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Thanks friend,

What sort of rituals do you mean?

I have a daily coffee ritual that helps sooth me. Every day I wake up, measure out 18g of beans, set ~370 ml water to boil, spritz the beans with a mist and shake them before hand grinding them, then throw a filter into my brewer, add the ground beans and water and wait 6 minutes while enjoying the aroma. I’m enjoying that cup right now, though part of my ritual was disrupted because I was going to be in a rush this morning, out early to the dentist (note: student dentistry, I ain’t bougie enough for full price work), so I’d premeasured everything. It made it less meditative, but the coffee is still really nice.

Eh…I’m pretty sure the diagnosis is correct. The only things that I could find that fit my most dramatic symptoms was MS or a brain tumor and they show up clearly on MRIs. I even knew psychosomatic disorders (what this was called when I was in school) existed…I just never thought it could happen to me. I thought I was too rational, that there was no way it could feel so real that you couldn’t tell it wasn’t authentic. It’s falling for a placebo effect when you know they exist, the gambler’s fallacy even though you know the house always wins.

Now its the finding treatment for a disorder that no profession really wants to be their purview because it has historically been so impossible to treat because one size really doesn’t fit all. It’s the shattered knowing that I could tell if something is wrong with me that’s one of the worst parts. And not knowing if I’m capable of becoming a parent, hell of even going on a vacation.

I saw Christy as a mystery movie [edit: it was fine, better than The Smashing Machine imo but not something I’d intentionally watch] and was totally unaware of the drama. I can’t even imagine getting involved with a project like that, playing a lesbian boxer, and also trying to court chuds. Like…did she think she could bring both sides together or that people wouldn’t notice? She or her PR team are dumb for real. Its like Hillary Clinton still trying the faking an accent similar to the people you’re talking to in the internet era, except Sweeny fucking grew up with it. The mind wobbles.

Me too comrade. For a brief time in college I was living in a large family home by myself as the owners had relocated to be nearer to good doctors, and it was so crushingly lonely. That is until I invited a D&D group who had lost their place to play into my abode which somehow turned into them all hanging out there at all hours of the day, all weekend, and occasionally overnight during the week. I loved the feeling of the house being so full. Unfortunately, no one had taught them to care for communal spaces and so it became a mess by the time the owners were returning. At the time I didn’t have the interpersonal skills to manage that conflict, but I think I’d do better given the chance again.

I’m super far removed from the medical profession and therefor may be talking out of my ass, but its always been strange to me the hierarchal division between nurses and doctors. It seems the system would work better if everyone had to enter as something like a CNA and gradually skilled up with doctor being something you became after many years of nursing.

Cause mostly cis-straight men think about being “forever alone” because no woman at home. Also society always prioritizes the problems of cis-straight white men, cause of cis-hetero-patriarchy and white supremacy. Also, white men are the main ones that shoot up the place because they got mad/sad at the world.

Go to events at your local library: books clubs, craft events, etc. Socialization is good, and there are tons of people to meet. Loneliness is literally damaging to the brain, so don’t hermit entirely.

Even then, if you want teachers to be able to use the bathroom they need another body for kids under 10.

Please don’t fall for generationalism. Boomers by and large can’t retire any more than we will be able to. An abundant amount of source

It has proven to be very controversial anytime I bring up my opinion that teenagers are one of the most oppressed groups in

I fully think school can’t be saved until we decide that 1) Kids need more than one adult in the classroom, and 2) school needs to be longer than it is now. The fights are so often “well if we do THAT what will we cut”. Kids need recess and PE everyday, plus probably another indoor free time as well. School has more reason to be 8-5 than jobs do, and yet elementary school kids her get out at like 1. (In this world there is also much less homework, imo)

I know someone who drove transport EMT for awhile, and I can tell you places are really weird about where you die. More than once places tried to get them to transport dying people (and once tried to trick them into taking a dead body), and places would refuse to take a non-stable person in but would instead work on them in the truck or litterally outside the hospital. I guess lawsuits are more of a factor than I realize? Said they were never told to try to hide deaths so

Don’t you know, skepticism stops before questioning Liberalism. Liberalism is unassailable, truly the best thing humans have ever made.

Shit, this is bringing back bad memories of PowerModders on roleplaying forums in the 00s. I mean, we were all like this a little with our precious edgy OCs, but some really needed to one-up everyone and win every fight. I remember a guy teleporting his OC in just to beat my character and the one I was in a fight with to show they were badder than both of us.

I wouldn’t say it was a street fight, but a friend took me to a “bonfire” in his ~10k pop county, and I did see two country boys who were upset (both dating the same girl or something?) discuss (really yelling at each other from like 12 feet apart) rules before throwing down. I felt like a cultural anthropologist. Despite growing up in the south I’d never seen such redneck shit.

I definitely think that’s true. Page excels in understated dramatic acting, not in over the top camp. While Umbrella seasons 1-2 had both, the only enjoyable parts of seasons 3-4 were the over the top bits with the exception of Fives and Lila’s outing. The Harlan as adult plot was underbaked and rushed, so I barely remember it.

Just sharing the eventual happy ending to a sad story.

I had a friend trying to get disability for a laundry list of problems that left her unable to do much, and the judge ruled against her with an example job of folding sheets and towels at a hotel. No hotel we could find employed a person to do that job alone, nor am I convinced she or anyone could do that job for 8 hours at a time, but still it was enough to get her case dismissed.

However, it did start a paper trail that helped her win disability several years later in a more progressive district. She now lives in a 6 person polycule, 5 of whom are disabled.