omg

yes, yes I would imagine 🥵

yes, I do ☺️

maybe I’m just a pervert, but all that text is aggressively sexual

what I’m saying is I’m ready to take Dr. Reddy’s hard, red pregabalin capsules

I’m inclined to agree this seems like a clear case where a ruler was forcing Buddhism as a religion on his people, though I do think it’s a bit different than the Crusades in terms of thinking about it as “violence spreading a religion” - it’s more like past violence resulted in a regime that then adopted Buddhism as a religion afterwards (an Ashoka’s case, largely in reaction to the violence of his conquests), so it feels different - but it’s still coercive and built on past violence (and the threat of possible future violence if not compliant), and that’s worth acknowledging.

wow, that’s really out there for being bee movie erotica

holy shit

My full routine:

• clean my glasses
• shower
• water floss & brush teeth
• moisturize
• take nightly meds
• reading a book somewhere other than my bed (this is when I begin to avoid blue light), usually for an hour
• put hair up in a night cap
• put mouth guard in (I have bruxism)
• turn noise machine on
• in bed I try to gently redirect thoughts that are too intense, but otherwise let my thoughts drift

Not being normal is still marginalizing, the culture has absolutely not shifted to the place where being neurodivergent is trendy or cool. Just because some minority internet subcultures have flipped the association and they value neurodivergence as trendy, special, cool, etc. doesn’t mean neurodivergent people don’t still struggle to keep jobs and function in daily life in a society that absolutely does not value them and was not built with them in mind.

I understand frustration with people who fake neurodivergence to feel special (there’s a whole subreddit dedicated to that kind of cringe), but that doesn’t mean everyone who takes pride in being neurodivergent or who self-diagnoses using online intake questionnaires are wrong, or are just trying to feel special but are actually just shirking responsibility and being annoying.

Unless you are a clinician trained to diagnose people, gatekeeping whether others are neurodivergent is not your role, no matter how frustrating or how doubtful you might feel about some people. Again, I am sympathetic to your perspective (I can feel all the same ways), but I think there might be some toxicity in how it is getting expressed.

honestly computer security has the mindset of authoritarians, you can tell how much law enforcement and legal compliance influences the field

Completely agree, D&D is overly crunchy and I have no interest in a tedious minis wargame in the middle of my roleplaying. The Basic system that Call of Cthulhu was based on is much easier for newcomers to understand with everything being simple percentages, and the system is open-ended enough to make combat as simple or crunchy as you would like - but either way, it’s such a better way to facilitate a roleplay gaming session. It’s just sad that the only people I know who play tabletop RPGs are so extremely invested in the D&D intellectual property that they won’t even consider anything outside of it. I could give a shit less about D&D’s worldbuilding and lore, it’s not what I love about roleplaying - it’s about the collective story we tell and the fun we had along the way.

The icing is the only part I like - I literally eat the cake separately so that I can maximize the icing-to-cake ratio in a single bite.

This is mostly because frosting is “wet” and offsets how dry the cake is. I dislike the dryness of the cake so much I prefer to eat most of it in one go and get over it, and then enjoy the rest of the cupcake with my preferred 9:1 proportion of icing to cake. 😆

that makes sense, and I tend to use /c/ when there is an actual Lemmy community (even if I’m referring to the more general idea meant by that community) precisely for that reason - but I’m also not sure we can entirely distance ourselves from Reddit, most of our users are from Reddit and are still active on Reddit, and Lemmy is a clone of Reddit. Maybe that’s all the more reason for trying to show how we are distinct, but we also depend on our Reddit-ness as a community here, including in-jokes about subreddits and the general culture that existed on Reddit and which has partially migrated to places like Lemmy.

And no worries about not starting the community on your instance, I think it makes more sense to create a community once there is interest rather than create another empty / dead stub of a community for the sake of completeness.

does that community exist here, or is this just wishful thinking?

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this is some real /r/suicidebywords material right here

Maybe this is sorta dumb, but meditation is a free way to feel good and spend time, and also a free method of stress relief and to reduce suffering.

It’s not free in terms of your time & energy, and it might cost some money to learn, but the best meditation manual I know of is free online, or at least it used to be - it looks like it was locked down on archive.org (where it used to be freely available), but you can still find it on Anna’s Archive, and you can probably find it at your local library. Either way, you can learn to meditate for free, that’s how I did it.

Running is likewise relatively free (you do generally have to pay for running shoes, and athletic clothing can be expensive, but it’s relatively cheap over the lifetime of those items, and it’s cheaper than most other activities). A great and accessible way to feel good and stay healthy.

honestly I think they just wanted to make money - it went for a while without being caught

An employee was angry about an unfair policy and was being punished for not complying, and in his anger he threw a chair. This was before my time, but security had to escort the employee out of the building and he was fired on the spot. That story still circulates even though it’s been over a decade.

At another workplace some employees were caught having sex.

At another workplace a manager and employees were running a drug operation out of a drive-thru.

There were other things, but honestly humans are so predictable, they’re usually:

• fucking one another
• threatening, fighting, or trying to kill one another
• trying to get high or stay high
• stealing, cheating, or otherwise trying to enrich themselves

So a lot of the stories are of one form or another - employee who always came in extremely drunk and worked her shift drunk for years, only fired after some violent incidents and indecent exposure because of excessive drunkenness.

One employee was homeless and sleeping on the roof of the store, he was caught climbing down one morning.

Another guy was peddling drugs outside the store.

Another employee was stealing stock from the store after hours and was fired after getting caught.

Anyway - poverty is fun, y’all!

I mean, same - I wonder all the same things too, but I didn’t ask them because I assumed they would pose a risk 🤷‍♀️

One way to do so is to take a photo with some unique words established here, along with maybe a newspaper and / or something in the background that proves your location is indeed NK (though you should be careful to not expose your identity doing this, I think it’s just important the photo is authentic and establishes you are who you say you are).