anageorge.art
Minnesotan. Working on a graphic novel about #LatviaInWWII. Three cats. Obsessions: art, fountain pens, black metal, journaling, Rimworld.
And when the pendulum reaches / The peak of its arc / There will only be one truth / And it's a bitter one
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Oh yeah sorry I wasn’t implying that they weren’t. It was more a way of saying my experience is really limited lol.
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It’s just a different way of doing the same thing though, but instead it’s trying to talk down at you and make you look small by asserting that he’s an intellectual in the room.
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I’ve never had this happen to me, but that’s likely because my circles have always run with people who are high achievers in academia. If anything I run into a problem where men talk like they’re consulting a thesaurus to use the most obscure or longest word they can find for what they actually mean
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Ope, sorry for dumping all that on you — new med put me into a manic episode (only realizing this now after finally getting my first night of sleep in 5 days lolol). But yeah, no need to get into it if you don’t feel like it obv 🫂
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So. I wish I could offer advice or solutions. But I think I might be right there with you with almost everything you’re feeling, and possibly for similar reasons. And… yeah.
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Huge yikes
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lmao
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lmao
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Jay and I fortunately don’t have fights over driving, but — and I haven’t told him this — his driving makes me anxious (he’s a bit of a tailgater) so I solve that by offering to be the driver for everything lol. Works out though bc he hates driving while I love it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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But it took years of driving to develop that.Over time you start picking up on little cues — eg “they’re driving slow and they’re in an exit-only lane and they’re kinda hugging the line a little too much — they’re not paying attention and will do a sudden lane change right before the exit”
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I feel like I’ve developed a spidey-sense and when Jay is in the car with me while I’m driving I’ll often call out what cars are about to do right before they do it. It’s hard to explain but some cars just have “they’re about to be a dumbass” vibes lol
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Maybe I’m not the best person to give reassurance because I fucking love driving and when I’m in my car it feels like an extension of my body.
But honestly, that also comes with experience that you don’t really get even as an attentive passenger.
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omg I can’t stand backseat driving. My mom does that — like she’ll be like “WATCH OUT!” and it’ll be something I totally saw already but her outburst will startle me so much it’s actually dangerous. I’ve blown up at her about it. Like, I have zero accidents or tickets (knock on wood) I think I’m ok
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I didn’t know who they were before my bf at the time encouraged me to try applying (he worked in our university’s supercomputing institute). I looked them up and was like oh, okay, so they invented the fucking supercomputer lol
My coworkers were some of the smartest people I think I’ll ever meet.
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Oh I get anxiety when I’m a passenger too but that’s because I have a superiority complex and usually think I’m a much better driver than whoever is behind the wheel lolol. Though in my defense I do know some dogshit drivers.
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Every single project I worked on I was learning new OS concepts. I regularly had to consult reference books about the internals of the Linux kernel. I fucking loved it.
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I totally agree — I worked for Cray. You could argue they’re one of the FAANGs of supercomputing, but they were still a mid-sized company based in MN. I worked on their proprietary operating system and it was my dream job. The reason I left is complicated, but it was such FASCINATING work.
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It was literally the most difficult assignment I had in college but I was one of only a couple people in the course (and it was a lecture hall!) who actually figured it out and completed it. That shit was my jam.
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(1/2) I had to only modify a parser as an assignment for a class in college. The prof/TAs provided zero guidance and the parser we modified wasn’t an academic exercise, it was the parser for fucking postgres, a fully-fledged DBMS so there were a lot of dependencies we had to figure out on our own.
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I’m jealous, this is the kind of work I would probably really enjoy doing. Requires logic and some creativity too. And it touches on low-level concepts (a parser??) which I absolutely love learning about and working on lol
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Today I don’t even think twice about driving on highways.
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Real talk though, some degree of anxiety is normal when you first start driving and experience helps it go away. When I got my license it took me two years to build up the courage to use start using highways rather than back road routes whenever I possibly could.
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Haha no way, anxious drivers are the worst drivers and I’m no exception to that
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For fun or for work? Because both rule
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I totally agree with this. You do a really good job of being self-aware that your strong opinions are *opinions*. I’ve also never seen you talk down to anyone or invalidate other people’s opinions. Would I say you’re an elitist? I think in some ways, sure. But not in the negative sense.
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lmao.
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(I hope everyone realizes I wouldn’t drive if I *actually* felt too impaired)
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(Also I know your pain — with those gnats I mentioned, it’s not like they bite or anything but whenever I would sit down to do something my ADHD ass kept getting distracted every 10 seconds bc those little fuckers would flit in and out of my peripheral vision. Makes me mad just remembering it lol
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Do you have any plants? I had a plant that ended up getting some kind of gnat that looked exactly like fruit flies (also no fruit here). Drove me nuts until I figured out the plant was the culprit.
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Ugh I’m so sorry 🫂
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I haven’t slept more than 5 hours since Monday, so I should probably just shut up and log off until I get more sleep because clearly I am this meme this morning lmao
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Yeah I wasn’t saying that you were. I think I saw Allie’s anger at people using prescription GLP-1s who don’t “‘need’” them and wanted to point out that the shortages are ultimately a systemic issue and not the fault of individuals, but I got all scrambled up and the wrong argument came out. Bizarre
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What I was more pointing out was that people who take (prescription!) GLP-1s for weight loss aren’t the enemies in the whole prescription GLP-1 shortage/availability fiasco of the past couple of years, because it’s a totally legitimate use case for the drugs, despite their vilification as “cheats”
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(Especially because these 3rd parties and especially overseas pharmacies aren’t don’t have quality oversight, so they could literally send you anything and you wouldn’t realize it because they don’t need to prove to anyone that their product is pure or even contains the active ingredient(s) at all!)
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I realized that I think both of us might be talking about different things here lol. I was never advocating for gray market availability of GLP-1s — I 100% agree that they should be prescribed and supervised by a doctor and that you probably shouldn’t go off on your own buying counterfeit Ozempic
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Antidepressants are a medical necessity for me much like insulin is for a diabetic. It’s easy to dismiss them as “corporate substances” when you don’t need them to survive and live a normal life. I suppose you also won’t take ANY other prescriptions that are dispensed by a pharmacy?
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I’m truly happy for you that you find natural precursors to be beneficial. I did not. I’m diagnosed with Double Depression (severe reoccurring Major Depressive Disorder and Persistent Depressive Disorder combined) and I’m only alive today because I started antidepressants.
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And yeah, diet and exercise *are* ways to lose weight. But so are weight loss drugs. Why are GLP-1s a less valid method if they’re deemed safe? Studies have shown that they can provide other benefits too. They come with side effects but so does every other drug.
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See, this is what I mean by weight loss being spun into a moral issue where the only “virtuous” way to lose weight is by changing things you can control like diet and exercise. Interestingly enough those are also recommended for depression, but sometimes alone aren’t enough. Obesity is the same!
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Why is using a weight loss drug for obesity a “free ride” when, eg. using an antidepressant for severe depression isn’t? By your logic don’t antidepressants mess with natural chemistry? They’re chemicals that were invented in a lab and that artificially adjust your brain chemicals and thus your mood
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Re: supply issues, sure, manufacturing isn’t an overnight thing and a lot of these pharmaceutical companies were caught off guard by the demand when it became clear that they were great treatments for weight loss. But they’ve since claimed that they’ve “resolved” the shortages.