I joined the COVID club today. Well, really early Saturday morning. Woke up in the middle of the night feeling a little shaky. That lead to diarrhea, followed by vomiting and the worst headache of my life. I slept most of Saturday still not sure what happened the night before. My throat hurt a little but that’s normal for me, as is diarrhea as I have intestinal issues. Sunday I was still sluggish and knew that I was in denial of what was happening so I starting looking for home tests. Of course there are none anywhere. I went this morning for a rapid PCR test which was positive.
I’m most tired and really pissed at myself. I let my guard down. After years of hyper vigilance, I fucked up several times in one week. Maybe it wore me down, maybe I felt safe because of the VAX x3, who knows. Don’t let your guard down. Stay masked and make everyone near you wear a mask.
Anti-depressants/anti-anxiety pills are the first step solution for doctors if not anti-psychotics. If you go to a doctor for ADHD, they first assume you have anxiety/depression even though you have NO symptoms, that's their first assumption for your lack of focus.
These meds take away your drive, the fire in you. the light in your eyes and makes you indifferent to a lot of things. Such as if you are in an abusive work environment with a shitty boss and you're being underpaid. Some of those meds like anti-psychotics lobotomize the fuck out of you. It makes it where you stop caring, you lack the emotional capacity to care.
And whenever you tell a doctor that a med turns you into a zombie you will NEVER hear them suggest that you go off that medication.
The worst is if you take these meds for years, then go off them. You end up having serious anxiety/mood related issues making you dependent on them.
Phenibut is a godsend for many, and can give you a day of clarity and break from stress when you need it. It can help you realize that your issues are manageable and you can overcome them.
Just try not to fall into the “I’ll feel better on phenibut day” mindset. When I was at my worst, I knew I had a break from it at least once a week. This type of thinking can stop you from making the necessary changes you know you need to make to improve yourself.
I almost made it to two weeks. I made it through car trouble, a big fight with my daughter, stress at work. I felt like a rock star, nothing was going to trip me up or knock me down. I was a non-smoker dammit!
Then I went to a holiday work party. Had a couple of drinks. Went outside to socialize with the smokers. Decided “one won’t hurt”. We all know the rest of that story. For four days afterwards it was a smoke here, a smoke there, until yesterday I smoked an entire pack.
So today is my day one, again. Posting for accountability because if I don’t own up to it here, what’s even the point?
Wish me luck fellow quitters!
I will likely get downvoted into oblivions but what the hell. . .
The gameplay is fantastic and getting Slayer next week is something to look forward to, but that doesn't mean 343 hasn't treated the fans like shit nor does it excuse the grotesque item pricings, battle pass decapitation, splitting of the campaign & multiplayer into two games and more.
Ske7ch's recent announcement is undoubtedly a Door-In-The-Face Technique. They offered the fans something so outlandishly absurd (crazy pricing, fixed battle pass system, only a few playlists, etc) so when they offer fans something slightly better (aforementioned plus one more playlist) the fans are grateful to take it. They prey on our emotions, primarily guilt.
I would love to think that all the criticizing and complaining that the fans did in the last little while actually made a difference to get 343 to bring a playlist that is beloved and crucial to the already fully released multiplayer, but the cynic in me knows it is not so. It was calculated. They predicted there would be concerns and pushbacks so they made plan(s) to satisfy the outcry. They will continue to give fans beloved, established, cherished, and excepted 'breadcrumbs' until they are.
Some people have mentioned on other posts that 343 doesn't listen or pay notice to the Reddit sub... Then why did 343's community director post an update to a major complaint on it? Complaining is an essential tool for the fans because we are also the consumers, but the best weapon we fans have is our money. We have a bigger say than what is depicted. We have more power than the product makes. Don't let them tell us what our money is worth.
Might get downvoted by the Tesla fanboys, but here we go:
I started looking into cars (specifically EVs) at the start of 2021, and at first the Model 3 seemed like a very innovative car loaded with cool features such as the big, non-laggy screen, autopilot, sentry mode, fast acceleration, supercharger network, frunk, etc...
