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This reminds me of the time in my early teens when my mother described herself as a recreational drug user and I said “If I woke up, went kayaking, had breakfast, did another little quick kayak before getting ready. Got ready for work and had a quick kayak, went to work and then kayaked on my lunch break, kayaked on the way home, spent most of my afternoon kayaking, so much so that I forgot to pick my kids up from school until really late, and then went kayaking all night and had to kayak one last time before bed to sleep well, literally fucking nobody on this entire planet would describe me as a recreational kayaker.” which she thought was hilarious, and to be honest kind of was.

She was good in other areas.

No doubt in my mind that I will. I was absolutely getting the itch for some new music to get me through automating tasks people told me can’t be automated and not telling anyone so I can spend more of my work day studying. o7

Edit: Thanks again for all the fucking great mixes. If there’s ever any way I can kick some dollars your way like donations or a platform where you take payments lmk and I’ll see what I can do. I owe you at least one lunch with how much of my sanity you’ve saved helping me drown out the world.

But Cho Chang was super smart and a ravenclaw and focused on her studies! Just like a good model minority! You’ve also got the totally not problematic Seamus Finnigan who constantly explodes things… The banking… goblins… The totally happy slave elves… Uhm… You know… and some other stuff…

You know, for the longest time I was trying to convince a friend of mine who was really into LOTR to get “Speak Friend and Enter” in elvish right above his ass but he never went for it.

While policing definitely selects for already shit people, if you want to argue the case that cops at no point ever had any ideas about helping people only to be harassed by their peers and bosses, have their spirits crushed and be propagandized into conforming with the structural racist and class wafare mission of “policing” in the United States, go right ahead… or you can realize that that’s the EXACT same situation pharmacists are in. They’re literally trained to uphold the exact same racist and class based order, and police people away from assistance (medicatIon, in this case) that cops do with access to so many other rights.

I’m sure plenty of pharmacists do want to help people, and I’m plenty aware that the the structure that controls them keeps them on an extremely tight leash about who that help can go to. Just like cops. The reason people say ACAB and “good cops quit” is precisely because they know there’s occasionally good people who wind up in the line of work who immediately realize how fucked it is and try and fix it only to get their lives ruined or wind up dead themselves, or be forced to quit.

None of this is even to defend cops, it’s to illustrate that every single argument you’ve made for pharmacists is true of cops too, as well as almost every single other profession, and that when the pharmacist accusing you of selling drugs because you’re an adult with ADHD, or asking “why you need so many” or “this is an odd dose” or all the other shit they literally should take up with a doctor but won’t because they’ll get sat the fuck down immediately, so they instead harass the patient, that they’re not doing it because “they want to help people but their hands are tied.” Maybe that was true at one point, but at that current point they’re a fucking cop and fucking people over just because they can. When they “accidentally forget to order your prescription” that you’ve been getting the same dose of every month on the same date at the same place for 3+ years, month after month after month, they’re not “trying their best, but just underpaid”.

They’re not special, they’re not exceptions, they’re not unique. They’re in the exact same situation everyone else is, and it’s perfectly fine to call them pieces of shit for acting like it.

Please just re-analyze a bit and think about it.

(P.S. I’m not saying when the companies who own these pharmacies etc push these policies they’re always doing them out of an out and out conscious racist or class based purpose, but cops don’t think they are either. It’s all culture and “business policies” made by extremely normal ceo failsons and board members, handed down to be enforced by the poor against the poor, sanitized through industry appropriate language and coding. It just so happens that in policework being outwardly mask off racist is industry appropriate, because the “white” public literally supports it most of the time.)

As a severely ADHD person in this thread trying to balance “These are also exploited laborers” good takes while not flying off the rails at the “Well ackshually cops need more money if you don’t want them shooting innocent’s sweaty” takes, thank you for knowing this and saying this and I love you and I hope we can destroy for-profit medicine real fucking soon.

This is true of every profession, except some of them also ruin people’s fucking lives and it isn’t an excuse.

“Cops need to be paid more if you don’t want them shooting innocent people.” ass take.

I agree with this, but as someone with ADHD who needs it to perform my fucking job, I am also all of these things except also untreated for ADHD because someone else also isn’t doing their job to even basic competency. Like I know there’s a million zillion reasons it sucks but those are never the reasons we’re given. The reasons we’re given day in day out are “well, we fucked up and here’s an excuse that doesn’t even make sense.”

If we push back on those reasons AT ALL we’re instantly treated like medication seeking strung out addicts who are angry because they can’t get their street drugs that they probably give away for free to babies to get them hooked and dependent on drugs while putting razor blades in their candy or whatever the the fucking news fed WASP stereotype is.

It’s not about being annoyed that sometimes mistakes happen and people are generally treated like shit as laborers, including pharmacists. I’ve never met an ADHD person who doesn’t understand that the systems are shit, the regulations are shit, the wages and staffing is shit, etc. What we don’t understand and what’s so frustrating is why the fuck they simultaneously think the words they’re saying are even consistent (if not valid) excuses, and why the fuck we’re treated like shit (which again, even if we were addicts is a piss poor way to treat people, but that’s a separate argument). It’s not a single event. It’s every single pharmacy, every single pharmacist, every single prescription, with VERY RARE exceptions.

Being someone that’s also got friends and family taking BPD meds, anti-depressants, etc, even they think it’s absurd how hard it is to fill an ADHD prescription compared to literally everything they take. The entire medical attitude towards ADHD is fucking toxic.

