Apytele

@Apytele@sh.itjust.works

I love genuine questions and people putting in the effort to love and understand each other better. If you come at me just wanting to argue I’m going to troll you back. FAFO.

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How do people actually dumpster dive to get free food? Are there any other cheap/free ways like this to get food?

My local food bank can only provide 8 packages with referrals every time before you run out, and I have, but my situation hasn’t improved financially due to various set backs and I’m struggling to feed myself. I’ve heard that supermarkets throw out massive amounts, but have never been in a position where dumpster diving...

Apytele,

I would start by observing the places around you that serve food. Stop by 30 minutes to an hour before close and see when and where they typically throw things out and what condition the food is still in.

Apytele, (edited )

I’ve never understood why people on the internet feel the need to express their deviant sexual preferences on threads like these, IVAGINAL only.

Yes, I’m being facetious.

Apytele,

Even disregarding the misgendering aspect, the fact that anon thinks it would ever be ok to tell any person “hey I’m pretty sure I know what your genitals are even though you wouldn’t want me to” at any time is just… fascinating.

Apytele,

Oh hey they taught me what to tell you in nursing school! And I’m a psych nurse so I can also give tips on not going bonkers! These are all for the average person that doesn’t have any specific reason they shouldn’t do any of these; like certain gastrointestinal disorders would contraindicate the dietary fiber.

  • Get plenty of low impact exercise like biking or swimming to keep your heart healthy but avoid fucking your joints.
  • Eat a balanced diet that’s low in processed or added sugars and high in lean protein, polyunsaturated fats (usually liquid at room temperature), and especially dietary fiber. When you talk Paleolithic diet vs the modern diet, the biggest difference is almost always roughage/fiber. Whole wheat bread might not taste as good but your colon needs the scrubbin’
  • practice good sleep hygeine. This means setting a big as possible of a difference in location, behavior, and sensory input between wakey time and sleepy time. So when you’re awake, hang out in a different area, look at different things, listen to different sounds and music, apply a different smelly lotion or keep a different essential oil near you (one of the few things essential oils are actually really good for is pavlovian conditioning yourself to get more relaxed or more alert). Also have different clothes you wear to be alert vs asleep and if you drink coffee in the morning, drink a completely differently tasting herbal tea at night. Create separate and distinct sensory environments for yourself for different contexts in general: they’ll help keep your subconscious in sync with what you’re consciously trying to accomplish.
  • either a) be religious and attend services regularly or b) choose a different social ritual to engage in and form close enough bonds with those people that they will come find and help you if you suddenly stop showing up. The mental health benefits of religion go far beyond feeling spiritually connected to the world. For a lot of people their religion is their primary social support, so if you’re not religious that’s completely valid but for optimal mental wellness you need to engage in some kind of activity that will allow a similar long term bond to form with other people. The advatage to doing this with religion is that its easier to tell people they have to come back or they’ll go to hell than to explain that not engaging in regular low-key social interaction will increase their risk of dementia in like 30+ years.
  • Don’t do meth or fentanyl, and be very very careful with alcohol. Weed is less bad for you than alcohol but tbh a light mauling from a black bear is also probably less bad for you than several years of high alcohol intake. “Safer than alcohol” is not high praise. If weed starts giving you anxiety or frequently seeing/hearing things others don’t, stop the weed immediately.
Apytele,

I set mine to an innocuous background sound that only I will recognize like something small clattering on the floor or a small creaking noise. Its like a gun silencer, instead of making it silent you just make it sound like something else.

I have also found it important to either control which apps can send me notifications or control which apps are on my phone in the first place.

Apytele,

They’ll have to reverse the results soon: “we know you’re a bot because no human would ever be able to make sense of that!”

