wise_pancake 32m ago • 100%
I have two cats and neither do this, but one wants to put her face as close to my mouth as possible. I can’t trust her though because sometimes she’ll touch my lips with her paw which is gross, and other times she’ll just sneeze onto my face from 0.5” away.
The other likes to sleep on me but panics every time I move even a little bit.
wise_pancake 33m ago • 100%
I have two cats, one does this.
If I adjust at all he jumps off the bed, grumbles and runs to the hallway. Then he glares at me from the darkness until he’s sure I won’t move again and comes back to sit in the exact same position.
wise_pancake 35m ago • 100%
My wife stopped watching 100% because of Neelix.
She just could not watch him be an attempt at comedic relief, plus Kes and his weird relationship.
wise_pancake 49m ago • 100%
Thanks, that does help. I’ve mostly seen inks as black but the colours are nice here
wise_pancake 2h ago • 100%
Yeah, it's something I'm very capable of, but 99% of people wouldn't be able to do.
Between the bank issuing mortgages, the insurance companies covering the asset and assessing risk, the municipality setting my property tax rates, and the realty brokerages managing the buyers, somebody should be modelling and providing detailed pricing analysis.
This feels like an upsell to use their services, and yet...
wise_pancake 3h ago • 100%
I didn’t realize how much depression was affecting me, so probably very different underlying issues to you.
wise_pancake 4h ago • 100%
I heard mot single handedly took down an entire terrorist cell trying to steal trilithium from the enterprise. Picard tried taking the credit though.
The radio logs clearly indicate it was Mr Mot.
It was exactly like Die Hard.
wise_pancake 4h ago • 100%
What does off label mean?
wise_pancake 5h ago • 100%
Mine worked out well but was much worse than I expected. The doctor said I might feel “slightly more” anxiety as normal, which is the understatement of the century.
My first two and a half weeks were absolute hell like that, plus lots of digestive issues. Week 3 that faded but I had some depression, fuzzy thinking, and suicidal thoughts (more impulses). At this point I was no longer actively feeling anxious so I decided to continue. Week 4/5 I felt I had a lot more energy and wasn’t getting anxiety from my usual triggers.
I know they don’t work for everyone, but I’m at week 6 and it feels life changing to me. I feel much sharper, more focused, and happier than I have in 15 years or more.
Hopefully you find a solution that works for you. There’s no substitute for trying something and knowing it’s not working for you, so I don’t mean to diminish your experience.
I’d read a lot of negative things online about SSRIs and it was quite discouraging for me. People are very vocal about disliking them. I’m trying to toss out my own experience so it hopefully encourages people to try meds.
So far I don’t have weight gain, I’m within my normal range for the last 7 years, weight gain was a big fear I had.
wise_pancake 6h ago • 100%
Beautiful!
Is this ink or watercolour? How did you learn to create art like this, I’d love to learn this style!
wise_pancake 6h ago • 100%
They do require credentials in most places, I know they do in Ontario, not sure about Quebec. Is more about the rules, and after that it’s all marketing.
What astounds me is how little thought most Canadians put into researching a home and pricing their offers. Mostly it’s just guessing close to a nearby house.
We had considered flood maps, and I used statistical models plus machine learning to tune my bid prices. I actually had a lot of fun with the whole thing.
wise_pancake 8h ago • 100%
He can talk about it as long as he doesn't reveal specifics.
What's he going to do as PM, continue to not look?
wise_pancake 8h ago • 100%
Imagine finding out the embassador spock defected to spend his life slaughtering foes in Tsunkatse matches
wise_pancake 2d ago • 100%
Have you seen his books?
Awful sexist crap where he blames his ex wife putting out too soon for him cheating on her. Then the whole point of the book is that women need to use sex to control the relationship or men will never respect them.
His books make my blood boil.
Also he calls sex “the cookie”, like an 11 year old.
wise_pancake 3d ago • 75%
That would violate the laws of thermodynamics, you can’t create more energy in a closed system.
wise_pancake 3d ago • 80%
I suspect they couldn’t replicate dilithium because they’d be consuming dilithium, converting it to energy, then converting that energy back to dilithium.
The laws of thermodynamics state that this would be inefficient.
wise_pancake 3d ago • 100%
- Extreme amounts of energy needed for large items, but it seems like Earth has transporter quotas, so presumably they enforce energy budgets (based on DS9 Sisko using his transporter budget)
- Not all materials like latinum can be replicated
- Materials like dilithium are seemingly not viable to replicate, probably due to it being an incredibly wasteful process
- Many dilithium byproducts are unstable controlled substances, so at some point Starfleet would interfere to prevent the creation of trilithium or other unstable substances.
- I don’t know if you need antimatter, but I don’t think you could replicate it. You could replicate the machinery needed to produce it though.
- The Federation does have industrial replicators but they seem to be treated as controlled assets they rarely give out or provide access to. So they might meddle if you start building these.
wise_pancake 3d ago • 100%
What happened to those facts over feelings?
wise_pancake 3d ago • 100%
Same here, was on Reddit since 2010.
I remade an account because some of my communities aren’t big enough here. But the quality of interaction through the fediverse is much much better.
For sports, Reddit has utterly ruined them because in the app they show the results for every F1 Grand Prix as soon as the race finishes in an unremovable “trends” tile. I often can’t watch live, and so I had almost every race this season spoiled.
wise_pancake 3d ago • 100%
I don’t agree, the longer I’ve been here the more familiar usernames I see, so to me it’s been improving.
