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- Comment on In Open Carry states, is it also allowed to openly carry bladed weapons like Swords? Bow and arrow? 1 week ago:
Ran into AI article hell trying to look this up.
https://knifeinformer.com/state-knife-laws/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_the_United_States_by_state
https://thelegalguide.org/constitutional-carry-knives-do-knife-laws-follow-gun-carry/
Does constitutional carry for firearms affect my ability to carry a knife? No. Knife laws operate independently of firearm carry laws. A state may allow permitless firearm carry while imposing strict knife restrictions, or vice versa.
https://thegunzone.com/can-you-open-carry-a-bow-and-arrow/
The legality of open carrying a bow and arrow varies dramatically. Some states have no laws specifically addressing the issue, meaning the practice is generally permitted unless prohibited by local ordinance. Other states might consider a drawn or easily accessible bow and arrow a concealed weapon if specific conditions are met, such as having the bow strung and an arrow nocked in a populated area.
- Comment on Why do seemingly well-adjusted adults find it acceptable to loudly play tiktoks on public transport? 1 week ago:
Possibly it doesn't bother them when other people do it, but my theory is a very mild sadism.
- Comment on Would it be offensive for me to wear bonnets as a white person? 2 weeks ago:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnet_(headgear) i was picturing the lady in the first picture, but futher searching revealed i was wrong. Hope some other people understand the situation more for you.
- Comment on Uber’s Strategy for Fighting Sexual Assault Suits: ‘What Were You Wearing?’ 2 weeks ago:
The approach also has “a deep irony at its core,” because the company has long marketed itself as one of the safest ways to get around — especially after a night out, said Nora Freeman Engstrom, a legal ethics professor at Stanford Law School.
“Uber’s strategy recycles an old and ugly script: If a woman drank, if she rode alone, if it was late, if her memory is imperfect, then maybe she is to blame,” Ms. Engstrom said. “But those are precisely the circumstances when Uber told consumers its service was supposed to protect them.”
Yep.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I actually adore it
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
By the way, I think my initial reply reads dismissive, but my intention was to try and make clear that whatever is happening isn't normal aging. Can you see a second doctor? Fatigue is such a vague symptom, with so many possible reasons, but what you're describing could indicate a lot of things and you need a doctor who will take it seriously.
My friend was able to do a mini sleep study from home recently, to test for sleep apnea. I noticed when we were traveling together that he sometimes gasped in his sleep, and he told his doctor about it. I think there are DIY sleep monitoring apps but I don't know if they're any good. Might be worth looking into, if your doctor isn't helping. Or find someone to listen to you sleep.
The range of possibilities with bad fatigue is just so big. I can only make suggestions based on my own life experience, but a doctor in your corner would be able to look for so many more things.
Oh, did you have a bad illness at some point before the fatigue? Covid isn't the only virus that can have confusing long term after effects.
A relative with fibromyalgia had constant farigue, but I think pain is a factor with that one.
I can keep thinking of possibilities, unfortunately.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
They didn't do any followup? Low white blood cells for that long can indicate some stuff that should at least be checked for. Your doctor should also know if those numbers are normal for your age. Did they make any suggestions? 32 is genuinely still young.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Nope! I'm older than you and that doesn't happen. You probably need blood work done? I went through a time when I was exhausted constantly and was like "this must be middle age" but I had low iron and vitamin d.
- Comment on How can people know what they want at a given moment? 2 weeks ago:
I've noticed the specific food craving thing around my period. It needs to replace iron or whatever, so I suddenly want a hamburger.
But how does that connection happen? Is my body releasing hormones in a specific way that my brain understands before and after the burger, and then in the future, the "give me iron" hormone is translated into me fantasizing about hamburgers by my brain?
https://www.parents.com/what-to-know-about-pregnancy-cravings-7507166
I figured pregnancy was when people get weird cravings the most. Hormones go so wild then, it really makes me think hormones are the culprit here, with the brain translating them as best it can.
The like three articles I looked at on this all warned about how pica (craving for nonfood items) might mean you have low iron.
https://www.mdpi.com/2673-6357/6/3/26
The connection with iron and pica makes me think there is something concrete going on here (don't eat concrete. go see if you need iron supplements). But your hormones and brain are both flailing around trying to keep you alive, so it can get weird.
