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This is true of every profession, except some of them also ruin people's fucking lives and it isn't an excuse.

"Cops need to be paid more if you don't want them shooting innocent people." ass take.

I agree with this, but as someone with ADHD who needs it to perform my fucking job, I am also all of these things except also untreated for ADHD because someone else also isn't doing their job to even basic competency. Like I know there's a million zillion reasons it sucks but those are never the reasons we're given. The reasons we're given day in day out are "well, we fucked up and here's an excuse that doesn't even make sense."

If we push back on those reasons AT ALL we're instantly treated like medication seeking strung out addicts who are angry because they can't get their street drugs that they probably give away for free to babies to get them hooked and dependent on drugs while putting razor blades in their candy or whatever the the fucking news fed WASP stereotype is.

It's not about being annoyed that sometimes mistakes happen and people are generally treated like shit as laborers, including pharmacists. I've never met an ADHD person who doesn't understand that the systems are shit, the regulations are shit, the wages and staffing is shit, etc. What we don't understand and what's so frustrating is why the fuck they simultaneously think the words they're saying are even consistent (if not valid) excuses, and why the fuck we're treated like shit (which again, even if we were addicts is a piss poor way to treat people, but that's a separate argument). It's not a single event. It's every single pharmacy, every single pharmacist, every single prescription, with VERY RARE exceptions.

Being someone that's also got friends and family taking BPD meds, anti-depressants, etc, even they think it's absurd how hard it is to fill an ADHD prescription compared to literally everything they take. The entire medical attitude towards ADHD is fucking toxic.

Edit: Just to add because I think it's important, I know literally none of this is their fault and is entirely the result of shit policies, shit circumstances, and shitloads of propaganda. I know they're mostly now just retail employees, none of the above is ever any reason to treat them like shit either. I was just defending OPs rant that I am overwhelmingly sure they came here to have instead of being annoyed at the pharmacist, because if they had it at the pharmacy they'd have included "and now my life is basically a million times harder because they decided the minute I was agitated that I was never allowed to take a controlled substance again."

Glad to hear you're on the mend, hope everything all healed up well and you got some good cans to replace the broken ones. I really need to dig my set out and get around to replacing the cable with a TRS jack so I can stop replacing the cable every 12-24 months and just plug the cable in at the headphone end too.

PSA: For anyone experience this all the time at night, but especially when it's rainy/wet. it is most likely their dipshit headlights... buuuuut you should also get an eye exam if you've got the opportunity to do so. I know that's extremely out of reach for a lot of folks but if you can, you should.

It's extremely common for halos, streaky/blurry lights, etc. at night to be early or uncaught indicators of eyesight conditions like:

• Astigmatism
• Glaucoma
• Cataracts
• Keratoconus
• Etc.
   

The good thing is pretty much all of those are extremely treatable and not a big deal especially when caught early. There's also the possibility that it's literally none of that shit, but if it's been more than a year, get your eyes checked anyway. You need to be able to see to aim at fascists.

Again, there's almost a 100% chance it's the headlights and just rain and lights being shit at night, but, as has happened to two of my friends, you can also maybe find out it's your eyes being weird shapes and they fix it real easy and it's literally the difference between not being able to drive at night and being fine but occasionally struggling.

Plus on the off chance it's Glaucoma, you really wanna catch it early.

You should because it's something you want to do. I could argue that it's literally always dope as hell because it's either really attractive or really badass or both, but never none, but that's all really irrelevant because my main point is do it for you. Fuck everyone else. If they don't like it they can die mad about it. (They'll probably like it tho.)

Optimist: Glass half full.

Pessimist: Glass half empty.

Engineer: There's twice as much glass as there needs to be for it to be 'within tolerance'.

Anybody checked on Extractions&Ire ?

Literally any time I get confronted for wearing a mask I just tell people (while slipping in small clearing of throat sounds) that I am currently positive for COVID, but we can't live in fear any more so I'm just trying to infect as few people as possible while getting back to normal.

