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Lumisal ,

OpemAi had a for profit division though

Lumisal ,

This is nice to know. Cinny looks beautiful from a UX perspective, wish they made an app too. Not enough good UX in open source stuff.

Lumisal ,

Last I checked they didn’t have the majority though?

Lumisal ,

Ok but the AfD is literally just modern Nazis.

Calling people who voted for them stupidity is the extremely charitable label, because malicious and vile would be more accurate in that case.

Comparing Italy and Germany here just isn’t equivalent.

Lumisal ,

Why ? Just because they voted for the Right wing that promise to solve what they see as a problem while the Left wing call them bigot, racist and homophobe

They didn’t just vote for the right wing though, they voted for Nazis. So yes, they are literally bigoted, racist, homophobes. If you support people who admired Hitler, guess what? You’re a fucking asshole of a very high degree. Being poor or troubled doesn’t make you an asshole. My parents grew up in extreme poverty in El Salvador, and they didn’t become extreme racists. I was in extreme poverty in university in the USA, I didn’t suddenly start voting right wing either, let alone extremely far right. I hated the democrats over there, but knew the right wing wouldn’t solve it because bad people don’t go good things.

You don’t end up voting for genuinely bad people who admire one of the most atrocious regimes in human history because of frustration. You only do so because you either already have a broken moral compass, or are extremely ignorant and stupid. In Germany though, it’s more likely to be the former rather than the latter considering their history. And it’s that recent history that makes it that much more shameful for Germany, and that shows that Nazism was still not extinguished.

You don’t deal with an intolerant group like Nazi or AfD by excusing them or reaching out to them. You don’t tolerate the intolerant (paradox of tolerance), because otherwise it’ll only be a matter of time before you or someone else is no longer tolerated. And that’s something history has proven repeatedly.

No right wing wave in Finland as Left Alliance take record result in EU elections (yle.fi)

Finland’s results in the European election bucked a continent-wide trend of rising support for parties on the outer fringe of right-wing politics, with the Left Alliance and the National Coalition winning big at the expense of the nationalist Finns Party....

Lumisal ,

You’re kind, since you didn’t ask him to pronounce something like yö

Lumisal , (edited )

This. Way too many people these days are confusing burnout or addiction with ADHD. Literally seeing YouTubers state they are burned out and then declare it’s ADHD, and how Adderall helped them be productive magically.

No shit the METH analogue is making you productive, it’s fucking meth. It’ll perk up anyone no matter how burned out you are. There’s a reason it was commonly used by students who hadn’t slept and could only afford ramen while finishing their thesis back in the day.

It sucks how that’s being over diagnosed and causing a shortage in people who actually need it. Psychologists in the USA have way too much power - how can you basically prescribe meth to someone without even a blood test or further testing to rule out other non-focus causes, but a nurse can’t even get you some heart medication over there?

Edit: very late, but let the record show Adderall was indeed being over prescribed in the USA:

arstechnica.com/…/up-to-50k-patients-face-adderal…

Lumisal ,

Meth analogue. It’s not straight up meth but works on the same receptors, much how synthetic opioids do. It’ll still perk up and focus a normal burnt out person too.

I do think their prescriptions are over dosing, but to say that over prescribing is preventing those that need it is the wrong conclusion. If there is that much need, then there should be increased production

Two things can be true. If it’s being over prescribed, then technically production meets need, but need has also been artificially raised. That said, there at least was a shortage due to over prescription, and in some places still are.

Like most drugs to treat mental illnesses, it’s a lot of “try this and report” to determine the effectiveness and the dosage.

Except a lot doesn’t try basic things first when unsure to rule out other possible causes. Not even blood tests in many cases to see if it’s not some other illness or deficiency. Or just overwork. I know correlation isn’t causation but that Americans especially seem to be diagnosed much higher than Europeans with ADHD despite the healthcare not being socialized seems to correlate with the extreme work culture Americans have. There’s basically no vacations, a consumerist culture that encourages debt, and high work schedules. When you work that much, it’s not unreasonable your brain starts to complain about not having fun and refuses to easily concentrate anymore and instead prefers seeking dopamine. Combine that with dopamine hitters that require a short attention span like TikTok or much of social media in general and that’s a recipe for a burnout very similar to ADHD. But giving Adderall to someone burnt out is the same as giving coffee to someone sleep deprived - it’s only getting you through the symptoms but not actually fixing the problem. And the American mental health system seems to extremely easily give drugs rather than figure out if you actually need them first, or if there’s another way to actually fix the problem.

