As an aside, I work inpatient psychiatry where it’s not so much that they’re always right as much as that it’s pointless and even counterproductive to argue. In those situations you don’t say “but this is a-” you say “I really wanna talk over the details of how to get you exactly what you want” then try to elicit the details of (to use this example) what they think a macchiato is.

Now, the reason I prefer working inpatient psychiatry as opposed to costumer service is that when they start yelling I get to say “oh, my apologies. I’ll come back when you’re more ready to talk about this!” and just leave. And then if they follow me to keep yelling…

The list of things I’m not allowed to do will always be longer than the list of things the waiter is legally not allowed to do. The waiter can legally just fight back, and I’m never allowed to do that. But the second they become significantly verbally threatening or physically threatening in any way, the list of things I’m not allowed to do to someone as part of my job suddenly becomes much shorter than the waiter’s.

Oh I would certainly think it’s the norm but I do wonder if there’s some culture somewhere that really is just that literal. Like shit we don’t know what the sentinelese (but they definitely give a dark sense of humor vibe).

I suspect it’s a more niche flavor but I’d be more surprised if they didn’t.

I honestly can’t tell if this is just my ADHD or if this is just an overly dense philosophical argument that in true internet fashion has just gotten completely out of hand. There’s no damn good reason for anyone who will never physically set foot in any of these places to have opinions on this topic of that complexity or intensity.

Like my opinion on the topic is mostly that my country should definitely stop giving Israel weapons and probably send the Palestinians some food water and medical supplies. Other than that I’m not personally going to impose my opinions overtop those of people who actually live there.

The answer to imperialism isn’t trying to align your views with whichever side you’ve decided is the most right then loudly philosophizing about it from thousands of miles away. It’s the kind of thing you can’t undo, you can only stop doing it. The answer to imperialism is to shut the fuck up and stop meddling. Now the internet as a whole isn’t great at that (especially not the shutting up part), and I don’t think I’ll ever find a space that’s free of it. So I’m just gonna go with the place that seems as agnostic on the most issues as possible and try not to overthink shit that’s, in the end, none of my damn business.

I was going to say inadequate prenatal care that might have been provided to a low income mother by planned parenthood.

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I have a folder of shitpost diagrams that is way too small and I appreciate you helping me add to it.

This is the kind of statement that is so far at the extremes of both vague and unhinged that it’s not so much that I don’t believe you as that I would need to see some kind of evidence of multiple specific and unambiguous incidents. TLDR; you can’t just say that kinda thing with 0 receipts.

db0 and sh. are my viiiibbbbbee

Who do you trust more, the neighbor who closes their blinds or the neighbor running around house to house trying to look in everyone’s windows?

In the past year I got certified to teach violence deescalation classes to other psych professional. My #1 protip is cowardice. I’ve never fought fair in my life and I’m not starting now.

Get a blue Mohawk and wear Hawaiian polos, cargo shorts, and tennis shoes everywhere. If you really don’t like what people see, change what they see. Or change the context they see you in. If you’re always hanging around a cleaners with other people who look like Italian mobsters and you look like you fit in then there you are. Whether it’s ultimately worth it to you to change your appearance or lifestyle is ultimately up to you. There are, ultimately, 4 ways to deal with a problem:

1. redefine / stop thinking about it as a problem
2. accept that the problem exists
3. be willing to do whatever you have to do to change the problem
4. be upset about the problem.

#4 is the only one I vehemently recommend against. 1-3 are all roughly equal in the amount of distress you will be left with in the end.

Genuinely though a lot of emotions are fundamentally chemically the same and your perception of them is ultimately what makes the difference.

Yes that’s why they’re clogging up the hospitals. If most of them at least had a roof they’d be able to self-manage most of their disorders a lot better. Even if they ultimately wind up back in the hospital it would be easier to discharge them much faster. Home care with a roof is still cheaper than the hospital and would be adequate in sooo many cases, and give so much more space to care for the ones for whom it isn’t.

And using drugs in their own house would keep them from having to take enough uppers to stay vigilant for their safety simultaneously with with enough opiates to level that out. They could keep using or do MAT until they’re ready to quit and in the meantime they wouldn’t be out in the street yelling at passing cars. We have more empty houses than homeless people just put them in em for free.

I said what I said because my face is directly in the issues you’re talking about every single night I work and every single one of them would be so much easier to manage if every one of those people just had a roof to go home to. Literally just a roof. Do you know how hard it is to keep a leg wound the size of a grapefruit clean on the street? Even if it’s not getting regular dressings at home at least it’s not soaking in a mud puddle where the best thing happening to it is maggots.

I love stuff like this. It turns out there’s whole hidden worlds inside all sorts of people’s average workdays and a lot of the time if you ask they’ll just tell you!

it wouldn’t matter as much if we didn’t expect so much of people.

• ADHD wouldn’t be this much of a problem in children if we didn’t expect them to sit still in a classroom for 8 hours as a ten year old.
• depression wouldn’t be as much of a problem if people weren’t expected to have the energy to stand in one place getting verbally abused for 8+ hours a day.

and don’t get me started on homelessness. literally just fix homelessness and about 1/2 of the healthcare system would instantly right itself even before dealing with the health insurance issue. especially the ERs.

literally just tax the fuck out of empty housing. each person is allowed to have 1 house they don’t live in (which is extremely generous). anything after that should be nearly impossible to afford taxes on. And no corporate landlords. I’m fine renting; if I take a 12 week contract in another city I’m not buying and in not staying in a hotel and I’d also rather be paying somebody who actually lives there.

thicc as buttercream but sure

except they’re the ones holding the video and no cop who wants to continue being a cop is going to investigate anyone that could actually get them in real trouble. it’s been hard enough prosecuting anyone in the Epstein files despite TONS of evidence. how many people have fallen off balconies or just never came back from the yacht party that we don’t even know about?

Yeah the switch was a slow one for me. There was a long period where I was using both but it slowly shifted from using reddit more to using Lemmy more and a big reason was the usability of the ui. They really wanted to push me onto the app but it was so sluggish and every bug I reported about the web ui was met with “but did you try our app?” and like yeah I did and it was shit! It was bloated down with so many weird internal video features I didn’t even use (and probably tracking) that it was barely usable! Meanwhile boost just gets it done, consistently, and with like 0 bugs.

I would be so hyped to see a true dual Lemmy mastodon service that fully allows you to browse and post to both Lemmy and mastodon style feeds. Currently even kbin is really more focused on the Lemmy / piefed end and the microblogging function still requires the posts to be under a magazine meaning masto posts aren’t really browseable and they’re not really fully interact able from both ends. I feel like a service fully compatible with both formats would give a broader reach that would really allow fedi to grow. You’d be able interact with like half of fedi at the same time which would make it feel so much bigger and more comparable in scope to traditional social media.