oh that’s excellent! that sounds like as comprehensive of a solution as i could desire

during the API purge the did a mass undeletion of everything, I think. stuff I wrote and deleted years ago was unearthed. People were deleting things en masse and reddit threw a fit. they went beyond undeleting recent things and just restored literally everything, it seems

we are in a dimaryp!!!

Congrats on being an exception to the penulatimate part of your comment then? My point is that “hivemind” is already a thought-terminating cliche. If you’re using it while seeking in-depth conversation, what do you expect to get? Hence me saying you “might as well be” such as such – which is very different from treating you like an enemy. Seems like you gave a bit of that hostility back though! And why? Because this conversation revolves around a thought-terminating cliche like “hivemind”.

fellow in-between, how can we describe ourselves? the one that everyone comes to for tech support (eg we know how to ctrl+v) but around actual programmers we just stare blankly.

I tried to create an account on db0 and the application wanted to know my favortie OSS creator or something, I just told them i have no idea what that means but I’ll be nice. if we had a word for what we are, I’d have used that!

“hivemind” is such a stupid bullshit concept. the only people who use it just don’t like being disagreed with. if you use the term “hivemind” you might as well be a reddit conservative

so if i create an account with a VPN on a separate computer, but then go back to browsing on my main computer without a VPN, they’ll eventually connect the dots?

smoking

gay

Amazon

conspiracy

racism

mental health

my culture good, foreign culture bad

that is SO cool, can you write dick wolf

I’ve never seen a roundabout with a queue

I thought that referred to anti homeless spikes

never heard of lemmy one

I’m sorry, hold up, what do you think I’m doing here? When someone comes to me for a drug and alcohol eval, I dont tell them what to do. I ask what they want, if they think their use is a problem, if they want treatment, etc. All I do is provide options. That’s what individualized person-centered care is.

What makes you think i do anything different?

I can provide you resources on substance use disorders if you really want but I do this for a living so I’m not eager to. I would say look into ASAM. Addiction Medicine is a developing field but we’re finding more empowering ways to help people through validation and support.

the problem in the language here is really what does mental disorder really mean? it isn’t about genetics. a disorder just means life is out of order. etiology is irrelevant. is the framing of it as a mental disorder somehow uncomfortable to you? it might seem critical if you still think of MH issues as “mental illnesses”, but that’s not what’s going on. identifying problematic behavioral patterns as a psychological problem enables us to treat it appropriately instead of with stigma.

and to be clear, no one is expected to do what they don’t want to do.

substance use disorders are absolutely a mental disorder and it’s damaging to treat them as anything else. too long they’ve been considered moral failings and people are fucking dying because of it. when a substance gets in the way of life, that’s a disorder.

as for doing what you want… im not arguing for sobriety or abstinence, that’s another approach to addiction that KILLS PEOPLE. you can still do what you want.

Heya, I’d love to follow up with you on some of this stuff. This actually isn’t accurate for the current understanding of addiction. Substance use disorders are more than just dependence, tolerance, and withdrawal. There are a number of other factors that constitute “addiction” (aka, SUDs). Check out the DSM criteria for cannabis use disorder for starters.

It turns out that, while not medical emergency level akin to ethanol or benzo w/d, cannabis does have some seriously addictive properties.

Really the trouble is that we misunderstand addiction itself. It’s not about chemicals. It’s about context, and overall life functioning.

Legalize all drugs. Addiction is a severe mental health disorder, not a crime. Literally end of discussion.

keyword is average. (and we must also ask, avg of who) i wonder how those above that average were treated 20 yrs ago… hmmm

", Tauren desperately interjected, eager to remind the two strangers talking about their own bodies that he hates fat people.

it’s okay to hate bodies that dont conform to the fantasy standard, didn’t you get that memo?

it’s also fine to hate addicts and neurodivergents and anyone that suffers consequences from behavioral patterns, because anything short of perfection is shit, dontchaknow. god i hate myself