Sorry, I know we were meant to deport a bunch of immigrants to a concentration camp for the crime of having brown skin today, but it turns out I’ve been ripped by the news media. Yeah, unfortunately, I won’t be able to commit hate crimes with you anymore.
The apocalypse is not a bad thing in his mind, it’s a planned thing.
So, it turns out JRR Tolkien was just Tolkien out his Rs.
I only know of one Weird Al, but in my mind, this is a job creation opportunity. There could be a whole new industry built around taking regular Als and turning them weird.
To… provide mental health support preemptively? To provide mental health support preemptively, right?
Don’t spy on me from my moon pocket.
Well, now that we know what’s out there, I think we should focus our efforts on putting a big sea monster into the ocean.
Free popcorn and squeezy cheese for everyone. Free them! Narf!
I don’t like the rootkit. I do everything I possibly can on Linux aside from the one game that requires it. That said, since they started using the rootkit, there has been a steep drop-off in bots in the game. As in I don’t see any anymore. So, annoying and a huge security risk? Absolutely. Dubious? Maybe? Depends on what you mean.
Yeah, that’s what they do in Hawaii currently, with amber LEDs that mimic the tone of the old sodium-vapor lamps.
It’s definitely an improvement. I would love to see both the matrix and the amber spectrum applied at the same time, that’s like peak utopia for me right there.
Or maybe areas like Hawaii where preventing light pollution is of critical importance? I feel like a lot of mass-produced technologies face their main hurdle at manufacturing and if early adopters fund those initial manufacturing costs, the price can then come down quite a lot. But ultimately, it’s mostly wishful thinking, how I would want the world to be, seeing the issues all around us now.
I had a thought last night. Some new cars have “matrix” headlights, which will detect oncoming drivers and use an LCD matrix to block out areas that would blind the oncoming driver.
I was looking at the shadow cast on my back door from a streetlight a couple blocks away and thinking it’s a very useful light for people walking on the street. Just not for me standing in my backyard or the birds sleeping in my trees.
I wonder if we could start applying this active matrix technology to streetlights. Each time one is set up, we could program it to illuminate all the walkways but not much else. Just an idea.
Just mild nearsightnedness, not the kind of impairment you would expect to lead to non-24. I think every case is a bit different, and I’m probably not the best person to ask what with my lack of professional diagnosis.
But for me, I think it could have some relation to ADHD. In particular, I tend to “sleep procrastinate”. I can lie in bed for hours and hours without feeling tired, because my brain is telling me, “You’re not done with your day yet.”
Typically this means doing a collection of self-serving things (video games, movies, etc) for the purposes of de-stressing, and hopefully also the life maintenance things I should be doing, including work. And after all of this, I tend to feel like my day is just starting - now that I’ve gotten all of those things out of the way, I can finally think about the passion projects that might allow me to escape the rat race altogether, and maybe even change the system for the better. For me, it comes down to this doubt as to whether there will be a place for me in the world, come 5 or 10 years from now. The more I feel like I’m “escaping” the system, the less stress I feel in my day, the more complete I feel when it’s time to sleep. But it’s a work in progress.
So, if I had to guess based on personal experience, I would think there could be some near-constant stressor that has simply always been part of your mom’s life, and if that thing were to be addressed (or maybe therapy to figure out what the root even is), the symptoms could lesson. But of course, this is highly specific to my own personal experience (which I am still struggling to understand), and your mom’s ailment could be from an entirely different cause. What I have heard from internet research is that it’s a lot rarer in sighted people but still definitely does happen. And may have another ailment as the root cause (such as how ADHD can disrupt circadian rhythm in general).
And thanks for the tip on seeking the more rural urgent care facilities. Without being too specific about region, in my area, that would definitely be applicable. Right now, I have no aches or pains, and since prostate stones can be caused by temporary bacteria infections, it’s entirely possible it just went away. An ultrasound would definitely be the right move for me though. I’m just hoping that I continue to feel fine until I have good insurance again, just because that seems easiest. I’m lucky to have decent social services where I am should anything truly urgent occur. But it’s definitely a good reminder to make health a priority over work when I am employed.
And while a smidge embarrassing, I appreciate being on a small-scale social media network like this where I can randomly discuss my health issues on a meme thread. Have to remind myself that I haven’t really discussed my health with anyone as an adult, and it’s probably something that men in general could stand to get more used to doing.
Space DNS.
Short answer is I’ve been to urgent care twice, once in my early twenties for pneumonia and once a couple years ago for a fungal ear infection that a nurse practitioner was able to flush out. Other than that, just dental visits and eye exams.
It’s not necessarily an aversion (though I’m wary of pharmaceutical kickbacks leading to over-medication). It’s mostly the way all these regular responsibilities stack up (oil changes, DMV, dishes, laundry, etc), doctor’s appointments are the thing where I don’t see immediate consequences for not doing. But I recognize that I’ve finally encountered a medical issue that requires deeper examination and treatment than I can do on my own. And I’m just getting to that age where I need to do more preventative checks. Mostly right now I’m trying to see if there’s anything I can do to keep any potential issue from getting worse between now and the time I have insurance again.
But I agree. It will be nice to have a GP even if just so I don’t have to feel so alone in my healthcare.
Ye, good shout
This is good info, too, thank you. Shamefully, my life has been plagued by non-24 sleep disorder that has made it hard to hold a job for more than 18 months at a time. I eventually become exhausted and sleep deprived and have to quit, and while I should see doctors in that time, I never really have, I just work and try to save money for the between times.
I don’t want to paint my situation as doom and gloom though, please no pity for the above. I’m finally in possession of technology and time to complete the project I’ve always wanted to complete, which is now close to completion and should serve as the kind of portfolio that will get me exactly the job I want, if not making passive income on its own. One way or another, I’ll be stable and seeing a doctor soon. But having lived the life I’ve lived, it now makes me passionate and focused on creating a new system that circumvent the parts of capitalism that have made me feel so tread-upon.
As a side note, there actually is decent healthcare in my state that I could probably take advantage of in the short term at not terrible cost if I just applied. But I get stuck in this cycle where I feel I won’t be stable until I have a job that’s good for me, I don’t feel confident getting that job until my project is complete enough to show off, and any time I devote to advancing my own health takes away from time spent on completing the project. I can’t pretend it’s healthy or sustainable. I just feel like I’m so close now so I’m trying to get there before anything serious breaks. And the closer I get to finishing this thing, the easier I sleep at night. Which makes me think maybe the root of these sleep problems might be stress from living in such a system where my physical health is conditional. I have no answers and there’s a lot I’m not doing right, but please don’t worry about me. So many others in greater need of our worries. I’ll report back on the prostate though. For science.
Same, that’s what I had heard that’s leading me to try some gentle exploration. If people safely do it for pleasure anyway, maybe if the pieces are still somewhat separate and just need to be shook around a bit (I’m thinking like when you go a bit too long without using a sugar cereal so it becomes one big brick and maybe you just need to flick it a bit to break it back up), I can go back to clearing my own system. I have a feeling diet and exercise are big players here too. But like everyone keeps saying, I’ll be careful and get in touch with a doctor before too awfully long.
We’re gonna need a cuter boat.