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Boy do I love public transport. I spent my day riding the Brussels Subway today and it was so much fun.
Living in Seattle I often found myself missing work to just ride around on LINK and the bus system all over the place. I completely understand.
So I was watching an ASMR video based on Helldivers 2 and as it goes on, I'm gradually going, "Wait a minute, this sounds like fascistic, imperialist stuff." Then it starts reminding me of Starship Troopers.
When it's done, I look up the game and sure enough, there are articles saying it's heavily influenced by Starship Troopers. I've never actually watched Starship Troopers or read the book, nor have I played Helldivers, but I guess I picked up enough in passing about it and the themes aren't exactly subtle.
So, honestly I think i might have paedophobia. I don't hate children (in fact, id really like to be a mom theoretically), logically i get why they do things they do, but everytime I'm around a child or infant i get a nearly paralyzing level of fear. I dont really know why either
I definitely used to feel this way, because interacting with kids is a whole different level of socialization. Plus if a kid is violating a boundary of yours, it’s especially hard to know what to do.
But then I became a father and honestly it’s way different with your own kid. I can’t explain it other than you either unlock an entirely new set of tools you didn’t know you had or you instantly develop those tools out of necessity
Hello good morning
I threw up last night (at around 1:30 AM EST)
I'm glad that I didn't really freak out or have a panic attack even up to the lead-up of the vomiting.
I think I genuinely have emetophobia.
Keep in mind that I once OD'd (a few years ago, mind you).
I was scared for my life.
I was not in danger, at least immediate danger, I think, looking back... but I had immense raw fear and panic inside of me during that evening and then night. I was mortally terrified. It was quite traumatic. I was in the hospital for 3 days or so.
I don't think anything really lead up to me throwing up last night.
It frankly could've been a stomach bug or norovirus but I usually rebound from those straight-away and feel 100% good later.
But there's always that sense of anxiety saying that it's "something more" now.
I give kudos to myself for being so composed and calm during the episode last night. I woke up, felt weird for 10 or 15 minutes, kinda knew what was happening during the last 5 minutes of those 10 - 15 minutes, and then threw up. Last for about a minute. Felt woozy afterward but luckily nothing else happened.
I, uhh, went almost immediately back to sleep (yes, I didn't start cleaning the wooden floor till 30 minutes ago and that is dead-ass unsanitary I know)
I no longer take vitamins or supplements because I tend to abuse them. I also no longer abuse my prescription medication at all. I'm very adament about that last part.
I take only one cup of coffee nowadays (around 6:00 AM or maybe 7:00 AM at best since I don't really believe in the "no more coffee after 2:00 PM" rule; for me, it has to stop at 6:00 AM).
I'm glad that I'm making these choices and trying to exercise more; also, change of diet (too much weight loss though).
I have been stressed immensely the last few months but have felt a great improvement in the level of stress and anxiety in the last two or three or maybe even four weeks.
I am looking forward to the next few months, in fact, which usually doesn't happen.
I just want to know what could've led up to me throwing up last night.
I did have Imodium (which I try to avoid now) before I went to sleep because I was having whole dairy milk (which I shouldn't have done; I'm lactose-intolerant and generally have Lactaid at best but now I stick to oat milk mainly now).
Admittedly? I had, I think, six 2 mg tablets but that usually doesn't affect me that much at all, at least when it comes to side effects.
Let's see...
My medications are Prozac (30 mg) and that anti-GERD medication that has never really caused me problems (outside of my now lower-dosage of Vyvanse).
It kinda makes me anxious that I just threw up for seemingly no reason last night. Usually, it's after I do something stupid for the sake of my mental and physical health (usually out of desperation).
Maybe it was food poisoning?
Just leaving this comment here so people could maybe help me out here and give me advice. 😅
Otherwise, I'm having a pretty good morning and I hope you all are too! 💜
I'm having a good afternoon so far too.
Do you eat often to line your stomach? I also take Prozac, alongside other medication and supplements, and I find myself nauseous if I do not eat.
Honestly probably wouldn't but I wonder if humans lived just and extra 20 years [basically you'd feel 60 at 80, 40 at 60, 80 at 100, etc.] Or something if the world would've been better.
Can anyone help me remember a quote.
It's something like: when arguing with the right they don't need to adhere to logical consistency, all that truely matters is their position in the hierarchy of society.
It's more eloquent than I've parsed it. Any idea?
Was it the meme Sartre quoute?
Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
It's a good one to keep in mind.
Good night.
Took only 2 mg of Melatonin so far (this is a breakthrough btw)
Letting it remain that way
If it doesn't work, I will take another serving in 1 to 2 hours.
gosh
This might be a bit naive, and I'm not the best micro-economist, but would it be feasible for someone/sime country to basically make an industry out of recycling and composting? As in, they'll pay a small price to import what people were already throwing away [including higher end things like electronics and vehicles and airplanes] and recycle the raw materials out of them, and then make a vertical integration that way. I.e, a country doesn't have domestic aluminium deposits so it imports recyclable waste that it then takes the aluminum out of.
Same with industrial composting. Import trash, probably maybe even simply taking it for free from countries with landfill charges, take out what isn't compostable and just pump out fertilizer from that instead of importing it. Idk, I think i was just inspired reading about how Japan got most of its iron/steel during ww2 from American scrap metal
The cost to benefit of expending the resources necessary to extract and purify the recycled materials is infinitely more expensive then simply importing or buying the raw material outright.
Not to mention that no one would be willing to send you only “good trash”, and you face the daunting challenge of sorting through megalithic quantities of useless trash for a few paltry recyclable materials. You additionally face the issue of now needing to dispose of the massive quantities of leftover waste with no recycling potential.
In some extraordinarily desperate fringes of the globe there are communities of people who do make a sustenance living performing such recycling, however the output is utterly tiny and non-viable for expansion.
The example of Japan prior to WW2, the scrap metal the US was sending Japan was fairly expensive and seen as a viable resource. The Japanese just needed to spend the time sorting the various metals. Further, such imports were a desperation move as the metals imported were of varying grades, types, purities; and so forth, making refinement and usage difficult, but for a country stuck in a perpetual war economy desperate for resources, something is better than nothing. However, replicating that system within a globalist world makes little sense beyond extreme siege examples.
Excellent idea -- but currently it is more expensive to ship reusable materials than it is to bury it, burn it, or send it to a poor country in the global south where it ends up in a river then makes its way to the great garbage patch in the Pacific. We people de-prioritize some really important stuff. You're right -- but the focus has to shift economically away from endless money printing and ever-increasing profits. We need economics that focus around human need first. Reward companies for putting people first, rather than capital. Until that happens, or I don't know -- luxury communism under fusion energy happens first -- (you know, where scarcity basically disappears at scale because we can suddenly apply energy to big projects like global water access via desalinization and vertical farms in low-food-density areas like the desert, etc.) -- we probably will continue to be under the thumb of this shitty system. Nobody wants to fight the powerful. Not really.
I love Rust a lot but I wish it wasn't so hard to compile its compiler.
Speaking of languages, imma try learning spanish. it's kind of embarrassing for a brazilian to not be able to talk to comrades in latam.