Just gotta smoke a bunch of cigarettes use some artisinal locally sourced desoxyn.

Yeah ADHD is all in your head, but so is brain cancer.

“This is my health and I’m going to speak about this with a doctor. I love you and appreciate your perspective, but this is my decision to make. If any changes as a result of this impact you, we can discuss them, but I’ve made my decision and I expect you to respect it the same as I respect the decisions you make about your health.”

The fact that she thinks she gets to decide what medications you get to take is nuts to me. This is a boundary it’s very worth building and maintaining. If side effects impact her then you can negotiate, but it’s your body. You have the autonomy to decide what happens to it. She’s just a trusted advisor on the matter of your body.

The way I like to frame it is that no president has a “make gas cheap” button, but they all have a lot of “make gas expensive” buttons. Trump likes pressing those buttons because they aren’t labeled as such

Yeah even pretty far inland you occasionally get a Canuck buck in your change (usually it’s a small coin)

Yeah it’s a tone indicator “this may be taken as having a serious or upset tone, but wasn’t meant that way” though it also can mean “please don’t be upset” in the case of something like “sorry I disappeared for a bit, life happened lol”

Because in most aspects of human endeavor close to success means try again. You may say that that’s true, but only for games of genuine skill, and yes, but part of why gambling fucks with our brains so much is that for a lot of people that difference isn’t instinctive.

Yeah if your finances are exciting then you’re either taking massive risks or you’re investing in companies that feel it’s worth spending money that could go to investments or dividends to ensure investors are excited. Either way it’s a bad position to be in

Yeah if anything gambling is the hot new addiction for young people. Gen Z drinks less, does less drugs, and even fucks less, but they gamble more. As a millennial I remember when gambling was mostly old people at casinos, but that’s not the face of modern gambling. These days it’s online casinos and sports betting apps. It’s increasingly stuff like polymarket.

Yeah, like, in raw harm done the catholic church is hard to beat and can only fairly be compared to other extremely large and powerful religious denominations. There’s so much to criticize about it as a force of colonialism and cultural destruction especially in the Americas. And the anti queer and anti woman issues are very real.

But also there’s a core of value there. The magesterium is an educated force of inertia, and sometimes that’s bad, but other times it’s telling peasants not to burn witches because witchcraft doesn’t exist or telling rulers to stop fighting or stop killing their subjects. The church is misogynistic, but it has room for women who don’t want to marry and has a place for a small amount of feminine power. The church has been a force of European imperialism, but all Catholics are supposed to be equal and loving to each other so I was raised to think of myself as part of a global and interracial brotherhood. And that’s without touching on the catholic workers or the corporal works of mercy. Ritual, community, and an interrogated theology with an expectation of education in it also were immensely valuable in my opinion. It was also a link to my heritage and a reason to not let my family fully assimilate.

By contrast my cousins on both sides were protestants and on one side I suspect they were baptist adjacent (but like, my uncle drank) they were just weird about it. One cousin of a cousin asked my parents if he could court my sister when they were like 10, his brother was quiverfull, and their sister was interracially adopted and wound up pretty fucked up by growing up in that environment. And the other side definitely were baptists and the girls weren’t allowed to wear pants, they tried to force my cousin once removed to stay with her husband who beat her and her mom, and their preacher used my great grandma’s funeral as an opportunity to tell us Catholics we were going to hell as the real focus of the funeral (great grandma never willingly joined their religion).

So yeah I’ve got some opinions on baptists. My experiences with protestants in general is that even though there are good protestant sects, when I left catholicism the episcopals probably are where I should have wound up instead of as an atheist for a few years until I became pagan, it’s the way many protestant sects acted, especially towards Catholics that put me off of them as a whole.

Yeah, I’ve had the misfortune of meeting some of them irl. Like, theoretically I’m all for people engaging in informal academics, striving to be more thoughtful, and generally trying to challenge their thoughts and be better. However, these people keep going on insane paths such as inventing a hell based on artificial intelligence using game theory to ensure it gets created and so fucking much race science.

Unfortunately these people are increasingly relevant to everyone’s lives. Sam Altman comes out of it, as did the effective altruism movement and Sam Bankman Freid. They’ve got a strong following in Silicon Valley and have some overlap with the technofascism movement coming out of it.

There’s a community on lemmy to mock them at their craziest if anyone’s interested called sneerclub.

Yeah that’s basically what anyone who knows a lot about the culture that formed in the wake of the fanfic thinks. That and the fact that members of that community are too insufferable for lemmy

No, plenty of replies on here aren’t pedantic at all

Why? He’s acknowledged that’s where he’s headed

Would she be sleeping with them otherwise?

Not if they’re talking about it like that. I’d be pissed if a partner or metamour was talking about it like that

Surely that post wasn’t that long ago…

An asshole who was notably dead weight in every project?

Did you like those fancy tools they gave you in school? You can cling to your memories of them as you attempt to recreate their functionality in excel without your boss noticing that you’re wasting time on this

Clowns who think themselves Frederick Barbarossa