Outside eating, the craving is probably the desire to return to some feeling. Music especially seems to get associated with times and people who were around then, and specific states of mind. I permanently associated one song with a cool scene from a story I was reading, and now I get an echo of the feeling from that scene when I hear it. And when I want that reading a cool action scene feeling, I can listen to that song on purpose.
TLDR; probably brain translating desire or need by making us want things it associates with filling those needs. With food, hormones seem involved.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I probably have vaginismus and my experience with penetration is pretty similar to yours.
Cis women do enjoy and even seek out vaginal penetrative sex, I eventually realized. Part of how I figured out I was different was reading a thread of all the weird stuff women inserted while masturbating. I was suddenly like: "Oh! They must really want something up there! Look at the stupid, dangerous stuff they're doing to experience that!"
There are things you can do medically if you genuinely want that kind of sex, but it's useful to remember that sex isn't just penetration. You literally never have to be penetrated to have enjoyable sex. It can be tough to find a partner, since PIV is the end goal of sex for lots of people (as is their perogative), but the world is also full of other types of people.
As for vocalization, the "oh fuck" (doc, it's like sandpaper ripping me in half) and "oh fuck" (I'm having an overwhelming but positive physical sensation) are pretty different kinds of yells, and generally sound pretty different. Like people don't cry just out of sadness, you know?
- Comment on Why do bumblebees die under the tilia? 5 weeks ago:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article/13/9/20170484/50480/Do-linden-trees-kill-bees-Reviewing-the-causes-of The abstract here has some ideas.
- Comment on marble balls floating on water are nice sculptures. why doesn't the water squirt out like when you pinch a garden hose ? 5 weeks ago:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugel_fountain Is it this kind of thing you're asking about?
- Comment on How do I figure out where flies are entering my house? 5 weeks ago:
What salt gun do you use? I've never heard of them and now I'm intrigued
- Comment on HOW DO YOU KNOW WHERE AND WHICH COMMUNITY TO POST IN.....????? 6 months ago:
There are a bunch of different kinds of places that all link together! Lemmy is a bit like reddit, Mastodon is like twitter, Mbin does the twitter and reddit thing mashed together, pixelfed is like instagram, friendica is like facebook- and so on.
https://jointhefediverse.net/join?lang=en-us
Maybe this will help?
- Comment on What is up with the trend of naming pets after food? 6 months ago:
I think it's an easy naming scheme when you have a litter of puppies to try and adopt out.
- Comment on HOW DO YOU KNOW WHERE AND WHICH COMMUNITY TO POST IN.....????? 6 months ago:
What are you interested in? I bet people can link you to some communities you might like, if you can't find some just browsing.
Mastodon has microblogging, like twitter/x and bluesky, if you're interested on that! Lemmy is more about finding communities on topics and posting in them.
- Comment on If a person assassinates a king or queen its called Regicide. What is the killing of a leader/president/head of state etc? Why is it called that way? 6 months ago:
Magnicide, maybe?
- Comment on What It’s Like to Live With One of Psychiatry’s Most Misunderstood Diagnoses 6 months ago:
Interesting article about dissociative identity disorder. Thanks for sharing!
- Comment on Resources for small community resistance? 6 months ago:
https://commonslibrary.org/ I think a first step might be searching here for "toolkit" or specific topics. I remember seeing a lot of useful zines and posters and guides around the internet, and if you're interested I can try to track them down, but this site might have what you need.
This can also be a useful resource:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/special/index - Comment on This Common Infection Was Thought to Affect Only Women. Now Doctors Know Better. 6 months ago:
Bacterial vaginosis can be sexually transmitted. It's worth reading the article and getting the details. The headline is just really annoying.
- Comment on Do old people still remember their childhood? Do people just start losing their memories and their sense of self as they get older? 6 months ago:
I have an earliest memory that I wonder if it's just my memory of me recounting it at this point. And another memory of being attacked by a dog that I believe was a dream that got mixed up with reality because the neighbor's dog scared me. 'Memories of memories' seems accurate the further back I try to remember.
- Comment on Is there a self-help way to deal with fear of germs/"contamination"? 7 months ago:
You can probably start with careful exposure therapy. I'm not sure how to do that with germ phobia. I dealt with a fear of spiders by reading about them and looking at pictures until I stopped feeling disgust/anxiety. I then just kind of noted and moved on when I saw one in real life. These days I see a spider and can even move it if it's in a bad spot without feeling anxious.