Actually, that’s the American health system in general. Mild hypertension? Don’t bother encouraging the patient to just go for an evening walk every other day for some mild exercise first to see if that helps, just take some calcium ion channel inhibitors! A bit overweight with some slightly elevated blood glucose levels? Let’s not get them to consult a nutritionist first, just go straight for the ozempic.

To me the current over diagnosis of ADHD and over prescription of medication in general is more a sign of the private healthcare system and runaway capitalism in general in the USA, rather than extremely significant prior under-diagnostics.

Lumisal ,

Actually what’s harmful is misinformation about drugs, which you are ironically spreading.

Not all drugs give feelings of high or rushes or such. What causes that in most cases is how the drug is taken, and the dosage. That’s why there’s a lot of functioning addicts in society as well. Caffeine for example weight give you jitters of you take a very small amount, but drink 8 cups of coffee and you’ll feel something really different. Thinking that an addict looks and acts a certain way is way more harmful to society, because

A) it causes a stigma to addicts that doesn’t lead to them seeking help, because they don’t experience that stereotype, and B) hinders a societies willingness to explore potential medical uses in illicit drugs. Cannabis is a huge example of this.

Yes, Adderall is an Methamphetamine analog. It works on the same receptors. Part of the discovery for drug treatments for ADHD came about when it was noticed that people who had ADHD and took Meth ended up calming down rather than becoming energetic like just people would (known as a paradoxical effect). It is essentially Meth when it comes to biochemical interactions in the human body.

Now like all drugs, if you need it, then yes you should take it, much like someone with a broken leg will need opioids (that doesn’t change that for most, opioids are addictive, does it?). The problem is there are many people who DO NOT need Adderall, because they have not been properly evaluated for ADHD. They get prescribed after a single visit to a psychologist. That’s not enough data to determine if someone should be taking such a powerful drug. Society (well, USA especially in this case because feigned ignorance from money in the first place) has figured out that giving opioids without much effort was a terrible idea, yet the exact same mistake is being done with Adderall. Adderall definitely is addictive. But needing to take medication daily to function because of an external factor is different than being addicted to it.

And many are instead overworked, burnt out, and/or beyond exhausted, and telling people “oh I couldn’t do anything or focus and then Adderall fixed everything!” without people realizing what Adderall is, is far more dangerous. Not saying this is what you’re doing btw, I’m referencing more younger (well, 35 and under) people who have a wide reach and influence who equate symptoms of absolute exhaustion and stress, and then with no research at all say it’s ADHD. If lucky they see a psychologist a single time and instantly get a prescription (which I think is also very irresponsible, considering the lack of actual medical knowledge psychologists have). It’s reminiscent of those chiropractors who could give prescriptions for opioids during the onset of the opioid epidemic.

Lumisal ,

I literally wrote a whole detailed comment specifically towards you? How’s that ignoring? You on the other hand have literally just ignored what I said in my comment.

Speaking of topics you shouldn’t write on that you don’t understand, Naloxone is a receptor antagonist and not an analog to opioids. Opioids are agonists. Naloxone binds to the same receptors, but doesn’t latch (hence the very short effect duration) or active the receptors. Adderall does - that’s literally why it helps. Both Adderall and methamphetamine are agonists on the same receptor sites, and on someone with ADHD that’s a good thing, much the same way opioids are for someone hurting, or lithium is for certain mental illness.

Yes, you take a powerful drug that’s basically meth. It’s a meth analog. That doesn’t change that it’s medicine for you, even if it was literal meth rather than a refined analog created to get around dumb drug laws (well, and to improve efficacy for your condition as well in this case). That doesn’t change what it is. Ignorant people will always remain ignorant, but downplaying the dangers of something isn’t the solution to combating ignorance either. I will call a spade a spade, and in this one it’s one that’s definitely being overused as well because the reality is the majority see it as “just harmless medicine” rather than what it actually is. If anything, with how recommended it is to take Adderall by most on social media, the issue you brought up to me seems to be in the minority rather than the majority.

The issue isn’t the meth, it’s how people view it - whether that be extremely dangerous of its the drug or harmless if it’s an analog you get from a pharmacy. The reality is it’s in between like all drugs.

