I’m in the US. It’s late at night.

I live in the US

We have to weigh the cost of a medical visit versus the likelihood it’s nothing

If it’s food poisoning and I overreact, that’s a 20K overreaction in the US

No

I could just get a cab

The point is the ER costs a lot

Are you sure? It could just be food poisoning. I ate a lot of candy earlier before sleep.

I want real world answer, not “always seek medical care answer.”

I can risk a 20 percent chance of death to avoid medical bills.

Yeah, I think I’ll just go back to sleep and risk death. Tired of being fuxked over by hospitals, society, everyone. If I die, so be it. Peace out.

People who are depressed often are unable to adhere to unwritten cultural social rules.

People in theory like to see themselves as supportive, but still will not react well to people violating unwritten cultural norms.

Example:

“i am so sad, this awful thing happen.”

“Don’t worry bro, it will get better, just pump iron and time will heal all. Hey do you want to see a funny video of my dog trying to bark at a roomba?”

(Awkward silence, breaking social rule of reciprocity) (long pause) “sure…”

(Video of dog)

(No laughter or comments, breaking rule that friends are supposed to be fun, react to things)

Result: next time depressed guy calls, “bro” will be too busy to pick up

Because people want to think of themselves as reliable and always there and supporting mental health, “bro” will never admit to himself the reason he is doing this, nor will it even be logically articulated. Instead he’ll think “i feel bad but im so busy lately” and just not take the call or forget to answer

This is completely in contrast with someone who is slightly depressed or dealing with something slightly difficult but not actually that depressed and able to adhere to social norms. For that person, they will get tons of superficial sound-bite support in between other normal acceptable activities and conversations. The “supporter” feels like a super hero for caring about mental health, and really it’s just two people hanging out, neither of whom really have major mental health issues.

I would suggest if you are really brutally clinically depressed, do not interact that much with your network until you are feeling a bit better because people are that shallow sometimes. Instead, do things like volunteer at community organizations in which more hands on deck is good, and if you cancel it’s not a big deal. (ie making food for homeless people)

Also the truth is many people are shitty in general. I don’t think this is something caused by you. I also think that much of the advice about mental health and depression is about making paychiatrists and mental health professionals look good and people feel good.

things like “talk about your mental health issues” and “help is available” and “prioritize mental health” all feel like lies that make other people feel better. But what if instead the truth was told? “Prioritize having food and being able to pay rent. Do not talk about your mental health issues ever except to trained professionals. Help is available and horrendously expensive; if you can cry and be sad 6 months and then go back to normal without rip-off doctors and professionals, you are much better off.”

So it’s not you at all. People are assholes and the mental health industry gives lucrative self-serving advice to glorify and protect the industry while screwing over people who would be better helped by the truth.

Why would anyone want that?

What is Plex?

What is this? I don’t get it.

I’d throw parties probably, but only if poverty were eliminated for everyone.

Dweeb!?! How do you know that? Leave me alone you malevolent hacker.

I can’t believe it! Someone who chose to use a centralized platform instead of Nostr was banned?! It’s so shocking!

Windows is awful. Why do you want that decaying ship with rotten wood to float?

But why even care if some random loser gets fucked by Microsoft? It’s like the religious idiots out there who don’t believe in global warming and hate trans people: you can’t deprogram stupid. It’s like waging a war against bears taking a shit in rivers.

KryptKey is much easier than Kleopatra. It works as a keyboard and encrypts and decrypts on the fly. It’s a powerful local too that’s very usable. Kleopatra is great for people who can learn the OPSEC but it may not be great for have a quick back and forth text message discussion.

It’s better to use SXC to protect metadata or Signal (if they can’t get in) to protect metadata. Texts show who is chatting with who. PGP also has a more identifiable structure and they could ban PGP and then scan for it easily based on PGP headers. KryptKey is more censorship resistant because the outputs can’t be scanned for as easily since data can be encrypted with normal words.

I get the point but this post is more geared towards communities who could be targeted by ice and may/may not get a tip-off ice is in the area

The post is also geared towards a future in which trans people are rounded up for required mental health assesments, and since definitions of mental health disorders are so arbitrary and often have psuedoscientific reasons for their criteria, that would be scary for trans people.