However, as the months pass, I was less and less in love with the car, and I started to notice more and more shortcomings with the car, especially after taking a test drive. In a year where tons of new EVs are coming out, I feel like Tesla has stopped innovating but instead is making their cars less and less appealing. Here's a few examples from the top of my head:
1 - Rising prices (2k increase), and removing the cheaper trims from being sold altogether. Their interior is already very barebones compared to other cars (few physical buttons, no driver display) , and now even their cheapest trim is priced as a luxury car.
2 - Removing the lumbar support because "people didn't use them".
3 - No driver display, no blind spot detection on side mirrors, no heated steering wheels, no ventilated seats, the touch screen controls 90% of the car's configurations.
4 - FSD being nowhere close to what it is advertised.
5 - Elon saying that the Supercharger network will be open for everyone.
6 - They just changed the free premium connectivity from 1 year to 30 days
7 - No more free Supercharger referrals
8 - In Canada, only the SR+ is eligible for the 13k rebate, meaning that if I want AWD for the rough winter times, the net difference between SR+ and LR is almost 25k.
I know that Tesla is doing very well and their demand is crazy, but I simply feel like I am getting less and less of a deal as time passes, especially since so many new EVs are coming out from traditional automakers.
It's not that I think I need hobbies specifically labeled as feminine, but I do feel like I've been really lacking in the feminine hobby department lately. I feel like it's making my boyfriend less interested in me. I'm curious if you guys have any suggestions of feminine hobbies that aren't too "basic/empty" (like shopping), or hobbies that make your man seem to "light up" a bit?
(Some background, not necessary to read but in case it provides context;)
Lately I've neglected my own life a lot and only focused on school, even though my education doesn't require that much time I put a HUGE amount of pressure on myself. This results in dry conversations with my boyfriend (whom I don't live with). When he asks me what i did today, my response is always to say "university and nothing really". It makes the conversation dry out quickly.
I remember when I was less manic about impressing my professors, I'd have more time to do different things. Just small things like trying a new recipe, going to a cafe, the library. When I would tell my boyfriend that he'd get so happy it almost made my heart hurt a bit. He's told me he really needs a partner who's interested and engaged with life, and curious about the world. I'm not really sure how to implement that in my own life because I easily get complacent with doing nothing except school and watching Netflix.
A last, unrelated but somehow related silly anecdote: I had a partner once who told me "this is why I love you" when I made a blanket fort and decorated it, for myself. My current boyfriend also is strangely happy when I make myself a blanket fort and often suggests it. No idea why cause I thought guys would be turned off by childishness lol.
That’s right. You’re scrolling through this subreddit, seeing all the screenshots of people posting their Computer Share screenshots well guess what……
How are you supposed to know if they’re shills or not…
Making you feel like, “oh hey everyone else is handling this, I don’t need to worry about ComputerShare or DRS”
Well, wrong.
Every 🦍 matters
Do what the SEC talked about back in 2003, and take ownership of your investment.
https://www.sec.gov/reportspubs/investor-publications/investorpubsholdsechtm.html
As of October 31st, we’ve DRS’d 5 million shares. By now we’re in the 10-15 range. An awesome first step for sure, but we’re only one third of the way there. For MOASS to happen I firmly believe we need to DRS at least 90% of the float (if not more) and that seems to be around 35 million shares. Just know we are taking this one step at a time and we will get there eventually but the job isn’t finished. We’re just getting started. Let’s stay focused and hold onto this hype til we’ve DRS’d every last share if that’s what it takes.
Huzzah, an opinion I couldn't find with the search function!
But still, maybe this opinion is *that* unpopular. There's a saying that "growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer cells", which basically amounts to the same thing. But even the people who say that eventually turn around and condemn complacency.