Edit: Just to add because I think it’s important, I know literally none of this is their fault and is entirely the result of shit policies, shit circumstances, and shitloads of propaganda. I know they’re mostly now just retail employees, none of the above is ever any reason to treat them like shit either. I was just defending OPs rant that I am overwhelmingly sure they came here to have instead of being annoyed at the pharmacist, because if they had it at the pharmacy they’d have included “and now my life is basically a million times harder because they decided the minute I was agitated that I was never allowed to take a controlled substance again.”

PSA: For anyone experience this all the time at night, but especially when it’s rainy/wet. it is most likely their dipshit headlights… buuuuut you should also get an eye exam if you’ve got the opportunity to do so. I know that’s extremely out of reach for a lot of folks but if you can, you should.

It’s extremely common for halos, streaky/blurry lights, etc. at night to be early or uncaught indicators of eyesight conditions like:

• Astigmatism
• Glaucoma
• Cataracts
• Keratoconus
• Etc.
   

The good thing is pretty much all of those are extremely treatable and not a big deal especially when caught early. There’s also the possibility that it’s literally none of that shit, but if it’s been more than a year, get your eyes checked anyway. You need to be able to see to aim at fascists.

Again, there’s almost a 100% chance it’s the headlights and just rain and lights being shit at night, but, as has happened to two of my friends, you can also maybe find out it’s your eyes being weird shapes and they fix it real easy and it’s literally the difference between not being able to drive at night and being fine but occasionally struggling.

Plus on the off chance it’s Glaucoma, you really wanna catch it early.

Anybody checked on Extractions&Ire ?

It’s the Minotaur guy.

Poseidon gifted a white bull to Minos to be used a sacrifice, but Minos thought it was dope as hell so he sacrificed a different bull and kept the white one.

Poseidon then got Aphrodite to help him make Minos’ wife, Pasiphaë, to lust for the bull as revenge for Minos not sacrificing it like he wanted him to.

Pasiphaë, desperate to get railed by said bull, gets Daedalus the inventor (and Icarus’ dad) to build her a fake hollow bull she can get in in order to get her high speed rail desires sated.

Pasiphaë then gives birth to a half man half bull.

Minos makes Daedalus build him a big ass labyrinth to trap the half man half bull (Minotaur) in, and then Daedalus later gets imprisoned in there himself with Icarus.

He makes wings for them to escape from feathers and bees wax and warns his son not to fly too close to the sea or the mist will soak the wings and they’ll be too heavy, nor too close to the sun, or the wax will melt and the wings will fall apart, Icarus dies.

I’d vote in a heartbeat for a Cena/Crews or Crews/Cena ticket. Fuck it, the country is getting worse than that as it is, so…

The rock seems like an asshole with a good PR team but I mostly base that on him being a whiny baby about Vin Diesel who seems kinda ok with a bad PR team, as well as crying about Dave Bautista daring to want more out of life than “Big angry dumb man used to wrestle but now same movie over and over”.

John Cena seems like the best bet for us tbh. Filmed himself shopping in Chinese markets during the beginning of COVID to show “Wet markets” and the hysteria around them is literally just xenophobia for what we’d call a butcher or deli or fish market or whatever, and how it’s nothing but harmful to whip ourselves up into frenzies over shit we don’t understand.

That being said he also continued to put his foot on his mouth over and over again during that time by accidentally repeating silly shit or referring to Taiwan as a country, but also seemed genuine when apologizing and honest about it being a matter of him phrasing things indelicately or generalizing with terms that only made the situation worse for everyone. I dunno, this is all shit I’m pulling from several years ago memory and it seems like a fever dream. It’s possible I just made it all up on the spot from delusions/dreams.

I re-watch this at least once a year religiously just because it’s the best worst best good bad movie, and is so ridiculous and weirdly not all at the same time.

As a former STEM lord who quit Aero eng in their third year because I didn’t wanna make weapons for capitalists, they’re 100000000% a symptom of our society (but one we will still have to eliminate in a socialist one, but not nearly the same way/magnitude) rather than a something endemic to all societies.

STEM lords as we have them are a result of the same shit that makes incels, that makes reply guys, that makes debate bros, that makes twitter wine moms, etc.

There’s a reason most of those things have huge overlaps with each other, and it’s the crossroads of what America enshrines as it’s values. Ignorance coupled with arrogance. These are problems every society faces but America in particular goes out of it’s way to nourish them in it’s population in order to fuel it’s culture war and consumerism, and as a result it’s uniquely effective at educating those traits into it’s population, especially in unison.

It’s also why even the most educated of them feels confident enough to “share it’s expertise” on shit it has absolutely no education or involvement with, etc etc. It’s not just the ignorance, it’s not just the arrogance, it’s the combination and the fact that we naturally select FOR it. It’s even celebrated when it fits in the current cultural product, like twitch “celebs” and blue check marks opinions somehow being relevant, conducting interviews, the existence of youtubers, etc etc. The audacity to think that anyone even should hear their take let alone anyone actually wanting to.

It’s a uniquely individualist mindset fostered by generations of imperial core cultural reform, as you alluded to in the education/general literacy points.

If you keep those things in mind and look back at scientists like Carl Sagan(a socialist) and listen to the way speak about our society, or look at how soviet scientists and astronauts etc were treated and treated their accomplishments (as done by and for the people, etc) even when they were being celebrated they always fostered the view that it was an accomplishment struggled for by all, that it was shared by them all, and that they were all responsible for it’s risks and rewards. That a rich society had to be rich in huge and varying fields and specialties and that the same was true of people to understand each other, even (perhaps even especially) when they hyper-specialized in the thing they did best or enjoyed or did the most good for “the team”.