As soon as they start freaking out at you because they now are able to conceptualize a hypothetical because it involves them personally, start repeating their disingenuous questions with the same tone that insinuates that they're a hypochondriac like "What are you so worried about? It's way less serious now." etc (it will 100% actually make them madder because now the hypothetical person whose safety is being dismissed is them) and once they're pissed about it you can start shaming them for their anger and ask why the fuck they mask shame people trying to make (literally any, even if only token) effort to protect themselves and others if they're so fucking mad about it when it personally involves them.

I bounce between that and making extremely belittling jokes about 9/11 (it helps that I'm a non American in America) only to completely dismiss their indignation and tone policing afterward by comparing the months where we losing more people per day than 9/11 because dipshits like them were too selfish to literally sit on their fucking hands and wait for the situation to slowly be brought back into control instead of making it worse, and asking why they can dismiss dozens of 9/11s and I can't dismiss the ONE that convinced them all to go a on a 20 year mass murder spree.

So I guess tl;dr: extreme hostility.

The rock seems like an asshole with a good PR team but I mostly base that on him being a whiny baby about Vin Diesel who seems kinda ok with a bad PR team, as well as crying about Dave Bautista daring to want more out of life than "Big angry dumb man used to wrestle but now same movie over and over".

John Cena seems like the best bet for us tbh. Filmed himself shopping in Chinese markets during the beginning of COVID to show "Wet markets" and the hysteria around them is literally just xenophobia for what we'd call a butcher or deli or fish market or whatever, and how it's nothing but harmful to whip ourselves up into frenzies over shit we don't understand.

That being said he also continued to put his foot on his mouth over and over again during that time by accidentally repeating silly shit or referring to Taiwan as a country, but also seemed genuine when apologizing and honest about it being a matter of him phrasing things indelicately or generalizing with terms that only made the situation worse for everyone. I dunno, this is all shit I'm pulling from several years ago memory and it seems like a fever dream. It's possible I just made it all up on the spot from delusions/dreams.

I re-watch this at least once a year religiously just because it's the best worst best good bad movie, and is so ridiculous and weirdly not all at the same time.

As a former STEM lord who quit Aero eng in their third year because I didn't wanna make weapons for capitalists, they're 100000000% a symptom of our society (but one we will still have to eliminate in a socialist one, but not nearly the same way/magnitude) rather than a something endemic to all societies.

STEM lords as we have them are a result of the same shit that makes incels, that makes reply guys, that makes debate bros, that makes twitter wine moms, etc.

There's a reason most of those things have huge overlaps with each other, and it's the crossroads of what America enshrines as it's values. Ignorance coupled with arrogance. These are problems every society faces but America in particular goes out of it's way to nourish them in it's population in order to fuel it's culture war and consumerism, and as a result it's uniquely effective at educating those traits into it's population, especially in unison.

It's also why even the most educated of them feels confident enough to "share it's expertise" on shit it has absolutely no education or involvement with, etc etc. It's not just the ignorance, it's not just the arrogance, it's the combination and the fact that we naturally select FOR it. It's even celebrated when it fits in the current cultural product, like twitch "celebs" and blue check marks opinions somehow being relevant, conducting interviews, the existence of youtubers, etc etc. The audacity to think that anyone even should hear their take let alone anyone actually wanting to.

It's a uniquely individualist mindset fostered by generations of imperial core cultural reform, as you alluded to in the education/general literacy points.

If you keep those things in mind and look back at scientists like Carl Sagan(a socialist) and listen to the way speak about our society, or look at how soviet scientists and astronauts etc were treated and treated their accomplishments (as done by and for the people, etc) even when they were being celebrated they always fostered the view that it was an accomplishment struggled for by all, that it was shared by them all, and that they were all responsible for it's risks and rewards. That a rich society had to be rich in huge and varying fields and specialties and that the same was true of people to understand each other, even (perhaps even especially) when they hyper-specialized in the thing they did best or enjoyed or did the most good for "the team".