MaeBorowski [she/her]
I’m on it for neuropathic pain as well and had a similar experience for a while. The sleepiness and lethargy stopped being a problem after I was on it for a bit, but the efficacy of its painkilling (and anxiolytic) properties also mostly wore off. I could go up quite a bit in dose, and have as a rare occasional thing, but don’t really want to go down that route, as I’m already worried about withdrawal if/when I do go off. Mind if I ask if any following meds you tried worked well?
It’s been a while since I skimmed through that Doctorow essay, but I have always thought the term, at least as originally intended, implied that enshittification was an inevitability, a direction that any and every proprietary social media platform under capitalism will tend towards over time. If so, it seems it is still mostly in line with what you’re saying, and should help make clear that the nostalgia people have for the “good old times” on a profit-driven platform is false, since the kind of degradation that “enshitification” refers to is inherently built in from the start.
Odd, doesn’t NYC specifically have the reputation, stereotype even, for being complete uncaring assholes who would just ignore and step over someone having a medical emergency on the street? I would have thought conversation in the grocery store checkout line being much more a thing on the west coast.
It is almost eerie how well it fits. It’s one of the reasons it has always enraged me that the terminology the Matrix made popular and insta-memed was so thoroughly co-opted by chuds and misogynists, ie “getting red-pilled” to mean coming to the realization that feminism is evil and destroying culture.
I mentioned this anecdote in another thread a couple weeks ago, but I think it fits here too:
It’s not even just chuds ime, it’s the majority of the US population that thinks the “further left” something or someone is, the more “liberal” it is. Even many liberals think this.
A while back I told someone (an acquaintance I met irl) that I considered myself a communist and their response to me was:
“I’m pretty liberal myself, but communism is too liberal even for me.”
There were several other people present and none of them thought this was a strange thing to say.
Typical hexbear reply
Unfortunately, you are right
Yes, typically hexbear replies are right.
It’s not unfortunate though, it’s simply a matter of having an understanding of the world and a willingness to accept it and engage with it. It’s too bad that you seem not to want that understanding or that you lack the willingness to accept it.
My science is not. I like my bubble.
How can you possibly square that first short sentence with the second? Are you really that willfully hypocritical? Yes, “your” science is political. No science escapes it, and the people who do science thinking themselves and their work is unaffected by their ideology are the most effected by ideology. No wonder you like your bubble - from within it, you don’t have to concern yourself with any of the real world or even the smallest sliver of self reflection. But all it is is a happy, self-reinforcing delusion. You pretend to be someone who appreciates science, but if you truly did, you would be doing everything you can to recognize your unavoidable biases rather than denying them while simultaneously wallowing in them, which is what you are openly admitting to doing whether you realize it or not.
mods can view votes directly in the UI instead of needing to muck around in the database.
Ugh, really? That doesn’t seem right. I knew admins could, but it really doesn’t feel like something mods should be able to see unless everyone gets to see any given user’s upvote history.
No shit it’s a result of capitalism. If you want to draw the line at logging practices instead of fires as being the ultimate culprit for permanent change, then… ok? Really it’s climate change more broadly that is responsible for the decimation of local ecosystems including the fires, but none of that changes the fact that the fires are a sudden, drastic, and unalterable change to the biomes in an immediate way that the last century+ of logging is not. Logging practices and forest management may have paved the way (cynical pun not intended) for these hotter, larger, more destructive fires, but you can’t tell me that the area I’ve lived in since the 80s wasn’t drastically changed for the worse specifically as a result of the 2019 fires in an obvious before/after sort of way. Also, what you said “These forests may change after the fire but they’ll be back, and better” is just wrong and contrary to your second comment.