🥵😮‍💨 I love a woman who can talk nerdy to me.

Then again I’m incapable of sending a dick pick and wouldn’t if I could because I respect that brain mmmmmm brain.

#totallynotazombie #smartwomenaresexy

So often the real thing is other men don’t know how objectifying and creepy their womanizing friends are, because they aren’t the target. They don’t see the behavior, often because they don’t want to, so its easy to ignore.

The “fun” thing about the post-military is they are pretty good about keeping stats because they ask you nearly every time you interact with them. Most veterans, especially those at risk, do interact with the VA periodically.

Granted, it does require interacting with them.

But if you do, they relentlessly ask obnoxiously invasive questions. To the point that you don’t want to interact with them unless you have to.

Their “new” thing, at least in my area, is making you confirm your contact information every single fucking time you talk to them. Even in front of a group of people you don’t know. No fucks given. Have a VA identification card? Too bad, confirm your full name, address, and telephone. Don’t want to do that for some reason? You don’t get to see a doctor, even though you waited months for the appointment. (What happened when I tried to decline confirming in a busy waiting room because it was my fourth damn time doing so that month alone)

And then at least once a year they pester you with questions about wanting to commit suicide (not that it matters, I had to wait 6 fucking months after telling them I was suicidal to get -screened- for care… good thing it passed or I’d be a statistic) how much you drink (too much because you wont provide proper mental health…???) and whether you feel at risk of homelessness, not having enough food, etc.

Its gotta be this one. I’ve got three members of my family with registered clown personas, and they’d be happy as clams to be called bozo, but correct you to their actual stage name.

If you were around when the ancient runes were crafted, you still don’t understand. Such is the way of wild magics.

Earthquake, then. :p

But also still yeah kinda, I assume.

That sign is much easier to understand.

The same could be said for lemmy lately. Every other post is horny.

I just picked up a used Chevy bolt yesterday. Its got a lot of miles on it, but I hardly drive, so it’ll be fine for my needs. Needed a different car anyway, mine was starting to have a lot of expensive issues and it was only a matter of time before it died completely. Wish we had decent public transit here so I wouldn’t have to drive at all, but in 15 years here, I’ve seen a bus maybe 6 times, and thats all we’ve got.

Im thrilled I wont have to pay for these rich asshole’s climate (and country) destruction profits anymore. At least in that regard.

Next step is adding solar to charge it and power a few other things. My town is mostly powered by renewables, but they’ve jacked rates up pretty high recently… no idea why. Don’t want to pay for that gouge profit either.

We are the universe’s attempt to study itself. Introspection, writ large :)

Not directly mental health but… related i suppose.

Someone who found out I suffer from chronic headaches told me the cure for headaches is holding your hand in a bowl of ice water until it goes numb. (They, of course, had not actually tried this, or they likely wouldn’t have said anything)

No for several reasons

1. I don’t want nerve damage
2. Its a distraction not a fix
3. it doesn’t work (if it did, I’d have heard of it from a medical professional not some rando at a bar)
4. it especially doesn’t work for chronic pain, you can’t distract away from something you are accustomed to
5. it came from facebook, bastion of medical advice.
6. i don’t want to cause myself more pain
7. i have real treatment, and it actually helps. It sucks to go through, but it helps.

1,6,7 are the biggies.

Note for fellow headache/ migraine sufferers:

I did recently get a specific pink film (fl-41 in the lightest opacity) coating on my glasses that has made a truly huge difference. Everything is pink, but it fucking works! I’m gunna get my next pair in the darkest tint and use them in place of sunglasses due to light sensitivity. Don’t buy them on amazon; they probably aren’t the real coating. Go to an actual optometrist.

Thats fine, if you have the power to know where every atom in the universe is at a given time, as well as its trajectory and momentum, it would still be knowable. You’d need to have some pretty damned advanced knowledge for that anyway, so from a practical standpoint it doesn’t matter that we couldn’t reconcile it with our present models. They could be completely wrong, for all we know.

Depends on the type of fish and how beefy the filtration is. Cichlid tanks, for example, have to be heavily overstocked with big beefy filtration (including a sump that expands the water volume substantially) because if you stock at normal amounts they kill each other. And cichlids are very common.

Have you had the vet check for cysts in the ears? My ol boy got a cystic condition (treatable with laser these days apparently) and it made him scratch his ears super heavily.

In his case, there was nothing that could be done for it (laser wasn’t available, at least here), but other than being annoying it isn’t harmful, according to my vet, unless it completely obstructs the passage.

For me it was the unalterable cyclic time travel in 12 monkeys, coupled with the rebellious themes. That movie hit hard and made me think when i was young (probs like 10?). Hands down favorite movie, and i credit it with a lot of my philosophical view of the universe. I believe everything is deterministic, and if you were to know all the information about every atom in the universe at any slice of time, you could entirely predict the future. Its completely untestable, of course, but it makes sense to me. After all, everything is physics.

Whats really sad is… genuinely every town I’ve -ever been to- had a train station. Most of them have been converted into other things, the rest torn down. But they were there.

We had the whole system of rail already spanning most of the country. And stopped maintaining it. 😭😭

I rode a train for the first time last year because it cut the worst part of the drive into/out of a big city off, and wasn’t -too- expensive. So instead of dealing with a car in a place I’m not comfortable driving, we parked where I was comfortable and took the train the rest of the way (appx 2 hrs, if there had been a closer station to board we’d have used it, but had to drive 1.5 hrs just to get to the train), then walked. Could have also used the local light rail once we got there but didn’t need to. I fucking loved everything about riding a train! From not driving, to not driving, to holy shit it’s a train, and even not driving! Best trip, and I wish it were practical to make all of them that way. I hate driving.

Even even better, since that pesky slavery thing is still around, let’s make him work at mcdonalds and pay for his own medical care from what little he earns. Even copays.

I mean we little people are supposed to be able to do it with rent and food and stuff as well, surely he can do -just- medical, right?

It would be, yeah, and a lot of people here do work 60+ hrs because our country fucking sucks, but that’s not at all the norm for most jobs. If anything, most places that can swing it try to keep you under the hour threshold to qualify as full time (30 hrs in a week or 130 hrs in a month) so they don’t have to offer you benefits like health insurance or vacation days… so most low-wage workers have multiple jobs and work more than 60 hrs, but still have to pay for their own health insurance or do without it.

I’m not a big fan of mocking exploitation of the working class, regardless where they are from. You have it objectively better, act like it instead of punching down.

Not really an option to not have a phone line of some sort and insurance, you know?

At least it’s pre-paid and I can bounce whenever I want. Don’t even have to cancel, just port my number.

I’ve switched everything I can away from subscriptions, even swapping to pre-paid phone plan. If I could do the same with my Internet or insurance, I absolutely would.

I like not having small-ish amounts of money come out every month. It’s easier to plan for a big chunk once a year. It’s also much easier to see tiny customer-fucking price increases because they represent a greater difference in annual payment over monthly.