GONADS125 @ GONADS125 @lemmy.world

Abandoned this profile due to lemmy.world's federation with Threads. I have

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Nope. They're too busy circle-jerking each other while they vote brigade and spread propoganda.

When I die, I just want to be tossed in the woods and scavenged/recycled into nature. Spreading my ATP into a food web is such a better legacy in my mind than wasting that energy by incineration or sealing it in a concrete/metal tomb.

Not saying planning for the future isn't important, but life is more enjoyable if we can learn to take things as they come in the moment instead of getting consumed by trying to prepare for or anticipate potential future outcomes. We usually don't actually prepare ourselves any better, and it more often just detracts from the quality of life in the present.

Again, not talking about planning for one's future, budgeting, etc. I mean more the tendency a lot of people have in trying to predict outcomes or engage in mind-reading. I'm sure we've all ruined a day by worrying about something and psyching ourselves up to "anticipate" or "prepare" for a bad outcome, only for us to be dead wrong, and not meet the anticipated crisis.

My quality of life improved tremously when I started shifting my behavior/outlook to be reactive to real situations that have happened, instead of living in my head, trying to predict and prepare for the infinite possible outcomes that exist for every situation.

I'm originally from Jersey but I got out of Florida after living there for a good long time. Was not prepared for fire ants, yellow flies, red tide, being pursued by an alligator...

The heat, humidity, and stagnating seasons really got to me.. I desperately wanted it to feel like there were 4 seasons instead of 2, and I missed changing leaves and snow.

I still have most my family down there, but I had to escape...

Hopefully with my Master's, probably still in this region but could see maybe moving. I'm too lame to expect any other major changes. I'm already married and we don't want kids. Hopefully easy coasting with our dogs.

Edit: Had to come back to this month old comment no one will see and edit in that I was just accepted into Counseling Master of Science program. Fuck yeah.

Pretty wild ride.. Be interesting when more details come to light.

Probably vote brigading by toxic hexbear users' alts or some other tankies.

It's also a pretty divided topic, especially with the fact that the nature of the conflict leads some people to abandon logic for emotional reasoning. Emotional reasoning makes people feel more sure of themselves and justified in their beliefs and actions.

Your emotional reasoning to justify Isreal's genocide is the same emotional reasoning Hamas uses to justify their terror attacks.

Palestinians have faced ethnic cleansing and expansionism by Isreal, which poses an existential threat for them.

You're saying Isreal is justified in mass murdering innocent civilians because a separate entity (Hamas) poses an existential threat to Isreal.

Well, let's apply that same logic to the opposing side..

By your very own logic, Hamas must be justified in their slaughter of innocent Isrealis, because the IDF and Isreali 'settlers' pose an existential threat them.

Both sides are guilty of horrendous acts, and the innocent civilians on both sides are the ones suffering. And there are ignorant people like yourself who fall into emotional (not logical) reasoning, which makes one feel more justified and sure of themselves.

But in reality, you're clouded by an inherent bias that allows you to dehumanize the innocent Palestinians and justify genocide and war crimes.

The rest of us who are able to maintain perspective are watching in horror at the evil acts being committed by both Isreal and Hamas, and sickened by people like you whose thinking has become so poisoned.

Shame on Hamas. Shame on Isreal. And shame on the people like yourself on both sides, who try to justify putrid acts of evil.

Hahahahaha I bet you don't even see the irony and hypocrisy of your claim here.

He made a bunch of baseless claims, emotional reasoning, logical fallacies, ad hominem, and "no u" as his strongest point.

This is like below average middle school level debate. If you're reading his comments and thinking he's making strong logical arguments, then I am honestly sad for both of you.

Totally agree. I don't support Hamas and their terrorism, nor do I support Isreal's genocide and ethnic cleansing.

It's astounding that they can be self-aware wolves and members of the face eating leopards at the same time.

You forgot to include Herman Cain Award holders as well.

Nice "no u" response, hahahaha.

Alright, you're either a troll or the lowest common denominator, and not worth wasting my time either way.

Go ahead and get the last word in so you can tell yourself you "won" an argument, or whatever other self-deluded rationalizations you like to commit. I don't feed trolls, so I'm not gonna bite.

