Agreed. Before I found medication that worked, I basically sat around all day miserable. I was just sitting around in pain, doing nothing. No work, no hobbies, nothing. Because it was too much to handle along with pain that would make me scream if it got too bad. So thank whatever gods you feel like believing in for the pharmaceuticals that made the pain mostly go away.
This title makes it sound like a bad thing. Keep in mind that before the past century, most didn’t live much past 60, and when older, you had a lot more health problems.
Some long term drugs are quite useful and shouldn’t be considered at all as unnecessary or detrimental. This includes things like insulin or blood pressure medicine.
I have a rare nerve disorder, bipolar disorder and high blood pressure. Pharmaceuticals are keeping me alive. Like you said, the prices are ridiculous, but the actual science is usually sound.
People say pharmaceutical companies aren’t interested in keeping you alive. Fine. Doctors usually are and they generally want to write prescriptions that help you.
Yeah I needed certain drugs from a young age. Does it suck? Sure. Are the anxiety meds needed in part due to environmental factors? Probably but also genes say I’d still need them. Would I much rather live now than a hundred years ago when one of these drugs I need was available and the condition it treats was treated with hitting children until they were too traumatized to disobey authority? No no I wouldn’t.
When I worked at Amazon Cory Doctorow came to my office (we shared it with Audible) to give a talk about his book, and host a Q&A. He said that he publishes his audiobooks as albums on Amazon Music because that supported DRM-free playback when Audible didn’t.
He signed my Kindle with the phrase “If you can’t open it, you don’t own it” and drew a skull and crossbones.
Hard to argue with him. Glad I don’t work for Amazon any more.
I mean I have issues with TikTok but parents could also just like not let their kids use it. Parental controls are a thing. I don’t understand why people get so upset at social media companies for trying to get everyone they possibly can to use their apps as much as they can since it’s how they make their money lol. They’re corporations, not charities - don’t expect them to do the right thing.
I just listened to a podcast about that case from people who knew her and her family. It’s horrible what they went through, especially the mom.
She fought so hard for years to get the authorities to do something, only to be met by complete incompetence from the head of police there. And found out years later that he was Joran’s godfather.
I hope when he confesses this time he at least tells the truth. He’s lied and trolled the family before.
Podcast is called ‘People are the Worst’ and I think it’s 3 or 4 episodes.
Do you honestly believe every single republican is racist? To go out on a limb, do you also believe zero democrats are racist? The American political system is bonkers to me, at least how it can be represented here on Lemmy
Do you see a difference between a racist and someone that votes for a racist/racist policies? Because you shouldn’t. Yes the democrats are shit but at least the don’t actively try to oppress minorities.
I do see a difference but I also see your point. I would assume (I absolutely could be wrong) that the majority of Republicans are not actively racist nor are voting that way for racist purposes. I would think they aligned with other values.
I just find it interesting how black and white the American political system is.
Yup. Same thinking here; unfortunately, Hamas goes and murders children and women, hell, they murdered a score of people who were Palestinian rights activists. It’s a shit sandwich of Israel abusing the west bank, and Hamas replying with war crimes. And I have the sad feeling that until secular leadership on both sides is in control the violence will NEVER stop. It’ll just be different clowns in the circus.
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