Thanks, friend! I’m all in all in a consistent good place and living a very active functional life, but it’s 30% medication, 30% being stubbornly careful of what I let into my head, and 40% luck.

I genereally agree, but I feel some nuance is missing: That is assuming a “harmful” environment is total toxicity and something you can just leave with no ill effects.

Sometimes the environment that hurts you is normal-ish and even “nice”, but you personally are sensitive to some aspects of it, making it exhausting. It gives you purpose and happiness and you may not want to leave it.

Sometimes you have to stick to a harsh job because you have responsibilities. I’d rather take reasonably harmless medicine like melatonin and beta blockers to reduce the effects of stress and have a fulfilling life raising and supporting my kids, than saying “Work and life makes dad sad. I need to move to Spain and be a bartender at a beach. Sorry kids, I’m sure someone will find you a foster home bye.”

The medication stigma is based on basically magic thinking: That medicine is alien, external, unnatural while the human body is pure and natural. Therefore any difference between medicated and unmedicated is artificial and caused by the medicine.

No, the body is fucking dropping terror chemicals in my bloodstream. It is changing my personality from easygoing and outgoing to snippy and reclusive. The body is malfunctioning and changing my personality for the worse.

The medicine is reducing the amount and effectiveness of the body’s excess of terror chemicals. It restores normality.

Idea for DND character: Priest from Earth

You know in your heart there is a god and you must spread the holy teachings to the common folk, but you have no divine powers to lean on.

Your god is all “I help those who help themselves”. Or, you assume that is the case because your god doesn’t tell you anything directly, intervene in your business, or react to anything you ask of it.

So, no divine or magic powers. Just go hard on strength and charisma.

Both. You’d get different answers from different teachers.

Teachers who knew their shit and were flexible, would say the former.

Teachers who were authoritatian and barely knew enough of their field to pass minimum standards for teaching would claim I was “lazy” or “obstinate”.

The donation pays salary for devs and (barely) not site maintenance, but the devs are also basically lemmy.ml, so the distinction may not feel useful.

Lotta no’s based on people who can’t stand being in a room with other people just because of different political beliefs.

Start by tolerating that disagreement then?

I can stand being in the same room as people with shit opinions, even to a degree people who promote war crimes like these guys, but fuck if I am up for giving them a salary.

If you have to misrepresent people who disagree with you to make a point, it is not a good point sorry.

These money will go to two people who created and actively maintain and promote an instance pretending the brutal murder of Ukranians is not happening but also necessary, and deleting and banning contrary opinions.

No.

You were asked to be a total asshole and you complied.

This is a civilian airport.

The fuck is a terror strike “pro-Palestine news!” ???

That’s a civilian airport and a terror attack. Claiming this is “pro” anything is not ok.

What sort of game genre do you have experience making? Finding something within what you are able to do is important.

“Why is the AfD classified as extremist?”

First section in the linked article.

They are talking like they want to / believe they have an Elective Monarchy:

• The Elected Leader is the State and can not be restrained by any officials, government branch, or law
• The Elected Leader’s actions are legitimate because the elected leader made them

We have several Community Market arrangements in my town. People who make homemade stuff, like decorations, knitwear, art, crafts, jam, soap etc can book a stand for a day or several. It’s extremely exhausting to sit on a shitty chair for 8 hours straight in a crowded place, and especially in the Christmas market when you are half outside and temperatures are close to freezing, so most people book two days in a row at most.

This one group of people just books end-to-end for the entire market duration. Like, weeks. They show up, fill their stand with TEMU crap, and take turns to sit at the stand and consistently sell nothing to nobody.

The quality of a work lies not in how it makes you feel, but in how many polysyllabic words it allows you to use when talking about it.

In order:

• Overscoped
• Wrong people in charge on all levels
• Unfocused
• This turned out ok?

When did I say I was talking about the definition of a woman?

At what point did I say you as a centrist am saying that trans people don’t exist?

The centrism fallacy:

A: I want B to be erased.

B: I want to exist. Fuck off.

Centrist: Now now don’t be rude. Let’s find some middle ground. A wants B to stop existing and we must respect all opinions. B, do you have a compelling and reasobable counter-argument for your right to exist? Be civil.