stellar lake

If your community isn't 100% voluntary & I can't just leave at any time without consequences, I don't want it.

respectfully this could easily be interpreted as saying 'i categorically abdicate any and all reciprocal responsibility to the people around me'. not that i'm saying that's what you intended to say

not sure if you meant it as such, but this forms a decent argument that human civilization is fundamentally doomed to be bad for people, since no one can leave the planet, so society as a whole is a community where people can't leave, and much of the harm done by people in power is just what the problems you describe look like at scale. this might also be an argument that we need to figure out how to have healthy communities when people can't leave if we want the world to actually get better, especially if we don't want people arguing that infinite space colonialism is necessary to enable good society

I think people should know that if you feel like this update, especially if you feel you’ve gone from the first post to the second over time, you should try to get a sleep study and an ENT assessment. conditions that impare your ability to breathe while sleeping are far more common than many people realize, and you will not feel rested after sleep unless you get enough oxygen at night. sleep apnea is the one people know, but there’s all kinds of ways your airways might be partially obstructed enough to ruin your sleep quality. if you constantly feel tired and like sleep barely helps anything, please put sleep issues high on your list of conditions to get checked for. the fixes can sometimes be extremely simple, and the long term risks of leaving an issue like that unaddressed include chronic damage to basically anything in your body that’s supposed to be repaired during sleep, as well as a risk of silently suffocating to death in your sleep with the more severe conditions.

yeah, it's rarely the whole picture, but I have so many friends who spend almost a decade chasing down various leads for fatigue causes and feeling like whatever progress they made eventually came undone, only for addressing their sleep issues to be what made other things stick. I'm quite familiar with the endless mess of chronic fatigue causes, and it seems like sleep issues make basically all of them worse and harder to treat. I'm sorry to hear that it's still so bad for you, may we all have the circumstances to get better be forthcoming, shit's hard enough to deal with before drowning in fatigue.

I think people should know that if you feel like this update, especially if you feel you've gone from the first post to the second over time, you should try to get a sleep study and an ENT assessment. conditions that impare your ability to breathe while sleeping are far more common than many people realize, and you will not feel rested after sleep unless you get enough oxygen at night. sleep apnea is the one people know, but there's all kinds of ways your airways might be partially obstructed enough to ruin your sleep quality. if you constantly feel tired and like sleep barely helps anything, please put sleep issues high on your list of conditions to get checked for. the fixes can sometimes be extremely simple, and the long term risks of leaving an issue like that unaddressed include chronic damage to basically anything in your body that's supposed to be repaired during sleep, as well as a risk of silently suffocating to death in your sleep with the more severe conditions.

“I asked ChatGPT—” Ok, well I asked The Narrator, and he told me that no, there’s never been a mirror there, that’s a wall. Stop wasting time asking questions, go to the basement and slay the princess already.

it fucken WIMDY

Happy 7 year anniversary to “it fucken WIMDY”!

at some point you have to realize that you actually have to read to understand the nuance of anything. we as a society are obsessed with summarization, likely as a result of the speed demanded by capital. from headlines to social media (twitter being especially egregious with the character limit), people take in fragments of knowledge and run with them, twisting their meaning into a kaleidoscope that dilutes the message into nothing. yes, brevity is good, but sometimes the message, even when communicated with utmost brevity, requires a 300 page book. sorry.

this post is apparently going around terf circles now so i feel like i should let y'all know that you are agreeing with a transsexual lesbian who fucks nasty. get the fuck off my post and also your "feminism" is anything but.

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