Apytele,

Fun fact: this is exactly what’s happening in Healthcare right now! I feel like every other week I have to explain basic concepts to my newer coworkers, and it’s not even their faults because admin is basically having them all train each other. Most new nurses these days are lucky to be trained by another nurse who has more than a full year of experience. And the resident doctors make all kinds of mistakes literally just because residency is basically hazing to the extent that they force them to work back to back to back nights vs days without adequate time to shift their circadian rhythms properly, so they’re relying on a new nurse trained by a slightly less new nurse to catch errors by a doctor who is also relatively new but most importantly has gotten 2 hours of sleep out of the last 72. I highly recommend getting in shape and wearing your seatbelt because whoever you think is going to save you after you get catapulted across 3 lanes of a crowded highway is becoming more likely to just kill you faster and more painfully every year.

Apytele,

I keep saying it would fix a lot of problems if police officers had to get (at least) an associates, ideally a bachelor’s and have to pass a board exam like nurses do. Make them have to buy license insurance like nurses do to defend you to your licensing board and that will start costing too much once you start having a sketchy record. It’s a (similar) level of responsibility (less power over their health, more power over their life).

I bring this up because they hammer into nurses that when patients start doing sketchy abusive shit to us (like yelling/hitting/throwing things and demanding we wash their genitals when they can do it themselves) you start documenting every time they so much as look at you funny so a) you can defend yourself and your license if you need to and b) so that the patient is more likely to face consequences for their shitty behavior.

It’s all about that paper trail and PD is not good at documentation ime. I won’t say my documentation is always perfect but if I knowingly tried to cover something up like the cops often do I would be caught immediately and completely screwed six ways to Sunday. If I turned off the unit cameras before giving shots or something I’d be lucky to ever work again. It felt like 50% of nursing school was just instilling a primal fear of the many regulatory agencies that exist within the Healthcare system. They really need a lot more fear.

Apytele,

Also nurse to patient ratios. The one thing that’s been proven over and over and over to keep people alive and well but the c suite will never do it because your grandma falling out of bed and cracking her head because she was too scared of pissing herself to wait for help (then living the remainder of her life with a tbi and possibly incontinent anyway) is an acceptable rate of systems failure for a hospital admin (also they can just blame it on the nurse and hang us out to dry to cover their own ass).

Apytele,

Freud actually did do something very very important for modern psychology. He popularized the idea of the subconscious: that humans have thought processes they are not aware of and mostly can’t control (actually the more I learn about it the more I feel like a marionette on my gut bacteria’s strings but that’s besides the point). I’ve also heard he did actually nail down the cause of many mental illnesses: child sexual abuse, but that there was some (formal?/ informal?) political pressure to not list that as the actual cause so he caved and said the patients must have made it up. I’m struggling to remember where I heard that but unfortunately given my personal and professional experience with the mental health system (the personal was more than I liked; the professional is getting there), this sounds depressingly familiar.

Apytele,

Oh those terms making it into the public consciousness is such a fucking plague. You know how they say magic is just science you can’t understand and that say wizards have secret knowledge? Maybe they’re not hoarding the knowledge, maybe they just hate watching people beat each other half to death with the spine of their favorite spellbook. And I say this as someone who didn’t change my oil for a few years until it lit on fire. I still don’t change my oil, but I do remember to bring it back to the car wizard occasionally. He does it for like $30 because “bitch how the fuck do you still not know how???”

Apytele,

Deep down I know you’re not wrong but I poke little crescents in my palms every time I see an abusive person describe their victim as a narcissist. Especially when they’re twice as old.

Apytele,

Sorry, TY!

Apytele,

I could actually see it fitting in a sociology or biology textbook to illustrate that sexual activity/mating rights are not necessarily synonymous with social status, just very often related.

Apytele,

ty

Apytele,

idek if I can be called communist but I’ve certainly noticed that unfettered capitalism seems to result in a LOT of monopolies…

Apytele,

I was hoping this was what I thought it was and was NOT disappointed. Randall Munroe has been my celebrity crush for years.

Apytele,

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec

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