insickness

I'm surprised that almost every single comment on here is negative toward the author not wanting to take psychedelics. Do you all think everyone should take psychedelics? Is there any good reason not to?

I've done psychedelics and other drugs and am not saying people shouldn't do drugs (like the author) but there are many good reasons not to do drugs. Among them is the idea that you don't necessarily need substances to reach understanding and achieve creativity. Drugs kick down doors that can be opened in many other ways.

>everyone would turn and look at one person

So the person everyone thinks would do it is pronounced guilty. I don't see any way that could go horribly wrong.

Absolutely false. If the government is going to abridge my rights, such as forcing lockdowns or vaccinations, they better show me the necessity and efficacy of those abridgements. The government can't just come in and say, "This is a crisis, we get to do whatever we want." Fuck that. That's how authoritarians are born. Many closet authoritarians took advantage of covid to become dictators without any evidence of efficacy of their mandates.

I do it all the time in chat. I'll say, Good Morning [name], and wait for them to respond. It seems rude to me to just blurt out what I want. If I walked up to someone in an office whom I don't normally speak with, I would first say, "Hi. How are you?" and wait for them to respond. At the very minimum, I would say hi and wait for them to say, hi back before I tell them what I'm looking for. Same thing over chat.

A few thoughts:

Look for opportunities to take on roles if there is volatility. I moved into management when our current manager left and I volunteered to be an interim manager. I did well and they moved me into the position permanently. You may want to consider changing jobs. If current management does not see you as management material, it may be that you’ve been there too long. It’s very difficult to change people’s perception of you rather than creating a new first impression.

Dress for the position you want. Perception is (almost) everything. Dress like the managers do (if they dress nicer than everyone else). In general, dress just a little bit nicer than everyone else. If everyone wears t-shirts, wear a collared shirt. If everyone wears collared shirts, wear a blazer. If you look like manager but aren’t, people will ask whether you’re a manager. You’re halfway there if people suspect you’re a manager. If you don’t look like a manager, people won’t see you as a manager, both literally and figuratively.

Act like a manager by always following up on items, especially with your managers. Don’t let anything fall through the cracks. Your manager should never, ever have to check back with you on something they asked you to look into. Even if it can’t be done, make sure that you’re the one that follows up on it with them. Follow-up with coworkers on items you’ve asked them to do. Don’t be afraid to pester people. Send emails asking, “Any update on this?” Find a way to track all these things. Keeping track and following up is critical. Record and transcribe meetings with supervisors to make sure nothing falls through the cracks.

Improve your social skills. Learn public speaking if necessary so that you can sound confident in front of people.

If this is over email, I always start with the "ask" first and then follow up with the most important information:

"I'd like your approval to move the validation job to a new server. It will only take one hour but will save Dave many hours a week cleaning up the jobs." Then go on to explain the details.

Nobody wants to read a long email to understand what it is you want them to do. 9 times out of 10, they'll provide the ask and only read the details if they need to.

The narration was bad. I was thinking maybe it was the head developer of the project and they wanted her to narrate or something. Why would you choose that narration?

> There is some competition between subreddits for attention

The existing sub-subreddits organically evolved from disputes between more primary subreddits about the type of content users wanted to see; e.g. r/atheism decides they don't want low-quality meme posts, so r/atheismmemes is created. If reddit were to simply remove the mods from thousands of subreddits, it could easily sour those communities.

A few years ago I noticed the phenomenon where I would walk outside and couldn't for the life of me remember what I'd been doing for the few hours. It happened a few times and then I realized that this happens when I was on Reddit (or other similar online endless scrolling).

Digg users went to Reddit, a viable alternative. There's nowhere for Reddit users to exodus to.

Flamethrower drone can shoot a seven-metre long stream of fire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3_eEO0Cvwg

While not a toy, in shoe stores they used to x-ray children's feet to measure them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-fitting_fluoroscope

This or someone uses it expecting to keep children safe and a child falls out. Etsy gets sued.

> Then we come back to Johnny Depp, the accused wife-beater with a long and documented history of violence to his name.

