and instructed me to pick them all up
When my cats are fighting and the little one is making bad sounding noises and I go HEYYYYYYY it's always the little one who runs off like she did something wrong :(
It's pretty interesting that in English the word for "translate" (from one language to another) means moving from one place to another, but for example Chinese and Finnish use words relating to rotation instead, the opposite of translation. Do any languages use a metaphor for reflection or dilation for this?
attention management everywhere: there are exactly two hours of the day where scheduling meetings is unacceptable - the first hour after an employee gets in, and lunch hour. this still gives you 5-7 hours to play around with within the length of the average workday, there is no excuse. if there must be a meeting within the first hour, at least don't make it first thing when an employee walks in the door. the fact that so many fail at these basic parameters - while you already make more money to do less - makes me deeply question the value of your continued existence
If AI uses a shitload of energy then i ewanna know specifically how much energy is being used right now on chatgpt bots on Reddit/Tinder/etc just to try to trick lonely horny dudes into paying for fake onlyfans subscriptions
I just found out the rumours of JD Vance fucking a couch were made up. I can't tell you how disappointed I am. As a couchfucker myself, I was hoping to finally be able to vote for someone who represents my interests. Sadly, I will no longer be voting for Trump/Vance this election.
lord help me i'm tryna get back with my ex now that i'm home from traveling. i want to leave this country but i also want to spend the rest of my life with her and she doesn't want to leave her family. i hope she doesn't have a boyfriend lol
Oh my fucking god its one thing to have to deal with the scolding but to see these shit eating libs rules lawyer and erm-acktually about how Kopmala was just following ordersdoing her job and thats why she she had to fight to keep those women in mens prisons and actually she's a saint sweaty, so shut the fuck up and stay in your lane babes that's the tea. Ermmm just cuz its evil, demonic shit doesn't mean it's not the law honey
If you have two applications on your computer and can't decide which one is more powerful, set both to have their window "always on top" and see which one wins.
At a family function right now, this side of the family has NO idea of my politics because theyβre hyper reactionary and a little dangerous, so I just pretend to be completely aloof from politics.
Two particularly religious nutty family members were right next to me talking about the end times and if they think Jesus will be coming soon, and if Kamala and the dems are the antichrist. One let out βdo you think weβll have full communism before thenβ. And I just had to step away and laugh in the bathroom. Americans are so incredibly brainstormed.
Just found out there are non-binary butterflies and they're fucking cool! Wing patterns tend to be sexuallt dimorphic in butterflies and these theys have one of each wing! It's neat!
I love searching for advice on how to deal with overwhelming anxiety and hopelessness and its always just like "Hmm have you considered not being anxious and finding something to hope for?"
Oh shit! Hexbear anniversary is also the anniversary of my kitty Darby getting named! It was 9 years ago for her. She lived a couple months under the name Kitty cause it was really hard to come up with the right name. Then. While watching Decline of Western Civilization, when The Germs were being featured, this asshole cat takes a dive from the railing of the stairs into a pot of Chilli we had been cooling to freeze. She then blasted all over the house smearing Chilli everywhere and then slashed the fuck out of me when I had to give her a bath and the tub ran red with blood and tomato sauce. Never before had a name become so obvious when I came back down covered in cuts with a soaked cat who's white parts were now orange. Darby Crash.
Got a knife sharpener and oh my god my knives cut so much better now. Can actually slice through an onion now instead of having to almost saw through it.
Sometimes management will have reactions to minute changes in project scope or a major technical hurdle that are like "oh no this throws off the entire fiscal year's plan". And, like, you didn't plan for stuff happening during the year?
has Kamala Harris ever had anything resembling this type of support in the past? Like, she had to drop out of the 2020 campaign in 2019 because she was polling so bad in her own state, then most people (at least that I knew) were disappointed with her choice as VP in 2020 because she was a cop and the decision was made on the heels of the George Floyd protests. And idk I feel like no one cared much for her for the past 4 years, people made fun of the coconut thing, people made fun of her wine mom cadence and the fact she always seemed like she was on something. But overnight it's like she's become the most popular politician in the country, at least among liberals.
