Chronicon

I've been questioning if its just in my head or not for a week or two

I think its real

Not unless we shift into MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE

well that's something! I am stupidly lucky to have a solid job and my own place, but its also a bit of a prison in its own way (for one thing I can never be out at work more than likely, boss is a chud). Definitely relate to ever-worsening executive dysfunction issues :(

Hope you can find a way to live authentically and find a stable situation soon

Ah fuck.

Do you have someplace else to go?

yeah I only do that kind of loud stuff occasionally, and I sometimes wear hearing protection, so it's not bad yet, but its going to be if I don't get better about it. Teaching kids how to use power tools has really helped remind me to use hearing protection, because I would feel terrible if I taught them habits that got them hurt, but I care less about myself, in the moment.

I don't want to be like my dad who's half deaf in one ear at not-that-old of an age and spent years denying there was anything wrong (or my grandpa who bought cheap amplifiers rather than properly tuned hearing aids and made his hearing much worse)

driving a convertible is one I don't hear many talk about but yeah, I had a car with no AC and a soft top and any drive at highway speed more than like 20 mins you really wanted earplugs for

I think last year it was the US freaking out about this same thing

yeah this

I own ones with little filter elements in them that reduce the noise without straight up blocking it/muddying the sound. I usually forget them though. Pretty sure I'm slowly getting tinnitus. But there have been times where I've been to shows that ended up being way louder than I expected that they were a lifesaver.

I mean it may manifest that way for some people, seeing as nausea is the #1 side effect but overall no, that's not how it's intended to work. It binds to the same sorts of receptors as GLP-1 which plays a variety of roles in digestion, but it isn't as easily broken down (normal GLP-1 has a half life of only a few minutes) so it sticks around and stays effective longer. The net effect is that digestion slows down and hunger is reduced (there are receptors in the brain as well as the pancreas, so it affects cravings as well as just blood sugar/insulin response)

something vaguely like that anyhow, I'm not a doctor

I've heard some people say they like it as an idea generator like this but I just can't imagine being a self-respecting artist or professional writer and admitting that you use AI, even in that limited capacity. It's like admitting you've given up and would rather rewrite some bland statistically average slop in your own words than find any other way to get past a little bit of writers block (like say, taking a break. Who would want to take a break ever? And risk reducing my productivity? heresy to the neolib striver)

yeah sometimes. I've said elsewhere in the thread I think the policy (or lack thereof) on banned users alts provides a way for admins to exercise some discretion. Maybe that's unfair, but I generally trust and agree with their decisions. Someone who comes back repeatedly and inevitably breaks the rules each time is different than someone who comes back once and doesn't break the same rules over again, for example. It's easier to leave some ambiguity than it is to spell out exactly what the policy is and risk it being exploited by rules-lawyering bad actors.

In the past at least, acknowledging you were an alt of a banned user was bannable behavior. Not something I'd want to risk if I frequently relied on this place for sustenance, idk about you.

Is it really worth collecting identifiable data on all of us just to "catch out" banned users who came back? In this case it is widely known they are the same person, and there is evidence, but it is against the rules to post it, for good reason IMO.

In this case specifically, IPs would not have helped much considering the user left for an extended period of time, and was almost certainly on a mobile internet connection the vast majority of the time which wouldn't be consistent at all, nor necessarily even map to a geographical region reliably.