Protesting is great, but the religious idiots outnumber the nonreligious idiots. I’m not sure signs and yelling will deprogram cult members.

Most people are attracted to others or not attracted to other based on visual information and pheromone information. Then secondarily, people become more or less attracted to someone based on personality.

So if your personality is not dominant and comes across as submissive or mild, that really probably has zero impact at all on the initial attraction of others.

you get it

Life evolves in a certain environment, and usually anything that changes that environment will be bad. And some organisms adapt to that bad, and some don’t.

An example of this is stuff like highly processed foods, coffee, cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, women in the workforce, and effects of fetal health. I am in favor of women’s rights, but female stress and alcohol use and cigarette usage have all been found to affect prenatal health, and women in the workforce during pregnancy may be correlated with higher female stress. (I am in favor of women in science and working, that is not an anti-woman comment.)

So the human body is always signaling to other cells and neighboring cells and if there’s plastic blocking the signaling, it’s going to effect how cells grow and die and likely their epigenetic expression. The question is how much? If the microplastics are damaging cells, and they likely do but knowledge to be sure, then there’s resulting healing processes that may increase inflammation, and inflammation has wide-ranging effects on organic systems.

I can’t fathom that these microplastic don’t impact prenatal health. Babies in utero are more impacted by smaller things because it changes the growth patterns.

It also seems very likely to me that having things like this, which could alter epigenetics and brain structure growth, would possibly result in more varied phenotypes (ie, more autism, more transgender people, etc) and more miscarriages. I say this as someone who is pro-LGBT, but a lot of these microplastics act as endocrine disruptors.

When you see Elon Musk doing so much Ketamine that he’s starting to, according to some, lose it, and he’s possibly using Ketamine for depression, it is likely because of how environmentally fucked the planet is. His whole angle is to get the fuck off this planet and try again somewhere else and it may or may not work.

This planet is environmentally fucked, and environmental problems show the core problem with Democracy: when you have scientific idiots choosing which psychopath to govern, it doesn’t usually result in ecological harmony. Then all the communist governments are just trying to compete with the capitalist governments, fatally chugging along. The Scandanavian countries, with their death metal and embrace of nihilism, are filled with people who accept that we may all be doomed, although some of them are trying. Then you have pockets of liberals all over who are keyboard warriors while the real activists are few and far between. And it may not even matter if there is activism. It’s almost certainly too late and we’re all going to die. Try to look surprised when it happens.

It’s likely the microplastics are making human stupidity increase, thereby leading people to ignore environmental logic, thereby leading to more microplastics, thereby increasing human stupidity, etc.

If you give your ID to a 3rd party company in the US, it’s impossible to know if they will delete you ID or whether you’ll be added secretly to a facial recognition system.

The US is allowed to issue secret orders to companies demanding they do things in the interest of “security.” They can also issue gag orders forcing companies to not talk about the secret orders. Therefore, any US company may be secretly forced to violate it’s supposed terms. A company that collects biometric information seems like it would be especially likely to be targeted.

Facebook, Instagram, and other social media such as Linked In are likely the largest source of law enforcement information being fed to facial recognition systems. Given the dystopian “ideals” of some politicians, I consider it a risk and wouldn’t do it. Your country may not be sharing that information with the US already.

Additionally, some of these companies have become the main way people get employed, rent things, or buy things. Because these companies serve a public function but are officially private, they can de-platform people for any reason, with no meaningful appeal, creating havoc and misery for an affected person. If you have been flagged to be banned, by giving them your ID, you will let them ban you based on a government document forever. Their system may have flagged you for verification, but it could have also flagged you to be banned forever based on TOS violations.

If you abandon your account, you can always create a new account, then later claim a hacker got you or your forgot your email password. If you provide an ID, you may be linking a government record to biometric information to something they can ban.

A company may also be claiming that they get rid of an ID but still keep a hash of some combination of biometric information.

In theory, anyone in Facebook in California should be able to submit a CCPA request to delete all information, including ban information, and then go on Facebook again, even after a lifetime ban. Anyone in the EU should be able to do this too through GDPR. But this doesn’t happen, because Facebook lies and is also just a rebranding of Lifelog.