me & my lady friend have agreed to a once a week seeing each other schedule, to balance the clear fact that things are deepening against her understandable fears about getting close to someone new/desire to take things slow & her general work busy-ness & working on herself/her own mental stuff (before this we'd been once every 1.5 weeks - 2 weeks and once 2+). i'd be open to a little more than that and i do miss her during the week and can occasionally get frustrated, but i'm also a bit lonely and should be wary of looking to her as the sole plug to the hole that is my loneliness so this is probably good for now.
apparently attachment theory does have some scientific backing, so IG it seems i can occasionally get a lil anxious attached and maybe she can get a lil avoidant. but idk we've been communicating extremely well so far, in ways that feel kinda jarring compared to a lot of my previous romances, so i think by working together we can probably be healthy and secure overall or whatever.
Ah fuck I've just gotten high and started listen to Kanye and people might have been right when they were talking about how talented he started on that Nazi shit. He's a piece of shit but his music is so fucking good
Storm season is almost over, Iβm going to miss how dynamic the weather can be. Thunder in the distance, a light rain, voluminous clouds unable to obscure the brightness of the lightning. Wonβt miss the heat though thatβs for sure.
So if i understand correctly the us doing wars:
1.they dont care if they win as long as they sell the killing stuff, even if it doesnt work, just sell it.
2. Somehow dollar hegemony is kinda linked.
3.they just like killing a lot of people, especially poor and/or non white.
But i feel like, as a community, we focus a lot on winning/losing wars. Why??
One of my favourite things is how artists in the past would portray historic events in paintings with anachronistic clothing, weapons and armour. As in stuff more contemporary (or if older still not ancient). Legionaries dressed as Condottieri etc.
We should apply that films/TV/games with no exposition or context. Just imagine a film about the 30 years war but giving everyone WW1 style uniform and gear.
Cleaned and organized garage. Gonna put a work bench in eventually so I can, like, once again exercise the fundamental nature of my being by making stuff. First step to that was cleaning out and consolidating a whole bunch of stuff
Installed Linux on an old box, gonna try setting up Home Assistant eventually.
wow so apparently spotted lanterflies aren't even that harmful. got us all going from to . oh sure we were "just following orders." history has famously smiled on that excuse you fucking jackasses. way to squash beautiful & cute creatures for nothing.
vividly visualizing a :slammer: edit that goes like "KILL ALL UTILITARIANS" and has a shop of Ursula K. LeGuin drilling Jeremy Bentham with subtext like "if one of us is suffering all of us is suffering" or something along the lines of "'how many social amenities does a foreigner cost' instead of considering that you should consider the following:" and it's fuhrerbunker hitler
Its great to see all the nerds i follow in twitter hoxhaists, maoists, dengists, leftcomms, demsocs, anarchists, socdems all come together and dunk on the patsocs and their acp, evertime its great
i want nothing more than to be a wife guy. i'd reach enlightenment if i could unrionically pepper conversations with phrases like "my lovely wife" and "my better half." i will fully become slayer guilty gear if given the chance, i am not fucking around hear
wow its really been 4 years. I remember when we were all on r/chapo making terrible bernie would have won jokes and yelling at neoliberals. Good times.
Okay look right, I love the free book websites, my uncritical support. However, if a free book website puts its dumb fucking url at the footer of every single chapter, that is nerd shit, oceanofpdf.
death to youtube how is there 10,000 people somehow making livings delivering asinine, incorrect takes on films and videogames. every single fucking 'suggested' is a) a chud b) a slick-sounding bullshit merchant.
criticism really is dead and i'm showing up to the archaeological dig on top of the grave to say that, but why the fuck can't normal educated people make this shit anymore? i follow many actually trained entertainers & critics and none of them have the pull of these fucking amateurs. yahtzee crowshaw used to be a relatively low-end critic and he's practically ebert now (like he was never bad he just kept a tight format that excludes deep analysis)
I gotta get better at following my treat desires, my media impulses, special interests, autism stuff. I have spent like a month and a half unsuccessfully butting my head against random video games and stuff when it turns out, I just needed to be reading Nevada for the 30th time or whatever it is. But it took over a week to figure that out for some reason! Why can I not be in touch with what I wanna do on a minute to minute basis? Is this a bad interroception issue?
