Therapy might still be a good idea in the future, trauma can show up in quite unexpected forms.

I’m really glad you’re doing better!

Thanks for the heads up! My Main account is in slrpnk, so I’ll set a reminder in an month to switch back. :)

Both can be true at the same time. Therapy and meds can be wonderful to help create a better world than the soul-crushing dystopia we’re currently heading for.

This (today’s) article by Cory Doctorow explains it quite nicely:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/06/how-the-sausage-gets-made/#governing-is-harder

Do you… do you really rhink that way?

Thanks, without your comment I’d have skipped this

It’s really fucking tiring to see you americans singing along to the tune of the ‘us vs them’ rhethoric.

I don’t know what he has planned, but in my book he’s the most likely candidate to break the 2-party system.

Enjoy it! I’m happy for you!

This decision takes some courage, so well done :)

Memo: the publishers Wiley, Penguin Random House, Harper Collins and Hachette sued the Internet Archive for over $600m.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachette_v._Internet_Archive

Ouija by Harley Poe playing in the background

The YouTube Channel Kurzgesagt has proposed a calendar based on the 'Human Era’ (HE) instead of before/after christ format.

It’s based on the first monument of large-scale human cooperation (building a temple in modern-day turkey) and is quite elegant in my opinion. It ‘simply’ adds 10.000 years to the calendar we’re all already used to. :)

Yea. Turns out the biggest creature you can freeze and thaw again (in strict lab conditions) is a hamster, anything bigger just dies.

Behave by Robert Sapolsky. It’s an excellent book if you’re trying to understand why the people around you are like… well, that way. But if you didn’t study neuroscience, you’ll likely have to re-read it to get at least the most important points to stick.

I’m curious if this wil have any impact on chocolate slavery

The implication is that they (well… we) can’t do what’s necessary in a low-effort scenario I’d say.

Kind of similar to calling someone a mouthbreather

I agree that there should definitely be safety regulations in place for ship recycling, but this guy is building a strawman argument and it really undermines his point in my view.

Is there a lemmy version of r/OrphanCrushingMachine ?

‘Just’

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