Go chug some simple syrup straight and get back to me on that one, LOL. It’s not bad to put a smear on your cheek or tongue or to sip on I guess but to drink the amount you would need to for a gtt is… a LOT.

Tbh the flavor of those things is a big problem, they’re hard to choke down and a glucose tolerance test requires drinking it on an empty stomach, and if you puke you have to stop and come back another day after fasting again. Looks like that’s the orange flavor which is better than the grape but imo they’re all nasty in the end. A more palatable mixture might be nice.

I had my last green tea waaaaay too late into my shift overnight wish me luck crawling into bed right now.

Iirc correctly in one of the John Dies at the End books the mc speculates that the puritans are getting high off their feelings of superiority.

In my crash course to new psych techs about addiction I list off all the common legal addictions which goes something like this:

• Caffeine
• Nicotine
• Alcohol
• Gambling
• Pornography
• Social Media
• Binge Eating
• Non-suicidal self-injury
• And depending on the location, Marijuana

I tell them that mine is caffeine and my partner’s is nicotine, then we talk about motivational interviewing and then I move on to dementia.

This guy summarizes ^

Fun fact: Albert Einstein was a hoe

I often feel the same working in mental health, especially with medically complex patients who have lost their own legal-medical decision making rights.

There’s the obvious high stakes ethical debates like if someone has a gangrenous limb that will kill them should you force them to have it removed. But there’s a lot more common / lower stakes examples I run into more often. Say someone has a dietary restriction that not following will likely cause great harm. Say they can’t swallow effectively (more common than you think, especially with strokes). This person is demanding a burger. It’s more likely than not that they will choke and die on that burger. Do you let them have the burger? You could argue that a sane person would obviously choose life over a burger but I might argue that American culture in particular makes the ability to consume burgers enjoy life more important than lengthening it (not entirely true, OP is probably one of the few people here who wouldn’t be shocked what people put elders through in the name of extending life). In the end its a complex debate with a huge amount of individual nuance that I don’t claim to have all the answers to.

I can tell you that I kinda wanna go work hospice where I don’t even have to ask any of those questions and can just give them the fucking burger.

My brother in whatever the fuck this is, I’ve gotten more out of tarot card reading than any therapist I’ve had in the past few years.

I’m flattered by even being associated with this comparison.

Actually, as tectonic uplift interacts with mantle plume activity, crustal thinning could occur, creating a series of grabens and faulted basins. These basins would rapidly flood as water levels rise, forming an inland sea. The unique east-west orientation of the rift system would shape this new body of water in a manner resembling the Mediterranean. Furthermore, increased precipitation, a byproduct of global climate shifts, could introduce more freshwater inflows from the Mississippi River and other tributaries, enhancing the formation of coastal ecosystems similar to those around the Mediterranean. Over millennia, the regional limestone bedrock would undergo karstification due to the influx of acidic rain, contributing to the rugged, cliffed coastlines characteristic of Mediterranean geology. Damn ChatGPT is good at shitposting…

Yeah my thought looking at this is that it’s my understanding that you basically need an extended hypomanic state to complete a PhD and if you’re not making that much dopamine at home, store bought is fine.

Teeth. Teeth right the fuck now. And if somehow there is nothing wrong with them see if your insurance will cover a flouride coat to keep them that way.

Oh and literally every cancer screening possible. Get your butt checked, your nuts checked, some dermatologists will literally check every inch of your skin. Tell your doctor about every bad habit you have and see what else they’re willing to look for.

And honestly I think I’ve gotten more out of the spiritual ritual aspect too than meditating or anything more technical / modern. It almost feels like my brain is just better geared to process information in that format and doing the technical stuff was like trying to run code through an emulator / compatibility layer. I can do it well enough, but it’s much easier, more efficient, and stable to just run the program natively.

Barnum Statement.

I’ve gotten suuuper into introspective / therapeutic tarot reading and in my related research I’ve come across a bunch of techniques used by people who use them performatively as a divinatory illusion. The funniest part is if I was going to do it therapeutically for another person I would probably do all the same things I’d just be honest that that was what I was doing. Kinda like a ritualistic / spiritually themed rorschach test.

…you realize generations are longer than five years…right?

I have never heard the term “don’t name your gods” but it’s my new favorite phrase of possibly the whole fucking year. Thank you.

…she wasn’t wrong tho!

Yeah like. They’re already covering up enough stuff that is both stupid AND awful all at once you don’t need to make up extra shit.