Funniest thing that regularly happens at large orgs is how they'll have enterprise licenses for most things, but for anything that requires individual user approval everyone uses the open source alternative because getting through the approval chain takes longwr than the task.
Some indigenous teenagers invited me to a barbecue and I thought it was nice of them until I saw they were eating a stray pit bull they hunted and killed. Actually tasted kind of good tbh.
It's weird reading fan-translation done by high school kids from 15 years ago. This person is talking about exams in their little blurb at the end and I'm like this person is now 35 years old.
I love how now "good rpg" means good writing/choices meanwhile ARPG/diablo slop fans literally only care about "gameplay" (use spreadsheets to explode everyone 0.1 sec faster)
My boss just came in to work while Covid-positive. Wtf I just got over this shit (and got it at work, because we didn't follow any reasonable precautions)
Some people might think it's petty and cringe for me to laugh at the Yankees losing three times to the Mets while not mentioning the deeply embarrassing loss the Red Sox had to the Rockies, but keep in mind that the Yankees are literally Adolph Hitler
I'd like to take the time to thank my grindr hookup Nate for (a) not ghosting, (b) maintaining communication, (c) trusting me, and (d) doing what you did at the very end, my god, you're a naughty boy to do what you did with a smile, glad you asked me first for my contact info, text me sometime, cutie.
I'd like to also thank the "equipment" company Rouge for making Nate look fantastic in bergundy red leather of obviously top construction quality.
the emigration of the transgenders has been devastating for the usual megathreads, luckily tourism from the trans megathreaders have allowed a recovery of comment income
I believe in myself and I trust myself. I feel secure in my ability to get through tough times, listen, and make changes when I need to. I am smart and adaptable. I care for others and for myself. The things I like and the things I do are worthwhile.
just woke up. had this dream where i was at a dispensary in oregon trying to buy weed and this guy did NOT buy my ID. He grilled me over it for like 20 goddamn minutes before eventually saying "nah, it's not real" and now I'm pissed off
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Facebook report: Kamala has dethroned Hilary as girlboss but it kinda seems forced and JD Vance fucking a couch cushion is the new Trump fetish speculations. It's 2016 except Kamala is literally not Hilary Clinton and therefore has a chance.
interesting read ive had yesterday, heres a great excerpt:
"The purpose of this essay is to correct the oft-made assumption that the children of '68 were Marxists intent on tearing down American society and reconstructing something new, socialistic and, most terrifyingly, foreign in its place. Naturally there were some elements within the New Politics movement (I shall explain that term later) who wanted to do precisely those things. But this article argues that the vast majority of the kids at Chicago were in fact radical conservatives who came from a very American tradition of anti-authoritarianism. Their aim was to challenge and reverse the growth in government that had begun in the 1930s. Not truly belonging to the far left at all, they were anti-bureaucratic and shared many similar traits with their contemporaries on the American right. Therefore, it is my contention that the wrong lessons have been taken from 1968. The New Politics was a fundamentally conservative movement, not a leftist one."
English major co-worker told me she really enjoys hearing me speak, my vocabulary and word choices are fun and interesting and she catches my literary quotes that I sneak into sentences and stuff. I speak a LOT like Matt Christman and did before I heard the guy, thats what hooks me in the first place. But yeah, it's nice to hear from a qualified person that my rhetoric skill is as high as I think it is. Also I've learned that you really don't need to learn much about English to get an English degree. Her Anglo Saxon etymology crushes mine but her Latin is trash, I think I can just figure those roots easier cause I also speak French but like, I'd expect someone formally educated to run circles around me but I've had to tell.her what words that I've used meant pretty often. Anyway, felt nice.
oh btw in yesterday's chapter of chainsaw man ears got removed from the timeline. no one has ears anymore, and they ceased to exist as a concept. thats what chainsaw man is about
day 5 of sketching 1 hour a day to grind from practically-zero drawing/visual art priors: tale of two ryabs:
bumped my schedule block up to an hour, we'll see how long that lasts, might bump it back down as school winds up in a month or so. Anyways, yesterday and the day before I practiced heads with hairlines. today is bald boy summer
traced took 40ish min, untraced took 20ish. facial hair is hard
Every time I remember that the 1981 ultraclassic Joysticks actually exists, it gives me moderate to severe psychic damage in a way that "meatspace" or Michelle Tea do not.