Lumisal ,

Depends on the state. They can in some states (5: Louisiana, New Mexico, Illinois, Iowa, and Idaho), and in others they can just call a psychiatrist and the psychiatrist will then write it without the patient having to see the psychiatrist, or some other loophole (such as having an advanced psychiatric nurse on staff write the prescriptions for them). And there’s a trending push in more states to allow psychologists to prescribe directly. I don’t have an issue with psychiatrists giving Adderall, but with psychologists doing it, as I confidently stated for a reason. So yes, you should, quoting you;

Stop repeating your opinion as fact. You are confidently incorrect

Lumisal ,

Well considering this ideas were taken from Endless Legend, you should give that a try. Or if you want something more Civ like, they also have Humankind, which is like Civ but better and the AI is really good (they made it even better now than before, and it was already way ahead of Civ’s NPC AIs). They also have a unique win condition with Fame.

Lumisal ,

I like the idea and gameplay, but man am I tired of that color palette

Lumisal ,

That combined with what you mentioned about cannabis triggering your headache sounds like the issue might be your trigeminal nerve (my guess mylohyoid) or similar nerve branch in the neck area. Sleeping likely causes it because there’s constant pressure on it at night as you sleep.

An orthopedic pillow might help, something such as this for example: www.amazon.com/…/B09964WTF5?th=1&psc=1

Alternative hypothesis would be it’s blood pressure related, perhaps orthostatic hypotension or fluctuating hypertension - you can test this by getting a good blood pressure machine and checking in the morning before you get up from bed without moving much, immediately after sitting up, immediately after standing, and then stay standing still for 1 minute and take again.

Probably don’t need the coffee by the way considering the medicine you take (Ritalin)

Lumisal ,

Trigeminal nerve pain can be triggered/worsened by an enlarged vein pushing against the nerve at just the right spot. Cannabis causes hypotension via vasodilation, hence the potential trigger.

The thing is, veins don’t grow perfectly parallel, which means hypertension can also cause pain via vasoconstriction, if the vein slightly spirals around the nerve and also constricts; think like a snake wrapped around an arm and squeezing. So it’s possible both localized vasodilation and vasoconstriction are causing these headaches, considering the times the headache is worst ("cannabis use or after waking up) and mild but constant (after stimulants like caffeine).

If your pressure is a bit high during the day, a very small dose of a vasodilator drug taken after your medication would normalize it and that would, hopefully, stop the pain overall. You could still have orthostatic blood pressure issues too, but certain mild exercises can help with those too (assuming there’s no other underlying blood flow issues).

But there’s not enough data to say conclusively, hence taking your blood pressure as directed, as well as throughout the day sitting (after sitting at least 3 minutes without moving much) to see if there’s any abnormalities with it, as well as the orthopedic pillow. If the pillow helps it also narrows down the cause.

That said, if it’s the trigeminal nerve and you can’t control the veins there well through medication… Good luck I suppose. Most surgeons won’t want to cauterize because of mild (yet constant) pain. Acupuncture could achieve the same result, but that would be a scary gamble, because there’s also potential they hit the nerve wrong with the micro needle and instead worsen the pain. That would be a last result solution, assuming it’s the trigeminal nerve causing you issues.

Lumisal ,

Forgot to mention, don’t know where you live, but Omron makes good enough yet affordable blood pressure machines. Just don’t ever get anything for the wrist.

Lumisal ,

I did misunderstand about the association with the caffeine and your headache. But if anything, the new information provided, along with what you mentioned about water, narrows it down further to you potentially having some form of hypotension.

You very are likely dehydrated btw. Milk and juice are not hydrating - milk is only 88% water, but the sugars and fats included in the milk reduce how much of that water your body absorbs. Likewise many juices have so much sugar that it also lowers how much water to get from it in your gut, and if your blood glucose is already high it hydrates you even less. Speaking of, have you ever done a glucose test at a doctors? Either way, water would be your best option.

Coffee is a natural diuretic, meaning it dehydrates you faster as well. Dehydration causes hypotension as well (although in rare cases, such as me and my mother, you can experience paradoxical effects, just to keep in mind).

High blood glucose levels and unstable blood pressure are not commonly obvious medical conditions, which is why they’re annoying.

If you have doubts about your ADHD, speak with your doctor (not a psychologist) about it. You can also do some comparative tests on yourself (when on vacation of some sort) of before and after. Take such a test while on your medication, and then wait 3 weeks (to make sure your body is fully clear of the medication) then do such a test again (not the exact same test though). If there’s significant deviation, then you should probably keep taking the medication, but if there isn’t, then maybe talk with a doctor about it.