Not knowing your triggers, I can't say if that path would help or make it worse.
https://fherehab.com/learning/germophobia-treatment This could be useful for learning terms so you can look up and find reviews for self help books.
For my social anxiety, I started out getting books from the library about that specific phobia. It took a lot of time to get from there to telling my doctor I was anxious all the time, to medication, and then therapy. I doubt I'll ever be free of it, but I can do a lot of things now I once couldn't (small talk with customers? wow!)
It kind of has to be guided by you and the specifics of your phobia, unfortunately. Like, would looking at a picture of a dirty surface for five minutes a day make you anxious? Just a little, or a lot? If a little, try it. If a lot, scale it back further. Hopefully someone with a similar phobia comes around with more relevant advice. Good luck?
- Comment on Do you ever feel like your life is "scripted"? Like everything is written by some entity controlling your life? Like you live in a fictional universe? Is this feeling normal/common? 8 months ago:
No, but it's something I've heard other people describe. I don't know if it's common, but it doesn't sound odd.
People at church when I went as a kid would talk about a sense of feeling guided. People talked about feeling "called" to something. I always felt a lot of nothing, but I don't think most of them were lying about that feeling, even if I suspect a different source than they did.
- Comment on The best games of 2025, picked by NPR's staff 8 months ago:
Search on their site shows best of year lists going back to like 2011
- Comment on How long after starting Vitamin D supplements should you notice results? 8 months ago:
It's not fast, unfortunately, but I was prescribed a high weekly dose by my doctor and it did seem to help eventually. The long time it takes means I'm left wondering if I feel better because of the vitamins, or something else, but I do feel better.
https://www.drugs.com/medical-answers/long-vitamin-d-work-3555995/
Research has found that vitamin D insufficiency resolved with 12 weeks of weekly high-dose vitamin D.
Unfortunately, when your D is really low, you should up the dosage to get a noticable change, but too much vitamin D can be dangerous so I wouldn't recommend it without finding out what your levels are. When I was checked both my vitamin D and iron were low, which is why I was sleeping constantly and still feeling fatigued.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 8 months ago:
"power user" is such a kind way to describe that, thank you!
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 8 months ago:
Looking at what I have now, it's a mix of tasks I don't want to forget to do, a long article I was reading but felt i wasn't absorbing, some fanfic I am probably going to read in the next couple days plus the rec list I got them from, a podcast I'm still midway through for when I'm driving, an article for a work thing I'll need tomorrow, a couple dnd race pages open as I'm making a character for a new campaign, and two bsky people who post interesting articles on the daily so I read them daily. Some stuff is bookmarked, but if I'm using it in the next week, it stays in tabs.
They all get closed when I'm done with them, but new things get rotated in. I'm at my max now, but it's rare I have under five open. It's a to-do list, basically, and there are always new things to do, and read, and think about, and learn. Bookmarks are for when I want to save a link to look at much later. Like, webcomics I've caught up with, artists I like, utility pages, resources, etc.
I used to be "worse" because I had fun in the early 00s generating link lists for character fan pages. It involved opening every relevant link on an already vetted and tagged page, and then checking each one (and opening pages from their links if they turned out to be relevant). When I finished a character, I'd start on the next, so I'd have one or two hundred open most of the time. I lost interest, eventually. The impulse to link to relevant topics still exists in me, however, which is a big reason I'm on this website.
- Comment on Why is ethanol so tasty? 8 months ago:
https://www.discovermagazine.com/why-do-humans-have-a-taste-for-alcohol-43579
The theory in this article is that ethanol indicates a higher caloric density in fruit, which makes that fruit more desirable when you're struggling to get enough to eat. I have no idea if this is true, but it's one possible reason I guess.
- Comment on What do you do when you have a cold and can't take medicine? 8 months ago:
The first sleep paralysis episode I had I was convinced the whole time I had died and was in this weird ghost zone where I could hear people and see a bit, but couldn't move. Fucked me up, too, though in my case I was scared of sleeping for a while. It doesn't sound as bad as your experience, though, damn.
- Comment on What do you do when you have a cold and can't take medicine? 8 months ago:
I think it's an NSAID? That's a "use with caution" situation, then. The salt water gargle is something I forgot about. I'm glad I posted this question. It's reminding me of all the stuff that's helped before in case the coughing gets worse.