Forgot my hearing protection for a concert tonight so I left early and my ears were ringing like twice as loud as normal. I estimate the first act (the part I cared about) was average 85 dB and the main act was average 92 dB but I left the 20 minutes into that so I feel like I shouldn't have done too much damage?
I have tinnitus already so I feel like the temporary louder ringing isn't indicative of significant damage, but shit sucks nonetheless.
TL;DR get earplugs for concerts because tinnitus sucks sooooo bad. Foam ones protect you well if money is tight, but a pair of etymotic research ones (cheap but good brand) or other musician's earplugs are more pleasant to use.
I really hate that my special interests are in shit people don't care about or worse, actively hate. Really makes it hard to engage with people and talk about them. There's so few of them too
Phrase I'm really enjoying putting between my loud mouthed blythe theses and examples to show that I'm right is 'history has shown this to be a demonstrated fact'. Feels nice.
armor plate mechanics have gone from ruining COD's multiplayer to ruining its campaign as well. like i was expecting to hate the game's campaign because of political brainworms and the stupidest writing ever wrought by humans, not because i'm constantly getting cockblocked by 'heavy armor' enemies that completely interrupt the gameplay flow. like every single other enemy goes down in 2-3 shots but suddenly a guy that looks exactly the same as the other enemies (they all wear black tactical gear so at a distance they are all a black silhouette) takes 3 magazines of full auto headshots to put down. completely destroys any sense of flow or smooth movement through the environment and combat, you have to like dance around the heavy guy or play the peakaboo game with a piece of cover and reload between magdumps. literally the most annoying gameplay i have ever experienced, like its intentionally obnoxious. even aside from the realism aspect it just completely fucks the flow of the game, like even the halo games shield systems play better than this and i fucking hate halo.
recently on chapo they mentioned something about the conservatives being idiots with something about Kamala and throat goat. what the fuck is the deal with the allusions to Kamala and oral sex? is it related to this Hawk Tua thing?
I tried to search for anti-Kamala stuff with "Kamala sucks" and that was a mistake
absolutely terrible idea that won't leave my head: watch every episode of mr. birchum and them do a write up of every last thought i have about each episode and post it to !effort@hexbear.net
Anyone with experience with Lexapro and SSRIs specifically long term and apathy?
CW medical gaslighting, depression
spoiler
I started Lexapro about 5 years ago. I wanted to, I was a bit unsure but my psych ensured it would help me and it did for a time. It took the edge off my depression, and lessened the suicidal ideations I was having.
What I didn't know at the time was that I have ADHD which wasn't being treated, and which was the root cause of a lot of my problems at that time. Actually, my psychiatrist doubted I had ADHD for a year until I basically got the diagnosis myself. Now I take Concerta which helps a lot and anyone who has or thinks you have ADHD consider trying a stimulant for it if you can.
Over time, I have had sometimes debilitating loss of motivation. This has made finishing my PhD quite difficult. It has also affected a lot else in my life.
Relationship problems have also arisen that are quite related to what I now know is common in SSRIs known as "emotional blunting". More or less, it has been very hard to be emotionally available to my partner and is something I have had to work on very hard despite no major problems in our relationships.
I had no idea until just yesterday these two things can be related and caused by long term use of SSRIs. I have had the idea of getting off Lexapro for a while, mostly based on vibes and the fact that I actually treat my ADHD now (and know I have it)
Any time I bring up motivation issues to my shrink, he usually blames it on cannabis and says to really pay attention to how cannabis affects my motivation. I am a daily user, and have agonized quite a lot over how I might be sabotaging my entire life. I don't necessarily want to stop using it though, and I don't usually use it during working hours. Also, it has almost entirely replaced alcohol for me, and it is essential to treat my partner's chronic pain.