It’s important you don’t quit a medication such as Ritalin at once though, so the titration schedule should look something like this:

Day 1✓ 2× 3✓ 4× 5✓ 6× 7× 8✓ 9× 10× 11✓ 12+ stop

Disclaimer: I’m not a doctor, just someone with a lot of medical knowledge from self study from medical and pharmacological text books due to my and family members medical conditions. I recommend to a doctor first and foremost, but used to live in the USA, where going as needed is not financially viable for many, even with great insurance.

Lastly, if you shop around, you might find a good Omron device even cheaper on sale, if you’re on a budget. Even they’re basic models are well enough, since they are actually medically calibrated on good data sets.

Lumisal ,

How many bots.

Lumisal ,

Well now he owns it so should be easy for him to publish that.

But then those who carry musky water for him probably wouldn’t be able to do so.

Lumisal ,

Cool.

But until you call tell me how many bots, your claim isn’t evidence that it’s actually as active as you imply it to be - at least by humans.

Regarding sleep quality, why did humans evolve to require full darkness?

I know evolution is governed by chance and it is random but does it make sense to “ruin” sleep if there’s light? I mean normally, outside, you never have pure darkness, there are the moon and stars even at night. In certain zones of the Earth we also have long periods of no sunshine and long periods of only sunshine....

Lumisal ,

Does this mean humans in far north climates have different methods of determinating sleep times? Because I’m originally from close to the equator and I’m the summer I’ll be awake until near midnight when at least we get some dusk, but the nightless days really screw me up

Lumisal ,

I was wondering why it was so dark.

I used to live in. Jyväskylä. But the pictures and context you gave seem to be Uusimaa region.

I’m guessing the second one is dusk, assuming your camera didn’t flip the image. Sun goes in a circle here.

The rolling blackout curtain from Ikea is what helps me a lot (I think the “fyture” one?)

Lumisal ,

I sympathized with your statement immediately, but then after thinking about it for a bit, most people basically have controlled pressure bombs (gas-water boilers) and buildings filled with gas pipes that can (and have) wiped out whole city blocks.

It’s still not a good idea, obviously, but localized fossil fuels are also ridiculous when you think about it.

Lumisal ,

They could also just take a regular cellphone.

As far as I can see, this is banning smartphones, not cellphones. Can still do calls and text.

Lumisal ,

My wife is a teacher in Finland and two cousins are teachers in USA.

Smartphones don’t help with education either. Two things can be true. I’m not even sure what you mean by “corralling student attention in the hands of the parents”.

That said, I was sarcastically replying to the comment above me which sarcastically suggested old school tape recorders.

Lumisal ,

I know right?

So imagine just how much you have to fuck up as a rich white guy to actually get convicted of something in such a fucked up system.

Lumisal ,

You can smell them feet away if it’s a pile of dead ones

Lumisal ,

Try BazziteOS

It’s meant for gaming, but I find it’s so feature complete that’s it’s great for non-gaming purposes.

Somehow it even works better on my monitor than Windows, since I can actually control my brightness from an applet rather than having to use my monitor buttons.

Lumisal ,

No one here mentioning this will be a gold mine for Malware makers and hackers.

Lumisal ,

You can make a persistent install on a thumb drive actually. Has been possible for about a decade I think. There’s even a program now called Ventoy that lets you make multiple persistent installs of different Linux distros on a single thumb drive even.

Lumisal ,

Normally when your PC is initially starting up, F8 will bring up the boot menu and you’d select the USB drive. Otherwise, where it says boot order, clicking around there should let you change the boot order and have the drive boot first every time. Actually, if you’re using it as a persistent then this is probably the better option.

I’m not the biggest computer buff compared to some here, so if I’m wrong in any way let me know or comment again - someone will likely come give the right answer lol.

Plus I haven’t used Ventoy much, I only used to do it the old fashioned way of partitioning it many years ago until I found what I liked best.

For beginners, I recommend Fedora or Ubuntu based distros because they’re definitely the most user friendly, like windows or the days, possibly more now? At least BazziteOS has had more feature compatibility than Windows, which I was shocked by. Still testing all my games, but so far that works well too.

Lumisal ,

I just figured that it’s based off perspective. If you look at a spinning ball horizontally vs vertically.

Either that or is just spinning both ways at once, kinda like Earth and it’s atmosphere can go two different directions despite being the same planet.

