theneverfox
@theneverfox@pawb.social
- Comment on Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse? 2 days ago:
Also, on Reddit I never had anyone follow me around trying to cause reputational damage by spreading false accusations about me.
I’ve experienced it on both, but it was much more toxic and persistent on reddit in my experience
- Comment on it is me, I am the autistic child 5 days ago:
Yep, shockingly rare. So much I can’t explain it to others… They look at me like I’m talking witchcraft lol
- Comment on it is me, I am the autistic child 5 days ago:
It really goes beyond autism too. Babies might not like how they’re being held. Cats might have somewhere they like to be scritched more. Dogs might want to go somewhere they can run
The ability to put yourself in someone else’s situation to contextualize body language is a shockingly rare skill
- Comment on Explain it like I'm 5: Why is everyone on speakerphone in public? 5 days ago:
I think modern phones are just too big. I don’t want to hold a tablet up to my face
Personally, I just carry a headset, but if that dies it’s only consideration for others that might stop me from putting it on speaker
- Comment on Whatta my color? 🤩 1 week ago:
There’s purple and color changing eyes too
- Comment on We’re Training Students To Write Worse To Prove They’re Not Robots, And It’s Pushing Them To Use More AI 1 week ago:
Standardization and automated processes will fix that
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 1 week ago:
Ask what proof would change their mind and show them. Then when their mind is not changed, you will understand
- Comment on Europeans set to launch an alternative to X. It’s called W 1 month ago:
I think they mean microblogging as a format
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Maybe? I’d recommend giving them an orange to peel before shooting unrelated drugs up their nose, but it might work
- Comment on 2 months ago:
It would also have penalties for breaking the contract which could be very high, plus if you tank a major production without good reason your career is probably over
- Comment on The way my fuck-ass pharmacist makes up the remaining pills in my bastarding prescription 2 months ago:
Sure, but the R&D is largely subsidized because it’s a common good. Pharmaceutical companies generally take over when it’s already a pretty safe bet… It could fall through during clinical trials, but they don’t pay for the massive R&D they did traditionally. Sometimes they even just buy the patent
There’s overhead, but the vast majority is just profiteering
- Comment on The way my fuck-ass pharmacist makes up the remaining pills in my bastarding prescription 2 months ago:
Ah. Laws vary by state, mixing and matching manufacturers is illegal in my state, the manufacturer must be on the bottle along with a description. I’m less certain about the expiration date thing, but I believe here they require them all to come back to the same batch in case there’s an issue (including improper storage of the bottle or something)
I’ve been told this is how it works by a pharmacist when they were having trouble filling my rx, and we were talking about controlled substances in particular
- Comment on The way my fuck-ass pharmacist makes up the remaining pills in my bastarding prescription 2 months ago:
What do you do with expired meds, does the pharmacy eat the loss?
Do you mix and match pills with different expiration dates to fill a prescription? From different manufacturers?
I’m genuinely asking. What I described is how things work here, and while our healthcare system is insane, this is one part that makes sense to me
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 months ago:
We wait it out. It’s a collapsing empire, a real war would prolong the collapse, they’res plenty of historical precedent
We’re doing our best to speed run it, guys. Maybe make fun of us for healthcare more, it’s a real sore spot
- Comment on The way my fuck-ass pharmacist makes up the remaining pills in my bastarding prescription 2 months ago:
I think you’re misunderstanding what I’m saying.