After already having him doubt my ADHD (despite me describing ADHD symptoms to him for years) he never considered doing something to help me outside of increasing SSRI dose. Now I have found out there is actual research about SSRI apathy and emotional blunting that are really similar to things I experience and this motherfucker never bothered to bring it up. I don't want to get into to many details but I really hate my shrink sometimes, I usually leave there angry and it's also far away since I moved across town. I just haven't found a new one yet and need to go every month to get my meds (especially concerta as it's a controlled substance)
I'm already going to ask him about dropping my dose of Lexapro. I take 15 mg right now, 10 mg is usually the "starter dose" so it shouldn't be a big issue to just drop it down a bit and see if it helps. Are there any online spaces or communities where people have shared similar experiences? Or anyone else here experienced these symptoms and stopped taking an SSRI?
Bonus tracks on vinyl are cool because they are hidden, but they are annoying because you have to get up twice per side to make it continue and because it prevents the player from automatically stopping at the fake end.
I think i could win a cooking competition but i don't want to have to do some bullshit like every competition i've ever seen has some fucked up game show bullshit added on and i don't want none of that. I just wanna cook the same dish as another person and be told how much better mine is
Neuro-linguist Programming β is such a goofy theory. It's like the woo people just threw a bunch of sciency words together to make it look smart. If it was made today, it'll be called non fungible language model therapy, or something.
bruh they brought out a whole ass cruise ship to show all the USA atheletes this is legit not fair no wonder we win all the fucking medals 2/3 of the athletes are ours
I think I accidentally made Fallout 4's story better (admittedly not hard) with my alternative start. I did an escaped Synth. I made them the default looking female character and called them Nora. That said I have changed my hair, tattoos, scars etc during the game.
When I eventually got around the main quest, I find the body of Nora with the same recorded voice and features as my character dead in Vault 111. Kellog mistakes me for the dead Nora. I see her alive in his memories. Codsworth thinks I'm the old Nora. There's obviously cracks in the mod and dialogue where things become janky.
But the whole thing has become murky and ambiguous. Is my character a Synth? Does my character know that? Does the Institute Know this? Does Shaun know I'm the original or a Synth copy?
Given I'm Railroad and I'm infiltrating the Institue our dialogue suddenly becomes a game of intrigue. I'm trying to butter him up so I can work to sabotage them. Is he observing me as an experiment in turn or is it a weird dying man's attempt to resurrect his mother?
I remember reading that Comrade Kim Jong Un really liked MacOS UI/UX design but red star OS (at least the public version) is built on KDE. Which begs the question: is he a GNOME guy or a KDE lad?
I think he would be a GNOME guy because libadwaita is the sexiest UI toolkit in the Linux world. But the utility and customization offered by KDE might suit the needs of the DPRK more.
Or I'm completely wrong and he's a GNOME 2 fan and uses Cinnamon with a Windows xp theme.
Or I'm super wrong and he's a plan 9 chad who's ahead of the curve?
Or do they use windows 7/10 like the rest of the global south :(
The Boys is lib because they made the only Black woman supe a secret caucasion test tube manchild enjoyer and not a mega based communist who has read Das Kapital in its original German.
The problem with making characters whose gimmick is "being very smart" is that they would be hardened socialists and not ego tripping nerds. I'm really disappointed with what they did with sister sage. I hate the trope of "smart in retrospect" or "everything I did was part of the plan" for "super intelligent" characters.
I think the boys struggles with actually humanizing supes by introducing more supe allies to the boys. A train redemption is bittersweet, but if you actually want to make Butcher seem selfish then you need more supe friends than Kimiko and Annie/Starlight. If there was an actual supe resistance org by supes and less "kink-shame for laughs" then I would actually care more when Butcher says "oi oi oi I got me a tentacle cancer hentai monster to kill ya all"
Like if we had more Mesmer type characters where Butchers bloodlust is put in a more critical lens then we would build empathy for supes. But right now we get scenes of the deep murdering his octo girlfriend because it's funny lol men kill women. Like which cisgender loser decided we needed more scenes of the deep? Did they run out of actors???