Lumisal ,

Sounds like y’all should form a country wide DNS guild, and instead of looking for jobs, just ask band together, and then when the DNS eventually fails, they have no choice but to hire from the guild and pay 5 years salary at once to have it fixed. Then understand if getting hired and fired constantly, you just do a job every now and then and get a huge pay check. So contractor work, but you get to see the companies constantly burn themselves and give y’all with instead.

Lumisal ,

Who is Natalie Portman?

Lumisal ,

You should add startpage.com to your list

Lumisal ,

Startpage wasn’t down today

Lumisal ,
  1. How long does it take to be a DNS engineer?
  2. How likely is it to be replaced in 10 years by AI?

I was gonna go for chemistry but you have a convincing argument with the job offers coming to you rather than the other way around

Lumisal ,

Same in Finland actually.

Lumisal ,

He moved to Sweden, which also does the same

Lumisal ,

Depends on you country, but the right wing one are usually not the ones that are so pro-regulation.

Lumisal ,

Ah, that’s why I was asking about Lemmy. Provides a more open quick discussion path than forums, which then helps funnel actual people to the more regulated forums in the future.

Lumisal ,

FMT may negate the need for most organ transplants. Eg:

Again, preventative care. Which in my opinion is equally if not more important than curing existing illness too. A perfect microbiome will not regrow an already permanently damaged organ, which is why transplants are done. Trust me, there’s not enough organs (due to various reasons, not because of a lack) to give everyone a transplant, and bacteria are not a panacea. I’m trying to make you realize that it you keep speaking of it as if it is, with only a single biased source, while not admitting the limitations, hurts such a cause greatly.

Human Microbes doesn’t do any specific messaging/advertising. Just the website where it covers the gut microbiome regulating the entire body and playing a major role in virtually every aspect of health & development. I would think that narrowing the focus to one type of cancer for example would be detrimental.

I think you misunderstood. Human-cell borne cancers mean all cancers that happen through natural cellular damage, degeneration, and other immuno-failing reasons.

Basically all cancers not caused by virii, environmental damage/injury, etc.

Which is the majority of cancers.

I think the potential for both prevention and treatment exists for most conditions that are currently beyond medical capabilities. And there is a ton of evidence for this in the wiki I shared. Sure, there are some things that FMT won’t be a solution to of course.

Correlation does not equal causation. There is statistically significant evidence that there’s a lot of potential here, but there is yet to be solid evidence that this actually treats most conditions. There hasn’t been anywhere NEAR enough research to even make such a claim.

Lumisal ,

There’s a lot to start with.

The first thing that should be maybe adopted by the scientific community is. Being a tad bit specific on its terminology when discussing certain things outside of research papers (and depending who is giving the grant, maybe certain grant applications).

FMT for example, while accurate, makes it a (literally) hard pill to swallow for those less scientifically knowledgeable. The issue of course being the fecal part of FMT. Starting by using just MT or GMT (G for Gut) would make people not as knowledge on the topic more interested in hearing more, rather than instantly turning them off. It would also be better to not use the acronym when bringing it up in a setting outside of, well, the microbiome community really.

Sure, we know it’s fecal, but people who may support the cause in the future may not be as interested in the details, much like how many people who donate or support cancer research don’t necessarily know specific terminology like R-CHOP for example.

The important part is to at least first get people to actually engage in the conversation, and not shut it down because “ew, I’m not taking poop transplants”.

That’s the very first thing that should be used/changed when bringing this up, in my opinion.

Lumisal ,

It’ll expose more people to the topic though.

Forums are great for detailed conversation, but not so fast for spreading information and garnering commentary.

There’s a reason sites like Reddit sprang up and grew huge despite forums having already existed.

Those then interested in assisting more or having slower but more in depth discussion however will then gravitate towards the forums.

Lumisal ,

Oh no for sure, the forum is the better choice.

I’m just saying a Lemmy instance can reach a wider audience so there’s more awareness at least.

But the forum is best to keep for better discussion. But there needs to be a decent amount of people for discussion to happen in the first place

Lumisal ,

I mean… There’s a saying that goes “shining a turd” for a reason. Even healthy poop is still poop. That’s why people aren’t usually clamoring to become a gastroenterologist when they grow up. It’s likely a big factor as to why the gut microbiome wasn’t really researched well / discovered until later compared to discoveries in other medical fields.

Trust me, they don’t find poop repugnant because it’s unhealthy, it’s because it’s poop. Even the healthy ones are waste products of the body.

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