If you are lucky enough to have a paper towel dispenser, dry your hands with one, use it to open the door, then prop it open with a foot while you throw away the paper towel

republicans are already trying to make those things federally illegal regardless of insurance. No reason to hesitate on a public option when it’s already weaponized. Not like private insurers will cover care if it’s been banned

Witness the blood moon’s fall…

damn it, and just when I believed I had an original thought today

was she going to be teaching at clown school

It’s largely not worth freaking out over, in the sense that they are ubiquitous enough that it’s impossible to meaningfully avoid. By all means reduce your exposure if you can do so without great inconvenience, but we are all collectively inundated with the stuff and just have to wait for science to figure out what effects (if any) it will have. “Only worry about what you can control” and all that.

Definitely kick the vape habit, that can easily drag down your entire life and become a huge financial drain to boot.

If you use a lot of caffeine - try reducing or eliminating that as well. Chronic use can cause physical anxiety symptoms, and when your baseline is already elevated, it makes everything that much worse.

Try talk therapy in addition to medication. If the Zoloft helps reduce the SI, then it’s definitely working, and instead of switching from it you might ask about the possibility of adding something else to blunt the anxiety.

Try meditation; it may seem like bunk at first, but a big part of social anxiety is focusing too much on yourself during interactions, and mindfulness meditation is basically exercise for that muscle of awareness (in a safe environment, when you are alone), which can potentially lead to the ability to catch yourself and redirect out of an anxious spiral. If that spiral is self-reinforcing, like you’re afraid of feeling anxious which contributes to even more anxiety, meditation may also help you sit with the feelings when they arise and sort of empathize with them. Anxiety is a very valid emotion, it’s part of our body’s self-defense mechanisms, but if those mechanisms are activating in unnecessary situations, to a certain extent we have to teach our body that there’s no danger. Easier said than done, but not impossible.

And of course - this is not medical advice, just some things that have helped me with similar struggles. please run these ideas by your doctors and/or mental health professionals before employing them.

and if you swing the other way I’m sure it’d work on some dudes too

unfortunately if they’re dead by then we won’t get a follow up post

Bellular News did a decent video in the aftermath. https://youtu.be/sMTqibwya1k

“Brachiosaurus puke crater” is an excellent band name

While I largely agree with you, the brain rot isn’t this extreme in all of us. The brash are already shouting while the measured weigh their words.

I hadn’t noticed “defy”. That does make it seem a little more intentional, although the OP has gone back to the original words in their posts since then, so I’m not sure I believe it. 🤔

What’s the joke? It reads more like you didn’t notice or didn’t know “depose”.

*glances at publisher I’m sure close proximity to the Annapurna drama hasn’t helped this creator’s mental health along the way

if you’re going to be spamming that you could at least bother getting all three of the words correct

everyday, meat-and-potatoes murder

bruh

It wasn’t, but now that somebody came back and screwed up the timeline, the utopian future they originally came from got detached from our causality. Can’t get there from here anymore. :(

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It’s kind of a cool premise for a fantasy setting or something like that, but believing this is true in real life should earn you a padded room