Maybe the difference is "growth for the sake of growth" is growth towards an arbitrary goal, while "never be complacent" is growth towards a meaningful goal. But I'd argue that, at least in theory, there comes a point where there are no goals left that are meaningful to you, and therefore to keep growing you must pick an arbitrary goal to grow towards. At that point, to avoid pushing "growth for the sake of growth", we *must* allow complacency.
I will not longer be complacent! I will stand up and SPEAK out for JUSTICE! No longer will I allow my civil rights/liberties to be violated and stay silent! Cathy Kean 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁 Thomas Jefferson The Sovereignty of the People The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors. As Benjamin Franklin wrote, "In free governments the rulers are the servants and the people their superiors and sovereigns." The ultimate powers in a society, therefore, rest in the people themselves, and they should exercise those powers, either directly or through representatives, in every way they are competent and that is practicable.
"The whole body of the nation is the sovereign legislative, judiciary, and executive power for itself. The inconvenience of meeting to exercise these powers in person, and their inaptitude to exercise them, induce them to appoint special organs to declare their legislative will, to judge and to execute it. It is the will of the nation which makes the law obligatory; it is their will which creates or annihilates the organ which is to declare and announce it. They may do it by a single person, as an emperor of Russia (constituting his declarations evidence of their will), or by a few persons, as the aristocracy of Venice, or by a complication of councils, as in our former regal government or our present republican one. The law being law because it is the will of the nation, is not changed by their changing the organ through which they choose to announce their future will; no more than the acts I have done by one attorney lose their obligation by my changing or discontinuing that attorney." --Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Randolph, 1799. ME 10:126 "Every nation has a right to govern itself internally under what forms it pleases, and to change these forms at its own will; and externally to transact business with other nations through
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I live in _____city, ______state.
I'm a chronic pain/Intractable pain patient. I have a message for your boss.
HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of patients, including myself, are being DESERTED by our doctors and it's the government's - your boss' - fault.
The main CULPRIT is the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) who are HARASSING and PERSECUTING our doctors in an unjustified anti-opioid witch hunt. The DEA is using the CDC's 2016 'Guidelines For Prescribin
... keep reading on reddit ➡I was stupid and already slipping into DKA in the middle of the night and was tired and not thinking properly. I've gone through burnout and thought I was doing better, but I've been complacent. I stopped taking this disease seriously. I got cocky. I kept bolusing and would go down 2mmol so I assumed my BG was just being stubborn, which does happen. What I should have done was inject subcutaneously and changed my pump site.
And I need to stop eating damn pizza which is the worst thing for my BG. I have so much I need to improve on. Nearly 2 decades of being a diabetic and there's still so much I need to work on. I thought that since I haven't had a DKA episode since diagnosis that I had my shit together and didn't need to ask for help. It's never ending, true, but I have support available and I need to not be ashamed or too proud to ask for help. Hopefully lesson learned.
I never want to leave my job by ambulance ever again. But I'm also so grateful that I work with a health team who realized my situation was incredibly serious and called 911 for me. Without them calling the ambulance, I might have kept trying to do it on my own. I might have died. I've been in the ICU for 2 days and might be here for another. Yes, it's serious. And I need to stop pretending it's not. I need to stop pretending that I can handle this disease on my own.
Please read this and learn from my mistakes. And don't trust your pump when your BG is high. Always keep a pen on you just in case and don't hesitate to use it if your BG isn't moving. And educate your loved ones so that when you're confused from hyperglycemia, they can step in and help.
I am sure I am not alone when it comes to my weight loss journey being a rollercoaster. (355 lbs->282lbs->320lbs->268lbs). I have been comfortable at 270 for going on 3 months now saying stuff like "85lbs is enough" and "just don't get the weight back". I have slowly stopped going to the gym mainly due to new professional obligations and I notice my diet going to a place I would rather it not go. Nowhere near as bad as it used to be but I am playing with fire. My question for those of you who have hit your goals, and for those of you who are maintaining, how did you fight against getting complacent? How did you stop the wheels from coming off? Any advice would be appreciated.
