SoleInvictus
@SoleInvictus@lemmy.world
- Comment on Math and Physics Majors 8 months ago:
Seriously. As a biologist, my education was general enough that I learned how little I know about everything, instead giving me an inferiority complex.
- Comment on do you use cotton leggings? would you recommend them? 8 months ago:
I know they make terrible shirts.
- Comment on do you use cotton leggings? would you recommend them? 8 months ago:
Whoa, that post history. Now I have to wonder if this is a fetish or if OP has an obsessive/compulsive disorder.
- Comment on The Karen of Lemmy 8 months ago:
Indeed, this isn’t my only account, nor if it even my primary.
- Comment on The Karen of Lemmy 8 months ago:
At least on Lemmy.world, it’s now visible when comments are removed. It’s not uncommon that I see multiple comments complaining about what the tankies are going to do and few to no removed comments. Given Lemmy.world is also the instance whose members I see gripe about tankies the most, I currently believe it’s just people using an out group to achieve some sort of personal goal, even if it’s just as simple as wanting to comment but not really having a lot to say.
- Comment on The Karen of Lemmy 8 months ago:
Tankies are pretty annoying, but what’s much more annoying to me now is people whinging on about tankies that aren’t even there. The amount of comments to the effect of “just wait for the tankies to read this and do (X)” vastly out numbers the number of comments I see from actual tankies. More often than not, those tankies fail to ever materialize.
- Comment on This was the first result on Google 8 months ago:
I looked up the page and it gets worse.
You will need to shop for a car inverter. Find one that is at least 1,500 watts, and it will help you power your refrigerator for up to five hours—usually without damaging your car battery. Considering how much food we keep in our refrigerators, a $200 car inverter is a bargain!
- Comment on CFCs 8 months ago:
It’s not. I’m guessing they did a Google search, looked at a few misleading article titles, and then decided they were a scientist.
On average, the hole has been shrinking, but 2023’s hole was the 12th biggest on record. The eruption of Hunga-Tonga was thought to be the main factor.
- Comment on Kids Are Watching Brain Melting AI-Generated Videos on YouTube Without Parents Realizing 8 months ago:
I’d imagine an increasingly hostile world economy coupled with a then-looming but now beginning climate crisis might have a huge impact there.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
I think a lot of the Internet is going to end up shitted up with this kind of nonsense. While leaving Reddit certainly tackles one issue, having a way to filter out the rest of this shit would be useful.
- Comment on A Woman Was Arrested For A DUI. Turns Out She Was Having A Stroke 8 months ago:
Sorry to play armchair doctor, but has she tried budesonide? I ask because a friend of mine has/had very similar symptoms. He was diagnosed with microscopic colitis but it was actually mast cell related. Doctors are still trying to figure out what mast cell disorder it is, but the leading theory is the other medication was causing his mast cells to degranulate, whereas budesonide inhibits degranulation.
- Comment on U.S. ‘prepper’ culture diversifies amid fear of disaster and political unrest 8 months ago:
At least someone will get a meal out of it, assuming your screen name is true.
- Comment on U.S. ‘prepper’ culture diversifies amid fear of disaster and political unrest 8 months ago:
Then they’d have to compete with all the knuckle draggers who already have done so.
- Comment on PC Engine (TG16) games are so colourful! I wish more modern games use bright colours like they used to do. 8 months ago:
Good one, it is indeed.
- Comment on Why are mental hospitals run like prisons? 8 months ago:
Welcome to Murica, where you have the FREEDOM to receive subpar care when you need help the most.
I’m a fellow citizen of the bald eagle who also has dealt with psychological issues and the United States’s terrible health and mental care system. I read through your posts and saw you’re thinking of ending it. I don’t know your situation, but I’ve been somewhere similar. I have an incurable, chronic, progressive health condition that causes some disability and just hurts like a motherfucker. Not looking for sympathy, just explaining.
I was dead set on ending it because I couldn’t imagine going through life always in pain, being a burden to my spouse, family, and friends, and just being a big overall sad sack like I was. Obviously I didn’t. I got help and worked through my giant pile of issues and I’m glad I did. I think about how I was then and my life now with my wife and friends and my stupid, silly cats and I always start crying because I love all of them and everything so much and I was so close to giving all of this away.
