southsamurai

Eh, culture bleeds. It mixes at the edges.

Since lemmy in specific was meant to be reddit with less overt rejection of left wing subject matter, there’s so many similarities that they’re going to have a lot of overlap in the kinds of people that want to use them.

Then, since lemmy was initially populated by ex reddit users, you run into the foundational culture being essentially the same. Each wave of r/efugees after that causes a fresh mixing, followed by some of those leaving and the rest adapting more towards lemmy culture norms.

The lack of ability to just r/ random words helps weed out low effort shit like woosh and thathappned. So you already have a discernable decrease in empty headed snark. There’s still plenty of it, and lemmy has its own population of assholes that snark in a different way.

Well, ya have to, I stole the old one ;)

Jokes aside, that’s a pretty damn nice one too.

Oh yeah, I’ve picked up some Brit slang and completely stole “no worries” from the Aussies

I’m super prone to using “bloody” when I want to curse but shouldn’t. It usually slips past other americans. Taking the piss is another fave.

Hey! Pittsburgh! The only city I actually enjoyed visiting!

Weedeater, weed whacker, or trimmer. In that order of descending use.

I almost always use the first one, weedeater.

Amen to that :)

Damn, now I wish I had a bike business so I could hire you.

Well, thanks :)

It’s about how you say it though.

If you can manage to not be weird about it, you can turn the concept into corpospeak ans do just fine.

Paraphrasing, because it’s partially going to depend on the interviewer. “Your company has the market position to offer a pay scale that matches my quality as an employee” can end up nailing an interview.

Saying “I don’t care where I work as long as I get paid”, less so.

Yup.

But in the field of work I did, I had multiple advantages.

First was the high turnover rate. Most nursing facilities and home health companies have trouble keeping staff. So, chances are high that if you apply, you’re getting hired unless you’re absolutely horrible.

Second, I had experience out the wazoo by the point where I realized the above. Which meant not only did I have a good work history, it was also a history of sticking at a given employer, so I knew I could almost guarantee being hired even if there were applications stacked deep.

Third, I was visibly strong. Men were much rarer in my area as nurse’s assistants back then, so we tended to get snapped up fast for what is a physically demanding job. Since I’m a big ol’ fella that looks like he can throw people around easily, I could have gotten hired most places even if I had a shitty work record and been an asshole to whoever was doing the hiring.

Luckily, I’m not that kind of asshole (and was less of one in the ways I am an asshole back then), and I am instead charming as fuck in person. Which was my other advantage. It doesn’t show online, but if someone isn’t biased against sasquatches, they tend to respond well to me.

So, after the main company I worked for folded due to the administrator embezzling it into the ground, the first interview I had when they asked that I was able to be honest and say “look, this is what I do. I take care of people. I want to get paid for doing it, and word is that you pay the best in the area. Hire me at whatever your pay cap is, and I’ll be your best NA. Might take a few weeks before you believe that, but you will.”

On screen, that looks cocky and snide. But in person, it got a smile and an immediate hire. At the pay cap, and a promise of full time hours as long as I wanted them. Worked there until my body finally gave out.

I really wish there had been a way to export all the teamspeak records, because we were cracking each other up left and right.

I did go through and copy/paste some of the Skype conversations, but that was just for some of the silly poetry and such that I wrote to her, and after I put it into a .doc file, I cleaned it up, and I can’t remember if any of it had dates listed if I hadn’t.

This is why people keep diaries lol.

I’m simple.

Mac n cheese for savory.

Dark chocolate for sweet.

Ahhhh, I’m old, so don’t hold me to the exact year or anything, but fifteen years? Ish?

We knew each other before we were friends, so the exact year is kinda nebulous in my head

Tbh, I’m not interested in the show.

However, IDGAF.

Hire a good actor, period. Nobody can top Rickman at all, so anyone taking the role on needs to be able to reinterpret it entirely, change the way Snape’s menace and arrogance are shown.

While there are physical descriptions in the books for all the major characters, the original movies didn’t stick to them perfectly in all cases. And I don’t think they did with Snape fully.

So why the fuck does it matter if the actor isn’t lily white (heh)? Can he act is the important part if anyone is going to watch it at all. If you’re going to turn a book into a show after it’s already been turned into a wildly popular movie series, you could cast everyone looking exactly like the books, and there’s still going to be complaints from the movie fans.

So fuck it. Make Dumbledore a trans man, or a trans woman. Make Mcgonagle Cherokee. Make Harry Xhosa, or a Southerner from the U.S. Give Ron blue hair, a septum piercing and dress him in leather. There’s always going to be pissed off existing fans of something that’s as huge as Harry Potter. It isn’t like some niche comic book where a character looking different is going to piss everyone off. The fan base will be split, period.

Shit, if I was going to watch it at all, an unexpected casting choice would make me more eager, because at least then I’m not going to be watching the movies dragged out over months.

Hmmm, maybe not a rug, but new towels and such? Yeah, I’m that old :)

Clip ons, I don’t always remember they’re on if it’s bright out, but I usually take them off

Not because it’s douchey, but because it’s harder to see.

Most people don’t have the brain power to actually know what’s in their best interest.

At most, they can handle very simple situations.

