I didn’t say anything about gender, and I agree with everything in your comment. In addition, I maintain that the original post’s divide-and-conquer victim-blaming is one of the worst possible takes on the fact that accessing mental health care (in the US) is harder than performing esoteric medieval alchemy.

All right, either:

• try to decide what kind of therapist is needed (difficult)
• figure out what kind of therapy/therapists are covered by insurance (time-consuming and stressful, sometimes impossible)
• provide a bunch of private information (time-consuming, difficult, and stressful)
• look through a list of relevant therapists nearby (usually easy)
• try to identify one that you might relate to or at least be able to deal with (very difficult, sometimes impossible)
• call them up one at a time to see if they’re really accepting new patients (time-consuming and stressful)
• try to find a regular time that works in your schedule for the new therapist and for other obligations (difficult)
• again provide a bunch of private information (time-consuming, difficult, and stressful)
• go meet with the therapist. try to get along with them because if you don’t it’s your fault and you have to start all over (difficulty varies, sometimes impossible)
• do all this while dealing with whatever problem you need therapy for (difficulty varies, sometimes impossible)

Or:

• access Paracelsus: https://paracelsus-project.org/ (easy)
• translate: https://translate.google.com/ (easy)
• distill potions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrrbGRIOhCw (easy)

I know the wording’s a meme, but the hell with whoever made the original post. Fuckem.

Those were albino iirc.

Dunno, decades of enshittification might happen overnight, like a singularity. A shitgularity, as it were.

But Comcast/Xfinity is truly, truly horrible. Their tech support sucks and there are some account-related things you need to talk to them for. I feel stressed just thinking about it.

Something to try: keep a bucket of water nearby for those “difficult” flushing situations. If you really want conservation points, fill the bucket with your shower run-off.

Done. Now what if I want to taunt my enemies by surprise?

The equation produced a large number of speedraptors, but only the velociraptors survived over evolutionary time, because the non-velocity-aware speedraptors kept chasing their prey in the wrong direction.

Yeah, that’s right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox

whoop whoop

I had to look it up. Not quite sure what it means, but:

https://feddit.org/post/10515288

How about if it’s read as a base pi number?

OP has taken the first step towards [email protected]

nice maps, homes!

I use “fam”.

ikr I feel really fulfilled unloading the dishwasher.

whenever I feel overwhelmed, I do some simple task, it’s more centering than meditation.

Agreed, for any non-trivial bug I just start dumping text into a word file to track what I’m doing. Like: error messages, values of variables at key places, libraries used, URLs of documentation and background reading and stackoverflow pages looked at, test fixes and their effects, etc. Then if someone asks me wtf I’ve been doing all day I can easily show them. Also, if I have the same problem a couple months later I can remind myself.

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Fails to consider the case in which the 2-year-old sister is now male.

bc some people just mindlessly trust the franchises. Kelly had a cartoon about this.

Universities will still call alumni asking for money. Tell em no, tell em why, then tell em to put you on the ‘do not call’ list.