You’re not wrong. Should it be different? Absolutely. Will it be different? Maybe someday in the distant future.

But ultimately what’s most likely to happen is that the average person is going to keep pressing the dopamine buttons on their pocket rectangles and telling the world about every fart that exits their buttcheeks and if you don’t do that you’re going to get slowly pushed out of society in a similar way to the Amish or Mennonites.

It weirdly reminds me of the mark of the beast from the book of revelation. Apocalyptic literature does so well not because it predicts the future but because it follows the repeating patterns of the past. The world as humans know it has ended and been replaced by something new and utterly bizarre more times than history has recorded and will probably continue to do so more times than we can comprehend.

Each new version of humanity has people that get left behind, or alternatively, who refuse to submit to something horrible no matter how much bigger than them it is. It’s a completely valid stance to take and one I will probably take myself but you do have to make peace with the fact that the rest of society is almost definitely going to pick the dopamine buttons over you.

If you can accept being disconnected, then by all means, live your best life. I’m certainly planning to (although it’s also important to recognize that this is not a purely binary decision).

I’m still waiting for my strattera to hit and my brain just went “oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my daaarling, tangeriiine……wait”

My favorite comment was that he’s the only Greek god that’s faithful to his wife and doesn’t fuck with random mortals for no reason.

I have a study Notebook on esoteric spirituality that includes choice quotes. This is the quote for the reversed Knight of swords.

I’ll just go back to modding morrowind LOL

Oooooh that’s why they tested me for that. They told me I was faking for drugs because I got a 140 something but I panicked and failed the left right thingy really badly and my MSE results suggested dementia (and I was like, 20). I did finally find a doctor who listened and I’ve been very functional on Strattera for many years now (which is ironic because it’s not even a stimulant / it’s functionally useless recreationally). I can’t even take simulants because I have too much anxiety.

I’m loving my perfectly resonant dumpster fire he’s curled up next to me right now!

Here’s my rec from AliExpress. Modern shape and color but a lot of classic imagery still. This one sort of as well. You could then pair either with a more traditional RWS deck for her to compare the imagery too. I wouldn’t fuss too much on getting a guide book. The internet has a wide range of interpretations to draw from. Wikipedia even has a pretty good set of pages on all things metaphysical and I find that it approaches them from a pretty grounded place as spiritual traditions without placing a lot of weight on them as truly divinatory or anything.

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Time to start a social media controversy where we argue about whether it’s mac. or m.a.c… It’ll be lemmy’s written version of the gif controversy. I’ll make a masto poll when I get home. done.

fr though this is legitimately a significant factor in my suicidal ideation (it’s chronic, I’m fine, etc). People need to learn to stfu and stop shitting on everyone else’s mental health with their own insufferable need to publicly prove that they’re personally flexible enough to gag on their own justice boner.

My rec was gonna be the biddy tarot since it’s a modern / inclusive version of the rws which is some of the most common imagery used in themed decks so if she decides to get a Pokémon themed deck or whatever later the imagery will translate well (I have a cat meme deck and an emoji deck in addition to my traditional rws deck). Comparing the imagery across themed interpretations of the RWS is FASCINATING and has taken up a significant part of my last two years. The biddy is about 2x what you’re asking though so let me see what else I can find…

a featherless biped

Well if it’s a prompt injection to fuck with llms you don’t want any users having to read it anyway, vision impaired or no.

Not because we wanted to a lot of the time. Maybe because their kids wanted us to I guess. I’m a 30 year old DNR

Actually in order (assuming the second is a person holding a child they themselves birthed): antepartum, prepartum, and peripartum.

Honestly I think it would be helpful to know if the baby might go into withdrawal but the positive test would be more of a flag to do a few rounds of neonatal abstinence scoring at set intervals after birth. I don’t see why you’d need to call CPS if the baby doesn’t significantly withdraw, since that’s the actual harm that would be done to the baby. If their NAS values are negligible obviously either the test was a false positive or mom wasn’t doing enough to actually put the baby at risk.

I’ve had a few coworkers eyeing the nurse rates but like. I already can’t stomach corrections even though I love the population. I can’t imagine this is going to be any better.

Fun fact the clinical term is “completed” instead of successful because it doesn’t feel right to say a suicide attempt was successful.