I agree with you 100% - everyone should have bodily autonomy, including the right to end your life as you see fit. Just give it a lot of thought. It’s fucking morbid, but what kept me going for the first few weeks is that I could always kill myself later. I didn’t need to make a decision then, I could always make a decision later if trying to make things better was as impossible as it seemed. It was a ton of work and it really sucked sometimes but it got better. Even when things regressed hard, I kept looking for ways to keep improving because at the heart of it, I really didn’t want to die, I just couldn’t imagine living, so I worked on making a life that I could believe in.
No matter what, don’t look at this as a failing. People like us can have a certain strength and appreciation for life that others who haven’t had to deal with this don’t understand. If you need to talk with someone who at least might get it, I’m here.
- Comment on Why are mental hospitals run like prisons? 8 months ago:
You and many others probably know this already but for those that don’t: in countries like the United States, private prisons actually lobby to make it more likely that previous offenders will return to jail. They seek stricter sentencing so offenders are incarcerated longer and to remove funding for nonprofits and programs that provide rehabilitation.
Relevant article: aclu.org/…/private-prison-giant-corecivics-wants-…
Just let that sink in. There are human beings that are doing their best to make sure people fail and are punished without rehabilitation, hoping they become trapped in the prison system, all so shareholders can make a buck. How fucked up is that?
- Comment on Do you ever worry that you're secretly a psychopath that unknowingly manipulates people around you? 8 months ago:
There’s a great book called Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving. It’s mostly a primer on how CPTSD works but does have content on what to do about it. Just putting a name to things is huge.
I started with the audiobook, primarily listening to it on my drive home. I knew it had nailed it for me when I realized I had spent an entire week’s worth of commutes home rage crying.
- Comment on Expertise 8 months ago:
I’m a microbiologist, at least eight years for us.
- Comment on Do you ever worry that you're secretly a psychopath that unknowingly manipulates people around you? 8 months ago:
Or complex PTSD. That’s what I have and the two have a TON of behavioral overlap. My therapist and I spent a good amount of time determining if I was autistic or not.
- Comment on Frozen embryos are “children,” according to Alabama’s Supreme Court 8 months ago:
That’s why I freeze dried mine and keep them in the glove compartment for use in the HOV lane.
- Comment on Have video games become expensive now? 9 months ago:
Same, my parents forked out $85 for Final Fantasy 6. That’s nearly $180 US now when adjusting for inflation.
- Comment on Gel and lithium-ion tech could enable 1000-mile EV range on one charge 9 months ago:
It charges it so much, you’ll never need to charge it again.
- Comment on Canada to ban the Flipper Zero to stop surge in car thefts 9 months ago:
I thought the US was already working on that?
- Comment on Gel and lithium-ion tech could enable 1000-mile EV range on one charge 9 months ago:
A microwave oven? According to some YouTube videos, Apple had this tech in their phones years ago.
- Comment on Young adults set an earlier bedtime as they navigate economic fatigue, wellness trends, and a loneliness epidemic 9 months ago:
Is it the medcline pillow? Because if it is, get it, it’s magical.
- Comment on Google workers complain bosses are 'inept' and 'glassy-eyed' 9 months ago:
I had to verify the current situation in the United States is what you stated because it’s intuitively so wrong. I can’t believe an employer can set terms for compensation and, through no fault of the employee, legally prevent that employee from completing those terms.
Land of the free!
- Comment on Where are the good political songs? 9 months ago:
This has been true for over thirty years but most people sadly have never heard of them.
- Comment on “My next child could be retarded. So could yours.” Barbra Streisand for The National Association for Retarded Children (NARC) - Imgur 9 months ago:
I’m still not getting it. Are you saying intellectual disabilities, formerly known as mental retardation, was previously frequently misdiagnosed? I can’t imagine that’s what you’re suggesting because I don’t see how that makes sense here. I’m confused. Halp.
- Comment on Investigative journalist friendlyjordies gets firebombed as a silencing tactic, police do nothing, eventually forcing them to take down their investigation. 9 months ago:
To be fair, police have largely been doing all of this for decades with similarly paltry repercussions. The digital age just allowed citizens to collect evidence of what so many previously suspected or knew. The same bad police behavior continues, they’re just forced to be a bit more honest about it now.
- Comment on YSK: Red Lobster Cheddar Bay Biscuit mix makes fantastic waffles. 9 months ago:
It’s like overzeetop said, it’s a ring with a split on one end and a springed handle on the other. It slides into grooves on the top and bottom sides of the griddle.
When the waffle is done, you gently squeeze it to get it out of the groove, in the progress gripping onto the waffle, then the ring portion will separate slightly when you let go.
I took a picture of mine. Don’t judge, we haven’t run the dishwasher yet. Image
