Tedesche
@Tedesche@lemmy.world
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 5 days ago:
Yup, flat zero.
- Comment on 3's grip looks the most comfy 1 week ago:
The G-2 will take EnerGel refills. Best of both worlds IMO.
- Comment on Celebrating my 1000th comment. Here is a shitpost. 4 weeks ago:
That’s u/spez?!?!?
Holy shit, 10,000 switches in my brain just clicked and the output is “Schadenfreude Upgraded.”
- Comment on conflicted about my coworkers' overpunctuality 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know if this is one of those situations where I should pick my battles and let it go. I feel they steal my free time.
Getting along in work environments is always a matter of which battles to pick and which compromises to make. You will always have to make some. To my mind, starting your shift five minutes early is a pretty minor concession to not irk your colleagues and get on everyone’s shit-list. But…you can always search for a new place to work. Just bear in mind you may be walking into an even less compatible environment for yourself.
- Comment on Why do i see so many americans obsessed with the concept of "this is a thing that [Ethnicity] does" 5 weeks ago:
Different category, same categorical error.
- Comment on Life might be a mess, but at least the room is not. 5 weeks ago:
It’s often the first step in getting yourself out of a deep depression. The feeling of accomplishment can sometimes create enough momentum that you start creating healthy habits for yourself. Don’t knock taking that first step; it’s the hardest.
- Comment on Always fascinating to learn how things were invented 1 month ago:
- Comment on Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device? 1 month ago:
Question: am I on the toilet?
- Comment on Why hasn't the deep state stopped trump? 1 month ago:
Deeper Deep State here, guys. Not my fault. Blame the Shallow State.
- Comment on What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country? 1 month ago:
You have compassion for us Americans, and that’s nice, but bear in mind we voted for this. As much as the people who voted for Trump may have done so out of desperation, we still made a catastrophically stupid decision. Trump isn’t the problem, he’s a symptom. The problem lies in the American people. We have been squashed by both our government and our corporations. We need a wake-up call, and if that means we need to suffer from our own choices then so be it. Maybe we haven’t suffered enough yet. If we’re so dumb that we vote for a malignant narcissist like Donald Trump, maybe we need to be squashed a bit more. We have the power to take back our country, we just need the will to do it. Maybe that comes from more hardship and regret. Maybe that comes from more suffering.
But maybe not. Maybe I’m wrong. I’m so disappointed with my own countrymen right now, maybe I’m not seeing things clearly. I don’t know. But I know we deserve what we voted for. The world doesn’t, and that’s a tragedy, but maybe America needs to take a hit and the world needs to rely less on us for both America and the world to be better. Again, I don’t know.
- Comment on Who here does NOT have intrusive thoughts? 1 month ago:
Your problem is you don’t understand what intrusive thoughts actually are.
Everyone has thoughts that creep into their stream of consciousness in responsive to stressors and are experienced as stressful thoughts that reflect a person’s latent anxieties.
Truly intrusive thoughts are thoughts that are injected into your stream of consciousness much more abruptly and reflect a psychotic problem in your brain. They’re often experienced as thoughts that aren’t your own and feel entirely alien to you in a way that the aforementioned thoughts do not. This can result in them being interpreted by the brain as “the CIA is projecting thoughts into my mind via a chip” to “I have a telepathic connection to God” depending on the mental illness in question.
Don’t confuse these two things. The former is a normal phenomenon that is not an indication of serious mental illness; the latter definitely is.
- Comment on What do you think of anarchism? 1 month ago:
This was the best you could come up with? A regime that lasted one full year?
I rest my case.
- Comment on What do you think of anarchism? 1 month ago:
How’s about this: name me one functioning country of significant size (i.e. not just a commune) that functions on an anarchistic model. Demonstrate via examples that this system actually works in practice.
- Comment on It looks like someone at Activision is leaking Slack screenshots to right-wing X users 1 month ago:
shrug The Right does pretty much the same thing. It’s all fucked.
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 1 month ago:
I agree, but I honestly don’t know what the solution is. Beyond blind revolution, which is inherently chaotic and difficult to predict, I don’t see a solution. The U.S. seems doomed to spiral in the same way we’ve seen other nations do so for the foreseeable future. It all depends on how this current administration plays out and how people react to it in the future. Americans are so uneducated and gullible these days that I can’t predict how they’ll behave (and I’m an American).
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 1 month ago:
Pretty sure the common denominator is “owning the libs.”
It’s not just liberals that are voting against their opposition than they are for the political candidates they vote for; the other side is largely doing the same. That’s why American democracy is failing: we’re so disillusioned with our own parties that we’ve been reduced to voting for them just to keep the opposition from power. Hence, no matter how we vote, we’re dissatisfied, but we tell ourselves pretty stories to make it all right. The only real winners are corporations, which have all of these clowns in their pockets.
- Comment on It looks like someone at Activision is leaking Slack screenshots to right-wing X users 1 month ago:
No, it’s not about the writing. It’s when’s a game feels like it’s preaching at you. Not the same problem at all.
- Comment on It looks like someone at Activision is leaking Slack screenshots to right-wing X users 1 month ago:
And yet, from the downvoting here and everywhere else this comes up, it’s clear: some people can’t take nuanced opinions on topics like this. If you object in any capacity, you’re the worst possible objector.