To really make choices in own best interest, your have to think long term, at a broad scale. Unfortunately, we can’t see with certainty beyond maybe a few steps from our present time and place. So we would also have to think out layers of possibility with each decision.

If you can’t do that quickly, you’re fucked because you’ll always be reacting instead of planning. Since even the smartest people on the planet can still only handle as much planning as a chess game takes, we’re all fucked.

And yes, I’m including myself as not having the brain power to properly act in my own best interest long term. Being able to see the problem doesn’t mean you’re immune to it.

Well, you’ve already been told the important part, that you can’t crowd source this. There’s way too much detail that matters to give a good answer without a shit ton more information.

That being said, brain fog tends to be a specific term used by a relatively narrow range of neurological conditions. As it happens, I’ve been around a lot of people in that narrow range.

So, with the initial caveat in place still, the answer is probably not going to help.

Most of what causes brain fog isn’t so much about the things that amphetamines do.

Amphetamines work by boosting dopamine and norepinephrine, basically by increasing the cycle where brain cells pull chemicals into themselves.

Brain fog in most circumstances is caused by damage to the brain cells in one way or another. It isn’t going to be helped by a hit of dopamine and norepinephrine. Otherwise, it would respond to those chemicals when administered directly. There are some cases where brain fog is chemical in origin rather than structural or inflammatory causes. But, again, in those cases, there are better options.

Take MS as an example. The brain fog there is from demyelinization. The outer layer of some nerve cells gets attacked my the immune system. The signals no longer get carried properly, and a side effect of that is decreased responsiveness in the brain. A brain fog. It’s a structural issue where cells are damaged, and there’s an inflammatory response that amplifies the effect.

You can dump all the dopamine and norepinephrine you want into a brain like that and all you’ll get is a jittery, stressed out person with brain fog. Wouldn’t matter if you took those chemicals, or an amphetamine, it just can’t patch over damaged cells. Best case, it slightly decreases the fog by having healthy cells improve function, but it isn’t likely, and there’s no telling if the improved activity of those cells could bypass the damaged ones and do anything useful.

If your friend is dealing with any of the usual suspects, chances are that it would be a waste of time. It’s been tried, and never really does anything useful, or they would get prescribed more often

Now, I have heard that some Parkinson’s patients have had a degree of improvement of the brain fog from amphetamines, but that’s a dopamine based disease to an extent, so not a big surprise there.

If her doctor isn’t willing to prescribe them for her, then there’s essentially zero chance it would do any good because they will and do prescribe them for conditions where it can be helpful.

Tbh, I’m not surprised she had trouble finding anything. Most of the diseases where brain fog is an issue, amphetamines were tried so long ago that the journals and publications the data was in were all in print. A lot of that stuff isn’t digitized, and you won’t find it outside of a medical library. I think the last time I read anything about studies done with them for MS in particular was back in the nineties. And that would have been in back issues of stuff.

It sucks, but she may not ever be back to her old self. She may get better, but never quite back to before. At least, not unless some new stuff comes along. Again, using MS as an example, there’s been some attempts at repairing the damage to the myelin. There’s been some success with it, and it does come with a decrease in disability. Combined with a disease modifier, that can potentially reverse the problems caused, and keep them from coming back. But that’s likely a decade or so away from being ready for patients to have access to. Iirc, it’s still in animal testing.

Other conditions have similar attempts ongoing, so it isn’t hopeless. But amphetamines have been around long enough to have been tested against pretty much every disease out there. They just aren’t viable for brain fog usually

Well, death from lack of sleep is a damn rare thing. In the cases I’m aware of, there were other factors involved.

Being able to keep someone awake via flexing of muscles only, that gets dubious as hell. At some point, the victim is going to just pass out, and nothing that subtle is going to wake them back up unless there’s something else going on.

Also, the guy using stimulants is more likely to die from lack of sleep plus the drugs than the woman would be just from lack of sleep.

Also, after a week , both would likely have died from dehydration before sleep could be a factor. They’d also be laying in their own urine and feces.

While I don’t doubt there’s people that could lay in their own filth that long, what isn’t going to happen is them laying there unaffected by it.

In other words, as a piece of fiction, it’s a unique idea. But it’s utterly implausible, and impossible in any realistic sense.

You gotta learn how to surf it as best you can.

I’m not being flip. Anxiety, depression and all the related issues, they have a certain tidal nature. There’s highs and lows. The key to living with it is to ride the worst waves until things settle back down a little.

If you ignore it, you get swamped.

Doesn’t really matter what methods you use to do it. Breathing, meds, exposure therapy, CBT, yoga, whatever. You practice them when things are good, so you can stand on them when things are bad and make it back to shore.

I gotta warn you though, anxiety that’s induced or worsened by chemicals is a shit ton harder to negotiate. You can’t rely on your normal inner perception of your self. Normally, once you’re used to anxiety, you can learn to recognize when it’s going to spike, and that alone gives you some empowerment. But when it’s external chemicals causing things to worsen, you can’t feel when it’s getting better or worse in the same way unless you also get used to that chemical and how it influences your anxiety. Which, seems like a pretty bad idea to keep using something that’s making anxiety worse.