So you deny Isreal's mass murder of innocent Palestinians? Or do you just not understand the meaning of the words "literally" and "genocide"?

Isreal is literally committing genocide on a larger scale than Hamas could ever dream of.

Your argument is that Isreal is morally permitted to inflict actual genocide in response to a perceived threat of genocide?

You're either oblivious to reality or living in denial, and most certainly engaging in emotional reasoning; not logic.

I 100% condemn Hamas and their terrorism, but I have been thinking of this skit a lot lately, wondering how many Isrealis are experiencing this revelation and asking "Are we the badies?"

This gets people off in various states in the U.S. It's referred to as the "gay panic" defense here.

Absolutely bullshit excuse for people to murder or commit hate crimes.

I'm a straight man and I find it very complimentary when I've had gay guys be interested in me. I take that as a compliment that I'm put together and well-groomed.

Mine did as well. I'm guessing there's a good chance you use Cerner as well? My former mental health employer switched from Cerner to a program called MyAvatar (we called it Avaturd). I didn't think I'd ever miss Cerner and all it's quirky problems...

I had to use okta for a mental health company I worked at. I had so many stages of logging in with different passwords before I could access any PHI, including a ubi key for my laptop on startup.

We still had periodic data breaches.. The sad truth is that our information just isn't safe, and breaches happen constantly.

I lost two family members to fentanyl in one year. My aunt was so fucked up she didn't realize she cracked the back of her skull open on the floor when she fell, and then she got back up and went to bed for the last time. A few months prior to this, her grand daughter died of a fentanyl overdose. The mother died many years ago due to overdose.

Fuck addiction. And fuck fentanyl in particular. I worked professionally with an adult population which had high rates of drug use, and everyone will tell you how much more dangerous it is, regardless if they're a mental health professional, a drug user, or both.

We need so much more funding for evidence-based programs and resources. We need to address and tackle homeless as well, because the two problems are so intertwined. I can't tell you how many clients I had on my caseload tell me that they never had drug use problems until they had to live on the streets.

The sad truth is that severe mental illness, disordered drug use, and homelessness are highly related, and the Department of Corrections (DOC) is the largest mental health provider in the U.S. since deinstitutionalization. It's a revolving door where an individual gets arrested, becomes sober/stable on anti-psychotics and/or mood stabilizers, is released without a proper support system, relapse occurs and/or medication is failed to be refilled, a psychotic episode or drug-induced psychosis presents, 911 is called, and rinse and repeat.

I worked exclusively with adults living at residential care facilities and assisted living facilities which this population often ended up at, especially if the courts were petitioned to assign a public administrator as a court-appointed guardian (most of my clients fell into this category). Some RCFs and ALFs were far from ideal and I hotlined facilities/assisted DHSS and DMH with investigations at various facilities.

But we need more places like this that can be described almost as a cross between a nursing facility and a halfway house, that provides residential care for these individuals (food, cleaning, meds, etc.). I worked for a 3rd party agency providing case management services for this particular population, and the type of work I did was called Community Psychiatric Rehabilitation.

I would work with these people to teach them coping skills/utilize evidence-based resources, I hosted an illness management and recovery (IMR) group, taught them how to improve their daily living abilities, helped apply for grants and resources, and I would assist people in the community (e.g. teaching budgeting skills or ensuring healthcare literacy in medical appointments). Essentially, my ultimate purpose and goal was to help these people transition from their facilities back into the community, or at least to a more independent setting.

In order to address the opioid/fentanyl crisis, we must also address the homelessness crisis as well as establish a better safety net and social programs to actually support our previously incarcerated population. There needs to be systemic change in the way we treat our criminals and individuals with severe mental illness and/or substance use disorder.

One thing that my years at that job working with that population really cemented is that black and white thinking is just a false construct, and we all really live in the grey. I worked with great humans who committed truly bad acts which they regretted deeply. It's too easy for people to marginalize this population, but they are very vulnerable individuals who deserve a proper shot at life with real support, often for the first time in their lives.

At the same time, having personal relationships and loss of members of family who fell into this population, you also have to set firm boundaries and make hard decisions to protect yourself from friends/loved ones struggling with addiction.

At the end of the day, it doesn't matter how much polish goes into it. A polished turd is still but a turd..