The only accusations of violence ever came from Amber Heard, whom he sued for defamation and won. Anyone watching the trial, including the jurors, could see what a narcissistic liar she is. She's rightfully being ostracized from Hollywood now.

The effect of SSRIs on depression is moderate but statistically significant:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5667359/

I suspect the response varies greatly by individuals: some respond a lot and some don't respond at all.

My experience with SSRIs was very positive. I took a low dose for depression for a few years and it helped significantly. I went off it a few years ago and my depression hasn't returned.

The computer-generated voice talking about moods reminds me of "the design is very human" guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcLoG4KAsBk

Anki for the win! There's nothing like it if you want to retain large amounts of detailed knowledge.

This is a great question and I have no idea why. But if I liked the video, I'm afraid to click "not interested" because I don't want Youtube to not recommend similar content in the future.

There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. Ezekiel 23:20

https://live.bible.is/bible/ENGEVD/EZK/23/20

> managing a marriage within the context of my emotional instability

Is it possible your marriage is contributing to your emotional instability? It may not be. Maybe they help you and are grounding you and improving your life. But maybe you are in a bad place partially because of them. Separating yourself from someone you love can be a bad idea if you are emotionally unstable but if you aren't getting the love you need from them, it could be exacerbating your condition.

Do you not even notice the anger in your response? This is exactly the kind of response to different points of view that he's talking about.

I produce electronic pop under the moniker Visions of Division.

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@visions.of.division

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0b836tZPLcWr1M0BTr6qhp?si=Y1...

I also create video to go along with the music.

I'd be happy to discuss my process with you.

And Republicans would claim that Democrats deny scientific evidence when it comes to gender and race.

Not clear why you're getting downvoted, but this is the exact right answer. The Twitter files was proof that the Federal government put pressure on Twitter to censor specific viewpoints.

Do you subscribe to the concept of "harmful speech," where certain speech and concepts should be censored on the grounds that it hurts certain people?

> I'd 100% believe that was legitimate if I saw it with no AI warning.

And if it weren't such an obviously fake situation. Imagine it were more subtle, like Cruise out on a date in a high-end bar, coming onto a woman and overstepping boundaries, taken with a concealed cell phone.

> If you are mad at somebody at work and you hit them a little bit that is egregious and completely unacceptable behavior

The difference is that under no circumstances does an office job require violent interaction where as for a police officer, their job does sometimes require violent interaction. And in that sense, what these officers did is even worse and should be punished worse than if an office worker used the same violence: we empower police officers to use violence to intervene when necessary. We give them weapons and leeway to use force. To take advantage of that power could arguably be considered worse that if a civilian does it.

> The radicalization appears to be more on the right

Do you have data to support this? And how do you define 'radicalization'? Remember, there was an entire summer of violence in cities across the US after George Floyd. If by radicalization you mean extreme political views, you'll find that those on the left are less likely to date and socialize with people on the right than vice versa.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/04/24/most-democr...

I donate to FIRE and support most of what they do but I disagree with their position here. I don't like that the professor got fired for this but as a private institution, Hamlin has their own right to mediate speech as they see fit. Go ahead and heap bad press on them and let the market sort it out.

My father is 96 years old and grew up in Nazi Germany in a small town called Bautzen. I did several hours of interviews with him about his experiences growing up, which I am turning into a book. This is what he said about Kristallnacht:

"I remember Kristallnacht. I was 11 years old. You heard that on this street a house burned down or that there are rambunctious people coming. There may have been five buildings vandalized in Bautzen. I saw a house with some damage, mainly windows broken. People were going in and out of the house. It did not seem significant at the time. They didn’t even talk about Kristallnacht in the paper. It just seemed to me like, “Well some people don’t like other people.” I didn’t even realize it was against the Jews. There was no specific graffiti on those vandalized houses. In a small town like Bautzen, there wasn’t much of a Kristallnacht but when you went to bigger cities there probably was. But I didn’t know about it at the time. I only realized the magnitude of it after the war.

What was more noticeable was Nazi propaganda. There were banners that read something like, “Jews are our misfortune.” There were signs on almost all shops indicating whether they were Jewish or not. Most of them were not Jewish. This was a big thing!"