S4 really is where the boys capeshittified because of the lazy capeshit tropes they're pulling. I'm rewatching the older seasons and they were leagues better than this one.
I've got a bit of really really really nice peppermint. Pal from work brought it from her garden and this is fucking primo shit. Dank peppermint. What should I do with it? I'm thinking of making candy but that's messy and takes time, give me easier ideas. Vegan easier ideas.
What's the hetero-grindr these days? I've tried tinder after many years absence and it's just full of "not looking for a hookup" long-term-relationship seekers. I'm just looking for friendly NSA fun during an expected overnight layover at a nice Toronto hotel thursday into friday.
Also, assuming I can't find a partner, what's some reasonably-safe-solo actually-legal debauchery I can find? Any reputable strip clubs somewhere uber-able from the Chelsea Hotel maybe? I could always do the grindr thing or the Spa Excess thing but I feel the urge to indulge the straight side of my bi-ness sometimes. I'll be sober that night regardless.
Didn't make it onto the Discord life raft so I wasn't here from day one, but I managed to find my way here a few months later via reddit, probably by virtue of someone complaining about the ChaCha boogeyman. So glad I did...having this community has really helped keep me sane throughout all that's happened and guided me along the path. Here's to another four more years!
Does anyone have a good article or paper on how GDP, Unemployment, etc. figures are manipulated by all US presidential admins to reflect better on themselves? I used to have a really good one but I lost it :(
If anyone is looking for some not bad Guy Talks About a Game For 6 Hours background noise, Duke of Whales has so far been solid, got hooked with a 2 hour video of the first Assassin's Creed and then saw the Assassin's Crew 2 episode is 6 dang hours, but the first one was solid, dude did outside historical research, mentions Gramsci and even mentions dialectics, it's nothing mind blowing but for the background noise about video games genre, it's damn good.
How tf are you even supposed to successfully trim your own mustache? Regardless of the time and care I put into it, I can never do it right and have to redo it the next time I get a chance. It is absolutely maddening
joe dropped some mid. guess he felt like he had to do an official speech even after the twitter post, but i was hoping for some announcement like he was resigning or doing some new executive action or smt
Idk what the fuck peri peri is but I think since all these google results for peri peri sauce show what's basically a sauce made from pureed peppers I feel like idk maybe I should make something like that to go with this peri peri chicken. The recipe i was given is basically just like "marinate it in WAAAAY too much lemon juice and chili powder and then grill it"
It's wild how fast 4 years went by. I had just discovered /r/cth maybe 4-5 months before it was banned, but it quickly became my favorite online space and was pretty instrumental in me getting exposed to leftist politics.
I was bummed when it was banned, so I was super eager for whatever came from the remnants. I joined chapo chat maybe 2-3 days after it launched, and it's been a cool place ever since. I haven't been as active as I used to be, but I still like to come back from time. I'm glad to see the site is still going strong, and federation finally happened.
Kind of funny/sad how in Fallout 4 every single one of your companions who is not Danse is like "The Brotherhood of Steel are the worst". Every interaction with the Brotherhood of Steel they're like "We're the worst and we love to totally eat shit and lose". Literally there's two plotlines about BoS teams arriving in the Commonwealth to immediately eat shit and get almost the whole party wiped out, in Danse and Brandis' teams. Once they arrive their vertibirds start falling out of the sky every short walk you talk, trying to engage some mutants or raiders.
The reaction from a majority/plurality of the fanbase? "Ad victoriam brother! the Brotherhood are the best!"
Been texting my crush daily, sometimes with some funny stuff and other times just cool shit I've seen that I think she might like based on our past conversations. Even talked a bit about coming up with a nickname for her since she's had one for me for a minute now. But whenever I've seen her at work she's seemed to be feeling down, especially the past two days. Like usually she's laughing a lot with her coworkers and she's been super quite. I ended up texting her after work yesterday to ask her if anything was up and just seems like work has had her a bit stressed. She had to work extra hours to make up for a mistake or mistakes someone made. Kinda wish I could do something to help her out, but everything we do is completely separate from each other.