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Catoblepas

@ Catoblepas @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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  • Drink up buttercup

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  • o7 Fair! I just always try to be very positive about seeking therapy, since anxieties like that kept me from seeking therapy for a long time. If you don’t need to hear it, maybe someone else who does will read it

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  • If they can’t handle baby level memes like this they’re not cut out to do anything other than teach suburbanites basic emotional regulation. Which like, there’s a need for that. But the average therapist isn’t going to be deeply disturbed or anything like that, they spend classroom time studying how mental health issues distort your perception and thinking. Usually not via memes, but this is just the picture book version of showing a therapist your journal.

    Edit: also, the fear that your therapist will ‘fire’ you or otherwise react badly if you are completely honest about your mental health is something to discuss with a therapist, too! It’s a really common fear and they should be able to address your concerns.

  • Drink up buttercup

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  • Fun fact: if you give a therapist a folder of all the memes you relate to, you can speedrun therapy

  • Trickflation

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  • Almost identical, my understanding is it’s slightly off since it’s such an old measurement. But for everyday purposes it’s the same.

  • Trickflation

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  • Fluid ounce is volume, ounce is weight. Liters vs grams.

  • Measles has spread to where I am at. Other than a mask/Vaccine, what else can help protect against it?

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  • It can happen! When a vaccine is 97% effective, that means for 3% of people who get it as directed, they still won’t have full immunity. A lot of the time it can be fixed with extra shots, since for some people (or even just with some vaccines) their bodies need a little extra ‘training’ before it works.

  • Measles has spread to where I am at. Other than a mask/Vaccine, what else can help protect against it?

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  • If your titers are good and you’re masking then I don’t know of anything else to be done about it, since measles is airborne (even more so than COVID). Unless you’re immunocompromised those two things should protect you.

  • Measles has spread to where I am at. Other than a mask/Vaccine, what else can help protect against it?

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  • Get your titers checked by your doctor, that’s about the only other thing you can do. Especially if you were born before 1989, since you may have only had 1 measles vaccine instead of 2, which raises the effectiveness.

  • Opening Lemmy in the morning and seeing dozens of unread comments in your inbox makes you think: what the heck did I say yesterday?

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  • Nope, your first instinct is right, it’s a spammer. But it’s one of the few specific spammers that almost everyone has run into on lemmy, so it’s just a joke. Like saying you met a Nigerian prince who offered you a huge sum of money.

  • Opening Lemmy in the morning and seeing dozens of unread comments in your inbox makes you think: what the heck did I say yesterday?

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  • Both? I have three. Are there more?

  • What is a food that you want to cook but you know you'll never have the motivation to make?

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  • Skillet lasagna is the answer you seek! Maybe.

  • What is the minimum number of words needed to communicate

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  • I prefer Sandi Toksvig’s method: if you only know one word, make it “hospital.”

  • How do you deal with the situation of being more angry than you've every been?

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  • I don’t know if that actually violates any ethics, but it feels like it should, so I’d deal with it by writing a polite letter to whatever relevant licensing body that made it clear how upset I was to get rug pulled by someone I thought was a professional. Even if they toss it you’ll feel better for having written it.

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  • Our fridge is 12 years old and we’re just hoping it keeps chugging on 🥲 Four more years!

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    My best friend might be a Nazi sympathizer.

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  • As long as you’re having these conversations with him regularly, I wouldn’t say that you’re being passive or morally obligated to cut off your communication with him or anything like that. Consistent outreach has value and it doesn’t mean you’re enabling anything.

    But if your conscience is screaming at you that this is a hard line the friendship is never going to recover from, don’t torture yourself trying to fix it either.

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    My best friend might be a Nazi sympathizer.

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  • I’m sorry you’re going through this. Cutting people out of your life hurts even when it’s the right call, and it sucks things have deteriorated to the point of considering it.

    I think the gut reaction a lot of people are going to have is to dump him, both because they think it’s the right thing to do and because it’s easy to say that when you’re not cutting an important person out of your own life. And I don’t think that’s a wrong impulse, but before going for the nuclear option, let’s at least take a look at what other options are available to you.

    You mention he makes money in some way off Musk. To shift your perspective, what that means is you have access to someone that makes Musk money, who presumably also considers you a friend and values you. What is going to have the highest chance of success of convincing him to stop doing business with Musk?

    You’re the one that knows him, nobody here can give a better answer than you. If you think that cutting him off cold turkey is going to be a real wake up call to him, then it might be the right way to go.

    But be sure that’s what it is, and not that you don’t want to put in the work of having hard, uncomfortable conversations about it. Staying his friend (or at least in contact with him) but not censoring your opinion about Musk and the fact that it lowers your opinion of your friend might be more persuasive than you being out of his life and not kicking up a fuss. Again, you’re going to know better than anyone here since you know him.

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    Does 'attempted murder' require a viable method?

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  • Without a body or even injuries and prosecution that depends entirely on proving a state of mind, you probably won’t find a jurisdiction who would give you the time of day with it. The juice isn’t worth the squeeze.

  • Why does it seem like many Americans have an arrogant personality trait?

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  • More perspective on how big it is: You can drive 12 hours and not make it out of California. And our rail system is pitiful, meaning many people don’t travel anywhere they can’t easily drive or affordably fly.

  • Is it OK for a baby's head to be rolled all the way back on its neck?

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  • It’s a joke reference to The Exorcist, which features a child whose head spins around due to demonic possession.