It’s easy not to trust a system associated with charging you $500 for Tylenol. Much easier (and occasionally even safer) to just smell some lavender and hope that helps. Go to an ED and you could just die of a stroke or heart attack in the waiting room or even get run over by somebody who died of a heart attack while driving...
I think you have the terrible take. Untrained people shouldn’t be self-diagnosing based on hearing a list of symptoms, the brain is too good at tricking itself and it is too easy to even give yourself symptoms you don’t have.
And I don’t expect any one doctor to know of every treatment that exists for every illness, because that’s what collaborative knowledge bases are for. A carefully moderated medical Wikipedia that can be contributed to by doctors and researchers.
But all of this wouldn’t make the pharmesutical companies as much money as peddling to hypochondriacs so instead we have ads.
I’m finally taking meds for my ADHD and while I don’t feel like I can control what I focus on, it does seem to help in my ability to suppress distracting thoughts, especially when around others. I still have to put myself in situations where distractions are less likely to happen in order to get stuff done, but it does feel easier.
So like everything else, not a silver bullet but it does help. However I skipped a day and felt like shit; is withdrawal a thing?
Lab-grown meat that is both indistinguishable from animal-grown and is cheaper. Bonus points if they can make bacon have 100% of our daily vitamins and minerals.
Left for Firefox when they announced this update. I still have to use Chrome when I work in Google drive since basic functions like copy/paste don’t work in non-chrome browsers, but even without this update the minute+ time it takes for chrome to open reminds me I made the right decision.
I had a similar moment of confusion when I realized “normal” people have to put forth effort to think. Your brains aren’t always on, always thinking, about everything? You don’t always notice every little detail (though sometimes at the expense of the bigger picture)? How can you do one thing over and over again without getting bored? You just obey and believe things you’re told? You can follow rules you don’t personally understand a need for? You’ve been doing a thing the same way forever just because that’s the way it’s always been done?
Sometimes it’s aggravating to me as it seems like other people are being intentionally obtuse, but other times I envy the ability to float through life, free of thoughts and therefore free of anxiety.
Another reason why, if any type of landlord exists, they should be an actual person who lives within what I affectionately call face-punching distance.
You can’t punch an anonymous conglomerate of soulless suits.
So am I. My rent however is three times as much (for a worse apartment), food is 2-6x as expensive, gas is… shockingly about the same but it was killer in 2012 too. Utilities are up, insurance is at 250%, medical aid remains unaffordable even with insurance, and I’m older will more medical problems, less energy, and it’s harder to learn new things. Oh and I’m in much more debt due to all the previously mentioned things, so I don’t even have space on credit cards for emergency purchases.
And 9/10 people I talk to are in the same situation.
Also the need to include irrelevant context and to overly correct yourself on irrelevant details.
“So I learned this from a coworker who drove a blue car, or was it red? Either way it was definitely a 1993 Honda Civic. Or '94. Definitely from the early 90s. I could tell when they got to work because the brakes sounded like a duck that got hit by a rock, not that I’ve ever thrown a rock at a duck! I did chase a goose away from my dog with a stick once. That dog was fearless in every situation except against birds. I never found out what breed he was but probably a shepherd mix. I remember the day my parents brought him home…”
None of these laws would be necessary (I would hope) with a proper safety net (universal healthcare, UBI, etc). A job does something shitty, you can afford to leave! When we support people we empower them to stand up for themselves.
At least, these are the things I think about as my “no one wants to work anymore” boss rants at me about how everything would be better if the government wasn’t involved in capitalism.
If only Reagan didn’t defund asylums in order to “prove” they didn’t work so that they could move the homeless to jail or on the street where they can be a scary story to keep us wage slaves in line.
It’s a really easy definition for me. Do you acquire recurring income from a residential location that you don’t personally live at? You get the French haircut.
Owning a home and having roommates that share the mortgage is fine. Putting your guest bedroom on Airbnb is fine. Owning an apartment building and living in one of the units and actually providing labor to contribute to the running of the apartment building (whether through maintenance or office work), perfectly ok.
With that being said, when it comes time for the guillotine, we’ll start with the corporate landlords to give the “mom and pop” landlords time to come to their senses.
Edit: explaining my reasoning: Passive income is theft. Owning things is not a job. Humans have a right to live by nature of being alive, profiting off of a human right is evil.