Yes, the companies need to sell the pills for a certain amount to make a profit, due to infrastructure and overhead. The R&D is a whole complicated thing, let’s just lump it in as overhead and put it aside
The pills themselves cost basically nothing to produce each, a batch will cost money but normally they’re consistently pumping out huge batches
So, most manufacturers have programs to retrieve pills. If you have 4 pills at the end of the roll, they can be reclaimed so patients can get a complete strip, because the pills themselves cost so little. They do the same if you end up with a small number of pills left in the big bottle, you can’t mix batches because of expiration dates and expiration. So you send them back, and they give the pharmacy a credit
- Comment on The way my fuck-ass pharmacist makes up the remaining pills in my bastarding prescription 2 months ago:
The r&d costs come from government grants these days
Yes, a sterile lab is expensive, but like normal business expensive. It’s very achievable to build, drug cartels manage it just fine. Universities and YouTubers have no problem doing it with pretty modest funding
Yes, there’s overhead. But the pills themselves? The materials and production cost is cents. They themselves cost basically nothing
That’s why other countries can afford to sell them for cents - they really are that cheap to make
- Comment on The way my fuck-ass pharmacist makes up the remaining pills in my bastarding prescription 2 months ago:
Pills aren’t really precious resources… They cost like cents to make, aside from a few very expensive special ones
The expensive part is all markup
- Comment on Roach Motel 2 months ago:
Booo
- Comment on Is there a self-help way to deal with fear of germs/"contamination"? 2 months ago:
Force yourself to do things you think are gross. Touch the sink and eat a sandwich. Eat a cracker off the floor. Little, very low risk things like that
Practice being able to overcome it, it’s that simple
- Comment on People who have eaten since December 31st, 2025, why are you trying to start new shit? 2 months ago:
Trying to get out all the 2025 shit. 2026 may or may not be better, but I know I want to be done with 2025
- Comment on Do I have extreme anxiety? 2 months ago:
You think it hasn’t crossed their mind already? The urgency is the point. They need to tell others they are in distress
You can’t just be left in that state, it gets worse and worse. And if it’s a brain tumor, which could cause many of those symptoms, speed is survival.
I get what you’re saying, but sometimes “it could be a brain tumor” is the brain worm that makes you push through when your family initially dismisses your symptoms
- Comment on Do I have extreme anxiety? 2 months ago:
The headaches? No idea. Never had paranoia either.
But I just managed to get treatment for a crippling anxiety disorder, I spent 6 months pacing or crying into the corner
Your description sounds a lot like how I was before my family realized how bad on a way I was. It sounds like major anxiety disorder plus plus
It could also be a brain tumor or something else to. And it can’t wait too long
You need to get help, get your people, tell them you’re not ok, and let them help you. Call all of em. Scream it out that you ain’t ok
I am in distress. There’s nothing undignified about it. Let those who care about you pick up the call. Let strangers pick up the call
Keep screaming. I am not ok! I require assistance!
All else fails, go to the ER, they have to help you. But do the rest first, everyone has some kind of people. In a way I’m of your people, so I answered, best I can, how to call it out better
- Comment on What are therapists allow to share about their clients? 2 months ago:
They can share details, just not your details. And if the details they share reveal a connection to your identity, they fucked up
- Comment on I hacked mars! 2 months ago:
There actually might be enough water to help if we warm it up. And that would also release some hidden gasses too
It’ll still probably need more, and there’s sands that make it hard for plants to grow, but it seems like there’s feedback mechanisms that would help massively
- Comment on My life has been way better since I started keeping a cursory view of headlines once a day 2 months ago:
I like to watch a streamer and skip through the stream for anything that looks crazy
I’ve definitely been watching less and less because less is happening, but I’m enjoying the highlights
- Comment on We wouldn't listen, anyway. 2 months ago:
I believe that orcas are out there having philosophical debates and singing stories of their history and mythology that dates back even further than our own. I don’t think they’re doing math proofs, but if they are I’d be curious what base they use
All the cutting edge science suggests we’re not special. We are not different in kind from animals
Since science became a thing, we’ve been drawing lines between us and animals since we could no longer gesture to the soul. We’ve progressively disproven every single one. I’ve had this debate over various lines so many times
It’s human arrogance
- Comment on We wouldn't listen, anyway. 2 months ago:
But that’s exactly what I’m saying. There are elephants out there contemplating morality. Even dogs do it, even if it’s massively based on the rules we impose on them
Not math though. Math exists in the minds of humans, it doesn’t even exist in the universe. There is no two of anything, there’s one object and another similar object
What does exist are ratios and harmonics, and animals have no problem understanding them
- Comment on We wouldn't listen, anyway. 2 months ago:
Lol right? It’s crazy how far on a limb they go, despite interacting with dogs
How often do we talk about how dogs want this or that, how they’re thinking of doing something “bad”, how they look so guilty they tell on themselves
But yeah, nothing going on up there. It’s all projection, they’re just dumb animals and humans are super extra special
- Comment on We wouldn't listen, anyway. 2 months ago:
LMAO okay then. My comment will age like wine, you’re will age like milk
Meet back in 5 years?
- Comment on We wouldn't listen, anyway. 2 months ago:
What are you even saying? What evidence do you have?
That sounds like a bunch of unfounded nonsense to me.
Elephants seem to clearly understand life and death, cause and effect, who fucked them over and where they ran off to
I’d bet the average elephant has a better grasp on the meaning of life than the average human