Look at that big dumb adorable baby with her big dumb adorable head. Look into those adorable little eyes on top of that blunt little snoot. That is a empty head. 0 thoughts. Give her a boop for me.

This idea I like most out of the suggested options, ty

A unihertz atom, a 2022 moto g, and one of these monstrosities.

A unihertz atom, a 2022 moto g, and one of these monstrosities.

One of my devices is the atom already. I’m more wondering what I can do with my other devices I already have

Honestly they don’t even read like honest speculation. They read more like an inside joke the same way people joke about what blackmail material their shitty coworker must have on the boss to somehow never get fired.

Gonna keep trying but it is definitely not working out of the box…

I’ve been working in high acuity psychiatry for 10 years. I notice when doors don’t click shut behind me and if I don’t hear a solid click or an electric lock whirring sound I get the urge to check the handle, even at home / in my apartment complex. I can feel people behind me on the street if they’re closer than about 20 feet back. I don’t like sitting without a wall behind me (it was weird going back to school and explaining that my ADHD preferential seating accommodation was the back row, not the front).

Don’t look tough, look crazy. People don’t bother me in the street. It’s because I dress like a hobo and mutter / silently move my lips talking to myself while walking down the sidewalk. If they do manage to get me to make eye contact, it’s intense enough they wish they hadn’t. A wallet and groping my ass aren’t worth losing an eyeball or testicle to what looks like a tweaker.

DOB opens you up to ageism, but I agree that it’s probably the least problematic item. A lot of other trans spec people do NOT like hearing that they should avoid changing their sex on their ID / other documents unless passing is an immediate safety concern. I’m already highly uncomfortable that the government knows what genitals I had as an infant. I have no interest in giving them any more information on how I currently dress or how that might or might not be related to my current genitals. They just do not need to know. It’s proprietary information.

I do think there needs to be some kind of granular way to educate people on how to identify and disrupt abusive power structures. The problem is that society changes so rapidly that however abusive power structures are described is quickly adopted and DARVOed¹ by the person already in power to describe people they don’t like. The second you start talking about wokeness and cancelation they start wordspamming it into (hopefully just) meaninglessness.

This fight has gone on since before written history and will probably continue until long after we are dead. It’s the same way a niche anti-establishment death cult became a major world religion by just becoming a new oppressive regime. The message got taken and twisted to the ends of the powerful like all such messages do. No one has yet figured out a way to unambiguously preserve that meaning over time. If it’s even possible, it won’t be happening soon.

1. Deny, Accuse, Reverse Victim / Offender

Also people tend to enjoy things more when they get injured less doing them.

“Is it true, is it kind, is it necessary?” Shoot for two but make sure it’s at least one. And if you ever by chance come across a trifecta, don’t let it escape unsaid!

I also notice working in mental healthcare that a lot of my coworkers have realized some of the patients really do need “tough love” but they don’t realize that the Love part is critical. And it’s obviously not romantic love but also not even love in any personal sense. It’s love in the better version of the Bible sense where you should love your fellow human beings. When you say something that someone isn’t going to like hearing for their own good, you need to start with a practical statement of why you’re saying it out of love.

So I’ll say “I don’t just want to give you ice cream today; I want you to know how to ask other people when you leave here. I’m going to give you about fifteen minutes to go to your room and breathe, then you can come back and get in line and ask again.” While some of my coworkers will just say “no I’m not gonna let you talk to me like that” which isn’t wrong, but also isn’t actually tough love because they forgot the love.

Some gnostic Christian sects took their Zoroastrian roots a little more seriously than mainstream Christianity and argued that the God of the old testament is actually the demiurge.

The demiurge is an evil / misguided shadow of the true God caused by Sophia (the concept of pure wisdom) attempting to reproduce without the male half of her syzygy. As a result, the demiurge was created and dragged her out of heaven when he fell and tried to recreate heaven with the bits of her soul he still had. Humans on earth are just the little bits of Sophia’s soul tapped in the shadow of heaven that he made. Eventually they will reach gnosis (similar to the Buddhist Nirvana) and ascend back out of the kenoma (shadow heaven) and back into the pleroma (true heaven). Jesus (who was also the serpent in the garden of eden) is the male half of Sophia’s syzygy who came to earth for the second time to awaken the sparks of her soul so they can ascend.

I’m simplifying some things and smoothing the narrative to make sense since the reason Gnosticism never did as well as mainstream Christianity is the lack of a consistent narrative with which to create in-groups and out-groups to wage holy wars over, so the ones that did wiped them out. And for example I do consider myself gnostic but I mostly stay away from the metaphysical stuff other than in ways that they represent concepts important to a healthy life like mediation. I hope you enjoyed reading though!

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I am super interested in this, do you know if it can track versions and support regular backups? I was actually just trying to find out if there’s a way for my phone to sync / backup my documents, pictures, and possibly even calendars and contacts with our home computer while I’m home, especially right when I get home, and maybe on a scheduled basis right before I usually leave for work. I’ve been looking into de-googling and honestly I’m wondering why a lot of my info needs to be stored in the cloud at all? Maybe one monthly or quarterly backup to an encrypted service like tresorit but for the most part I think it’ll be fine to just let my devices back themselves up with each other on my home network?

Orange is the New Black.

I always found her vaguely annoying but tbh that just means she’s good at what she does because the whole purpose of activism is to make people uncomfortable with the status quo. Like ugh I know the world is a raging dumpster fire but can I just finish this day in stardew?

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”

This is my favorite reply everyone else can go home.

Tbh I think creating new terms just muddles medical records over time because now when you go into a field you have to learn not just a disorder, but also everything it’s been called throughout the last 50-100 years in case you’re going through the records of a patient older that 50-70 years old. I think the public needs to be better educated on these things. And when they keep doing it anyway that just kinda is what it is. That said there’s definitely room for phasing out diagnoses and replacing them with entirely new ones that differentiate or combine what we currently know as our knowledge of them evolves.