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Cake day: January 22nd, 2024

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  • Maybe, but like you say, is this an absurd parody of an insane rightwing nutjob, or just an insane rightwing nutjob? So hard to tell, and these days I find Onion headlines about what the GOP says completely plausible, no longer reacting “surely not?!” but instead “of course they do.”

    In any case this is an attitude from yesteryear that should have stayed there and needs calling out.

    If it was sarcasm, I’m agreeing with the intent of its author and if it wasn’t, I’m gleefully disagreeing.



  • I think the person who you’re replying to wasn’t laughing at people with addiction problems at all, rather they were pouring scorn and skepticism on the idea that some wonder drug can fix all the problems of people who end up with drug addictions.

    Let’s take homeless people for example (who are frequently people who were in the care system as children, so don’t have parents or relatives to go back and live with when money gets too tight).

    All the things that I do to cope with my (much less serious) problems, like chill on the sofa on my phone, take a long bath, go for a nap on my bed, hang out with my friends at the pub, talk it all over with my wife or my dad, none of those are open to them. Sleeping rough is painful. How do you escape that?

    So to expand on what @gibmiser@lemmy.world said, if you treat the drug addiction of a homeless person on its own, you will completely and utterly fail to treat the drug addiction problem.





  • Interesting. Yes.

    If you feel this as a loss, I’m sure that if you let this be known widely enough in your friend group, someone will offer to help you out with the missing sensory data.

    And if not, there’s definitely an app for that. Just put that on your profile.




  • Eeeeeeee brbrbrbbrbrll gzzzd
    Ding-ur-ding-ur-ding brrp
    cshshshshshshshshshshshshshshshshshshshshsh…

    Actually I quite liked that bit. It was reassuring and familiar and you knew it was working.

    What I didn’t like was taking 20 minutes to download a tiny video, anyone picking up the phone instantly killing your connection including the software download you’d been watching download for the last 15 minutes and the cost per minute and unreliability that taught me to connect, download my email, open my messages page, on the forum, disconnect, write all the forum replies in notepad and email replies in my client, then dial up again, hit sync on the email client and paste all my replies back in the forum.