I got prescribed a lower dose until I had the lowest. Then i split that in half. Then took it every other day.
It maybe helped some, but I still went through hell once I stopped. It was like my brain was re-wiring. It was 4-6 months of brain zaps and extreme emotions until I finally started to level out.
Lexapro helped when I was in a deep funk. However it also numbed me out. Coming off it after 4 years was horrible.
Search for brain zaps. It can be a thing
He should say F it and run as an independent.
There was literally nothing like Star Wars before Star Wars.
As someone who was alive in the 70’s, there really was nothing like it. Not that was any good and not in the main stream.
I don’t mean there wasn’t science fiction or fantasy or whatever. I mean, it generally sucked and was low budget schlock.
Lucas took that shit so seriously he practically had a heart attack making the first one. It shows, for audiences at the time, it was a game changer.
It was a blockbuster where people were waiting in line for DAYS to see it.
You look at it now and I can see how it’d look mid. But, it pretty much launched science fiction/fantasy movies as a mainstream thing.
Because Disney completely murdered the post OT era. There’s nowhere to go from where they left it and nobody is interested in seeing it.
So they just keep going back to the well in and around the OT.
I think the Acolyte is fine, but bland. It’s on par with most of what they’re doing in general. It’s ok and it’s silly to get mad about.
All in all, Disney has zero imagination and little understanding of what made the original SW special and different. That’s fine, it is what it is.
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This is an excellent read.
I remember hearing about the “free Tibet” movement in the 80s and 90s. I thought it sounded like justice.
I was also taken in by Scorcese’s Kundun and the peaceful sounding Dalai Lama.
Reading about accounts like this drastically changed my attitude. This is not the first one I’ve read about how Tibet used to be, but this is definitely a strong, personal account.
Bottom left: Comrade Chad.
Of course Eric Prince is going to advocate for funding private military contractors.
The piece of shit that he is with his private army.
What kind of bug?
Can’t read the article without creating an account. Anybody wanna summit up?
First past the post system is designed to keep the liberal and neoliberal parties in power.
You know what reduces copyright infringement? Making content available, affordable and accessible.
In the golden days of Netflix, I hardly torrented anything.
There’s also a “I’m not going to get some bullshit masquerading as the movie I was looking for.” thing in place.
I belong to a couple private trackers. I use them nearly exclusively and have never once downloaded a bullshit file/virus/whatever. It’s happened a couple times on public ones.
I know who the good uploaders are and know that seeding on the private isn’t going to get me flagged to my ISP, which happened twice before going off public.
I guess what I’m wondering is: why wouldn’t you use one if you can find what you’re looking for?
Love this story.
Some real axis of evil shit going down. Anyone who questions if they’re the baddies at this point is intentionally being obtuse.
Yeah, that part is super fucked up. I have IoT in my ceiling fans. I had to call their support line to have them remotely turn off the beeping that accompanies a button press.
The feature can’t be deactivated locally. I literally had to have my ceiling fan join my Wi-Fi network so that support could remote in and disable a beep that no one could possibly want.
Oh yeah, my oven has Wi-Fi. What possible reason could there be for my oven to have network access? It’s beyond ridiculous.
And then there’s the subscription model. Where you don’t own or even license software. You just continually pay rent.
I probably had it worse than most due to my raging neurodiversity. My brain 💯 does not have enough serotonin /dopamine.
Even so it could have just been my specific brain chemistry. But it’s worth keeping in mind because there’s a framing of “safe” antidepressants.
Don’t get me wrong, I needed something at the time. In hindsight, a career change and therapy would have been the better option. I have sensory issues that cause anxiety at the best of times. I was dealing with intense personal trauma and grief. Given my situation and choices, the chemical bandaid did help.