I recommend lutris for that. I use it for my pirated games and it preloads the necessary configuration automatically.

All my best therapists were matronly lesbians in their 50’s who imparted wisdom and kindness while also taking no shit if I started to spiral and lash out. A great therapist guides you through tough feelings, then eases you out of them by the end of the session.

Also I prefer to avoid younger therapists in general because they tend to be afraid of pushing through hard emotions.

Hehe monke funny 🙈🙈🙈

Former scribe here. I left the job for unrelated reasons, but it was being pushed on doctors hard (final straw for my doc, he switched hospitals)

LLM for scribing is radically stupid because it can only catch words, and not emotions. Sometimes the patients themselves don’t even know how to describe their symptoms- or the patient focuses on something non serious over a very serious symptom. “Yeah doc I know one of my legs gives out every 5 minutes and I’m going blind but I sneeze a lot???”

Llm’s can’t parse that, and end up making more work for the doctors by forcing them to edit all of their notes.

I like them, they’re cute. Give it a hug and enjoy your 1x labubu

Who you choose to be with, in partnerships and friendships, influences who you are as a person. If you don’t want to go back to who you were, and if they refuse to take steps to improve themselves, then that points to incompatibility.

If they can’t talk with you without breaking down- that isn’t a you problem.

Google images used to be my go to for getting reference material and now it’s worse than useless. I’ve found myself using photography books in the library again because of the amount of AI slop congesting the photo feed.

Yep. It makes it easier to stop if you get tempted too. Whenever I cheat (usually from social smoking) I get tormented by the smell of cigarettes in my beard and the awful gritty feeling in my teeth and that puts me off of resuming the habit.

Yeah no prob.

For me it feels like my blood pressure gently slows down and I feel more relaxed overall. It’s not a high feeling, more like a big sigh before you let your muscles relax after a long day.

For a panic attacks it feels like it drags me back to center. The adrenaline stops pumping and I just feel a little tired.

It can cause light headedness and I prefer to take it before bed as needed. It gets rid of the background anxiety when I take it regularly.

The medication can cause low blood pressure, and it’s stronger after you initially take it. Last week I took a dose after being out for 2 weeks and I ended up falling down because my blood pressure was too low. My ankle gave out and I just… flopped over instead of correcting myself lol.

I am also on 40mg - 80mg and most people start at 10mg or 20mg so ymmv The side effects level off after a week or two. Just be sure to stand up slowly and avoid taking it before using heavy machinery.

I dealt with severe panic attacks for a long time. One cause is an overactive vagus nerve, idk your history but in my case it developed from CPTSD. Trying a low dose of propranolol to take daily or as needed. It has been very helpful for me, in that I moved overseas and somehow immigrating has not made me explode, which is a miracle because at my worst Is have 2 - 3 panic attacks per day including in my sleep somehow.

Non medication wise, DBT exercises and mindfulness. I found that I would push myself way too hard, way too quickly, then implode b/c I was ignoring my limits and not putting up boundaries when I should have. Learning to check in with yourself will help a lot. If you feel that panic attacks build up, take time to recenter and slow down.

For example, when I have to go through immigration paperwork/lawyer hell I will make that my one activity for the day- then I will go home, eat something, and bury myself in blankets (ideally a weighted blanket) like an anxious burrito until the adrenaline goes down. If you’re juggling a lot, try to organize tasks by importance and make a list so it’s not rolling around in your head.

Also limit news and doomer intake. You are but one human and cannot carry the world’s injustices inside you.

Yeah, I tried to explain the system to Spanish people and they were dumbfounded.

“So people just… Die then?”

“Yep”

You should probably CW this. This trailer b nasty. (Man being cooked to death and screaming the entire time)

Oh god did they get this idea from Pinochet? Not reading, I don’t need that on my brain. Death to the idf, fuck Israel.

Idk the community of found family of varying ages that I helped build through sharing resources and knowledge?

Oh my god, Hamachi. That word just unlocked a part of my brain that hasn’t been activated since 2012, woah.

Idk I think that the incoming health insurance bomb is going to create an army of Luigi’s. That and the rural hospitals and clinics shutting down. I used to work in healthcare and there are a lot of exhausted, scared, families who made it by OK with the ACA- now? They’re fucked. People with MS who won’t be able to get their injections, cancer will go untreated, and people with severe mental illness will lose access to their meds.

Americans are having trouble responding IMO because there needs to be more organization. There are a lot of listless, confused Americans, who want to push back but don’t know how.

I like it. It speaks to my 2000’s millennial nostalgia. Also the burger shirt is sick.

Use two separate drives to save yourself the headache of working with partitions. The only “headache” I experience is the pc clock will be wrong when I switch OS´s

I really like my garmin watch and it doesn’t have a subscription. I use it to monitor my blood pressure because of my POTs. It’s good at warning me if I’m about to pass out.

Makes me think of the auto heal from Chrono Trigger …but you’re still hungry