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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
We don't understand happiness or contentment and so money is the north star.
So our society is run by brain broken rich people, who continue a destructive pattern of behavior long after it's useful. To them I guess happiness feels like materialism. I assume that's why they project jealousy on everyone and view everything as a zero sum game.
It's kinda hard not to be depressed and to live without pills when you realize that practically all of the world's problems are entirely artificial, and most could be solved in a manner of years.
If it wasn't for bloodthirsty, sociopathic pedophiles and mass murderers, for whom the only objective in life is creating as much suffering as possible and raping as many children as possible.
The entire world came together to fix a massive hole in our atmosphere.
But we can't be bothered to feed people.
Take your Soma.
dick pills. let little brain drive a while 🧠
Yes, some people actually need antidepressants but we will never know who those people are because the bar is so low for prescribing antidepressants.
fill out a short questionnaire with limited options for answers.
no further significant clinical evaluation done like bloodwork, scans or testing is performed. Providers are just eyeball low levels of hormones in your brain.
not enough time for a provider to come up with a proper treatment in a 15 minute appointment. Providers can't overhaul the system they work in. They have 40 other people to see today.
Kickbacks. Wait, that's illegal and never happens.
Nowadays it's this is kinda transparency is hard to get 🤔 who say to your face I am fooling you
"Sounds like a you problem"
I don't appreciate this characterization of antidepressants but I do understand it
Good enough for me. Can I have them, please?
Oof. And your insurance won't cover the ones that work for you so hope you can get a hardship application in.
Or the doctor won't prescribe the one you know works unless you try 2-3 that gave you a psychotic break last time because "It works for most people".
...y'all found ones that work?
because ~~“It works for most people”.~~ "The drug reps catered us Outback last week."
I mean sure, you're going to be climbing the walls and losing your shit for 90+ days (if you're lucky) but on the other hand...... That Bloomin onion!!
That's fair. Your therapist isn't there to fix the whole world with you.
That what you do outside the therapy room
They don't even do that. I still hate it here, I just don't get so easily sucked into an immobilizing "death spiral" of dwelling on just how badly I want to not be on this planet
We totally can. It's just difficult to get past that some people want more than others even if that means harming them.
I'm not even against some people having a little more or less. Some people genuinely like subsistence farming and singing in the town choir and chilling in the woods. Some people like gaming computers or kayaks or rock climbing. Some people like cocaine, or rockets, or super computers. That's all fine. You don't need to push a rocket powered super computing gaming yacht on the peasantry fetishist. They don't want that and will not appreciate you for it.
Its the hoarding and bullshit I can't with. The inefficiency. The having so much at the expense of more existing. The militarized bullshit to keep the inequalities and inefficiencies. The arrangement of the entire world around them.
No real notes except I kinda dream of combining your first two examples into one lifestyle, I dunno if that's even really a thing but...
...I mean, also, like, if you can run fiber optic cables along the ocean floor, you should be able to run them into the woods.
I dunno. An honest simple life aligned with nature and enjoying computers should be a thing. Nat Geo explorers and people that run solar powered websites off of Pis and stuff know what I'm talking about lol.
I'm pretty sure that's just Vermont that you want
I've gamed on a secret weed farm deeeep in the woods. The networking is a little iffy sometimes, but even with our current infrastructure it can be done. We had an electric water heater, TV, full kitchen, and game consoles, half an hour's hard hike and half an hour's drive to the general store in summer (more complex in winter), a couple hours to the nearest town. Latency spikes happened, weather happened, but the internet was there. We never had to go out for fruit or veggies, but didn't grow our own grains/carbs, and didn't have any meat/dairy animals.
You don't need to live by a script. Figure out the life you want. As long as it doesn't fuck with anyone else, you deserve it.
Some people take joy in hurting others. I have no faith that we can fix that.