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What up, I’m a Kbin user (just not on that account rn)

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THEY’RE SO FLUFFY I’M GOING TO DIE!!

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I love it! I wondered if that was how you did it, and it’s so cool to see the process.

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Oh, sorry! Really cool tho!

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Still got the mask. You know that guy was catholic? I was surprised to find myself aligned with a religious fanatic.

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white owl’s face looking surprised with the caption “Orly?”

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I feel the same about chiropractic - many people call bullshit, but I’ll be damned if they don’t help me. Like you, I don’t believe “your spine is where all your problems originate” like some chiropractics try to peddle, but the dude pushes on my back and it pops and it feels better.

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Cool cool what’s the right answer then?

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Oh I know, and I don’t trust any that ask me what other non-skeletal ailments I have (I had one tell me my acid reflux could be cured by chiro). But I have a few skeletal problems I go to them for about 3 times a year, and it helps.

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The problem is I’ve been to numerous doctors, working with a pain management specialist now, done physical therapy with a few different places for months, do physical therapy every morning, do yoga, exercise every day, and still no relief. So, like, sometimes it gets so bad I go to the chiropractor because at least they can give me some relief.

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Not covered by my insurance, sadly. Chiropractic is, but not massage therapy. Plus, it’s very hard to find a pro massage therapist where I live. But thanks for the advice.

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rolfer

I had to look this up. Honestly, I think that the connective tissue is my problem as the ortho surgeon(s) have said there’s nothing wrong with my bone structure, but also said they have no idea what’s wrong. Same same with the pain management specialist, he is just out to treat my symptoms (something an earlier poster said was an issue with chiropractors).

I honestly think there’s a lot of types of medicine out there that work for people, even the “pseudoscience” or “new-age” ones. No one should put their lives in the hands of medicine that has no scientific basis (ie if you have terminal cancer), but when it comes to chronic pain and other non-urgent but life-impacting ailments, as long as you do your homework as to who you’re seeing and the potential risks of treatment, it’s your choice. I get that people had bad experiences (proposing chiropractic can cure kidney failure), but if you’ve tried the “scientific” avenues (even going to multiple doctors), and no one can give you relief, you have to look elsewhere.

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Where’s the proof that massage therapy is more evidence-based than chiropractic? Honest question, a cursory search seems to show that it’s not. Also, interesting that my chiropractic and physical therapy visits are covered by my insurance, but massage therapy is not. Wish I could afford it.

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MDs give you incorrect information too. I had a GP for 5 years who, when I talked about my cataplexy - a well-documented condition that is directly related to my (at that time, undiagnosed) narcolepsy - he told me to go on birth control, then he changed my antidepressant meds, and then when those things didn’t help me, he said “try exercising more and lose some weight”. If he would had looked up the symptoms I was describing (like I eventually did), he would have probably recommend I see a sleep doctor, but instead, I lived with narcolepsy under his care for 5 years, almost getting fired for falling asleep at my job.

I know it’s not the same, as your brother had a life-threatening condition, but all this to say that MDs aren’t all outstanding professionals either.

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osteopath

Thanks, I’ll check it out (though I’m in the US). Also, I researched my chiropractor very thoroughly to ensure that he’s not likely to kill or disable me.

edit: turns out my insurance covers osteopathic manipulative medicine, and there’s 1 practitioner in my area (25 miles, probably more in the 50 mile range since I’m close to a big city). I will be making an appointment with her. Thanks kind stranger!

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It’s the new crusades- they can’t kill you, but they can make sure you can’t do anything they don’t like because of their religion, even if it kills you.

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It’s my belief that a person should not be protected under the same rights that they deny to others.

Me too, but it sounds like a pipe dream at this point. 😢

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I wonder how many MAGA Republicans come to his defense saying, “The police did not need to kill him, he wasn’t a threat. He was in his own home,” while they never gave two shits about Breonna Taylor, and possibly even said that she deserved it because she was possibly involved in crime. Well, here we are, you feel part of what the Black population felt, and so what can we change? Is it the guns, is it the law enforcement? Or is it the people at the top (same people, for both sides), who made this happen?

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She used to date a person involved in crime, and went to his house a number of times, but she was not with him at the time. That’s all, but she was being followed in relation to him.

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Correct.

And just to be clear, I’m not saying she was involved in crime, I’m saying these things are why the police were watching her and why they might say she was “possibly involved in crime”. I do not believe she was at all, and from all accounts, she had already distanced herself from that person quite some time before her murder.

What made you choose your instance?

Following the spirit of spreading across the Fediverse (and because my main instance is down so many times, because diverse reasons) I’m intrigued about the joining instance process, because I honestly don’t know what criteria to have in order to join another one if I ever want to do it....

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I found one for my regional area because I went looking for my state community, and I didn’t know how to join it from .world. Now that we’re spreading out, I’m using it as my main. I also use Kbin quite frequently too, tho, but they don’t have an iOS app yet so not as much.

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Oh hai another midwest.social

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I want to check out this instance because I found some cool communities on there!

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I looked for it in the App Store! Do I have to get it thorough TestFlight? Is it through a link?

Edit: when I’m literally talking to the dev - I saw the page and it went to android and I thought “oh, it’s not out for iOS yet.” How do I get it?

We should have something like federated communities

Communities on different instances about the same topic should have the option to essentially federate so a post on one appears on all of them and opening any of them shows you the comments from all of them. This way when lemmy.world is down its not a big deal because posting to any news community federates to all of the...

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I want all like communities to have their own instances, but that’s probably just my organizational brain wanting to group things.

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Yeah, there was an episode of full house with this idea - they used their footprints to tell them apart. I can imagine you couldn’t be doing that all the time tho.

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This! Read the article, guys! I hate QAnon as much as the rest but this guy was a “essentially a landlord” in a custody battle and, unless new facts come to light, it appears his part isn’t nearly as heinous as this clickbait title wants you to believe!

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That’s why I joined my local “area of my country” instance. I just need to subscribe to all my communities here and I’ll be good. The app I use (Memmy) let’s you easily switch between profiles on any instance too.

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I guess I’m betting they don’t go down at once. I guess it can happen tho.

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Interesting, you should post that on the Memmy community.

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You can see a lot of the sunk cost feeling going on in there.

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