::: spoiler Trigger Warning suicidal thoughts ::: --- Hey all, I want to thank you all again for my previous thread and the support you all gave me. I can't state enough how helpful you all were for me in that moment, I am so grateful to you all! After my previous post I saw my doctor, they prescribed escitalopram, and I went through two weeks of hell (stomach issues, constant anxiety for no reason, and chills). After the 2.5 week mark things got much better for me. At 4 weeks I'm feeling much better. I can do tasks that I previously struggled with. My anxiety is much better, it's not reaching the levels of panic or struggle. Now that the feeling side is better I can see things which are behavioural (I'm trying to get back to CBT, but now there are waitlists). Overall it feels like my life went from VHS quality to HD. Literally colours seem brighter, tastes and smells are better, and touch feels much nicer. I do have one question: has anyone had suicidal thoughts while on escitalopram, and did they subside over time? I had suicidal thoughts before taking the meds, at least since I was 9/10 years old. I have them regularly especially when anxiety or depression hit. It's more thinking about it than an impulse to action on it. Normally I wouldn't think much of it, but the last several days those thoughts have been more intrusive and more impulsive. I was warned this can be a side effect and I'm still early on so I'm wondering if this is something that subsides? I don't honestly feel that I will action on these thoughts, and generally I feel good, so I'm hoping this won't be a dealbreaker or get worse. I do plan to talk to my wife about it, I've never really shared these thoughts with her, but I don't want to worry her.
I had fun with this one, it’s a bit messy though In my head there was a heavenly light pouring out from the grocery store. I’ve never used my marker pen before so decided to try it out, I like the feel of it
I don’t often shade with brush pens, and I’m rusty on my lining, but I had fun
S5 E3 Ensign Ro Mot talking over Picard feels like a latinum mine for memes.
Hey all, I hope this post is okay I'm currently going through a very high anxiety moment and have been having panic attacks all weekend. I'm still in one. I've got a doctor appointment scheduled for next week, but I need some encouragement and advice to calm things down right now. I have avoidant anxiety. When I was a student and I started having panic attacks for the first time. I couldn't force myself out of the house and stopped showing up at work and got myself fired and failed out of my classes. It took me years to recover. I found a therapist privately back then and did CBT and it helped make things manageable enough that for years things were okay. She's no longer working, and I specifically avoided drugs then but I think that was a mistake. I've been working for over a decade and have been carefully managing my anxiety with only a couple incidents. I worked in small companies, then did independent contracting, but now I've been in corporate jobs since COVID. The last couple years I've been really struggling with my anxiety. As soon as everyone started doing mass layoffs and tightening the belt I've been struggling hard. The last few months it's gotten exponentially wise, and it's beyond my ability to manage. I can't focus anymore, sitting at my desk gives me a panic attack every day, then I fail to meet my deadlines, so I stay up all night pushing myself, which boosts my anxiety. I feel like I'm on a treadmill running full speed, but I'm tired, I can't breath anymore, I have that feeling if I run anymore my legs will collapse. But I'm on a treadmill, if I fall I get wrangled and crushed, even though I know I can't keep running. Man I just need someone to say they know how I feel, that I'm not alone, and to help me push the next week until my appointment. Edit: thank you everyone, you all helped me through that moment and I'm feeling clearer right now. You said some things that were what I needed to hear, with concrete advice, and I can't express how much I appreciate that. It's going to be a rough week and I have a lot to think about
TNG S4E16 Galaxy's Child This episode has so much cringe in it. Geordie setting up a meeting and trying to make it into a date is a lot. Plus omitting that he had the computer summarize her files to resolve a critical crisis, while using the information he got from her file in discussing with her is not good. Brahms does an excellent job letting him down and putting up firm boundaries. But oh god, when she discovers the holodeck program, and then Geordie rant! It's tough to watch in a totally different way than the Quark Gender swap episode.
(OC) Inspired by https://dubvee.org/post/1489076
I just watched Measure of a Man, they rule Data has the right to choose. But in Voyager the EMH gets relegated to forced servitude. Why? Doesn’t that violate precedent?
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre stepped into the debate over trans rights on Wednesday, saying "biological males" should be banned from women's sports, change rooms and bathrooms. "Female spaces should be exclusively for females, not for biological males," Poilievre said in Kitchener, Ont. The Conservative leader made the comments after being asked if, as prime minister, he would introduce legislation to prevent "transgender women" or "biological men" from participating in female sports or entering female prisons and shelters. "A lot of the spaces … are provincially and municipally controlled, so it is unclear ... what reach federal legislation would have to change them," Poilievre said. "But obviously female sports, female change rooms, female bathrooms should be for females, not for biological males," he added.
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre stepped into the debate over trans rights on Wednesday, saying "biological males" should be banned from women's sports, change rooms and bathrooms. "Female spaces should be exclusively for females, not for biological males," Poilievre said in Kitchener, Ont. The Conservative leader made the comments after being asked if, as prime minister, he would introduce legislation to prevent "transgender women" or "biological men" from participating in female sports or entering female prisons and shelters. "A lot of the spaces … are provincially and municipally controlled, so it is unclear ... what reach federal legislation would have to change them," Poilievre said. "But obviously female sports, female change rooms, female bathrooms should be for females, not for biological males," he added.