This is why healthcare in the US sucks.

• A wealthy person will have a 24-hour hotline to connect with a nurse or doctor (immediately or through return call) with access to their medical history who will help them figure out what to do.
• A moderately well-off person will have a web/phone interface where they can send a message and someone will return their message in a day or two.
• Everyone else has to make a gamble: do I spent money to try to figure this out? Do I risk spending money and then it turns out to be nothing? But what if it’s something and it’s more expensive later on? What will my insurance pay for? How do I find someone that’s reliable, but also inexpensive? All of this causes stress which makes things worse.

In your case, think of anyone who knows your medical history and who you can ask questions of. The doctor who prescribed your anxiety medications - can you call/message them and ask them? The pharmacist who dispenses the meds - can you go/call and ask a question about your medications? Some pharmacies also have nurse / clinic stations, too. If you have any kind of medical insurance, check out their web page - a lot of them have set up tele-medicine offerings recently. If your job has an HR department, this is actually one case they can be helpful; an HR person in my company helped me figure out what health resources I had access to, based on my plan. Finally, if you haven’t been getting annual checkups, you should start thinking of doing so (especially as you get older), and ask them how you can contact them to ask questions like this.

Good luck fam, I hope it turns out OK for you.

“You’re not my sidechick, you’re my control condition!”

Go to the same restaurants at the same time under the same conditions (i.e. how recently you ate another meal, day of the week, the weather, etc.) but with a different person and see if you still feel ill. Vary the conditions until you find one that correlates with your illness. Then try altering that condition.

If you feel ill under all conditions then see a doctor. In fact it might be good to make a doctor appointment anyway.

Are you a believer in miracles?

Do you notice and recognize miracles?

I usually agree. HOWEVER… I woke up this morning, opened Lemmy, and saw this post:

And I was like… is this a shitpost? Edgy? A joke? Ironic? Skibidi? Is this what skibidi is? I honestly couldn’t tell.

Naturally, the best approach is to register on Day 1, party until Day 10, then finish the class in 4 days before the 2 week trial ends.

Ok fine but WHERE IS THEIR CAT?!?

!upliftingnews@lemmy.world might be a better link to use.

Eraserhead, Side B

The album has been seen as presaging the dark ambient music genre, and its presentation of background noise and non-musical cues has been described by Pitchfork’s Mark Richardson as “a sound track (two words) in the literal sense”. -wikipedia

The mood and tone of Eraserhead and its soundtrack were influenced by Philadelphia’s post-industrial history. Lynch lived in the city while studying painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and was fascinated by its feeling of constant danger; describing it both as a “sick, twisted, violent, fear ridden, decaying place” and “beautiful, if you see it the right way.”[8][9][1] Lynch and Splet used avant-garde approaches to recording on the soundtrack; including crafting almost every sound in the soundtrack from scratch using bizarre methods. The ambiance of the love scene in the movie, for example, was produced by recording air blown through a microphone as it sat inside a bottle floating in a bathtub.[10] Lynch and Splet worked “9 hours a day for 63 days” to produce the soundtrack and all of the sound effects in the film. Splet recalls the sound effects Lynch called on him to produce for Eraserhead as "snapping, humming, buzzing, banging, like lightning, shrieking, squealing” over the five years it took to produce the film and its soundtrack. -wikipedia

Uh… whichever one is against the rules, that’s the one I want!

Why are we in your commonwealth meme? And how can this not be cross-posted to !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone ?

BIGGIE

• Unbelievable - wordplay
• My Downfall - the flow
• N----z Bleed - storytelling

What happens if you have a Sinful Thought during “The Great Snatch”? Do you get un-Snatched? What if you immediately Repent? Do you get Snatched again? Will there be people bouncing back and forth indefinitely?

“Read The Fisherman Matthew”?

They should make it a tourism thing. I unironically want to go Garf-phone picking at Le Mer du Chat in France.

“Thoughts?”

hi I’m just a bystander, but here are a couple Lemmy summarizing bots:

• https://github.com/RikudouSage/LemmyAutoTldrBot
• https://github.com/tracyspacy/ai-tldr-bot-lemmy

I haven’t seen them in action in a while, I think they fell out of popularity.

That’s a great idea, I’ma try that from now on.

Nobody has said Die Hard?!?

See it here on !fullmoviesonyoutube@lemm.ee:

• https://lemmy.world/post/18064570

since they are by definition far beyond our technology,

There’s always a scenario like “District 9”, which involves a spaceship full of uneducated workers in a ship whose technology they don’t understand.