- Comment on It looks like someone at Activision is leaking Slack screenshots to right-wing X users 1 month ago:
It’s more about the messaging. The mere presence of a POC or trans character isn’t bothersome to most people. But when that character comes with dialogue lines that make the political messaging obvious, then they’re no longer a character that happens to be non-White or trans; they’re a political prop inserted into a game to send a political message, and that can be quite irksome when all you’re trying to do is play a fantasy RPG and escape from the world for a bit, even if you actually agree with the message.
- Comment on Is this “normal bratty” behavior or a sign of a mental health condition? 2 months ago:
No one can diagnose someone on the internet but the things you list do seem to paint a rough sketch of a narcissist. Thing is, people can have narcissistic traits and still not meet the criteria for narcissistic personality disorder.
But it doesn’t really matter. The person you describe sounds like someone to be avoided, regardless of whether or not they qualify for NPD.
- Comment on Mental Healthcare costs thousands of dollars and is hard to access? That's *crazy*! 2 months ago:
So, not all hospitals have inpatient psychiatric facilities, but most have emergency rooms. If they aren’t equipped with an inpatient facility, obviously there’s no place to admit them to and all they can do is either keep them in the ER for a few days for observation or send them to a facility that does have an inpatient psychiatric unit. Also, if they don’t have any psychiatric units at all, I can see how their ER might lack a mental health provider who can adequately assess a person who comes in on reports that they reported suicidal ideation in a therapy session with their outpatient provider. However, any hospital with an inpatient psychiatric ward will usually have what’s called a comprehensive psychiatric emergency program (CPEP), which is effectively a psychiatric emergency room (sometimes integrated into the actual ER, sometimes not), and they obviously will have psychiatrists to assess patients who come in during mental health crises.
My point was simply that outpatient therapists and psychiatrists are fully capable of assessing the seriousness of a patient’s suicidal ideation and that a trip to the ER isn’t always necessary. Patients should only be sent to the ER against their wills when the outpatient provider is not convinced that the patient won’t harm themselves before their next session.
Sorry, I know that was wordy, but I hope I answered your question.
- Comment on At least it doesn't cause tinnitus. Looking at you, Nirnroot. 2 months ago:
I agree. And so did the programmers at Bethesda, apparently in hindsight, because that wasn’t true in either Morrowind or Skyrim. I don’t know why they implemented it that way in Oblivion.
- Comment on At least it doesn't cause tinnitus. Looking at you, Nirnroot. 2 months ago:
Correct, the potions you created in Oblivion only had the effects from its ingredients that you knew at the time you created it. Said potions don’t gain those effects once you know them, but the same recipe will add new effects once you learn them, and thus you might need a different recipe to make the potion you’re trying to create.
- Comment on Hope they're into basements ***alot***. 2 months ago:
If you’re at that point at 25, you should probably reassess your dating choices over the past decade.
Honestly, people’s relationship troubles almost always have more to do with their issues with their relationships with themselves than they have to do with their relationships with their partners. The two are intertwined, yes, but fixing the former will almost always fix the latter, while fixing the latter will almost always not fix the former.
Get some good therapy. It’s worth every penny.
- Comment on When my husband calls me over for cuddles 2 months ago:
Wait, is the lumbering seal your husband or you? Does it matter? I’m confused.
- Comment on Mental Healthcare costs thousands of dollars and is hard to access? That's *crazy*! 2 months ago:
As a therapist, I totally agree with what you’ve written above. However, I also have the unfortunate experience of working with mental health providers (mainly psychiatrists in pill-kiosk roles) who will send patients to the ER if they mention any suicidal ideation out of a paranoid fear of losing their license. Thankfully, ER doctors tend to actually assess the seriousness of said ideation and don’t admit people who aren’t seriously considering self-harm, but it’s still an ordeal.
So, I would simply add to your advice that if any mental health provider calls 911 at the mere mention of suicidal thoughts, get yourself a new provider immediately. That provider either hasn’t learned how to properly assess suicidality or is too chicken-shit to do it (far more likely, the latter).
- Comment on Is there any non-zero possibility Musk was not doing a Hitler Salute? 2 months ago:
There is always a possibility that he did not intend it to be a Hitler salute, but that possibility is not very plausible, because…he pretty much did a Hitler salute and the odds of him being ignorant of that fact are extremely low.
- Comment on I'm OOTL: Why is TikTok being banned? 2 months ago:
Exactly! So demoting those videos suggests that China is not using the algorithm to promote anti-american views.
??? You’re trying to have it both ways with this. I’m out.
- Comment on I'm OOTL: Why is TikTok being banned? 2 months ago:
Amplifying the videos that show America’s response to antiracist movements would make America look like the racist country it is. Demoting them conceals that.
No, that doesn’t make sense. Amplifying shows of division in a country promotes the view that said country is flawed and weak, in this case along racial lines. China has plenty to gain by showing that.
And America is no less racist than China, btw. I would argue far less so.
They were hired to help identify and amplify US state department narratives, same reason CNN and Fox hires them.
That seems entirely speculative. There are plenty of other reasons to hire them. Can you provide evidence for your claim?
- Comment on I'm OOTL: Why is TikTok being banned? 2 months ago:
It’s also fair to treat them differently on account of them not being unfriendly to the U.S. Regardless, I agree data privacy laws need to be improved across the board.