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dryfter

@ dryfter @lemm.ee

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  • Big hugs

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  • Me: Doc, I'm in constant pain, my lower back is killing me, my hips are killing me, and random parts of my body go numb or twitch and randomly hurt for no rhyme or reason.

    Doc: You need to lose weight and see a therapist, this is most likely depression and anxiety.

    Therapist: Yes, you have depression and anxiety, but the 7 years of therapy you've had shows it's not just anxiety or depression causing this, advocate for yourself.

    Friend: Have you tried yoga?

  • 14 nurses at the same hospital are pregnant at the same time

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  • I once worked at a retail job where at one time I had to work the 7AM shift. I get there and I’m the only male and all three of the female coworkers were pregnant.

    I learned more about the female body than any single man should ever know.

  • Which are you?

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    1. Every day.
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  • Wait…. Did I miss something? What’s going on in South Africa that we take on refugees? Shouldn’t we be, I dunno, accepting refugees from Gaza and Ukraine instead?

  • Inside the new regime: Source says Team Trump is growing "disillusioned"

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  • DEI and “woke culture” made me feel seen as a person with a disability and a facial paralysis. 100 years ago I would have been an orphan and hidden away. Not long before that I would have been “sacrificed” as an evil baby.

    Did corporations cash in on that? Yes they did because that’s all corporations are supposed to do is make money and bleed the consumer.

    If you are anti-woke and anti-DEI then you’re really saying you want to include everyone who looks like you and relegate those who don’t to obscurity either by way of deportation, exile, slavery, or death. It’s exactly like what every country perpetuating genocide has done in history.

    What is your solution to my problem of again not feeling like I can go out in public because of this administration’s policies. What about to the LGBTQIA people who are afraid that their marriage will be nulled or are also afraid to go out in public?

    Are you ok with fixing people different from you back to isolation, declining mental health, and attempts to take their life because of getting rid of DEI?

  • Inside the new regime: Source says Team Trump is growing "disillusioned"

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  • Someone has got to start talking about “inclusion” instead of division

  • ARCADE

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  • You know what....I'd rather live in the Looney Toons universe over whatever the hellscape we're living in now is.

    Also I seriously want to visit an arcade now.

  • If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, that means we've got an escape route

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  • Stairway to Heaven / Highway to Hell

    I agree with your version of entering hell being a trap door. Heaven would look like an alien abduction.

  • We recommend the best/most popular of a genre to newcomers, but the best are often those that break the genre conventions which would be totally lost on a newcomer.

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  • I think that's very subjective to each person doing the recommending and also the person wanting said recommendations preferences.

  • A Song that was once your favorite but for whatever reason you stop listening to? And have you returned or will you ever listen to it again?

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  • Song; Hunger Strike by Temple Of The Dog

    Bands: Linkin Park and Soundgarden

    Kurt Cobain was the first death that really freaking hit me as a teenager, but I am not bothered by Nirvana.

    When Dime got killed it took me a while to be able to listen to Pantera again. That was a damn gut punch.

    Chris Cornell and Chester Bennington still haunt me to this day because I felt like I was seen when I listened to their music — especially Chester. I’ve struggled with depression and anxiety my whole life and have attempted 3 times (along with being an alcoholic). Those two bands just remind me of the dark times and I never want to go back.

    Hunger Strike just because Cornell was part of that band and I loved the hell out of that song.

    Bonus song: Bother by Stone Sour

    Take everything I said above and multiply it by 100 with this song. Every word feels like a mirror on my soul and things get ugly

  • What actors/actresses make you immediately not want to make a movie/show?

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  • Ben Stiller

    I just can’t. He makes me anxious just seeing him on screen. I so want to watch Meet the Fockers because DeNiro is one of my faves, I just can’t do it.

  • What actors/actresses make you immediately not want to make a movie/show?

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  • I dunno, I enjoyed the hell out of his acting in Sons of Anarchy

  • The only necessary utensil to eat almost any food is a fork

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  • I ended up in the psych ward of the hospital for a week and a half some time ago. Meals were served with only a plastic spoon.

    One of the meals had a baked potato. I assumed it tasted like all the rest of the food I was eating and didn’t even try.

  • History Shmistory

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  • Holy cow!

    Any guess as to what will happen? The US also has a debt ceiling issue coming up very soon too

  • 'The Fix Is In': GOP Wants Poor People to Pay More for Medicaid to Fund Tax Cuts for Wealthy

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  • I have both Medicaid and Medicare because I don’t make enough on SSDI to be able to afford Medicare premiums but it’s a requirement of SSDI to have it.

  • Trump now wants everyone to stop asking when the trade deals are coming

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  • "There are 18 very important trading relationships, and we are currently negotiating with 17 of those trading partners," Bessent told the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government on Tuesday. "Approximately 97 or 98% of our trade deficit is with 15 countries, 18% of the countries are our major trading partners. And I would be surprised if we don’t have more than 80 or 90% of those wrapped up by the end of the year, and that may be much sooner."

    Uhhh....I'm not sure you understand the gravity of the self-made situation when you have major retailers saying shelves could be empty in weeks because of this stupidity.

    "Obviously, we're working as expeditiously as possible, but we're not trying to make deals that are Band-Aids for the sake of making deals," the official added.

  • 'The Fix Is In': GOP Wants Poor People to Pay More for Medicaid to Fund Tax Cuts for Wealthy

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  • But....the whole point of Medicaid was that it is there to cover those who are poor because they wouldn't be able to afford health care otherwise.

    I'm on SSDI and get Medicaid and Medicare with the only cost to me being the Medicare Part B coverage that is close to $200/month. I don't pay copays or for any of my prescriptions. However I have noticed the quality of my healthcare from the same doctor that I had while on private pay health insurance has taken a nosedive. My guess is the office doesn't want to deal with Medicaid or Medicare more than they have to. Or my health could just be that bad, either way it's worse.

    If this proposal ends up as legislation I would end up having to pay copays for health services and prescriptions I use right now that would most likely not be financially viable. If Medicaid gets taken away from me completely I lose all access and if stopping medications doesn't kill me then the lack of oxygen due to extreme sleep apnea will.

    I'm so sick of being terrified the last few months (SSDI, Medicaid/Medicare, and HUD housing). Just fucking do it already and get this over with instead of fucking torturing those of us at the bottom more than we've already been tortured just going through the process of trying to get access to these programs.

  • Blindingly Obvious.

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  • Oh, I've been absolutely terrified ever since I became a member of the "parasite" class:

  • Pakistan to respond ‘forcefully’ to India’s ‘act of war’, says prime minister after attack – live

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  • From my standpoint as an American citizen of at least 3 generations, I don't think balkanization will be happen here, just because the divisions aren't neatly aligned as of 2020.

    Cities tend to be Democrat, rural areas tend to be Republican -- regardless of state. It's not like the Civil War where it was more easily divided.

    What's more likely to happen is a full on economic collapse soon. Where things go from there is anyone's guess -- but I don't see balkanization as a part of it. If Trump and team declare martial law and start doing even more human atrocities it might be the spark for WW3. Does that happen before China attacks Taiwan and start WW3?

    Regardless of what happens, this is going to be ugly and a whole lot of people are going to die.