I disagree pretty strongly on especially the “don’t shame someone for who is essentially a good person for sharing the same religion as a bad person.”
Community is everything, and there’s strength in names. If you say you are of the same religion as a bigot, you’re telling the bigots that you agree with them, even if you don’t. If you want to follow the teachings of the character known as Christ, you ironically have to call yourself something other than Christian, because that label is synonymous with all kinds of bigotry to a dangerous number of people. The bigotry isn’t going to die out as long as they can claim to be a majority.
We’re not talking about sports teams here. These labels matter, and have dangerous effects. I’d rather everyone drop religions labels entirely and just say how they claim to be a good person, because as it stands there are good people and bad people who share the same label, which makes the bad people stronger.
Oh I completely understand the why. Get a golden parachute in your contract, hire MBAs to cannibalise the company for short-term gains, then leave the company obscenely rich before the dumpster fire you created bites anyone in the ass. Rinse and repeat until you have all the money.
For Boeing’s execs, they just got caught before they could cut and run.
Oh they understand. Take the bus, peasant! All the extra time you waste on public transportation is time you won’t be spending organizing with your fellow wage-slaves!
YouTube shorts are my latest annoyance. They give you an x to hide it then says we’ll try again in 30 days. Shorts were a dumb idea on vine, a dumber idea on tiktok, and just about the dumbest idea on YouTube. If I wanted a sub-30 second clip I’d watch a gif.
Their campaign is literally “It’ll be worse under the other guy.”
Losing now is the best way for them to win in four years. It is how it has been for decades. When’s the last time one party held the presidency for two consecutive candidates? It’s a neverending metronome, except the needle moves more to the right each time.
I shame(ru)lessly stole this from Tumblr (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
The increasing distrust many Americans have in modern medical advances is probably mostly due to our failing Healthcare system.
It’s easy not to trust a system associated with charging you $500 for Tylenol. Much easier (and occasionally even safer) to just smell some lavender and hope that helps. Go to an ED and you could just die of a stroke or heart attack in the waiting room or even get run over by somebody who died of a heart attack while driving...
Getting up to speed (lemmy.world)
Which scientific discovery or technological advancement do you hope to see in your lifetime?
For me it’s Open Source AGI not controlled by the enshittifying power of capital
Chromium Manifest V3 Explained for Toddlers (youtu.be)
Most people still haven’t heard of Manifest V3, so if you are one of those not using Firefox, this is for you....
Why did Occupy Wall Street fade away and how can we start it back up again?
If you're old enough to remember, it's a little unsettling and strange. (lemmy.world)
How does one even live like this? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
United Scams of Assholes (lemmy.world)
Security deposits should be held by the municipality. Should the landlord wish to claim it, they can prove their case in court....
More games should do this (lemmy.world)
Millennials are exhausted by working more for less. (www.theguardian.com)
(water is wet and fire is hot).
Mansplaining vs ND Over-clarifying (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
JK Rowling, Joe Rogan and Elon Musk are fuming over Scotland’s hate crime law (www.politico.eu)
It was no April Fool’s joke....
California law would give employees the 'right to disconnect' during nonworking hours (www.usatoday.com)
Anyone tired of answering emails and calls from their boss after work may soon be protected by law in California....
60 Percent Of Playtime In 2023 Went To 6-Year-Old Or Older Games, New Data Shows (kotaku.com)
This data will probably only lead to more live service games. :|
Let’s Outlaw Being Homeless! That’ll Work! (lemmy.world)
leftycartoons.com/…/lets-outlaw-being-homeless-th…
To everyone who hates the concepts of landlords and rent, what counts as being a landlord?
Does having an AirBNB setup make someone deserving of the guillotine or does that only apply to owners of multiple houses? What about apartments?...
Rent Rule (lemmy.sdf.org)
Victory? [elder cactus] (lemmy.world)
www.eldercactus.com
What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane (prospect.org)
What is a dish whose component parts you all like individually, but put together as a dish you think is nasty?
Dr 4Chan's Medical Advice (lemmy.world)
You've got to do more than just forego that expensive avocado toast! (lemmy.world)
Windows 10 and its shortage of "Never shove this screen in my face again" buttons (lemmy.world)
Can’t wait to graduate so I don’t have to run Respondus and keep dealing with this crap
Democrats who attack the rich do better in elections. The party should take notice (www.theguardian.com)