FundMECFS

joined 8 months ago
[–] FundMECFS@piefed.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Ever since I became chronically ill I feel like I dream way more and my dreams are less comfortable…

[–] FundMECFS@piefed.zip 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Nah you can still dream. It just means your brain is less active than if you didn’t take the benzo. But some benzos and especially benzo-like drugs can actually give you weird hallucination-type dreams. Specifically thinking of Z-drugs.

[–] FundMECFS@piefed.zip 13 points 3 days ago (10 children)

Those aren‘t just anxiety drugs. Lorazepam is a literal Benzo. Which means it literally depresses (ie. makes less active) your CNS (brain).

These drugs are highly addictive and tolerance forming. They‘re often prescribed for insomnia since they inhibit brain signalling.

Once your brain forms tolerance it increases excitatory signalling to „counter“ the drug. Which means if you abruptly stop, you get withdrawal. Your brain is „overactive“ you have seizures, loads of horrible symptoms, in some cases people die.

(Not trying to scare people, short term or sporadic use is actually decently safe, it‘s long term high dose use which is dangerous. But basically my point is „anxiety drug“ is underselling what this is.)

[–] FundMECFS@piefed.zip 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I find it works 90% of the time. Which makes the 10% it doesn’t work annoying because I’m not used to declining cookies anymore 😅

[–] FundMECFS@piefed.zip 19 points 4 days ago

For those wondering:

 

The English Channel

From Wikipedia

At the time it was built, it was the heaviest self-propelled ship of any kind. With a laden draft of 24.6 m (81 ft) and a length of 458.45 m (1,504.1 ft), the ship was incapable of navigating the English Channel,[6] the Suez Canal or the Panama Canal. It is generally considered the largest self-propelled ship ever built.[7][8]

[–] FundMECFS@piefed.zip 5 points 4 days ago

A lot of people do believe it unfortunately.

[–] FundMECFS@piefed.zip 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Damn it how could I forget that 🤦. I’m now magically cured. Thanks ;)

[–] FundMECFS@piefed.zip 4 points 1 week ago

Erdogan is still invading and destroying Kurds autonomy so the shadow lives on

[–] FundMECFS@piefed.zip 3 points 1 week ago

Exactly. We don’t expect freeways to be profitable.

[–] FundMECFS@piefed.zip 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’m a little confused did I say the police protect women? I don’t think I did. Fuck the police.

 


Lake Nasser
 (Arabic: بحيرة ناصر Boħeiret Nāṣer, Egyptian Arabic: [boˈħeiɾet ˈnɑːseɾ]) is a large reservoir in southern Egypt and northern Sudan. It was created by the construction of the Aswan High Dam and is one of the largest man-made lakes in the world.[1] Before its creation, the project faced opposition from Sudan as it would encroach on land in the northern part of the country, where many Nubian people lived who would have to be resettled.[2][3] In the end Sudan's land near the area of Lake Nasser was mostly flooded by the lake.[4] The lake has become an important economic resource in Egypt, improving agriculture and touting robust fishing and tourism industries.

[–] FundMECFS@piefed.zip 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The United States was criticized for the downing, especially in its initial response. Although not issuing a formal apology, American president Ronald Reagan issued a written diplomatic note to Iran, expressing deep regret.

-Kills 290 people

-Doesn’t even publicly apologise

-Ronald Reagan Baby !!

[–] FundMECFS@piefed.zip 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks for doing the factcheck haha

 

A recent survey among Quebec healthcare workers demonstrated that the cumulative risk of developing long COVID from an acute infection is 17% and increases with each infection. The estimated prevalence of long COVID in this population was 5.6%. Other research places the global risk as high as 40% among healthcare workers who have contracted an acute SARS-CoV-2 infection. …

Nevertheless, many healthcare workers still don’t believe that long COVID is real, despite dramatically disabling symptoms in people with no preexisting risk factors. “The me before and the me now are such opposites,” said Pinard. “I would swim three mornings a week before going to the office. I was running 40 km. I was traveling every second week. Now I leave my house only every 2-3 months….I was where I was supposed to be [with COVID vaccination]. I was in good health. I wasn’t depressed; I wasn’t anxious.” …

Hulme and other interested parties have tried to help build the infrastructure needed to provide care for patients with long COVID, but they have faced many barriers. Although the condition shares many features with fibromyalgiamyalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, guidelines for those conditions could not mention long COVID by provincial government decree. “There are many, many political reasons as to why [long COVID] should not become a big deal,” said Hulme. “There are still little pockets of money for research, but they are very small.”

 

They removed a post I made about the threadiverse. No mod reason. Ghosted me.

On a recent thread I mentioned this. (On topic). It was immediately removed by the mods again. No removal reason. Just silently censored.

 

Ie. This video doesn’t load for me.

https://peertube.wtf/w/tJ5n8G8bXc3gZz5u1F8c1v

I tried waiting a day. Still doesn’t load. Tried from a different instance. Tried turning my VPN off.

Wondering if I’m missing something obvious. Or I should stop expecting youtube style uptime and not stress too much ahha 😅.

 

cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/c/fediverse/p/1166532/piefed-s-anonymous-voting-situation

Piefed currently has anonymous — or more accurately, pseudonymous, voting.

which in my opinion is a great thing. I really think this feature is important.

However, while it works great to hide votes from casual users, the current system is trivially easy to correlate accounts to their voting profiles. Unless they adopt specific behaviours with large friction (ie. not voting on any post or comment you reply to, not voting on any community you participate in). And even then, timestamps of activity and general activity level will probably still be enough.

My question basically is, is there a plan to mitigate this? Possibly through optional features like voting profiles being ephemeral (like you get reassigned a new one every X weeks or posts).

Btw really appreciate you, piefed devs.

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